Père Garrigou–Lagrange on Psalmody
Contemplative Chant What should the contemplative chant be? This chant is distinguished precisely by the spirit of prayer, or at least by the aspiration which...
Saint Basil the Great on the Psalms
The Delight of Psalmody When, indeed, the Holy Spirit saw that the human race was guided only with difficulty toward virtue, and that, because of...
Saint Athanasius on the Psalms
The Grace of the Psalter Among all the books [of the Bible], the Psalter has certainly a very special grace, a choiceness of quality well...
Saint Ambrose on the Psalms
When Words Soar to a Higher Level Though all Scripture is fragrant with God’s grace, the Book of Psalms has a special attractiveness. Moses wrote...
Happy 108th Birthday, Francisco!
“How beautiful God is, how beautiful! But He is sad because of the sins of men. I want to console Him, I want to suffer...
Thou hast set Thy Heart on us
Thou hast set Thy Heart on us (cf. Dt 7:7) that we might set our hearts on Thee. In this is consecration, not that that...
Buon Compleanno, Santo Padre Pio X
Pope Saint Pius X Born 2 June 1835 ...
In the School of the Host
Let all the hard and rugged paths by which we walk towards God be set before him. (Rule of Saint Benedict, Chapter LVIII. Of the...
Lest Thy Church suffer too great a darkness
Beloved Lord Jesus, I adore Thee, who art present here, with all the love of my heart. Sinner that I am, I would offer Thee...
Divine Providence for Families
Two of our Oblate families currently face housing difficulties. Last evening, we began, for this intention, a novena consisting of the Litanies of Divine Providence....
A Pentecost Alleluia
Alleluia! Today the Spirit of the Lord has invaded the cosmos and filled it! Life spills out of the Cenacle and, like a torrent of...
Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum
Alleluia! The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world (Wis 1:7); every created thing trembles for joy, every waiting heart recognizes the sound...
Novena to Saint Dymphna
The great novena in preparation for Pentecost runs concurrently this year with the novena in preparation for the feast of Saint Dymphna, Virgin and Martyr. ...
Favourite Prayers to the Holy Ghost (II)
Blessed Columba Marmion (1858–1923) wrote this prayer to the Holy Spirit at the Abbey of Mont-César in Louvain on Christmas 1908. It is part of...
Favourite Prayers to the Holy Ghost (I)
Apart from the universally treasured Veni Creator Spiritus, the Veni Sancte Spiritus, and the O Heavenly King, there are a few prayers to the Holy...
Behold, I am here
3 Jan. 4 May. 3 Sept. And the Lord, seeking His own workman in the multitude of the people to whom He thus crieth out,...
Lollygaggers Need Not Apply
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture...
Beginning Afresh
Benedictines Always Beginning Again We began today, once again, the reading of the Holy Rule from the beginning. In Benedictine life, we are always beginning...
Priests: Ministers of the Sun
On this feast of Saint Catherine of Siena, here is a particularly poignant passage from The Dialogue. The image is Giovanni da Paola’s Saint Catherine...
The Body of the Priest and the Body of Christ
In the following passage from The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena with the Eternal Father, God the Father addresses the clergy wallowing in sin....