An American “Newman”

I am reading for the second or third time a splendid old biography of American Passionist Father Fidelis of the Cross (1840-1921), one of the...

Rise and Live

So wearied with long journeying, and never didst thou cry, Enough; still obstinate, confess thy need thou wouldst not. Alas, what anxious fears were these,...

Therefore They Shall Be Holy

The Novena Revisited I thought it might be helpful to “revisit” the Novena Prayer that some of us have been saying for the past nine...

The Indignities Committed Against Thee

This morning I offered the Votive Mass for the Remission of Sins in reparation for the grievous outrages committed against the Most Blessed Sacrament. It...

Ego autem sum puer parvus

Ask What Thou Wilt “The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, ‘Ask what thou wilt that I should give...