Catherine in My Life
Images Today’s feast of Saint Catherine brings to mind how she has moved about in my life at various times. Having grown up in a...
To prove the world wrong
The Gift Above All Gifts Already today, the sacred liturgy begins to prepare our souls for the Gift above all gifts: the outpouring of the...
I Will Never Be Able to Thank Enough
A Little Soul Blessed Maria Gabriella was “a little soul.” She has affinities with Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face,...
Mio Dio, la tua gloria!
Ut Unum Sint Although the Roman Martyrology notes the day of her death on April 23, 1939, the Cistercian and Trappist calendars commemorate Blessed Maria...
Your distress shall be turned into joy
The Discourse in the Cenacle So profound, so unsearchable, so full of mystery is the discourse of Our Lord in the Cenacle on the night...
Saint Juliana of Mont Cornillon
In celebration of the feast of Saint Juliana of Mont Cornillon, it is fitting to re–read Pope Benedict’s discourse (General Audience of Wednesday, 17th November...
Thy mercy dost compass me about
Nicholas and Benjamin were welcomed as postulants today, Divine Mercy Sunday. Quasimodo Sunday: The Feast of Divine Mercy In the early Church, the newly-baptized would...
The Trust I Have In Your Mercy
On the occasion of the visit of the relics of Saint Claude La Colombière to Ireland in 2006, Father Bernard McGuckian, S.J. prepared some remarkable...
Miracle of the Sacred Thorn
Italian News services have just announced that once again, at 16:10 (Italian time) the miracle of the Sacra Spina has occurred. When Good Friday coincides...
Ave — Consummatum est
Good Friday falls this year on the feast of the The Annunciation of the Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The two mysteries intersect: the...
The astonishing humility of God
As for us, it is fitting that we should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is health and life and resurrection...
The Birthday of the Chalice
Maundy Thursday We entered singing: “For us, no boasting” (Gal 6:14). No boasting, that is, of anything that is ours. For who am I and...
Saint Francesca of Rome
This painting, attributed to Antonio da Viterbo the Elder (1450-1516), depicts Saint Francesca being clothed by the Blessed Virgin in the great white veil that,...
By your word revive me
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent John 8:1-11 Excessive Mercy Today’s Gospel almost did not make it into the canon of the Scriptures; it...
Now begin the mysteries
Saint Augustine preached this morning at Matins. The eloquence, the rhythm, the depth of his homily stir one to the depths of the soul. With...
Febris nostra, febris nostra . . .
Febris enim nostra, avaritia est: febris nostra, libido est: febris nostra, luxuria est: febris nostra, ambitio est: febris nostra, iracundia est. (Homilia sancti Ambrosii Episcopi...
Saint Joseph
O glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, just man, son of David, whom the very Son of God did love, honour, and...
Vidi Dominum facie ad faciem
The Stational Church It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its own. The...
O mulier, magna est fides tua
A Favourite Antiphon This evening’s Magnificat Antiphon, taken from the gospel of the day (Matthew 15:21-28) is one for which I wait all year long....
Ember Wednesday of Lent
Santa Maria Maggiore One of the graces that comes with living in Rome is the opportunity to go often to the basilica of Saint Mary...