The Church Forever Young
Here are the novices (wearing the white scapular) of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in Austria. Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting the abbey next...
In conspectu Domini
Friday of the Nineteenth Week of the Year I Joshua 24:1-13 Psalm 135:1-3, 16-18, 21-22 and 24 Matthew 19:3-12 In Ranks Before God In today’s...
Kings in the Calendar
Collect Grant unto your Church, we beseech you, Almighty God; that as she had a zealous champion in blessed Stephen while he reigned upon earth,...
The Things That Are Above
A Commentary on the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary There is no better way to enter into the mystery of any...
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Luke 1:39-56 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 Psalm 44:10-12.16 Apocalypse 11:19; 12:1-6.10 The Pascha of Summer Today’s festival, the Pascha of summer, signals the beginning of the...