Spes Nostra, Salve!

The Holy Father’s Encyclical Spe Salvi ends in a splendid prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Spes Nostra, Our Hope. One of the high points...

Où donc est ta demeure?

A number of years ago, I composed music for a French Office hymn for the feast of Saint Andrew. It was a feastday gift for...

All Saints Day Homily

I took this photo of the sacred relics of the saints exposed in the monastery chapel after Second Vespers of All Saints. At Holy Mass...

November: Praying For the Holy Souls

It must have been forty years ago — or more — that I opened the Latin-English missal published by the Abbey of Saint-André-de Bruges and...

The Holy Spirit will teach you

[A note came from Fr. Mark in France today; he hasn’t been able to post to the blog, but he did send this homily which...