Ecce venio, Domine
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini’s painting from the early 1700s shows anguish and distress on the face of Jephte, the victorious warrior come home from battle. His...
The Ignatius Press RSV Lectionary
The critique of the NAB Lectionary by Father Neuhaus reminded me that for some time I have wanted to recommend the two volume RSV Lectionary...
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,...