Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day One
If you want to make a novena ending on the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, begin today. Your Holy Prophet Elias...
Rome Unvisited
Tomorrow I will be leaving Rome. I expect to be away from the Eternal City for the remaining summer months. I will know better what...
Envy, An Ugly Sin
Thursday of the Twelfth Week of the Year I Genesis 16:1-12, 15-16 The painting of Hagar in the wilderness is by Giovanni Lanfranco. It hangs...
Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
This morning I walked to the Church of Sant’ Alfonso, the Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. It was quiet and peaceful there with...
Saints John and Paul, Martyrs of Rome
Guercino did this drawing of the martyrdom of Saints John and Paul in 1630-32. He used a pen and brown ink, a brush and brown...