Blessed Maria Rafael Arnáiz Barón
A Gifted Boy Today is also the memorial of Blessed Rafael Arnáiz Barón (1911- 1938), a Trappist Cistercian Oblate of the Abbey of San Isidoro...
Never To Depart From Her Counsels
I just came up to my room from the basilica after having celebrated the 6:30 p.m. parish Mass. Today is the liturgical memorial of Our...
Saint Mark
Saint Mark, Evangelist 1 Peter 5: 5b-14 Psalm 88: 2-3, 6-7, 16-17 Mark 16: 15-20 Mark and Peter Tradition calls Saint Mark the interpreter of...
No Peace Without Chastity
A Holy Abbess The Benedictine–Cistercian calendar commemorates today Saint Franca of Piacenza, virgin (1173–1218). Franca was an intrepid monastic reformer. After enduring sufferings and persecutions...
“I will never be able to thank enough”
Blessed Maria Gabriella was “a little soul.” She has affinities with Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, Blessed Elizabeth of...