Venite, adoremus
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To the Infant Christ
Over the centuries, souls have been drawn irresistibly to the mystery of the Infant Christ. Among these was the great Pierre Cardinal de Bérulle, the...
Gaudete in Domino semper!
The image of Saint John’s vision in the Apocalypse (1360-1390) is by Jacobello Alberegno. I chose it because the Eternal Father is vested in a...
Nox sicut dies illuminabitur
The Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome is a universally recognised emblem of the Catholic Church, a sacred icon of the Body of Christ, a...
Plorans ploravit in nocte
Be sure she weeps; there in the darkness her cheeks are wet with tears; of all that courted her, none left to console her, all...
Only hope of your children scarred by sin
A Consecration of Souls to the Immaculate I wrote this prayer of consecration eight years ago (2007) while supplying for a fortnight as chaplain to...
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas Between East and West The Church in East and West commemorates today Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The very first journey of Pope Benedict...
I offer on the altar the spotless Lamb
I remember when, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, it was fashionable in some ecclesiastical and academic circles to sniff dismissively at the Lessons...
O bona crux!
A Cross On the Threshold of Advent The feast of Saint Andrew the First–Called marks the threshold of the new liturgical year with the sign...
Paris Again
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Yes, Paris again. Paris is as much the theatre of great miracles of grace as it is the theatre...
Ave Verum Corpus
Sacrilege Will the distressing news of the sacrilege perpetrated in Pamplona, Spain provoke any kind of concrete response? Spanish “artist” Abel Azcona stole more than...
Saint John of the Cross
The approach of Advent is marked by two saints of the Cross. First there is Saint John of the Cross (24 November) who, as we...
For you, too, I have a destiny and a hope
The Temple: Heart of the World Today’s Gospel is part of a bigger discourse in which Our Lord prophesies the destruction of the Solomon’s magnificent...
Cecilia
Wishing a very blessed feastday to our Oblate sister Cecilia of Rome in Connecticut! A Veiled Face I never tire of looking at the statue...
Enter Into the Veiled Places and Learn the Mysteries of God
Go to Be an Offering and a Fragrant Incense Today’s feast is Eastern in origin, Eastern in sensibility. To taste its mystery one has to...
Into the House of the Lord
Our Lady in the Temple The solemn dedication of the Church of the Mother of God near the Temple in Jerusalem took place on November...
The Earlier Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The image is a detail from Dürer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1519). I especially like Saint Anne’s motherly hand resting on Our Lady’s...
The terrible glory of the priesthood
Reading Canon Eugène Masure’s book, Parish Priest (Fides, 1955) I came upon this remarkable passage: It is not only at the Last Supper and on...
Prayer of a Priest
Convert Thou me entirely, O my beloved Jesus, that I may live every moment— up to and including the very moment of my death —...
Holiness through a tangle of thorns
She had a vision of a young man who, in order to guide her through the tangle of thorns that surrounded her soul, took her...