The Comfort of the Beads
Given the grace of today’s feast, you may want to begin praying the Rosary of the Seven Dolours. It is prayed on seven sets of...
The Measure of Our Weakness
Sixth Friday of the Year I Mark 8:34-9:1 I just came from the altar, having celebrated the Votive Mass of the Most Precious Blood. This...
“They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced”
The coincidence of the Holy Father’s Lenten Message with the liturgical memorial of Saint Claude La Colombière prompts me to post an article that I...
Saint Claude’s Prayer to Jesus, the True Friend
I think it was in 1974 that a priest friend gave me a little book of the writings of Saint Claude La Colombière in French....
A Chant Meditation on the Holy Father’s Lenten Message
The Antiphon, O quantum in cruce, found in Laudes Vespertinae, the Cistercian collection for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, is the perfect meditation on the...