Conditor Alme Siderum
This is my translation of Conditor Alme Siderum. When Advent rolls round and I sing this hymn, I see in my mind’s eye Van Gogh’s...
Missus est Gabriel Angelus
In the Cistercian liturgy the center piece of First Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent is Missus est Gabriel Angelus, a magnificent Great Responsory...
Respice in Faciem Christi Tui
Today, being the First Friday of the month, we had exposition and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament at the monastery. Saint Gaetano Catanoso used...
This kind of Liturgy can never grow old or outdated
From the homily of His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew I at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Saint George in Istanbul: Every...
30 November, Saint Andrew, Apostle
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON The Lord saw two brothers along the sea of Galilee, Peter and Andrew, and he called to them: Come after me, and I...