Thanksgiving: A Papistical Approach
Being a Papist and not a Puritan, I have always felt somewhat ambiguous about the Thanksgiving holiday . . . not about the domestic observance...
Et Ecce Ostium Apertum in Caelo
Thirty–Third Wednesday of the Year II Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr Revelation 4:1–11 Psalm 150:1–2, 3–4, 5–6 (Rev 4:8b) Luke 19:11–28 Heaven’s Open...
22 November, Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON GR I spoke of your testimonies before kings, and I was not ashamed: I meditated also on your commandments, which I loved (Ps...
Ecce, Sponsus Venit!
Strong, Serene, Majestic, Invincible When in 1867 Abbot Prosper Guéranger set about opening a Benedictine monastery for women at Solesmes, he placed the whole enterprise...
Pope Benedict XVI on the Vultus Christi: God With a Human Face
In his address at the Pontifical Gregorian University on 3 November, the Holy Father identified the immediate object of the different branches of theological knowledge...
