Let thy heart be comforted, and wait for the Lord
1 Feb. 2 June. 2 Oct. The fourth degree of humility is, that if in this very obedience hard and contrary things, nay even injuries,...
Restoring Ireland to Christ
In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men...
Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum
Alleluia! The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world (Wis 1:7); every created thing trembles for joy, every waiting heart recognizes the sound...
Abandonment and the Grace of Pentecost
In this conference, Mother Mectilde instructs us on the feast and grace of Pentecost. I first translated this text in 2011. God’s Gift to Us...
A Sacerdotal Pentecost
From The Journal of A Priest A priest shares what was given him in prayer concerning a sacerdotal Pentecost, a revival of priestly holiness in...
Amen: This Word is Full of Mystery
I referred to this text of Mother Mectilde de Bar in yesterday’s homily. It is taken from Le véritable esprit [The True Spirit], the book...
In Cenaculi Solitudine
Our Lady of the Cenacle Many years ago and long before I had any idea that I would one day play a role in establishing...
Why the Cenacle?
I took this essay from Our Lady of the Cenacle by The Reverend Father Felix , S.J., published by the Lafayette Press (New York) in...
Ongoing work in the priory
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Caritas Christi Urget Nos
This past week,we were privileged to welcome to our monastic guesthouse two Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, one from Rome and one from...
Saint Dymphna and Teenaged Girls
Teenaged Girls Among her many other attributes and advocacies, Saint Dymphna is the patron saint of teenaged girls. Most accounts of Saint Dymphna place her...
Saint Gregory Nazianzen
At Saint Gregory’s Altar Today is the feast of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Some years ago, when my father and...
Saint Dymphna
Praying With Confidence A fervent crowd filled our oratory to overflowing for the first evening of the Solemn Novena to Saint Dymphna. Ireland’s Lily of...
Let us walk in His paths (Prologue IV)
4 Jan. 5 May. 4 Sept. Having our loins, therefore, girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us walk in His paths...
Novena to Saint Dymphna Begins Today
Prayer cards with the text of the Novena to Saint Dymphna are available from the priory upon request. ...
Matrem nobis et magistram providisti
Today, we had this wonderful collect (from the Maurist Benedictine Breviary) at the Hours: O God, who hast given us thy Spouse, the Church, to...
While Ye Have the Light of Life
2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture stirreth us up, saying: “It is time now for us...
Lydia Pupuraria
Reading Acts Before Dawn At Matins this morning (well before dawn) we read the 16th chapter of the book of Acts in which Saint Lydia...
Saint Anselm of Aosta (c. 1033 —1109)
Today is the feast of Saint Anselm, abbot of Bec, and archbishop of Canterbury, whose writings, we read at Matins, ‘seem to be drawn from...
Pascha Clausum
Quasimodo Sunday, Dominica in Albis Feast of Divine Mercy Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus “This is the day the Lord has made, let us...