Praying to Saint Joseph for Priests
Prayer to Saint Joseph for Priests O glorious Saint Joseph, who, on the word of the angel speaking to you in the night, put fear...
St Patrick’s Day Pilgrimage to the Hill of Slane
In celebration of the feast of Saint Patrick, part of the community made a little pilgrimage to the Holy Hill of Slane where, in 433...
Priests who have their gaze directed to God
Address to the Saint Joseph’s Young Priests Society All Hallows, Drumcondra, Dublin Saturday, 14 March 2015 Their Gaze Directed to God Just a few days...
Saint Joseph’s Young Priests Society
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent 14 March 2015 Saint Joseph’s Young Priests Society I was invited to address yesterday the Dublin Congress of...
Now begin the mysteries
This morning at Matins, we had this magnificent sermon of Saint Augustine from the Treatise on John: Jam incipiunt mysteria. Non enim frustra fatigatur Jesus:...
Our Master, our Doctor, our Apostle, our Pope, our Gregory
One–hundred–eleven years ago today, Pope Saint Pius XI promulgated the Encyclical Iucunda Sane in celebration of the close of the 13th centenary of the death...
Pope Saint Gregory to the Pastors of Souls
The Great Judgment Let us call to mind that dreadful day when the Judge shall come, and shall call to account His servants, to whom...
Benedict XVI on Pope Saint Gregory the Great
On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his weekly audience to Pope Saint Gregory the Great. In honour of the saint’s feast, here...
Let not one be wanting at the last
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste Well into the 40 days of the Lenten Fast we are given the feast of the 40 Soldier Martyrs of...
Judge not, condemn not, and forgive
Sin’s Slimy Trail This morning’s lesson from Saint Augustine invited us to look at sins committed against the brethren. The Doctor of Grace would have...
God seeketh thyself more than thy gift
Saint Augustine at Matins Today Let no man deem it a light thing when he trespasseth against his brother. For the Apostle Paul saith in...
Ut sanentur
XXX. De pueris minori aetate, qualiter corripiantur Omnis aetas vel intellectus proprias debet habere mensuras. Ideoque, quotiens pueri vel adulescentiores aetate, aut qui minus intellegere...
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Fond of Asking Questions Saint Thomas Aquinas was very fond of asking questions. And he laboured mightily at finding answers. The questions of Saint Thomas...
A Master of Prayer
Learning How to Pray from Blessed Marmion Blessed Abbot Marmion’s prayers are, at once, biblical, profoundly theological, deeply personal, and altogether shaped by the language...
An Intercessor for Priests
Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil–Martiny Yesterday, 27 February, was the dies natalis and liturgical memorial of Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil Martiny. Born to upper...
Dominus Illuminatio Mea
A Mass of the Transfiguration It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its...
Dom Guéranger: A Prophet
In his commentary on the lessons for the Ember Saturday in Lent, Dom Guéranger (1805-1875) writes: Does one want to understand the solidity of a...
Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata
Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata died on February 27, 1862 at twenty-four years of age. Pope Benedict XV canonized him on May 13, 1920. The...
What has God got to do with fasting?
Just it is indeed and fitting, right and for our lasting good, that we should always and everywhere give thanks to thee, Lord, holy Father,...
In the Wilderness
Draw Me After Thee The First Sunday of Lent sets before us the mystery of Our Lord’s forty-day fast in the wilderness. But we are...