Ongoing work in the priory
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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...
Emmaus Monday 2015
It is our custom on Emmaus Monday, that is, the Monday of Easter, for the community to go for a long walk in the country...
Altar of Repose on Maundy Thursday
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The Lamentations of Holy Saturday
Cantus Lamentationum Juxta Hispanos Codices Listen here: http://cenacleosb.podbean.com/ ...
Verbum Crucis
Struck by the expression on the faces of Christ and of the Angel holding the chalice to His pierced side, I took this photograph of...
Preaching to Preachers: Part IV
The Third Conference
1 Corinthians 1:18 ὁ λόγος γὰρ ὁ τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῖς μὲν ἀπολλυμένοις μωρία ἐστίν, τοῖς δὲ σῳζομένοις ἡμῖν δύναμις θεοῦ ἐστιν. Verbum...
Preaching to Preachers: Part II
The Second Conference The bright eighth mode intervals of last evening’s Magnificat Antiphon — as we had it in our Benedictine antiphonal — are still...
Scriptorium Half–Renovated
We had some work done on our scriptorium/library this week. At long last, most of our books are out of packing cases and at home...
Life Around the Priory
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The Annunciation
The First and Indispensable School of Holy Preaching Reading this sermon of Pope Saint Leo the Great, given for Matins of today’s feast in the...