Holy Week Schedule 2015
Given our small number and very limited vocal resources, our Holy Week and Paschal celebrations will be as simple as possible. We trust that God...
Vexilla Regis
The hymn Vexilla Regis was composed in 569 A.D. by Saint Venantius Fortunatus on the occasion of the solemn reception of a Relic of the...
Fulget Crucis Mysterium
This lovely medieval image depicts Our Lady Saint Mary, Saint John the Beloved Disciple, and the Wounded Side of Christ. Together, Our Lady and Saint...
O Passio Magna
A Compunctionate Prayer There are a number of variants of this beautiful prayer on the Passion of Christ. This particular version is found in a...
Saint Joseph and Mother Mectilde
Last year I translated the account of Saint Joseph’s apparition to Mother Mectilde de Bar on 19 March 1653. Mother Mectilde, very much like her...
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...