In pace locus eius
Peace Within In writing this morning to a young man, a friend of the priory, I was inspired to translate for him a text of...
Recognise the gift of God
On 28 April, 1695, Mother Mectilde, being at the customary recreation of a Thursday evening, began, all of a sudden, to speak to her daughters,...
Man ate the bread of angels
Wednesday of Pascha Come, you blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom, alleluia prepared for you since the foundation of the world, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia...
The prayer of a priest
This little prayer has been part of my life since 2005. My good friend Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins proposed that I include in it a...
Lose yourself in His adorable, divine immensity
Oh, I love to reflect on the presence of God in a soul! To think that we are immersed in God, that we are in...
Salve, Festa Dies
It is the custom in some monasteries to go round the cloister, singing the Salve, Festa Dies, in procession before Lauds on Easter morning. Many...
Lumen Christi!
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Grant Us Breathing Space
Monday of Holy Week Today’s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the...
Into the Harbour of the Sacred Passion
Into the Silence Listening to the Passion plunges us into silence. The Word has been silenced. Only a fool would dare to speak. Perhaps there...
Ipse est ianua, ipse est via
This morning, Saint Ambrose at Matins: Ipse est per quem ascendimus, et ad quem ascendimus. Ipse est janua, ipse est via, qui aperitur, et qui...
Recordare
Beata Passio The vessel of the Church, having navigated the dark and stormy seas of Lent, prepares today to enter the serene port of the...
Friday of the Sorrowful Mother
The Virgin of Sorrows is the Portress of the Holy Mysteries, the Keeper of the Door of Christ’s Pierced Heart, the Mother of our Joy....
Lectio Divina for Passion Week
Sunday, 6 April— Saturday, 12 April 2014 Preparation 1. Clear your desk. 2. Have on your desk only your Missal, the Holy Bible in one...
Cardinal Piacenza: Holiness in Christ
Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, a Benedictine Oblate, is Major Penitentiary at the Holy See’s Apostolic Penitentiary. He is also President of Aid to the Church in...
A Litany for Passiontide
Litany of the Passion by Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Blessed Cardinal Newman’s Litany of the Passion reveals the tenderness and compunction of his Christocentric...
The Prayer of the Son
Saint John’s is the divine and mystic Gospel: its every page shines with the brightness of the Face of Christ, revealing the glory of the...
Lazare, veni foras!
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent John 11:1-45 The Divine and Mystic Gospel During these last days of Lent, the Church opens for us...
Lectio Divina for the Fourth Week of Lent
Lectio Divina for the Fourth Week of Lent Sunday, 30 March — Saturday, 5 April 2014 Preparation 1. Clear your desk. 2. Have on your...
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Coming to fulfil what is written of me
The Annunciation in the Mectildian Jubilee Year By a wonderful and mysterious disposition of Divine Providence, Mother Mectilde de Bar received permission for the first...