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...
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Vis sanus fieri? — Dost thou want to be made whole?
Introit Rescue me out of my necessities O Lord: see my humiliation and my struggle, and put away all my sins. V. To Thee, O...
You are the light of the world
Tuesday of the First Week of Lent: The Collect Réspice, Dómine, famíliam tuam: et præsta; ut apud te mens nostra tuo desidério fúlgeat, quæ se...
Lectio Divina for the First Week of Lent
Lectio Divina for the First Week of Lent 9 — 15 March 2014 Preparation 1. Clear your desk. 2. Have on your desk only your...
Zaccheus Press: Fine Catholic Books for Lent
Zaccheus Press is a small Catholic press devoted to publishing fine books for all readers seeking a deeper understanding of the Catholic faith. Holy reading...
Audivit Dominus et misertus est mihi
Saturday After Ash Wednesday At the Introit: The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my Helper. V. I will...
For My Oblates . . . and Others
Saint Benedict the Practical When it comes to the observance of Lent, Saint Benedict is very practical, very concrete. He doesn’t spend a lot of...
Lent 2014
Horarium: Lent 2014 Life in a small monastery is full of unpredictable elements; we often have to adjust our schedule to changing circumstances. That being...
Lectio Divina for the Week of Quinquagesima
He that shall meditate day and night on the law of the Lord, shall bring forth his fruit in due season (Psalm 1:2–3, Communion Antiphon...
The only spotless priest without sin
The Proper Mass of the Feast of Reparation for Offenses Committed Against the Most Holy Sacrament (Thursday after Sexagesima) contains the following beautiful Preface: It...