Blessed are the clean of heart
Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God Considered in the light of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, this beatitude reveals...
Enter Into the Veiled Places and Learn the Mysteries of God
Go to Be an Offering and a Fragrant Incense Today’s feast is Eastern in origin, Eastern in sensibility. To taste its mystery one has to...
Blessed are the merciful
In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would show me...
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice
Justice What is this justice that is as necessary to our souls as food and drink are to our bodies? Why does Our Lord call...
Blessed are they that mourn
Blessed Are They that Mourn Jesus Christ is true God and true Man. The words and deeds of Jesus Christ during His life on earth...
Blessed are the poor in spirit
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5, 1-12. Seeing the multitudes, Jesus went up into a mountain, and when he was set...
Ipsius vultum mundo valeat ostendere
Collect Custodi, quaesumus, Domine, in populo tuo spiritum, quo beatum Carolum episcopum implevisti, ut Ecclesia indesinenter renovetur, et, Christi se imagini conformans, ipsius vultum mundo...
November: Praying for the Holy Souls
Like a Gentle Rain It must have been forty-five years ago — or more — that I opened the Latin-English missal published by the Abbey...
Le peuple immense de ceux qui T’ont cherché
Here (once again) is the homily I preached in French six years ago at the Monastère Saint-Benoît in Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, France. Richard Chonak’s fine translation follows....
The Lord saith: I think thoughts of peace
Christ the King Sunday we celebrated the feast of Christ the King; it is, of course, intimately bound up with the feast of All Saints...
An Irish Bishop who died in Italy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy We keep the commemoration of Blessed Thaddeus Machar (McCarthy) today, and I had to admit to knowing next to nothing about the...
Beholding the glory of the Lord with open face
Yesterday afternoon at Knock I had the privilege of addressing an outstanding group of Irish priests, most of them younger men, and some with only...
Walk in the presence of God (VII:1)
CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 26 Jan. 27 May. 26 Sept. The first degree of humility, then, is that a man, always keeping the fear of...
De humilitate
CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 25 Jan. 26 May. 25 Sept. The Holy Scripture crieth out to us, brethren, saying: “Every one that exalteth himself shall...
Father Blake gets it right!
“It isn’t the priest but Christ who comes to save the world; if he is fortunate on a few occasions in his priesthood, when he...
Saint Gaetano Catanoso
The liturgical memorial of Saint Gaetano Catanoso occured on September 20th. Pope Benedict XVI canonized him on October 23, 2005. In the homily of the...
The Hard and Rugged Paths (LVIII:1)
Chapter LVIII. Of the Discipline of Receiving Brethren into Religion 11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. Afterwards let him go into the Novitiate, where he...
The Cross and the Face of Christ
Here is the homily that I preached at Knock on Saturday, 14 September in the Chapel of the Apparition. Glory in the Cross “It is...
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Maria Bambina Unto us a little girl is born; unto us a daughter is given. “The Holy Spirit will come upon her, and the power...
But quick–eyed Love drew nearer to me
In the Presence of Love There are souls for whom philosophical concepts are unintelligible, for whom theological words are hollow and meaningless, for whom the...