The Indwelling Word
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture...
Adoration and Rejuvenation
“When I am in adoration, what matters is not my capacity to be lucid for an hour, but rather the fact that in accounting for...
Thanksgiving After Holy Communion
Constrained by the Holy Spirit Abba Agapios lingered in church after the Holy Oblation whilst his disciple Theophilos waited for him to begin the meal....
The Bridegroom is the Lord
Image from the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis Into the Open Arms of God With the Ascension, the Son of God brought to the Father our humanity...
The Rosary
Praying in the Balkans Yesterday, a dear friend of mine, an Orthodox Christian — husband, father, and physician serving in the U.S. military in the...
Raised up by the abasement of the Son
Painting by Ottavio Mazzonis: Gesù cade per la terza volta Deus, qui in Filii tui humilitate iacéntem mundum erexísti: fidelibus tuis perpétuam concéde lætítiam; ut,...
Go to my brethren and say to them . . .
“Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that He had said these things to her.”...
The Inexhaustible Mercy of God
Soul in need of mercy, whoever and wherever you may be, know that all the riches of the Divine Mercy are, for you, contained and...
Led forth in hope
Friday of Pascha The Lord led forth his people in hope, alleluia: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia (Ps 77: 53). The...
Ecce Mater Tua
As His last will and testament, Jesus committed to His beloved heir the care of His mother in whose debt He knew Himself to be....
My Beloved Has Gone Down to His Garden
Whither has your Beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your Beloved turned, that we may seek Him with you? My Beloved has gone...
Stabat Mater
This is the lovely translation of the Stabat Mater given in Maurice Zundel’s classic, The Splendour of the Liturgy (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1939)....
In the Garden
In the garden, His Face was unseen, for the eyes of His friends had grown heavy with sleep, and there was none to meet the...
Lest We Betray Him With a Kiss
The Call to Holiness My monastic vocation, as it has developed and matured over the years, is intimately bound up with the lives of my...
Abba Joseph related that Abba Isaac said:
“I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and as I was on terms of great freedom of speech...
Father Zuhlsdorf gets it right
Painting by Simeon Solomon Father Zuhlsdorf has a brilliant essay on the humble and the sublime in the sacred liturgy. I am thinking about the...
Guardian of the Bread Come Down from Heaven
Quemadmodum Deus Blessed Pope Pius IX 8 December 1870 The Guardian of His Choicest Treasures As almighty God appointed Joseph, son of the patriarch Jacob,...
Saint Joseph
This remarkable painting of Saint Joseph, together with the Child Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the work of the Spanish painter, Aristides Artal....
Go Francis, rebuild my house
“In the Church of St. Damian where he was accustomed to pray, he heard three times a voice from Heaven saying: “Go Francis, rebuild my...
The House of My Father
Liturgy and Life of the Church My lectio liturgica, during this momentous time in the life of the Church, has been unusually compelling, and this,...