Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Wednesday after the Third Sunday of Lent
Wednesday after the 3rd Sunday of Lent The Traditions of the Elders 1. Today the Station is on the Via Appia at the titulus of...
25 March 1653: A Vision of the Blessed Virgin
The feast of the Annunciation, in which we celebrate the beginning of the life of the Word made Flesh, is the anniversary of the first...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Monday after the Third Sunday of Lent
Monday after the 3rd Sunday of Lent No One Is a Prophet in His Fatherland 1. Today the Station is at the titulus Marci, near...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Third Sunday of Lent
3rd Sunday of Lent The Devil’s Strategy 1. Today the station is on the Via Tiburtina, near the tomb of St Laurence, in the major...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Saturday after the Second Sunday of Lent
Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent Station at Ss. Marcellinus and Peter The Prodigal Son 1. The Station is at the titulus of Ss....
Mother Mectilde and Adoration, Part VI: A Charism Exhaled in Love
On the Feast of the Transitus of our holy father Benedict, we present the final section of our series of articles about how Mother Mectilde...
St. Joseph and the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration
O Felicem Virum! “O Happy and Blessed Man,” so begins an antiphon in honor of St. Joseph. “To thee was granted not only to...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Monday after the Second Sunday of Lent
Tuesday after the 2nd Sunday of Lent Station at St Balbina Authentic and False Teachers 1. The station is on the little Aventine, at Saint...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ember Saturday in Lent
Ember Saturday in Lent Station at St Peter’s Ecclesiastical Vocations 1. Today the station is at the tomb of St Peter in the Vatican, where...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ember Friday in Lent
Ember Friday of Lent Station at the Holy Apostles The Pool of the Sheep 1. The station is at the Apostoleion [Basilica of the Apostles]...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Thursday after the First Sunday of Lent
Thursday after the First Sunday of Lent Station at St Laurence ‘in Panisperna’ The Faith of a Pagan Woman 1.Today the station is on the...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ember Wednesday in Lent
While we monks observe today the feast of the great Benedictine Pope St Gregory the Great, we also commemorate the ancient Mass of Ember Wednesday,...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Tuesday after the First Sunday of Lent
Blessed Cardinal Schuster reflects on reverence for God as displayed in the monastic tradition. The translations in round brackets are Schuster’s own; the material in...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Monday after the First Sunday of Lent
Schuster reflects on the Parable of the Judgment given in the Mass for today. He speaks of it as the first day of the...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: First Sunday of Lent
First Sunday of Lent Station at the Lateran The Hour of Salvation 1.Today the Sacred Liturgy presents to us this time of Lent as that...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Saturday after Ash Wednesday Station at St Trypho Spiritual Readings 1. ‘In Lent, from morning until the end of the third hour, let each one...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
In the following text, inspired by yesterday’s Mass, Blessed Cardinal Schuster reflects further on the Lent as a time given us both to prepare for...
Thank God ahead of Time – Mass for Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Blessed Solanus Casey Blessed Solanus Casey used famously to tell those that would come to him with any sort of trouble, “Thank God ahead of...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ash Wednesday
Blessed Ildephonse Cardinal Schuster (1880-1954), monk, abbot, and finally Archbishop of Milan, was one of the greatest figures in the Benedictine Order in modern times,...
Dies Natalis of Blessed Anne of Jesus
Blessed Anne of Jesus and Mother Mectilde On the fourth of March, 1621, Blessed Anne of Jesus, the hand-picked disciple of St Teresa through whom...