Ut Unum Sint (II:4)
Chapter II. What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be 12 Jan. 13 May. 12 Sept. Let him make no distinction of persons in...
Chapter II: The Example of Deeds
Chapter II. What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be 11 Jan. 12 May. 11 Sept. Therefore, when anyone receiveth the name of Abbot,...
Take my yoke upon you
Chapter II. What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be 10 Jan. 11 May. 10 Sept. Let the Abbot be ever mindful that at...
Suscipe me (7)
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. But as we go forward in our life and...
Humble thy heart and endure
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. We have, therefore, to establish a school of the...
A School of the Lord’s Service
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. We have, therefore, to establish a school of the...
The merciful patience of God (PROLOGUE (V)
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 5 Jan. 6 May. 5 Sept. Hence also the Lord saith in the Gospel: “He...
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord (Prologue IV)
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 4 Jan. 5 May. 4 Sept. Having our loins, therefore, girded with faith and the...
PROLOGUE (IV) To See Christ
Why did I choose this painting of Saint Antony of Egypt and Saint Paul the Hermit to illustrate today’s entry? Saint Antony’s face reflects the...
Christ Seeking His Workman
Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 3 Jan. 4 May. 3 Sept. And the Lord, seeking His own workman in the...
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....