Thérèse
La Petite Thérèse Thérèse is so often referred to as “little,” that we risk not seeing the breadth and depth that are really characteristic of...
He Comes to the Aid of Our Weakness
Image: Pope Saint Gregory the Great inspired by the Holy Ghost. The Holy Father’s Wednesday General Audience 26 September 2012 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lord,...
Praying One Abbot for the Healing of Another
Dom Pietro Vitorelli, Abbot of Monte Cassino Last June I learned of the serious illness of the young and gifted Abbot of Monte Cassino, 51...
Progress in Book Shop
The men from Caffrey’s Natural Stone in Drogheda were here today to install the granite countertops in The Gatehouse book shop. Our expert joiner, Liam...
The Son of Man must be lifted up
The Sign of the Brazen Serpent Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. Upon which...
And the Virgin’s Name Was Mary
The Most Holy Name of Mary In 1683 Pope Innocent XI extended the existing Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary to the universal...
Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum
Psalm 132 Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity. Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran...
Accedite ad eum et illuminamini
Morning Musings on the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Epistle of Saint Paul to the Galatians 5,16-24 I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you...
The Truth is the Truth; There is No Compromise.
Yesterday, on the feast of the Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, the Holy Father delivered the following instruction at his weekly general audience. Titles...
I went astray and still I remembered Thee
This is a most unusual depiction of Saint Augustine washing the feet of Christ. A friar named Strozzi painted it in 1629. Augustine, wearing an...
28 August: Saint Augustine
Here are some lovely texts for the feast of Saint Augustine. At First Vespers Holy Father Saint Augustine, Hearken to thy children’s cry; Plea for...
A Light As It Were of Serenity
From The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Take Up and Read So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when,...
The Future of the Church in Ireland
Archbishop Charles J. Brown, Papal Nuncio to Ireland delivered a message of hope last week at the closing Mass of the National Novena to Our...
Saint Bartholomew, the Simple Apostle
A Learned Rabbi Today is the feast of Saint Bartholomew, the apostle whose other name is Nathanael. A native of Cana in Galilee and a...
Surprised by the Gospel . . . again
Saint Bartholomew’s Gospel I find it curious that, for the feast of Saint Bartholomew, the Roman Missal does not give the passage from Saint John’s...
Window in Memory of Father Willie Doyle, S.J.
In County Louth A dear friend of the priory wrote me the other day to say that, thanks to my post on Father Willie Doyle,...
O Doctor Mellifluus
Inflamed With Zeal The liturgy describes Saint Bernard as a man all ablaze with zeal for the house of the Lord. The little phrase, “inflamed...
So intimate an alliance
Priestly Union with the Blessed Virgin Mary Today, 19 August, is the feast of Saint John Eudes, priest and ardent mystic of the Hearts of...
To Be Led By the Hand of God
“Whatever did not fit in with my plan did lie within the plan of God. I have an ever deeper and firmer belief that nothing...
A Deacon Exorcist and Martyr
The image depicts a 16th century wood polychrome statue of a smiling Saint Cyriacus. Note the lovely green dalmatic and golden maniple he is wearing....