Venite, benedicti Patris mei
The Voice of Christ Come, you blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom, alleluia prepared for you since the foundation of the world, alleluia, alleluia,...
Holy Pascha: Mass of the Day
Father Prior Singing the Gospel Canon of the Mass ...
The Great Paschal Vigil in Our Little Oratory
The New Fire Father Prior preaching, “Christ is risen!” The Oratory in Paschal Array The Altar The Oratory at the Paschal Vigil ...
Good Friday
• Good Friday at the Solemn Intercessions. • After the Adoratio Crucis. • Altar on Good Friday after the Solemn Afternoon Liturgy. • Our beautiful...
Into the Sacred Paschal Triduum
At the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle Thus far our Paschal Triduum has been sublime, and wonderfully peaceful. Yesterday and today we sang...
Afflicted but not crushed
There You Shall See Me The bright eighth mode intervals of last evening’s Magnificat Antiphon still echo in our hearts: “It is therefore written: I...
Come to Me and drink
Introit Psalm 55:2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for man hath trodden me underfoot: all the day long he hath afflicted me, fighting against...
On Holy Preaching
Something on holy preaching for the feast of Saint Vincent Ferrer: Preach, O messenger of the Word, not to make a name for yourself, but...
The Harlot Who Won Heaven
Feast of Saint Mary of Egypt, Penitent Having escaped the fog of sin, and having illumined thy heart with the light of penitence, O glorious...
Acquiring the Mind of the Church
The Authentic Method Instituted by the Church to Unite Souls to Jesus Père Congar in 1963 quoted by Geoffrey Hull in The Banished Heart, 2010:...
I Am the Health of My People
Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Station at the Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian Introit I am the health of My people, says...
Fiat mihi secundum Verbum tuum
It was in 1973 or 74, I think, when a young man, fresh from a heady experience of monastic life in a foreign land, met...
Pater!
The grace of this Lent is a progressive passage into the mystery of the baptized soul’s relationship with the Father. This relationship is nourished by...
Cast the burden of thy cares upon the Lord
Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent For me, this old tabernacle door depicting Our Lord standing in a chalice and filling it with the...
Go to Joseph
The Icon Brother Claude Lane, O.S.B., the iconographer who painted this singularly expressive image of Saint Joseph, is a monk of Mount Angel Abbey in...
Cardinal Piacenza Endorses Adoratio 2011
Bishop Dominique Rey of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France received the following letter of support for Adoratio 2011 from Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Prefect of the...
Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus
Reparation The last century saw, here and there, like so many points of light in the Church, men and women drawn by the Holy Spirit...
Advice from the Angelic Doctor
This oil painting of a youthful and svelte Saint Thomas by Paolo de Majo (1703-1784) is in a private collection in Caserta. You can see...
Saint Giovan Giuseppe della Croce
I almost forgot that today is the feast of Saint Giovan Giuseppe della Croce. A Family Connection My mother’s grandmother was born and raised in...
Sayings of Saint Peter Damian
Habit makes the cell sweet for the monk, while wandering makes it seem dreadful. For those who gad about, the cell is a prison, but...