Time for another “Tra le sollecitudini”
The Primacy of Gregorian Chant The Holy Father’s Letter to the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music (13-5-11) has prompted me to share with the readers...
Festa di San Marcellino, Sacerdote e Martire
June 2nd is the feast of Saint Marcellino, priest and martyr, the very one named in the Roman Canon. San Marcellino fills Piedimonte d’Alife with...
Mountains of the Lord, bless the Lord!
Today, in the company of my Biondi relatives, I had the wonderful experience of going to the summit of Monte Acero in Faicchio, Province of...
Benedict XVI at Saint Mary Major
My Musings Returning to Sepicciano, where the church bells ring out the quarter hour and the parish church is truly the heart of the village;...
Tornato a Sepicciano
How can I express the joy that I feel here? I arrived yesterday afternoon in the ancestral home of my great-grandmother in Sepicciano, Piedimonted’Alife. The...
Saint Paschal Baylon
Today was the commemoration of Saint Paschal Baylon, Franciscan laybrother, who died on Pentecost Sunday, 17 May 1592 as he had foretold. Illiterate, Paschal Baylon...
Archbishop Nichols on the Carthusian Martyrs
Here is the sermon preached last Wednesday by His Grace, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster for Solemn Evensong and the Commemoration of the Carthusian Martyrs...
A Priest’s Prayer to Blessed John Paul II
I have prayed this little prayer daily for the past five years. Recently, my good friend Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins proposed that I include in...
Akathist to Blessed John Paul II
AKATHIST TO OUR FATHER AMONG THE SAINTS, JOHN PAUL THE GREAT, POPE OF ROME (Written by Alexander Roman, PhD, Toronto, Canada for private recitation) Kontakion...
All my trust is in Him
The Day Which the Lord Hath Made We have arrived at the sixth day of the One Day that is Pascha, “the day which the...
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:...