Adoratio 2011: Rome Conference
Toulon, France, 11th December 2010: The Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France, Msgr Dominique Rey, today announced a major international conference on Eucharistic Adoration to take place...
Grace, and Loveliness, and Joy
Gaudete Sunday The Four Introits of Advent We began Advent on the crest of a surging wave, an immense welling up of hope that lifted...
Hope of Thy Children Scarred by Sin
Power of the Mother With the Son For if “God heareth not sinners, but if a man be a worshipper of Him and do His...
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas Between East and West The Church in East and West commemorates Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker on December 6th. The very first journey of...
Peering Through the Windows
Collect Almighty and everlasting God, who for the defence of the veneration of sacred images, didst endue blessed John with heavenly doctrine and wonderful strength...
The Holy Father on Mother Julian of Norwich
Pope Benedict’s weekly General Audiences are a comprehensive introduction to the “great cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1), whom the Church loves, venerates, and invokes. The...
In this night of catching nothing
A Feastday Gift A number of years ago, I composed music for a French Office hymn for the feast of Saint Andrew. It was a...
The Pope of a Eucharistic Springtime
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, General Audience Pope Benedict XVI You can imagine my joy upon reading the Holy Father’s latest catechesis, and his allusion to...
God can complete what He has begun
I have long been a friend of Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, or perhaps I should say that Saint Alphonsus, by some mysterious disposition of...
Adé Béthune (1914-2002)
I had the privilege of being apprenticed to Adé Béthune in the early 1970s. We remained good friends until her death. Adé was a person...
Plus dare non potuit
The image depicts Saint Francesco Caracciolo (1563-1608) in prayer before the Most Blessed Sacrament. Saint Francesco Caracciolo is also the patron saint of Italian cooks;...
Health, Suffering, and Holiness
“The teaching of Brother Immacolato was implicit in the very condition of his life. He demonstrated, and continues to say to men, especially if they...
Votive Mass of Saint Joseph Today
This morning, being a ferial Wednesday, we had the Votive Mass of Saint Joseph. Why? This past week, we were in need of funds to...
The Gentle-Hearted King
From the Lesson at Matins: He Began With the Things of Religion Edward greatly loved God, and was gentle-hearted, and free from any lust for...
Entrustment to the Maternal Heart of Our Lady
Feast of the Divine Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary Yesterday, October 11th, was in 1962, as the Holy Father notes in his discourse, the...
Of all the calculations I could make . . .
Father Ernest Lelièvre, Friend and Father to the Aged Poor One saint leads to another. After posting my entries on Blessed John Henry Newman and...
My confidence cannot exceed Thy bounty
The text of Blessed John Henry Newman that I posted on his feastday seems to have touched a number of souls. The saints are close...
With a quiet mind
Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost Quietness of mind is a priceless blessing. And so we ask for it in today’s Collect. Quietness of mind — serenity,...
God knows me and calls me by name
I have a place in God’s counsels, in God’s world, which no one else has; whether I be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by...
Blessed John Henry Newman
The feast of Blessed John Henry Newman is an occasion of joy and thanksgiving for a multitude of souls. Here are the liturgical texts for...