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...
The Chain that Sets Free
Father Francesco Bamonte’s witness to the power of the Holy Rosary in his book, Possessioni diabolici ed esorcismo (Paoline, 2006) so impressed me that I...
Selected Memories of a Catholic Boyhood
The Real Saint Francis There is no denying it: Saint Francis appeals to all sorts of people. Animal lovers, pacifists, environmentalists, non-Christians, secular humanists, and...
O Rosario benedetto di Maria
Prayer at Noon For Catholics in Italy and throughout the world, today, Sunday, 3 October 2010, marks the return of an appointment with the Supplica,...
Thérèse de l’Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face
Thérèse is so often referred to as “little,” that we risk not seeing the breadth and depth that are really characteristic of her, and the...
There is only one thing which lasts
Excerpt from the Holy Father’s Homily in Glasgow “There is only one thing which lasts: the love of Jesus Christ personally for each one of...
Just Asking
The Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum, On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist, was promulgated by the Congregation for...
O Holy Father John Chrysostom, you are a brilliant torch flooding the universe with light!
Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 1 Corinthians 7:35-31 Psalm 44:10-11, 13b-14, 15-16 (r. 10a) Luke 6:20-26 A Preacher Unlike Any Other...
Prayer for the Conversion of England
The forthcoming Apostolic Visit of Our Holy Father to the United Kingdom invites us to pray boldly for the conversion of England: the return of...
The Core of Monasticism Is Adoration
In the address pronounced three years ago at the flourishing Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Pope Benedict XVI offered the whole Church a veritable Charter of Monastic Life...
Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus
Collect O God, by whose grace Saint Joseph of Arimathea was emboldened to ask for the sacred Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, that together...
A claritate in claritatem
The Martyrology We are, at every moment, surrounded by “so great a cloud of witnesses” (Heb 12:1) who encourage us by their example and support...
Pax Benedictina
Collect Almighty God, who made Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso a good shepherd, to build up with exemplary virtue the flock entrusted to him; grant that we...
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
The Collect Keep, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy Church with Thy perpetual mercy, and because the frailty of man without Thee cannot but fall,...