Happy Birthday, Sister Clare Crockett
The Rock from Which You Were Hewn One week from today, Cenacle Press will officially launch the Irish edition of The Rock from Which You...
Peter Gerard Joseph Hartnett, Intercessor for Priests
We Are Surrounded by So Great a Cloud of Witnesses The month of November out of all the months of the year reminds us the...
Salva Nos: Perimus (Save us, we perish!)
Christ Calms the Storm The Mass propers for today are taken from the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. When Easter is early, these propers are moved...
On the Solemnity of Thursday, Part I
Catherine-Mectilde de Bar of the Blessed Sacrament is, without any doubt, the most Eucharistic soul in what was a Eucharistic century par excellence, and a...
On the Season of Pre-Advent
The Resumed Sundays after Epiphany One of the peculiarities of the Traditional Liturgical Calendar is its inclusion of the ‘resumed’ Sundays after Epiphany. In years...
The Living Icons in the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict
Christo Omnino Nihil Praeponant: To Prefer Nothing to Christ Each Person is an Image of Christ Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is...
13 Years
A Welcome to County Meath, Ireland It was thirteen years ago that we first set foot in the little abandoned Monastery that was to become...
Mother Mectilde and the Ave Maria
Our Lady of Victory Leading up to October 7, 1571, Pope St Pius V, as GK Chesterton was to put it, “cast his arms abroad...
The Legend of St. Francis
Francis saw the goodness of God in created things, especially in created things that showed some truth about living the holy life. Among the birds...
Blessed Columba Marmion on Humility and Confidence
A Secondary Patron of Our Monastery Along with St. Thérèse and several others Saints, Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923) is a secondary patron of our monastery...
127th Anniversary of St. Thérèse
Fidelity to Her Cross Today we celebrate the 127th anniversary of the Dies Natalis of a most dear secondary patron of our monastery. St. Thérèse...
God’s Liturgical Providence Speaks of St. Thérèse
Although St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face is constantly on our mind in the monastery — and more often than...
89th Anniversary of Abbot Celestino Maria Colombo
In addition to today being the feasts of Our Lady of Ransom and Our Lady of Walsingham (whose statue is in our refectory), today is...
Novena to St. Thérèse (24 September-2 October)
The Anniversary of Taking the Veil Today is the anniversary of the day when St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face...
Padre Pio Priest and Victim
Monsignor Arthur Calkins (1945-2024), Marian scholar par excellence and a dear friend of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle passed away unexpectedly earlier this...
The Last Great Day of the Feast
The September New Year In a previous post we noted that September is a sort of New Year, and that it also marks Rosh Hashanah,...
“He Took Me In His Arms and Placed Me There” — Abandonment and the Prophet Job
September, marked in many parts of the world by the changing of the seasons and the colours of nature, is marked in the Divine Office...
The Most Holy Name of Mary
Victory in the Name of Mary In 1683 Pope Innocent XI extended the existing Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary to the universal...
The Vigil of the Nativity of Mary
A Collect for the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ANT. Crastina die in ascensu diluculi egredietur stella ex Jacob divini luminis...
Christ’s Manifestation in Mary
Stella Ista The fifth antiphon for the Epiphany is a sweet, yet somehow haunting, seventh mode melody. As it is sung again and again, at...