In the Company of the Blessed Virgin
The 2002 editio typica of the Missale Romanum contains the following Collect for the memorial of Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, Priest. The Collect is...
Ubi mors Domini cotidie celebratur
This morning, to the accompaniment of birdsong at Vigils, a splendid text of Saint Maximus of Turin. Some of you may recognize this altar from...
A Sunday Adoration
I adore Thee who art present here before me. I adore Thee with all the love of my heart. I adore Thee humbly. I adore...
By His Wounds Holy and Glorious
Third Sunday of Paschaltide The Incendiary Gospel “Lord Jesus, open the Scriptures to us. When Thou speakest, make our hearts burn with love” (cf. Lk...
Who by the mouth of our father David . . .
The stained-glass window depicts King Athelstan the Glorious. Acts 4: 23-31 “And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said,...
The Real Changes That Have to Be Made
Father Garrigou-Lagrange, professor of Dogmatic and Mystical Theology at the Angelicum in Rome from 1909 to 1960, wrote this in 1952: The modern spirit of...
Venite, benedicti Patris mei
Wednesday of Pascha Come, you blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom, alleluia prepared for you since the foundation of the world, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia...
Spatium laetissimum
Monday of Pascha I first preached this homily in 1996. It may yet be useful to those of you who are beginning to discover the...
The Newness That Comes From Your Spirit
I preached this homily at the Day Mass of Holy Pascha in 2004 and thought I might share it with you today. Christ is risen!...
Dum pendebat Filius
Last night He sat with us at table. His Face illumined the Upper Room and there, just above the bread and behind the chalice, beat...
Hoc Est Hodie
Pope Benedict XVI is a master of mystagogical catechesis. This homily for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper probes the words of institution and consecration...
The Origins of the Priesthood in the Church
I am in awe of the Holy Father’s homilies at the Chrism Mass and at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. These are inspired words....
Let us love the friends of the King
This 15th century painting of the miraculous Mass of Pope Saint Gregory the Great is in the Church of Sant’Andrea in Palermo, Sicily. Above, we...
Benedict XVI on Priestly Holiness
Heartfelt and Total Adherence to a New Form of Life The missionary dimension of the priesthood is born from the priest’s sacramental configuration to Christ....
On the Threshold of the Great Week
Saturday in Passiontide Ezekiel 37:21-28 Jeremiah 31 John 11:45-56 Mother of Sorrows, Keeper of the Door There is on Mount Athos a greatly venerated icon...
Eia, Mater, Fons Amoris
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Commemoration of the Sorrowful Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Virgin of Sorrows is the Portress of...
The Approach of Passiontide
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jeremiah 11:18-20 Psalm 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 John 7:40-53 Passiontide Everything in today’s Mass indicates that Passiontide is upon...
Four Years
Thursday, April 2, 2009 will be the fourth anniversary of the death of the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II. In preparation for this...
Venite Ad Aquas
Tuesday Within the Fourth Week of Lent Ezechiel 47:1-9, 12 Psalm 45:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 John 5:1-16 All You That Thirst Today’s texts are just waiting...
HOLY FATHER: A SPECIAL YEAR FOR PRIESTS
VATICAN CITY, 16 MAR 2009 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican the Holy Father received members of the Congregation for the Clergy, who are...