Vigils Reading – 5th Sunday of Easter
WITHOUT GOD, NOTHING CAN BE DONE From a commentary by St Augustine1 ◊◊◊ The passage from the gospel in which […]
WITHOUT GOD, NOTHING CAN BE DONE From a commentary by St Augustine1 ◊◊◊ The passage from the gospel in which […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 5th Week of Easter Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) April 28 - May […]
THE TRUE WORKERS From “The Dialogues” of St Catherine of Siena2 ◊◊◊ Do you know what course I follow, once […]
THE MIRACULOUS SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE A reading from “Against the Pagans” by St John Chrysostom3 ◊◊◊ It was…marvelous […]
ST JOSEPH THE WORKER A reflection by Pope Francis4 ◊◊◊ St Joseph concretely expressed his fatherhood by making an offering […]
AS BRIGHTNESS FROM LIGHT From the Expositio Fidei by St Athanasius5 ◊◊◊ We believe in one Unbegotten God, Father Almighty, […]
THE APOSTOLIC WITNESS By Jean Frisque6 ◊◊◊ They were still talking about all this when he himself stood among them […]
THE EXPERIENCE OF FAITH By Hans Urs von Balthasar7 ◊◊◊ The analogy between the pre-Easter and the post Easter testimony […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 6th Week of Easter Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) May 5 - 11, […]
A GREATER LOVE By St Thomas More1 ◊◊◊ Let us deeply consider the love of our Savior Christ who so […]
THE RESURRECTION OF ALL FLESH From “The Eternal Year” by Fr Karl Rahner2 ◊◊◊ We children of the earth may […]
THE SECRET OF THE LORD From a sermon by St John Henry Newman3 ◊◊◊ Our Lord expressly promises all Christians […]
CHRISTIAN DE CHERGÉ MONK, MARTYR, AND MYSTIC By Dom Bernardo Olivera ◊◊◊ In its early stages, monastic life was interpreted […]
WE ARE ALL WITNESSES By Fr Paul Evodokimov4 ◊◊◊ There are no half measures, no intermediary formulas. We are in […]
WE SCARCELY KNOW OURSELVES From the writing of Servant of God Dorothy Day5 ◊◊◊ Much as we want to, we […]
FROM A LETTER OF ST BERNARD TO POPE EUGENIUS, On behalf of Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny6 ◊◊◊ It […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 7th Week of Easter Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) May 12 - […]
HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN By St Leo the Great 1 ◊◊◊ The sacred work of our salvation was of such […]
OUR SWEET MOTHER By St John Paul II on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima 2 ◊◊◊ Since the […]
OUR VERY GLORY IS OUR WARNING By St John Henry Newman on the feast of St Matthias 3 ◊◊◊ This […]
OUR RIGHTEOUS FATHER PACHOMIUS From “The Life of Pachomius” 4 ◊◊◊ Theodore began to tell the brothers of the life […]
THE LIGHT OF THE LORD’S MERCIES From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux 5 ◊◊◊ All of you know […]
THE MYSTERIES OF GLORY By Fr Jean Danielou 6 ◊◊◊ The Apostles' Creed contains a noteworthy passage in which, grammatically […]
THE ASCENSION AND CHRISTIAN PRAYER By Thomas Merton 7 ◊◊◊ At the Ascension, in the sight of the disciples, "the […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 7th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) May 19 - […]
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAS FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH A commentary by St Aelred of Rievaulx1 ◊◊◊ Today’s holy […]
MARY’S EDUCATION AS MOTHER OF THE CHURCH From the writing of Hans Urs von Balthasar2 ◊◊◊ At first it was […]
BEARING WITNESS TO THE TRUTH From the Document on Religious Freedom of the Second Vatican Council3 ◊◊◊ When Christ completed […]
THE AIM OF OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE A conversation between St Seraphim of Sarov and his spiritual son4 ◊◊◊ “The Lord […]
RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT From a commentary by St Augustine5 ◊◊◊ The happy day has dawned for us on which […]
BUILT ON THE COMMON LIFE By Baldwin of Ford6 ◊◊◊ It is by no slight or mean or ordinary authority […]
YOU TOO WILL BEAR WITNESS A homily from St Bede the Venerable7 ◊◊◊ We find from many places in the […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 8th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) May 26 - […]
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRINITY A commentary by St Athanasius1 ◊◊◊ It will not be out of place to consider the […]
ST. AUGUSTINE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY From the writing of Alban Butler2 ◊◊◊ When Pope St. Gregory the Great decided that […]
TRINITARIAN FAITH From the Catechism of the Catholic Church3 ◊◊◊ From the beginning, the revealed truth of the Holy Trinity […]
ONE MUST KNOW HUMANITY IN ORDER TO KNOW GOD From a homily by St Pope Paul VI4 ◊◊◊ God is! […]
THE POWER OF THE RISEN CHRIST From “The Mystery of Time” by Fr Jean Mouroux5 ◊◊◊ Christ died to deliver […]
THE FULLNESS OF GRACE From the encyclical Redemptoris Mater by St John Paul II6 ◊◊◊ Immediately after the narration of […]
ST JUSTIN MARTYR From Butler’s Lives of the Saints ◊◊◊ Justin was a Greek from Samaria who became Christian about […]