Vigils Readings

MARY AND THE VIRTUE OF HOPE By Fr Romano Guardini ◊◊◊ Elizabeth calls the Virgin Blessed because she had faith […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 19th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) August 10 - […]

AWAITING THE MASTER’S RETURN From a commentary by St Gregory of Nyssa ◊◊◊ When the Lord says: Let your loins […]

THE MIRROR WITHOUT CLOUD A letter from St Clare to Blessed Agnes of Prague ◊◊◊ Happy indeed is she who […]

THE GOD OF THE LIVING By Maurice Zundel ◊◊◊ The dead have disappeared from our sight. They have not disappeared […]

HOLINESS BEFITS YOUR HOUSE, OH LORD From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux ◊◊◊ "Our bed is covered with […]

A TESTIMONY FROM THE BEATIFICATION PROCESS OF ST MAXIMILIAN KOLBE ◊◊◊ Fr Kolbe and I worked together in May or […]

FROM ESTEEM TO ESTEEM From a homily by Amadeus of Lausanne ◊◊◊ Who would not hasten, who would not run […]

THE COMMON LIFE By Baldwin of Ford ◊◊◊ There is still another sort of communion: that of those who live […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 20th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) August 17 - […]

THE PERFECTION OF DIVINE LOVE From a commentary by Denis the Carthusian ◊◊◊ I have come to cast fire on […]

KEEP GUARD ON YOURSELF From “The Golden Epistle” by William of St Thierry ◊◊◊ In order that your solitude may […]

THE POOR OF CHRIST From a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny ◊◊◊ What then shall we bring to the […]

THE SAME ETERNAL GOAL A letter from Pope St John Paul II to the Cistercian Abbots General ◊◊◊ Our age […]

THE SANCTITY OF ST PIUS X From the writing of Leonard von Matt ◊◊◊ Pius X, the canonized Pope, holds […]

THE QUEENSHIP OF MARY From the writing of Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ Mary alone, of all the saints, is, in everything, […]

THE TABERNACLE OF GOD’S GLORY By St Gertrud the Great ◊◊◊ How wondrous is your temple, God, king of virtues. […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 21st Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) August 24 - […]

THE PRICE OF HEAVEN From a commentary by St Anselm of Canterbury ◊◊◊ God cries out that the kingdom of […]

THE JUDGE’S SENTENCE From “Rule of Life for a Recluse” by St Aelred of Rievaulx ◊◊◊ Imagine now that you […]