Vigils Readings

DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA ◊◊◊ The blessed Pope Sylvester I instituted the rites which the Roman Church observes in […]

THE WORKS OF GOD’S SERVANTS By St Leo the Great ◊◊◊ It is a great and very precious thing, beloved, […]

ST MARTIN AND THE PAUPER By St Sulpicius Severus ◊◊◊ One day, at the gate of the city of Amiens, […]

GLORIFY THE LORD From the Catechetical Lectures of St Cyril of Jerusalem ◊◊◊ "Blessed be the God and Father of […]

THE COMMUNION OF THE SAINTS By Baldwin of Ford ◊◊◊ I believe, O Lord, in the Holy Spirit, the holy […]

THE TRUE CHRISTIAN From a treatise by St Augustine ◊◊◊ Let us not flatter ourselves in the mere fact that […]

THE DEDICATION OF OUR CHURCH From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux ◊◊◊ My brethren, we ought to observe […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) November 16 - […]

BY PATIENT ENDURANCE From a commentary by Nilus of Ancyra ◊◊◊ In time of trial it is of great profit […]

THE INNER SELF From the writing of Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ The inner self is not a part of our being, […]

FOR THE GOOD OF ALL By Henri Le Saux ◊◊◊ Vocations are as diverse as temperaments are diverse. More simply, […]

OUR SERVICE OF GOD An excerpt from “The Book of Special Grace” by St Mechthild of Hackeborn ◊◊◊ If any […]

THE ONE BODY OF CHRIST From a commentary by Origen ◊◊◊ The temple and the body of Jesus, seem to […]

THE VIRGIN AND THE TEMPLE From the writing of Fr Yves Congar6 ◊◊◊ The only occasion on which the Gospels […]

THE VIRGINITY OF ST CECILIA From a homily by Fr Ronald Knox ◊◊◊ The legends of the early Roman saints, […]