Vigils Readings

THROUGH GOD’S EYES By Hans Urs von Balthasar ◊◊◊ Christians live with their involvement in the involvement of God for […]

ON WORK AND PRAYER From “The Divine Milieu” by Fr Teilhard de Chardin ◊◊◊ Our work appears to us, in […]

TELL THE BRETHREN From the treatise “Pastoral Care” by St Gregory the Great ◊◊◊ There are those who are gifted […]

THE BODY OF CHRIST From the writing of St John Henry Newman ◊◊◊ That all Christians are, in some sense […]

GENEROSITY From the book “In My Own Words” by St Mother Teresa ◊◊◊ Without a spirit of sacrifice, without a […]

A COMMUNITY IN NATURE AND IN GRACE By Fr Karl Rahner ◊◊◊ Mariology is not merely a piece of the […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) September 7 - […]

THE THREE RENUNCIATIONS By John Cassian ◊◊◊ The tradition of the Fathers and the authority of holy scriptures both affirm […]

THE NEW MOTHER From a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny ◊◊◊ As the vine I have brought forth a […]

ST PETER CLAVER THE SLAVE OF THE NEGROES From Butler’s Lives of the Saints ◊◊◊ He was born in Catalonia, […]

THE CONTAINER OF ALL VIRTUES From a sermon by Blessed Ogier of Locedio ◊◊◊ For a long time I have […]

IN THE SLEEP OF FINAL REST By St Ephrem the Syrian ◊◊◊ In that night when all sound, all human […]

PERFECTION IN WEAKNESS By Fr Hugh Rahner ◊◊◊ The Catholic Church is a house full of glory extending far and […]

ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM From “The Fathers of the Church” by Pope Benedict XVI ◊◊◊ St John Chrysostom was born in […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 24th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) September 14 - […]

THE VICTORY OF THE CROSS By St Chromatius of Aquileia ◊◊◊ The Cross of Christ is our victory, because it […]

TEARS OF LOVE From the Sequence “Stabat Mater” attributed to Jacopo da Todi ◊◊◊ The sorrowful mother was standing in […]

A LETTER FROM ST CYPRIAN TO ST CORNELIUS ◊◊◊ My very dear brother, we have heard of the glorious witness […]

SAINT MARTIN OF FINOJOSA By Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ Saint Martin Sacerdos of Finojosa, Abbot of Huerta, Bishop of Siguenza, Spain, […]

THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTER OF MONASTIC PROFESSION From “Mirror of Charity” by St Aelred of Rievaulx ◊◊◊ Although it may not […]