• Vigils Reading – St John XXIII

    THE SPIRITUAL TESTAMENT AND LAST WISHES of St Pope John XXIII5 ◊◊◊ On the point of presenting myself before the […]

  • Vigils Reading

    ENTIRELY TURNED TOWARDS GOD By Lucien Legrand6 ◊◊◊ The significance of Mary’s virginity is entirely different from both cultic virginity […]

  • Skema: 28th Week in Ordinary Time

    Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 28th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) October 13 - […]

  • 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    FOLLOWING CHRIST’S CALL From a commentary by St John Henry Newman 1 ◊◊◊ All through our life Christ is calling […]

  • Weekday

    THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO HOLINESS From the encyclical Lumen Gentium 2 ◊◊◊ The Church, whose mystery is set forth by […]

  • St. Teresa of Avila

    SURRENDERING OUR WILL TO GOD From the writing of St Teresa of Ávila 3 ◊◊◊ We can promise easily enough […]

  • St. Hedwig

    ST HEDWIG OF SILESIA From Butler’s Lives of the Saints 4 ◊◊◊ Hedwig was born in Bavaria about the year […]

  • St. Ignatius of Antioch

    ON THE NEED TO PERSEVERE IN OUR FAITH From a letter of St Ignatius of Antioch to the Ephesians 5 […]

  • St. Luke

    THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN By St Jerome 6 ◊◊◊ Luke, a physician from Antioch, who, as his writings show, was not […]

  • North American Martyrs

    THE NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS From Butler's Lives of the Saints 7 ◊◊◊ On March 16, 1649, the Iroquois attacked the […]

  • Skema

    Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 29th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) October 20 - […]

  • Vigils Reading – Weekday

    HAPPY ARE THE MEEK From a sermon by Isaac of Stella2 The disease of desire for gain closely accompanies the […]

  • Vigils Reading – Weekday

    AUTHORITY AND PRIVATE JUDGMENT From the writing of St John Henry Newman4 It is the custom with Protestant writers to […]

  • Vigils Reading – Weekday

    THE UNKNOWN JUDGMENT From the writing of Blessed Guerric of Igny6 Brethren, how beautiful and blessed it is not only […]

  • Skema – 30th Week Ordinary Time

    Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 30th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) October 27 - […]