Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 3rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (II) January 25 - […]

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST From a commentary by John Justus of Landsberg ◊◊◊ The people who walked in darkness have […]

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER A reading from the “Exordium Parvum” ◊◊◊ We Cistercians, the first founders of this […]

THE VIRTUE OF ST TIMOTHY From a sermon by St John Henry Newman ◊◊◊ “Drink no longer water, but use […]

GATHER YOURSELF IN WISDOM From a commentary by St Thomas Aquinas ◊◊◊ “Run ahead into your house and gather yourself […]

THE CHURCH OF THE CRUCIFIED By Fr Hugo Rahner ◊◊◊ Precisely in weakness the Church of the crucified is the […]

THE WORK OF TWO WILLS From “No Man is an Island” by Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ Each of us has some […]

GENTLE AND HUMBLE OF HEART From a letter by St John Bosco ◊◊◊ My sons, in my long experience very […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 4th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (II) February 1 - […]

BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT From a commentary by Symeon the New Theologian ◊◊◊ When holy Scripture is being […]

COME TO THE TEMPLE From a commentary by Origen ◊◊◊ Let us reflect on the way everything was prearranged for […]

THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE From a commentary by St Augustine ◊◊◊ Jacob the Patriarch set a stone under his head and […]

SILENCE, POVERTY, AND DEATH By Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ If, at the moment of our death, death comes to us as […]

ST AGATHA From Butler’s Lives of the Saints ◊◊◊ St Agatha has retained her place in the Universal Calendar following […]

THE MARTYRDOM OF ST PAUL MIKI AND HIS COMPANIONS By a contemporary writer ◊◊◊ The crosses were set in place. […]

THE PRAISES OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN From a sermon by Amadeus of Lausanne ◊◊◊ Since we have, at the bidding […]