Vigils Readings

I Ask Not for Thy Gifts but for Thyself An Excerpt from “Meditations and Prayers” by Evelyn Underhill Adoration, as […]

Penance and Prayer A sermon by St Oscar Romero Not everyone... will have the honor of offering their blood physically […]

Behold, Now is the Acceptable Time A sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx ...These forty days are called an acceptable […]

The Deep Meaning of Fasting A Meditation by Matthew the Poor Fasting... represents the first battle in which Christ did […]

Christ’s Patient Endurance of Suffering From the Spiritual Writings of John Ruusbroec ...He began to suffer at the time of […]

Love Your Enemies An excerpt from “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer ...For the first time in the Sermon […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 2nd Week of Lent Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) March 5 - 11, […]

His Face Shone like the Sun1 A sermon by St Leo the Great In the presence of chosen witnesses the […]

Be Merciful2 from the mystical writings of St Gertrud the Great ...The Lord Jesus appeared to her as he is […]

I Have Brought Fasting into My Soul3 A Meditation by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich With fasting I gladden my hope in […]

Wilt Thou Refuse Me? 4 From the private letters of St Teresa of Calcutta –Jan. 13th, 1947 One day at […]

A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart5 From a sermon by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Toughmindedness without tenderheartedness is […]

An Excerpt from the Sermons of Conversion6 by St Bernard of Clairvaux ON THEIR HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, […]

The Mass7 From “The Meaning of the Monastic Life” by Louis Bouyer The whole of religion and at the same […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 3rd Week of Lent Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (II) March 12 - 18, […]

What it Means to be “in Christ Jesus”1 by Fr. Raymond What is in your mind as you set out […]

Our Struggle in Search of Truth2 from “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander” by Thomas Merton Life is, or should be, […]

Forgive us, as We Forgive3 from a sermon by Caesarius of Arles If any one of us is in conflict […]

The Role of the Prophet4 From the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel The certainty of being inspired by God, […]

If You are to Stand and Not Fall5 A Reading from “The Cloud of Unknowing” Should any thought arise... asking […]