Vigils Readings

A HYMN ON THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST By St Ephrem the Syrian ◊◊◊ Blessed is the King Who has come […]

TAKING GOD ON HIS OWN TERMS By Fr Edward Leen4 ◊◊◊ Everybody knows that the call of the Magi typifies […]

GOD’S DISCRETION IN REVEALING HIMSELF By Réné Voillaume ◊◊◊ Jesus appears in the world without giving any warning of his […]

ON PURITY OF HEART From a commentary by St Gregory of Nyssa ◊◊◊ Now the divine nature, as it is […]

TODAY HE MANIFESTED HIS GLORY From a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny ◊◊◊ “Arise, be enlightened, Jerusalem, for your […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 1st Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) January 12 - […]

BY WATER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT From a commentary by Hippolytus of Rome ◊◊◊ As soon as he had been […]

THE LIVING APOSTOLIC CHURCH By Cardinal Jean Danielou ◊◊◊ It is the manhood of Jesus that is the Temple of […]

HE INCLINES TO ME AND I TO HIM From a sermon on the Song of Songs by St Bernard of […]

SAINTS MAUR AND PLACID From the “Dialogues” of St Gregory the Great ◊◊◊ The holy man, St Benedict, having returned […]

THE PROMISES WHICH YOUR LIPS HAVE UTTERED From “The Mirror of Charity” by St Aelred of Rievaulx ◊◊◊ These three […]

THE PATH OF VIRTUE From “The Life of Anthony” by St Athanasius ◊◊◊ All the monks were one day gathered […]

IN PRAISE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY’S HUMILITY From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux ◊◊◊ Not everyone is […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 2nd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) January 19 - […]

THE NEW CHALICE OF ETERNAL SALVATION From a commentary by St Maximus of Turin ◊◊◊ The Son of God went […]

THE ROAD TO THE FATHER’S HOUSE From the homily of Pope St John Paul II at the Beatification of Blessed […]

ST AGNES From The Oxford Dictionary of Saints ◊◊◊ The earliest witness to her cult is the Deposito Martyrum of […]

THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE From the encyclical “The Gospel of Life” by Pope St John Paul II ◊◊◊ The […]

ON THE THRESHOLD OF CONTEMPLATION From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux ◊◊◊ My brethren, I beseech you, be […]

A DELICATE SENSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE By St Francis de Sales ◊◊◊ The soul thus inwardly recollected in God or […]