The Lost Child A Reading from Caryll Houselander’s “The Reed of God” Surely there can be no one with a […]

  Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 7th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) February 19 […]

Love Your Enemies1 A Commentary by Walter Hilton When love acts in the soul it does so wisely and gently, […]

An Excerpt from The Practice of the Presence of God 2 by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection …A soul depends […]

A Letter from Peter Damian to Rainerius II, marquis of Monte S. Maria 3 To Sir Rainerius, the illustrious marquis, […]

Ash Wednesday 4 by Thomas Merton …Lent is not a season of punishment so much as one of healing… a […]

Jesus Christ Deserves Our Love in Return 5 From the writings of St Alphonsus de Liguori A person will become […]

Anoint Your Head and Wash Your Face 6 A Sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux …Beloved, we enter the holy […]

The Mercy of God to a Penitent 7 From a Letter of St Maximus the Confessor God’s will is to […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 1st Week of Lent Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) February 26 - March […]

Jesus Fasted for Forty Days and Nights by St Gregory Nazianzen We must not expect baptism to free us from […]

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 […]