Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 34th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) November 24 - […]

THE KINGDOM OF THE BELOVED SON From a commentary by St Augustine1 ◊◊◊ Banish the groundless fear that filled Herod […]

ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA From Butler’s Lives of the Saints2 ◊◊◊ Since about the tenth century, veneration of St Catherine […]

THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY From “The Faith and Modern Man” by Fr Romano Guardini3 ◊◊◊ We associate the word saints […]

THE WOUNDEDNESS OF ALL MORTALS From a sermon by Isaac of Stella4 ◊◊◊ “Jesus, when he saw how great was […]

THE FULLNESS OF THANKSGIVING By Xavier Leon-Dufour5 ◊◊◊ The first reality of biblical history is the gift of God, gratuitous, […]

THE VIRGINITY OF SPIRIT By Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ The monastic life of humility, obedience, liturgical prayer, lectio divina, penance, manual […]

THE APOSTLE, ST ANDREW From a sermon by St John Henry Newman7 ◊◊◊ St John the Evangelist, under circumstances which […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 1st Week of Advent Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) December 1 - 7, […]

THE COMING OF YOUR ETERNAL JUDGE From a commentary by St Gregory the Great1 ◊◊◊ The Lord says: Heaven and […]