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 […]