ST AGATHA From Butler’s Lives of the Saints2 ◊◊◊ St Agatha has retained her place in the Universal Calendar following […]

THE MARTYRDOM OF ST PAUL MIKI AND HIS COMPANIONS By a contemporary writer3 ◊◊◊ The crosses were set in place. […]

THE HOLY SPIRIT BESTOWS THE UNDERSTANDING OF FAITH From a treatise by William of St Thierry4 ◊◊◊ If your whole […]

THE DIVINE CALL From a book by Hans Urs von Balthasar5 ◊◊◊ Christian revelation is primarily a revelation of hearing, […]

THANKFULNESS IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES From a sermon by St John Henry Newman6 ◊◊◊ It would be well if we […]

THE LIFE OF ST SCHOLASTICA From Butler’s Lives of the Saints7 ◊◊◊ St Scholastica, who was St Benedict’s sister, traditionally […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 6th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) February 11 - […]

PURIFIED BY FAITH From a commentary by Paschasius Radbertus 1 ◊◊◊ However great our sinfulness, each one of us can […]

BLESSED HUMBELINE From the Life of St Bernard 2 ◊◊◊ From earliest childhood Humbeline and Bernard had been drawn together […]

CHRIST WILL DRAW ALL PEOPLE TO HIMSELF From a sermon by St Athanasius of Antioch 3 ◊◊◊ "To this end […]

RETURN WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART From a homily by St Faustus of Riez 4 ◊◊◊ Our Lord and Savior exhorts […]

NOW IS THE TIME From a sermon by St Leo the Great 5 ◊◊◊ “Behold, now is the acceptable time; […]

THIS FAST OF FORTY DAYS From a sermon by St Maximus the Confessor 6 ◊◊◊ We must accept with all […]

LIFE RISES THROUGH DEATH From “The Eternal Year” by Fr Karl Rahner 7 ◊◊◊ There is a distance of God […]

  Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 1st Week of Lent Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) February 18 - […]

PREPARE YOUR SOUL FOR AN ORDEAL From a commentary by John Justus Landsberg 1 ◊◊◊ Everything the Lord Jesus decided […]

THE LIGHT OF LENT By Thomas Merton 2 ◊◊◊ There is confidence everywhere in Lent, yet that does not mean […]

REND YOUR HEARTS, BUT KEEP YOUR GARMENTS WHOLE From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux 3 ◊◊◊ If you […]

CAST YOUR CARE UPON THE LORD From a sermon by St Leo the Great 4 ◊◊◊ Apostolic teaching, Beloved, exhorts […]