TO TAKE UP ONE’S CROSS From a commentary by St Augustine 1 ◊◊◊ Our Lord's command seems hard and heavy, […]

ON WORK AND PRAYER From “The Divine Milieu” by Fr. Teilhard de Chardin2 ◊◊◊ Our work appears to us, in […]

GENEROSITY From the book “In My Own Words” by St Mother Teresa3 ◊◊◊ Without a spirit of sacrifice, without a […]

THE WOUND OF LOVE From the writings of St Gertrud the Great4 ◊◊◊ I had laid a certain person under […]

THE CROSS From “Gravity and Grace” by Simone Weil5 ◊◊◊ Christ healing the sick, raising the dead… that is the […]

MARY’S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD From a homily by Ogier of Locedio6 ◊◊◊ This most holy Virgin Mary was of royal […]

ST PETER CLAVER THE SLAVE OF THE NEGROES From Butler’s Lives of the Saints ◊◊◊ He was born in Catalonia, […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) September 10 - […]

IF YOUR BROTHER SINS AGAINST YOU From a commentary by St Jerome ◊◊◊ If our brother sins against us and […]

THE RISE OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER From the “Exordium Magnum” of Conrad of Eberbach2 ◊◊◊ By the generous grace of […]