SAINTS MAUR AND PLACID From the “Dialogues” of St Gregory the Great ◊◊◊ The holy man, St Benedict, having returned […]

THE PROMISES WHICH YOUR LIPS HAVE UTTERED From “The Mirror of Charity” by St Aelred of Rievaulx ◊◊◊ These three […]

THE PATH OF VIRTUE From “The Life of Anthony” by St Athanasius ◊◊◊ All the monks were one day gathered […]

IN PRAISE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY’S HUMILITY From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux ◊◊◊ Not everyone is […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 2nd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) January 19 - […]

THE NEW CHALICE OF ETERNAL SALVATION From a commentary by St Maximus of Turin ◊◊◊ The Son of God went […]

THE ROAD TO THE FATHER’S HOUSE From the homily of Pope St John Paul II at the Beatification of Blessed […]

ST AGNES From The Oxford Dictionary of Saints ◊◊◊ The earliest witness to her cult is the Deposito Martyrum of […]

THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE From the encyclical “The Gospel of Life” by Pope St John Paul II ◊◊◊ The […]

ON THE THRESHOLD OF CONTEMPLATION From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux ◊◊◊ My brethren, I beseech you, be […]

A DELICATE SENSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE By St Francis de Sales ◊◊◊ The soul thus inwardly recollected in God or […]

THE BEARER OF A MISSION By Fr Lucien Cerfaux ◊◊◊ In terms of today, Paul passed from the Jewish religion […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 3rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) Jan. 26 - […]

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER A reading from the “Exordium Parvum” ◊◊◊ We Cistercians, the first founders of this […]

THE VIRTUE OF ST TIMOTHY AS A PATTERN FOR CHRISTIANS From a sermon by St John Henry Newman ◊◊◊ “Drink […]

THE ATTITUDE OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS BEFORE THE TRUTH By Josef Pieper ◊◊◊ In considering the teaching of St Thomas, […]

THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN From a letter by St Alphonsus Liguori ◊◊◊ While we remain on earth, it is difficult, […]

THE FIRE OF LOVE By John of Ford ◊◊◊ ‘May your will’, Lord Jesus, ‘be done on earth as it […]

SIMPLICITY AND OPENNESS From the Collected Works of Saint Rafael Arnaiz ◊◊◊ One must walk so many tortured paths to […]

SHE HEARD THE WORD OF GOD AND KEPT IT By Fr Hans Urs von Balthasar ◊◊◊ Mary is a "prototype […]