A Reading on St Bernard and His Entrance to Monastic Life 2 From the Vita Prima by William of Saint-Thierry […]

The Man and the Saint  3 A Reading on St John Bosco People often said of Don Bosco: “Really, he […]

Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI 4 at Collège des Bernardins, Paris - in 2008 From the perspective of monasticism’s […]

How the Coming and Returning of the Word Works for the Soul’s Salvation 5 A Reading by St Bernard of […]

Ultimate Truth and Sweetness is to be Found in Reading and Understanding Holy Scripture 6 by Nicodemos of the Holy […]

Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI 7 to the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey In the life of monks…prayer takes on […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 5th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) February 5 - […]

Let Your Light Shine Before All1 A commentary by St John Chrysostom We who have once for all clothed ourselves […]

St. Paul Miki and the Martyrs of Japan2 Christianity spread like wildfire in sixteenth-century Japan. By the 1580s, less than […]

On the Love of God3 From a sermon by Alan of Lille ...John says: ‘God is love, and he who […]

Trampling Down Death by Death4 A reflection by Alexander Schmemann To be Christian, to believe in Christ, means and has […]

Here and Now5 From the Selected Writings of Servant of God Dorothy Day Sometimes the only thing that keeps a […]

Scholastica’s Miracle from Saint Gregory the Great’s Dialogues ...Will there ever be a holier man in this world than St. […]

Of the Uncured, None Despair A Reading on the Pilgrimage Experience at Lourdes Of the...sick and afflicted who make the […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 6th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) February 12 - […]

Go First to be Reconciled to Your Brother A Sermon by Aelred of Rievaulx Let us prepare ourselves to take […]

Serve Nobly From the Letters of the 13th Century Beguine nun, Hadewijch Consider now all the things you have failed […]