THE ENCOURAGMENT OF THE SAINTS By Bishop John Vaughan1 ◊◊◊ We may study learned treatises of ascetical theology; we may […]

MARY IS IN SILENCE By Pierre de Bérulle1 ◊◊◊ It falls to the Virgin to keep silence. It is her […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) September 8 - […]

CHRIST HAS DONE ALL THINGS WELL From a commentary by St Lawrence of Brandisi1 ◊◊◊ Just as the divine law […]

ST PETER CLAVER THE SLAVE OF THE NEGROES From Butler’s Lives of the Saints1 ◊◊◊ He was born in Catalonia, […]

MARY’S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD From a homily by Ogier of Locedio1 ◊◊◊ This most holy Virgin Mary was of royal […]

THE CALL OF GOD By Hans Urs von Balthasar1 ◊◊◊ Every call of God is a proclamation of the eternal […]

SAINT PETER II, ARCHBISHOP OF TARENTAISE From Butler’s Lives of the Saints1 ◊◊◊ St Peter of Tarentaise was born near […]

ST CHRYSOSTOM’S CHARM From "Historical Sketches” by St John Henry Newman1 ◊◊◊ Whence this devotion to St. John Chrysostom, which […]

THE TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS From a treatise by St John Chrysostom1 ◊◊◊ Isaiah made it clear that Christ will […]