CHRIST THE CORNERSTONE By Dom Damasus Winzen2 ◊◊◊ Stone is firm and lasting. Builders test their stones, selecting the most […]

OUR SERVICE OF GOD An excerpt from “The Book of Special Grace” by St Mechthild of Hackeborn3 ◊◊◊ If any […]

DISCIPLINE IS A CROSS By Baldwin of Ford4 ◊◊◊ A person who is tempted by the flesh, and who yields […]

THE VIRGIN AND THE TEMPLE From the writing of Fr Yves Congar5 ◊◊◊ The only occasion on which the Gospels […]

THE VIRGINITY OF ST CECILIA From a homily by Fr Ronald Knox6 ◊◊◊ The legends of the early Roman saints, […]

TRUE DISCRETION From “The Rule of St Columban for Monks”7 ◊◊◊ How necessary discretion is for monks is shown by […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 34th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) November 24 - […]

THE KINGDOM OF THE BELOVED SON From a commentary by St Augustine1 ◊◊◊ Banish the groundless fear that filled Herod […]

ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA From Butler’s Lives of the Saints2 ◊◊◊ Since about the tenth century, veneration of St Catherine […]

THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY From “The Faith and Modern Man” by Fr Romano Guardini3 ◊◊◊ We associate the word saints […]

THE WOUNDEDNESS OF ALL MORTALS From a sermon by Isaac of Stella4 ◊◊◊ “Jesus, when he saw how great was […]

THE FULLNESS OF THANKSGIVING By Xavier Leon-Dufour5 ◊◊◊ The first reality of biblical history is the gift of God, gratuitous, […]

THE VIRGINITY OF SPIRIT By Thomas Merton ◊◊◊ The monastic life of humility, obedience, liturgical prayer, lectio divina, penance, manual […]

THE APOSTLE, ST ANDREW From a sermon by St John Henry Newman7 ◊◊◊ St John the Evangelist, under circumstances which […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 1st Week of Advent Mass Readings: Sunday (C), Weekdays (I) December 1 - 7, […]

THE COMING OF YOUR ETERNAL JUDGE From a commentary by St Gregory the Great1 ◊◊◊ The Lord says: Heaven and […]

THE ADVENT OF GOD From “Pathways in Holy Scripture” by Dom Damasus Winzen ◊◊◊ The word Advent had for the […]

ST FRANCIS XAVIER From Butler’s Lives of the Saints ◊◊◊ Francis Xavier was born in Spanish Navarre at the castle […]

THE JOY OF ADVENT By Thierry Maertens & Jean Frisque ◊◊◊ The announcement of John the Baptist's birth has put […]

OUR NEED OF THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST From an oration by St Gregory of Nazianzus ◊◊◊ The very Son of […]