CHRISTIAN DE CHERGÉ MONK, MARTYR, AND MYSTIC By Dom Bernardo Olivera ◊◊◊ In its early stages, monastic life was interpreted […]

WE ARE ALL WITNESSES By Fr Paul Evodokimov4 ◊◊◊ There are no half measures, no intermediary formulas. We are in […]

WE SCARCELY KNOW OURSELVES From the writing of Servant of God Dorothy Day5 ◊◊◊ Much as we want to, we […]

FROM A LETTER OF ST BERNARD TO POPE EUGENIUS, On behalf of Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny6 ◊◊◊ It […]

  Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 7th Week of Easter Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) May 12 - […]

HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN By St Leo the Great 1 ◊◊◊ The sacred work of our salvation was of such […]

OUR SWEET MOTHER By St John Paul II on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima 2 ◊◊◊ Since the […]

OUR VERY GLORY IS OUR WARNING By St John Henry Newman on the feast of St Matthias 3 ◊◊◊ This […]

OUR RIGHTEOUS FATHER PACHOMIUS From “The Life of Pachomius” 4 ◊◊◊ Theodore began to tell the brothers of the life […]

THE LIGHT OF THE LORD’S MERCIES From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux 5 ◊◊◊ All of you know […]

THE MYSTERIES OF GLORY By Fr Jean Danielou 6 ◊◊◊ The Apostles' Creed contains a noteworthy passage in which, grammatically […]

THE ASCENSION AND CHRISTIAN PRAYER By Thomas Merton 7 ◊◊◊ At the Ascension, in the sight of the disciples, "the […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 7th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) May 19 - […]

THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAS FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH A commentary by St Aelred of Rievaulx1 ◊◊◊ Today’s holy […]

MARY’S EDUCATION AS MOTHER OF THE CHURCH From the writing of Hans Urs von Balthasar2 ◊◊◊ At first it was […]

BEARING WITNESS TO THE TRUTH From the Document on Religious Freedom of the Second Vatican Council3 ◊◊◊ When Christ completed […]

THE AIM OF OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE A conversation between St Seraphim of Sarov and his spiritual son4 ◊◊◊ “The Lord […]

RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT From a commentary by St Augustine5 ◊◊◊ The happy day has dawned for us on which […]