THE CHRIST WHO SPEAKS NOW From a commentary by St Symeon the New Theologian1 ◊◊◊ Many people never stop saying […]

FROM THE TREATISE “ON CONSIDERATION” By St Bernard of Clairvaux for Pope Eugenius III2 ◊◊◊ It has occurred to me […]

THE HIGHEST PROOF OF LOVE An excerpt from Lumen Gentium3 ◊◊◊ 'God is love, and he who abides in love […]

THE BOOK OF PROVERBS From a commentary by Dom Damasus Winzen4 ◊◊◊ To fear God, in the Old Testament, does […]

A SOUL THAT SEES ITS CREATOR From the Dialogues of St Gregory the Great5 ◊◊◊ Long before the night office […]

THE MEANING OF VOCATION From the writing of St John Paul II6 ◊◊◊ Faith and love are not just words […]

SHE OBEYED THE WORD By Han Urs von Balthasar7 ◊◊◊ Mary is a prototype of the Church, and this for […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 15th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) July 14 - […]

THEY SET OUT TO PREACH REPENTANCE From a commentary by Theophylact of Ohrid 1 ◊◊◊ Besides teaching himself the Lord […]

THE LIFE OF ST BONAVENTURE From Butler’s Lives of the Saints 2 ◊◊◊ Of the youth of this greatest successor […]

THE MARTYRS OF ORANGE ◊◊◊ The Martyrs of Orange were a group of 32 beatified religious women martyred at Orange, […]

RELIGION IN A FREE SOCIETY By Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 3 ◊◊◊ Little does contemporary religion ask of man. It […]

ST CAMILLUS DE LELLIS From Butler’s Lives of the Saints 4 ◊◊◊ Camillus de Lellis was born in 1550 at […]

DIRECT YOUR THOUGHTS UTTERLY TO GOD From “The Form of Living” by Richard Rolle 5 ◊◊◊ Because you have abandoned […]

MARY AND THE RETURN OF THE LORD From a book by René Laurentin 6 ◊◊◊ It is of the essence […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 16th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) July 21 - […]

A KINDLY SAVIOR AND PHYSICIAN From a commentary by Bede the Venerable1 ◊◊◊ The apostles returned to Jesus and reported […]

KEEP WATCH AT THE DOORS OF WISDOM From a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny2 ◊◊◊ Abraham exulted that he […]

A JOYFUL AND GENUINE HUMILITY From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux3 ◊◊◊ Do you see that humility makes […]

THE SHIELD OF FAITH By William of St Thierry4 ◊◊◊ To the devil who was tempting him to blasphemy and […]