IN PRAISE OF THE MONASTIC VOCATION From “The Golden Epistle” by William of St-Thierry4 ◊◊◊ Surely it is right to […]

THE INSTRUCTIONS OF MARY QUEEN OF THE ANGELS Given to Venerable Mary of Agreda5 ◊◊◊ Your astonishment at the singular […]

THE FOUNDATION OF GETHSEMANI ABBEY By Dom Eutropius Proust6 ◊◊◊ We left Louisville on the twentieth of December, and were […]

TO BE ONE WITH GOD From “The Spiritual Exercises” by St Gertrude the Great7 ◊◊◊ O love, the fruition of […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) November 17 - […]

THE REAPERS OF THE HARVEST From a commentary by St Gregory Palamas1 ◊◊◊ All those who hold to the true […]

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 […]