VOLUNTARY POVERTY From a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux3 ◊◊◊ Jesus entered into a certain fortified town, and a […]

GOD REQUIRES ONLY LOVE A letter to Hugh the Recluse from St Anselm of Canterbury4 ◊◊◊ The person who will […]

DIVINE CALLS From a sermon by St John Henry Newman5 ◊◊◊ We find in scripture a remarkable instance of a […]

HIS CROSS IS MY GLORY From a homily by William of St-Thierry6 ◊◊◊ It is to my crucified one that […]

DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA7 ◊◊◊ The blessed Pope Sylvester I instituted the rites which the Roman Church observes in […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) November 10 - […]

LET US GIVE GLADLY From a commentary by St Paulinus of Nola1 ◊◊◊ What have you, asks the Apostle, that […]

ST MARTIN, A MAN OF PRAYER From a letter by Pope John XXIII2 ◊◊◊ If St Martin was a bishop […]

THE CALL TO REPENTANCE By Pope Paul VI3 ◊◊◊ Christ, who during his life always did what he taught, spent […]

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 […]