EVERYONE GIVING BIRTH WILL SUFFER From the “Homilies on the Prophetic Burdens of Isaiah” by St Aelred of Rievaulx5 ◊◊◊ […]

EVERYTHING IS OBTAINABLE FOR SOMEONE WHO PRAYS From “The Commendation of Faith” by Baldwin of Forde6 ◊◊◊ The Lord says […]

HOW SHE SAW JESUS STANDING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POWER OF GOD From the “The Life of Beatrice […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 7th Week of Easter Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) May 21 - 27, […]

LET THE KING OF GLORY ENTER A commentary by St Gregory of Nyssa1 The gospel describes the Lord’s life upon […]

THAT WE MAY ASCEND TO WHERE HE IS A Sermon by St. Aelred of Rievaulx2 For some time now we […]

HOW JESUS IS HEAVEN TO THE SOUL From “The Scale of Perfection” by Walter Hilton3 What is heaven to a […]

WHAT TRUE FAITH IS From the writing of Johann Arndt4 ◊◊◊ He who believes that Jesus is the Christ is […]

AND YOU TOO WILL BEAR WITNESS A homily from St Bede the Venerable5 ◊◊◊ We find from many places in […]

CONCERNING THE TRIPLE LOVE OF GOD A sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux6 ◊◊◊ Love not the world nor the […]

ST. AUGUSTINE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY From the writings of Alban Butler7 ◊◊◊ When Pope St. Gregory the Great decided that […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 8th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) May 28 - […]

RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT From a commentary by St Augustine1 ◊◊◊ The happy day has dawned for us on which […]

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

CONCERNING THE AIM OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE A conversation of St Seraphim of Sarov with Nicholas Motovilov3 ◊◊◊ “The Lord […]

SHE MAGNIFIES THE LORD From the letters of Adam of Perseigne4 ◊◊◊ She, now saluted by the angel, now made […]

HE DID IT SOLELY FOR THE SAKE OF MAN From the Dialogue with Trypho by St Justin Martyr5 ◊◊◊ When […]

THE RECORDED EXHORTATION OF THE DYING ELDER ZOSIMA An excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky6 ◊◊◊ Remember especially […]