A Letter from Peter Damian to Rainerius II, marquis of Monte S. Maria 3 To Sir Rainerius, the illustrious marquis, […]

Ash Wednesday 4 by Thomas Merton …Lent is not a season of punishment so much as one of healing… a […]

Jesus Christ Deserves Our Love in Return 5 From the writings of St Alphonsus de Liguori A person will become […]

Anoint Your Head and Wash Your Face 6 A Sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux …Beloved, we enter the holy […]

The Mercy of God to a Penitent 7 From a Letter of St Maximus the Confessor God’s will is to […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 1st Week of Lent Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) February 26 - March […]

Jesus Fasted for Forty Days and Nights by St Gregory Nazianzen We must not expect baptism to free us from […]

I Ask Not for Thy Gifts but for Thyself An Excerpt from “Meditations and Prayers” by Evelyn Underhill Adoration, as […]

Penance and Prayer A sermon by St Oscar Romero Not everyone... will have the honor of offering their blood physically […]

Behold, Now is the Acceptable Time A sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx ...These forty days are called an acceptable […]

The Deep Meaning of Fasting A Meditation by Matthew the Poor Fasting... represents the first battle in which Christ did […]

Christ’s Patient Endurance of Suffering From the Spiritual Writings of John Ruusbroec ...He began to suffer at the time of […]

Love Your Enemies An excerpt from “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer ...For the first time in the Sermon […]

Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 2nd Week of Lent Mass Readings: Sunday (A), Weekdays (I) March 5 - 11, […]

His Face Shone like the Sun1 A sermon by St Leo the Great In the presence of chosen witnesses the […]

Be Merciful2 from the mystical writings of St Gertrud the Great ...The Lord Jesus appeared to her as he is […]

I Have Brought Fasting into My Soul3 A Meditation by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich With fasting I gladden my hope in […]

Wilt Thou Refuse Me? 4 From the private letters of St Teresa of Calcutta –Jan. 13th, 1947 One day at […]