Vigils Reading – 30th Sunday Ordinary Time
OPEN YOURSELVES TO THE LIGHT From a commentary by St Clement of Alexandria1 The commandment of the Lord shines clearly, […]
OPEN YOURSELVES TO THE LIGHT From a commentary by St Clement of Alexandria1 The commandment of the Lord shines clearly, […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 30th Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) October 27 - […]
THE ZEAL OF SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE By St John Henry Newman2 The Apostles commemorated on this Festival direct our […]
A VIRGIN LIFE From the writing of Louis Bouyer3 Baptism is our union with Christ’s cross, our union with his […]
THE SAINT AND THE MISSION An excerpt from “The World of Prayer” by Adrienne von Speyr4 A saint's standing before […]
THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST From the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate5 For the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according […]
MERCY AND JUDGMENT by Isaac of Stella6 "Happy are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." Even a righteous person […]
PRAYING TO THE SAINTS by Fr Karl Rahner7 Nothing can come 'between' God and us. On the other hand, one […]
Biblical Readings for Office and Mass 31st Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings: Sunday (B), Weekdays (II) November 3 - […]
OUR REASON FOR LOVING From a commentary by St Francis de Sales1 ◊◊◊ Because God created us in is own […]
THE LEGACY OF ST CHARLES BORROMEO From a homily by Fr Ronald Knox2 ◊◊◊ When our Lord’s apostles came to […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]