Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights (Saint Ephraim, +373)... Read more.
And so the time for missionary activity extends between the first coming of the Lord and the second, in which latter the Church will be gathered from the four winds... Read more.
Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three... Read more.
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. (Saint Norbert of Xanten, +1134)... Read more.
In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon... Read more.
To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit. (Saint Philip Neri)... Read more.
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O., Requiescat in Pace
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O. the founding superior of the Toronto Oratory, has just gone to eternity, after a brief illness. Ordained in 1962, just as the Second... Read more.
Advice To Ponder from Father Nix
There are different views of the evolving situation before us, but here is some food for thought from one perspective from Father Nix, who is in the canonical process... Read more.
It is as if you are pouring water on me. Please repent and become a Christian like me. (Saint Charles Llwanga as he was being burnt, to his executioner)... Read more.
No one can have God for his Father, who does not have the Church for his mother (Saint Cyprian of Carthage, +258 A.D.)... Read more.