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STM House of Prayer
- Jun 26, 2021
- 4 min
TOP 10 REASONS to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours (in all times and circumstances!)
In the Spring of 2020, we were just beginning to feel the spiritual effects of the COVID lockdowns and restrictions. Churches were...
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STM House of Prayer
- May 21, 2021
- 7 min
Pope Pius XII on the Divine Office
What follows is one of the greatest Papal teachings ever given on the Divine Office. Much of what was said in Sacrosantum Concilium from...
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STM House of Prayer
- Mar 29, 2021
- 4 min
Let the Praise of God be on their Lips and a Two-edged Sword in their Hands
At the beginning of Lent, we hosted what may become our annual Men’s Lenten Retreat with the Desert Fathers. The conferences for the...
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STM House of Prayer
- Oct 23, 2020
- 3 min
Blessed Columba Marmion on the Excellence of the Divine Office
For some time I have been reading the works of Blessed Columba Marmion, a Benedictine abbot who lived from 1858 until 1923. Marmion has...
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STM House of Prayer
- Sep 10, 2020
- 3 min
Should I Pray with a Book or an App?
Occasionally I am asked for my opinion on whether we should pray the Liturgy of the Hours with a book or an app. I always preface my...
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STM House of Prayer
- Aug 8, 2020
- 3 min
Changing Adam's Course
In the Office of Readings for Friday in the Eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, we find these penetrating words of St. John of the Cross,...
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STM House of Prayer
- Jul 31, 2020
- 3 min
Holiness of the Richest Kind
In the document Lumen Gentium, we read of the universal call to holiness – “that all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status...
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STM House of Prayer
- Jun 24, 2020
- 4 min
Catechesis and the Liturgy of the Hours
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it states, “The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; it is...
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STM House of Prayer
- May 30, 2020
- 8 min
The Perfect Novena to the Holy Spirit
It was on Monday or Tuesday of this past week that I started to see social media posts with links to novenas to the Holy Spirit....
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STM House of Prayer
- Apr 23, 2020
- 3 min
Remember the Deeds of the Lord
While praying Morning Prayer yesterday (Wednesday in the Second Week of Easter), I was struck by the words of David in Psalm 77, “Will...
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STM House of Prayer
- Mar 21, 2020
- 4 min
TOP 10 REASONS to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours (in a time like this!)
We are living in strange times. I think it is safe to say that very few Catholics in the West would have ever imagined living through a...
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STM House of Prayer
- Feb 25, 2020
- 3 min
Pray with the Church this Lent!
Alas, Lent has arrived! This time of year we inevitably hear questions being asked such as, Why Lent?,What is the purpose of Lent?, How...
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STM House of Prayer
- Jan 18, 2020
- 4 min
The Unsurpassable Greatness and Glory of the Sacred Liturgy (Part II)
Solemn Vespers of Easter, London Oratory (newliturgicalmovement.org) In our first post, we established how it is through the Mass that...
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STM House of Prayer
- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Unsurpassable Greatness and Glory of the Sacred Liturgy (Part I)
This is part one of a two part essay on the relationship between the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office, and how together...
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STM House of Prayer
- Dec 7, 2019
- 3 min
Pray with the Church this Advent!
Come November, Christians can often be heard expressing their intentions to remain focused this year on the “reason for the season”...
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STM House of Prayer
- Nov 14, 2019
- 3 min
Guéranger and The Restoration of the Office
In the preface to his monumental work, The Liturgical Year (1841), Dom Prosper Guéranger speaks of the supernatural quality of the...
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STM House of Prayer
- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
The Praise of All Saints
On this Solemnity of All Saints, we do well to remember that the Sacred Liturgy has as one of its primary aims to join all of us to the...
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STM House of Prayer
- Oct 22, 2019
- 4 min
St John Paul II on the Liturgy of the Hours
On today' s Memorial of St John Paul II, it seems fitting to offer several of his quotes on the Liturgy of the Hours. In more ways than...
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STM House of Prayer
- Oct 19, 2019
- 3 min
A Praise of Glory
During our fall retreat a couple of weeks ago Father Joseph Mary, CSJ gave several conferences on the Psalms. Drawing from St Elizabeth...
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