Sacred Liturgy

It is Truly Right and Just

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He called forth light and darkness, waters and dry land, plants and trees, and...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...