Category Archives: Magnificat

The relationship of the Father and the Son in the depths of the Trinity is beyond our unaided understanding. This is why the mystery of the Blessed Trinity was not revealed until the Incarnation of the Word, the Only Begotten … Continue reading →

All of us live with some wounds, bad habits, addictions, and temperamental flaws that are so deeply engrained and long-standing that it seems like they are part of our genetic make-up. And so we tend to give into a certain … Continue reading →

Servant of God Romano Guardini (1885-1968), Italian born German Catholic priest, author, and academic, authored The Lord, a spiritual classic. He is considered one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in the 20th century. Father Guardini was born … Continue reading →

Feast: 25 May  Bede lived from his seventh year in a monastry in Northumbria under the charge of the Benedict Biscop. In his Ecclesiastical History of the English Peoples, Bede tells us that he had spent entire life in this … Continue reading →

Stretch Out Your Hand Night is coming on, 0 Jesus hidden within the Host; my hands are empty of virtues, and I need your merits and your cross to fill them. But where shall I find these graces? Where shall … Continue reading →

Let it be the common goal of all to neither quit once you’ve begun, nor to faint in times of trouble, nor to say, “We have lived in asceticism long enough.” Rather, let us increase our zeal as though every … Continue reading →

Jesus always acts out of love. From the home of the Trinity he brought us a great love, infinite, divine, a love that reaches—as the Fathers of the Church say—even to the point of folly…. In his freedom, however, man … Continue reading →