…bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Friends, As we approach the great feast of Easter –joy, hope, promise, salvation– let us consider the words from the 2019 Easter message of the Norbertine Abbot General, Jos Wouters. Let us keep each other in prayer and friendship. The Abbot writes: Some years ago, I preached the retreat during Holy Week at […]
After all our trials have ceased, our life will be taken up entirely with God’s praises. Therefore, it is our custom to commemorate this peaceful and blissful state by chanting Alleluia more frequently and joyfully during these fifty days. In the book of Revelation, John the Evangelist says that he heard the throngs of heavenly […]
In the Gospel it is revealed that Jesus breaks bread on the road to Emmaus. This 12th century monastic author teaches: “Break yourself, then, by the labor of obedience, by the humiliation of repentance. Bear in your body the marks of Jesus Christ by accepting the condition of a servant, not of a superior. And […]
Dear friends in Christ: today, right now, we realize that our lives are filled with Divine meaning. Our personal stories are a part of a much bigger narrative. Your life, my life — our lives are all a part of the story of the family of God and the history of salvation. Jesus Christ is […]
We change the praying of the daily praying of the Angelus to the Regina Caeli for the 50 days of Easter. (That is, from Easter Day through Pentecost Sunday). Please add this prayer, in Latin and English, to your iPhone. Queen of Heaven V. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia. R. For He whom you did merit […]
Pope Francis preached at the Easter Vigil (2016): “…it is important to shed the light of the Risen Lord upon our problems, and in a certain sense, to “evangelize” them. Let us not allow darkness and fear to distract us and control us; we must cry out to them: the Lord “is not here, but […]
On the 4th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo liturgy the Church reads the gospel of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Here are some words from a sermon by St. Peter Chrysologus: “We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.” In many passages we are told of the joy with which the […]
Here is this year’s Easter Poster from Communion and Liberation, the concrete place in the Church where I adhere to Christ. I wonder were I will savor the Presence of Christ in the 50 days of Easter. Mutual prayers.
Easter Monday brings with it a new emphasis changing the old into new: old leaven is out, and new leaven brought in; new gifts recognized and offered to the Lord for the work of building up the Church. “Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough.” (I Corinthians […]