Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.”  Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.”  Jesus...

The feast of All Saints today and the commemoration of All Souls tomorrow are perfect opportunities to recall to ourselves the catholicity o...

The first entry in the Martyrology today: The commemoration of all the deceased faithful, wherein devout Mother Church--having just encour...

The new creation was growing and gathering strength within the old creation long before it was definitively inaugurated at the beginning of ...

I've come to love Advent more and more. Especially the beginning when the readings and prayers make it clear that we're not yet ...

It can't be denied that living in Rome one does have occasion to be scandalized from time to time by some of the very human souls our h...

Ever since I figured out that I was born on the second Sunday of Lent, the day has felt special to me. Not that it often falls on my actual ...

Ah, Monday of the first week of Ordinary Time. So begins that curiously plain liturgical 'season' that runs from the morning after t...

I woke up this morning thinking about today, the last Sunday of Ordinary Time, the solemnity of Christ the King. In a way that it hadn't...

Everywhere I've been to Sunday Mass in Italy, both inside and outside of religious houses (with the exception of Santa Susanna in Rome, ...

The holiday today has been good. In it God has provided some graces of realizing this moment in my vocation. This little friary where I...

At the friary where I've been staying it seems to be the custom that a priest may offer Mass twice a month for his personal intentions. ...

Today I had my first chance to use the new translation of the good old 'Swiss Synod' prayer, formerly called in English the "Eu...

The Christmas season having ended, we find ourselves again in the tempus per annum , unfortunately Englished as 'Ordinary Time.' My ...

I love the first preface of Christmas. I sing it all week during the octave. ...dum visibiliter Deum cognoscimus, per hunc in invisibilium...

This is a homily for All Souls Day that I wrote a few years ago: The observance we make today goes by many names. In English we usually call...

Our Sanctuary Lamp jumped to its death during the night. It looked so sad, all mangled and crumpled. This means something. Nevertheless, on ...

Well, yesterday came and went, apparently without the arrival of Harold Camping's earthquakes and rapture. The world--and even some of u...

As I was meditating on today's gospel--St. Matthew's account of the Flight into Egypt--an old and encouraging memory came up for me....