The Fourth Sunday of Easter, already. The Sundays of Easter always seem to go faster than those of Lent, no? I appreciate this fourth Sunday...

Lord God, may this Holy Communion with the Body and your Blood of your Son be for me true food and true drink (John 6:55) to nourish the per...

This is cute to me: our physician gives us Mass intentions from her prescription pad.

The Easter Octave--that standing still of the first day of the new creation for eight days--has passed, and we enter into the second week of...

Next month I will mark three years in Rome. That's half of my assignment, at least as it stands right now on paper. And after these almo...

Gregory of Nazianzus is beautiful in the Office of Readings today: If you are a Simon of Cyrene, take up your cross and follow Christ. If...

The mini-season of Passiontide isn't explicit in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, but it is there. On the Fifth Sunday of Lent the r...