"Such is the lowliness of our condition in this life; for we think others are like ourselves and we judge others according to what we o...

One of the things you notice living the liturgy here in Europe is that they have a lot of patron saints. Six, in fact. And so their feast d...

Recently I was in an email thread with some friars on the 'Lent of Benediction,' one the fasts described in the Rule . It begins aft...

Recently I read some alarming thing about how people are abandoning the faith younger and younger. I was reminded of one of the times some ...

According the Roman Martyrology , today is the feast of Macarius the Great. A brother came to see Abba Macarius the Egyptian, and said to ...

"I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" said St. Paul. (1 Cor 9:22) And so the saints who follo...

Back on the feast of All Franciscan Saints, long-time internet friend and sometime fellow American in Rome Fr. Daren J. Zehnle tweeted this...