Readings of the day: RB 9 The Number of Psalms at the Night OfficeMass: 1 K 17:7-16; Resp Ps 4; Mt 5:13-16
Salvator Mundi, Leonardo DaVinci
O Lord, let the light of your countenance shine upon us!(Resp Ps 4)
O the beauty of the face of Jesus Christ shining upon us! We are illuminated in LIGHT becoming light of the world. Wh

Saint Peter Chantal (d. 1841)
Readings of the day: RB 70 The Presumption of Striking Another Monk at WillMass: Ac 13:44-52; Resp Ps 98; Jn 14:7-14


O CHOSEN PEOPLE, PROCLAIM THE MIGHTY WORKS OF HIM WHO CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS WONDERFUL LIGHT.(Entrance Antiphon, Mass)
O the mighty works God has

Readings of the day: RB 58:1-16 The Reception of Candidates for the CommunityMass: Ac 5:17-26; Resp Ps 34; Jn 3:16-21


GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON,SO THAT EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT NOT PERISHBUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
When you feel in your marrow how you’re h

In other years: St Raymond of Peñafort (1175-1275)
Readings of the day: RB Prol. 45-50Mass: Isaiah 60:1-6; Resp. Psalm 72; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Matthew 2:1-12

WE SAW HIS STAR AT ITS RISING. 
From Karl Rahner, The Great Church Year
Thrown down your defenses! The star is

Readings of the day: RB 7:1-4Mass: Ezra 1:1-6; Resp. Psalm 126; Luke 8:16-18

What Jesus says to the crowd today reminds of a radio program I listened to years ago. There was a segment where people would call, “Mr. Obvious,” asking a question to which the answer was, well, obvious. I imagine someone in the crowd raising his hand, then