She Was Troubled
Turbata est et cogitabat – She was troubled at his saying and thought with herself. It might surprise us to read that Our Lady, the Most Pure Virgin, was troubled by the visit of the angel. How can that be? Would we not expect her to be so perfectly in harmony with the angelic world […]
The Cause Of Our Joy
Gaudete Sunday Always is always. This is not a one-off recommendation given in a moment of spiritual fervour. Far from it. Rejoice in the Lord, rejoice always. There is therefore no time when we should not rejoice. But why? St John the Baptist, who, in today’s Gospel has the humility to step aside and acknowledge […]
A Prayer To Mary Immaculate
Feast of the Immaculate Conception 8 December 2019 “O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of Sinners, and our Most Holy Mother”. So prays St Maximilian Kolbe, one of her greatest devotees. O Immaculata! “Our tainted nature’s solitary boast”, to quote a great English poet. O God’s masterpiece, conceived before time in His […]
Torrens In Austro
1st Sunday of Advent Keep watch, the Lord is near. Such is the great lesson of this season of Advent into which we enter today – a season of preparation, of watchfulness, of penance, of intensified prayer, a time of grace which is given to us to make ready the way of the Lord. During […]
The Really Good News
Last Sunday after Pentecost On this last Sunday of the liturgical year, Holy Mother Church puts before our eyes the spectacle of the end of the world, the catastrophic cosmic upheaval and the tragic events which will precede it. A question arises: How does this somber news qualify as Gospel, that is, as “Good News”? […]
Monks Conclude Community Retreat
On this feast of the Presentation of Our Lady, second anniversary of our first clothings in 2017, the community has just concluded a week-long retreat under the guidance of Fr Michael Bozell from the Abbey Saint Pierre of Solesmes. Fr Bozell spoke to us beautifully of seeking the Face of Christ, especially in the Beatitudes […]
Rendering Caesar To God
22nd Sunday after Pentecost Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. With these words, Our Blessed Lord affirms both the just autonomy of the civil order and its total dependance on God. Indeed, all things are God’s, including Caesar. Caesar’s duty is to provide for the […]
In Voluntate Tua
21st Sunday after Pentecost There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, simple and upright, and fearing God: whom Satan besought that he might tempt: and power was given him from the Lord over his possessions and his flesh; and he destroyed all his substance and his children; and wounded […]
Long Live Christ The King!
I am a King. For this was I born, and for this I came into the world, that I might bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears my voice. On the very day of the Annunciation, the archangel told Our Blessed Lady that the Child to be born would reign […]
