Luke 1 26 And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And the angel being come in, said unto her: [...]
Beata viscera Marie virginis cuius ad ubera rex magni nominis; veste sub altera vim celans numinis dictavit federa Dei et hominis O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium. Solem, quem librere, Dum purus otitur In aura cernere visus non patitur, cernat a latere dum repercutitur, alvus puerpere, qua totus clauditur. O mira [...]
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Dies irae, dies illa, Solvet saeclum in favilla: Teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, Quando iudex est venturus, Cuncta stricte discussurus! Tuba mirum spargens sonum Per sepulcra regionum, Coget omnes ante thronum. Mors stupebit et natura, Cum resurget [...]
I love the Feast of All Saints. I love it because it gives us a prize for us to keep our eyes on. We have hope that we too can gain heaven. It also reminds us that we there is indeed a Church triumphant made up of Saints who are not just spending days of [...]
Today is the Feast of Christ the King in the traditional calendar. Today those of us in the Northeast are carefully watching the approach of Hurricane Sandy. Whether she will be a hurricane or just a strong storm is anyone’s guess. But isn’t it a wonderful day to be reminded of the Kinship of our [...]
There will be a Missa Cantata in the Dominican Rite on All Souls Day, Friday, November 2, 2012, 7 PM, at St Catherine of Siena. Fun fact about the Dominican Rite: The Dominican rite was approved in 1267. Even though after Vatican II, the Dominican order chose to celebrate the newer Roman Rite, there seems [...]
As a convert of a year, I struggled during the first year of what to make with Mary. Yes, I believed Mary was the Mother of God, I believed in the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption and all the Marian dogmas I needed to believe in order to convert. I believed these things because the Magisterium [...]
The Perfect Joy of St Francis was the first book I read about St Francis and it changed my life. As I continued my spiritual journey, I eventually developed a vocation for the third-order Dominicans but I never stopped having the love and reverence that I have for St Francis. The good thing is that [...]
Quotes from Story of a Soul “You know, Mother, that I have always wanted to be become a saint. Unfortunately when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the [...]
My favorite YouTube video dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel. Happy Feast of St. Michael!
