On holy Communion during Advent
BY Dom Prosper Guéranger
It is true that everything in Advent is so arranged as to be a preparation for the coming of the…
READ MOREDigest – December 2023
The great mystery is accomplished: on Christmas Eve
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene
PreludeO Incarnate Word, my Saviour, teach me the lessons of wisdom contained in the mystery of Your Incarnation.1Of all the…
READ MOREThe war on Christmas
BY Liam Gibson
This December marks the eight-hundredth anniversary of the institution of the first Christmas nativity scene (presepio in Italian) by St…
READ MOREThe Mystery of Advent (2)
BY Dom Prosper Guéranger
This article follows “The Mystery of Advent (1)“This, then, is the threefold mystery of Advent. The liturgical forms in which…
READ MOREThe greater baptism: sermon on Gaudete Sunday
BY A Dominican Friar
“I baptise with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.”St John the…
READ MOREMy ways are not your ways
BY Alan Fimister
In 2 Timothy 3:16–17, St Paul tells us that, “All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove,…
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BY Dom Prosper Guéranger
The mystery of the coming, or Advent, of Jesus is at once simple and threefold. It is simple, for it…
READ MOREDaughter of Sion: sermon on the second Sunday of Advent
BY A Dominican Friar
“Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.”What…
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