Fratres : Sóbrii estóte, et vigiláte : quia adversárius vester diábolus tamquam leo rúgiens circuit, quærens quem dévoret : cui resístite fortes in fide.

Brethren, be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith.

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On the Sacred Liturgy

The Church is made visible in many ways: in its charitable work, in mission projects, in the personal apostolate that every Christian must realize in his or her own environment.

But the place where it is fully experienced as a Church is in the liturgy: it is the act in which we believe that God enters into our reality and we can meet Him, we can touch Him. It is the act in which we come into contact with God, He comes to us, and we are enlightened by Him.

(Pope Benedict XVI)

Thoughts on the Sacred Liturgy

A Reflection on Vocation and the Sacred Liturgy
Five Things Most Catholics Don’t Know about Celebrating Mass
The Work of God
Essays on the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (a series)
Missale Romanum at Fifty… plus one
A Plea for Beauty in the Sacred Liturgy
Rorate Mass Resources – in the Ordinary Form
Antiphony Reborn: Singing the Mass Propers
Initial Thoughts on the Sacred Liturgy Conference, 2018
Funeral Mass for Rev. Michael Wagner (video)
A Liturgical Lent
Rorate Cæli
The Extraordinary Form and Mutual Enrichment
Restoring the Sacred
In Praise of Altar Servers
On Vestments
Corpus Christi Retrospective Part 2:
In Procession
Corpus Christi Retrospective Part 1:
Ad Orientem
Vesting Prayers
For the Love of God
Reflections on the Mass of the Immaculate Conception
Corpus Christi Reflections
Time, Time, Time
In Praise of Liturgical Fidelity
Towards a New Cluny
Source and Summit
Reflections on a Confirmation Mass
Musing on a Funeral Liturgy

On the Eucharist

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament …

There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth…

(J.R.R. Tolkien)

Some Favourite (Non-Liturgical) Posts

How the Assumption Saved my Life: a Reflection
Again, No
Via Podiensis: A Thousand Miles
Listen
Cultivating Pilgrim Spirituality
Saint Benedict on Silence
Consolations and Graces
Five Hundred Years
On Obedience and Confusion
Down in Adoration Falling
Called, Not Chosen
On Humility and Pride
Called to Serve?
Ten Years Catholic
On Community
One Year Ago: the Way
The Vocation of Living
Our Pilgrimages of Faith
We Want God
Finding the Way
Sacred Heart, Wounded Heart
Santiago Apóstol, Peregrino, Matamoros
Sanitago de Compostela
Holy Places
The Heights
Both Lungs
Vatican II: Letter and Spirit
The Year of Faith Begins
A Sunday at Pistachio House
Stay Awake!
Called to Love More
Benedict XVI on Silence
Hatred, Anger, and Love
A Most Peculiar Dream
Of Endings
Mediatrix of All Graces
Divine Mercy
A Matter of Devotion
God Himself, through Suffering, Transforms the Darkness
A Meditation on Silence
Small Thoughts on Atonement

On Writing

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

(Peter Abelard)

Some Blogs and Journals

Adoremus Bulletin
Bishop Frank Schuster
Brandon Vogt
Carrots for Michaelmas (Haley Stewart)
Chant Café (CMAA)
Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn)
Dominican Liturgy Blog
Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
iCasad (Andrew Casad)
The Liturgical Arts Journal
The Liturgy Guys Podcast
Musings in my Free Time (Rev. Jacob Maurer)
New Liturgical Movement
Truth in Love (Very Rev. Paul Etienne)
The Way of Beauty (David Clayton)
Word on Fire (Very Rev. Robert Barron et al.)

On the Undeserving Poor

The Gospel takes away our right forever to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

(Servant of God Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B.)

On the 12th Century Monastic Reformers

Theirs was the religion of Saint John and of Saint Paul, the religion of the Gloria in Excelsis Deo, of the Athanasian Creed, and of the Te Deum Laudamus: Trinitarian, Christological, liturgical, and ecclesial.

Theirs was a religion spacious, broad, lofty, deep, and, at the same time, humbly rooted in the mystery of the Incarnation and in the homely economy of the sacraments.

(Dom Jean LeClercq, O.S.B.)

Benedictine Links

Order of Saint Benedict
St. Martin Abbey (Washington)
Mount Angel Abbey (Oregon)
Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey (Oklahoma)
Monastero di San Benedetto in Monte (Norcia, Italy)

Chanted Divine Office with the monks of the Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux (Barroux, France)

On Tradition

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

(G.K. Chesterton)

News

Vatican News Services
The Pillar
Northwest Catholic