About Catholicism… The Disillusioned Poet and the Carthusian Monk 6 May 20196 May 2019 One day I brought a poet to the Charterhouse to visit a monk, one of his relatives. After having conversed together about various things, the poet divulged to the Carthusian monk:…
Pre-Lenten… Thursday after Ash Wednesday 8 Mar 20198 Mar 2019 EPISTLE. Isaiah 38:1–6 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus…
Lent… Ash Wednesday + Dies Cinerum (Wed. 6 Mar. 2019) 6 Mar 20195 Mar 2019 ORIGINS AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: The Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, which is the first day of the Lenten fast. The name dies cinerum (day of ashes) which it bears in the…
Book Reviews Review*: THE WAY OF THE HERMIT – Interfaith Encounters in Silence and Prayer by Mario I Aguilar 11 Feb 2019 The author of this book is a Catholic Benedictine Camaldolese Oblate who is also a Catholic priest, Professor of Religion and Politics at the University of St Andrews, School of…
Homily… THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT – 2018 15 Dec 201811 Dec 2018 “… but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” (Phil. 4:6) The holy season of Advent is set apart by the…
Prayer PRAYER FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY 17 Oct 201817 Oct 2018 Dear Friends of St. Mary’s Hermitage, PRAYER FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY The month of November will shortly be upon us, and our thoughts turn toward Purgatory and the holy…
Prayer THE WAY OF PRAYER 23 Aug 201823 Aug 2018 In the living tradition of prayer, each Church proposes to its faithful, according to its historic, social, and cultural context, a language for prayer: words, melodies, gestures, iconography. The Magisterium…
Liturgy… The Trinity and Worship 12 Jul 2018 IT is proverbial that we are sometimes blindest of all to the most familiar things: the old house, the cherished walk, the parks and gardens where we are accustomed to…
