Recently, we closed our Night Prayer singing a version of the Hail Mary. I started thinking about Mary – sister, mother, friend – who gentl

Have you ever listened to a reading and heard it – really heard the words – for the first time? That happened to me earlier this year on...

It was many years ago, but I remember it well. While visiting my mom, I was doing various household chores. Precariously perched on a...

On days that we do not have Mass in our monastery chapel, we combine Morning Prayer of the Divine Office with a Communion Service. One...

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! I delight in singing the Easter hymns at Mass and the Divine Office during this glorious season. They are...

“Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson cresseted east.” These lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem,...

As we turn to God and open ourselves to the inflow of God’s love, we grow in our ability to recognize Christ in those we may find difficult

I often hear others speak of a “drive-by” to celebrate special occasions or to connect with family and friends during the pandemic. How...