Spiritual reflections

Correspondence with grace: the ninth Sunday after Pentecost

BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD

Prelude O Lord, grant that Your grace in me may not be void. Meditation 1 Today, the liturgy invites us to…

Sermon on the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord

by a Dominican friar In our human life, we can make two kinds of journey. First of all, we can…

Sermon on the fifth Sunday after Easter

By a Dominican friar “If you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it to you.” Today…

Can one be devout and wicked at the same time? The answer of St Francis de Sales

by Cristiana de Magistris One day, when St Francis de Sales was speaking with Giampietro Camus, the bishop of Belley, (an admirer…

Co-Redemption and Marian Consecration in the light of the Fatima message

by Fr Serafino Lanzetta As we proceed through the month of Our Lady (and, at the same time, through Eastertide,…

Sermon on the fourth Sunday after Easter

by a Dominican friar “It is expedient for you that I go away.” We are now more than half-way through…

Our Lady of Revelation at Tre Fontane

The month of May is dedicated to Our Lady, our Mother and Queen, and we especially recall her apparitions in…

Sermon on the third Sunday after Easter

By a Dominican friar “I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against…

Sermon on the second Sunday after Easter

by a Dominican friar “The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.” Most of the Sunday gospels begin with…

Sermon for Low Sunday

by a Dominican friar “This is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.” Today, on the octave day of…

Dominus flevit: the destruction of Jerusalem

by Roberto de Mattei It is Palm Sunday. Jesus weeps on the Mount of Olives, where stands today the church…

The democracy that condemned Christ

by Cristiana de Magistris From the evangelist St John, we know that the leaders of the Jewish nation, enraged against…