The Chastity Of Judith
Clearly Our Blessed Lord has a soft spot in His Heart for widows. The distress of the widow of today’s Gospel touches His Sacred Heart and He raises her son from the dead. This widow is of course a type of the Church who weeps for her dead children, those who have lost the life […]
Your Father Knows
“Be not solicitous. Do not worry. Your Father knows what you need.” The words of today’s Gospel, taken from the Sermon on the Mount, are among the most familiar passages of the entire Gospel. They constitute part of the proclamation of the New Law, in which Our Lord presents himself as the new Moses, sent […]
Clothing Of Brother Anthony Mary (Xavier Piat)
7 September 2019 St Regina My dear Son, Once upon a time, in the early centuries of the Christian era, in a small town of Gaul, still under Roman occupation, there was a young girl whose name was Reine, Regina. She was of humble extraction, and yet she truly had the qualities of her name: […]
Symbol Of Peace And Hope
One year ago, Archbishop Porteous exorcised and blessed Jerusalem Estate. Today the community planted and blessed an olive tree at what we intend to be the future location of the monastery. We have baptised this particular part of the property Mount Olivet because of its close resemblance with the three hills of the Olivetan (white) […]
Men And Women Complete Spiritual Exercises At Hartzer Park
On the feast of St Bartholomew, 26 men from various parts of Australia completed the five-day spiritual exercises at Hartzer Park. One week later, 22 ladies did the same, becoming the first group following five-day retreat for women hosted by Notre Dame Priory. They all had to compete with some very cold weather, but their […]
A Lesson From St Mary Of The Cross
There is a small little book, worth its weight in gold, called Uniformity with God’s will by St Alphonsus Liguori. It is outstanding for its capacity to help the soul read all the events of its life in the light of God’s will. God has a plan for each of us and “for those who […]
We Have Received Mercy
In today’s introit, the mercy of God is extolled. “We have received Thy mercy in the midst of Thy temple”. What is the temple of God if not the Church? It is in and through the Church and her sacraments that mercy is shown to the world and to each soul in particular. But the […]
The Providence That Never Fails Those Who Love
The best commentary of this week’s oration which contains that magnificent and ever consoling expression, “Deus cuius providentia … non fallitur – God, whose providence never fails”, must certainly be St Paul’s words to the Romans: “we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good” (Rom 8:28). How consoling is […]
The Greater Love
During the Discourse after the Last Supper, Our Blessed Lord gave us the sign at which His true disciples can be recognised: At this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. That fraternal love is exemplified in today’s Gospel in which Our Lord, repeating but perfecting […]