From a sermon by Saint Laurence Justinian, bishop
While Mary contemplated all she had come to know through reading, listening and observing, she grew in faith, increased in merits, and was more illuminated by wisdom and more consumed…
From a work by Saint Bonaventure, bishop
Run with eager desire to this source of life and light, all you who are vowed to God’s service. Come, whoever you may be, and cry out to him with…
From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
As the Lord’s Prayer continues, we ask: Give us this day our daily bread. We can understand this petition in a spiritual and in a literal sense. For in the divine plan…
From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
The prayer continues: Your kingdom come. We pray that God’s kingdom will become present for us in the same way that we ask for his name to be hallowed among us. For…
From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
How merciful the Lord is to us, how kind and richly compassionate! He wished us to repeat this prayer in God’s sight, to call the Lord our Father and, as…
From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
Above all, he who preaches peace and unity did not want us to pray by ourselves in private or for ourselves alone. We do not say “My Father, who art…
From a work by Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest
Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men…
From a sermon by Saint Anthony of Padua, priest
The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in different languages. These different languages are different ways of witnessing to Christ, such as humility, poverty, patience and obedience;…
From the Explanations of the Psalms by Saint Ambrose, bishop
Though all Scripture is fragrant with God’s grace, the Book of Psalms has a special attractiveness. Moses wrote the history of Israel’s forefathers in prose, but after leading the people…