Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very dear sons, In her spiritual Diary, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, the apostle of Divine Mercy, writes of a vision she was granted, one centered on the Last Supper and the Institution of … Read More
Emitte spiritum tuum et creabuntur, et renovabis faciem terrae. Send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. (Ps. 103:30) Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very Dear Sons, As … Read More
Brethren…Christ our Pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I Cor. 5. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, … Read More
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very dear sons, In a real way it was the Lord’s own feet that would have needed attention during the Last Supper, even more than those of the Apostles. Not that Jesus’ feet … Read More
Behold a Virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very dear sons, Christian antiquity, following traditions modern historians can neither confirm nor deny, recognized the 25th … Read More
Dear Friend of Clear Creek Abbey, The Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy, wrote that “happy people have no history.” Other interpretations of this mysterious saying are possible, but here is one: since what we call “history” is often made of wars … Read More
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying “Where is he that is born King of the Jews?” Dear Brothers and Sisters in … Read More
Dear Friend of Clear Creek Abbey, As the last logs (to use a homely metaphor) of the Year of Our Lord 2016 burn slowly down to embers, we remain pensive in our meditations, thinking back over battles lost and won. … Read More
At that time: there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled…And Joseph also went up from Galilee… Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very dear sons, Something very big was at work … Read More
Vestimentum tuum candidum quasi nix…Thy garments are white as snow, and thy face is as the sun. (2nd Antiphon of Laudes). Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My Very Dear Sons, In contemplating the spectacle of the Immaculate Conception, such … Read More