I chose you to see you fight under the banner of Christ!
Blessed Alain de la Roche (1) lamented the lukewarmness with which he recited his rosary in a Dominican church in Paris during the octave of the Torah...
Category: Religion
Lauda Sion
A magnificent sequence in the Mass of Corpus Christi, written by Saint Thomas Aquinas, this dogmatic poem praises the new and true Zion, the Church.
Pentecostal Happiness
One of the joys of the Octave of Pentecost lies in the recitation of the Veni, Sancte Spiritus, following the recitation of the Victimae Paschali during Easter week, the...
Prayer to the Souls in Purgatory by Father André Haussaire
O Jesus, to Your Heart I entrust (whom I desire: for example, "the victims of the virus"). Look upon (him/her/them) and then do what Your Heart tells You. Let...
Prayer during an epidemic
(Extract from the Roman Ritual, Titulus IX, Chapter X) V. Lord, do not treat us according to our sins. R. And do not punish us according to our iniquities. V. Help us...
Spiritual Communion (continued)
In the Middle Ages, when the faithful were accustomed to receiving communion only at Easter time, pious people, generally...
Prayer of Saint Alphonsus Liguori
My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul longs for you, since I cannot...
Spiritual Communion according to Saint Alphonsus Liguori
My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul longs for you. Since I cannot...
Max Jacob's Prayer to the Virgin Mary
Praise be to this little country girl, who deserved to be the mother of God! It seems to me that she was born in Brittany and lived there before my very eyes...
The time is not right for governments to last
The future Pius IX, still a cardinal, responding to Emperor Napoleon III, said this: "Sire, when great statesmen like Your Majesty object to me that the child...
Marie Lataste in 1843
Jesus Christ said to Marie Lataste during the vision she had in 1843: "The first king, the first sovereign of France, is me! I am the master...".
Poetry by Philippe Mac Leod
There is no greater vertigo than your exposed face (…). It is there, on the edge of this barely opened abyss, that one discovers how precious the flesh is….
Prayer of the craftsman
12th-century monastic prayer: Teach me, Lord, to make good use of the time You give me for work… Teach me to combine haste and slowness….
Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...