Work of God 
Articles related to the first work of God: Prayer. These include both the public prayer of the Church, private prayers, and methods of praying.
Cherokee World War II Veteran’s Copy of Lord’s Prayer Donated to Smithsonian
A copy of the Lord’s Prayer in the Cherokee language carried by a Cherokee World War II veteran is now in the possession of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. The late Woodrow Roach of Tahlequah fought for the U.S. Army from 1944-45 and believed the prayer to be… Read More ›
25 Things You Should Know About the Rosary
In honor of Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of the most Holy Rosary, we have composed a very simple list of 25 things that we should know about the most Holy Rosary. Hopefully upon reading this short list you will be motivated to get to know the Rosary better. Better yet we hope that… Read More ›
St Padre Pio and the Rosary
St Padre Pio is one of the greatest saints of all times. He is well known in the world for the spiritual gifts he had: Stigmata, healing, prophecy, reading of hearts, levitation, bilocation, apparition, and “odour of sanctity”. He is a great miracle-worker and a powerful intercessor. Often he has been referred to as “the… Read More ›
Prayer to St. Michael
O Victorious Prince, most humble guardian of the Church of God and of the faithful souls, who with such charity and zeal took part in so many conflicts and gained such great victories over the enemy for the conservation and protection of the honor and glory we all owe to God, as well as for… Read More ›
Psalm 51(50): Have mercy on me, O God!
1. For the fourth time during our reflections on the Liturgy of Lauds, we hear proclaimed Psalm 51[50], the famous Miserere. Indeed, it is presented anew to us on the Friday of every week, so that it may become an oasis of meditation in which we can discover the evil that lurks in the conscience and beg the Lord… Read More ›
Psalms 141(140) and 142(141)
With this evening liturgy, we begin the itinerary of a new liturgical year, entering into the first of its seasons: Advent. In the biblical reading that we have just heard, taken from the First Letter to the Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul uses precisely this word: “coming”, which in Greek is parusia andadventus in Latin (1 Thes 5: 23). According… Read More ›
Revised Benedictine Daily Prayer
The second edition of Benedictine Daily Prayer is scheduled for release November 2015. Liturgical Press provides the following description: “Benedictine Daily Prayer provides an everyday edition of the Divine Office for people who desire to pray with the church in a simple manner. Based on fifteen hundred years of liturgical prayer within the Benedictine monastic tradition,… Read More ›
Stabit Mater: Latin and English
STABAT Mater dolorosa iuxta Crucem lacrimosa, dum pendebat Filius. AT, the Cross her station keeping, stood the mournful Mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last. Cuius animam gementem, contristatam et dolentem pertransivit gladius. Through her heart, His sorrow sharing, all His bitter anguish bearing, now at length the sword has passed. O quam tristis… Read More ›
Psalm 142(141): “I cry with my voice to the Lord!”
On the evening of 3 October 1226, St Francis of Assisi lay dying: his last prayer was, precisely, the recitation of Psalm 142[141] that we have just heard. St Bonaventure recalls that Francis “burst out with the exclamation of the Psalm: “I cry with my voice to the Lord, with my voice I make supplication to… Read More ›
Psalm 51(50): Where sin abounded, grace was more abundant!
1. Every week, in the Liturgy of Lauds for Friday, we pray Psalm 50, the Miserere, the pentitential Psalm, that is so much beloved, sung and meditated upon. It is a hymn raised to the merciful God by the repentant sinner. We have already had the chance in a previous catechesis to give a general overview of this great… Read More ›