Secret Harbour - Portus Secretioris

Rejoice, because you have escaped the various dangers and shipwrecks of the stormy world. Rejoice, because you have reached the quiet and safe anchorage of a secret harbour. <> Saint Bruno's letter to his sons the Carthusians

31 May 2010

The Visitation

It seems that Saint Luke in his Gospel made great strides to delineate Our Blessed Lady as the New Ark of the New and Everlasting Covenant, ...

29 May 2010

Handmaid of the Lord

On this Saturday of Our Lady, here’s more from the Carthusian Order: ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy wor...

28 May 2010

The Holy of Holies

This reflection on the Sacred Heart of Jesus was written by Dom Lawrence Wartenberger. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany around the year 159...

26 May 2010

Saint Philip Neri: A Humble Priest

Today is the feast of Saint Philip Neri. The Venerable John Henry Newman had preached a couple of sermons on this great saint at the Birming...

24 May 2010

Our Blessed Mother's Example of Poverty

This particular piece from a Carthusian monk focuses on the poverty of the Virgin Mother of God, in order that she may ‘preserve her unique ...

22 May 2010

I Will Not Leave You Orphans

Today in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass for the Vigil of Pentecost, Jesus said, as recorded in Saint John’s Gospel: ‘If you love Me, kee...

21 May 2010

The Heart of Jesus: Source of the Supernatural Life

This writing on the Sacred Heart of Jesus comes to us from the Carthusian, Dom Juan Anadón, a seventeenth-century Prior of Cartuja de Aula D...

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