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

29 June 2011

Congratulations Holy Father!

60 Years of Priesthood! Ad Multos Annos!

The Twin Light of the Eyes of the Body

On this Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, here is an appropriate homily by Saint Leo the Great. When the twelve Apostles, after receiving ...

25 June 2011

Blessed John of Spain

Today on the Carthusian calendar is the feast of Blessed John of Spain. Here’s what a Carthusian monk tells us about Blessed John: Blessed J...

23 June 2011

O Pretiosum et Admirandum Convivium

Today’s reflection comes from Saint Thomas Aquinas. It is taken from the Second Nocturn at the hour of Matins in the 1961 Roman Breviary for...

21 June 2011

An Obligation to Honour the Heart of Jesus

Pope Saint Pius X referred to him as the ‘father, doctor, and apostle of the liturgical cult of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary’. He is Saint J...

18 June 2011

Sanctissimæ Trinitatis

First Reading, Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 Saint Thomas Aquinas concluded [from the original Latin]: “Quod impossibile est per rationem naturalem ad...

17 June 2011

The Heart of Jesus Performs All Things with Harmony

This reflection on the Sacred Heart is passed on to us from a seventeenth-century Carthusian monk named Dom Polycarpe de la Rivière. His rel...

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