1. The Church is God’s Lampstand in Dark Times – A Meditation on a Saying from St. Maximus 2. Today's the feast of St Juan Macias, Dominican lay brother in 17th-century Peru. Window from Providence College https://t.co/GDZuLBAvYm — Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) September 18, 2015 3. Today’s Mass readings. 4. Women are some of the Church's greatest saints #homilytweet — Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) September 18, 2015 5. From a sermon On Pastors by Saint Augustine in the Liturgy of... Read more

1. In the end, Christ judges us, not by the categories of success or failure we impose, but by our fulfillment of the demand of love. — FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) September 17, 2015 2. "The school of Christ is the school of love…Love will be the whole syllabus. " — St. Robert Bellarmine pic.twitter.com/O2tgaABbqW — Ave Maria Press (@avemariapress) September 17, 2015 3. From a treatise On the Ascent of the Mind to God by Saint Robert Bellarmine, bishop, on his... Read more

1. We celebrate St's Cyprian and Cornelius, may their prayers inspire a deeper friendship with Christ. pic.twitter.com/la6kV7TEbZ — Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) September 16, 2015 2. About Cornelius and Cyprian: Here and here and here and here. 3. Cyprian in the Liturgy of the Hours today: Cyprian sends greetings to his brother Cornelius. My very dear brother, we have heard of the glorious witness given by your courageous faith. On learning of the honor you had won by your witness,... Read more

1. Peter Howard writes: Today, the Church directs our attention to the importance of calling upon the holy name of “Mary” because her name points to her role in salvation history as the “ark of salvation”. It is fitting that Mary be called the “ark” of salvation as her name also stems from the feminine form of the Latin word for sea, mare. Just as all waters are contained in and distributed by the seas, so are all the graces... Read more

1. Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer at Ground Zero. 2. Christ is the peace that surpasses all understanding. Pray for an end to terrorism, and for peace throughout the earth. #September11 — James D Conley (@bishop_conley) September 11, 2015 3. The last word goes to God, a word of justice against those who do evil and on behalf of those who suffer it https://t.co/ksKHPc250o #Sept11 — Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) September 11, 2015 4. We all have faults, we all have... Read more

1. Let your day be a gift from God; and a gift offered back to Him. Make each moment count for the Kingdom. — Fr Brad Sweet (@BradBradsweet) September 4, 2015 2. From the prayer of the Church this morning: “A humble, contrite heart, O God, you will not spurn.” 3. "To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world". Karl Barth — FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) September 3, 2015 4. The angels... Read more

1. Baptism of Stephen of Hungary, from the new chapel at the National Shrine. Today's his feast day in… https://t.co/2IqYVW4cfm — Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) September 2, 2015 2.From Origen in the Liturgy of the Hours today: For just as that physical body of Christ was crucified and buried, and afterward raised up, so in the same way the whole body of Christ’s holy ones has been crucified and lives no longer with its own life. For each of... Read more

1. God, who has taken you by the hand, is guiding you to the port of eternal salvation. St. Pio of Pietrelcina — Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) September 1, 2015 2. For the second day in a row, the Liturgy of the Hours has meditations from The Imitation of Christ; if you’ve never prayed with it, you might want to: You thunder your judgments upon me, O Lord; you shake all my bones with fear and dread, and my soul becomes severely... Read more