Ortus Christi: Meditations for Advent

The outstretched arm is a sign (1) of _power_. The little One Whom we are expecting, though so winning and gentle and loving, is nevertheless the Almighty and All-powerful God....

O my little JESUS, hidden there for me and offering Thyself for me, teach me to be generous, teach me to love Thee as Thou deservest; help me to lie quietly and unresistingly on...

One day when John was in prison his disciples came and told him that they had heard that JESUS was working a great many miracles and that His fame was spreading all through the...

It is a coincidence, if not something more, that puts the antiphon _O Oriens!_ on the same day as the Feast of St. Thomas. It was on account of St. Thomas' _doubt_ that the grea...

When John was about thirty years of age the "word of the Lord" (St. Luke III. 2) reached him in his solitude, just as it had done all the prophets of old from Samuel down to Mal...

If I am a child of Mary in anything more than in name, I shall not hesitate to use this great privilege which is offered to me, knowing that by so doing, not only will the value...

It is clear from the words which she has chosen for her "Epistle" for the First Sunday of Advent that the Church intends us during this solemn season to think about sin,--the da...

This zeal showed itself at once. No sooner had He become incarnate than He inspired His Mother to take a difficult journey into the "hill country" to visit her cousin Elizabeth....

"_Lord, Thou deliveredst two talents to me, behold I have gained other two._" The Lord gives exactly the same answer, the same reward to each, showing clearly that what counts i...

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Contents page--ditto marks were used in the original. The marks were replaced by actual repeated words as follows: chapters 8-11, St. John the Baptist; chapters 16-20, The Inter...