Stained Glass: Basilica Remembrance

Brother Mark Floreanini, O.S.B., stained glass artist, has been making a limited quantity of stained glass crosses from the old clerestory windows of the Archabbey Basilica. The windows were installed over 100 years ago. A new stained glass square, approximately eight inches in dimension, continues to provide the faithful with a token from the Basilica […]


Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time


Phil 2:12-18; Ps 27:1,4, 13-14; Lk 14:25-33:  The LORD is our light and salvation.  We are not afraid of humiliation, and indeed our lives have become a refuge for many souls. The only thing we ask is to dwell in the house of the LORD and to gaze upon the loveliness of the LORD and contemplate […]

Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Phil 2:5-11; Ps 22:26-32; Lk 14:15-24

:  Even in our own day, as it was in times past if we want to renew the church, we must first renew the clergy.  If the leaders of the church are not well disciplined and generous then holiness could not be preached and bear fruit among the laity.  A […]

Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Phil 2:1-4
; Ps 131:1-3; Lk 14:12-14:  Indeed our hearts was not proud, nor our eyes haughty.  Even when we was roughed up by the local anti-catholics, we forgive our persecutors because we are convinced that we deserve even greater suffering for our sins.  Though we are poor and wretched, we grow beautiful because of our […]


Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time


Phil 1:18b-26; Ps 42:2,3,5cdef; Lk 14:1,7-11:  Today we ask the question posed by the psalm: “When shall I go and behold the face of God?”  Today we admit our deepest longing.  Like a hind longs for running waters, so we too long for the LORD Our God.  Indeed, it is a thirst deep and unquenchable.  […]

All Souls Day

Wis 3:1-9; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 6:3-9; Jn 6:37-40:  In the sight of our foes the LORD himself sets up a banquet table.  Who are these foes, mocked by our feasting?  Who are these foes, seeing only our death, affliction, and destruction? Our true foes, life-long foes, are sin and death.  These are the foes of the […]

Solemnity of All Saints

Rv 7:2-4,9-14; 
Ps 24:1-6; 1Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 :  Those who recognize that their deepest longing is to see the Face of the LORD are those who desire not what is vain. Everyone is created with a deep hole in the heart, and only God can fill that hole.  In our most honest and humble moments, […]