Making a Catholic Children’s Book

By Br. Gabriel María, St. John Priory, Laredo Over the last year and a half I have had the privilege of working on a storybook for Catholic children. The book is called The Littlest Bread, and follows the adventures of Hostie, a (unconsecrated!) communion host accidentally abandoned in a convent bakery. Though snubbed by his […]

Fr. John Therese Creus Rides the Rockies

Fr. John Therese Creus will be doing the Ride the Rockies 2018 bike tour from June 9 – 15. The tour will cover over 400 miles of mountain terrain (check out this itinerary). Fr. John Therese will be with Team y House which is under the umbrella of the Catholic Charities of Denver. This team […]

Orange Priory Mission to Ecuador

Written By Br. John Timothy Here in Orange, NJ, the brothers have two main apostolates. Two of the brothers are campus ministers at Seton Hall University, and the other five primarily serve Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish. My responsibility in the parish is to serve the youth. My vision is to help the teens […]

The Blessed Virgin Mary – Revealed in Scripture

Written by Fr. John Michael Paul, CSJ Let us reflect on the scriptures to see how deeper reflection can unveil to us an aspect of the Mystery of Mary’s motherhood. For this reflection we will look at Numbers 6:22-27 and Psalm 67. Numbers 6:22-27 The LORD said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron and his […]

Homily For Easter Sunday

In the Paschal sequence we heard the following words: ‘Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous; The prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.’ This sums up the paradox of the paschal victory over Satan and sin. Just at the moment when the devil believed that he had won the definitive victory, he […]

Homily On Saint John

Thank you Saint John for writing in your epistle that we heard just before the Gospel reading that you desire for our joy to be complete. In fact…you know very well that joy is both the fruit of a journey…it’s like a path and it is also the fruit of our choice to live in […]

Jesus And Prayer

By Father John-Luke We often have questions about how to pray, and rarely do we have the tendency to look to Jesus in order to receive what He wants to teach us about prayer. Yet, in the Gospels, we see that Jesus both prayed and gave teachings about prayer. In the Gospel according to Matthew, […]

Who Was Saint John?

The Community of Saint John seeks to live the charisms of Saint John. The members of the Community of Saint John seek to live fully the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience according to the spirit the Gospel of Saint John. But who was Saint John? For the three former fishermen—Peter, James and John—that […]

Behold Thy Mother

By Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet It belongs to the Beloved Disciple, the dear son of the Blessed Virgin and the first of the children Jesus gave to her at the Cross, to tell us of the mystery of her marvelous fertility: “A great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon […]

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