Aprehendite disciplinam

Faith is more than mere belief, it is a supernatural gift which exceeds the light of natural reason or the impressions of sentiment. It is more certain than all human knowledge.
St. Thomas clarifies this matter:
Two things are requisite for faith. First, that the things which are of faith should be proposed to man: this is [...]

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From the Book of Tobias:
Ch. 4:6 And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord our God. 7 Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it [...]

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This author recommends the reading of the City of God by St. Augustine. A Roman, he witnessed the days of the unthinkable – the plunder of Rome. I often am reminded of how our history books do great injustice to those events and depict those citizens as primitive and superstitious when in fact their civilization [...]

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In the old days of the Church a fast from the day after St. Martin’s feast (November 12) until the Vigil of the Nativity was customary. In fact according to the primitive Franciscan Rule, the Rule of 1221, it was part of the penitential observances of the Brothers of Penance, the original secular order of [...]

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Collect: Father, by his life and death Martin of Tours offered you worship and praise. Renew in our hearts the power of your love, so that neither death nor life may separate us from you. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one [...]

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I would like to share with my readers the Brief Rule of St. Romuald. let us contemplate this and then arise and live it;

Et hanc brevem regulam a magistro Romualdo accepit, quam custodire in vita ipse multum sollicitus fuit:
1. Sede in cella quasi in paradiso;
2. proice post tergum de memoria totum mundum,
3. cautus ad cogitationes, [...]

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