In celebration of the Patronal Feast for the Oratory, there will be Holy Mass celebrated in English at 8:30 AM, Adoration from 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM with a Solemn High Mass coram Sanctissimo (before…

Sometimes we take the simplest things for granted – isn’t it obvious that we celebrate Mass on a Sunday? But is it obvious? Didn’t the Lord celebrate the first ever Eucharist on a Thursday? And…

In 1583, a painting a was completed for a chapel of the new seminary that had been established in Rome some four years earlier. That seminary is known today, as then, as the Venerable English…

Fr. Michael Clark’s Sermon from the St. Augustine Cathedral in Bridgeport for Holy Trinity Sunday centered on a beautiful painting in the Venerable English…

“Surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses” (Heb. 12:1) we do well to remember that the saints also have free will and personality. They desire to help us, because this pleases God – and the…

The Father is greater than I. Hidden within the Gospel text for Pentecost is one of the greatest challenges that a preacher might encounter. For that reason, I very much doubt whether you have…

In His encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:1-41) the Lord uses his natural thirst in the heat of the day as a springboard to a deeper…

We are in the Ascensiontide, the time between the Ascension of Our Blessed Lord on the Mount of Olives, which we celebrated on Thursday, and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, which is…

Join us for Pentecost at the Oratory on Sunday, May 28th, Solemn High Mass