Sometimes retreating from the world to a place of serenity, beauty, and holiness is just what you need. Of course this place is Clear Creek Monastery, our "...

Today is the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. It is a traditional feast of which most Catholics really are unaware. I found this beautiful writin...

Humanitarianism is all the rage. Everyone wants to save the world. We need to save the earth, the seals, the trees, the environment, the lost souls of humani...

We have come to the end of the Lenten Season and now enter into the Triduum. What a great time to really grow in the understanding of the virtue of Charity. ...

The Catechism of the Council of Trent says that the virtue of hope is the desire to see the Beatific Vision, the face of God, as well as to attain the graces...

The first of the Theological Virtues seems easy enough to understand until you try to define and apply it. In defining this virtue let’s begin with Sacred Sc...

St. Thomas Aquinas sums up the definition of temperance in the above quote. In this week's podcast Fr. Ripperger explains temperance even more specifically ...

Welcome to the second week of Lent. This week the virtue to consider is the virtue of fortitude. My understanding of fortitude has been basic stick-with-it...

Justice is not a virtue that we hear about in our world anymore. Because of that, it may be that we don't really understand what it is. It can be said that...

From today’s Collect at Lauds: Grant, Oh Lord, that Thy faithful may begin the solemn days of Lent with fitting piety and may persevere therein with steadfas...

A Lenten Program for Your Marriage The Church is in crisis, as we all know. But that’s really nothing new. Anyone who has grown up within the last 60 years i...

I received an email this morning that said, “Today, love yourself first.” This actually made me a little sad. That just doesn’t seem right. I am one of those...

Sharing the Work of the Holy Spirit, JPII, Retreats, & Clear Creek Monastery I read a story about a Bedouin shepherd's response to the persistence of a man t...

It seems that a commercial less than two minutes long has caused quite a flurry of opinions from all sides. The people in the world who read my blogs, small ...

Happy Epiphany! Today we celebrate the coming of the the Three Kings to worship the newborn King of kings. On this day is also attached a beautiful tradition...

Christmas Eve Christmas Eve Ora / Pray The Gospel Matthew 1:18-21 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Jos...

Week Four - Sunday The Collect Ora / Pray Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son...

Week Three - Saturday Prayer After Communion Ora / Pray We implore your mercy, Lord, that this divine sustenance may cleanse us of our faults and prepare us ...

Week Three - Friday Prayer Before Communion Ora / Pray May the sacrifice of our worship, Lord, we pray, be offered to you unceasingly, to complete what was b...

Week Three - Thursday The Gospel Luke 3:10-18 Ora / Pray The crowds asked John the Baptist, “What should we do?” He said to them in reply, “Whoever has two c...

Week 3 - Wednesday 2nd Reading Philippians 4:4-7 Ora / Pray Brothers and sisters: Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness sh...

Week Three - Tuesday Responsorial Isaiah 12:2-6 Ora / Pray R. Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel. God indeed is...

Week Three - Monday 1st Reading Zephaniah 3:14-18 Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter ...

Week Three - Gaudete Sunday Collect Ora / Pray O God, who see how your people faithfully await the feast of the Lord's Nativity, enable us, we pray, to attai...