Author Archives: Steve Benner

BartholomewIt has long been assumed that Bartholomew is the same as Nathanael though it is not a certainty. The gospels speak of Philip bringing Nathanael to Jesus and calling him an Israelite worthy of the name. He is also present beside the Sea of Galilee at the resurrection. Although he seems initially a somewhat cynicalContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, August 24, 2025”

Simone WeilSimone Weil belonged to a species so rare, it had only one member. This peculiar French philosopher and mystic diagnosed the maladies and maledictions of her own age and place – Europe in the first war-torn half of the 20th century – and offered recommendations for how to forestall the repetition of its iniquities:Continue reading “Oremus for Saturday, August 23, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/8zfp8pca Behold, I am with you always,even to the end of the age, alleluia. Matthew 28 O God,your love is wider than all the universeand your mercy greater than the heights of heaven.When we are tempted to break faith with you,put a new song of love on our lips,that we may sing your praises to allContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, August 22, 2025”

Jonathan DanielsJonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. In 1965, he was murdered by a shotgun-wielding special county deputy, Tom Coleman, who was a construction worker, in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales. He saved the life of theContinue reading “Oremus for Thursday, August 21, 2025”

Bernard of ClairvauxBernard was born at Fontaines, near Dijon, in France in the year 1090. He entered the Benedictine abbey at Cîteaux in 1112, taking with him many of his young companions, some of whom were his own brothers. He was a leader of the reform within Benedictinism at this time and in 1115 wasContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, August 20, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/ccyc2h5h O people of Sion, behold,the Lord will come to save the nations,and the Lord will make the glory of his voice heardin the joy of your heart. Isaiah 30 Lord our God, we come before you with thanksgiving and praise,for you have created us as your people and you sustain us with your hand.Continue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, August 19, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/4nsdks7hO sing a new song to the Lord,for he has worked wonders;in the sight of the nationshe has shown his deliverance, alleluia. Psalm 98 Christ our King,you put on the apparel of our natureand raised us to your glory;reign from your royal throneabove the chaos of this world,that all may see the victory you have wonandContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, August 18, 2025”

Antiphon1 Ant. My house will be called a house of prayer, says the Lord;everyone who asks here, will receive,and he who seeks will find,and to him who knocks, it will be opened.V. How lovely is your dwelling place, *O Lord of hosts.My soul is longing and yearning *for the courts of the Lord.My heart and my fleshContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, August 17, 2025”

Brother Roger of Taizé Roger Schütz was founder of the Taizé community and a living paradox. Totally identified with the ecumenical “monastery” he had created, humble and stubborn, childlike and cunning, mystical and realist, mild and authoritarian, he was a pioneer in the ecumenical field and never wavered in his self-imposed lifelong mission: to work towardsContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, August 16, 2025”

The Blessed Virgin MaryThe honor paid to Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, goes back to the earliest days of the Church. Two Gospels tell of the manner of Christ’s birth, and the familiar Christmas story testifies to the Church’s conviction that he was born of a virgin. In Luke’s Gospel, we catch a briefContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, August 15, 2025”