Author Archives: Steve Benner

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”

Maximilian KolbeMaximilian Kolbe was born at Zdunska Wola near Lodz in Poland in 1894. His parents were Franciscan Tertiaries and, beginning his training for ordination in 1907, Maximilian joined the Franciscan noviciate in 1910. He studied at Rome but, suffering from tuberculosis, he returned to Poland and became a lecturer in church history. After sufferingContinue reading “Oremus for Thursday, August 14, 2025”

Jeremy TaylorJeremy Taylor was born in Cambridge in 1613 and educated there at Gonville & Caius College. He was ordained in 1633 and, as the Civil War got under way, he became a chaplain with the Royalist forces. He was captured and imprisoned briefly but after his release went to Wales, where the Earl of CarberyContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, August 13, 2025”

Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale was born in 1820 into a wealthy family. In the face of their opposition, she insisted that she wished to train in nursing. In 1853, she finally achieved her wish and headed her own private nursing institute in London. Her efforts at improving conditions for the wounded during the Crimean War wonContinue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, August 12, 2025”

ClareBorn in 1193 in Assisi of a wealthy family, Clare caught the joy of a new vision of the gospel from Francis’ preaching. Escaping from home, first to the Benedictines and then to a Béguine-style group, she chose a contemplative way of life when she founded her own community, which lived in corporate poverty understood as dependence onContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, August 11, 2025”

Antiphon 1 Ant. In you have I put my trust, O Lord;I said: “You are my God, my destiny is in your hands.”V. Let your face shine on your servant. *Save me in your merciful love.Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, *for I call on you;let the wicked be shamed! *Let them be silenced inContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, August 10, 2025”