11 November 2025

Memory of Saint Martin of Tours

Homily

Today we celebrate Saint Martin, well known for his act of charity towards a poor man with whom he shared his clothes, but who was above all a great bishop of the first centuries of the Church, and a bishop who played a very important role in the development of monasticism in the West.

9 novembre 2025 – Dédicace de la basilique du Lateran

Ez 47, 1-2.8-9.12 ; 1 Co 3, 9-11.16-17 ; Jn 2, 13-22 

Fête de la Dédicace de la Basilique du Latran

          En chaque communauté, où il y a une église consacrée, on célèbre chaque année la « dédicace » de cette église, c’est-à-dire l’anniversaire du jour où l’édifice a été consacré au culte de Dieu, et donc le jour où la communauté a commencé de s’y réunir plusieurs fois par jour pour y célébrer les Offices divins, et où les moniales ou les moines ont commencé d’y venir privément, à toute heure, pour y rencontrer Dieu dans une prière intime. Nous célébrons également chaque année la dédicace de l’Église du diocèse où se trouve notre monastère. Eh bien, aujourd’hui c’est la dédicace de la cathédrale de l’Église de Rome que nous célébrons.

10 novembre 2025 – lundi de la 32^ème semaine "B" – Mémoire de saint Léon le Grand

Sag 1,1-7; Luc 17:1-6

Homélie

          Le ton des lectures bibliques à la messe nous fait déjà sentir que nous approchons de la fin de l’année liturgique. Comme première lecture nous commençons aujourd’hui le Livre de la Sagesse, qui nous accompagnera durant toute la semaine. Dans ses premiers versets ce livre s’adresse à « ceux qui gouvernent la terre » -- Aimez la justice, vous qui gouvernez la terre – mais le message vaut pour chacun de nous. C’est un appel à vivre dans la justice, mais dans le sens le plus profond du mot, c’est-à-dire avoir un cœur droit qui agit en conformité avec l’Esprit de Dieu appelé ici « Sagesse ».

Homily for November 8th, 2025 – Saturday of the 31st week of Ordinary Time.

Rm 16,3-9.16.22-27

We are at the end of a section of Luke's Gospel (chapters 14 to 16) that could be called Jesus' ‘table talks,’ which ends with some general recommendations that we read in today's Gospel. This text calls for consistency in our behaviour, whether in the management of our material goods or in our liturgical services. And this consistency invites us to make concrete choices. Jesus says it in a clear way that seems almost brutal: “You cannot serve both God and money”. We can and indeed must use money to do good, but it must not become our master. We can have only one true master, and that is God.

10 November 2025 – Monday of the 32nd week ‘B’ – Memorial of Saint Leo the Great

Wisdom 1:1-7; Luke 17:1-6

Homily

The tone of the biblical readings at Mass already makes us feel that we are approaching the end of the liturgical year. As the first reading, we begin today the Book of Wisdom, which will accompany us throughout the week. In its first verses, this book addresses ‘those who govern the earth’ – Love justice, you who govern the earth – but the message applies to each one of us. It is a call to live in justice, but in the deepest sense of the word, that is, to have a righteous heart that acts in accordance with the Spirit of God, referred to here as ‘Wisdom’.

9 novembre 2025 – Dedication of the Basilica of S. John of Lateran

Ez 47, 1-2.8-9.12 ; 1 Co 3, 9-11.16-17 ; Jn 2, 13-22

Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of Lateran

          In each community where there is a consecrated church, we celebrate the anniversary of that consecration every hear, that is, we celebrate the anniversary of the day when that building was dedicated to God’s worship, and therefore the day when the community began to gather there several times a day in order to celebrate the Divine Office, and when nuns or monks began to come there privately, at any time, in order to meet God in an intimate prayer. Likewise, we celebrate every year the dedication of the Cathedral of the diocese where the monastery is located. Today, we celebrate the dedication of the cathedral of the Church of Rome, called the Basilica of the Lateran.