What is young adulthood? If you hesitate to answer or know you aren’t nailing it— Acies is for you! Why have you not joined Acies? Is it...

After nearly one hundred years of writing, speech-making, picketing, hunger strikes, and skirmishes with the judicial system, the...

“Be a Leader, not a Follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.” These words from Vernon Davis express perfectly the...

The chapel was in complete darkness. It was so dark that I had to find my way into the pew by touch and memory. I couldn’t see the...

(Illustrations by Bridget Bryan) Excerpts from the Recollection: "... by keeping consistent with our spiritual commitments... we're...

Your Guide to Making Good New Year's Resolutions So. The first week of January – the first of the new year has come to an end. Though...

(Illustrations by Bridget Bryan) Excerpts from the recollection: "Remember: no one can excel in greater matters unless you first excel in...

(Illustrations by Bridget Bryan) Excerpts from the recollection: "You are enobled to the thing you become a part of when you commit to...

(Illustrations by Bridget Bryan) "Mental prayer is sort of like having dinner with Alexander the Great or some other famous person -...

(Illustrations by Bridget Bryan) As the new chaplain of Acies, Fr. Gardner began his first recollection by reminding us that ‘acies’ is...

“We think of Lent as a gloomy season: it is because we do not love God enough. The same thing has happened to our word sacrifice: we...

“The sanctuary light burning before the altar that you saw be extinguished has many meanings: "The first reason for the lamp being...

“I come to tell you that they suffer in Purgatory, that they weep, and that they demand with urgent cries the help of your prayers and...

“A young man once exclaimed to a friend, ‘Suppose I make a mistake! I could not bear the disgrace of leaving a religious order after...

“Now, you know we are taught by St. Paul that the Father chose us before the foundation of the world. That means that we are chosen in...

“Since Our Blessed Lord has set us out on our pilgrimage, it is inevitable that we should feel, all our lives, the discomforts...

Have you ever asked yourself the following questions: What drew others to Christ? How did His voice sound? Did He look stern most of the...

“Said a boy one day, ‘How in the world does a person ever know he is to be a priest?’ This little lad was a budding philosopher: he...

“So in your life, when the divine seed is thrown into you, when this divine grace, this share of the divine life, is cast into you, do...

“To know Jesus Christ is to know enough; to know everything and not to know Him, is to know nothing” (St. Louis de Montfort, Love of...