Do Not Tire of Visiting Us
Tonight, at least, I have no words to express what I perceive to be the significance of this Act of Consecration in the context of...
The Mother and the Face of the Son
For an explanation of the Port Arthur Icon of the Triumph of the Theotokos, go here. The Virgin Mary is she who more than any...
Beginning Our Lady’s Month
For the first day of the month of Mary, ponder this beautiful passage from the Sermon of Saint Germanus on the Dormition of the Holy...
Give it all to Mary
Friends, readers of Vultus Christi, and others often write me asking for intercessory prayer for a particular intention, for the resolution of a crisis, or...
Impossible Things
Benedictine Wisdom I have been studying the Rule of Saint Benedict and trying to live it (however badly) for nearly forty years. This, however, is...
Mass of Our Mother of Good Counsel
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON MR I called upon God and the spirit of wisdom came to me; I learned without guile and I impart without grudging; I...
Secundum Cor Tuum Vivere
Our Lady of Good Counsel Tomorrow, April 26th, is the liturgical memorial of Our Mother of Good Counsel. The shrine church of Our Mother of...
Mediatrix of Grace for Every Contrite Sinner
Dear friends, let us learn from the Lord Jesus not to judge and not to condemn our neighbor. Let us learn to be intransigent with...
Pro peccatoribus iugiter exorans
This profoundly moving painting is by Guercino (1647). It depicts Saint Peter weeping before the Blessed Virgin on the first Holy Saturday. Look at it,...
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Nine
Blessed Columba’s Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary For those who already know of Blessed Columba Marmion’s friendship and frequent spiritual exchanges with Désiré-Joseph Cardinal...
Immaculata Victrix
In the spiritual combat that is the daily experience of so many priests, nothing can take the place of a confident recourse to the Immaculate...
My Face Will Journey With Thee
Readers of Vultus Christi can imagine my delight when I discovered that the Holy Father’s homily on this Solemnity of the Mother of God focused...
As 2009 Ends
Come thou, O Mary, reign in the world! Let new impulses of filial devotion to thee come from the Chair of Peter. that thy most...
Ember Friday in Advent
Restore the Ember Days For the second time this week, we celebrated a special pre-dawn Advent Mass in candlelight. Having anticipated Matins last evening, we...
Am I not here who am your Mother?
At Clear Creek Brother Juan Diego and I have been at Clear Creek Monastery for the past few days. I have been preaching a retreat...
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother clothed with the sun!
Again this year, I want to present this beautiful Akathist to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. It is the work of Dr. Alexander Roman....
Tota pulchra es, Maria
The Novena in Preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary begins today and continues through December 7th. Tota pulchra...
Sin’s Knotty Entanglements
On the Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost and the ferial days following it, we pray: Absolve, quaesumus Domine, tuorum delicta populorum: ut a peccatorum nexibus, quae...
Saint Ephrem on the Mystic Names of Mary
It is not surprising that Our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, has inspired countless litanies and akathists. The mystery of Mary, or what Saint...
Beginning with Mary
Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary and of the Cenacle September 29 to October 7, 2009 I invite the kind readers of Vultus Christi...