Ave, Maria, gratia plena
This beautiful painting of the Annunciation was the work of 11 year old Joseph Gillain who painted it in 1925, after receiving a box of...
The Virgin of the Passion
Commemoration of the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary Did you know that tomorrow, Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent (Passiontide), is the Commemoration...
Our Lady’s Seven Dolours
Beginning Lent in Knock My pilgrimage the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock a fortnight ago renewed my longstanding devotion to the Rosary of the...
Thank you, Holy Father!
“One cannot contemplate Mary without being attracted by Christ and one cannot look at Christ without immediately perceiving the presence of Mary.” I am profoundly...
Our Lady of Sion
“I cannot explain it. All I know is, that I entered the church knowing nothing, and I left it seeing clearly.” (Marie–Alphonse Ratisbonne) Today, January...
Mais, priez, mes enfants!
January 17th is the feast of Our Lady of Pontmain, also called Our Mother of Hope. During my retreat last October at the Benedictine Monastery...
Banneux: Seventy-Five Years
The Other Marian Jubilee in 2008 2008 is the Jubilee Year of Lourdes: 150 years since the apparitions to Saint Bernadette. 2008 also marks the...
Fra Leone and Nuestra Señora de la Expectación
Monsignor Patrick Brankin was kind enough to remind me that the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is dedicated to the...
Heart of Jesus, Formed by the Holy Spirit in the Womb of the Virgin Mary
I pray thee, O Most Holy Virgin Mary, that I might hear the Heartbeat of redeeming Love, and that with Thee I might adore the...
Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Yes, today, December 18th, is one of the liturgy’s loveliest old Advent festivals of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that of the Expectatio Partus. It was...
Bravissimo, Maestro Bocelli!
I just had to translate this interview with Andrea Bocelli for the readers of Vultus Christi: Maestro, we are in Advent, a Marian time par...
A Mother Ever-Virgin
O SAPIENTIA Genesis 49:2, 8-10 Psalm 71: 1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17 Matthew 1:1-17 The Wondrous Exchange O God, Creator and Redeemer of human nature, who...
Mary Rose Up in Haste in Those Days
Our Lady in Advent The presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the liturgy of Advent is like the fragrance of roses in December. Our...
A Marian Grace Sweeping Through the Church
On December 8th, His Eminence Ivan Cardinal Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, opened the Jubilee Year of Lourdes. His homily...
Am I not here whom am your Mother?
“Hear and let it penetrate into your heart, my dear little son: let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you: let nothing alter your heart or...
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother Clothed With the Sun
This beautiful Akathist to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe is the work of Dr. Alexander Roman. Akathist to Our Lady of Guadalupe 1 Kontakion...
More on the Immaculate Conception
First Vespers Last evening, as I opened my antiphonal to begin the First Vespers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I was...
Mary, Younger Than Sin
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Genesis 3: 9-15, 20 Ephesis 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 Back to Creation’s Dawn The mystery...
Do your best. But never give up your beads.
One of my heavenly friends — in some way, I might even consider him a spiritual father of mine – is the Benedictine Dom Eugène...
Spes Nostra
Monday of the First Week of Advent Isaiah 4:2-6 Psalm 121: 1-2, 3-4a, 4b-5, 6-7), 8-9 (R. 1) Matthew 8:5-11 Isaiah’s Gift Spe Salvi, the...