June 19-27, Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
I invite the readers of Vultus Christi to join me in making the Novena in Preparation for the Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help...
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
Blessed Are the Pure in HeartJesus, the Son of Mary, gives us in the Sermon on the Mount the key that unlocks for us the...
Answering Patrick
Vultus Christi reader Patrick asked: 1. Is the icon I used to illustrate the previous post the one that was in the cell of Saint...
When the Holy Ghost Has Found Mary in a Soul
When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fullness; He communicates Himself to...
A saeculi strepitu segregati
Many years ago, while searching out the treasures of my missal, I discovered, among the Masses for Certain Places, the Mass of Our Lady of...
Turn Your Eyes to the Virgin
I more or less promised Our Lady that I would offer something in her honour on Vultus Christi every day during the month of May....
Thy Eyes Are as Doves’ Eyes
Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes (Ct 4:9). Oblates’ Pilgrimage to Santa...
De Maria Numquam Satis
Blessed Bartolo Longo wrote: “What is my vocation? To write about Mary, to have Mary praised, to have Mary loved.” At 11:55 this morning I...
La Madonna del Santo Rosario di Pompei
Our Lady of Pompei Tuesday, May 8, 2007 is the Feast of Our Lady of Pompei. In Italy and in places all over the globe...
The Gate of Heaven, the Loveliness of Paradise
Adam of Perseigne, the author of this magnificent prayer to the Blessed Virgin, was ordained a priest and served as chaplain to the Countess of...
O Clemens, O Pia, O Dulcis, Virgo Maria
Allow me to recommend a book for the month of May: Mary Most Holy, Meditating With the Early Cistercians, edited by E. Rozanne Elder, Cistercian...
Mary Kept All These Words
Today being our weekly day of Eucharistic adoration, I had ample opportunity to pray the Rosary quietly in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed...
The Rosary Revives the Soul
A Guest from the Irish College The Reverend Mr. Bernard Healy of the Pontifical Irish College visited me today. He was interested in seeing the...
La Madonna del Popolo, Mediatrix of All Graces
Federico Fiori Barocci’s Madonna del Populo (1575–1579) depicts the maternal intercession of Mary, the Mediatrix of All Graces. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)...
Our Lady of Good Help
Father Abbot sent me to offer Holy Mass this morning in our lovely little chapel of La Madonna di Bon Aiuto (Our Lady of Good...
Mary, Teacher and Mother of the Church
From the lineamenta for the forthcoming Synod on the Word of God: Mary, Every Believer’s Model of How to Welcome the Word 11. In penetrating...
The Secret of Mary
Tomorrow is the liturgical memorial of Saint Louis–Marie Grignion de Montfort. His writings have been a lamp unto my feet and a fire in my...
Never To Depart From Her Counsels
I just came up to my room from the basilica after having celebrated the 6:30 p.m. parish Mass. Today is the liturgical memorial of Our...
Ecce ascendimus Ierosolymam
Second Wednesday of Lent Jeremiah 18: 18-20 Psalm 30: 4-5, 13, 14-15 Matthew 20: 17-28 The Sorrowful Passion of the Lord “Behold, we are going...
Mater Mea, Fiducia Mea!
My telephone rang this morning shortly before 9:00. An Apostle of the Sacred Heart was calling to invite me to join her and two others...