Holiness and Beauty: Tying the Knot
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and...
At the Carceri: The Face of Christ and His Open Side
Yesterday morning, together with Leonard and Mark, my friends from the U.S., I visited the Carceri or hermitages hidden on the wooded slopes of Mount...
Mane Nobiscum, Domine
Jacopo Pontormo painted this Supper at Emmaus for the Carthusian monastery of Galluzzo sometime between 1523 and 1527. He includes Carthusian monks in the scene,...
Sacramentum Caritatis: Eucharistic Stupefaction
This Wondrous Sacrament Sacramentum Caritatis calls the Most Holy Eucharist “this wondrous sacrament.” It goes on to speak of the amazement — the stupefaction —...
The Eucharist: Salvation, Life, and Resurrection
Tuesday of Holy Week Isaiah 49:1–6 Psalm 34:13, 1–2 John 13:21–33, 36–38 Go and Prepare the Passover for Us Sunday’s solemn chant of the Passion...