Salve, Festa Dies
Hail, Festival Day! Hail, Day of Sion’s sweetest hymns! Hail, Day of timeless adoration! Hail, Day of lavish jubilation! Hail, Day of our most fragrant...
Words of Father Ragheed, Priest and Martyr
Father Ragheed Gannis, 34 years old, was killed by gunfire after having celebrating Holy Mass on Sunday in the Church of the Holy Spirit in...
How Do You Celebrate the Anniversary of Your First Holy Communion?
A Grace Renewed How do readers of Vultus Christi celebrate the anniversary of their First Holy Communion? Every grace remembered is a grace renewed. Saint...
Damien, A Priest Adorer
I find my consolation in the one and only companion who will never leave me, that is, our Divine Saviour in the Holy Eucharist. ....
Holding Fast to the Hard Saying
Third Saturday of Paschaltide Acts 9:31-42 Psalm 115: 12-13, 14-15, 16-17 John 6: 60-69 A Eucharistic Lectio Divina If in your lectio divina this past...
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...
Sacramentum Caritatis: The Friendship of Christ
Reflections on Sacramentum Caritatis With the approach of Maundy Thursday — the solemn commemoration of the institution of the Most Holy Eucharist and of the...
Pope Benedict XVI on Reparation
At a February 22, 2007 meeting of the Roman clergy with Pope Benedict XVI, Don Alberto Pacini, Rector of the Basilica of Sant’Anastasia, spoke of...
Thursday: A Weekly Festival of Corpus Domini
Every Thursday in our choir chapel (located on the second floor of the monastery and just behind the organ chamber of the Basilica) we have...
Wondrous Hidden God
Yearning, I adore you, wondrous hidden God, Living Bread by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart. Give me now the faith that sees darkly through...
Reparation
The “Oversight” I was made aware today that in a certain monastery the Blessed Sacrament (enclosed in a pyx) was left unattended on a shelf...
Eight Days Would Be Enough
The Saints in Our Lives The saints come into our lives, each one with a particular mission. We do not choose the saints to whom...
The Last Day of 2006
It is customary in many places to devote the last day of the year to adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Tomorrow, at the Monastery...
Ave, verum Corpus natum, de Maria Virgine
In a certain sense Mary lived her Eucharistic faith even before the institution of the Eucharist, by the very fact that she offered her virginal...