Mercies New Every Morning
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent John 8:1-11 Excessive Mercy Today’s Gospel almost did not make it into the canon of the Scriptures; it...
Vultus Christi Is Eleven Years Old
Supported by Father Jeffrey Keyes and with the expertise of Richard Chonak, I undertook to write Vultus Christi eleven years ago on September 1st, 2006....
Canonized Twelve Years Ago: A Patron of Parish Priests
Saint Gaetano Catanoso Gaetano Catanoso was born on 14 February 1879 in Chorio di San Lorenzo, Reggio Calabria, Italy. His parents, prosperous landowners, were exemplary...
Eyes Only for Thy Face
A Longing to See Him Again Blessed John Henry Newman wrote somewhere that the Ascension of the Lord is “at once a source of sorrow,...
Novena of the Holy Face of Jesus
Sexagesima Sunday Today, February 19th, is Sexagesima Sunday. In Rome the stational church is the Basilica of Saint Paul-Outside-the-Walls. This is reflected in the Collect...
Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus
Reparation The last century saw, here and there, like so many points of light in the Church, men and women drawn by the Holy Ghost...
Thy Name and Thy Countenance
O God, Who didst constitute Thine only-begotten Son the Savior of Mankind, and didst bid Him to be called Jesus: mercifully grant, that we who...
According to the faith I have in Thee
Saint Jude at the Mystical Supper The Gospel tells us that Simon was one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus called to Himself and named...
Dominus Illuminatio Mea
A Mass of the Transfiguration It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its...
Look to Him and Be Radiant
I am fascinated by this 18th century tabernacle depicting the Holy Face of Christ. Looking closely, one sees that the tabernacle door frames Veronica’s Veil....
It is Thy Face, O Lord, that I seek
Saint John Paul II and the Holy Face When the history of the pontificate of Saint John Paul II is written by a generation to...
Mass of the Holy Face
In Rome and in other places, Shrove Tuesday is observed as the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus. In 2007 I had the privilege...
Blessed Ildefonso Schuster
We often read from Blessed Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster’s magnificent work, The Sacramentary. Here is an excerpt from his presentation of the Advent Ember Days. Prayer...
The Holy Face in Franciscan Spirituality
When it comes to Franciscan spirituality, I, being a son of Saint Benedict and an unworthy disciple of Blessed Abbot Marmion, lay claim to nothing...
Faciem tuam, Domine, requiram
Sunday After the Ascension of the Lord The Most Holy Face of Christ is celebrated on various days of the liturgical year. In the tradition...
The Human Face of Divine Mercy
Look closely at this painting (1488) by Bartolomeo di Giovanni; it was commissioned for the Hospital of the Innocents in Florence. The six-sided altar at...
A Face Sometimes Revealed and Sometimes Veiled
“The consecrated life is a pilgrimage of the spirit in quest of a Face that is sometimes revealed and sometimes veiled: Faciem tuam, Domine, requiram.”...
Vultum tuum, Domine, requiro
For the feast of Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, here is a selection from Chapter One of the Proslogion of Saint Anselm...
Ipsius vultum mundo valeat ostendere
Showing Forth His Face In the Ordinary Form, the Collect for today’s memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo contains an extraordinary phrase. We beseech (quaesumus) the...
Come to me, who adore Thee
Saint Jude at the Mystical Supper The Gospel tells us that Simon was one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus called to Himself and named...