Let Not Your Heart Be Disturbed
Let nothing frighten or grieve you, let not your heart be disturbed, do not fear any sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who am...
O Bona Crux!
A Cross On the Threshold of Advent The feast of Saint Andrew the First–Called, coinciding with the First Sunday of Advent, and commemorated in the...
Haec est domus Domini
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Cross the threshold of the Lateran Basilica, enter the nave, stand in the midst of it and, with eyes...
Saint Jerome and Lectio Divina
Jerome and the Monastic Path Jerome, translator of the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible into Latin, the tongue of the common folk,...
Moneyless physicians labouring without pay
Saints of the Roman Canon From the end of the fourth century right up until 1970 the Mass of the Roman Rite was never celebrated...
Salvum me fac in tua misericordia
Septuagesima Sunday 2014 The sorrows of death surrounded me, the sorrows of hell encompassed me; and in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and...
No ground for boasting in the presence of God
The Preferred Offering When the holy Mother of God and Saint Joseph go to the temple for her purification and to present the Child Jesus,...
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...
Enter Into the Veiled Places and Learn the Mysteries of God
Go to Be an Offering and a Fragrant Incense Today’s feast is Eastern in origin, Eastern in sensibility. To taste its mystery one has to...
Le peuple immense de ceux qui T’ont cherché
Here (once again) is the homily I preached in French six years ago at the Monastère Saint-Benoît in Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, France. Richard Chonak’s fine translation follows....
The Lord saith: I think thoughts of peace
Christ the King Sunday we celebrated the feast of Christ the King; it is, of course, intimately bound up with the feast of All Saints...
The Cross and the Face of Christ
Here is the homily that I preached at Knock on Saturday, 14 September in the Chapel of the Apparition. Glory in the Cross “It is...
Prepare to Disappear
Birth, Passion, Death The Church gives us two feastdays of Saint John the Baptist each year: the first on June 24th to mark his nativity,...
I set thee apart for myself
Yesterday, at the invitation of the Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Malta in Ireland, I offered Holy Mass and...
What are these wounds in thine hands?
Votive Mass of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ Yesterday (Friday) morning we had the Votive Mass of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus...
From the Blight of Sin to the Bliss of Grace
Back to Creation’s Dawn The mystery we celebrate on the feast of the Immaculate Conception takes us back to creation’s dawn, to a moment of...
Thoughts of peace, and not of affliction
The painting by Albrecht Dürer depicts the afflicted Job and his wife. Affliction The verb to afflict derives from the Latin affligere, meaning to cast...
He went in, and took her by the hand
The 23rd Sunday After Pentecost Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 9,18-26. As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a...
Surrendered to the Power of Fruitful Love
Richard to the Rescue Richard Chonak, Vultus Christi‘s genial webmaster and a dear friend, was kind enough to put his gifts at our service by...
Livrée à la puissance de son amour fécond
Dimanche, 21 octobre 2012 Monastère Saint-Jacques Homélie prononcée à l’occasion du jubilé de 60 ans de profession monastique dans la Congrégation des Bénédictines de Jésus...