The Last Breath of Saint Benedict
Saint Benedict’s Eucharistic Death Today, as on almost Thursdays of the year, we are celebrating the Office of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The Eucharistic significance...
Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh: Which Do You Need to Offer?
The Season after Epiphany The Season after Epiphany continues the mysteries of the Epiphany, and we are still reflecting on the three mysteries of the...
La Madre and Mother Mectilde
Mother Mectilde Compared to Saint Teresa Mother Mectilde de Bar has frequently been referred in the archives of this blog as “the Teresa of the...
25 March 1653: A Vision of the Blessed Virgin
The feast of the Annunciation, in which we celebrate the beginning of the life of the Word made Flesh, is the anniversary of the first...
Mother Mectilde and Adoration, Part VI: A Charism Exhaled in Love
On the Feast of the Transitus of our holy father Benedict, we present the final section of our series of articles about how Mother Mectilde...
St. Joseph and the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration
O Felicem Virum! “O Happy and Blessed Man,” so begins an antiphon in honor of St. Joseph. “To thee was granted not only to...
The Feast and Mother Mectilde’s Act of Reparation
Feast of Reparation Today in Mectildian Monasteries is the Great Feast of Reparation. Though not exclusive to the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration – at one...
Mother Mectilde and Adoration, Part V: In the Crucible of Love
This is part V in our series of articles about how Mother Mectilde began the life of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration. Click...
Mother Mectilde and Adoration, Part IV: All that Paradise Loves and Adores
This is part IV in our series of articles about how Mother Mectilde began the life of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration. Click here...
Mother Mectilde and Adoration, Part III: All Things Work Together unto Good
This is part III in our series of articles about how Mother Mectilde began the life of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration. Click here...
The Story of Mother Mectilde and the Vocation of Perpetual Adoration, Part II
This is part II in our series of articles about how Mother Mectilde began the life of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration. Click here...
On the Solemnity of Thursday, Part II (Cont.): Weekly Pascha
We at Vultus Christi are gradually going through Mother Mectilde’s conference ‘On the Solemnity of Thursday’. The conference was originally published in The Mystery of...
On the Solemnity of Thursday, Part II: Sons of the Host
We at Vultus Christi are gradually going through Mother Mectilde’s conference ‘On the Solemnity of Thursday’. The conference was originally published in The Mystery of...
The Story of Mother Mectilde and the Vocation of Perpetual Adoration
Mother Mectilde’s Birthday In honour of the 410th birthday of the foundress of our charism that we celebrate today, we will be posting over the...
On the Solemnity of Thursday, Part I
Catherine-Mectilde de Bar of the Blessed Sacrament is, without any doubt, the most Eucharistic soul in what was a Eucharistic century par excellence, and a...
89th Anniversary of Abbot Celestino Maria Colombo
In addition to today being the feasts of Our Lady of Ransom and Our Lady of Walsingham (whose statue is in our refectory), today is...
The Deifying Light and Mary, the Mount of God
The Deifying Light Selection of the Rule of St. Benedict for January 2, May 3, September 2 Let us arise, therefore, at long last, at...
Mectilde de Bar: On the Solemnity of Thursday
In this splendid text entitled “On the Solemnity of Thursday,” Mother Catherine–Mectilde de Bar pours out her soul in a torrent of amazement and thanksgiving...
Saint Joseph and Mother Mectilde
Here again is a translation of the account of Saint Joseph’s apparition to Mother Mectilde de Bar on 19 March 1653. Mother Mectilde, very much...
Omni tempore silentium debent studere monachi (XLIII)
CHAPTER XLII. That no one may speak after Compline 21 Mar. 21 July. 20 Nov. Monks should love silence at all times, but especially during...