La Madonna del Santo Rosario di Pompei
Our Lady of Pompei Tuesday, May 8, 2007 is the Feast of Our Lady of Pompei. In Italy and in places all over the globe...
The Rosary Revives the Soul
A Guest from the Irish College The Reverend Mr. Bernard Healy of the Pontifical Irish College visited me today. He was interested in seeing the...
Rosary With the Holy Father
Tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will lead university students and young people from all over Europe in praying the Holy...
Carlo Carretto on the Rosary
“It was in the desert that I came to realize that those who debate the rosary have not understood the soul of this prayer. The...
The Fruits of the Rosary
Tomorrow is the last day of this month of the Holy Rosary. What are the fruits of the Rosary in the life of one who...
The Rosary: Hastening to the Springs
The Aves of the Rosary are a stream of living water that irrigate and purify the heart. One who perseveres in the prayer of the...
The Prayer For Times When One Cannot Pray
When fatigue and melancholy and stress seem to leave one’s soul prostrate, and when every other form of prayer seems impossible, one should pick up...
A Man of Sorrows
The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary are a contemplation of the Face of Christ in His sufferings. “There is no beauty in Him, nor comeliness:...
The Rosary: A Lukan Prayer
I have always thought of the Rosary as a particularly Lukan prayer. So many of the mysteries are drawn from Saint Luke’s Gospel. It is...
Strong Like David With His Sling
The power of the Rosary is utterly disproportionate to its simplicity. There is no grace that cannot be obtained, no Goliath that cannot be defeated,...
The Rosary, Liberation, and New Beginnings
The approach of the liturgical memorial of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque confirms me in my belief that the humble repetition of the Rosary very effectively...
Impossible to Conceive of Life Without the Rosary
It is impossible to conceive of our life, of the life of the Church, without the rosary, the Marian feasts, the Marian shrines, and the...
Sub tuum praesidium confugimus
We take refuge under Thy protection, O holy Mother of God! Despise not our supplications in our need, but deliver us always from all dangers,...
Ask, and It Will Be Given You
Cézanne’s painting of an old woman humbly telling her beads illustrates the kind of prayer recommended by Our Lord in today’s Gospel. “Ask, and it...
The Rosary in the Desert
Mary, bearing Jesus in her arms, visits those who ceaselessly pray her Rosary, her Psalter. When the Mother and Child enter a place, darkness is...
Sweet Chain Which Unites Us to God
This is my 100th posting on Vultus Christi! At the beginning of October I promised to post something on the Holy Rosary each day until...
Blessed Bartolo Longo, Apostle of the Rosary
October 5th is the liturgical memorial of Blessed Bartolo Longo, founder of the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Rosary of Pompei. Pope John Paul...
The Rosary: Contemplation of Beauty on the Face of Christ
The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer...
Beads that Bind to Mary
These are the rosary beads I use. Note the beautiful cross depicting the Face of Christ. My wonderful friends over at the Rosary Workshop made...
October, Month of the Holy Rosary
Cum Maria contemplemur Christi vultum! I intend to post something on the Rosary each day during this month of October. To begin the month, I...