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...
Saint Thérèse, Martyr of Love, 128 Years (Part II)
A Little Victim to Merciful Love Yesterday, for the 128th anniversary of Saint Thérèse’s holy death, we posted in Part I of this article about...
Saint Thérèse, Martyr of Love, 128 Years (Part I)
Fidelity to Her Cross Today we celebrate the 128th anniversary of the Dies Natalis of a most dear secondary patron of our monastery. St. Thérèse...
Novena to St. Thérèse (24 September-2 October)
The Anniversary of Taking the Veil Today is the anniversary of the day when St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face...
Padre Pio, the Eucharist, and Reparation for Priests
Padre Pio Denied Communion When Fra Pio was yet a novice, his Master of Novices was a man named Padre Tommaso. Padre Tommaso’s reputation is...
The Kaleidoscope of the Loving Heart of Jesus
The Octave of the Sacred Heart Even though the month of June is over, we continue to recall the feast of the Sacred Heart. In...
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...
Salva Nos: Perimus (Save us, we perish!)
Christ Calms the Storm The Mass propers for today are taken from the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. When Easter is early, these propers are moved...
13 Years
A Welcome to County Meath, Ireland It was thirteen years ago that we first set foot in the little abandoned Monastery that was to become...
127th Anniversary of St. Thérèse
Fidelity to Her Cross Today we celebrate the 127th anniversary of the Dies Natalis of a most dear secondary patron of our monastery. St. Thérèse...
God’s Liturgical Providence Speaks of St. Thérèse
Although St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face is constantly on our mind in the monastery — and more often than...
Novena to St. Thérèse (24 September-2 October)
The Anniversary of Taking the Veil Today is the anniversary of the day when St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face...
Who is the man that will have life? (Prologue 3)
3 Jan. 4 May. 3 Sept. And the Lord, seeking His own workman in the multitude of the people to whom He thus crieth out,...
So that I might begin to live in simplicity, like a child
Catherine–Mectilde de Bar was the 17th century herald of Thérèse, the Doctor of the Little Way. The passages below are taken from a conversation of...
Thérèse
Some years ago, as a love offering for the feast of my dear Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, I...
Thérèse and Hope
About thirty–five years ago, a certain monk was on a quest to deepen his capacity for living the theological virtue of hope. He was battling...
Neurosis, Mental Suffering . . . and Grace
Caryll Houselander (1901 – 1954) writes out of her own experience, and gets it right. Miss Houselander refers to the childhood experiences of Saint Stanislaus...
Lest we wander from thy little way
O glorious Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, cherished child of the Father, virgin espoused to the Son, humble Doctor...
Of Humility (I)
CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 25 Jan. 26 May. 25 Sept. The Holy Scripture crieth out to us, brethren, saying: “Every one that exalteth himself shall...
My Mercy is honoured in thy infirmity
“Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that He had said these things to her.”...