S. Ioannis Didaci Cuahtlatoatzin
Yes, that would be the much loved Saint Juan Diego of Guadalupe as he is designated in the new Solesmes Antiphonale Monasticum for December 9th....
Towards Advent
Late November Saints The saints of these last days of the liturgical year incite us to look beyond the conditions of this present life and...
The Heartless and Pitiless Celibate
The title of this entry comes not from me, but from Saint John Chrysostom’s homily at Matins. He is preaching on the parable of the...
Ballasts in Peter’s storm–tossed bark
Maria Fortunata Viti: A Nearly–Forgotten Benedictine Blessed Today is the feast of a now nearly–forgotten Benedictine Blessed: Maria Fortunata Viti. Back in October 1967, at...
More about the Venerable John Sullivan, S.J. (1861–1933)
The Healing Priest Father John Sullivan, S.J. died in 1933. For countless Irish families his name was synonymous with a prodigious gift of healing and...
Venerable Father John Sullivan, S.J.
Ordained together with Father Willie Doyle, S.J. The Venerable John Sullivan, S.J. went from being a successful Protestant barrister — and the best–dressed man in...
À l’école du Père Vayssière
A Mystic of the Rosary I return, from time to time, to a couple of recent publications on a saintly Dominican, a true mystic of...
The Boy who Saw the Mother of God
“How beautiful God is, how beautiful! But He is sad because of the sins of men. I want to console Him, I want to suffer...
Prayer of Saint Birgitta
I have long taken comfort in this prayer of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, whose feast we keep today. O Lord, make haste and illumine the...
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...
Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.
Would you have recognized him? This is none other than Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. He was obliged to travel in disguise during World War...
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,...
Patri munus et hostiam
The Office hymn given for Lauds and Vespers in the Liber Hymnarius and in the Liturgia Horarum for today’s feast of Saint Jerome, Doctor of...
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...
Desire for God, unutterable love
Yesterday morning at Matins, we had this magnificent text of the Golden–Mouthed Doctor: From the Book on Prayer by St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Doctor...
When the world was growing cold
Vultus Christi Reader Richard Smith was kind enough to visit Saint Francis Church in New Haven, Connecticut, and photograph the window of the Stigmata of...
Fire for a World Grown Cold
Never underestimate the effect of an image on the memory and imagination of a little child. Long before a child learns to read, he begins...
How to Be Both Hot and Holy in Old Age
In his commentary on old King Solomon’s need to sleep with a maiden hot enough to keep him warm and holy enough not to arouse...
Saint Maximilian Maria’s Secret of Holiness
Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe’s Act of Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary O Immaculate, Queen of heaven and earth, Refuge of sinners and our most...
Novena to Saint Bernard Tolomei
For those who would like to join us in making a novena to Saint Bernard Tolomei from August 13th to the 21st, we offer this...