Per antica tradizione
Leafing through the 1941 edition of the Usi Monastici of our Congregazione Cistercense di San Bernardo in Italia, I happened upon this interesting prescription: Per...
The Beating Heart of the Church
The Church has a beating Heart: the Eucharistic Heart of Christ. This is what Pope Benedict XVI said in today’s Angelus address: “Today’s solemnity of...
Cor Jesu, Templum Dei Sanctum
Heart of Jesus, Holy Temple of God, have mercy on us. The temple built by Solomon is a figure of the mystery of the Heart...
Salve, Festa Dies
Hail, Festival Day! Hail, Day of Sion’s sweetest hymns! Hail, Day of timeless adoration! Hail, Day of lavish jubilation! Hail, Day of our most fragrant...
Cor Jesu, maiestatis infinitae
Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty, have mercy on us I cannot pray this invocation without recalling the Prophet Daniel’s vision of the Son of...
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, Wife and Mother
Let Thy gracious favour, we beseech Thee, O Lord, sustain Thy faithful, that those whom Thou hast instructed by the example of the virtues of...
Cor Jesu, Verbo Dei substantialiter unitum
Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God, have mercy on us From all eternity, God desired to love man divinely with a...
In memoria aeterna erit justus
Father Ragheed Ganni Chaldean Rite Catholic Priest Diocese of Mosul, Iraq Lord, we pray Thee grant that the soul of the priest Thy servant Ragheed...
Words of Father Ragheed, Priest and Martyr
Father Ragheed Gannis, 34 years old, was killed by gunfire after having celebrating Holy Mass on Sunday in the Church of the Holy Spirit in...
The Irish College’s New Martyr — In Iraq
Given the importance of this article, I clipped it directly from AsiaNews to post it here. Father Ragheed studied at the Irish College here in...
How Do You Celebrate the Anniversary of Your First Holy Communion?
A Grace Renewed How do readers of Vultus Christi celebrate the anniversary of their First Holy Communion? Every grace remembered is a grace renewed. Saint...
Cor Jesu, Fili Patris Aeterni, miserere nobis.
Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father My project for the month of June is to offer something of a commentary on the Litany...
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Proverbs 8:22-31 Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 The Holy Spirit and the Word Where is the Most Holy Trinity in today’s passage...
Saints Marcellinus and Peter
Birthday Today, June 2nd, is my 55th birthday! When I went downstairs for collazione this morning, I discovered that Fra Bernardo Maria had baked a...
Happy Birthday, Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Cast into the furnace of love, the Heart of Jesus, all your anxieties, your trials, your fears, so that He may burn them away. Mother...
Answering Patrick
Vultus Christi reader Patrick asked: 1. Is the icon I used to illustrate the previous post the one that was in the cell of Saint...
When the Holy Ghost Has Found Mary in a Soul
When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fullness; He communicates Himself to...
A Catholic Pilgrim’s Progress
And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall...
In Praise of the Octave of Pentecost
Days of Fire and of Light In the traditional Roman liturgical calendar the glorious solemnity of Pentecost has its own Octave: eight days under the...
Repleti sunt omnes Spiritu Sancto
Alleluia! Today the Spirit of the Lord has invaded the cosmos and filled it! Life spills out of the Cenacle and, like a torrent of...