Second Day of the Novena
A word from Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata: Love Mary!… She is lovable, faithful, constant. She will never let herself be outdone in love, but...
And He Arose
Monday of the Seventh Week of the Year I Mark 9:14–29 A Tormented Child Today’s Gospel recounts the deliverance of a boy tormented by an...
Jesu, Quadragenariae
VESPERS II Jesus! You taught and sanctified Observance of this Lenten tide; Be pleased our fast to consecrate, And by it mend our broken state....
Some Fond Return of Love: Praying to Saint Gabriel
Novena to Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata February 18 — 27, 2007 The liturgical memorial of Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother falls quite suitably...
Mater Mea, Fiducia Mea!
My telephone rang this morning shortly before 9:00. An Apostle of the Sacred Heart was calling to invite me to join her and two others...
The Comfort of the Beads
Given the grace of today’s feast, you may want to begin praying the Rosary of the Seven Dolours. It is prayed on seven sets of...
The Measure of Our Weakness
Sixth Friday of the Year I Mark 8:34-9:1 I just came from the altar, having celebrated the Votive Mass of the Most Precious Blood. This...
“They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced”
The coincidence of the Holy Father’s Lenten Message with the liturgical memorial of Saint Claude La Colombière prompts me to post an article that I...
Saint Claude’s Prayer to Jesus, the True Friend
I think it was in 1974 that a priest friend gave me a little book of the writings of Saint Claude La Colombière in French....
A Chant Meditation on the Holy Father’s Lenten Message
The Antiphon, O quantum in cruce, found in Laudes Vespertinae, the Cistercian collection for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, is the perfect meditation on the...
The Joy of All Our Days
A Feast in Europe In all of Europe today is the feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, co–patrons of Europe with Saint Benedict, Saint Catherine...
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR LENT 2007
“They shall look on Him whom they have pierced” (Jn 19:37) Dear Brothers and Sisters! “They shall look on Him whom they have pierced” (Jn...
Reading the Signs
Tuesday of the Sixth Week of the Year I Mark 8:14–21 Unintelligence My French Bible subtitles today’s passage from Saint Mark: “The Unintelligence of the...
Vultus Christ Nominated in Six Categories
Yes, in six categories. I can hardly believe it. The 2007 nominations of Vultus Christi are in the following categories: Best Blog by Clergy/Religious/Seminarian Best...
Praying for One’s Enemies
The first time I said this prayer of mine publicly was during a homily on 17 May 2006. After Holy Mass I offered copies of...
Sin Crouching at the Door
Monday of the Sixth Week of the Year I Genesis 4:1–15, 25 Cain’s Fallen Countenance The Sacred Liturgy sends us today to Chapter 4 of...
A Ray of Light In Brighton, U.K.
I am so impressed by Father Ray Blake’s reflections on celebrating Holy Mass ad orientem that instead of sending my readers over to his excellent...
Reparation
The “Oversight” I was made aware today that in a certain monastery the Blessed Sacrament (enclosed in a pyx) was left unattended on a shelf...
Wounds of the Spirit Which Never Close
A Letter of John H. Newman To Edward Heneage Dering on the Death of His Wife in 1876 My Dear Mr. Dering, I have felt...
The Shrine of the Volto Santo at Capodimonte
<ahref=”https://vultuschristi.org/Volto%20Santo%20di%20Madre%20Flora.JPG.jpg”> Local sanctuaries and regional pilgrimages abound in Italy. At the origin of most of them is a miraculous event or special grace. The foundational...