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...
A Pilgrim Monk
Cistercians celebrated today the memorial of Blessed Corrado (Conrad) of Bavaria. Born in 1105, Conrad was the son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria....
Tacere et Adorare — Be Still and Adore
Today’s reflection on beseeching reminded me that I wanted to present one of Rome’s loveliest churches for beseeching and for adoring: San Claudio on the...
Da nobis quaesumus
Friday of the Fifth Week of the Year I Mark 7:31–37 Mediators and Intercessors “And they brought to Him one deaf and dumb; and they...
Newman on Friendship and Love
It seems to me that this sermon, preached on the feast of Saint John the Apostle, sheds some light on the way the Venerable Servant...
Saint Colette of Corbie, Reforming Abbess
My beloved Poor Ladies at Bethlehem Monastery in Barhamsville, Virginia gently chided me for forgetting that today is indeed the solemn festival of Saint Colette,...
7 February, Blessed Pius IX
“In human affairs we must be content to do the best we can and then abandon ourselves to Providence, which will heal our human faults...
Eight Days Would Be Enough
The Saints in Our Lives The saints come into our lives, each one with a particular mission. We do not choose the saints to whom...
In Festo S. Agathae, Virginis et Martyris
I would ask all my readers to join me today in praying for a very bright, engaging young woman who has been in poor health...
Saturday Morning Walk and Some Liturgical Notes
Out the front doors of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and down the street, through the Chinese business section and the park, to Santa Maria Maggiore....
Pilgrimage to Manoppello: The Holy Face
I am profoundly grateful to Mother M. Clare Millea, A.S.C.J. for making possible a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Holy Face of Jesus at...
The Human Face of Divine Mercy
The painting (1488) is by Bartolomeo di Giovanni and was commissioned for the Hospital of the Innocents in Florence. The six-sided altar at the centre...
2 February, The Presentation of the Lord
Malachy 3:1-4 Psalm 23: 7, 8, 9, 10 Hebrews 2: 14-18 Luke 2: 22-40 Susception Day “We receive, O God, your mercy, in the midst...
The Reign of the Bambino
It is customary in Rome, and elsewhere in Italy, to keep the presepe (Nativity scene) up until the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord...