Vultus Christi

Here, in a fresco at Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi depicts Saint Benedict dining with his monks. I am fond of this particular fresco...

My dear Wilfrid, Discouragement: the Worst Enemy First of all, thank you for being honest with me about your ongoing difficulties in quiet prayer. You...

My dear daughter in Christ, Praying at Home Recently, you asked me how you, as wife and mother, with children to look after from morning...

This is the first of a series of letters that I will be writing to the Oblates of the Monastery of Our Lady of the...

Image: A detail from the incomparable Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saint Paul. A Divine Inbreaking For Benedictines who make a vow of conversion — conversatio morum...