Beginning Our Lady’s Month
For the first day of the month of Mary, ponder this beautiful passage from the Sermon of Saint Germanus on the Dormition of the Holy...
Give it all to Mary
Friends, readers of Vultus Christi, and others often write me asking for intercessory prayer for a particular intention, for the resolution of a crisis, or...
Of Controllers, Correctors, and Castigators
Notice the instrument of penance in Saint Benedict’s hand. It rather contrasts with the gentleness of his expression. Every occasion of presumption should be avoided...
Kinship in the Cloister
Here is the talk I gave this morning in Chapter. Ties That Bind The presence of members of the same family in a monastery has...
Impossible Things
Benedictine Wisdom I have been studying the Rule of Saint Benedict and trying to live it (however badly) for nearly forty years. This, however, is...