Vultus Christi

Rationabile Obsequium

8 January 2009

Our Holy Father gave an extraordinary catechesis yesterday on Romans 12:1. A certain Irish priest friend of mine should be very pleased! The titles are...

All that has gone before

7 January 2009

A wise and dear friend wrote me from her cloister for the feast of the Epiphany. By God’s providence, our lives, with their changes and...

Christus apparuit nobis

6 January 2009

The Epiphany of the Lord Today is the festival of adoration par excellence. The venite, adoremus of the Invitatory antiphon, sung again to the same...

The Wondrous Name That Brings Salvation

3 January 2009

The Feast That Came Back The feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, established by Pope Innocent XIII in 1721, disappeared (along with a...

Dulcis Iesu Memoria

2 January 2009

In the Liturgy For the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, I invite the readers of Vultus Christi to join me in meditating...

Vultus Christi (The Face of Christ) is the spiritual blog of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady of the Cenacle Monastery (Silverstream Priory) in Ireland. Through this apostolate, the monks of Silverstream Priory share the fruits of their contemplation of the Face of Christ for the edification of the faithful, with a particular emphasis on the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, the Church's Liturgy, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as on monasticism and the spiritual legacy of Mother Mectilde de Bar (1614-1698), foundress of the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration. More information is available from our website, or visit cenaclepress.com to purchase products from the monastery.