Dulcis Iesu Memoria
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...
Et balsamo suavior
Still using Father Caswall’s translation, I am giving only a selection of the twenty-four verses that make up this section of the hymn. Father Caswall...
Iesu, Rex Admirabilis
I was fifteen or sixteen years old when, thanks to a fervent Trappist laybrother at Saint Joseph’s Abbey, I discovered a lovely English translation of...
2009 Belongs to Our Lady
For over thirty years now, my dear old friend Father Jacob, O.P. and I have renewed our consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of...
Misericordiam non mutavit, sed multiplicavit
My incomparable Saint Bernard (depicted above with Saint Ambrose in a 1475 painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini) spoke so eloquently this morning of the...
