A Few Souls Weep
Exposition and Adoration Not long ago, on a Friday evening, while visiting a major international Marian shrine recognized by the Holy See, I attended exposition...
The Grace of Things Unplanned
Control Recently, I was led to think about the significance of surprises or, if you will, the grace of things unplanned and unforeseen. Having persevered...
Surrendered to the Power of Fruitful Love
Richard to the Rescue Richard Chonak, Vultus Christi‘s genial webmaster and a dear friend, was kind enough to put his gifts at our service by...
Livrée à la puissance de son amour fécond
Dimanche, 21 octobre 2012 Monastère Saint-Jacques Homélie prononcée à l’occasion du jubilé de 60 ans de profession monastique dans la Congrégation des Bénédictines de Jésus...
Credo
Here is the Holy Father’s first Catechesis of the Year of Faith, given at this morning’s General Audience. It seems to me that during the...
The Sacred Heart in Margaret’s Kitchen
A Family Story My Irish grandmother’s Christian name was Margaret Mary. As one might expect, a framed picture of the Sacred Heart figured prominently in...
La dottrina della Chiesa è “certa e immutabile”
The Council did not formulate anything new in matters of faith, nor did it wish to replace what was ancient. (Pope Benedict XVI) Here is...
Annus Fidei
Thursday, 11 October, the feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, opens the Year of Faith. The Credo of the People of...
Father Willie Doyle: Scruples and Their Treatment
More than one reader has shared with me that the most helpful thing written on scruples and their treatment is a little pamphlet by Father...
Letter to a Soul Suffering from Scrupulosity
Just the other day someone suffering from scrupulosity wrote me, asking for counsel. Reading through the Letters of Saint John of Avila, our new Doctor...
When God Answers Prayers
I took this photograph of a moss-covered stone crucifix while visiting the Hill of Slane for the first time last October with my friend, Father...
Counsels of Saint John of Avila
The Quest for a Spiritual Father It often happens that souls will lament their failure to find a spiritual father or, more often than not,...
I pay all my debts from Christ’s merits
When you place yourself in God’s presence, endeavour rather to listen to Him, than to speak to Him, and strive more to love Him, than...
Let us Fix Our Gaze Upon Christ
Homily of Pope Benedict XVI Opening of the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelisation 7 October 2012 Dear...
Call for Reparation
This morning I received the following message from a friend here in County Louth, Ireland: We have a spiritual disaster in our parish of Ardee...
Repose in the Heart of Jesus
In this letter to her friend, Marguerite, the beleaguered Duchess of Orléans, Mother Mectilde du Saint-Sacrement instructs her on the inner repose and joy that...
Thérèse Sent Us Roses
Surprise We completed our novena to Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face today. All during the novena I was expecting...
Thérèse
La Petite Thérèse Thérèse is so often referred to as “little,” that we risk not seeing the breadth and depth that are really characteristic of...
He Comes to the Aid of Our Weakness
Image: Pope Saint Gregory the Great inspired by the Holy Ghost. The Holy Father’s Wednesday General Audience 26 September 2012 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lord,...
Praying One Abbot for the Healing of Another
Dom Pietro Vitorelli, Abbot of Monte Cassino Last June I learned of the serious illness of the young and gifted Abbot of Monte Cassino, 51...