Drinking to the Love of Saint John
There are several forms for the traditional blessing of wine on the feast of Saint John the Evangelist. Father Weller’s Roman Ritual in three volumes...
Blessed Christmas to All
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Daily Mass Time to Change
Beginning Wednesday, 14 December 2011, our daily weekday Mass (Monday through Saturday) will be at 8:15 a.m., immediately following Lauds. Our Sunday Mass will continue...
Iterum dico, gaudete!
This is our new rose-coloured set of vestments, made by Brother Augustine Kelly, O.F.M., Conv. The photo was taken in our sacristy immediately after Holy...
Saint Ambrose and the Face of Christ
Seek the Face of Christ Saint Ambrose invites us to seek the Face of Christ in his mysteries, that is to say, in the Sacred...
Saint Barbara and Her Three Windows
Saints in Advent We celebrate the Holy Mysteries on December 4th in the company of two saints, both of them lights from the East: Saint...
The Early Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
For some years now, from the feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on November 21st until that of the Immaculate Conception on...
On My Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Priesthood
I was ordained a priest on November 16, 1986. Looking back over the twenty-five years of priesthood that Our Lord has given me, I have...
Benedictine All Souls Day
Praying for the Dead It is a cherished monastic tradition to pray for the dead. Some monasteries still hold to the old custom of praying...
Thoughts on Priesthood and Adoration
Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honour; to Him be glory and empire unto the...
Ipsius vultum mundo valeat ostendere
Showing Forth His Face In the Ordinary Form, the Collect for today’s memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo contains an extraordinary phrase. We beseech (quaesumus) the...
The Feast of Christ the King
In the Two Calendars In the traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, the Feast of Christ the King, instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925,...
Come to me, who adore Thee
Saint Jude at the Mystical Supper The Gospel tells us that Simon was one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus called to Himself and named...
On Purification of the Memory
I was happy today to return to the lesson at Matins for the feast of Saint Raphael the Archangel: Saint Bonaventure’s mystical exegesis of the...
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
The Cheerful Ascetic A Redemptorist Missionary priest, Blessed Francis served in various places in the United States during the turbulent years of the Civil War....
Monk: A Man Who Gives God Time to Act
The Holy Father’s homily to the Carthusian monks of Serra San Bruno in Calabria, on Sunday, 9 October, is a message to all who profess...
The Eucharistic Humility of God
The 16th Sunday After Pentecost The Most Holy Eucharist is the Sacrament of the Divine Humility. Those who partake of It worthily enter into the...
Triduum to Saint Thérèse
O glorious Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, cherished child of the Father, virgin espoused to the Son, humble Doctor...
Triduum to Saint Thérèse
I ask all the readers of Vultus Christi to join with me in saying the following prayer for the next three days for a very...
Supplica to Saint Vincent de Paul
Given that we follow the old calendar here at the monastery, it completely slipped my mind that, in the new calendar, today is the feast...