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...
Only God Himself, His Word and His Signs
I do not have time to write my reflections on this address of the Holy Father. My prayer is that Catholics the world over will...
Where God is, There Is a Future
How I wish that the Holy Father’s words on September 23rd at the Marian sanctuary of Etzelsbach might reach every Catholic on earth. Tolle et...
The Call of Matthew According to Caravaggio
Caravaggio’s “Call of Matthew” is a meditatio on the lectio of today’s Gospel. It gives rise to oratio and leads to contemplatio. I am amazed...
Another Novena to Blessed Abbot Marmion
Today is the last day of our Novena to Blessed Columba Marmion. We offer thanks for his intercession and — we have decided to begin...
Novena to Blessed Columba Marmion
September 10 –18, 2011 Dear friends and readers of Vultus Christi, We continue our novena, recommending these intentions to Our Lord through the intercession of...
Reparation for those who are without love
Today I conclude my translation of Mother Mectilde’s introduction to her Constitutions on the Rule of Saint Benedict adding again, something in the way of...
Supplica to Saint Thérèse
A Supplica is a prayer of supplication composed according to a certain literary genre that remains popular in Italy to this day. The most famous...