Go to Joseph

19 March 2011
The Icon Brother Claude Lane, O.S.B., the iconographer who painted this singularly expressive image of Saint Joseph, is a monk of Mount Angel Abbey in...

Cardinal Piacenza Endorses Adoratio 2011

10 March 2011
Bishop Dominique Rey of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France received the following letter of support for Adoratio 2011 from Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Prefect of the...

Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus

8 March 2011
Reparation The last century saw, here and there, like so many points of light in the Church, men and women drawn by the Holy Spirit...

Advice from the Angelic Doctor

7 March 2011
This oil painting of a youthful and svelte Saint Thomas by Paolo de Majo (1703-1784) is in a private collection in Caserta. You can see...

Saint Giovan Giuseppe della Croce

5 March 2011
I almost forgot that today is the feast of Saint Giovan Giuseppe della Croce. A Family Connection My mother’s grandmother was born and raised in...

Sayings of Saint Peter Damian

5 March 2011
Habit makes the cell sweet for the monk, while wandering makes it seem dreadful. For those who gad about, the cell is a prison, but...

Letter to a brother on the way

4 March 2011
How many greater gifts will come to you in the truly blessed life that lies before us, is, I must admit, beyond my capacity to...

Friend of the Church in Oklahoma

3 March 2011
Let us profit of Holy Mass to address to God our ardent prayers to draw upon ourselves and upon the Indian and Black peoples the...

A Life Offered for Priests

27 February 2011
Commemoration of Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil Martiny, Virgin Although today is Sexagesima Sunday, I cannot let it pass without remembering Blessed Marie de Jésus,...

The Orations for the Gift of Tears

26 February 2011
A reader of Vultus Christi who signs himself “Mark of the Vineyard” asked that I post something about the so-called Votive Mass for the Gift...

Votive Mass of the Prayer in the Garden

25 February 2011
Among the beautiful Votive Masses of the Passion, found in some missals for certain weekdays after Septuagesima and through Lent, is that of The Prayer...

Confidence in God’s love

23 February 2011
Today (in the traditional Benedictine calendar) is the feast of Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1007-1072). Monk, cardinal, and reformer, Saint...

Bernadette

17 February 2011
Although the Roman Martyrology commemorates the anniversary of Saint Bernadette’s death on April 16th, her liturgical memorial is kept on February 18th at Lourdes itself,...

The terrible glory of the priesthood

15 February 2011
Reading Canon Eugène Masure’s book, “Parish Priest” (Fides, 1955) I fell upon this remarkable passage: It is not only at the Last Supper and on...

Praying with Mother Yvonne-Aimée

12 February 2011
Is this not a lovely photo of the young Yvonne Beauvais? There is a mysterious beauty in the purity of her gaze. Already, she belonged...

Like the Dove in the Cleft of the Rock

7 February 2011
The Open Side of Jesus Crucified Look at this remarkable painting of Jesus Crucified. The focus of the composition is the wound in His Sacred...