Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Seven
A Book to Own and Meditate Today’s passage from the writings of Blessed Columba Marmion is taken from Union With God, Letters of Spiritual Direction....
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Six
Tomorrow will be the sixth day of our novena seeking the intercession of Blessed Columba Marmion. I invite the readers of Vultus Christi who are...
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Five
Saint Paul and Blessed Columba Although I am writing this on Monday, 25 January, the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, it is intended...
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Four
The icon of Blessed Columba Marmion was written by the hand of Brother Claude, O.S.B., monk of Mount Angel Abbey. Blessed Columba Marmion and the...
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Three
Victims and Victimhood For today’s text from Blessed Columba Marmion, I chose an extract from Christ, the Ideal of the Priest, in which he presents...
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Two
The Second Day of the Novena Saturday, 23 January 2010 O Holy Spirit, Love of the Father and the Son, establish Thyself as a furnace...
Novena in Honour of Blessed Abbot Marmion
The image of Blessed Abbot Marmion is a photograph I took of a painting in the Irish College in Rome in 2006. I remain grateful...
The Blessing of Oil in the Roman Ritual
Oil for Our Lamps The other day, a dear and generous friend, knowing that oil lamps burn in the Oratory before the Blessed Sacrament and...
Immaculata Victrix
In the spiritual combat that is the daily experience of so many priests, nothing can take the place of a confident recourse to the Immaculate...
A Prayer in All the Circumstances of Life
My Jesus, only as Thou willest, when Thou willest, and in the way Thou willest! To Thee be all glory and thanksgiving, Who rulest all...
My Face Will Journey With Thee
Readers of Vultus Christi can imagine my delight when I discovered that the Holy Father’s homily on this Solemnity of the Mother of God focused...
As 2009 Ends
Come thou, O Mary, reign in the world! Let new impulses of filial devotion to thee come from the Chair of Peter. that thy most...
Winter Reading
What are you reading during these dark winter days? You may think me a glutton for gloom, given recent events in the land of my...
Holy Innocents
Rubens’ Virgin and Child surrounded by a wreath of chubby, pink Innocents (c. 1618) is delightful. Notice the almost mischievous smile of Baby Jesus. Does...
For All of Us There Exists a Path to Bethlehem
Here is the official English-language translation of Pope Benedict XVI’s magnificent homily, delivered in Italian during the Mass in the Night of the Nativity of...
And All the World Desires to Behold His Face
Loving greetings for a very Blessed Christmas to all the readers of Vultus Christi. May the Infant Jesus, in the arms of His Most Holy...
In Time for Christmastide Reading
Just published by Zacchaeus Press! I recommend The Mystery of Joseph to every reader of Vultus Christi. Part One of the book reflects on the...
Ember Friday in Advent
Restore the Ember Days For the second time this week, we celebrated a special pre-dawn Advent Mass in candlelight. Having anticipated Matins last evening, we...
Te, Christe, solum quaerimus
For my friend, Monsignor A.B.C. Sometime in the early 1970s the Benedictine nuns of the Abbey Pax Cordis Iesu at Ryde, in the Isle of...
The Hymn at Matins: Singing in the Night
Stretching Godward My own experience is that the Invitatory, with the repetition of its pressing call to adoration, establishes the soul in the realm of...