Vultus Christi
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Vultus Christi is the blog of Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, Vultus Christ explores the ecclesial mandate of his Benedictine community.
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Saints throughout history — like St Francis and St Thérèse — have never ceased marveling with amazement and awe at the Littleness of God. We might think of St Thérèse’s exclamation: “It would be nice if I could die on the 25th of March; that’s when Jesus was littlest”, or we may think of the ..read more
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The cross has become something more than a historical memory; it does convey, almost as by a mathematical diagram, the truth about the real point at issue; the idea of a conflict stretching outwards into eternity. It is true, and even tautological, to say that the cross is the crux of the whole matter. In ..read more
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Pensaci Tu! 84 years ago, on 27 November, 1940, Don Dolindo Ruotolo, after decades of long suffering, received what has become known in recent years as the “Surrender Novena.” The novena’s refrain of “You take care of it!” has become familiar to many thousands of Catholics. Many have found solace in it and turn to ..read more
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3w ago
The following is a transcript of the homily given at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle at Silverstream Priory last Sunday. The Mass texts are repeated on ferial days that are not occupied by another feast. The Parable of the Wheat and the Cockle In these weeks, we are now resuming the Sundays ..read more
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3w ago
The Rock from Which You Were Hewn One week from today, Cenacle Press will officially launch the Irish edition of The Rock from Which You Were Hewn. The book gives short biographies of 44 Irish men, women, and children who have not yet been canonized but have a reputation for holiness. The earliest story told ..read more
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We Are Surrounded by So Great a Cloud of Witnesses The month of November out of all the months of the year reminds us the most emphatically that we live in a massive communion of saints that extends throughout the world and into a world that we cannot see or touch. At Our Lady of ..read more
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Christ Calms the Storm The Mass propers for today are taken from the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. When Easter is early, these propers are moved to the weeks immediately before the end of the Liturgical year. The Gospel for today tells of the Lord calming the storm. At that time, Jesus got into a boat ..read more
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Catherine-Mectilde de Bar of the Blessed Sacrament is, without any doubt, the most Eucharistic soul in what was a Eucharistic century par excellence, and a century of saints surpassing all others, le grand siècle, the great century of France’s mystic invasion, and the full flowering of the Council of Trent’s renewal of the Church in ..read more
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The Resumed Sundays after Epiphany One of the peculiarities of the Traditional Liturgical Calendar is its inclusion of the ‘resumed’ Sundays after Epiphany. In years when there are more than 24 Sundays after Pentecost, the Sundays which were not observed after Epiphany are squeezed in between the 23rd and 24th Sundays after Pentecost. The 23rd ..read more
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Christo Omnino Nihil Praeponant: To Prefer Nothing to Christ Each Person is an Image of Christ Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Mt 22:20-21) This is ..read more