{"id":186581,"date":"2013-11-01T04:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/meditations-on-vatican-art\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:13:29","slug":"meditations-on-vatican-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/meditations-on-vatican-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditations on Vatican Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"186581\" class=\"elementor elementor-186581\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d73a02f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7d73a02f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-376766dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"376766dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeditations on Vatican Art allows you to deepen your relationship with God as you reflect on art from the Vatican collections and pray the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. 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After two years of philosophical studies in Rome, he completed four years of apostolic internships in Salamanca, Spain, Dublin, Ireland, and Cheshire, CT. Fr. Mark returned to Rome to get a licentiate degree in Philosophy with a thesis on moral legislation. He then began his Theology studies in 2004, until he was ordained a priest on December 22, 2007. That same year, in October, Fr. Mark became the Director of the Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums, a position he held until June 15, 2015. During that time, Father finished a License in Moral Theology focused on the effects of cohabitation on marital happiness and perseverance. He also published two award-winning art books in the\u00a0Meditations on Vatican Art series. Fr. Mark enjoyed serving as a spiritual director to the legionary seminarians and consecrated women of Regnum Christi while in Rome. In 2016, he returned to the States, being stationed at the Legionary community in Rye, NY, working as the National Chaplain of Lumen Institute. Fr. Mark currently serves as local chaplain to Lumen and as the Chief Development Officer for the Legionaries of Christ, North American Territory. Aside from his prayer and religious life, he enjoys golf, playing guitar, reading, and writing.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/mhaydu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186581"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=186581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}