According to “the most traditionalist Pope ever” – who is also an incorrupt saint – “bitter zeal” is utterly anti-Tradition.
According to “the most traditionalist Pope ever” – who is also an incorrupt saint – “bitter zeal” is utterly anti-Tradition.
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, an odd thing happens in the Church’s traditional calendar, the Vetus Ordo. Sundays which were left over after Epiphany are dusted off and brought back into service to fill the space between the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (in 2026 superseded by the Feast of All Saints)…
"Schismatics have no love."
The spiritual, theological and mystical aspects of this central prayer of the Church.
"If he is not ready to imitate him, he ought not to praise him."
"Knowledge pertaineth unto them that mourn."
We waste so much energy on what the Pope can do or not do to solve problems in the Church or society.
It was a disaster for Catholics, for centuries.
"I wholeheartedly support and bless this lay initiative for eucharistic revival in the Church of our day." -Bishop Athanasius Schneider
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness."
The saints don’t need us to honor them. Our devotion adds nothing to what they already have. When we venerate their memory, it serves us, not them. But I tell you, whenever I think of them, I feel inflamed by a tremendous yearning. . . So let us long for those who long for us.…
