The Repeated Gospel of the Little Children and the Givers of Scandal
But the old rite is not yet finished with Matthew 18. Not at all.
But the old rite is not yet finished with Matthew 18. Not at all.
I think the loss of faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist was partly precipitated by the loss of beauty in churches and in the liturgy.
Above: The Visitation by Flemish painter Willem Vrelant (d. 1481). Today, July 2, is the usus antiquior feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast was instituted in 1389 by, in a way, two popes—Pope Urban VI as the one who intended to institute it, in hopes of obtaining the end of…
If you have ever shown up early to church and found yourself quietly paging through your hand missal—let’s say, a Saint Andrew Daily Missal reprint from 1945—you might have stumbled across a section of Mass formularies that may be unfamiliar owing to the rarity of their use. Some of these will be identified as Votive…
One of the topics most hotly disputed at the synods on marriage and the family, back in those halcyon years of 2014 and 2015, was the possibility of admitting to Holy Communion Catholics who are living in what are euphemistically called “irregular marital situations” — that is, objectively adulterous unions. This dispute took its place…
People were more than capable of praying the Mass without having to follow along word-for-word.
Why did Thomas experience the fulfillment of his theological aspirations on the feast of the saint under whose patronage gifts are given to little children each winter?
The anti-Trads do us a service by demonstrating that they know practically nothing about that of which they speak.
It is still better that he remain than for him to further enable the abuse of papal authority.
"Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way." -Vatican II