On the 1st Sunday of Advent it was the Church’s duty, which as a good Mother she fulfilled, to urge us to do penance in view of the end times and judgement at the Second Coming. This week she points to the joy that awaits us after penance and judgement, encapsulated in “Jerusalem”. We are…
It will begin on December 8, 2024, and will run through December 17, 2024 (the birthday of Pope Francis).
Dom Prosper Guéranger wrote in his The Liturgical Year: The whole world is in expectation of its Redeemer; come, dear Jesus, show Thyself to it by granting it salvation. The Church, Thy bride, is now commencing another year, and her first word is to Thee, a word which she speaks in the anxious solicitude of…
With the exceptions of God’s loving mercy and the eternal joy of Heaven, all good things come to their end. This year’s series concludes with a glimpse into the Church’s final Sunday of our liturgical whirl about the Sun. Although this Sunday is – this year – numerically the 27th after Pentecost, we use the…
Latin: a mysterious language that points us to the mystery of the Sacrament.
Our spring course takes high schoolers through the new CREDO catechism from Bishop Schneider.
The lived example provided by grandmothers of the organizing group is having marked impact.
The Collect prayers for the Feast of Christ the King in the Vetus Ordo and in the Novus Ordo differ dramatically.
“The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse, who can understand it?”
I am grateful to Mr. Timothy Flanders for asking me to write this piece in honour of the recently deceased Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais — henceforth referred to as Bishop Tissier as he is commonly called — but I must admit that it is a daunting task to remember such a great man with…
NB: I tried to post this on Friday: On 17 October, as I write, it is the anniversary of John Paul II’s election as Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome, Supreme Pontiff. As a young priest and bishop then-Bishop Karol Wojtyła participated in the Second Vatican II and, indeed, as part of the group which…
