The Feast of the Holy Spouses
The 1962 Missal removed this feast.
Colligite Fragmenta – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
Holy Church, knowing that we need more than one day to reflect manifestations of Christ’s divine nature, teased three miraculous events out into a chain of related holy days. This was not wholly obliterated in the post-Conciliar calendar, but it is greatly obscured by the juggling of Epiphany onto this or that Sunday, the ending…
VI Day within the Octave of the Epiphany
Archelaus was born in a palace, Christ at an inn.
Domestic Church Customs: Epiphany Octave & Epiphanytide
Today the Magi gaze in deep wonder at what they see: heaven on earth, earth in heaven, man in God, God in man, one whom the whole universe cannot contain now enclosed in a tiny body.As they look, they believe and do not question, as their symbolic gifts bear witness: incense for God, gold for…
Colligite Fragmenta – Most Holy Name of Jesus Sunday
Keep in mind not only love for the Name but also the fear which is Its due.
Colligite Fragmenta – 4th Sunday of Advent: Let us “Pry”!
A formulary was pieced together from the Masses of the Ember Days, which gave people who couldn’t attend on those days themselves an opportunity to have something of an Ember Day experience.
Chapter 6: Modernism
The partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; they lie hid.
Christianity in China: A “Foreign” Religion?
This was shortly after the pontificate of Gregory the Great in the Catholic Church.
Colligite Fragmenta – 2nd Sunday of Advent: “Slap in the Face Obvious”
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…
9 Day Novena for the Conversion of Pope Francis
It will begin on December 8, 2024, and will run through December 17, 2024 (the birthday of Pope Francis).
