Femininity is a Gift from God
It is virtuous women, who treasure the Truth and uphold its sacredness, that can redirect the world’s destructive path.
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: Sunday after Ascension Thursday – What’s up?
The Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, forty days after His Resurrection, was once graced with its own Octave. In 1955 Pius XII suppressed all but the Octaves of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. These three remain now in the Roman Church’s Vetus Ordo. However, the Octave of Ascension dated back only to the 15th…
Roman Music Under Innocent X
Pope Innocent X was a devout man, eager for justice, but also distrustful, indecisive, and too attached to his family.
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: 5th Sunday after Easter – The Eyes Have It
We move liturgically ever closer to the Ascension of the Lord, when the High Priest, the Risen Savior, entered the heavenly temple where He continuously renews His once for all time Sacrifice to the Father. On this 5th Sunday after Easter we again have a Gospel reading from the Last Supper discourse during which Our…
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: 4th Sunday after Easter – Divine protection in the great eschatological trial
We now move into the next phase of the seven-week Easter Season. The first stage looked back to the Resurrection and reflect upon the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist. In this stage, which began last Sunday, we look forward to the Lord’s Ascension, the Spirit’s Descent and we consider the Sacrament of Confirmation. Like last…
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: 3rd Sunday after Easter – The Lord’s Ever-present Absence
You know how I like to bang on and on about context. This Sunday, the 3rd after Easter in the traditional reckoning (the 4th of Easter in the Novus Ordo calendar), we shift to a new phase in the seven Sunday Season of Easter. The first Sundays looked back to Easter and its main themes…
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: Octave of Easter – Forearmed is forewarned
“Happy Easter”, we still say 7-day week afterward because, liturgically speaking, it has still been Easter Sunday during this Octave. A liturgical Octave is an eight-day arc that vibrates in anticipation of the “eighth day” of eternal rest beyond the 7-day cycle of creation. We stop the liturgical clock so that we can rest in…
Beethoven’s Last Mass
This score has become a sign of contradiction.
The Bombing of Japanese Catholicism
Nagasaki was the very epicentre of Japanese Catholicism.
Saltem Diebus Dominicis: 1st Passion Sunday – “From a sudden and unprovided death, spare us O Lord!”
We lose things during Lent. We are being pruned through sacred liturgical worship. Holy Church experiences liturgical death before the feast of the Resurrection. Music and flowers go first on Ash Wednesday, along with the word Alleluia. Today, statues and images are draped in purple. That is why today is sometimes called Repus Sunday, from…
On the Identity and Creation of the Enemy
Here it is necessary to reunify the Catholic people, to identify a new enemy.