Mortification is the Path to Salvation
By denying self what is lawful, the will is strengthened to resist what is unlawful, and some measure of atonement is made.
Catholic Fighting Men Call YOU to Lenten Boot Camp
For sake of our souls and those of our friends and family, enough already with this emasculating, insultingly weak and failed version of Catholicism, which sends any red-blooded man running for the border.
La Fraternidad de San Nicolás
Se compromete a poner en práctica medios concretos para salvar nuestra alma y ayudar a las almas de nuestros hermanos.
ANNOUNCEMENT: New Trad Fasting Sodality
This sodality takes the 1917 Code of Canon Law as a minimum, but removes partial abstinence, which was instituted in 1741 as a direct attack to Lenten discipline.
The Great Catholic Migration Continued
In the end, it was worth it.
A New Catholic Faith for Children to Abandon
Consider what a young child in our present-day will experience of the Faith. It will not be of community, sacrifice, beauty, and peace.
Martin Luther King and Planned Parenthood
Above: Martin Luther King at a press conference in 1964. By the time Martin Luther King Jr. had taken his seat in 1960 on Planned Parenthood’s committee on the study of contraception, his views on how artificial birth control could be used to reduce Black family size were well-known throughout the United States. King had…
Octave of the Nativity: Depend on God in a new year of Salvation
Merry Christmas to you all on this Octave of the Nativity of Our Lord. In her wisdom Holy Church knows that we need time to rest within the liturgical celebration of awesome mysteries of our salvation: the Lord’s Birth, His future Sacrifice, and the Divine Motherhood of Mary. We have this pause as the liturgical…
4th Sunday of Advent: Saving Fire
Some context for our 4th Sunday of Advent and for our Epistle reading are in order. The 4th Sunday of Advent originally did not have a Roman Station church because of the linkage between Ember Saturday and Sunday. Eventually, to bring the Sunday into harmony with other great Sundays it gained a Station at the…
2nd Sunday of Advent: Living in the Unity of Faith
For this 2nd Sunday of Advent the Roman Station church is the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem where the wooden beams of the Cross and relics of the Passion brought to Rome by the Empress Helena were deposited and are venerated still today. Last week we were stationed at St. Mary Major where…
Two Saints at the Start of Advent: Bibiana and Francis Xavier
In the traditional calendar, December 2 is the feast of St. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr. Having been imprisoned for her faith, she refused the sexual advances of her jailer, and was beaten to death with lead-loaded thongs. The Collect for her feast is magnificent: Deus, omnium largitor bonorum, qui in famula tua Bibiana cum virginitatis…