In Illo Tempore: 2nd Sunday of Lent
Each worthy Communion becomes a moment of transfiguration within the communicant’s soul.
In Illo Tempore: 1st Sunday of Lent
The sacred Forty Days open at Rome’s Cathedral, the Papal Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in the Lateran, the “Mother and Head of all the churches of the City and of the world.” The Roman Station anchors our Lent in a concrete place, as it…
Studying Fatima Really Challenged My Spiritual Life
Are you wiling to suffer for sinners?
Public Enemy #1: The Predominant Fault
This is why the spiritual writers identify the predominant fault as one of the three pillars of the spiritual life, together with prayer and spiritual reading. If we focus on this, our other sins will also be overcome.
In Illo Tempore: Quinquagesima Sunday
Context is important. We are in “Gesima” time, Pre-Lent, a time of preparation for the time of preparation for Easter. Holy Church, with the sober maternal realism of one who knows human nature, reminds us that obligations are coming due. After this “Sunday in the Fiftieth”, Quinquagesima, in three days comes Ash Wednesday and the…
A Beginner’s Guide to Mental Prayer
Resolve to spend 15 minutes each morning in mental prayer.
In Illo Tempore: Sexagesima Sunday
What unifies the Mass of Sexagesima is neither its obvious placement between Septuagesima and Quinquagesima, nor the recurrence of penitential purple and the suppression of the Alleluia, but rather a demanding question posed by Holy Mother Church to her children as she stands at the threshold of Lent. Are you prepared to be drawn into…
A Carmel for the Lord
The faithful as well as priests have the right to a liturgy that is a liturgy of all the saints.
Traditional Sexual Abstinence in Marriage
Trad men: do you really want to be a Trad? Are you truly committed to being Traditional?
In Illo Tempore: Septuagesima Sunday
We stand now nine Sundays out from Easter, poised at a hinge in the liturgical year where memory, expectation, and discipline converge. Context is decisive. The Church does not move through time as a mere sequence of dates but as a pedagogy of salvation, a slow schooling of the soul by repetition, anticipation, and restraint.…
Octave of Christian Unity: European Protestants Reconciled
The reconciliation of European Protestants with the Holy See.