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.
In Illo Tempore: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
We have made a firm move into Epiphanytide, that brief but densely charged stretch of the liturgical year which carries us from the great Feast itself toward the threshold of Septuagesima. Even as the calendar advances, there remains a strong magnetic pull back toward Epiphany, as though the Church, having once beheld the manifestation of…
In Illo Tempore: Holy Family
We are in Epiphanytide, that stretch of the liturgical year whose very name, drawn from the Greek ἐπιφάνεια, signals manifestation, disclosure, the making-visible of divine reality within human history. From the beginning, Epiphany held a privileged place in the ancient Eastern Churches, where the Feast gathered into a single luminous focus several moments in which…
In Illo Tempore: Most Holy Name of Jesus
The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus developed gradually from devotional practice into the Church’s universal liturgical calendar. Its scriptural foundation lies in the New Testament emphasis on the saving and sovereign power of the Name (Phil 2:9–11; Acts 4:12), but its formal celebration arose later through medieval pastoral reform. In the 15th century,…
American Baroque for the Indians of the Americas
"...it had reached unto the realm of Paraguay."
In Illo Tempore: Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
Almighty and eternal God, who in the fullness of time sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, has placed us within the joyful mystery of the Octave of Christmas. In these sacred days time is suspended, as if Mother Church reached out and gently stopped the pendulum. A single day…
In Illo Tempore: 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete”
The Church, as she leads us through Advent, does so with a pedagogy at once sober and exultant, marked by a rhythm that quickens as the great mysteries draw near. From the 1st Sunday, when the Lord is announced as still distant yet surely coming, the liturgy – Mass and Office – presses forward with…
The Two Guadalupes – Mary and the Crescent Moon
Today is the feast day of our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas. She holds particular significance to the Catholic Church in America, as her appearance to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill in Mexico was the first Marian apparition in the New World. She is dearly beloved by Mexican Catholics, and wherever there is a Mexican…
