“Most Holy Theotokos, Save Us!” – on the New Vatican Document about Marian Titles
The new document contains no definitive language intending to definitively bind the faithful.
Why Heretics Hate Mary but We Should Love Her More & More
Editor’s note: in light of today’s news, we must remember this important spiritual reality about Marian devotion. However, this text is not meant to imply that anyone is guilty of the crime of heresy, but merely to assert forcefully the spiritual reality behind this doctrinal question, written by a former Protestant. -TSF Marian devotion is…
The Fiery Prison of Purgatory and How to Avoid It
The common teaching of the saints and doctors is that the slightest pains endured in the terrible fire of Purgatory will be more painful than all the pains of the present life. The Catholic Encyclopedia notes, “[St.] Augustine (Enarration on Psalm 37, no. 3) speaks of the pain which purgatorial fire causes as more severe…
Colligite Fragmenta: 21st Sunday after Pentecost
As the liturgical year draws to its close, the Church’s voice takes on autumnal gravity. The Sundays after Pentecost turn our eyes toward the final harvest, when the Lord will take all things to Himself. This Sunday’s Collect, Epistle, and Gospel form a single meditation on mercy and judgment, protection and peril, the divine household…
St. Teresa and the Joy of Female Saints
It means being a woman in her fullest and truest sense.
Colligite Fragmenta: 19th Sunday after Pentecost
When this Sunday comes around, with its snappy Collect, I am minded of the early fourth-century martyr St. Expeditus. The Latin text of the Collect reads: Omnipotens et misericors Deus, universa nobis adversantia propitiatus exclude: ut mente et corpore pariter expediti, quae tua sunt, liberis mentibus exsequamur. Translated slavishly: Almighty and merciful God, having been…
Making Room for Silence and Prayer
They never succeed in finding one single moment of rest.
Colligite Fragmenta: 18th Sunday after Pentecost
As the northern hemisphere drifts from the fullness of summer into the crisp melancholy of autumn, Holy Church too moves into a season of spiritual harvest. In her ancient cycle of Sundays, formed in the lands where the light fades earlier each day, she begins to turn her gaze toward the final realities – the…
The Rise and Rise of the Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage
Latin Mass pilgrimages continue to grow worldwide.
Colligite Fragmenta: 17th Sunday after Pentecost
The 17th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo sets before us Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, a prison letter written probably from Rome, probably not far from where I sit in Rome writing this, in which he exhorts: Brethren, I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of…
For “Our Poor Brothers & Sisters”: 4 Bishops Make Reparation for Vatican Desecration
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.
