Autumn or Michaelmas Ember Days: Give thanks for the grapes that make wine for the Precious Blood of Christ.
Category: Customs
Forgotten Customs of Saint Days – part 2
Do you celebrate your and your family members’ name days? If not, when can you start?
Forgotten Customs of Saints Days – Part 1
Who are the patron saints for your Diocese? Do you know if your Diocese has secondary patrons in addition to your primary patron?
The Art of Dress – What Nuns can Teach Us
Like religious sisters, Catholic women in the world must prioritize truth and beauty over normalcy.
Second Generation Trad: On Freedom for the Good
A delicate balance must be maintained by parents when it comes to promoting good things in family life and allowing appropriate freedom for their children.
Christian Fashion in the Teaching of the Church with Virginia Coda Nunziante
We are immersed in a society of the horrid, the ugly, the vulgar, and therefore any appeal to beauty is an opening to the transcendent.
The Forgotten Customs of the Sacred Heart
I fear everything from my own wickedness and frailty, but I hope for all things from Thy goodness and bounty.
Forgotten Customs of Saints Peter and Paul
The Apostles began the rudiments of the Christian warfare with holy fasts, that, having to fight against spiritual wickednesses, they might take the armour of abstinence, wherewith to slay the incentives to vice.
Domestic Church Customs: Pentecost Octave
When it doubt, add fire.
Forgotten Customs of Ascensiontide
Ascensiontide As the Forgotten End of Pascaltide The total length of Paschaltide from Easter Sunday to the end of Whitsuntide is fifty-six days inclusive. In this way, Holy Mother Church shows us the joy of Easter has eclipsed the time …