Colligite Fragmenta: 6th Sunday after Pentecost
The old man is not healed. He is executed.
Pope Leo’s Ad Orientem Mass for the Italian Police
What does Tradition mean for the police?
Colligite Fragmenta: 5th Sunday after Pentecost
The 5th Sunday after Pentecost according to the calendar of the Traditional Latin Mass prompts us to examine the inmost dispositions of the Christian heart and the heights to which the Lord calls His followers. It is not a Sunday of spectacle. There is no miracle of fishes bursting the nets nor a parable about…
Colligite Fragmenta: 4th Sunday after Pentecost
We continue our project of delving into the texts for Holy Mass on Sundays with today’s offerings for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. The Epistle to the Romans and the Gospel of Luke, converge to paint a vivid portrait of our present state and the glory to…
Colligite Fragmenta: The Birthday of Sts. Peter and Paul
Just a couple of days ago, we celebrated the earthly birthday of “the greatest man born of woman”, St. John the Baptist. Today we celebrate the heavenly birthday of the greatest pillars of the Church Christ founded, Sts. Peter and Paul. The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, celebrated on 29 June since time immemorial,…
Colligite Fragmenta: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
The fiery tongues of the Holy Ghost have fallen. The ancient Ember Days are behind us. We lingered in the mystery during the octave for the sake of the transformation of our lives in the Holy Spirit. The 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, feels like the opening of a new liturgical season, Tempus per annum… Time…
Colligite Fragmenta: Trinity Sunday
“Si comprehendis, non est Deus… If you can grasp it, it’s not God.” — St. Augustine (s. 117.5) That stark declaration by the Doctor of Grace brings us, creeping like Moses, to the cleft in the rock through which we must peer longingly for the ultimate mystery. We believe in the Triune Godhead, and therefore…
Colligite Fragmenta: Pentecost Sunday
Of all the liturgical treasures of Holy Roman Catholic Church, perhaps the feast of Pentecost Sunday is the richest, at least in the pre-Conciliar Vetus Ordo. In the Church’s traditional Roman Rite, Pentecost, like Easter, has a Saturday Vigil which includes the blessing of baptismal water. This was and is also the time to baptize…
Colligite Fragmenta: Sunday after Ascension Thursday
Our Sunday is ensconced in the novena days after the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and the mighty day of Pentecost. Church’s liturgical calendar gives us … gave us, at least, until about 1970 an Octave for Pentecost was removed which allows us to contemplate the mystery of the Holy Spirit’s descent from…
Colligite Fragmenta: 5th Sunday after Easter
For this 5th Sunday after Easter we are still moving through John 16 and the Lord’s Last Supper Discourse as well as the Letter of James. Liturgically, we are very close now to the Ascension of the Lord, on Thursday, when the High Priest, the Risen Savior, entered the heavenly temple where He continuously renews…