Part III: Being part of the Church
Grace is at work within the visible unity of the Catholic Church.
Colligite Fragmenta: 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Because of the vagaries of your planet’s Moon, toward the end of this liturgical year and before the beginning of the next Advent, we will not have Remaining Sundays after Epiphany to fill in the calendrical gaps. This year, we sail straight through the Sundays after Pentecost all the way to the 24th and Last…
Colligite Fragmenta – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
Holy Church, knowing that we need more than one day to reflect manifestations of Christ’s divine nature, teased three miraculous events out into a chain of related holy days. This was not wholly obliterated in the post-Conciliar calendar, but it is greatly obscured by the juggling of Epiphany onto this or that Sunday, the ending…
Coming to terms with Vatican II
A second answer would be: “It is a sort of divine punishment.”
Can the “Theology of the Body” Be Reconciled with the Traditional “Ends of Marriage”?
His formulations are not always very clearly articulated, but at the end of the day, he is a Thomist on the disputed questions.
Colligite Fragmenta – Holy Family Sunday
On 6 January Epiphany, the Magi – at the octave, 13 January, the Lord’s Baptism – on the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, the Wedding at Cana which in John 1 and 2 is the “octave” of the Baptism.
Colligite Fragmenta – Most Holy Name of Jesus Sunday
Keep in mind not only love for the Name but also the fear which is Its due.
Ratzinger & Tolkien on the Novus Ordo and Organic Development
Tolkien himself was a staunch opponent of technical modernization.
Colligite Fragmenta – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas: Persevere!
In our Epistle reading for this Sunday in the Octave of Christmas we hear from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 4:1-7. There are two special points to underscore. Let’s see the reading: [Brethren] [T]he heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all…
Colligite Fragmenta – 4th Sunday of Advent: Let us “Pry”!
A formulary was pieced together from the Masses of the Ember Days, which gave people who couldn’t attend on those days themselves an opportunity to have something of an Ember Day experience.
Colligite Fragmenta – 3rd Sunday of Advent: “Be Strong, Fear Not!”
Whether we are Western Latin Catholics or Eastern Catholics we ought to be interested in what our forebears did in Rome for these Sundays of Advent. Our traditions run deep. We know better who we are by knowing who they were. On this 3rd Sunday of Advent the Roman Station is at St. Peter’s on…