Anniversary of the Restoration at Solesmes
The situation in France was therefore very painful and perhaps only someone who could act from within could do something to change it.
6th Sunday after Pentecost: I became a hand of Christ
Context is important. We’ve been over the ground we tread before, regarding the liturgical season and the Letter Paul wrote to the Romans. However, here is something from Dom Prosper Guéranger about the flow this time of year: It is to the Romans that are addressed today’s inspired instructions of the great apostle. For the…
Harmony out of Chaos: Traditional Marriage
I sometimes brag to other Catholics that I know the size of pants worn by the notable Theology of the Body speaker Christopher West. If you’re still reading, allow me to reminisce on simpler times.
5th Sunday after Pentecost: We are in this together
Our journey through the liturgical year in the Vetus Ordo continues this week with out look into the Epistle reading for Holy Mass on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. For the last weeks we have been giving strong images of Christ as, for example, Good Shepherd. In a sense, the images are “outside” of us…
3rd Sunday after Pentecost: Under the mighty hand of God
We continue with our task of opening up something of the riches of the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the tried and true Traditional Roman Rite which stengthen virtually all the Roman Church’s saints whom we now venerate. As always, we look at context. A major shift has taken place…
Corpus Christi: Gut Check
No! Unworthy Communions hurt all of us who are members of the Body of Christ.
Lifecraft: Meditative Media
Dr Cuddeback brings enthusiasm to everything from pig-slaughtering to how to deal with failure.
To a Seminarian Midway: Is It Worthwhile to Start Over?
This is how most secular clergy spend half of their lives or more, while their consciences whisper: “This is wrong. Why am I taking part in it?”
Custom and the Force of Law
When traditionalists insist that the products of last century’s Montinian tyranny are valid, we show more charity to our detractors than they do to us.
5th Sunday after Easter: Lies
We continue with this year’s task, our dive into the Epistle, the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. We began this Eastertide with readings from 1 Peter. As we draw nearer to the Feast of the Ascension we hear from St. James the Lesser through his Letter.…
4th Sunday after Easter: “Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.”
In the confessional I have often remarked to penitents, and I apply this to myself, that we could avoid a lot of sins by keeping our mouths shut.
