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In Illo Tempore: 19th Sunday after Pentecost
In the words of the singer Peggy Lee… The window she is broken and the rain is comin’ in If someone doesn’t fix it I’ll be soaking to my skin But if we wait a day or two the rain may go away And we don’t need a window on such a sunny day Mañana,…
“Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.” A False Prophecy and a Serious Warning
The secrets of La Salette were not intended for the general public.
In Illo Tempore: 18th Sunday after Pentecost
As summer yields to autumn in the lands where the Roman liturgical year took shape, the Church turns our attention toward harvest and reckoning. The shortening days give a certain urgency to the Epistle of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. St. Paul thanks God for the grace bestowed on the Corinthians, even as they await…
In Illo Tempore: 16th Sunday after Pentecost
It was pride that brought down Satan and the other apostate angels. It was pride that brought down the human race in our First Parents. Pride turned angels into devils and Paradise into this vale of tears. St. Bernard of Clairvaux called pride “initium omnis peccati … the beginning of every sin” (De gradibus humilitatis…
In Illo Tempore: 15th Sunday after Pentecost
We come now to the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, known in the older Roman reckoning as Quinta post Sancti Laurentii, the fifth Sunday after St. Lawrence. The Romans loved their deacon martyr, whose basilica stood beyond the walls along the Via Tiburtina. In the ancient arrangement, Sundays throughout the year had their station churches, not…
In Illo Tempore: 14th Sunday after Pentecost
“So every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit…. Thus you will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:17, 20 RSV). Our Lord’s scriptural lantern illuminates the Epistle for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Galatians 5:16-24, where St. Paul contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the…
Solovyov, Tolkien, and the Antichrist
...why your Anti-Christ hates God so much whilst in essence he is really kind and not wicked at all.
In Illo Tempore: 13th Sunday after Pentecost
For some weeks the Sunday Epistles have been taken from St. Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians. With the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, which our ancient Roman forebears would have called the 3rd Sunday after St. Lawrence, we begin to hear from Galatians. That older Roman way of counting itself says something about the immense place…
In Illo Tempore: 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Deep in the green season after Pentecost, when the Church has passed through the great mysteries of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, the Roman liturgy turns our attention toward the harvesting of what has been planted. Pius Parsch observed that the 11th, 12th, and 13th Sundays after Pentecost form a kind of triad…