Traditional Perspectives on Philosophy – pt. 1: Voluntarism
My hope is to deepen the Traditionalist understanding of our own position by situating the council in its historical-philosophical context.
8th Sunday after Pentecost: “Yes, Sir!”
This Sunday, the 8th after Pentecost, brings us an Epistle or first reading in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Latin Mass, from the Apostle to the Gentiles’ Letter to the Romans 8: 12-17. We have already seen some context for Romans in previous offerings. We have already had a look into a possible thematic flow…
7th Sunday after Pentecost: Christ’s Soldier Slaves
Listen up you soldier slaves! Get yourselves squared away.
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…
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.
Trinity Sunday: Do I hear an “Amen!”?
Holy Trinity Sunday is “a synthesis of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost."
The Glory of the Christian Rainbow and the Satanism of Its Inversion
...at this stage of the “cosmic edition” of Capture the Flag that we are now playing, for eternal stakes.
Pentecost Sunday: Burning from Him and speaking about Him
Our task this year is to look into the first reading for Holy Mass on Sunday celebrated with the Roman Catholic Church’s venerable and always legitimate and appropriate and contemporary and fruitful and ever alluring and awesome Vetus Ordo. We come to Pentecost at last, that major bookend, with its Octave, to the Pre-Lenten Sundays…
Sunday after Ascension Thursday: The Real Cover Up
We have attained during the week the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and this is the Sunday that falls between that mysterious event and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. All the events of the life of the Lord are mysterious, but some are more momentous than others. This is certainly…