The Infrastructure for the Immanent Reign of Antichrist
The whole world woke up one day and found itself imprisoned in a global totalitarianism the likes of which had never been seen.
Transfiguration Sunday: “We Have the Prophetic Word Made More Sure”
This Sunday we observe the Feast of the Transfiguration rather than the “green” Sunday after Pentecost, being the 10th. This Feast of the Transfiguration has a complicated history. First, in Rome there were celebrated on 6 August the feast of the martyrs Pope Sixtus II and six of his deacons, slain that day in the…
9th Sunday after Pentecost: “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to…”.
For the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, we hear in the Vetus Ordo a reading from 1 Corinthians. Paul is correcting the behavior of the Corinthians using, in this chapter, examples from the history of Israel, moments when God sent punishments to correct the people who had gone astray and who displeased Him. For example, there…
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."
