Saint Bonaventure and the Number of the Beast
He identified the rationalistic theology influenced by the rise of Aristotelianism with the “smoke rising from the abyss” (Apocalypse 9:21).
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…
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.
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 – 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…
Colligite Fragmenta – 2nd Sunday of Advent: “Slap in the Face Obvious”
On the 1st Sunday of Advent it was the Church’s duty, which as a good Mother she fulfilled, to urge us to do penance in view of the end times and judgement at the Second Coming. This week she points to the joy that awaits us after penance and judgement, encapsulated in “Jerusalem”. We are…
Colligite Fragmenta – 1st Sunday of Advent: Be Uplifted
Dom Prosper Guéranger wrote in his The Liturgical Year: The whole world is in expectation of its Redeemer; come, dear Jesus, show Thyself to it by granting it salvation. The Church, Thy bride, is now commencing another year, and her first word is to Thee, a word which she speaks in the anxious solicitude of…
Interpreting the Apocalypse: the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Hidden Meanings of History
Everything that happened to the Person of Christ will happen to His Church.
Diebus Saltem Dominicis – 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost: Get ready
With the exceptions of God’s loving mercy and the eternal joy of Heaven, all good things come to their end. This year’s series concludes with a glimpse into the Church’s final Sunday of our liturgical whirl about the Sun. Although this Sunday is – this year – numerically the 27th after Pentecost, we use the…