The Patristic Roots of Devotion to the the Most Precious Blood
Pope St. John XXIII exhorted the faithful to fervently cultivate this devotion, but after the Council it was viewed as another "medieval accretion."
Pope St. John XXIII exhorted the faithful to fervently cultivate this devotion, but after the Council it was viewed as another "medieval accretion."
Even when it appeared hopeless, our Trad godfathers continued to have that childlike hope and wonder.
Without the pre-1955 liturgy, our hearts and minds are made weak, which renders our prayers ineffective. This is why Satan wants to eradicate it.
Unsurprisingly, Palestrina’s Iberian counterpart, Tomás Luis de Victoria, also has a six voice setting of this text.
In disobeying formally, one in fact obeys the Catholic Church of all ages and all the popes.
The only alternative is to let my brain turn into tapioca by becoming an Ockhamist, and declaring that the word “rite” has no intrinsic meaning at all.
It is amazing how much of the American psyche is bound up with the nations of the British Isles – the traditional “Three Kingdoms” of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The traditionalist movement in this sense is nothing other than the evidence of the continuity of the one Church of Christ within the sphere of the Latin rite.
The central presupposition is that “The protagonist of the Synod is the Holy Spirit.” But how do we distinguish the Holy Spirit from the zeitgeist? or from the evil spirit?