Growing Up with the Underground Latin Mass
It was through priests and laity (like my grandparents) around the world who tirelessly spent their lives to preserve the Latin Mass.
Finding Christ in Present Sufferings Does Not Mean Embracing Abuse, Error, or Deformation
If you are prepared to object to clerical abuse, then I would ask: Is the liturgical abuse of Our Lord and of the faithful not as grave a fault? Might it not be, on the contrary, even more grave, inasmuch as it stems from and promotes indifference, disbelief, irreverence, sacrilege, toward the Holy One, Christ…
ANNOUNCEMENT: New Trad Fasting Sodality
This sodality takes the 1917 Code of Canon Law as a minimum, but removes partial abstinence, which was instituted in 1741 as a direct attack to Lenten discipline.
Septuagesima Sunday: We Can Lose What We’ve Been Offered.
Our salvation is not automatic. It must be won, as Paul says with his athletic images, through great effort and suffering when necessary supported by the grace of the Sacrament, especially Baptism and Eucharist, which must never be abused or approached unworthily.
Mary, Co-Redemptrix in the Stabat Mater
The Sorrowful Virgin shared in the work of redemption with Jesus Christ.
First Friday Reminder: Join the New Crusade!
This crusade was called by His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider in June of 2020 in response to the profanations of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament during the COVID crisis.
The Mystery of Candlemas: Fourth Joyful Mystery
They negated themselves in obedience to God’s law, a point worth emphasising for our own lives, especially in a time in which Christ’s specific commands have come to be considered ‘ideals’ beyond actual obedience.
The Benevacantists have a Pope… and So Do We
In a hilarious twist of God's Providence, a fringe group makes itself, reluctantly, mainstream.
On Singing Gregorian Chant Artfully (part 2)
It’s all very subtle but long experience in seminaries and religious communities shows that the more unified the sound, the more everyone can lose themselves in the prayer of the Church.