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.
The Great Catholic Migration Continued
In the end, it was worth it.
Montfortian Music and the Power of Hymns
The hymns he composed were, at the time of French Revolution, on the lips of the Blessed 47 Martyrs of Avrillé.
The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass – Part 2
Margaret's hopes to restore her son to the Faith would cost her dearly.
4th Sunday after Epiphany: Love in the swamp
For this 4th Sunday after Epiphany the Vetus Ordo gives us the ultra-dramatic Gospel scene of the Apostles with the Lord in a boat being swamped by the waves during a great storm on the Sea of Galilee. The Lord was asleep. That’s the Gospel for Sunday. But this year I’m writing about the first…
