What are the Non-Negotiables of the Trad Movement? (Trad Godfathers, Pt. II)
Here I’m going to attempt a perilous task: find the common denominators which unite all those who call themselves “traditional Catholics.”
Octave of Christian Unity: the End of the Greek Schisms
We pray for the return of separated Eastern Christians to communion with the Holy See.
In Illo Tempore: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
We have made a firm move into Epiphanytide, that brief but densely charged stretch of the liturgical year which carries us from the great Feast itself toward the threshold of Septuagesima. Even as the calendar advances, there remains a strong magnetic pull back toward Epiphany, as though the Church, having once beheld the manifestation of…
The Chair of St. Peter and the Octave of Christian Unity: Authority, Conversion, and the Eclipse of Continuity
Unity begins with Peter’s authority and culminates in Paul’s conversion.
Octave of Christian Unity: Union of All Christians with the Catholic Church
Today is Day 1 of the Octave of Christian Unity.
Two Murdered Kings in January
I pardon with all my heart those who made themselves my enemies, without my having given them any cause.
A Requiem for his own Death
Yet it is time his sacred music received its due.
Ten Code Words of Synodality
Over time, the hidden meaning becomes our belief and our faith is eroded.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Traditionalism at Sixty (Trad Godfathers, pt. I)
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Octave Day of the Epiphany: the Baptism of the Lord
℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople.Discourse on the Epiphany, 2I am not able to restrain the outbursts of my happiness. I feel changed and elated. I forget my own meanness while I undertake and try to discharge…
