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…
7th Day in the Octave of the Epiphany
"...it is our bounden duty and godly service, to rejoice with full hearts..."
In Illo Tempore: Holy Family
We are in Epiphanytide, that stretch of the liturgical year whose very name, drawn from the Greek ἐπιφάνεια, signals manifestation, disclosure, the making-visible of divine reality within human history. From the beginning, Epiphany held a privileged place in the ancient Eastern Churches, where the Feast gathered into a single luminous focus several moments in which…
5th Day in the Octave of the Epiphany
℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin.1st on the Epiphany.Dearly beloved brethren, we are instructed by the tradition of the Fathers, that we have to keep holiday on this solemnity in honour of several joyful events. We are taught…
