The Mass of “the Empire of Christ Over All Nations”
A Kingdom that “receives all nations under its sway."
IV Day in the Octave of the Immaculate Conception – Pope St. Damasus
Therefore, let him that receiveth much, strive to be all the more lowly.
A Response and a Defense of Universal Peaceable Acceptance
"It is of no consequence that some Pontiff may have been illegitimately elected."
III Day within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
"...that it should be kept with an Octave throughout the whole Church."
II Day within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
"...that this most worshipful Mother should be made bright with the brightness of uncontaminated holiness."
The Immaculate Conception
℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.On the AssumptionWho and what was the blessed and glorious Mary, always a Virgin, hath been revealed by God by the message of an Angel, in these words: Hail, thou that art full…
Forgotten Customs of the Immaculate Conception
Above: the traditional Baile de los Seises in Spain for the Immaculate Conception. The feast of the Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most solemn of all those which the Church celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the cycle had to offer us the commemoration of some one…
In Illo Tempore: 2nd Sunday of Advent
The Church places before us on the 2nd Sunday of Advent a Gospel passage from Matthew 11:2-10 whose two movements mirror each other like the ends of a well bound book. The first concerns the identity of Christ as sought by the imprisoned Forerunner. The second concerns the identity of the Forerunner as confirmed by…