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A Harmony of Modernity with Tradition
"Surely the first among the German representatives of a new musical art."
Posadas Navideñas: Filipino Advent
The festive Filipino disposition: non-Hispanic traditionalists might dismiss it as ‘spectacle.'
In Illo Tempore: 1st Sunday of Advent
The paper cup must become more like the swimming pool if it is to receive what is poured out with divine liberality.
Russian Trads: Fasting, Spirituality and the attitude towards East
Editor’s note: join the Fellowship of St. Nicholas (in English or Español) to join traditional Catholics around the world striving to fast according to the traditional norms of our forefathers. In the first part of this essay on the Russian Trads we learned the basics of their self-identity. Now let’s move on to the more…
Thanksgiving and the New England Inheritance
The year decays, November’s blastThrough leafless boughs pipes shrill and drear;With warmer love the home clasps fastThe hands, the hearts, the friends most dear. On many seas men sail the fleetOf hopes as fruitless as the foam;They roam the world with restless feet,But find no sweeter spot than home. To-day with quickened hearts they hearOld…
The Story of a Conversion: the Extraordinary Encounter of Manuel García Morente
How could a distinguished modern university professor of philosophy believe in God, the Virgin Mary, angels, and saints? Before his conversion, to such a rhetorical question, the Spanish thinker Manuel García Morente (1886–1942) would always respond with the silence of a superior smile. All these Christian teachings and beliefs were, gently, labeled by him as…
Now We Are Sixty-Five
A long, long time agoI can still remember how that music used to make me smileAnd I knew if I had my chanceThat I could make those people danceAnd maybe they’d be happy for a while—Don McLean, “American Pie.” This last November 8, I passed a milestone – I turned 65 years of age. There…
“Guarding and Trasmitting the Gift”: Pope Leo on Tradition & Ecumenism
"...nor is it a mutual recognition of the current status quo of the diversity of Churches and ecclesial communities."
Colligite Fragmenta: 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost
All good things come to their end, with the exception of God’s love and the eternal joy of Heaven. Thus, the Church, in her liturgical wisdom, allows the cycle of the year to come to its own solemn conclusion, so that we may be stirred up again to begin anew. As this series of reflections…
The Colossus of Lombardy: Saint Charles Borromeo
"This visitation had been sent as a chastisement for sin."
