Monday in the Octave of the Ascension
Above all these hath One of our nature been exalted.
Colligite Fragmenta: Sunday after Ascension Thursday
Our Sunday is ensconced in the novena days after the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and the mighty day of Pentecost. Church’s liturgical calendar gives us … gave us, at least, until about 1970 an Octave for Pentecost was removed which allows us to contemplate the mystery of the Holy Spirit’s descent from…
The Stigmata (Miracles, Part 5)
"I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body."
The Catholic Vision of Novalis
Above: Caspar David Friedrich‘s Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808). Friedrich was influenced by Novalis’s aesthetic theories. Last year, Angelico Press published one of the most intriguing theoretical texts by the poetic genius of 18th-century Germany, Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), better known under the pen name Novalis. Titled Christendom or Europe?, it was included…
Trump & Russia: Put not thy trust in presidents
American Catholics will reap the bitter harvest of their corrupt support for Trump and their betrayal of their fellow-Catholics in Ukraine.
To Arthur’s Britain
Arthur was eventually hailed as one of the three great heroes of Christendom as a whole.
The Deeper Themes of Lew Wallace’s Ben Hur
"I devoted myself to vengeance long ago."
Ascension Octave – Day 1
From the Roman office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great1st on the Lords AscensionAfter the blessed and glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, wherein the Divine Power raised up in three days the…
The Financing of the Italian Clergy: State Control of the Church?
The Freemasons of the G.L.I., on the other hand, sought to adopt a more conciliatory approach.
The Little Way of Christendom, Part 2
Liberalism attempts to dissolve all intermediary institutions.
