The Feast we celebrate this Sunday is called the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On this day we definitively close out the Advent/Christmas cycle. It is forty days since Christmas. According to Mosaic Law, women who had given birth were required to offer a sacrifice for ritual purification. Of course, Our Lady was not…
In Two Families: A Memoir of English Life During and After the Council, Joseph Bevan peels back the curtain on one family’s devastating encounter with liturgical revolution, and another’s inspiring emergence from the ruins. Both of these families are his own, considered in each direction of the family tree: he begins by recounting life with…
He identified the rationalistic theology influenced by the rise of Aristotelianism with the “smoke rising from the abyss” (Apocalypse 9:21).
Many of the heroes mentioned in the book Defenders of Christendom were forced to face their enemies without the help of their Catholic neighbors.
One of the most important and controversial tsars in Russian history.
Above: Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee by Paul Bril (c. 1553/1554–1626). After having considered in Part 1 what miracles are – and what they are not – we next consider the testimony of the Holy Scriptures on miracles through both the New and the Old Testament. This article is the second in a 10-part…
A concise review of the criticisms of the SSPX and some answers to these criticisms.
Grace is at work within the visible unity of the Catholic Church.
Because of the vagaries of your planet’s Moon, toward the end of this liturgical year and before the beginning of the next Advent, we will not have Remaining Sundays after Epiphany to fill in the calendrical gaps. This year, we sail straight through the Sundays after Pentecost all the way to the 24th and Last…
These vota give Lefebvre a prophetic cast.
The 1962 Missal removed this feast.
