Michelangelo’s Upward Striving
“No one could have departed from this life with a finer attitude nor with greater devotion.”
“No one could have departed from this life with a finer attitude nor with greater devotion.”
With Quinquagesima Sunday we are at the threshold of the season of Lent. Holy Mother Church has been preparing us for spiritual combat through these preparatory Sundays. When you follow the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite, Lent can never take you by surprise. As part of our arming for battle, this Sunday asks us…
Lady Felice wept as she saw brave Sir Guy ride away into the sunset.
The basic flaw in all attempts by sedevacantists to find precedents for their position in the Western Schism is that nobody back then was a sedevacantist.
The distinction between taxation and legal plunder dates to at least St. Augustine.
Mary Queen of Scots came to a tragic end, but she had two victories – religious and temporal - over her murderers.
Our Mass formularies for pre-Lent and Lent go back to at least the time of St. Gregory the Great (+604), and certainly before. What was going on back in the day? Plague and famine had ravaged the population. The invading Lombards threatened Rome itself with sword and fire. Both for Septuagesima and this Sexagesima Sunday…
One might even regard Justinian as the first Sedevacantist.
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