Is Francis Infallibly the True Pope and Not a Notorious Heretic?
But Christ has not abandoned the Catholic Church.
But Christ has not abandoned the Catholic Church.
If we try to put ourselves into the shoes of the ancient Roman catechumens, being prepared from the pre-Lent “Gesima” Sundays onward, we can perhaps grasp the psychological and pedagogical importance of having the Gospel reading about the Transfiguration on this 2nd Sunday of Lent. Much of the content of the Mass formularies and the…
The Orthodox make claims about their ecclesiology which cannot be proven.
We want every Lent to change our family's souls permanently, instead of just for 46 days.
With the “Gesima”, pre-Lent Sundays we added a layer of context to our contexts: Roman Station churches. Each day of Lent has, by millennial tradition, an assigned church in Rome. On weekdays, people gathered at a nearby “collect” church and then processed singing penitential litanies and hymns to the “stopping” church, or “statio” where the…
Alvarez described is as “a supernatural action of God."
Bishop Barron, while calling himself a Thomist, decries the “closed Thomism” of the past.
“No one could have departed from this life with a finer attitude nor with greater devotion.”