It’s not a coincidence that the shortening days of a coming winter coincide with the last days of the Church year. It’s here, at the dark end of the year, that we reflect on the dark end of the world. …
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1st Sunday of Advent: Our Savior expects to find us ready
In 589 Deacon Aigulf trekked home to Tours with relics he had collected in Rome. St. Gregory of Tours relates in his Historia Francorum that Aigulf saw with his own eyes the disasters that struck Rome that year. The Tiber …
Fostering Charity Around the Dinner Table
As society “progresses” towards more efficiency and technological advances, it also moves away from human connections and relationships. God created us as social beings in His “image and likeness.” It is through connections that we grow both physically and spiritually. …
Healthy Food for Grown-Ups
When the feast of St. Martin of Tours comes around each year—that’s November 11th, a day he shares on the Roman calendar with St. Mennas, a great soldier, desert solitary, and martyr in Egypt—I always think about food. The reason …
Church Life Journal Insults Eastern Liturgies with Amateur Scholarship
Above: a Coptic iconostasis in the diaspora showing the liturgical curtains which veil the altar from the laity. Note: the following open letter was written by a regular reader of Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, in response to an article, …
An Important Historical Document for the Trad Movement
Unwanted Priest: The Autobiography of a Latin Mass Exile By Bryan Houghton Angelico Press Paperback: $16.95 / Hardcover: $26 206 pp This is a book which anyone interested in the controversies surrounding Vatican II, the Latin Mass, and modernism will …
In the Church Basement, Hiding from Mass
Above: an official promotional graphic of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality (posted at their Facebook page here). On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass. -CIC, can. 1247. It is Saturday …
The Catholic Choir and Choirmaster: Handmaid of the Liturgy and Guide of the Faithful
“How freely did I weep in thy hymns and canticles; how deeply was I moved by the voices of thy sweetly sounding Church! The voices streamed into my ears; and the truth was poured forth clearly into my heart, where …
FULL TEXT Cdl. Burke’s Latin Mass Sermon for Christ the King
Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church 2510 E. Hanna Avenue Tampa, Florida 30 October 2022 Col 1, 12-20 Jn 18, 33-37 Sermon In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. It is …
A Moment of Christendom: the St. Louis Patronal Procession
Above: Patronal Festivity in Saint Louis, Missouri, 2022 On August 25th, my alarm clock rang at 3:45 a.m. The previous evening, we chant enthusiasts had parted with the words, “Tenebrae et Matutinum” (dark and early). With solemn vespers, we had …