Who, and What, do we expect to come to us when our Advent is over? To put the question in His own words, “Whom [and What] do men say that the Son of man is?” (Matt. 16:13). Protestants often ask … Continue reading
Category: Mass and the Liturgy
‘Happy Holidays’? Bah! Humbug!
Charles Dickens was a great literary genius. He had a gift for complicated plots, for colorful characters, and for emotionally evocative storytelling. As a social critic, he also penetrated into the unseemlier side of industrial capitalism, that Protestant beast that … Continue reading
Why Do We Thank God for His Great Glory?
The question that gives me the title for this piece is one I was recently asked, and was glad to answer, for it had occurred to me before, and provided me with some gratifying meditations both on gratitude (thanksgiving) and … Continue reading
A Season of Sorrows
The recent revelations of depraved deeds committed by bishops and priests are evocative of different appropriate emotions. Anger would be the first of these. It is the irascible passion we experience in the presence of an evil we strive to … Continue reading
1300 Worship At Outdoor Adoration Under the Stars in Kansas
Wichita Diocese has high increase in religious vocations compared nationwide and Eucharistic adoration is on of the reasons why. See here. CNA, Perry West: An estimated 1,300 people, including 24 priests, attended the event, which also included confession and music. Elpers … Continue reading
Latest News on the FSSP
New Liturgical Movement, Gregory Dipippo: Yesterday, the Fraternity of St Peter began its 2018 General Chapter, which is being held this year at their American seminary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Denton, Nebraska. On the agenda are the elections of … Continue reading
Spirit Daily Hosts Article by ‘Paranormal Minister’ Upset With Latin Mass Ad Orientem
I was surprised by this. I did not know that Spirit Daily website in addition to being promoters of Medjugorje was also against the traditional Mass. Title of this sorry piece of emotional nonsense is “Please don’t take this Miracle … Continue reading
Cardinal Sarah and The Prisoner
Catholics of traditional bent were elated when they learned that Robert Cardinal Sarah was the celebrant of the culminating Mass of this year’s Pentecost Chartres Pilgrimage. If they listened to his homily on You Tube or read the English translation … Continue reading
Archbishop Sample Praises Traditional Mass, Notes Enthusiasm of Young Worshipers
Catholic Herald: Young people are drawn to the Traditional Latin Mass by its “beauty”, “sense of mystery” and “transcendence”, Archbishop Alexander K Sample has said. Report is here.
Paul VI’s Relenting Dissatisfaction With Bugnini’s New Song Liturgy
L’ Espresso, Sandro Magister: “The pope wants it.” This is how Monsignor Annibale Bugnini (1912-1982), the author of the liturgical reform that followed Vatican Council II, silenced the experts every time they contested one or another of his most reckless … Continue reading
Passover Ritual, the Last Supper, and the Fourth Cup
A short and illuminating article concerning the Last Supper and how Our Lord fulfilled the drinking of the fourth cup on the Cross. And, I might add on my own that even though it was vinegar that was given to … Continue reading
Younger Generation Catholics Prefer the Old Wine in New Skins
Catholic Herald, Matthew Schmitz: Last week, in a speech to Italian liturgists, Pope Francis appeared to set in stone the liturgical changes that came at the time of Vatican II. “After this magisterium, after this long journey,” he said, “we can … Continue reading
He Descended into Hell
We have entered into the drama of Holy Week. As the events of these days are each momentous, there is too little time, especially during the Triduum, to confront each of them as they are presented to us by Holy … Continue reading
Papal Nuncio Says All Bishops Should Use the Old Order of Mass
enews: Archbishop Thomas Gullickson (67), the nuncio to Switzerland and former nuncio to the Ukraine, has offered the Traditional Latin Mass three times in 2017. He writes on his blog admontemmyrrhae.blogspot.com(December 10) that this had a “positive, warming and reassuring impact” on … Continue reading
The Childslayers
When Brother Francis was teaching me Christology, he would constantly repeat something that Father Leonard Feeney often said to him. Holding an icon of the Mother and Child at the beginning of each class, he would say, “Here is the … Continue reading
