A liturgical octave is the eight-day observance of an important feast of the Christian calendar. During each day, the feast itself is commemorated even if other feasts happen on those days. The traditional liturgy is rich with octaves, and one … Continue reading
Every night, when the Brothers pray the traditional office of Compline together, we encounter the following words of Saint Peter (I Pet. 5:8): Fratres: Sóbrii estóte, et vigiláte: quia adversárius vester diábolus tamquam leo rúgiens círcuit, quærens quem dévoret: cui … Continue reading
Why did Our Lord Jesus Christ teach in parables? The answers to this question vary. To many, these earthy stories are like supernatural versions of Aesop’s Fables or Grimm’s Fairy Tales: great stories with a solid moral lesson, only even … Continue reading
Saint Benedict Center’s 2020 Conference is now history. Many very satisfied and happy conference-goers have told us how much they enjoyed the event. We Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are very grateful to all who came and joined … Continue reading
This Ad Rem is a sneak-preview of one of my two talks at the upcoming Saint Benedict Center Conference. I look forward to seeing many of my readers there! In the battle against COVID-19 hysteria, many wise critics have called … Continue reading
In the midst of the global psyop that is currently weaponizing people’s fear, anger, hatred, and other disordered passions, there is much that has been lost: money, property, education, peace, sanity, stability, even, in many places, physical access to Holy … Continue reading
Whether purposely or not, we mortals have the nasty habit of introducing the mud of error into the pristine springs of truth and the stain of evil onto the luminous landscape of goodness. This tendency is often there to be … Continue reading
This Sunday’s Epistle reading concluded with the following verse and a half: “And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled. But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts” (I Pet. 3:14-15a). The words that I have emboldened … Continue reading
There is something very revealing about the COVID-19 crisis. This Sino-American bioweapon, apparently not a particularly bad one as bioweapons go, has shown us the depth of the rot in the Church and the State, and not just here in … Continue reading
There is one thing about the future that can be predicted with absolute certainty. It is that everybody reading these lines will one day die, as will their author, and I rather sooner than most of you because I am … Continue reading
It is written (Ezechiel 18:22): “I will not remember” any more “all his iniquities that he hath done.” Saint Thomas in the third part of his Summa Theologica, Q. 86, art. 1 uses this quote from Ezechiel in his Sed … Continue reading
Over at One Peter Five, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has authored an article that may be read in tandem with what I just published on the crisis of no public Mass: Your Local Mass Canceled? Try Meditating on the Texts of the … Continue reading
Whether or not one thinks that the episcopal decision in now most of the country (and elsewhere) to suspend public Masses is a wise one or not, we are now virtually all stuck with the new status quo. I have … Continue reading
As a result of Saint Benedict Center’s present situation, we Brothers and Sisters have been compelled to travel a bit to find reverent Masses. When a Traditional Latin Mass is not available, we find ourselves at an Eastern Rite. This … Continue reading
During the last fortnight, when I should have been thinking about what to put in this Ad Rem, I became bogged down in some academic and administrative matters that zapped my writing time. (Exam week and grading papers among these! … Continue reading
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