He is risen, indeed. May this feast of the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which heralds our own redemption and opens to us the gates of Heaven, also herald a worldwide resurrection of a firm resolve, on the part of all people of good will, to stand up to the forces of … Continue reading Surrexit Dominus Vere!
Category: Solemnities and Feasts
The Annunciation: A Feast For ALL Christians
March 25, 2019 Today the Church marks the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, the day when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to a young (probably 14 or 15 years old) Jewish girl in the obscure town of Nazareth in Galilee, and announced the beginning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. If you're not fully … Continue reading The Annunciation: A Feast For ALL Christians
Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
One of the many feasts and devotions soft-pedaled or dropped altogether from the Liturgical Calendar by the post-Vatican II Church, in its zeal to make Catholics act less Catholic, was the feast we "Trads" still celebrate today, that of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is one of the newer of the Marian … Continue reading Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Holy Church celebrates most saints on the date of their death; that is, the date of their "birth" into eternal life. Only three feasts commemorate anyone's birth: Christmas, most obviously; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, which we mark today, September 8, nine months after the … Continue reading The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Pope Benedict XVI on the Life and Accomplishments of Saint Pius X
Today is the traditional feast day of Pope St. Pius X, among whose memorable contributions to the Faith was his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, in which he set forth and analyzed in great detail "the synthesis of all heresies", also known as Modernism. Following is a reblog of a post from 9/3/16 by the good folks over … Continue reading Pope Benedict XVI on the Life and Accomplishments of Saint Pius X
Reflections on the Assumption
God, Who made the sun, also made the moon. The moon does not take away from the brilliance of the sun. The moon would be only a burnt-out cinder floating in the immensity of space were it not for the sun. All its light is reflected from the sun. The Blessed Mother reflects her Divine … Continue reading Reflections on the Assumption
In Ministerium Maiorum 