From Saint Louis Catholic. https://stlouiscatholic.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/hapless-are-they-who-neglect-mary-under-pretext-of-the-honor-to-be-paid-to-jesus-christ-as-if-the-child-could-be-found-elsewhere-than-with-the-mother/#like-16746?page_id=16746 And the great Pope St. Pius X for the win, once again. Just check the latest news from the Holy See if you're wondering what this is all about. Laudetur Jesus Christus!
Tag: Blessed Virgin Mary
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
On this day when the Church celebrates the Holy Rosary in recognition of the miraculous defeat of the invaders at Lepanto, let us redouble our use of this holy weapon in defense of our Church and our Republic. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Ora pro nobis. Laudetur Jesus Christus!
Consecration of the 2024 U.S. Election to Our Lady
Prayer Warriors Wanted! The well-known traditional priest and exorcist, Father Chad Ripperger, has composed and published an excellent, non-partisan, and entirely Catholic prayer to consecrate the upcoming U.S. elections to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patroness of the United States of America. I present the text here as copied from KnightsRepublic.com, although it is available at … Continue reading Consecration of the 2024 U.S. Election to Our Lady
Calling All Prayer Warriors
If you're paying attention, you know that the Church is in serious decline, or has effectively disappeared, as both a moral and spiritual force in most of the Western world, particularly those regions once considered part of "Christendom." There are signs of hope in some parts of the world, but in the places where Christianity was … Continue reading Calling All Prayer Warriors
Solemnity of the Assumption
Our Lord Calls His Mother Home Following are two of the three Lessons from the second Nocturn of today’s Matins, under the 1960 rubrics of the Divine Office. Text is copied from the Breviarium Meum app for iPad, which is produced by the same group that maintains the DivinumOfficium.com website. From the Sermons of St. … Continue reading Solemnity of the Assumption
Pray and Fast Against Abortion Today
Following is the statement of Thursday , May 12, from Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly, relaying the request of USCCB President Abp. Gomez and Pro-Life Committee Chair Abp. William Lori, the Knights’ Supreme Chaplain, for fasting and prayer against abortion on this 105th anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition at Fatima. Dear Brother Knights: In recent … Continue reading Pray and Fast Against Abortion Today
Alice von Hildebrand, Requiescat in Pace
Reblogged from Saint Louis Catholic:The beloved 98 year -old philosopher, theologian and wife to the great Dietrich von Hildebrand has passed on. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, nd…Alice von Hildebrand, Requiescat in Pace
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
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