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
Tag: Blessed Virgin Mary
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
In Ministerium Maiorum 