Yet Another Traditional Feast Day Lost For centuries, until Pius XII started his amputation of liturgical traditions in the 1950's, each May 3 the Church celebrated with great solemnity and historical detail the discovery and unearthing of the True Cross. The feast was of the highest rank in the pre-1955 calendar, which seems appropriate: it … Continue reading The Finding of the Holy Cross
Tag: Divinum Officium
Just Saying…
As many in the American-born hierarchy of the Church lower themselves into secular politics, today’s Lesson from the second Nocturn of the pre-1955 Divine Office might be enlightening. It is a homily, No. 14 on the Gospels, by Pope St. Gregory the Great. Here is a key excerpt, copied and pasted from the invaluable Divinum … Continue reading Just Saying…
The Lost Tradition of Rogation Days
Unless you have the blessing of being a regular or sometime parishioner someplace where the pre-Vatican II liturgy has not yet been suppressed by our Uber-Modernist overlords, and if you're not old enough to remember what it was to be a faithful Catholic in those pre-conciliar days, then you may not be familiar with the … Continue reading The Lost Tradition of Rogation Days
The Transfiguration of Christ
Today in both the Traditional and Novus Ordo calendars is the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Here is the reading from Chapter 17 of the Gospel of St. Matthew (Traditional), as copied from the marvelous Divinum Officium website: At that time, Jesus took Peter, James and his brother John, and led them up … Continue reading The Transfiguration of Christ
In Ministerium Maiorum 