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
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Remind You of Anyone?
In the seventh Lectio in today’s (9/3/21) Divine Office of Matins, (Divino Afflatu version, available online at DivinumOfficium.com), for the Feast of Pope St. Pius X, there is this little gem from a homily of St. Augustine, discussing John 21:15-17: “Those who have this purpose in feeding the flock of Christ, that they may have … Continue reading Remind You of Anyone?
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
About Me (Or: Who needs another Catholic blog?)
(Note: Copied with minor additions from the "About Me" page on this site.) TxTradCatholic is both my Twitter handle and a shorthand clue to what I'm about. I am a Texan (transplanted from the Midwest 20-plus years ago by my then-employer), and a Catholic of traditionalist orientation. My name is Frank, and I'm a retired, … Continue reading About Me (Or: Who needs another Catholic blog?)
In Ministerium Maiorum 