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Category Archives: Our Solitary Boast
Rome Shot 270
Happy Birthday to the Queen of Heaven! HVMANI GENERIS SATOR ET QVI PARCERE LAPSIS INSTITVIS MACVLAS VETERIS RUBIGINIS AVFER ARGENTO THALAMVS TIBI SIT QVO VIRGO REFVLGENS. Don’t forget prayers to St. Anne for the overturning of Traditionis custodes by divine … Read More
Assumption: The 4th Glorious Mystery
NB: Today, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we can begin a 54 Day Novena! Remembering to pray for Card. Burke, who is ill, we might pray a 54 Day Novena using the Memorare, the Rosary, or another … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, ACTION ITEM!, Be The Maquis, Our Solitary Boast, Traditionis custodes
Tagged Feast of the Assumption
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VIDEO: 1950 – Pius XII infallibly proclaims the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In 1950 my late pastor, Msgr. Schuler, was in Rome on a Fulbright working on the manuscripts of Giovanni Maria Nanino, the successor of Palestrina for the Sistine Chapel. He had great stories about being a priest in Rome in … Read More
The Blessed Virgin receiving Holy Communion, and more
Fr. Vierling made my day today by posting on Twitter this wonderful 17th c. Flemish School painting of the Blessed Virgin receiving Holy Communion from St. John, who is obviously celebrating Mass with the “Tridentine” Missale Romanum. Note the altar … Read More
Look what these men are building… a Marian beacon in the plains.
Meanwhile… Traditiones custodes and merciful accompaniment for the flock on the periphery. Become a Custos traditionis.
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ACTION ITEM! 15 August 2021 – World-wide Consecration to the Immaculate Heart by all TLM communities
This came by email and I warmly endorse it. The Holy Catholic Church is in an unprecedented world wide crisis. The only hope for the Faithful is a Divine intervention, through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two … Read More
The Synchronized Hearts of Mary and of Jesus
In the Novus Ordo calendar, today – the day after the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – is the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Before Mary conceived Our Lord beneath her heart, she … Read More
31 May: Mary’s Queenship, and yet “more Mother than Queen”
31 May is liturgically complicated. In the traditional calendar it is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary. In the Novus Ordo, it is the Feast of the Visitation. Again in the Novus Ordo, Queenship of Mary is on 22 … Read More
PJM: “Vatican Betrays Virgin Mary for Prophet Muhammad”
PJ Media reports something really alarming. Vatican Betrays Virgin Mary for Prophet Muhammad by BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM (serious guy) The same folks to bring you “Abrahamism”—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting … Read More
15 September: Seven Sorrows of Mary – The “Our Lady of Sorrows Project”
Today, the day after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, is the Feast of Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is an analogous commemoration on Friday after 1st Passion Sunday. I will say this Mass in … Read More
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