It is sometimes said that were we truly to realize to the depth of our soul precisely the awesome what and the tremendous WHO the Blessed Sacrament is, we might never be able to get our faces up from off … Read More →
Today, 14 August, is the Vigil of the Assumption (purple). It is also the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe (red), a Franciscan priest put to death at Auschwitz. St. Maximilian Kolbe, has a special relevance for Catholic media. Today, dear … Read More →
Begone, Satan,’ were the last words of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel, who was assassinated on this day eight years ago by Islamic State terrorists while celebrating Mass at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church in Rouen, France. pic.twitter.com/sV8hMpBulk — Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) July 26, … Read More →
Happy Feast of Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine and Companions, the Martyrs of Compiègne. Carmelites. In 1794, the Place de la Nation on the east side of Paris was called the Place du Trône-Renversé… Toppled Throne Square. In 1792 a … Read More →
“Katonda!” This year, using the Traditional Missale Romanum, we celebrate today the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga. The decree Cum sanctissima allows for the celebration of Saints canonized after 1962 provided that the day is not some feast that would … Read More →
As I look news items about this or that prelate doing whatever, bishops crushing people’s hearts by closing down traditional worship even as nutty stuff is not only tolerated but fostered, unheard of doctrinal propositions, priests and even bishops cancelled, … Read More →
The sun rose in Rome at 07:22. It is a truly beautiful October day, classic. The sun will set at 18:28. The Ave Maria bells in better times would ring forth at 18:45. Welcome registrants: ThomasT20 Hoyt1940 Richard the Lionhearted … Read More →
There is an important article at the National Catholic Register written by a Chinese priest under a pseudonym. The plight of Catholics and the complicity – both active and passive – on the part of Rome are palpable. […] And … Read More →
Interrupted while saying Mass at his parish church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the 85-year old priest struggled to repel his two 18-year old attackers with his feet. “Go away Satan!”, he repeated. Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered, in odium fidei, a martyr to … Read More →
Reuters: July 5 (Reuters) – Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez was returned to prison on Wednesday after negotiations between the government and church representatives broke down over the terms of his possible release, according to local news outlet Confidencial. Citing … Read More →
On Tuesday, 25 July, His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will celebrate a Pontifical Mass in honor of Our Lady of SheShan and to pray for China. The Mass will be celebrated at 6PM at the Basilica of St. John … Read More →
“Katonda!” This year today is in the Vetus Ordo calendar Ember Friday in the Octave of Penance. However, it is also the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga. That said, because of the decree Cum sanctissima we can now celebrate St. … Read More →
The great folks at The Catholic Thing have been holding online courses. For example, there were courses with Robert Royal on Dante’s Divine Comedy, on Augustine’s City of God and on Thomas More’s Utopia. They are now going to have … Read More →
Today is the Feast of José Sánchez del Río. I would very much like a relic of this wonderful saint. Anyone? I suspect many people, perhaps even among the readers here, have convinced themselves that the persecution of the Church … Read More →
Today is the 6th anniversary of the martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel in France. And there is this… HERE. Sts. Nunilo and Alodia, pray for us. St. Lawrence of Brindisi, pray for us. St. Pius V, pray for us. Martyrs … Read More →
Happy Feast of Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine and Companions, the Martyrs of Compiègne. Carmelites. In 1794, the Place de la Nation on the east side of Paris was called the Place du Trône-Renversé… Toppled Throne Square. In 1792 a … Read More →
How does the phrase go from… is it Kipling?… if you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…. Something like that. It describes rather aptly these days how tradition-oriented Catholics are … Read More →
On 29 July 1941 ten prisoners from an block at Auschwitz were chosen to be starved to death because a prisoner from that same block had escaped. Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan who founded the Militia Immaculatae, offered his life, … Read More →
Interrupted while saying Mass at his parish church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the 85-year old priest struggled to repel his two 18-year old attackers with his feet. “Go away Satan!”, he repeated. Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered, in odium fidei, a martyr … Read More →
Today is the Feast of St. Maria Goretti, who died defending her virginity and also in the attempt to prevent her killer from committing a terrible sin. The story of her appearance to him, Alessandro Serenelli, in prison, and his … Read More →
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.