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Looking for Perspective II: The Chatter Machine
This is a slippery stepsource: DamasceneGallery.com What is the biggest problem orthodox Catholics face today? Infelicitous clergy who whisper into the ears of the pope? No. A conspiracy afoot to...
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God Became Man So That Man Might Become God
In honor and memory of Saint Athanasius, the "greatest soldier the Catholic faith had", I am reprinting an old summation of his De Incarnatione. * * *"God became man so that man might...
View ArticleThe Extent of the Epiclesis
Dr. K's discussion of the East-West divide on the theology of how and when the consecration happens during the anaphora immediately brought to mind Kallistos Ware's wise question on this subject:...
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Ancient Initiation
Holy Saturday has passed. If you followed it as I did, you watched the blessing of the fire and Exultet, left for two hours, and returned to a live stream during the Litanies of the Saints. Very few...
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Ascension of the Lord
Mosaic of the Ascension of the Cathedral of MonrealeFrom the first sermon on the Ascension of Pope St. Leo the Great:"After the blessed and glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, wherein the...
View ArticleLooking for Perspective III: A Church or The Church?
In our last look on the crisis of confidence orthodox Catholics face we looked at the "chatter machine", the religious bad news industry which makes writers' livings by stirring up the mixed emotions...
View ArticleTaking Leave
Holy Week occupies a place of supreme importance in the Christian life, even if it is but seven days of 365 in one year. Similarly, the first week of May, also a victim of the machinators and pseudo-...
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The Vigil of Pentecost
Pentecost is too big, too vast, too intimidating for any singular explanation, but the Roman liturgy's rich vigil for this feast nurtures the faithful with some food for thought. Let us consider the...
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Dealing with Urban Questions
No, not the self-inflicted chaos hitting most American cities, but rather some more relevant to our season of Pentecost. Urban VIII's classicizing revision of the Latin hymns has received more...
View ArticleIn Octavam
We are in the midst of yet another octave, the third in four weeks and the first, depending on which kalendar you use, of four in the coming weeks. June is a celebratory month in contrast to the...
View ArticleShould You Fall in Love?
Should you love your fiancée? Most people think you should these days, although what that entails is somehow less clear. Adducing the Angelic Doctor's obvious belief that love is "to will the good of...
View ArticleMarital Admonitions: Tradition or Liturgical Abuse?
The wedding went off without too many hitches, the Mass very a well sung Missa cunctipotens Genitor Deus, and Arcadelt's Ave Maria graced the offertory. As a silver lining, we did not have to endure a...
View ArticleFancy Catholics
Are you "fancy"?"[Rad Trad], you are verrrrry fancy," I was told by a coworker, chewing and spitting out the words in his deep drawl. An old classmate heard that I began attending the Divine Liturgy...
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"Science"
"Science" is a word. Some self-purported secularists and rationalists seem to believe "science" is a spell, an incantation which calls wisdom and vanquishes superstition. I remember some years ago...
View ArticleTaking Stock of the Roman Rite
Given the surreal state of the world during and after the Corona Contagion it may seem difficult to appraise the state of the Roman liturgy. All the same, the liberalization that Benedict XVI initiated...
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Three Months of the Late Tridentine Breviary
Vespers in the Church of S Francis in Assisi by Mikhail Petrovich BotkinMy edition of the Breviarium Romanum is an editio post typicam from the era of Pius IX. It includes the feast of Saint Joseph...
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Tolerance Is a Virtue
The old lists of "Catholic Necessaries" once found in missals and prayerbooks include such helpful reminders as the Ten Commandments, the Precepts of the Church, various collections of virtues and...
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Collects for the Assumption
One of the most beautiful Masses in the Roman Missal is that of August 15, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The Mass is an interesting one textually and musically, beginning with the Gaudeamus...
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The "Latin" Mass
Inaccessibility remains the greatest hurdle of the traditional Roman rite to the faithful of the Latin Church. It is not the priest "facing away" from the people, nor the supposedly ritualized...
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The Year of St. Joseph: Sold into Egypt
The Year of St. Joseph, proclaimed by the Holy Father to extend from December the 8th of last year until the same of 2021, offers the faithful a cornucopian wealth of spiritual riches. January gave us...
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Traditionis Custodes: Part I
There is no need to bore anyone by recapitulating the details of Guardians of Betrayal, “Latin” version Traditionis Custodes, promulgated on a Marian feast last month by the Pope. For the best reading...
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Traditionis Custodes: Part II
In the second of our three part look at Traditionis Custodes we will consider the options of the laity and the clergy regarding this motu proprio, like many of Francis's resolutions, an abuse of an...
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James the Brother of Jesus, Davidic King
The perennial debate about the "Brethren of the Lord," so found in the Gospels of Sts. Matthew and Mark, is a sticking point between orthodox Christians and those who deny the perpetual virginity of...
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No Finer Time for Hope
Demolished bunker of Adlerhorst in Germany.Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights and frequent writer of inflammatory truths, recently wrote a short but impassioned book...
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