Monthly Archives: May 2013

Historical Find of Importance for Church Music!

Since I love Baroque music, I find this most recent  bit of news quite exciting!  I can’t wait until sales of the music goes public. The youtube is in Spanish, but I have translated enough so that one can get … Continue reading

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Strange. Two Popes Collaborating

The following is our English translation from a post at La Buhardilla Jerónimo.  The original source is Diócesis de Molfetta. During these months, Italian bishops are continuing with their extensive ad limina visits which began during the last weeks of … Continue reading

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Man proposes, but God disposes; Happiness

May 22, 2013: I’ve added a note of interest at the bottom of the page regarding Frederick’s father. I want to tell you where my thoughts have been today.  Yesterday’s event has brought to mind that teaching from the Imitation … Continue reading

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THEOLOGY OF THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS #37

“And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 11:19). After Jesus … Continue reading

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Manifestations of a Loving Mother: Our Lady of Fatima

It is the feast of our Lady of Fatima! When our Lady spoke about the triumph of her Immaculate Heart, she certainly was not referring to an utopian era of secular, man-oriented, self-sufficiency and benevolent co-existence amongst peoples of conflicting … Continue reading

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Important News for the Joliet Diocese TLM Community

Well, it’s official now.  The pastor of St. Joseph church in Rockdale, IL is going back to his home country of India, and Bishop Conlon has turned over the church to the FSSP.  Below is a picture of the new … Continue reading

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THEOLOGY OF THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS #36

Ascendit Deus in Jubilo! In the Mass, we are brought into intimate union with the entire life of Christ from His Incarnation to the Ascension, that last moment of His earthly sojourn when He triumphantly returned to His Father.  The … Continue reading

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Thomas a Kempis’s, The Imitation of Mary

These two short meditations are taken from the book, one of them is especially for the ladies: The character is formed as any habit of virtue is formed.  To have a good character is to be on the road of … Continue reading

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For the Month of our Mother

From Gentilucci’s compilation, Life of the Blessed Virgin Strictly, the devout clients of Mary, at least the most fervent, should not only propose to imitate the heart of Mary, but also to consecrate themselves perpetually by a solemn obligation to … Continue reading

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Papal Appointment

h/t Accion Liturgica and Secretum Meum – Vatican City, 30 April 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father: – appointed Archbishop Guido Pozzo, almoner of His Holiness and titular archbishop of Balneoregium, as consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of … Continue reading

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