The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church – Tertullian (+240 A.D.)
Month: June 2020
Adding Titles and Falling Totems
Pope Francis has added three new titles to the Litany of Loreto, the ancient prayer to Our Lady under various of her titles: We are asked to invoke her intercession as Mother of Mercy, of Hope and of Migrants. Being a migrant myself, albeit not with my own will, as a young lad from Scotland,[…]
We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their labours, their sufferings, their confession of faith, their preaching. (Saint Augustine)
Musica Sacra for the Thirteenth Sunday
A blessed and joyous Sunday to one and all! Suggestions from Pater Ignotus: Vivalidi’s In Exitu Israel, one of the innumerable, yet profound, pieces, he wrote for the girls’ orphanage, of which he was chaplain and maestro. This dates from 1739: And a live organ recital – if we can’t be there in person in[…]
Christendom Versus Chaos
‘Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me’ (Mt. 10:38). ⧾ Last Sunday, in our reflection on the Sacred Scriptures we noted that in light of the upheaval and confusion being experienced both in the world and in the Church, it is all the more necessary for us[…]
Callam’s Law
Murphy, whoever he was, has gained immortality of a sort by enunciating a law which, if not absolutely universal, is close enough to experience to be universally quoted: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” Similarly, the Peter Principle captures an aspect of contemporary society that most of us recognize: “Everyone rises to his level[…]
Our Lord Jesus Christ is nonetheless one, the one true Son, both God and man; not a deified man on the same footing as those who share the divine nature by grace, but true God who for our sake appeared in human form. (Saint Cyril of Alexandria, +444)
Dr. Robert Walley, Requiescat in Pace
Please do pray for the repose of the soul of Dr. Robert Walley, a pro-life Canadian hero, who passed away on June 22nd, the memorial of Thomas More, fittingly enough, a fellow holy and courageous layman. Dr. Walley was a physician dedicated to the protection of mothers and their unborn children, founder of MasterCare International.[…]
Don’t wait until you are old to start becoming a saint. Begin right now. Cheerfully and joyfully, by fulfilling the duties of your work and of your everyday life. (Saint Josemaria Escriva, +1975)
The Neo-Barbarians
Cancel culture continues – and there seems little or no distinctions in the collective mind in what they will destroy, annihilate, obliterate. We use the singular ‘mind’, for independent thought seems to be vanishing faster than statues of colonial white men, in what Mark Steyn has dubbed the ‘march of the morons‘. They are defacing[…]