Know, beloved son, that I am the immaculate ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who is the Origin of all life, who creates all things and keeps them in being, the Lord of Heaven and Earth…For in truth I am your compassionate Mother, yours and of all who live together in this land and[…]
Year: 2022
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your[…]
George Tyrrell, Our Lady and Contemplation
Father George Tyrrell is a complex figure, who got into a good deal of trouble in his own time as one of the fathers of Modernism, which was denounced by Pope Saint Pius X as the ‘synthesis of all heresies’. For his views, Tyrrell was expelled from the Jesuits – not an easy thing to[…]
Our Lady’s Triumph
All fair art thou, O Mary: nor is original sin found in thee (Alleluia Verse). Today’s glorious Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrates the dogma of the faith solemnly defined by Blessed Pius IX in 1854. It is the first of Our Lady’s privileges; that from the first moment of[…]
The Virgin Mary versus the Gorgon Medusa
Almost exactly two years ago, right in the heart of Manhattan, Luciano Garbati’s sculpture Medusa With the Head of Perseus was unveiled. The statue depicts exactly what is promised by its name: a 7-foot-tall bronze Gorgon, stark naked, holding up the Greek hero’s severed head in a rote inversion of the ancient tale. Inevitably, it was met[…]
Joseph the Image of God the Father and Patris Corde
On this second anniversary of the publication of Patris Corde, one year after the conclusion of the Year of Saint Joseph and on the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Joseph as the Patron of the Universal Church, let us consider the significance of Patris Corde. Patris Corde is the Apostolic Letter[…]
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He came as a little child, in human weakness, even a slave, as Saint Paul says, like us in all things but sin. In the second Advent, He will come again in[…]
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father…(Nicene Creed, from the Council of Nicaea, 325)
The Eternal Flame: A Poem
Persona Christi, in his threefold office, Faces the House where the Pillar of Smoke Made camp, his head by the nails in His feet, His breath, pulled out of him By Magisterial force, halts In petrified ecstasy. We hear the tailwind-ghosts of ages Siren past, and a roaring rush; The branches on Sinai[…]
The Great Reset, in a Nutshell
Mark Murano offers a very good audio summary of the intentions of our global elites, and the teutonic Bond villain Klaus Schwaub’s ‘Great Reset’, whose motto is ‘you will own nothing, and be happy’. That may work for Franciscans and Trappists, who give up everything, pro caritate Dei, and do so willingly, but not so much[…]