Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth. (Saint Jerome)
Month: September 2023
Five Arguments in Favour of the Traditional Reception of Holy Communion
The following thoughts from Mr. Suski are not meant to denigrate those who receive Communion on the hand, as this is permitted by the Church’s current discipline, going back to the dispensation of Pope Paul VI. They are meant only, as the author says, to urge us to pause, ponder the reasons for the immemorial[…]
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking[…]
Music of the Archangels
For our musical offering this week, we thought we’d go on this day dedicated to the Archangels to a composer named after them, Archangelo Corelli (1653 – 1715, who took his first name from his father, who died five weeks before his son’s birth). He was an early baroque composer, whose primary instrument was the[…]
‘Adding’ the Saint Michael Prayer After Mass
(One of our most popular articles from the archives from a few years ago, but well worth a read or re-read on this feast of Michaelmas, and his angelic brethren, Raphael and Gabriel…Not least that in a certain diocese south of here, the prayer has been disallowed after Mass. We should, au contraire, maintain the[…]
That I will never do, because I am a Christian, and I shall die for God, and for him I will give many thousands of lives if I had them. And so, do with me as you please. (Saint Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila after being asked to renounce his faith at his trial)
The Woeful Wages of the Winnipeg Statement
(On this anniversary of the doleful and ambiguous Winnipeg Statement by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, back in 1968, as their response to Paul VI’s promulgation of Humanae Vitae on July 25th of that year, here is a re-post of what the indomitable Paula Adamick has to say of its woeful wages). All[…]
How I grieve, my God, that you are not known, that this savage country is not yet wholly converted to faith in you, that sin is not yet blotted out! (Saint John de Brébeuf, +1649)
Revolution and Year Zero – Vendémiaire?
The Peel District School Board – just outside of Toronto, Ontario, here in Canada – has just banned any books in its libraries published before 2008 – yes, fifteen scant years ago, a blink of an eye for some of us – all in the aim of ‘inclusivity’. Apparently, books before that magical date were[…]
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless (G.K. Chesterton)