Friday of the second week of Advent. Of the Nativity of Mary Our Blessed Lady. DAILY MEDITATIONS OF THE MYSTERIES OF OUR HOLY FAITH, By the P. Alonso de Andrade FROM THE COMPANY OF JESUS. PRAYER TO BEGIN By the sign of the Holy Cross, from our enemies delier us, Lord, our God. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. My Lord and my God: I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with deep reverence. I ask you for forgiveness of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruit. My Mother Immaculate, Saint Joseph, my father and lord, my guardian Angel: intercede for me. Meditation Friday of the second week of Advent. Of the Nativity of Mary Our Blessed Lady. POINT ONE. Consider how Divine Providence arranged, that the holy fathers of the Blessed Virgin be elderly and sterile, because she had to be more daughter of grace than of nature: such must be the one that God chooses with special grace for her service. Look at the …More
Mexico LIVE | Millions Of Catholic Pilgrims Flock To The Basilica Of Guadalupe | Virgin Mary | Crux youtube.com/watch?v=ytdcZJpdEjk watching now Started streaming 30 minutes ago #mexico#basilicaofguadalupe#virginmary Millions of Catholic pilgrims have gathered at Mexico City’s Basilica of Guadalupe to honor the Virgin Mary. The annual event draws devotees from across the country, celebrating faith, tradition, and the spiritual significance of the Virgin’s apparition. Pilgrims participate in prayers, masses, and religious rituals, making the Basilica one of the world’s most visited Catholic sites during this important observance.
Canadian Bill Criminalizes Quoting Holy Scripture: In Canada, Bill C-9 would amend the Criminal Code by removing the religious exemption in Section 319(3)(b). The change could allow quoting Holy Scripture in good faith to be prosecuted as hate speech, with penalties of up to two years in prison. The proposal comes from the Liberal government. The Canadian Bishops' Conference has formally opposed the bill in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, warning of legal uncertainty for clergy, educators, and believers and a restriction of religious freedom.
The secular toxic legislation is largely an attack on Christians and Christian belief. The governing Liberal Party of Canada and the Bloc Party from Quebec have no respect for Christians. Today, Catholic Quebec that once was strong is dying quickly. How can you uproot your Christian heritage, the very foundations of the nation, and still have a country? You won’t. You have what former PM Justin Trudeau referred to as a post-nation state with no core values. We have posted several entries about this very sad development in Canada at Everyday for Life Canada.
Bishop Schneider promotes and celebrates the Mass in the Roman Rite, yet it is rarely celeberated in Kazakhstan, he told Adrian Milag in an online interview. Main points, video sequence below. - We have no altar girls in all Kazakhstan. It is banned. No women, no altar girls. - We have no Eucharistic ministers at all. - The only ordinary form to receive Holy Communion is kneeling and on the tongue, with the paten. There is no other possibility except for the sick. - Thanks be to God, our liturgies are very worthy… even in the Novus Ordo. - The people are pious and devoted. They don’t know the Latin Mass and some don’t even feel the necessity. If there would be a greater movement, it would be possible also. But until now we have not these considerable groups. - I celebrate in my private episcopal chapel the traditional Latin Mass and when I am teaching in the seminary, I also celebrate for the seminarians. - True ecumenism is that non-Catholics come back to the Church and embrace all …More
The way to interpret this is that Bishop Schneider believes that a reverent novus ordo is good enough for the faithful. Not good for his traditionalist credentials.
Bishop Schneider and Archbishop Vigano are among the few truly Catholic members of the hierarchy left in the Catholic Church. May Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix, continue to protect and keep them under Her Sacred Mantle.
1000 USA pastors are set to promote Zionism in America having just returned from Israel where they were treated to an 8 day excursion with Mike Huckabee.
Here's the architect of 'Traditionis Custodes.' In this video, Andrea Grillo launches into a delirious speech in support of the ordination of women. Just look at how impeccably “measured” he is, professionally speaking, and how reliable his argument sounds. He, the great champion of the fight against Summorum Pontificum and Benedict XVI.
He's making a logical argument. If it is acceptable for women to lead men in the private and public sphere, logically they can lead men in the ecclesial realm. The problem is that that it is unnatural for women to govern men in any sphere, domestic, public or ecclesial. 1 Cor 11:1-3.
[The title is our and not of ONE PETER FIVE} Part IV The Brazilians: Bishop Geraldo de Proença Sigaud and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer Jerome Stridon April 5, 2025 Bishop Geraldo de Proença Sigaud Note from our PCOI website: We have only used a few excerpts from this publication. To read the full text, click here. The two Brazilian (and only non-European) members of the five-man steering committee of Coetus Intertionalis Patrum – the group of doctrinally conservative Council Fathers who sought to save what could be saved at Vatican II – were similar men in both their cursus and in their theological and political outlooks on the eve of Vatican II. Their responses to Rome’s letter soliciting their vota (wishes and suggestions) for Pope John XXIII’s ecumenical council mostly overlap. These were Archbishop Geraldo de Proença Sigaud of Diamantina and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer of Campos. While the latter became better known after the Council for being the only Latin-rite bishop …More
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝? The official audience granted by Pope Francis to Father James Martin, a known advocate for changing Church teaching on homosexual acts, sent a message of confusion to Catholics worldwide. By not correcting the public perception that the Pope supports these activities, the Holy See risks signaling agreement with efforts that contradict Church doctrine.
Pope Leo XIV published today an Apostolic Letter on archaeology. Marking 100 years since the founding of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, he described the discipline as “indispensable for understanding Christianity”: “Revelation is always history. If this is so, then understanding Revelation requires an adequate knowledge of the historical, cultural and material contexts in which it took place,” he wrote. The Pontifical Institute, founded in 1925, is led by German priest Stefan Heid. He is world-famous for his research showing that the early Church celebrated Holy Mass ad orientem.
Pope to Pontifical Institute of Archaeology: “By concentrating on the physical traces of faith, archeology educates us in a theology of the senses: a theology that knows how to see, touch, smell and listen. Christian archeology is a school of the senses. By examining stones, ruins and other artifacts, it teaches us that nothing touched by faith is insignificant.
Voice of "The Baroness" “A priest is a lover of God, a priest is a lover of men, a priest is a holy man because he walks before the face of the All-Holy. A priest understands all things, a priest forgives all things, a priest encompasses all things. The heart of a priest is pierced, like Christ’s, with the lance of love. The heart of a priest is open, like Christ’s, for the whole world to walk through. The heart of a priest is a vessel of compassion, the heart of a priest is a chalice of love, the heart of a priest is a trusting place of human and divine love. A priest is a man whose goal is to be another Christ; a priest is a man who lives to serve. A priest is a man who has crucified himself so that he too may be lifted up and draw all things to Christ. A priest is a man in love with God. A priest is a gift of God to man and of man to God. A priest is a symbol of the Word made flesh, a priest is the naked sword of God’s justice, a priest is the hand of God’s mercy, a priest is the …More
Not a priest whose view I particularly trust, as being perceived by me as being part of the perceived problem; however, is active on the blogosphere a long time, and I present his views here as an alternative take or critique regarding the supposed election of a new supposed pope..
There are so many insane, irrational, invalid and illegal happenings that have occurred in the last 100 years that only God knows what is really going on in the Catholic Church.