St. Wolfgang Altarpiece Coronation of the Virgin Mary, centerpiece of the altar His most famous work, the St. Wolfgang Altarpiece, remains in its original location and setting in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut on the Abersee (the western end of lake Wolfgangsee) in Austria.More
Pacher, Saint Wolfgang Altarpiece, c. 1479-8 Smarthistory on Dec 30, 2012 Michael Pacher, St. Wolfgang Altarpiece, c. 1479-81 (Church of St. Wolfgang, St. Wolfgang, Austria)
Offering to the deity Kohomba in the Vatican: Yesterday's celebration of the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate featured various rituals, performances and testimonies. The opening featured a Kandyan Dance, also known as the Uda Rata Natum. This ritual from Sri Lanka is dedicated to the pagan deity Kohomba, and is intended to invoke "protection" and "healing". According to legend, the ritual was introduced by pagan deities or celestial beings. The Vatican’s speaker announced: 'Its origins date back to Buddhist rituals, in which dance was offered as an act of devotion to bring blessings, harmony and peace.'
The Vatican hosted on October 28 an event to mark 60years of Vatican II's 'Nostra Aetate.' «Le origini [della Kandyan Dance] risalgono ai rituali legati al buddhismo, dove la danza veniva offerta come atto di devozione per portare benedizione, armonia e pace.» → “The origins [of the Kandyan Dance] go back to rituals tied to Buddhism, where the dance was offered as an act of devotion to bring blessing, harmony, and peace.”
THIRTIETH DAY SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, PATRON OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH MONTH OF OCTOBER Consecrated TO THE HOLY ANGELS IN WHICH THEIR EXCELLENCES, PREROGATIVES AND OFFICES ARE EXPOSED, ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, THE HOLY FATHERS AND DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH By Alejo Romero, Presbyter TO START EVERY DAY + For the signal.... PREPARATORY PRAYER Sovereign Lord of the world, before whom all the creatures of heaven, earth and hell bend their knees reverently; look at us here prostrate in your divine presence to give you the tributes of love, adoration and respect that are due to your exalted majesty and high greatness. We come to contemplate during this month the excellences, prerogatives and offices with which you have enriched for our benefit those sublime spirits that, like burning lamps, are eternally around your throne, making your divine perfections shine. O beautiful Sun of intelligences, who fill all the empyreum with immense radiance, cast on our souls a flash …More
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"Satan’s masterstroke consists in this: obtaining from us an irrational assent in the face of the evidence of his deceptions, which we recognize as such but nevertheless accept as true, in an act of mad, suicidal pride." - The Catholic Shepherd
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Saint Quintin - October 31 A.D. 287 Saint Quintin was a Roman, descended of a senatorian family, and is called by his historian the son of Zeno. Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and burning with a holy desire to make his powerful name and the mysteries of his love and mercy known among the infidels, he left his country, renounced all prospects of preferment, and, attended by Saint Lucian of Beauvais, made his way to Gaul. They preached the faith together in that country till they reached Amiens, in Picardy, where they parted. Lucian went to Beauvais, and having sown the seeds of divine faith in the hearts of many, received the crown of martyrdom in that city. Saint Quintin staid at Amiens, endeavouring by his prayers and labours to make that country a portion of our Lord’s inheritance. Desiring nothing so earnestly as to destroy the kingdom of the devil, that the name of God might be glorified, he besought the Author of all good, without ceasing, that he would infuse his …More
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OCTOBER 31 2025 THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 14,1-6. On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, "Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?" But they kept silent; so he took the man and, after he had healed him, dismissed him. Then he said to them, "Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?" But they were unable to answer his question.
A statue of Christ was recently toppled by a vandal in a church in the Archdiocese of Utrecht in the Netherlands. According to Rorate-Caeli.blogspot.com, the parish is conservative. Confessions are heard for almost an hour every evening, alongside Eucharistic Adoration. Liturgical abuse is avoided. Father Elias Leyds - co-founder of EWTN Netherlands, who tragically committed suicide in 2024 - held sermons there condemning homosexual acts and abortion.
A video is going viral of a vandal toppling a statue of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a church in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Of course the parish is conservative. Progressive liberal "churches" are already vandalized by design! No need to wreck that which is already destroyed!