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“His fruit was sweet to my taste”: On the Proper Mass of St Margaret Mary Alacoque
Dutch Cardinal: Don't repeat our mistakes! Those among our churches where truth is proclaimed and liturgy is well celebrated are full. Put Christ at the Center!
Cardinal Eijk, of Utrecht (primate of the Netherlands), in an interview with Catholic periodical COMMUNIO.
The church must speak with one voice
Cardinal Eijk on mission, secularization and the World Synod
The Church in the Netherlands was once regarded as very progressive. Disillusionment and collapse followed. Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk warns in an interview: Don't repeat our mistakes! In an extremely secularized society, the Archbishop of Utrecht is counting on a new missionary awakening.
By Willem Jacobus Eijk, Benjamin Leven, Lambert Hendriks
COMMUNIO: The Netherlands is considered one of the most secular societies in Western Europe. How Christian are the Netherlands still?
PALESTRINA 500: A year-long festival of sung Masses to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of Palestrina's Birth (1525-2025)
Certainly one of the most significant sacred music festivals ever conceived.
In honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), you can hear the Gesualdo Six, the Tallis Scholars, the London Oratory Schola Cantorum, and many other ensembles perform the glorious Masses and motets of the Prince of Polyphony, in the context for which they were intended: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
That is the ambitious program undertaken for the glory of God and the edification of the faithful by the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Parish in Grand Rapids, Michigan, starting on December 9, 2024, and running to December 8, 2025. The parish has already raised over $100K for this monumental festival.
For more details, see the poster below, or visit the website at https://www.sacredheartgr.org/palestrina500
Fontgombault Sermons: Feast of the Dedication of the Church; Feast of the Holy Rosary
The sermons of the Father Abbot of Fontgombault are now fully available as PDF files here.
DEDICATION OF THE ABBATIAL CHURCH (October 5th, 2024)
FEAST OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY (October 7th, 2024)
A Sermon on Christopher Columbus: How Much of the Hatred towards Columbus is Plain Old Anti-Catholicism?
by Father Richard G. Cipolla
From St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Some years ago, but not that long ago, when I was a priest at St. Mary’s church in Norwalk, Connecticut, the statue of Christopher Columbus was moved from what is known as Heritage Square, a place for acknowledging the contribution of various ethnic groups important in the history of the city of Norwalk.
De Mattei: “Columbus is ours!”
Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
June 17, 2020 [Repost]
“Columbus noster est!”
“Christopher Columbus is ours!” These words of Leo XIII, in his encyclical Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, issued July 16, 1892, on the IV Centenary of the
discovery of America, are like a distant echo to us, at a time when
iconoclastic fury in the United States of America is destroying the figure of
the Italian navigator.
Leo
XIII states in this encyclical that Christopher Columbus’s venture: «is in itself the
highest and grandest which any age has ever seen accomplished by man; and he
who achieved it, for the greatness of his mind and heart, can be compared to
but few in the history of humanity. By his toil another world emerged from the
unsearched bosom of the ocean: hundreds of thousands of mortals have, from a
state of blindness, been raised to the common level of the human race, reclaimed
from savagery to gentleness and humanity; and, greatest of all, by the
acquisition of those blessings of which Jesus Christ is the author, they have
been recalled from destruction to eternal life. (…) For Columbus is ours; since if a little consideration be given to
the particular reason of his design in exploring the mare tenebrosum,
and also the manner in which he endeavored to execute the design, it is
indubitable that the Catholic faith was the strongest motive for the inception
and prosecution of the design; so that for this reason also the whole human
race owes not a little to the Church. (…)
This view and aim is known to have possessed his mind
above all; namely, to open a way for the Gospel over new lands and seas. (…)
Columbus certainly had joined to the study of nature the study of religion, and
had trained his mind on the teachings that well up from the most intimate
depths of the Catholic faith. For this reason, when he learned from the lessons
of astronomy and the record of the ancients, that there were great tracts of
land lying towards the West, beyond the limits of the known world, lands
hitherto explored by no man, he saw in spirit a mighty multitude, cloaked in
miserable darkness, given over to evil rites, and the superstitious worship of vain
gods. Miserable it is to live in a barbarous state and with savage manners: but
more miserable to lack the knowledge of that which is highest, and to dwell in
ignorance of the one true God. Considering these things, therefore, in his
mind, he sought first of all to extend the Christian name and the benefits of
Christian charity to the West, as is abundantly proved by the history of the
whole undertaking”».
Hence, Christopher
Columbus belongs to the Church, and any affront to him is directed at the
Church, which has the duty to defend his memory. This spirit inspired Count Antoine-François-Félix Roselly de Lorgues (1805-1898)
who dedicated his life to promoting the cause for Christopher Columbus’s
canonization. Encouraged by Pius IX, in 1856, in Paris, Roselly de Lorgues published a two-volume work entitled: Cristophe Colomb. Histoire de sa vie et de
ses voyages; d’après des documents
authentiques tirés d’Espagne et d’Italie, which achieved world-wide success.
In this work, Roselly de Lorgues, for the first time, offers his thesis for the
canonization of the “Admiral of the Ocean”. He writes in a subsequent work: “…he was the
ambassador of God to unknown nations that the ancient world were unaware of” and “ the natural legate of the Holy See in
those new regions”. (Della vita di Cristoforo Colombo e delle
ragioni per chiederne la beatificazione, tr. it., per Ranieri Guasti, Prato
1876, p. 83)
The Modernists will continue to divide the Church over the Mass
“Hello. We’re from the Vatican and we’re here to help you.” Those are words I always believed I would be very happy to hear. The unyielding persecution of Catholic Tradition from the very top in the Eternal City has changed that. And the Mass is at the center of the battle for our faith and salvation. Anything else is a distraction from the Evil One.
The novus ordo is a service with Catholic components. It is "valid". But as a “Mass” it’s not pleasing worship to God. We have such a Mass already and it’s called the traditional Latin Mass.
The Mass was divinely revealed by Christ Himself and entrusted to the Apostles to be handed down by means of the Holy Spirit in the Church through time and space.
Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, a Spiritual Note: One of the "Guardian Angels" of Archbishop Lefebvre
by Côme de Prévigny
Archbishop Lefebvre used to tell his seminarians that he had two guardian angels: Fathers Aulagnier and Tissier de Mallerais.
These two valiant priests were among the nine young men who knocked on the door of the famous archbishop on October 13, 1969 in Fribourg, Switzerland, even though the Society of St. Pius X had not yet even been created.
Rest in Peace, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
Rorate has learned H. E. Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais has died in Sion, Switzerland. He had been under hospital care since suffering an unfortunate fall, a few days ago.
Good and Faithful Servant: may he rest in peace!
His funeral Mass and rite of interment will take place in the Seminary of Saint Pius X, in Écône, Switzerland, next Friday, October 18, 2024, at 9:30 am, local time.
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Bernard Tissier de Mallerais was born on September 14, 1945, in Sallanches (Haute-Savoie), France, not far from the Swiss-French-Italian border, in a strongly Catholic family. Following his university studies, dedicated to biology, he joined the Seminary of Saint Pius X (still in Fribourg, in its early years), studying for the priesthood under the guidance of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood on June 29, 1975, in Écône.
Stunning Photos from the Fourth National Latin Mass Pilgrimage
The Fourth National Latin Mass pilgrimage is now in the books. Inaugurated in 2022 in response to the draconian restrictions imposed by Vatican fiat on the thriving Latin Masses in the Diocese of Arlington and the Archdiocese of Washington, the pilgrimage has now become a yearly tradition showcasing the power and beauty of Catholic Tradition in the streets of our nation's capital.
Bishop Tissier de Mallerais - prayers for a fighter
Rorate is able to independently confirm the news that the consequences of the unfortunate fall suffered by H.E. Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, of the Society of Saint Pius X, seem to be irreversible regarding his state of health.
Militia est vita hominis super terram: Bishop Tissier de Mallerais has fought the good fight, and will persevere until the end. Prayers to the Immaculate Virgin for this indefatigable man of God.
New Cardinals - just one Sub-Saharan African
The Pope of the “peripheries” has once again reduced the cardinalatial representation of the churches of greatest faithfulness and most explosive growth (those of Sub-Saharan Africa) — to the lowest level since the Council…
And nothing could be more shocking than the elevation of Dominican Tim Radcliffe, a man whose heterodoxy is...beyond recognition. (And not only honorary, he might still be able to vote if the future conclave takes place before his 80th birthday in 2025.)
Here is the list of the Cardinals to be created in the upcoming consistory (on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, 2024):
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