A decision of the Bishop of Saint Petersburg, Florida; the Institute of Christ the King will staff the shrine:
 |
| (Click for larger view) Source: Parish Bulletin |
Epiphany Parish in Tampa converted to Shrine dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass
Traditional Catholic Retreats in Indiana - 2025
People frequently ask me, "Where can I go on a traditional Catholic retreat with a sound retreatmaster and the TLM?" There are not a huge number of options but one of the very best options out there is Edelweiss. Highly recommended. Below are the 2025 retreats. More info here: https://edelweisshouse.org/
Also bear in mind the retreats offered in Ohio by the Benedictine monks of Tasmania (see here).
Irony Alert: Postconciliar Iconoclasts Arrive at the Feast of St John Damascene and Smash It
New Edition of the "Breviarium Monasticum": Complete Benedictine Divine Office in Latin
Magnificent news from our friends at the Monastère Saint-Benoît in Brignoles: a wholly new edition of the great Monastic Office of St. Benedict. Full details below.
Sermon for the Annunciation 2025
by Fr. Richard Cipolla
 |
| Annunciation (1894) - James Tissot - The Brooklyn Museum |
I am the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be done to me as you say.
The shutter banged against the house in the wind, or so it seemed to the young woman n the small house. But she looked out the window and the trees were not moving. And then she felt his presence. Then she saw him with his wings, and she became frightened. His words came slowly and silently like a song, as if silent words could be a song. But she hears the words and their meaning confused her. How can this be? Why should he be saying these words to her? She almost wished that she were not here. She wished he was not saying these things. And then she heard the question addressed to her out of the silent song. A question that came beyond space and time, a question that was posed to her very being, but yet not a question, for she was being asked to choose to do this, this which was beyond her comprehension, and she was aware of her entire body as never before, she was intensely aware of physical reality, of the room, of everything in it, she was aware that the whole universe had stopped breathing, every nebula, every atom, all creation had stilled for this place and time, this instant, creation in suspension. And then, out of the stillness of the room and out of something deep in her, she felt a stirring that flooded her whole self, which pierced her fear and her awe. And with great and quiet strength she said, Yes. Let it be done to me according to thy word.
Fiat: A Home for Female Contemplative Religious Vocation Discernment
The Decadence of the Church and the Francis Pontificate - by Archbishop Héctor Agüer
Archbishop Héctor Agüer
Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina
Buenos Aires, March 25, 2025
Twelve years of Francis' pontificate have just been celebrated. The Vatican reports are always self-congratulatory.
It is very difficult to cover, in a single appraisal, the reality of the Church, which is vast and with differences between countries -- but from a certain point it is possible to contemplate the surroundings; I can do it, then, from this corner of the far south that is Argentina, a nation that is (or was?) mostly Catholic. As the saying goes, “one button is example enough."
For Over Fifty Years, the Traditionalist Faithful Have Been Persecuted: No Repentance from the Hierarchy?...
Christian Marquant
Paix Liturgique
March 2025
(main excerpt)
The website of the Bishops' Conference of France reminds us that, since 2021, at the request of the Holy Father, every year, and from now on, on the third Friday of Lent, a kind of day of repentance is organized. This is a day of prayer for people who are the victims of violence, sexual violence, or abuse of power.
A Follow-Up on Cardinal Pell -- Are They Trying to Get Him Even After Death?
Get Pell even when he’s dead?
A guilty verdict without a court
By Serre Verweij
for Rorate Caeli
[Rorate: Read Verweij's series on Pell here]
One of Australia’s favourite left elite mouthpieces, the ABC, has published an article by Louis Milligan and Charlotte King that reveals new abuse accusations against the late Cardinal Pell. Specifically, they revealed two new accusations against Pell.
ITALIAN NEWS: The most Pathetic Protest Ever
by Diego Fusaro
Philosopher
(Translator’s Comment: I do not agree with all of Professor Fusaro’s ideas but as an informed academic his analyses on the present state of global and Italian scenarios and international issues are frequently right in my view. With this article he is spot on. The way I see it, he is describing the ever-increasing decline of Italian Catholic Culture and the frightening mushiness of the modern mind formed in modernist schools and universities). F.R.
Rome, March 15th, 2025 - the most absurd public protest ever
The most insane and ridiculous public protest in recent history took place on March 15th in support of the European Union.
THE FUTURE OF TRADITIONIS CUSTODES -- AND OF THE TRADITIONAL MASS
Kevin Tierney
for Rorate Caeli
 |
| (Photo: Nick Hagen, for The New York Times) |
Traditionis custodes is back in the news. Following DDW Prefect Arthur Cardinal Roche’s interview with The Catholic Herald, even non-traditionalist commentators are wondering: does Traditionis custodes have a future? (One of the individuals interviewed was RC contributor Joseph Shaw; and RC contributor Peter Kwasniewski's article on Andrea Grillo was linked.) In considering this question, I would like to take a slightly different approach, and also directly answer one of the stated justifications for it in the article.
The Zone is Flooded
One of the biggest threats to the survival of Traditionis has been the ability of traditionalists to dominate the discourse surrounding the Latin Mass. As Cardinal Roche himself admitted in the interview:
Hospitalized Francis announces Vatican III
"Vatican III" as in a new "Ecclesial Assembly" called upon as part of the "synodal process":
Pope approves convocation of post-synodal Ecclesial Assembly in 2028
Pope Francis officially initiates a new phase in the Church’s synodal journey by approving an accompaniment process that will culminate in an Ecclesial Assembly in 2028. [Vatican News]
Wait, Francis? Or "Francis"?
The Spirit of Lent - by Roberto de Mattei
Roberto de Mattei
Voice of the Family
March 12, 2025
Most people are unaware of or have forgotten what Lent is. Yet the Catechism of Pope Saint Pius X was very clear, calling it “a season of fasting and penance instituted by the Church according to apostolic tradition”. In the following paragraph, Saint Pius X explained its ends:
“To make known to us the obligation we have to do penance all through our lives; to imitate in some way the rigorous fast of forty days that Jesus Christ did in the desert; to prepare ourselves by means of penance for a holy celebration of Easter.” (No 36)
The Pope and Tradition - Op-Ed by Abp. Héctor Agüer
Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina
Buenos Aires, March 11, 2025
[Author's note:] This article was written before illness led the Supreme Pontiff to hospitalization. Like all the faithful, I too offer my prayers for the physical and spiritual health of Francis. What I write below is valid for the orientation of his pontificate, which is still true today, as can be seen in the recent suppression of the Miles Christi Religious Institute, announced on Thursday, the 6th of this month.
***
The current Pontificate is distinguished by a true contradiction: the Pope is an enemy of Tradition, persecutor of those who follow it and identify with it. This persecution is accomplished in many ways: he displaces good bishops, appointing coadjutors for them; he elevates to the episcopate progressive characters; he takes care to elevate to the cardinalate those who second his projects of reforming the Church; he promotes progressive religious institutes and undermines or eliminates those attached to Tradition. It is significant that he has chosen the unusual name of Francis - alien to papal history - probably thinking of the saint of Assisi, considering him an ecclesial reformer.
Welcome to Washington, Cardinal McElroy!
Cardinal McElroy will be installed as the new Archbishop of Washington tomorrow, in the Basilica of the National Shrine.
He is receiving some warm welcome:
For the story on the unbelievable events leading to this, read this from Crux in 2018:
Ordo Hebdomadae Maioris & Memoriale Rituum: Useful Books for the Pre-55 Holy Week
Saint Anthony Press, established with the mission of publishing rare or otherwise “lost” Catholic liturgical and devotional books, has reprinted the Ordo Hebdomadae Maioris (Order of Holy Week) containing the Holy Week liturgies and Order of Mass with seasonal Prefaces according to the 1920 typical edition of the Roman Missal (in use until 1955), restoring the ancient and venerable liturgies replaced by the 1956 Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae Instauratus (and later incorporated into the 1962 Roman Missal).
The Miracles of the Pre-Conclave: Cardinal Roche says he has no problem with the Latin Mass
Well, that is a "vibe shift" if ever there was one.
The great persecutor of the Traditional Latin Mass, Cardinal Roche, apparently has no problem with Latin or the Latin Mass! What miracles do the airs of a possible upcoming conclave bring forth...
Here is his answer on the matter in his interview to the Catholic Herald:
CH [Herald]: One of the phenomena that has become apparent in the modern Church is the devotion that young people have to the Traditional Latin Mass, the 1962 Roman Missal promulgated by Pope John XXIII. What advice would you give to those who want to remain faithful members of the Church and love the Latin Mass but find themselves restricted in attending?
Book review: Enchanted by Eternity: Recapturing the Wonder of the Catholic Worldview
Enchanted by Eternity: Recapturing the Wonder of the Catholic Worldview by Fr. William Slattery is a stunningly insightful read.
The author, whose name you might recognize from his earlier and also very fine book Heroism and Genius: How Catholic Priests Helped Build—and Can Help Rebuild—Western Civilization, is an unusual combination: a fiery Irishman, a cold-blooded PhD in epistemology who specialized in alethic logic, a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a historian – and a priest who is passionately in love with the Traditional Latin Mass. Listen to these words in the Acknowledgments section of his book:
What Is the Path Forward for the Church? The Church Lives by Her Tradition -- by Archbishop Héctor Agüer
The Future Course of the Church
by Archbishop Héctor Agüer
Emeritus of La Plata
Buenos Aires, March 3, 2025
When a Pontificate lasts for many years, it is natural to think about what will happen when it ends. Catholics look to the future of the Church. What, then, is appropriate for the time to come?
Francis Health Update: More episodes of respiratory insufficiency - ventilation
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/comunicazioni/2025/03/03/250303b.html
Today the Holy Father presented two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency, caused by a major accumulation of endobronchial mucus, and consequent broncospasm.
Two bronchoscopies were therefore performed, with the need for aspiration of copious secretions.
In the afternoon, non-invasive mechanical ventilation was resumed.
The Holy Father remained alert, oriented and cooperative at all times.
The prognosis remains reserved.
Who Could Be the Next Pope? -- Parolin: Fake Moderate, Sincere Progressive
Paix Liturgique
February 26, 2025
Cardinal Parolin, the Secretary of State, is considered very hostile to the Traditional Mass (playing on the nickname, “the Mass of All Time,” he is quoted as saying, “We must put an end to this Mass for all time!” At this time, when Rome is more or less preparing for a conclave, his friends are doing everything to sell, as the communicators say, an image of Parolin as a “moderate”, “man of consensus.” Pietro Parolin, who is said to be considering the name of John XXIV, would be in perfect continuity with the latter, but in a less disorderly, more administrative style.
Parolin would be a more efficient Francis
***
Rorate: Paix Liturgique, the French traditionalist newsletter, then makes reference to an article we also published in December 2023. We repost it here now to recall to our readers the main characters of the future conclave, whenever it may take place.
Cardinal Parolin Lying in Ambush
Father Claude Barthe
Res Novae
December 2023
Is Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, the real candidate of the Bergoglian left[1]? It's worth remembering that in 2013, the self-appointed cardinals of the "St. Gallen Group", who brought Jorge Bergoglio to power, used the maneuver of putting forward the name of Cardinal Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, to more effectively advance their real papabile, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Similarly today, behind the 66-year-old Filipino Cardinal Tagle, prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, but depressive and rather insignificant, or behind the 65-year-old Jesuit Cardinal Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg, rapporteur of the Synod of Bishops for a synodal Church, but too noisily heterodox, would actually be Cardinal Parolin.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)