OnePeterFive Podcast Is There Any Tradition More Important than the TLM? Yes. And it’s the “One Thing Necessary” 00:00 / 00:07:53 Dear OnePeterFive…

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Above: Archbishop Lefebvre with Pope Pius XII. Before proceeding, it is important to establish a couple of necessary distinctions. One can speak about a rupture between the Vatican and a group of priests without thereby speaking about schism in the sense of a spiritual crime. While it is fitting to the Church that the Pope reside in Rome, history attests that a true Pope may not…

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OnePeterFive Podcast Men of God: Reparation for Trump Blasphemy 00:00 / 00:02:23 Dear OnePeterFive Confraternity members, donors and supporters…

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OnePeterFive Podcast President Trump against Pope Leo, on Behalf of Catholicism? 00:00 / 00:13:11 US President Donald Trump made one of his characteristic…

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We bring to completion the great Octave of Easter this Sunday, though “completion” here is to be understood in the Church’s own liturgical sense. For a full eight days, by that ancient inclusive counting which the Romans knew so well and Christians inherited, it has still been Easter Day. The Church has, as it were, stopped the liturgical clock so that we might rest within the mystery of the…

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Above: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio (1602). This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875) Our neophytes closed the Octave of the Resurrection yesterday. They were before us in receiving the admirable mystery; their solemnity would finish earlier than ours. This, then, is the eighth clay for us who kept the Pasch on the Sunday…

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Above: the Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921). This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875) The seventh day of the gladdest of weeks has risen upon us, bringing with it the memory of the Creator’s rest, after the six days of creation. It also reminds us of that…

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This is Part II of a two-part series. Click here for Part I. In the first part of this series, I listed the nine levels of prayer and described the first four, which exist along what is called “the Purgative Way.” In this second part, I will explore the second and third ways of prayer — the Illumative and the Unitive — and within them, the final five levels of prayer that are possible as we…

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Eight days ago, we were standing near the cross, on which died the Man of Sorrows, abandoned by His Father, and rejected, by a solemn judgement of the Synagogue, as a false Messias: and lo! this is the sixth time the sun has risen upon our earth since the voice of the Angel was heard proclaiming the Resurrection of this adorable Victim. The Church, His widowed spouse, then lay prostrate before the…

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Above: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (He That Is Without Sin?) by Vasily Polenov (1844–1927). One of the best literary commentaries ever written on the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel is undoubtedly Anthony Esolen’s In the Beginning Was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John, which overthrows modern assumptions and delights the inward heart on every page.

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Above: Noli me tangere by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858). This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875). After having glorified the Lamb of God, and the Passover whereby our Lord destroyed our enemies; after having celebrated our deliverance by water, and our entrance into the Promised Land; let us now fix our respectful gaze upon…

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