In the green flow of the Vetus Ordo, “the old order,” Sundays, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost brings the last selection from St. Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians before the Epistles move on to Galatians. The order of these readings is exceedingly ancient, older than the developed form of the Divine Office. Our Roman forebears heard readings, chants, prayers, and antiphons within a network of…

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You have crowned the year with your bounty, and your paths overflow with a rich harvest; The untilled meadows overflow with it, and rejoicing clothes the hills. The fields are garmented with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain. They shout and sing for joy. -Blessing of Herbs on Assumption Day The Church’s Liturgical Year is a harmonious interplay of feasts and fasts interwoven in…

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OnePeterFive Podcast Let’s Admit the Divine Riches in the Novus Ordo Missae 00:00 / 00:20:12 Above: Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the…

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France’s great patron, St. Dionysius or Denis, requires a great deal of defending to-day, as shall be seen – a defender in need of defence. Like St. Patrick his feast day reminds of cooler weather – although in his case, it is in the Autumn (October 9) rather than the Spring. But his problem is one of identity. Now, everyone admits that St. Dionysius the Areopagite is first mentioned in the…

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Above: modern Bergamo. On August 12, 1626, in the mountain town of Clusone near Bergamo, northern Italy, a child was baptized whose name is rarely heard today, even among music lovers: Giovanni Legrenzi. His exact birth date has been lost, but his legacy has not. Over the course of sixty-three years, he became one of the central architects of the Venetian Baroque—a composer whose music…

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Above: Prince and Princess Bibesco wedding, 1919. Image taken from “An Autobiography” by Margot Asquit published by Doran, New York in 1922. Ancient pagan cultures and the Judeo-Christian world have always “canonized” their heroes. The Greeks and Romans, like other idolatrous peoples, regarded the epoch-making heroes of their cultures as divine beings—in short, as demigods.

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OnePeterFive Podcast “This Latin course was amazing” – High School Student 00:00 / 00:04:20 As readers are probably aware, in the spring of 1962 (before…

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Above: Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer, center. Antônio de Castro Mayer was born in the city of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, on June 20, 1904. He grew up in a deeply Catholic family of humble origins, being one of twelve children. His father, Johannes (João) Mayer, was a German stonemason from the region of Bavaria who had emigrated to Brazil in search of better work…

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Deep in the green season after Pentecost, when the Church has passed through the great mysteries of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, the Roman liturgy turns our attention toward the harvesting of what has been planted. Pius Parsch observed that the 11th, 12th, and 13th Sundays after Pentecost form a kind of triad concerned with sacramental grace: Baptism, healing…

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The Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation is a lay sodality run by OnePeterFive in partnership with Benedictus and LatinMass.com (Mass of the Ages). This crusade was called by His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider in June of 2020 in response to the profanations of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament during the COVID crisis. Now he has also added the intention of the reversal of Traditionis…

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Part I: On the Third Part of the Secret of Fátima: Introduction to Recent Scholarship Part II: A History of the Third Part of the Secret of Fátima: Composition Part III: What about 1960? Part IV: Did Pope St. John XXIII Disobey Fatima? After 1967, there was continued talk and discussion about the third part. In May 1981, one person even hijacked an airplane in an effort to…

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