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From the Roman office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. 2nd on the Ascension Dearly beloved brethren, our Saviour is gone up from us into heaven, but let…
Our Sunday is ensconced in the novena days after the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and the mighty day of Pentecost. Church’s liturgical calendar gives us … gave us, at least, until about 1970 an Octave for Pentecost was removed which allows us to contemplate the mystery of the Holy Spirit’s descent from…
When asked to write something for Ex-Gay Visibility Day, I was elated. I hold OnePeterFive and its readers in high regard. This publication has many talented and prolific writers, and I don’t hold a candle to any of them. However, once the elation wore off, I realized that I would be confronted with having to…
This article is the fifth in a 10-part series that will explore miracles as proof of the truths of Catholic doctrine. In this installment, we consider the stigmata. The “stigmata” – a word derived from the Greek meaning “a mark, tattoo or brand such as might have been used for identification of an animal or…
Above: Caspar David Friedrich‘s Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808). Friedrich was influenced by Novalis’s aesthetic theories. Last year, Angelico Press published one of the most intriguing theoretical texts by the poetic genius of 18th-century Germany, Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), better known under the pen name Novalis. Titled Christendom or Europe? Source…
From the Roman office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great. 2nd on the Ascension. And so the seen Presence of our Redeemer in the Body was changed for…
Cortes was born in Spain in 1809, a descendant of the conquistador Hernán Cortes. Having flirted with the ideas of the Enlightenment, he became increasingly critical of the liberal political ideas that were sweeping across Europe in the wake of the secularist tyranny of the French Revolution. Such tyranny was even worse, he argued, than…
Editor’s note: this analysis comes from a Canadian traditionalist and forms part of our Ukraine Crisis series. Our Conversion of Russia series is aimed at the traditional stance of the Holy See toward Russian Christendom in light of Fatima. In both cases we publish Catholics views from all sides, with an emphasis on solidarity for…
Above: Tintagel Castle, possible birthplace of King Arthur. King Arthur, since watching The Sword in the Stone as a very young child with my father back in 1963 (though to be fair, all I really remembered until seeing it again a decade later was the haunting opening song) has held a stronghold upon my imagination….
We can all recall with vivid memory the thundering chariot race that was orchestrated by William Wyler in the 1950’s epic film, Ben-Hur. While the film explores the themes of revenge and Christ’s redemption, the novel plunges the reader into a much deeper experience. Ben Hur, written by Lew Wallace and published in 1880, revolves…
