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God has seen all His creation to be good. As Christians, we rejoice in this goodness. We delight in the loveliness of the sun and moon, in the odor of the sweet olive, in the taste of flesh and fowl and grain, in the spirits that raise our spirits, in the marital bond that brings…
This world is not the same as it was two weeks ago. Technicolor has arrived in Oz. The sense of dread I’ve had for several years now is slowly receding. I can hardly wait to get out of bed in the morning (metaphorically, anyway). Accustomed as we are to the glacial pace of anything institutional,…
Above: Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee by Paul Bril (c. 1553/1554–1626). After having considered in Part 1 what miracles are – and what they are not – we next consider the testimony of the Holy Scriptures on miracles through both the New and the Old Testament. This article is the second in a…
I am tired of new ideas. I don’t mean to say that I’m tired of learning. Nor do I mean that I don’t appreciate fresh takes on old subjects. But the constant reinvention of the wheel has worn me out. There is no need to reconfigure my mental space for the sake of being “up…
Auguste Meyrat’s article “How to Save the Music at Mass” rightly sounds a clarion call for restoring better music at Mass through taking the entire question of music seriously to begin with (which includes paying at least some of the musicians what their knowledge, training, and ability justly deserve). As one who has been singing…
Above: the Immaculata Church in St. Marys, Kansas, built and staffed by the SSPX. Editor’s note: this is our final weekly serialisation of Dr. Edward Schaefer’s new book A Simple Man’s Case for Tradition. This book is an excellent introduction to Traditionalism and provides an easy way for Trads to introduce the movement to fellow…
Back in 2017, before the covidious cloud descended like madness, the world might have seemed a saner and simpler place. It wasn’t. It was the same dark and dismal place it is today, a vale of tears and a land of exile, with only the same glimmers of lifegiving grace to lighten the load and…
Above: La Conversión de San Pablo by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). Today is Day 8 of the Octave of Christian Unity. Traditional Prayer for the Octave: A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who “participate in some of the services during the Week of Christian Unity and assist at the closing of this same…
Traditionalism and its Dangers part III Read Part I: Hermeneutics of Rupture and the Extremes Read Part II: Coming to terms with Vatican II Peter Kwasniewski has certainly become one of the most visible and vocal promoters of a full return to the traditional liturgy, while at the same time furnishing trenchant critiques of the…
Because of the vagaries of your planet’s Moon, toward the end of this liturgical year and before the beginning of the next Advent, we will not have Remaining Sundays after Epiphany to fill in the calendrical gaps. This year, we sail straight through the Sundays after Pentecost all the way to the 24th and Last…
