The Annunciation of the Lord
Though the Annunciation was celebrated yesterday, we offer our readers the following article on this great feast from our March, 2009 issue of The Angelus. The feast is so named because on this day the coming of the Son of...
The Better Part
Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her. –Luke 10:42 Though it remains to be seen exactly what Pope Francis will do about cleaning the Augean stables of the curia, the task most often...
An Armenian Hymn to the Risen Christ
The following hymn is sung by the Armenians during each year’s Eastertide. It is well on this Easter Friday to reflect upon the profound beauty of this ancient hymn. Today the immortal and heavenly Bridegroom rose again from the dead!...
Understanding the Crisis: Archbishop Lefebvre and Collegiality
As we are still in the very early days of a new papacy, it is helpful to remind ourselves that the ultimate solution to the very grave crisis in which we find ourselves will only and eventually come from the...
Christ, the Gardener of our Souls
But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the...
A Sad Complaint
“O My people, what have I done to you or wherein have I molested you? Answer Me.” Strange, pitiful cry of the heavenly Father wounded by the waywardness of His rebellious children! Strange, indeed, yet stranger still that same sad...
A Life for the Church
22 years ago today, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre departed this world to meet the Savior and Judge he had so long devoted his life to serving. Twenty-two long and eventful years in a growing apostolate. Twenty-two years in which the Society...
Our Lady of Sorrows
Yesterday a friend asked me to go with him to visit the hospital. His mother had taken ill in the morning and was hemorrhaging. "As yet," he said, "the doctors have been unable to find the cause." We had no sooner arrived than she began to spit up blood. A lump came to my throat and I wanted to cry.
Traditionalists and the Power of Peter
One well-known Catholic blogger recently made a short post under the heading, “Pithy,” making his own a statement of one of his readers that, “Progressives hate the idea that Peter and the Apostles can bind. Traditionalists cannot fathom that Peter and the Apostles can loosen.”
Ite ad Joseph
TO THEE, O blessed Joseph, we have recourse in our affliction, and having implored the help of thy thrice-holy spouse, we now with hearts filled with confidence earnestly beg thee also to take us under thy protection. By that charity...
Poverty and the Liturgy
And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. – Matthew 2:11 And when Jesus was in Bethania,...
Pius IX: The Man and the Myth, Chapters 5 – 6
Today we come to the third session of our online book club, covering chapters 5 -6 of Yves Chiron’s Pius IX: The Man and the Myth. Roughly speaking, these sections cover the time from Pius IX’s office as Cardinal Bishop...
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