Not afraid to call a spade a spade, and deeply grounded in the Scriptures and the fathers of the Church, the scrappy and erudite Cardinal Giacomo Biffi has done it again. When his last book was published, we wrote Cardinal Biffi’s Bombshell. With his recent publication of Pecore e Pastori (Sheep and Shepherds), the good Cardinal has proven that there is more shock and awe left in his arsenal, and he’s delivered the ordinance right on target.
Perhaps the oldest devotion to Our Lady in Europe is the devotion to Our Lady of the Pillar. In Spain, Pilar is a popular girl’s name, as is Mercedes for Our Lady of Mercy. (In fact, General Franco named one of his daughters Pilar, just as one of the Carmelite Martyrs written of in this [...]
When the Apostles divided the earth and drew lots for their portions, Spain fell to Saint James the Greater. The seeds he sowed grew well, and the roots of the Faith in Spain go deep. Upon his return to Jerusalem in AD 42, Herod Agrippa I had him beheaded. His body was taken back to [...]
This is a very interesting article, not only because it authenticates Antonio Gramsci’s conversion, but because it highlights his strategy for Communizing all Europe. In order to do that, Gramsci insisted that the Church, the new order’s main enemy, would have to be infiltrated and destroyed from within.
Madrid, Dec 2, 2008 / 08:11 pm [...]
We received news yesterday on the death of Brother Dominic Maria, O.S.C.O. Brother was an early member of Saint Benedict Center and a convert of Father Feeney’s from Protestantism. He was a Harvard student and the scion of the famous Morgan family (J.P. was a grand-uncle). Our own Brother Francis (Dr. Fakhri Maluf) was his [...]
An offense is measured, not by the one who gives it, but by the one who receives it. While it certainly would be wrong for anyone to strike a neighbor, it would be a much greater wrong to strike the Pope, the President, or some other prominent individual.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they offended God. [...]
I had heard of Stevenson’s defense of Father Damien many years ago, but only recently came across the actual letter that he wrote to the Rev. Dr. Hyde, the Blessed’s unworthy calumniator. Pope John Paul II beatified Father Damien de Veuster in 1995. His feast day, May 10, is a state holiday in Hawaii. [...]
To all our readers: Happy Thanksgiving! And lest you think that heathens and heretics dining on maize and turkey is the historical “first Thanksgiving” in America, we present a myth-shattering article by Adam Miller, who truly tells the story of “The First Thanksgiving.” (Hint: It was Catholic!)
Today is also the feast of the Miraculous Medal. [...]
Of all the words, exclamations, and clichés that grew out of anti-catholic bigotry, it is the word “dunce” that is the most ridiculous misnomer. It is derived from the name of one of the greatest scholastic thinkers of the Middles Ages, Duns Scotus, a Franciscan theologian, philosopher, and logician. He taught at Oxford [...]
Everyone knows that Protestants do not venerate saints. Nevertheless, sometimes they canonize their own by naming places after some local denizen that they feel deserves the title. At least five cities in the U.S.A. testify to the rather strange anomaly: St. Paul, Texas, is named after W.H. Paul; St. James, Missouri, is named after Thomas [...]
Brian Kelly has written on this site about Our Lady of America and her apparitions to the holy religious in Ohio, Sister Mary Ephrem (Mildred Neuzil). These apparitions are approved by the Church, as the recent canonical study of the case by Archbishop Burke testifies. While there are many supposed apparitions which claim our attention, [...]
Holy Mother Church dedicates the month of August to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On August 15 we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, and on August 22, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart. Our novena begins on the 14th, the Vigil of the Assumption, and ends on the 22nd, the patronal feast of our Order and doctrinal Crusade. The intention of this novena is twofold:
Primary Intention: We pray that our doctrinal Crusade may be victorious, and that each and every member will remain true to the ideals upon which it was founded.
Secondary Intention: We pray that the Church — Pope, hierarchy, clergy and faithful — will conform to the requests of Our Lady of Fatima, that Russia will be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart and thereby converted, and that devotion to Her Immaculate Heart will then be established throughout the world, as Our Lord desires.
The form of this novena is quite simple. It consists of these three parts (the prayers are given below):
We earnestly hope that you will join with us in praying this novena to Our Lady, and in celebrating, in a fitting manner, the two great Marian feasts with the intervening octave.
The Magnificat
(Luke 1:46-55)
46) My soul doth magnify the Lord
47) And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior
48) Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaidfor behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49) For He that is mighty hath done great things to me and Holy is His Name.
50) And His mercy is from generation to generations, to them that fear Him.
51) He hath showed might in His armHe hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
52) He hath put down the mighty from their throne, and hath exalted the humble.
53) He hath filled the hungry with the good thingsand the rich He hath sent empty away.
54) He hath received Israel, His servant, being mindful of His mercy.
55) As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed, forever.
The Litany of Loreto (the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Lord, have mercy (Christ, have mercy)
Lord, have mercy, Christ, hear us (Christ, graciously hear us)
God the Father of Heaven, (have mercy on us)
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, (…)
God the Holy Ghost, (…)
Holy Trinity, One God, (…)
Holy Mary, (pray for us)
Holy Mother of God, (…)
Holy Virgin of virgins
Mother of Christ,
Mother of divine grace,
Mother most pure,
Mother most chaste,
Mother inviolate,
Mother undefiled,
Mother most amiable,
Mother most admirable,
Mother of good counsel,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Savior,
Virgin most prudent,
Virgin most venerable,
Virgin most renowned,
Virgin most powerful,
Virgin most merciful,
Virgin most faithful,
Mirror of justice,
Seat of wisdom,
Cause of our joy,
Spiritual vessel,
Vessel of honor,
Singular vessel of devotion,
Mystical rose,
Tower of David,
Tower of ivory,
House of gold
Ark of the covenant,
Gate of heaven,
Morning star,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comforter of the afflicted,
Help of Christians,
Queen of Angels,
Queen of Patriarchs,
Queen of Prophets,
Queen of Apostles,
Queen of Martyrs,
Queen of Confessors,
Queen of Virgins,
Queen of all Saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen assumed into heaven,
Queen of the most holy Rosary,
Queen of peace,
Lamb of God Who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord!
Lamb of God Who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord!
Lamb of God Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
R. That we made be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray:
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we Thy servants may enjoy lasting health of mind and body, and by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, be delivered from the present sorrow and enter into the joy of eternal happiness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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