“I love the private revelations of holy persons, but I never accept everything... Being taught by the teachings of several mystics, I have always deemed that the teachings and locutions of even holy persons, especially women may contain deceptions. Poulain attributes errors even to saints the Church venerates on the altars. How many contradictions we see between Saint Brigid, D’Agreda, Emmerich, etc. We cannot consider the revelations and the Locutions as words of Scripture. Some of them must be omitted, and others explained in a right, prudent meaning.” - SourceI trust the Church - the Holy Father and the Magisterium. Even amid the current confusion. I believe what we proclaim in the Creed.
“What shall I say to you now, dear sons of France, who groan beneath the weight of persecution? The people who made an alliance with God at the baptismal font of Rheims will repent and return to its first vocation. Her faults will not remain unpunished, but she will never perish, the daughter of so many merits, so many sighs, and so many tears." - St. Pius X
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| Notre Dame du Mont-Carmel, Nice |
O Queen of all the virgin choir,Vouchsafe that I may praise you , O sacred Virgin.
Enthroned above the starry sky,
Who with your bosoms milk did feed
Your own Creator, Lord most high.
What man had lost in hapless Eve
Your sacred womb to man restores;
You to the wretched here beneath
Hast opened Heaven's eternal doors.
Hail, O refulgent Hall of light,
Hail, Gate august of Heaven's high King,
Through you redeemed to endless life,
Your praises let all the nations sing.
O Jesu, born of Virgin bright,
Immortal glory be to You,
Praise to the Father Infinite,
And Holy Spirit eternally. Amen.
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| To you do we cry poor banished children of Eve; to you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. |
Hail, bright Star of the ocean!
Portal of the sky!
Ever Virgin Mother
Of the Lord Most High!
Oh! By Gabriel's Ave,
Utter'd long ago,
Eva's name reversing,
Establish peace below.
Break the captive's fetters;
Light on blindness pour;
All our ills expelling
Every bliss implore.
Show yourself a Mother;
Offer Him our sighs,
Who for us Incarnate
Did not you despise.
Virgin of all virgins!
To your shelter take us:
Gentlest of the gentle!
Chaste and gentle make us.
Still, as on we journey,
Help our weak endeavor,
Till with you and Jesus
We rejoice forever.
Through the highest heaven,
To the Almighty Three,
Father, Son, and Spirit,
One same glory be.
Amen.
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Help our weak endeavor,
Till with you and Jesus
We rejoice forever.
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If the lesson you get from Jesus hanging with sinners is you should hang more with sinners you're confused on who you are in the story.
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| OL of Mt. Carmel |
The Lord, Whom earth, and air, and sea
With one adoring voice resound,
Who rules them all majesty;
In Mary's heart cloister found.
Lo! In a humble Virgin's womb,
Overshadowed by Almighty power;
He Whom the stars, and sun, and moon,
Each serve in their appointed hour.
O Mother blest! To whom was given
Within your compass to contain
The Architect of Earth and Heaven,
Whose hands the universe sustain:
To you was sent an Angel down;
In you the Spirit was enshrined;
From you came forth that Mighty One,
The long-desired of all mankind.
O Jesu! Born of Virgin bright,
Immortal glory be to You ;
Praise to the Father Infinite,
And Holy Spirit eternally. Amen.
"There are some people God calls and sets apart in convents and monasteries. There are others God calls and leaves in society, the ones God does not `withdraw from the world.'
"These are the people who have an ordinary job, an ordinary marriage or an ordinary celibacy. The people who have ordinary sicknesses and ordinary sorrows. The people who live in ordinary houses and wear ordinary clothes. These are the people of ordinary life. The people we meet on any ordinary street. - Madeleine Delbrel
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| Some people online take themselves way too seriously ... |
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I always stand out in Trad parishes in North America because I tend to wear “sharp” outfits, heels, make-up, and I wear my veil in the European “bridal” way – swept back behind my shoulders – or I wear a sharp hat to cover my head. - Ann Barnhardt -Source
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EVERY DIOCESE AND ARCHDIOCESE HAS SODOMITE INFILTRATION.
I am starting to hear more about these sorts of concerns in North America. I have received more than one email from concerned mothers of children in trad parishes who simply do not feel comfortable leaving their sons alone with the “choir director” or “altar server organizer” – always “confirmed bachelors” who, let’s be honest, lay the needle on the old gaydar on the peg and then break the spring. - Yep - Ann Barnhardt
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| I'll stick to the Benedictine solution instead. |
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| What? |
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| O Reverend Father! What a waste of wine! |
We read that monks should not drink wine at all, but since the monks of our day cannot be convinced of this, let us at least agree to drink moderately, and not to the point of excess, for wine makes even wise men go astray (Sir 19:2). - Rule Chapter 40
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Ya! Ze poisoned da vino but we made da beer!
Nottin' in ze rule 'bout dat!
Happy Feast day brudders!
Prosit!
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In memoriam Fr. Peter Carota
7/8/16
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"If comparison to the lives of the saints means anything, then this priest of God finished the course; he kept the faith and he died on a Friday like His Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the only high priest. May He rest in Mary’s arms the next day, a Saturday of Our Lady whom he loved as purely as any man I’ve met." - Fr. Nix
Father Peter Carota, former pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Ripon, passed away Friday, July 8, after a long illness.
The news was posted on Father Carota’s personal blog (http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/) by a fellow priest, Fr. David Nix, as well as on the official website of The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco (https://sanctatrinitasunusdeus.com/).
The announcement on his blog about his passing simply reads: “Fr. Peter Carota Has Passed – Requiescat In Pace.
“Fr. Peter died this morning at 7AM. Please join me in having many masses said for him. Father was an exceptional priest and has helped us all in many ways. Pray that his soul will be at peace in the arms of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.” The announcement was posted by Father Nix. - Fr. Nix
Fr. Peter Carota was a late vocation, having had a successful real estate practice before being ordained in 1997. For the last several years he has been celebrating the Latin Mass (that is, the Extraordinary Form). He was a successful pastor at a parish in the Diocese of Stockton (California). Among other things, he turned around his parish's finances and left the parish with a large bank balance. Then he decided to take a sabbatical. - Keating
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| Fr. Carota |
But Fr. Carota was just that: faithful. So, for the upbuilding of the Church, I must describe more of this man to you. Many of you knew him to be an intractable champion of orthodoxy and tradition, but I want to highlight some lesser-known virtues of this priest of God who brought truth and light during a time of darkness.
First, Fr. Carota wasn’t just a “champion of the right,” or a “mighty whitey” priest of traditionalism. When I first walked into his low Mass on a hot weekday in a poor segment of Phoenix, I could not believe my eyes: I saw from 50 to 100 Mexicans listening to him preach in Spanish. This was a Thursday afternoon, not a Sunday morning! Many priests today talk about social justice, but still want the finest parish. Fr. Carota spent his very last years bringing the fullness of Jesus Christ and His Church to the poor by day, and you readers by night. The Mexicans (with or without papers) responded in droves to his charity and his truth. - Fr. Nix
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| Christ, Eternal High Priest |
“Mike was one of the most hands-on priests I ever worked with,” said former priest Ed Flahavan, who first met Tegeder in the 1980s when he was a seminarian and volunteer bus driver, transporting special-needs people to and from their group home to parish dances. Tegeder embodied Pope Francis’ urging that priests must be “shepherds living with the smell of the sheep,” said Flahavan. “He wanted the priests to get close to people, to be with the people in their pain and suffering. Mike smelled like the sheep in a very special way.” - Star TribuneHe ran the race, he kept the faith. He stayed the course. He persevered to the end as priest. May he find mercy and love in abundance ... in good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, poured into his soul.
"Everyone who acknowledges me before others, I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father." - Matthew 10: 24-33
