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passion of Christ

The Mystical Passion of the Church: Dreadful Reality vs. Delusive Counterfeit

"Just as the Son of God was persecuted and had to endure the greatest sufferings, so it must be for the Church". But during this time of crisis, it's important to distinguish: Read in full here at Novus Ordo Watch

the liturgical year

Dom Gueranger: Easter Monday

Ghent altarpiece "And first of all, what is the Pasch? The Scriptures tell us that it is the immolation of the lamb. To understand the Pasch, we must first understand the mystery of the lamb. From the earliest ages of the Christian Church, we find the lamb represented, in the mosaics and frescoes of the basilicas, as the symbol of Christ’s sacrifice and triumph.…

resurrection

The Risen Christ Meets His Mother

Art: Daniele Monteleone Excerpt from Father Coleridge Reader : "No human imagination can soar to the joy with which she was inundated at the moment when He came fresh from the grave to make Himself visibly and sensibly present to her in her quiet chamber, where she had watched through the night in contemplation of what had passed and was passing with Him. It req…

timeline

A Timeline of the Passion of Christ

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Vatican II

Do Satanists have the right to religious freedom, according to Vatican II?

"Those who defend Vatican II, and condemn those who object to it, need to own the implications." “orthodox” phrases from Vatican II do not help its defenders, as we are not weighing its statements in scales, or engaging in a game of hermeneutics. Pope St Pius X, and other popes, explicitly warned Catholics about those who speak in an orthodox way in one p…

Amen

I am a sedevacantist because I wholeheartedly trust in the promises Our Lord Jesus Christ made concerning His Immaculate Bride, the Holy Catholic Church. via Robert Benson https://novusordowatch.org/start-here/ https://www.traditionalmass.org/issues/ https://romeward.com/articles/239750343/the-impossible-crisis

sedevacantism

Feast of Chair of St. Peter, a chair currently vacant

From James Larrabee, cited here : "Some argue that we cannot know if the “Pope” is a formal or merely a material heretic, because only God can judge the interior, and heresy is a matter of interior rejection of Catholic doctrine, not merely exterior. It’s amazing to me that any Catholic could make this argument, but many do, among many supposedly traditional pri…