As we have done for the past several Lenten Seasons, we've practically made the entire focus of the content of our Annual Lenten Edition for 2014 on the spiritual and devotional aspects in providing all you will need to help you make a more devout and effective Lent. Most of these can be found by clicking on the links for each day above. To help put all in the right frame of mind in meditating on the passion of Christ, we share with you to the right this five-minute soliloquy of Soul of Christ - the Anima Christi, produced by Michelle Maher. To the right you'll find the rules for fast and abstinence for all Catholics. As is only right and proper for Lent, the intention is to look inward and for those events and occurrences happening in the world, in politics, and the counterfeit CONciLIAR church, we refer you to our DailyCatholic Twitter Feed where we'll try to keep you up to date each evening or as often as possible with pertinent tweets that might have an effect on Catholics. For those who want to keep abreast of events, their causes and consequences, and inspiration from other ports, we confidently recommend NovusOrdoWatch.org and Christorchaos.com for articles and links. We also can recommend two blogs worth your while, Introibo Ad Altare Dei and Fr. Cekada's Quidlibet. For us here at the DailyCatholic the main emphasis in this edition is to concentrate on matters that will aid your spiritual lives during this penitential season. Thus we provide this one-stop-covers-all edition for Lent, if you will, to afford our readers everything they need to make this the most productive and fruitful Lent ever. We do so for several reasons. First, the majority of our readers do not have access to the true Sacraments for they do not have a Traditional Latin Mass near them nor do they have, sadly, access to a true Roman Catholic priest. Therefore, we provide a web Daily Missal with the Ordinary of the Mass and the Daily Propers of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the full liturgy in both Latin and English for all of Lent plus the feast days for the saints honored over the next six weeks. You'll also find an Excellent Explanation of the Traditional Latin Mass with videos illustrating the magnificence of this august sacrifice. While we cannot provide the Sacraments, we can point you to one of the nearest trusted Traditional Catholic Chapels where we can assure you that you will have access to the true holy Sacrifice of the Mass. On that point, the Traditional Latin Mass, which Father Frederick Faber called, "the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven", it is the most perfect prayer, especially during Lent for, in the Church's divinely-inspired wisdom, Christ's Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension is represented throughout the Mass. To enhance your Lent, each day we offer a part of the Holy Mass from the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar on Ash Wednesday through the Final Blessing and Last Gospel during Holy Week that correspond so perfectly with an action by the Priest, the alter Christus, to what it represents in Our Lord's Passion. It is truly beautiful, meaningful and inspiring and should bring a greater love and understanding of why it is the Mass for All Ages and must be said "in perpetuity" as His Holiness Pope St. Pius V decreed infallibly in Quo Primum and set the stipulations for the form and matter in De defectibus. The magnificent painting to the right illustrates how great one Holy Mass is where all of Heaven is present for the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ to His Heavenly Father by the alter Christus at the altar facing God, not the people. Those present at this august sacrifice assist the Priest, who alone is consecrated to touch the sacred Host and Blood, and where only in the Traditional Latin Mass is the sacrament confected at the Transubstantiation. If you doubt that, we strongly recommend you read Father James F. Wathen's irrefutable work "The Great Sacrilege" which we featured on these pages during this past Time of Septuagesima. It should leave no doubt in your mind that if you still attend the Novus Ordo, you must flee from it as fast as you can for the salvation of your own soul. Of course, to be in the state of sanctifying grace, one must take advantage of the Sacrament of Penance and to prepare for a good confession, we provide for you a thorough Examination of Conscience in order to worthily be sorry for whatever sins you may have on your soul in confessing to a true Priest. We remind you that only a priest ordained in the pre-Vatican II Sacrament of Holy Orders has been given the power to absolve your sins. Those ordained in the new man-made rite of Paul 6 neither have the power to forgive sins in the new-fangled 'sacrament' of reconciliation, nor to confect the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist at Mass. This is vital to realize for the welfare of your eternal salvation. Yes, the True Church is in eclipse and returned, so to speak, to the catacombs where only a remnant Church remains, but it is the recognized Church from St. Peter through Pope Pius XII and the only one which Jesus promised "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it". For greater discernment, we encourage you to go to Our Lady by praying the daily Rosary as often as your state in life permits. We provide all you need to assist you in praying the Holy Rosary in English, Latin and Spanish with meditations for all fifteen Mysteries provided by John Gregory, specifically the Sorrowful Mysteries during Lent. A staple during Lent is Stations of the Cross according to the method of that indomitable holy Doctor of the Church St. Alphonsus Liguori. For each day we provide our readers with a reflection by the renowned Benedictine Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger with excerpts from his masterful 15-volume "The Liturgical Year". In addition, we provide a sermon, courtesy of TraditionalCatholic Sermons.org, for each day, most by Father Benedict Hughes, CMRI with a few by Bishop Daniel Dolan, including a Day of Recollection by His Excellency as well as a series of Fifteen Reflections on Christ's Passion by Bishop Donald Sanborn for Holy Week. Nearly a month before Holy Week we celebrate the feast of St. Joseph and encourage the 30-Day Novena leading to his feast on March 19. We also provide readers inspiration with links to sources that can only enhance your spiritual reading during Lent beginning with the Douay-Rheims Bible, St. Bridget of Sweden's Book One, Book Two, Book Three and 102 chapters of Book Four all from her Revelations and Prophecies she received which should be a wake-up call for everyone of us in striving to become better Catholics. For each Sunday in Lent we also provide the Haydock Commentaries for the Epistle and Gospel sent to us by John Gregory who also offers thorough meditation on each of the Five Sorrowful Mysteries that should exemplify your appreciation in saying the holy Rosary. In addition, we will link the inspirational articles of Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey at Christ or chaos for feasts that fall during Lent including his benchmark work From Eden to the Empty Tomb during Holy Week as well as the editor's equation on how and why the Mystical Body of Christ, His holy Church, is unrecognizable just as He was during His Passion and Death in a series from last year encompassing The Passion of the Sorrowful Mysteries for the Church. If you cannot attend the valid and perpetual Holy Sacrifice of the Mass which we list at Traditional Latin Masses on our Devotion port, then we pray and hope all of the above will enable you to make this Lent the best you can. You will also be inspired by the lives of the four holy Doctors of the Church featured during Lent as well as specials on St. Patrick in his own words on the Conversion of Souls and on how St. Joseph is The Silent Assassin May I reiterate her plea by imploring again for your your charity and mercy to remember SANCTUS/DailyCatholic in your God-given duty of Almsgiving during Lent. As we have repeated so many times, this publication, which has been on-line since 1996, ceases to exist without you. We thank all for your prayers for Cyndi. I wish we had better news, especially knowing we're still in arrears in paying our bills, though we made it through last month, but now must face the reality of March and April ahead with another $1,500.00 in payments facing us each month. I remind all that without monthly pledges, we cannot budget. Maybe the U.S. Government can get away without a budget, but we can't. We ask if you can find it in your heart to help Cyndi's Angels especially during this Lent when Cyndi is battling just to stay alive. As you can imagine this becomes all the more vital for Cyndi's blood oxygen dropped to the mid to low seventies last week after she had fallen five times. That is not good, but evident that the end-stage COPD is taking its toll on her, yet she continues to soldier on, exemplifying St. Paul's words from last Sunday's epistle, "My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me". May you have a blessed and grace-filled Lent. Ecce lignum crucis. In quo Salus mundi pependit.
Thus we provide this one-stop-covers-all edition for Lent, if you will, to afford our readers everything they need to make this the most productive and fruitful Lent ever. We do so for several reasons. First, the majority of our readers do not have access to the true Sacraments for they do not have a Traditional Latin Mass near them nor do they have, sadly, access to a true Roman Catholic priest. Therefore, we provide a web Daily Missal with the Ordinary of the Mass and the Daily Propers of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the full liturgy in both Latin and English for all of Lent plus the feast days for the saints honored over the next six weeks. You'll also find an Excellent Explanation of the Traditional Latin Mass with videos illustrating the magnificence of this august sacrifice. While we cannot provide the Sacraments, we can point you to one of the nearest trusted Traditional Catholic Chapels where we can assure you that you will have access to the true holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
On that point, the Traditional Latin Mass, which Father Frederick Faber called, "the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven", it is the most perfect prayer, especially during Lent for, in the Church's divinely-inspired wisdom, Christ's Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension is represented throughout the Mass. To enhance your Lent, each day we offer a part of the Holy Mass from the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar on Ash Wednesday through the Final Blessing and Last Gospel during Holy Week that correspond so perfectly with an action by the Priest, the alter Christus, to what it represents in Our Lord's Passion. It is truly beautiful, meaningful and inspiring and should bring a greater love and understanding of why it is the Mass for All Ages and must be said "in perpetuity" as His Holiness Pope St. Pius V decreed infallibly in Quo Primum and set the stipulations for the form and matter in De defectibus. The magnificent painting to the right illustrates how great one Holy Mass is where all of Heaven is present for the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ to His Heavenly Father by the alter Christus at the altar facing God, not the people. Those present at this august sacrifice assist the Priest, who alone is consecrated to touch the sacred Host and Blood, and where only in the Traditional Latin Mass is the sacrament confected at the Transubstantiation. If you doubt that, we strongly recommend you read Father James F. Wathen's irrefutable work "The Great Sacrilege" which we featured on these pages during this past Time of Septuagesima. It should leave no doubt in your mind that if you still attend the Novus Ordo, you must flee from it as fast as you can for the salvation of your own soul.
Of course, to be in the state of sanctifying grace, one must take advantage of the Sacrament of Penance and to prepare for a good confession, we provide for you a thorough Examination of Conscience in order to worthily be sorry for whatever sins you may have on your soul in confessing to a true Priest. We remind you that only a priest ordained in the pre-Vatican II Sacrament of Holy Orders has been given the power to absolve your sins. Those ordained in the new man-made rite of Paul 6 neither have the power to forgive sins in the new-fangled 'sacrament' of reconciliation, nor to confect the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist at Mass. This is vital to realize for the welfare of your eternal salvation. Yes, the True Church is in eclipse and returned, so to speak, to the catacombs where only a remnant Church remains, but it is the recognized Church from St. Peter through Pope Pius XII and the only one which Jesus promised "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it". For greater discernment, we encourage you to go to Our Lady by praying the daily Rosary as often as your state in life permits. We provide all you need to assist you in praying the Holy Rosary in English, Latin and Spanish with meditations for all fifteen Mysteries provided by John Gregory, specifically the Sorrowful Mysteries during Lent. A staple during Lent is Stations of the Cross according to the method of that indomitable holy Doctor of the Church St. Alphonsus Liguori. For each day we provide our readers with a reflection by the renowned Benedictine Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger with excerpts from his masterful 15-volume "The Liturgical Year". In addition, we provide a sermon, courtesy of TraditionalCatholic Sermons.org, for each day, most by Father Benedict Hughes, CMRI with a few by Bishop Daniel Dolan, including a Day of Recollection by His Excellency as well as a series of Fifteen Reflections on Christ's Passion by Bishop Donald Sanborn for Holy Week.
Nearly a month before Holy Week we celebrate the feast of St. Joseph and encourage the 30-Day Novena leading to his feast on March 19. We also provide readers inspiration with links to sources that can only enhance your spiritual reading during Lent beginning with the Douay-Rheims Bible, St. Bridget of Sweden's Book One, Book Two, Book Three and 102 chapters of Book Four all from her Revelations and Prophecies she received which should be a wake-up call for everyone of us in striving to become better Catholics. For each Sunday in Lent we also provide the Haydock Commentaries for the Epistle and Gospel sent to us by John Gregory who also offers thorough meditation on each of the Five Sorrowful Mysteries that should exemplify your appreciation in saying the holy Rosary. In addition, we will link the inspirational articles of Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey at Christ or chaos for feasts that fall during Lent including his benchmark work From Eden to the Empty Tomb during Holy Week as well as the editor's equation on how and why the Mystical Body of Christ, His holy Church, is unrecognizable just as He was during His Passion and Death in a series from last year encompassing The Passion of the Sorrowful Mysteries for the Church.
If you cannot attend the valid and perpetual Holy Sacrifice of the Mass which we list at Traditional Latin Masses on our Devotion port, then we pray and hope all of the above will enable you to make this Lent the best you can. You will also be inspired by the lives of the four holy Doctors of the Church featured during Lent as well as specials on St. Patrick in his own words on the Conversion of Souls and on how St. Joseph is The Silent Assassin
May I reiterate her plea by imploring again for your your charity and mercy to remember SANCTUS/DailyCatholic in your God-given duty of Almsgiving during Lent. As we have repeated so many times, this publication, which has been on-line since 1996, ceases to exist without you. We thank all for your prayers for Cyndi. I wish we had better news, especially knowing we're still in arrears in paying our bills, though we made it through last month, but now must face the reality of March and April ahead with another $1,500.00 in payments facing us each month. I remind all that without monthly pledges, we cannot budget. Maybe the U.S. Government can get away without a budget, but we can't. We ask if you can find it in your heart to help Cyndi's Angels especially during this Lent when Cyndi is battling just to stay alive. As you can imagine this becomes all the more vital for Cyndi's blood oxygen dropped to the mid to low seventies last week after she had fallen five times. That is not good, but evident that the end-stage COPD is taking its toll on her, yet she continues to soldier on, exemplifying St. Paul's words from last Sunday's epistle, "My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me". May you have a blessed and grace-filled Lent. Ecce lignum crucis. In quo Salus mundi pependit.
Click on the images below to go to each Sorrowful Mystery according to the Method of St. Louis Marie de Montfort with meditation/reflection by John Gregory
Click on each of the five commentaries below as editor Michael Cain equates the Passion of Christ with the crisis in the Church
We present Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey's classic series for Holy Week that will be continued during the Triduum and finish up on Easter. Just click the graphics below for each feature.
Meditate on: The priest going to the foot of the altar represents Christ going to Mount Olivet and commencing the Holy Mass represents Christ beginning to pray in the Garden.
Meditate on: The priest saying the Confiteor represents Christ falling down and sweating blood at Mt. Olivet.
Meditate on: After praying Aufer a nobis... the priest kissing the altar represents Christ being betrayed by Judas with a kiss..
Meditate on: The priest going to the Epistle side represents Christ being captured, bound and taken to Annas.
Meditate on: The priest reading the Introit represents Christ being falsely accused by Annas and blasphemed.
Meditate on: The priest saying the Dominus vobiscum before the Collect represents Christ looking at Peter and converting him.
Meditate on: The priest reading the Epistle represents Christ being brought to Pilate.
Meditate on: The Munda cor meum represents Christ being taken to Herod and mocked.
Meditate on: The priest reading the Gospel represents Christ being taken to Pilate and again mocked.
Meditate on: The priest uncovering the chalice at the Offertory represents Christ being shamefully exposed.
Meditate on: The priest offering bread and wine represents Christ being cruelly scourged.
Meditate on: The priest covering the chalice represents Christ being crowned with thorns.
Meditate on: The priest washing his hands represents Christ being declared innocent by Pilate.
Meditate on: The Priest kissing the Altar and turning towards the Faithful, says audibly the first two words of the Orate Fratres. This represents Christ being shown by Pilate to the people with the words "Ecce Homo".
Meditate on: The Priest praying in a low voice at the Secret represents Christ being mocked and spit upon.
Meditate on: The priest saying the Preface and the Sanctus represents Christ being preferred instead of Barrabas and condemned to crucifixion.
Meditate on: The Priest making the Memento for the living represents Christ carrying the cross to Mount Calvary.
Meditate on: The Priest continuing to pray in a low voice at the Communicantes represents Christ meeting His Mother.
Meditate on: The Priest praying the Hanc igitur oblationem represents Christ being nailed to the cross.
Meditate on: The Priest elevating the host at the Consecration represents Christ being raised on the cross.
Meditate on: The Priest elevating the chalice at the Consecration represents Christ shedding blood from the five wounds.
Meditate on: The Priest praying in a low voice represents Christ seeing His afflicted Mother at the foot of the cross.
Congratulations and great blessings on Father Anthony Marie Short, CMRI and Father Nino Molina who are being ordained true priests of God in Holy Orders today by Bishop Mark Pivarunas, CMRI at Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha. Pray that God will send more holy, true priests to nourish the faithful with the true sacraments.
Meditate on: The Priest praying aloud the three words Nobis quoque peccatoribus represents Christ praying on the cross for men.
Meditate on: The Priest saying aloud Pater Noster represents Christ saying the seven words on the cross.
Meditate on First of Seven Words from the Cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Meditate on Second of Seven Words from the Cross: "Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with Me in paradise."
Meditate on Third of Seven Words from the Cross: "Woman, behold thy son...son, behold thy mother."
Meditate on Fourth of Seven Words from the Cross: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
Meditate on Fifth of Seven Words from the Cross: "I thirst."
Meditate on Sixth of Seven Words from the Cross: "It is consummated."
Meditate on Seventh of Seven Words from the Cross: "Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit."
St. Isidore, Bishop and Doctor of the Church "In medio Ecclesiae"
Meditate on: Following the Pater Noster, the Priest breaking and separating the Host at the Libera nos represents Christ giving up His spirit.
Meditate on: The Priest letting a portion of the Host fall into the chalice represents Christ's soul going to Limbo.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the Agnus Dei represents the blood and water pouring forth from Christ's side after the Lamb was pierced by a Roman lance.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the Domine, non sum dignus represents Christ being acknowledged on the cross as the Son of God by many bystanders.
Meditate on: The Priest administering Holy Communion represents Christ being laid in the sepulchre with the white linen over the communion railing representing the pure shroud.
Meditate on: The Priest cleansing the chalice during the Ablutions represents Christ being anointed by pure women.
Meditate on: The Priest preparing the chalice again represents CHRIST RISING FROM THE DEAD Alleluia, alleluia.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the Dominus vobiscum represents Christ appearing to His mother and His disciples.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the last prayers in the Postcommunion represents Christ teaching for forty days.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the Dominus vobiscum just before the Ite Missa est represents Christ taking leave of His disciples with His final words in Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to "Feed My sheep" and ASCENDING INTO HEAVEN.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the Ite Missa est blessing represents Christ sending down the Holy Ghost on Pentecost Sunday.
Meditate on: The Priest saying the Last Gospel, which is really the First words of the beloved Disciple Saint John, represents sending the Apostles into all parts of the world to preach the Gospel and preserving His Holy Church for all time.
Meditate on: The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the most perfect prayer we can ever pray. It is perfect in every way. Any deviation from the Apostolic Canonical Traditional Latin Mass is an admission that one prefers the non-Catholic "abomination of desolation" = the Novus Ordo foisted on the faithful via Vatican II = thus, the devil's preference, over the divinely-ordained continual sacrifice from St. Peter through Pope Pius XII - the True Mass celebrated by True Priests where countless Angels are present adoring and worshipping God in the perfect prayer that is a vital necessity for one's nourishment and salvation.
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To fortify why the CONciLIAR church is the false church, see key Papal Decrees that preceded it in pre-Vatican Two times by true Popes who solidly condemned the V2 false 'popes' who have spit in Heaven's Face. God will not be mocked. See for yourself what the infallible, perennial Magisterium of the Church has decreed:
Papal Coronation Oath Pope Agatho Unam Sanctam Pope Boniface VIII Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio Pope Paul IV Quo Primum Pope St. Pius V De Defectibus Pope St. Pius V Satis Cognitum Pope Leo XIII Apostolicae Curae Pope Leo XIII Lamentabili Sane Pope St. Pius X Pascendi Dominici Gregis Pope St. Pius X Oath Against Modernism Pope St. Pius X Mortalium Animos Pope Pius XI Humani Generis Pope Pius XII Sacramentum Ordinis Pope Pius XII If the above Papal Decrees have not convinced you, then for more evidence that the Chair is VACANT and that Vatican Two and all that has followed is Anathema sit as St. Paul asserts in Galatians 1: 8-9, see these on-line books and sources: Answering Objections of the Sedevacantist Position John 23 - Anathema sit Fr. Louis Villa NikitaRoncalli Franco Bellegrandi The Robber Church Patrick Henry Omlor Is the Pope Catholic? Hutton Gibson Paul VI...Beatified? Fr. Louis Villa The Enemy is Here - Vol. I Hutton Gibson The Enemy is Still Here - Vol. II Hutton Gibson The Enemy is Still Here - Vol. III John Paul 2 - Anathema sit Fr. Luis Villa Syllogism of Sedevacantism Michael Cain The Chair is Still Empty Gregorius Why Sedevacantism? Fr. Anthony Cekada and a plethora of other evidence provided by NovusOrdoWatch.org What You Need To Know About Jorge Mario Bergoglio Novus Ordo Watch Conspiracy! Meet Six High-Profile Traditional Catholic Conspiracy Nuts Novus Ordo Watch Continuously Denying The Catholic Faith Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey Trying to Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey Compare and Contrast Plethora of links by Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey Freemasons and the Conciliar church by John Kenneth Weiskittel Papacy and Freemasonry Msgr. Jouin by Mario Derksen Secrets of LaSalette Bishop Mark Pivarunas,CMRI on a true vocation Bishop Donald Sanborn on The Pendulating Papacy Fr. Julian Larrabee on Missions of Nigeria Fr. Michael Oswalt on why he left the V2 to become a true priest Bishop Donald Sanborn's 2013 London Conference on the SSPX Fr. Anthony Cekada on invalidity of 1968 Episcopal Consecrations Fr. Julian Larrabee with Mass for Immaculate Conception Bishop Daniel Dolan's Sermon for the Immaculate Conception End of Mass Recession as it should be Benediction of the Most Blessed SAcrament Bishop Williamson on Globalism in 2010 Bishop Williamson's 2009 interview - Part I Bishop Williamson's 2009 interview - Part II Bishop Williamson 2013 talk on division in the Church Mass in the Vatican with Pope Pius XII (Italian) Pastor Angelicus Pius XII (Italian) Life of Pius XII (Italian) Last Years of Pius XII (Italian) The SSPX, "Resistance," and Sedevacantism Bishop Donald Sanborn 'Pope' Francis and Sedevacantism Bishop Mark Pivarunas, CMRI The links above and below provide almost daily updates. The two above can be trusted totally, while we urge a mild caution on the two below because of their refusal to admit Francis is a false pope. For other sites that provide the tenets of the Faith but are not daily, we refer you to Click Here We encourage you to learn more about the Traditional Latin Mass - the true Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in these videos at this link because each time you worthily assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in person, you gain graces that are placed in a "golden chalice", so to speak, and is offered to God to be weighed in substance when you stand before Him at your Particular Judgment. The more you have filled this chalice, the better will it go for your spiritual welfare in eternity, enhanced by your cooperation with grace. Know the Mass To assist all in striving toward holiness, click on the Confessional to your right to review your transgressions through a thorough Examination of Conscience When One Cannot physically assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we provide additional prayers that can be supplemented with the ORDINARY OF THE HOLY MASS and the PROPER OF THE DAY to enable you to better prepare yourself at home. Of course, this never replaces actually being there, but it is much better than attending the Novus Ordo services. Therefore we have gleaned from The Key of Heaven prayers to say at home. It is very comforting to know that the Holy Mass is offered for us even when we are not actually present. But to enjoy the benefits which it procures, we must by a SPIRITUAL COMMUNION become partakers of the altar from which we are temporarily banished. Here we provide prayers in preparation for fulfilling assistance in absentia in addition to the ORDINARY OF THE HOLY MASS and PROPER OF THE DAY. PRAYERS IN ABSENTIA Prayer Before the Crucifix Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus, I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight, and with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst fix deep within my heart lively sentiments of Faith, Hope and Charity, with true repentance for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment, whilst with deep affection and grief of soul I ponder within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five most precious Wounds; having before my eyes the words which David in prophesy spoke concerning Thee, O Good Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all My bones." Plenary Indulgence, Condition: ConfessionCommunion One Our Father One Hail MaryOne Glory be... Pope Pius IX, July 31, 1858
Answering Objections of the Sedevacantist Position John 23 - Anathema sit Fr. Louis Villa NikitaRoncalli Franco Bellegrandi The Robber Church Patrick Henry Omlor Is the Pope Catholic? Hutton Gibson Paul VI...Beatified? Fr. Louis Villa The Enemy is Here - Vol. I Hutton Gibson The Enemy is Still Here - Vol. II Hutton Gibson The Enemy is Still Here - Vol. III John Paul 2 - Anathema sit Fr. Luis Villa Syllogism of Sedevacantism Michael Cain The Chair is Still Empty Gregorius Why Sedevacantism? Fr. Anthony Cekada and a plethora of other evidence provided by NovusOrdoWatch.org What You Need To Know About Jorge Mario Bergoglio Novus Ordo Watch Conspiracy! Meet Six High-Profile Traditional Catholic Conspiracy Nuts Novus Ordo Watch Continuously Denying The Catholic Faith Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey Trying to Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey Compare and Contrast Plethora of links by Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey Freemasons and the Conciliar church by John Kenneth Weiskittel Papacy and Freemasonry Msgr. Jouin
The links above and below provide almost daily updates. The two above can be trusted totally, while we urge a mild caution on the two below because of their refusal to admit Francis is a false pope.
For other sites that provide the tenets of the Faith but are not daily, we refer you to
We encourage you to learn more about the Traditional Latin Mass - the true Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in these videos at this link because each time you worthily assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in person, you gain graces that are placed in a "golden chalice", so to speak, and is offered to God to be weighed in substance when you stand before Him at your Particular Judgment. The more you have filled this chalice, the better will it go for your spiritual welfare in eternity, enhanced by your cooperation with grace. Know the Mass To assist all in striving toward holiness, click on the Confessional to your right to review your transgressions through a thorough Examination of Conscience
To assist all in striving toward holiness, click on the Confessional to your right to review your transgressions through a thorough Examination of Conscience
When One Cannot physically assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we provide additional prayers that can be supplemented with the ORDINARY OF THE HOLY MASS and the PROPER OF THE DAY to enable you to better prepare yourself at home. Of course, this never replaces actually being there, but it is much better than attending the Novus Ordo services. Therefore we have gleaned from The Key of Heaven prayers to say at home. It is very comforting to know that the Holy Mass is offered for us even when we are not actually present. But to enjoy the benefits which it procures, we must by a SPIRITUAL COMMUNION become partakers of the altar from which we are temporarily banished. Here we provide prayers in preparation for fulfilling assistance in absentia in addition to the ORDINARY OF THE HOLY MASS and PROPER OF THE DAY. PRAYERS IN ABSENTIA
Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus, I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight, and with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst fix deep within my heart lively sentiments of Faith, Hope and Charity, with true repentance for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment, whilst with deep affection and grief of soul I ponder within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five most precious Wounds; having before my eyes the words which David in prophesy spoke concerning Thee, O Good Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all My bones."
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in tabernacles throughout the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in unison with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners. O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament! O my Jesus, it is for love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the conversion of poor sinners.
O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!
O my Jesus, it is for love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the conversion of poor sinners.
Thanks to Traditional Catholic Sermons, we're able to bring you audio reflections/sermons during Holy Week, all by His Excellency Bishop Donald Sanborn. Since Holy Week is such a solemn time when we must focus on the spiritual and walk with our Lord the Way of Calvary, the meditative talks by Bishop Sanborn provide an excellent opportunity to join more fully with Christ and make Holy Week truly a holy time. We will provide in our Sacred Triduum Edition the links to the three most solemn days, known as the Sacred Triduum with all the Propers pertinent for the day in both Latin and English so, if you do not have a Traditional chapel you can get to that offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and all the rubrics of this week, you have the next best thing in observing this most solemn time and be prepared to truly celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord either at the Gloria at noon or midnight leading into Easter Sunday or the following morning. Triumphant Entry Into Jerusalem (26 Minutes) Monday of Holy Week (28 Minutes) Tuesday of Holy Week (25 Minutes) The Last Supper (50 Minutes) Agony In The Garden (23 Minutes) Betrayal And Trial Of Christ (28 Minutes) Our Lord’s Appearance Before Pilate (25 Minutes) Arrival At The House Of Pontius Pilate (22 Minutes) The Scourging (35 Minutes) Behold the Man (17 Minutes) The Way of the Cross (21 Minutes) The Hill of Calvary (25 Minutes) Our Lord Upon the Cross (22 Minutes) Continuation of Our Lord Upon the Cross (19 Minutes) After the Death of Our Lord (49 Minutes)