This article is from One Peter Five When we think of the Magnificat sung by Mary Most Holy, we easily imagine how she is almost the prototype of all those who sing the glory of God down the centuries: The Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his name: from generation to [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the Annunciation, 2022. Photo by Diane Montagna. A year ago, Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Needless to say, the event triggered mixed emotions amongst Catholics of all [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Azerbaijani First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva with Pope Francis. In his extraordinary Gifford Lectures of 2012, The Face of God, British philosopher and musician Roger Scruton talks about the “defacement” that occurs in temples and buildings when human proportions, cultural references, and richness of beauty are avoided in [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Bishop Schneider’s homily at Most Precious Blood of Jesus, ICKSP, Pittsburgh. Photo by Allison Girone. Editor’s note: a few days after the German Schismatic Way voted to cry to heaven for vengeance, I came across this passage from Bishop Schneider in his must-read text with Diane Montagna, [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Building for a Future Generation Although the year is still young, it has already seen the release of what will quite possibly prove to be one of the most important books published this year: Joseph Shaw’s The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity (Os Justi Press, [...]
This article is from One Peter Five “To say that Bilbo’s breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful” (The Hobbit, Ch. 12). This is rather [...]
This article is from One Peter Five One hundred and fifty years ago tomorrow, on March 19, 1873, the “modern Bach” was born in the village of Brand, in southern Germany: Max Reger. A complete musician, sensitive to the culture of his time, Reger is an illustrious representative of late romantic German music. He was [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Statue of Saint Patrick at Croagh Patrick, near Westport, County Mayo, Ireland. Photo by Kelly Ferguson. Like St. Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day has unfortunately become a secularized holiday. But rather than remarking on leprechauns and good luck, Catholics have a moral responsibility to reclaim St. [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: today we offer this Novena to the faithful as part of our efforts to spread Fatima devotion under the Russian Icon of the Theotokos of Fatima (“By Thee Unity”). We will be praying this Novena (shared on social) beginning today for the one year anniversary of [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: triptych of the Holy Souls in Purgatory being purified by the fires of divine charity, which comes from Christ Crucified, and comforted by the angels and our prayers. The Dominican church of St Catherine of Siena, New York City. Photo by Fr. Lawrence, OP. The Suicides; Canto [...]
This article is from One Peter Five This is an excellent book. It was so successful at portraying its heartrending themes that it made me feel physically sick. That makes only two novels have ever done that (the other was Rumer Godden’s In this house of Brede). Judith’s Marriage deserves a high ranking among novels [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: the Anointing of Queen Alexandra at the Coronation of Edward VII. On May 6, 2023, King Charles III shall be crowned at Westminster Abbey – as almost every King of England has been since William the Conqueror went through a similar ceremony in 1066. The round of [...]