This article is from One Peter Five Pre-Lent is nearly at an end with this Quinquagesima, “Fiftieth” Sunday. The Forty Day discipline of Quadragesima will soon begin with Ash Wednesday and more intensely still with the 1st Sunday of Lent. Today, as with the previous Alleluia-less, purple Sundays, we go in our hearts with myriads [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass, pt. III Pt. I: Rise of the Anglican Regime Pt. II: The Glorious Dublin Martyrs Pt. III: The Pirate Queen and the Irish Fighting Spirit The Rise of Ó Neill With Connacht pacified, the Crown turned to the most daunting task [...]
This article is from One Peter Five La Fraternidad de San Nicolás es una congregación laica promovida por Matthew Plese (A Catholic Life), en colaboración con OnePeterFive y Sensus Fidelium. Se compromete a poner en práctica medios concretos para salvar nuestra alma y ayudar a las almas de nuestros hermanos. Bajo el patrocinio de San [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The following pairs of letters are developed from real correspondence between myself and various discerners. Each exchange is with a different person. Many young Catholic men will be able to relate to their concerns. Exchange #1 Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, I’m a junior in high school and I’ve been [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Godspeed by Edmund Blair Leighton (1900). February 14th is widely known as Valentine’s Day. But were you fully aware that the day is named after St. Valentine, making it St. Valentine’s Day? And even if you were aware that it was named after St. Valentine, do you [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Today’s podcast is so important that I wanted to use this post today to invite you to watch it. We will go over a lot of practical resources we have for Lent here at 1P5 as well as our own Lenten initiatives, in line with the international Trad [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Today I am publishing a worldwide appeal for prayers for the traditional Mass, which is being coordinated by Una Voce International, with the support of many others, including The Remnant newspaper. The official text follows; I follow this with some commentary of my own. -JS Appeal for prayers [...]
This article is from One Peter Five For this Sexagesima Sunday we have a longish cutting from the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, precisely 2 Cor 11:19-33; 12:1-9. Hence, it stands astride two chapters. There wouldn’t have been chapter and verse divisions in Paul’s original, of course. These only came much later. [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The American Empire vs. “Romish Popery” We’ve seen this before. As we’ve analysed here before (see here and here), the American Deep State has been targeting the Catholic Church for decades. At first the immigrants were targeted by street thugs (there was a riot outside St. Peter’s in [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: TLM at a home altar in Oswego in the 1980s. Photo credit: Rorate Caeli. Editor’s note: for practical strategies, see “What if They Restrict the TLM Even More?” Controversy regarding the Latin Mass has been a mainstay for my whole life. The Latin Mass, after Vatican [...]
This article is from One Peter Five I publish here three consecutive letters written to a seminarian, which may be of interest to other readers—especially other seminarians—who are wrestling with the challenges of their vocation at this time in the Church. Letter 1 Dear Amator Dei, I understand why you maintain that we should always [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Rockfleet Castle. The likely site of Queen Grace O’Malley’s death. The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass, pt. III Pt. I: Rise of the Anglican Regime Pt. II: The Glorious Dublin Martyrs The wars of conquest in the Gaelic interior continued unabated, and throughout, there were martyrs [...]