This article is from One Peter Five I have not written on matters of faith in a long time. “Why?” I’m sure no one has asked. I will inflict an answer upon you regardless. It’s simple. I’ve been undergoing a spiritual transformation. I have received a re-catechization and am now awakened. No longer burdened by [...]
This article is from One Peter Five We would have had a first selection from Philippians last week, the last Sunday of October, but the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost was superseded by the Feast of Christ the King in the Vetus calendar. Sunday’s reading from Philippians 3:17-21 and 4:1-3 is also used in the Vetus [...]
This article is from One Peter Five I wholeheartedly support and bless this necessary and very important lay initiative for eucharistic revival in the Church of our day. -Bishop Athanasius Schneider Crusaders praying +Schneider’s prayer of Eucharistic Reparation at the CIC Conference, 2023 The Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation is a lay sodality run by [...]
This article is from One Peter Five My brother, in this picture of death behold yourself and what you must one day become. “Remember that dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.” Consider that in a few years, and perhaps in a few months or days, you will become rottenness and worms. By [...]
This article is from One Peter Five But, Christian soul, that you may see more clearly what you are, follow the advice of St. Chrysostom: “Go to the grave; contemplate dust, ashes, worms; and sigh.” 2 Behold how that corpse first turns yellow, and then black. Afterwards, the entire body is covered with a white, [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: for the All Souls Triduum and the month of November this year we present three chapters from this classic work by St. Alphonsus. You can find this work for free online, with iPieta, or purchase a copy here. Portrait of a Man who has recently gone [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Soviet Army in Kiev, 1920 Part I: What is the Russian Catholic Church? Introduction Part II: Heralds of a Catholic Russia Part III: Venerable and Blessed Founders of the Russian Catholic Exarchate The revolution struck hard. In 1918, the number of Catholic parishioners in St. Petersburg alone was [...]
This article is from One Peter Five We continue this liturgical year’s task with a look into Colossians 1:12-20, our pericope for Holy Mass at the Epistle for this last Sunday of October. As the last October Sunday, it is the Feast of Christ the King in the Church’s 1962 calendar. In the Novus Ordo [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Dated on the feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued a formally canonical catechism as a part of his participation in the ordinary Magisterium of the Church. The Rome release was today. “This work was not my idea. I was compelled to write it by the [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Robert Lazu Kmita’s novel, published in 2023 by Os Justi Press The strange story of Alexander Wills begins breathtakingly with the oneiric description of a storm shaking the captain’s cabin on board some pre-steam vessel. The entire book is presented as the account that Wills started writing on [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky in 1910. Part I: What is the Russian Catholic Church? Introduction Part II: Heralds of a Catholic Russia Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865-1944) I would insist here that Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was head of the remaining western offspring of the once united and [...]
This article is from One Peter Five In a worldwide witness to the Catholic Faith, more than 1,000 Catholic faithful from 50 countries have taken it upon themselves to answer the recent dubia sent by five Cardinals to Pope Francis on key areas of doctrine currently being undermined at the highest levels of the Church. [...]