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The Novena to the Holy Face 2024 The Novena to the Holy Face is Traditionally prayed each year from Sexagesima Sunday and ends on Shrove Monday with the Consecration on Shrove Tuesday. This year the Novena Starts on the 4th of February and ends on the 13th of February. The Devotion to the Holy [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: henceforth in the year 2024 of the reign of Christ the King ahead of First Saturdays we will publish this reminder to join this important effort. Let us not underestimate the power of Our Lady’s intercession. Imploring a Divine Intervention for the Crisis of the Church [...]

What Is Spiritual Direction?  “The substance of every seriously devout life is the faithful accomplishment of God’s known will. This will is manifested in a) the Commandments, b) the Evangelical counsels, c) for us, in our Rule and the orders of Superiors. All the rest is accidental, and of more or less importance according as [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation is a lay sodality run by OnePeterFive in partnership with Benedictus and LatinMass.com (Mass of the Ages). This crusade was called by His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider in June of 2020 in response to the profanations of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament [...]

This article is from One Peter Five “Catholic Traditionalism” is a reaction to the crisis of the Catholic Church. How can anyone fail to understand this reaction, when almost every day we are subjected to evidence that tells us about the serious situation in which the Catholic Church finds herself? Yet for traditionalists, it is [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of Matthew Plese’s work just released: The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence. This book forms the basis for our lay sodality, The Fellowship of St. Nicholas, founded by Pese with OnePeterFive and Sensus Fidelium. Read about and join the sodality [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Our coming Sunday is already Septuagesima.  Let’s do the technical stuff first. Septuagesima slides around from year to year because Easter slides around because the Moon is a bit of a calendrical coquette, or as Juliet calls her, “inconstant”.  Easter is early this year, 31 March.  We celebrate [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Perhaps painting is more natural to man than writing; certainly the oldest cave paintings extant are tens of thousands of years older than the earliest examples of writing. Some of these ancient paintings are incredibly graceful; for example, the horses and bulls of the Lascaux caves in France, [...]

The Dearth in Vocations Warned by Sr. Lucia   In her final public interview[1] on Dec. 26, 1957, with Fr. Agustin Fuentes, Sister Lucia stated:   “That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who [...]

On July 13, 1917, after showing the three shepherd children a vision of hell, Our Lady then confided to them the second part of the Secret of Fatima:  “If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: the restoration of Rome and the Papal Legations by Cardinal Consalvi to Pope Pius VII after the defeat of Napoleon. Engraving by A. Banzo after F. Manno It is said that once, to Napoleon Bonaparte († 1821), who threatened to destroy the Papacy and the Church, a [...]

Let Us Pray and Do Penance for this Day that Lives in Infamy “We saw an angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire. Pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a [...]