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This article is from One Peter Five One of the lies of Liberalism and Marxism is a prideful faith in man’s power of central planning. The idea that if we just create a system, a huge bureaucracy, we can pull all the strings to make that planned utopia come about. His Holiness, “the Dictator Pope” [...]

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 [...]

J.M.J. Taken from Special Report Winter 2023 (LF462) It was shortly after the onset of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union – Russia being its largest nation state, and the instrument of chastisement chosen by God to punish mankind for its crimes – that Father Harold V. Colgan, pastor of [...]

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had a first selection from Philippians last week, the last Sunday of October, but the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost was superseded by the Feast of Christ the King in the Vetus calendar.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 [...]

J.M.J. Taken from Special Report Winter 2023 (LF462) On May 13, 1967, the 50th anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition at Fatima, 25 Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima statues were blessed by Pope Paul VI. Each of the statues, hand carved from wood, was assigned to a different country for the purpose of being used as [...]

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 [...]

The holy souls in Purgatory are especially dear to God since their love for Him is rapidly being brought to its perfection, being purified day and night, hour by hour. Their prayers for our needs are thus very powerful, though these Poor Souls are helpless in regard to their own sufferings. The Church’s Liturgy of [...]

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, [...]

“I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and in sight of the Lamb.” The Church places some saints before us for our consideration and devotion on every day of the year, that we may give them particular honor and [...]

J.M.J. November is the month dedicated to remembering the Poor Souls in Purgatory. A whole month specifically set aside for this one purpose should tell us just how important it is for the members of the Church Militant to help the members of the Church Suffering. The souls in Purgatory are very dear to our [...]

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 [...]