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A crucial but forgotten part of living a liturgical life as a Catholic is living the vigils of the liturgical year. What Are Vigils? Some feasts have vigils associated with them. The term “vigil” is used in several ways. It most properly refers to an entire day before a major feast day (e.g., the Vigil [...]

“All power in Heaven and on earth is given to Me,” said Our Lord as He sent His Apostles to subdue all nations under the gentle yoke of His Gospel. This supreme, kingly power is His by both a natural right, as the Son of God made Man, and through an acquired right, by conquest, [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s Note: As noted in The Fatima Center’s devotional calendar, October 31, the Vigil of All Saints, is a traditional day of fast and abstinence. Hence, it seems timely to post this article in preparation for that oft ignored day of penance. Given the irrational obsession of our culture today over Halloween – which reflects [...]

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 [...]

During the month of October, our volunteer distributors have been actively distributing The Fatima Center literature to various parish churches. On October 13, the traditional annual procession honoring Our Lady of Fatima took place at the Capitol 8 subdivision region of Pasig City, Metro Manilla. Once again, it was a caravan procession and several of [...]

It should be obvious by now to anyone paying attention that we are experiencing a sort of hell on earth. The people who have been raising hell for decades and even centuries have succeeded in bringing it about. The latest wars in Ukraine and Israel have led us to the brink of nuclear war. It [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s Note: When a Pope or Church Council defines a matter of Faith, it is the truth for all time. As we saw in Part II, the objection is raised: But if a later pope contradicts what was defined by an earlier pope, can you go wrong following the later pope? What the Saints 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. [...]