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This article is from One Peter Five This Sunday, the 8th after Pentecost, brings us an Epistle or first reading in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Latin Mass, from the Apostle to the Gentiles’ Letter to the Romans 8: 12-17. We have already seen some context for Romans in previous offerings.  We have already had [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: statuary of St. James the Moor Slayer. Editor’s note: this weekend begins the important Covadanga pilgrimage which will be promoted by OnePeterFive providing the means for the faithful outside Spain to spiritually participate as our contributing editor will be on the pilgrimage. Follow our Twitter account to [...]

This article is from One Peter Five There is a shift among faithful Catholics – it is the desire to renew their faith through prayers, penance, and fasting. The desire to grow closer to God is beyond anything the superficial world can offer the soul. Yet, the spiritual world combined with the natural world can [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament by Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642). For most of Christian history, the Church’s sacred rites were seen as a vast and multi-layered sacred drama, representing not only Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, but also the whole sweep of salvation history from creation [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Today marks the seventh centenary since that faithful steward of truth, who was Thomas Aquinas († 1274) – who since 1317 was called “Common Doctor of the Church,” “Angelic Doctor,” “Universal Doctor,” and “Doctor of the Eucharist” – was enrolled among the saints. It took place on July [...]

What Is Marriage? Marriage is a solemn contract, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, and it is by its nature ordered toward the procreation and education[1] of children. While marriage was established in the Garden of Eden by God, it was raised from a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River between Cohoes and Waterford, New York. Downriver from Ossernenon, the place of martyrdom of Ss. René Goupil, Isaac Jogues, and Jean de Lalande. Public domain.  “Laetatus sum eo quod dixerint mihi in domum Domini ibimus – I rejoiced at the things [...]

“Whosoever dies clothed in this [Scapular] shall never suffer eternal fire. It shall be a sign of salvation, a protection in danger, a pledge of peace and of My special protection until the end of the ages.” – Our Lady of Mount Carmel to St. Simon Stock, 1251 On July 16, 1251, Our Lady of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Our task this week is to dive into the first reading for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the Epistle, this week from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. I am always blathering on about context and my context right now is that I am on a driving trip [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Couturières bretonnes ou Atelier de couture by Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer (1824–1909). Last summer I returned from a silent retreat to find that Calx Mariae Publishing had just put out a small but remarkable book called Christian Fashion in the Teaching of the Church. With its comprehensive introduction and salient [...]

This article is from One Peter Five A few months ago the St. Paul Center launched Emmaus Academy, an interactive Catholic education resource produced by Scott Hahn and other top scholars. Our own contributing editor, theologian Dr. Mike Sirilla, taught his first course here on the Magisterium. In it he unpacks the principles contained in [...]

From time to time it is good to remind readers of the Secret of Fatima. Thus, we take the opportunity to provide the known text on this 106th anniversary of the third apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and the revelation of the Great Secret to the three shepherd children, The Great Secret of Fatima[1] [...]