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This article is from One Peter Five In 2018, we hadn’t a clue who Sr. Wilhelmina was, but we were told to find her. Little did we know how grateful we would be for that short, grace-filled meeting. October 2018 was memorable for our family in many ways, my mother had just died (a Jew [...]

The Fatima Center wishes you a grace-filled feast of the Visitation. We also congratulate and honor Fr. James Mawdsely today, as he celebrates his seventh ordination anniversary. Please keep him in your prayers. “Whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:43) Carrying the incarnate Son of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Holy Office is no more. His Holiness has laid the final nail in its coffin. And so it passes like the many other great institutions of Christian Romanitas after the Council. After Pope Francis. When the Protestant heretics tore apart Europe and Christendom, the Vatican created the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Crucifixion by Andreas Pavias (1440-1504/1512) July is traditionally devoted to the Most Precious Blood. Not long ago, on the eve of the Second Vatican Council, in a succinct apostolic letter that rewards prayerful study, Pope St. John XXIII exhorted the faithful to fervently cultivate this devotion, which [...]

The Fatima Center wishes you a blessed and grace-filled feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ! “[C]onverse in fear during the time of your sojourning here. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver … But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Traditional Movement has changed quite drastically over the past five decades. What began with small pockets of fearless individuals seeking to preserve the Latin Mass across the world with slow organic growth has dramatically developed into a large movement of pilgrims who seek to share the Truth [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Our journey through the liturgical year in the Vetus Ordo continues this week with out look into the Epistle reading for Holy Mass on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.    For the last weeks we have been giving strong images of Christ as, for example, Good Shepherd.  In a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: Today on the Commemoration of St. Paul we are pleased to promote this incredible new book by Fr Mawdsley. I had the privileged of reading an advanced copy of volume 1 and I was stunned by the immense light from the Holy Scriptures that is brought [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: nave of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as painted by Panini, 1731. The glorious feast of St Peter and Paul is upon us and turns our thoughts to the Eternal City. O Rome, where all roads lead, how much art have you inspired? How much holiness? How [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The prohibition of the traditional Latin Mass is an abuse of ecclesiastical power and noncompliance with its prohibition does not in fact constitute disobedience Bishop Athanasius Schneider   The traditional Roman liturgy of the Mass was the liturgy of our Catholic ancestors. It was the form of the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The following fictional dialogue between hyperpapalist “Rockmeteller” (apologies to P.G. Wodehouse for stealing the name) and papal critic “Traddeus” is based on many real dialogues conducted online. It’s not intended to be systematic but to provoke thought about key issues (pun intended) that will only gain in importance [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We continue our project of delving, albeit briefly, into the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite, the Epistle, this time from the Apostle to the Gentiles’ Letter to the Romans. Reminder: the readings of Mass have their didactic purpose for [...]