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“Consider that thou art always beheld from Heaven by God, and that thine actions are everywhere seen by the eye of the Divine Majesty, and are every hour reported to Him by His angels.” (Chapter 7, Rule of St. Benedict) With the close of the Octave of Pentecost, we now enter the long stretch of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Cliffs of Moher, Lislorkan North, County Clare, Ireland Part 1: Erin’s Green Isle It is amazing how much of the American psyche is bound up with the nations of the British Isles – the traditional “Three Kingdoms” of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with Wales, Cornwall, the Isle [...]

A decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Sister Lucia dos Santos and declaring her Venerable was promulgated on Thursday, June 22 with the approval of Pope Francis. The decree advances Lucia’s cause for eventual canonization. Sister Lucia (†2005) was the oldest of three shepherd children who witnessed the six monthly apparitions of the Blessed Virgin [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Allegory of the Holy Eucharist by Mexican painter Miguel Cabrera (1695–1768) Today is a great feast which was instituted in modern times and enjoyed only a few generations of celebration before it was suppressed with other such feasts (along with the Octave of Corpus Christi) in the reforms of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Coptic iconography. The following is based on a real email exchange.   Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, I am a convert to the Coptic Orthodox Church. I was born and raised a Novus Ordo Catholic, but only nominally so, and, as with the rest of my friends, Catholicism was [...]

An interesting question (or perhaps better, a perennial point of confusion) which routinely surfaces among devotees of Our Lady of Fatima regards the Decade Prayer which Our Lady taught to the children in Her third apparition. Immediately after communicating to them by word and vision the Great Secret on July 13, 1917, She said: “Do [...]

Editor’s Note: This excerpt is taken from Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth about Fatima, Vol. I, pp. 207-211. We invite you to also read a complementary article, “Who Are the Souls Most in Need?” by James Hanisch. What souls does it have to do with? The souls of sinners? Or the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five As our series has shown, especially with the work of Miss Julia Meloni, it is clear to everyone who has eyes to see that “The Weapon of the St. Gallen Mafia is Synodality.” The “Synod on Synodality” is the plan of the Third Pornocracy in the Vatican to [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Four centuries ago, on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, town in south-central France, was born a man who, according to his sister Gilberte, “has always had an admirable clarity of mind for discerning what is false”: Blaise Pascal [† 1662].[1] About this mathematician, inventor, theologian, attentive explorer of [...]

“Let your modesty be known to all men” (Phil 4:5). Editor’s Note: On this topic, The Fatima Center exhorts you to download, read, and distribute the booklet Our Lady of Fatima Stressed Modesty in Dress, published in 2004 by Father Nicholas Gruner. Modesty: A Gift of the Holy Ghost The Catholic Church has always taught [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We continue with our task of opening up something of the riches of the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the tried and true Traditional Roman Rite which stengthen virtually all the Roman Church’s saints whom we now venerate. As always, we look at [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Ten years ago, a priest set out on an 8700 mile foot pilgrimage from central Europe to Jerusalem and back. I just recently re-watched the documentary he made about it, titled “Where God Dwells: A Eucharistic Meditation.” A beautiful film, simple yet completely professional, it’s near silence instills [...]