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This article is from One Peter Five Mortification. What comes to your mind when you hear this word? Does it invoke positive or negative thoughts? Many Catholics associate the word “Mortification” with notions of penitential acts that one receives from his or her confessor. This is most certainly true, however, there is much more to [...]

Our Blessed Lord asks that the feast of the Holy Face be commemorated on Shrove Tuesday. He asked that a Novena be prayed prior to the feast, which we have been praying. “See how I suffer. Nevertheless, I am understood by so few. What ingratitude on the part of those who say they love me. [...]

  Remember man, that thou art dust and to dust thou shalt return. The Fatima Center prays you have a grace-filled Ash Wednesday and spiritually fruitful Lent.   After reading yesterday’s article, in preparation for Lent, some fellow men and I were discussing why it seems that our forefathers could endure so much more fasting [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters, and readers,   Some of you might be aware that our friend and ally, Mr. Ryan Grant over at Mediatrix Press, has been facing the most devastating thing a man can face: an aggressive cancer threatening his wife’s life. The cancer has been too [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Join our lay sodality of fasting, the Fellowship of St. Nicholas (English or Español).  During Lent, it is easy to focus a great deal on fulfilling your resolutions, but what is the purpose of these resolutions? If we lose sight of their proper end, we risk wasting our [...]

Ideas for Lenten Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving Lent – founded upon the three pillars of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving – is the primary season of penance in the liturgical year and must be observed with the greatest strictness for the love of God, Who instituted this season for our healing. Due to the primordial importance [...]

This article is from One Peter Five As we, the heirs of the great jewel that is our traditional Catholic faith, handed down to us through the martyrdom and struggle of untold numbers of faithful, navigate the vast spiritual wasteland of these United States, we must again realize the absolute necessity of arming ourselves in [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Pre-Lent is nearly at an end with this Quinquagesima, “Fiftieth” Sunday. The Forty Day discipline of Quadragesima will soon begin with Ash Wednesday and more intensely still with the 1st Sunday of Lent.   Today, as with the previous Alleluia-less, purple Sundays, we go in our hearts with myriads [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass, pt. III Pt. I: Rise of the Anglican Regime Pt. II: The Glorious Dublin Martyrs Pt. III: The Pirate Queen and the Irish Fighting Spirit The Rise of Ó Neill With Connacht pacified, the Crown turned to the most daunting task [...]

This article is from One Peter Five La Fraternidad de San Nicolás es una congregación laica promovida por Matthew Plese (A Catholic Life), en colaboración con OnePeterFive y Sensus Fidelium. Se compromete a poner en práctica medios concretos para salvar nuestra alma y ayudar a las almas de nuestros hermanos. Bajo el patrocinio de San [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The following pairs of letters are developed from real correspondence between myself and various discerners. Each exchange is with a different person. Many young Catholic men will be able to relate to their concerns. Exchange #1 Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, I’m a junior in high school and I’ve been [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh recently (Feb. 8, 2023) published an article entitled: “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline.”[1] In it he affirmed what many people already suspected – that the U.S. was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline on September 26, 2022. Hersh claims to have gotten the information from [...]