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This article is from One Peter Five Above: Godspeed by Edmund Blair Leighton (1900). February 14th is widely known as Valentine’s Day. But were you fully aware that the day is named after St. Valentine, making it St. Valentine’s Day? And even if you were aware that it was named after St. Valentine, do you [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Today’s podcast is so important that I wanted to use this post today to invite you to watch it. We will go over a lot of practical resources we have for Lent here at 1P5 as well as our own Lenten initiatives, in line with the international Trad [...]

Today is the 18th anniversary of the death of Sister Lucia,[1] the last remaining of the three children to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917. As reported in Portuguese newspapers at the time, Lucia believed that the 13th of every month belonged to Our Lady of Fatima, and therefore, she prayed that she [...]

We invite you to join us in making a Novena to the Holy Face of Jesus. In revealing this devotion, Our Lord specifically requested a feast day on the Tuesday in Quinquagesima week. This day is historically known as Shrove Tuesday; it is the day before Ash Wednesday. It is widely known as the high [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Today I am publishing a worldwide appeal for prayers for the traditional Mass, which is being coordinated by Una Voce International, with the support of many others, including The Remnant newspaper. The official text follows; I follow this with some commentary of my own. -JS Appeal for prayers [...]

This article is from One Peter Five For this Sexagesima Sunday we have a longish cutting from the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, precisely 2 Cor 11:19-33; 12:1-9.  Hence, it stands astride two chapters.  There wouldn’t have been chapter and verse divisions in Paul’s original, of course.  These only came much later.   [...]

The Novena to the Holy Face 2023 The Novena to the Holy Face is Traditionally prayed each year from the Monday after Sexagesima Sunday and ends on Shrove Tuesday. This year the Novena Starts on the 12th of February and ends on the 20th of February. The Devotion to the Holy Face is a private [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The American Empire vs. “Romish Popery” We’ve seen this before. As we’ve analysed here before (see here and here), the American Deep State has been targeting the Catholic Church for decades. At first the immigrants were targeted by street thugs (there was a riot outside St. Peter’s in [...]

Each year on February 9th in the Traditional Roman Rite is the feast day of St. Cyril of Alexandria along with a commemoration of St. Apollonia. Saint Apollonia was a virgin and of Alexandria who died for Christ during the bloody persecution of the faithful in 249 AD. And her life should be more commonly [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: TLM at a home altar in Oswego in the 1980s. Photo credit: Rorate Caeli.  Editor’s note: for practical strategies, see “What if They Restrict the TLM Even More?”    Controversy regarding the Latin Mass has been a mainstay for my whole life. The Latin Mass, after Vatican [...]

This article is from One Peter Five I publish here three consecutive letters written to a seminarian, which may be of interest to other readers—especially other seminarians—who are wrestling with the challenges of their vocation at this time in the Church. Letter 1 Dear Amator Dei, I understand why you maintain that we should always [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Rockfleet Castle. The likely site of Queen Grace O’Malley’s death.  The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass, pt. III Pt. I: Rise of the Anglican Regime Pt. II: The Glorious Dublin Martyrs The wars of conquest in the Gaelic interior continued unabated, and throughout, there were martyrs [...]