Part I – The Roman Calendar in 1954: The Last Year of Wholeness Part II – The Vigil of the Epiphany: the Forgotten Gateway to Christ’s Manifestation Part III – The Chair of St. Peter and the Octave of Christian Unity: Authority, Conversion, and the Eclipse of Continuity Part IV – The Vigils of the Apostles: Apostolic Watchfulness and Penitential Preparation Part V – The 1955…...

The marginalization of Latin in the Catholic world is not a recent phenomenon. Despite the fact that the Sacrosanctum Concilium constitution of the Second Vatican Council stated that “the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites” (art. 36, §1), it was practically eliminated. This occurred primarily by abandoning Latin as the language of study in Catholi...

The 2nd Sunday after Easter in the traditional Roman Rite is called Good Shepherd Sunday. The nickname is well deserved. The Gospel presents Christ’s discourse in John 10, the Epistle from 1 Peter gathers into itself Isaiah’s Suffering Servant, and the Roman Station in ancient times was St. Peter’s on the Vatican Hill, at the grave of the first and foremost pastor ovium. The ...

Above: Pontificio istituto di musica sacra in Rome. Fifty years ago, on April 17, 1976—Holy Saturday—Monsignor Lavinio Virgili died in Rome at the age of 74. As noted in the 1974 award that crowned his career, he was recognized for “his outstanding gifts as a musician and his fruitful versatility as a composer, choirmaster, and liturgist.” Born June 5, 1902, in Carassai (near...

OnePeterFive Podcast Is There Any Tradition More Important than the TLM? Yes. And it’s the “One Thing Necessary” 00:00 / 00:07:53 Dear OnePeterFive…

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