The rubrics of the traditional liturgy are all deliberate and with a purpose; those pertaining to the Holy Eucharist remind the priest he is handling the sacred mysteries, which are a heavenly food unlike any other.
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How the Assumption of Mary parallels the Ascension of Christ
Mary bears our needs and prayers in her Immaculate Heart, and presents them to the Savior of us all. She is borne into heaven to emulate, enter into, and extend as Mediatrix of all graces the intercessory role of Jesus Christ, the one Mediator between God and man.
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Letter to a future religious: God calls us to the fullness of tradition, not the mere minimum
The Church’s liturgical traditions, which she practiced so consistently and guarded so jealously throughout her history, have truth and right behind them, and the long-term renewal of the Church will come especially through an ever-greater embrace of these treasures.
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Saint Dominic’s ‘new evangelization’ succeeded because of radical adherence to Christ
We can live in this world as if we are not immersed in it, we can pass through it as if we are not wedded to it, we can order our ever-shorter days to the everlasting Day of the Lord — and in this way, what we are, what we do, what we suffer, will not rot from selfishness, but will sprout and spread in the fecundity of love.
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Good old Catholic prayer books and the benefit of ‘obscure’ saints in the calendar
In many ways Catholics before the Council were vastly more liturgical than they are now, after heaven and earth were shifted to make liturgy ‘easy to access.’
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Given its foundational falsehoods, does Traditionis Custodes lack juridical standing?
What is at stake is a theological claim about the objective status of the monuments of liturgical tradition—something that does not depend on a papal decision, unless papal authority is now deemed to extend to rewriting the past, something that theologians maintain not even the omnipotent God can do.
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A Catholic in Saudi Arabia has good reason to prefer living there over his native Australia
In the Moslem country, faith is assumed; in a modern Western country, faithlessness is assumed.
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Large Catholic families are promoted by the traditional liturgical calendar
Here are seven blood brothers, which can’t help but subtly form worshipers to think that a family with (at least) seven children is a perfectly normal thing.
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How the traditional Roman rite worthily honors the founding martyrs of the Church of Rome
The beauty of our traditional June 28–30 observances for Sts. Peter and Paul may still be savored by those who dare to recover them.
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Why are we not as devoted to St. John the Baptist as our forefathers were?
The devotional worldview of those brought up on the novel production of Paul VI is not the same as that of our predecessors in the Faith and of those who retain the traditional form of worship.
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