Category: Faith
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The Spiritual Meaning of Making Altar Bread
A nun in formation at the Cistercian monastery of Valley of Our Lady reflects on her hidden life with Christ
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What was the trade of Saint Joseph?
By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP Was St Joseph a carpenter? A carpenter is a worker who builds or repairs wooden objects and structures. According to the Greek Gospels St Joseph was a tekton indeed, as attested by St Matthew 13:55, and St Mark 6:3. The word tekton means a builder in general and a carpenter in particular.…
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Bl. Noël Pinot, a Shepherd for Times of Trial
Frs Franck Labbé and A. de Malleray tell the story of the exemplary pastor who died wearing his priestly vestments. The blessed martyr Fr Noël Pinot (1747-1794) was a recusant priest from Anjou in Western France, guillotined during the Revolution. The last of a weaver’s sixteenth children, he lost his father at the age of…
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Unexpected 19th Century Catholic Revival
Between 1850 and 1900, the Catholic Church revitalized itself through medieval devotion, new technologies, and education, strengthening its influence despite the era’s industrialization and secularism.
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God Tangled: Christ’s Crowning with Thorns
As a Lenten meditation Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP explains how the thorns of the crown prophetically stem from the timber of the cross.
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Ivan Merz and the Liturgy as the Highest Form of Art
Seminarian Stjepan Androić, FSSP describes the life and work of his fellow-Croatian Blessed Ivan Merz (1896–1928) Philologist, teacher, literary critic, youth activist, lover of liturgy – Ivan Merz was all of these things and much more. Although born into a nominal Catholic family in Banja Luka (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina), this young man would eventually…
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Good News: Truth Can Be Known
As dusk was arising on an unusually gloomy spring morning in Palestine, the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate proposed the question, “What is truth?” to the badly beaten and scorned individual Whom he was in the process of interrogating. It is a profound question to ask, one which touches at the very character of life, of…
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England is Our Lady’s Dowry
The Annunciation “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, let it bedone to me according to thy Word” (Luke 1:38). At the Annunciation, Our Blessed Lady said yes to the Angel Gabriel,who asked her to conceive and give birth to God’s son. She freely accepted God’s will in her life. We also are free to say…