A new translation of Le Grandezze di S. Michele Arcangelo (1869) by Don Nicola Ricci.

A parting gift from our prior.

To be prayed from July 9, 2026 to August 7, 2026.

May Our Lady, the Immaculate Queen of heaven, together with St. Joseph, pray for us! Recently, we celebrated the anniversary of the martyrdom of Balthasar Francisco and Companions, who were burnt at the stake by the British on 4 July 1704, about six miles east of Tallahassee. After a battle, the British gave an ultimatum to those who they had captured, renounce the Catholic faith or be burnt at the stake. Two Spaniards, Don Balthasar Francisco and Don Pedro Marmolejo, along w

May Our Lady de la Leche, the Immaculate Queen of Florida, bless us with her loving Child, and together with St. Joseph, St. Augustine, and the Florida Martyrs, pray for us! On this day, 24 June 1704, Fransican missionary, Father Manuel Mendoza, was killed for the faith by British forces at his Mission Church in present day León County, Florida. Father Mendoza’s martyrdom serves to remind us of two valuable lessons in our modern day, both deeply connected to his life and dea

The recent quip by Leo at Castel Gandolfo finally puts to bed a line used to bludgeon the Society in the last few decades, and introduces the actual core argument. The kids call it the quiet part out loud. Which if considered and taken in context not only leaves the Society in the dust of his flippy floppies, but an enormous number of Novus Ordo Catholics who have reservations about the great and not wrong Second Vatican Council. What he said, in answer to a question about th

The episcopal consecrations of June 30, 1988 carried out by Bishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer. c/o Wiki Media Commons The upcoming consecrations are an action that will reverberate for centuries in the Church. It’s a continuation of Archbishop Lefebvre's necessary project in response to the tragic drift of Rome, on behalf of every faithful Catholic who ever was or ever will be. Like the arms of Christ on the cross, reaching east and west, past and future, for all ete

Selections from The Last Crusade: Spain: 1936

Ave Maria! May Our Lady, Queen of the Rosary, bless us with her Divine Child Jesus, and together with St. Joseph, St. Clotilde, St. Fernando and St. Joan of Arc, pray for us! The past few days in the Roman Calendar have followed a certain theme. Starting with May 30, the feast of both King St. Fernando of Castile and St. Joan of Arc, only to be followed by the feast day of the Queenship of Mary. Then came June, the Month dedicated to the Sacred Heart, a royalist banner and sy

We have no home here. Ave Maria, May Our Immaculate Lady, Assumed into heaven, together with St. Joseph, St. Philip Neri and All saints, pray for us! This last Ascension Thursday, I spent the day preparing for my Grandmother’s funeral and burial. Earlier in the year my grandmother was diagnosed with terminal Cancer. She had the grace to receive the traditional last rites, to die wearing the brown scapular, and had a Sung Requiem Mass was said for her. Still I implore you a