Issue: September 2024
Letter from the District Superior
In common language, we speak of different aspects of a person’s life: his physical life, social life, intellectual life and so on. Each of them is considered to be extremely precious, as each of them enhances the whole of one’s life in general. At the same time, we recognize that they are all destined to end when we leave this world. Thus, as important as they are in their own right, their inherent limitations render our natural life inadequate and incomplete.
Nothing More than Feelings? The Passions and the Spiritual Life
By Fr. Ian Andrew Palko, SSPX In the modern world of politics the phrase, “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” has become a frequent response to an...
Man Fully Alive: Mental Health and the Spiritual Life
By Liam Beecher There has likely never been a time when “mental health” was discussed so frequently as it is now. Prestigious news sources, professional health organizations,...
The Stain of Sin
By Thomas L. C. St. Thomas Aquinas tells us that sin has three principal effects on the sinner: by sin the soul is stained, the goods of human nature are corrupted or destroyed, and a...
Psychology and the Fathers
Psychology and mental health are much talked about today. Even as the definition of psychological normality becomes increasingly nebulous, there is a genuine desire to encourage those with mental illness to get the help they need without shame. As salutary as this is, the Catholic is confronted with the question, to what extent is modern psychology compatible with Catholicism?
How the Liturgical Calendar Guides Our Prayer and Shapes Our Lives
By Sarah Damm Humanity abides by seasons. Throughout life, we enter one season after another—from infancy to childhood, adolescence to adulthood, and middle age to old age. We also...
Secular Stories, Spiritual Significance
By Patrick Murtha Whether a story is fiction or non-fiction, whether it is written in a book, acted on a stage or on a screen, or read to be heard, the story always has a moral or immoral...
Loneliness and Isolation: A Catholic Consolation for a Societal Malady
By Randall C. Flanery, Ph.D Loneliness and social isolation has become an urgent public health concern. The Surgeon General of the United States Vibek H. Murthy, in 2023, issued an...
Seven Customs for the Seven Sorrows
By Sharon Kabel In honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in September, here are seven traditions that are associated with the Mater Dolorosa . 1) Seven Herb Soup: Some European...
Getting Through Heaven’s Low Gate
By Angeline Tan As Christians, we are called to imitate Our Lord Jesus Christ and participate in the Divine Life “given us by the Holy Ghost who dwells in us, because of the merits...
Van Zeller Makes a Comeback
By Julian Kwasniewski Despite having been born in Egypt and falling in love with America in midlife, Hubert van Zeller is still a very English author. His life spanned both world wars,...
The Three Stages of the Spiritual Life Explained
by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Translated by Michael J. Miller Translator’s note: In his book on correct belief entitled Orthodoxy , G. K. Chesterton wrote that “original...
Sermon on the Feast of All Saints
By Honorius Augustodunensis (d. ca. 1140) trans. Zachary Thomas T he heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints (Ps. 88:3). The heavens display...
The Traditional Marian Feast Days of Autumn
By Matthew Hazell Many Catholics often associate particular times and seasons of the liturgical year with Our Lady. Advent is one such season, in which the solemnity of the Immaculate...
Cosmology and Psychology: “Narcissistic Wounds”
By Fr. Frédéric Weil, SSPX The case would seem to be closed: the general consensus is that the anthropocentrism of ancient times was the primary reason for which Canon...
My Path to Tradition
parents were born and raised in Czechoslovakia during the rule of communism, thus experiencing an arduous life, yet still having a happy mentality. Before communism fell in November 1989, they experienced a life without imported fruit, no habitual cup of coffee, and noting the communists’ secret attendance in churches. After communism ended, the government divided the country in 1992 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Deciding among a couple of countries to immigrate too, my parents settled on Canada, where all three of us were born and raised.
Questions and Answers
By Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX If I’m too far from a TLM to be able to make it every Sunday, what can I and my family do to sanctify the day? In this crisis of the Church, which has now...
The Last Word
Fr. Yves le Roux District Superior of Canada A Question of Life or Death Dear Reader, In and of itself, life is not an alternating current and it has no moments of eclipse,...
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