Sunday, July 26, 2020

Find The Openings In The Day

This from a good Traditional priest, for those that still don’t get to attend Mass in person because of COVID19 restrictions, and so assist as best as possible via internet Mass:
“May your Sunday be holy. Find the openings in the day, the cracks through which holiness can enter, even if only for a few moments. Draw on the Mass you watch, and let it be your guide. Love your clan. And give thanks.”
Good Saint Anthony, pray for us and for the whole world~

Saturday, July 4, 2020

St. Anthony's Prayer To Our Lady

We ask you, Our Lady, you who are called the Morning Star, dispel with your light the thick fog of allurement to evil which fill our souls. Like the moon, replenish our emptiness, and dissipate the darkness of our souls that we may attain the fullness of eternal life and the light of never-diminishing glory. With His help who made you our light and although born from you, gave you life. To Him be honour and glory from age to age. Amen. 
~St. Anthony of Padua

Thursday, June 18, 2020

St. Anthony Sermon - On The Justice Of Hypocrites

Presented below is an excerpts of St. Anthony’s "Sermon on the justice of hypocrites and of true penitents", commonly included in the sermons for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost. St. Anthony warns negligent superiors and prelates of the dire personal consequences of their omissions.

“If the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. [Exodus xxi, 29] The ox that pushes with his horn is the carnal appetite, which with the horn of pride kills a man or a woman: that is to say, his reason or his good will. Because his owner, the spirit, does not shut him up, he is killed along with the ox: body and soul will be eternally punished together. Hear this, you abbots and priors! If you have an ox that pushes with his horn, a monk or canon who is proud, a lover of wine and pleasure, and you will not shut him up, so that men and women are not scandalized by his bad example: the ox shall be stoned to death, and die in his sin, and the abbot or prior who would not restrain him will be punished eternally.”