Many people think of Christmas as looking on a cute little baby in a hay strewn manger, surrounded by Mary, Joseph, animals and the shepherds and everything is just so cute and cozy. In my homily for the 4th Sunday of … Continue reading →
What is in store for us after we die? Is there really a hell, a purgatory? In this episode, I share a talk given in my parish by my friend Fr. Thomas Kocik. I finally manage to fix a hum … Continue reading →
Tota pulchra es, Maria. Et macula originalis non est in Te. Tu gloria Ierusalem. Tu laetitia Israel. Tu honorificentia populi nostri. Tu advocata peccatorum. O Maria, O Maria. Virgo prudentissima. Mater clementissima. Ora pro nobis. Intercede pro nobis. Ad Dominum … Continue reading →
Holy Ghost Church in Tiverton, RI will host a Solemn Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite December 8th – 5:00 pm The Rev’d Father Jay A. Finelli Celebrant The Rev’d Father Thomas Kocik Deacon The Rev’d Father Neil Roy Subdeacon … Continue reading →
Something that has almost universally disappeared over the years is the Communion Paten or plate. I do not even remember the use of the Communion Paten at my 1st Communion in May of 1969. Change had already come to St. … Continue reading →
When we were seminarians, we guarded our love for traditional clerical attire, lest we were ridiculed at rigid traditionalist nutcases and expelled from formation. Wearing the cassock or expressing any solid Catholic devotional life was considered a very serious sin, … Continue reading →
Many people think the Kingship of Christ is some kind of fantasy. But Jesus Christ is a real and true King. Listen to this episode for my homily from the Feast of Christ the King. – cast (at) iPadre (dot) … Continue reading →
In this episode, i share my homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. “A time of great distress.” We also have some feedback and talk about a prayer for priests and Consecrated Virginity. – iPadre #127 – Consecrated Virginity … Continue reading →
Here are just a couple of pics from one of my three All Souls Masses. The first was at 7 am this morning in the Ordinary Form and the 2nd & 3rd were Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form. The … Continue reading →
The Apparition of Akita, Japan. Little known is the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a Religious Sister, and a statue that shed many tears for over six years, in a remote village of north western Japan. In 1973, … Continue reading →