This is a quote from the site New Advent URL: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360321.htm. It is a very informative site which includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, writings from the Church Fathers, the Summa, the Bible and more. Here is the quote:         Our Saviour, dearly-beloved, was born today: let us be glad. For there is no proper place… Continue reading Sermon of St. Leo the Great, around Christmas, on the feast of the Nativity concerning the Joy of Christmas from the Site New Advent

       This is a review of the book Wisdom shall enter by Leo Trese, Imprimatur 1957, published by the Fides Publishers Association Chicago in the USA and by Geoffrey Chapman, Ltd. In London. It is an apologetics book on the Catholic faith which I think is apropos for the start of the church year, indeed… Continue reading Part one of A Book Review of Wisdom shall enter and Its Argument for the Existence of God

         Its emphasis on forgiveness is something that I think separates Christianity from other religions. This, along with tolerance and love, ensures that Christianity won’t destroy itself through constant destructive “inquisition” type campaigns against other Christian sects (Mark 9:39) and accusing them of not being true to “the faith” and killing them for their “heresy”… Continue reading Forgiveness and a book review of David Augsburger’s “The Freedom of Forgiveness: Seventy times Seven”

      In an earlier blog I did a book review on “What is the Church” by Andre De Bovis, which is actually Volume 48 of the Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism, copyright 1961 by Hawthorn Books, Inc. New York, which was basically the information on the dust cover.  That book discusses among other things the… Continue reading A Deeper Look at “What is the Church?” Book Review with its Partial Answer to this Question and the Question of Authority, its Limits, as well as the Question of Holiness in a Church Composed of Sinners.

   The following excerpt on the Epistle and Gospel of the first Sunday of Advent with explanation can be found at the  URL https://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/The_Church_Year/first-Sunday-of-advent.htm . It is from Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffin’s “The Church’s Year” and posted on this website with permission from Sarto, publishers of the book form of the church’s year.  It is… Continue reading  A Review of the First Week of Advent material which includes Catechism Concerning the Last Judgement on the SSPX Asia Website and a Review of the site in general

     Advent is the first season of the Church year, the start of the Catholic church’s year. It starts in 2 weeks A good explanation of the meaning of Advent is given in The following excerpt found at the  URL https://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/The_Church_Year/first-Sunday-of-advent.htm . It is from Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffin’s “The Church’s Year” and posted on… Continue reading Advent

Loreto Publications of Fitzwilliam New Hampshire, in 2020, published a reprint of the original 1833 Edition of Father Alban Butler’s classic on The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints in seven books. The histories of the saints are inspiring, full of not only inspirational actions but inspirational words and in my humble… Continue reading Book Review of Lives of the Saints by Father Alban Butler, Part 1

            First of all, whatever the Jehovah Witnesses are they ARE NOT CHRISTIAN because they do not believe Jesus Christ is God and second of all they think He died as this excerpt from the pamphlet relate: “       .  .  . Witnesesses agree that Christ existed before He was born into this world, but say… Continue reading Pamphlet Review of “The Incredible Creed of Jehovah Witnesses” 

Today is the feast of Christ the King.  The church and therefore we have not supported the supposedly the Catholic claim that Jesus Christ is the king of the Universe (Matthew 28:18). The following is a sermon archbishop Lefebvre gave on the subject in 1989 in Dublin Ireland. It can be found on the SSPX… Continue reading Sermon of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre for the Feast of Christ the King in 1989

God is all knowing, which includes not only pure knowledge but how to employ that knowledge in an erudite way most convincing to what ever creature it is being presented to, and in reference to the liturgy that creature is the reasoning animal – man.  The Church’s job is, from the youngest reasoning child to… Continue reading Why I feel the new liturgy is a fabrication built to destroy the deposit of faith left to man by Jesus Christ