International Scandal! Heretic Priest Rejects Priestly Celibacy With Woman On His Arm

Wherever there is heresy, immorality is always attached.

Medieval Peasants Knew Something About Cheese We've Completely Forgotten

From Medieval Way

Medieval cheese aged for months in a cave came out harder, sharper, and safer to eat than the day it was made. Your block of supermarket cheese was made in less than 24 hours, wrapped in plastic, and starts going bad the moment you open it.

Discover the ancient techniques of Alpine cheesemaking that relied on raw milk and cave ageing to create living food. Learn how industrial processes replaced these traditional methods with chemicals and shorter lifespans.

Traditional Catholic Morning Prayers in English | March

Traditional Catholic morning prayers to help start your day in a godly way! The month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph. We've also included a powerful Lenten prayer -- the Prayer Before a Crucifix This video is a compilation of many traditional morning prayers Catholics say, and should not be considered a replacement for those who have an obligation to pray the Divine Office morning prayers.

Protestants Can't Answer This: The 4th Cup in John 19:30

From Totus Catholica

The 4th Cup: The Detail That SHATTERS Protestant Theology Forever! 🙏 What if the missing “fourth cup” at the Last Supper holds the key to understanding the Eucharist, the Cross, and Christ’s priesthood? In this transformative video, we uncover how Jesus intentionally left the Passover unfinished—completing it on the Cross with the fourth cup. This ancient Jewish detail reveals the Catholic Mass as the fulfilment of the Passover and dismantles centuries of Protestant theology about Communion being merely symbolic. 📌 Watch until the end to discover how the Eucharist is not just a memorial—it’s the one sacrifice of Christ made present on the altar. ✨ What You’ll Learn in This Video: 📖 The Biblical Roots of the Jewish Passover and Its Four Cups 🌟 Why Jesus Delayed the Fourth Cup Until Calvary 👑 How the Eucharist and the Cross Are One Sacrifice 🙏 The Explosive Implications for Protestant vs Catholic Beliefs 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned in This Video: 📖 Scripture References: Luke 22:18 – “I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” John 19:28–30 – Jesus drinks sour wine and declares, “It is finished.” 1 Corinthians 5:7 – “Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.” John 6:53 – “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” 🔗 Additional Resources: 📖 Dr Brant Pitre’s Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unpacking the Passover Connection 📖 Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1366): The Mass as the re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice 📖 St. Ignatius of Antioch (110 A.D.): “The Eucharist is the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ.” 📖 St. Justin Martyr (155 A.D.): Early Christian witness to the Real Presence 💬 Join the Discussion! What are your thoughts on the “fourth cup” and its implications for understanding the Eucharist? How does this revelation deepen your faith in the Real Presence? Share your thoughts or questions below.

If this video helped you see the Eucharist as the fulfilment of the Passover and the sacrifice of Calvary—hit that like button and subscribe to stay connected. Together, let’s grow closer to Christ through Scripture, Tradition, and the wisdom of the saints. 🔥 Ready to Transform Your Faith? The Eucharist isn’t just a symbol—it’s the heart of our faith. Here’s how you can embrace this truth and deepen your devotion: 1️⃣ Attend Mass with New Eyes: Next time you go to Mass, remember—you’re standing at the foot of the Cross. The fourth cup is being poured out for you. 2️⃣ Memorise This Quote: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” —John 6:53 3️⃣ Join Our Daily Holy Hour: Dive deeper into Scripture, prayer, and the teachings of the Church Fathers every day. Link is in the description below! 4️⃣ Reflect on the Fourth Cup: Before bed tonight, meditate on this: Jesus didn’t finish the Last Supper until He died on the Cross. How does that change your understanding of the Mass? Here’s a quick win: Reflect on this simple prayer tonight before bed: “Lord, help me believe in Your real presence. Help me see the Mass as the new Passover, where You offer Yourself for me.” So the next time someone says, “The Eucharist is just symbolic,” respond with this: “The Passover wasn’t symbolic—it required a lamb, blood, and four cups. Jesus fulfilled it on the Cross. The Mass makes that same sacrifice present today.” Because when you understand the fourth cup, you realise the Eucharist isn’t just bread and wine—it’s Jesus Himself, offering His life for you.

Why St Katharine Drexel Took a Fourth Vow in Religious Life

St Katharine Drexel, whose Feast was on Tuesday, founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to serve Black and Indigenous communities.

From Aleteia

By Philip Kosloski

Beyond the three vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience, she took a fourth vow of Service to the “Indian and Black Races.”

St. Katharine Drexel didn't want to become an ordinary religious sister. She wanted to dedicate her life to the service of minorities in the United States of America.

According to Sister Eleanor McCann, RSM, on the St. Katharine Drexel Shrine website, "Katharine, who was following the plight of the Native groups, saw the injustices they were suffering at the hands of the federal government. She noted, as well, the severe racial injustices and torture of Black people in the South, for whom she grieved."

Both of these injustices tore at her heart and she was resolved to help them in some way.

Initially this led her to join the Novitiate of the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She joined with the confidence that she would found her own religious congregation that would help these minorities.

A unique forth vow

In fact, she even took a fourth vow, which was not required by the Sisters of Mercy.

McCann explains, "She would not only take the three vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience, but a fourth vow of Service to the 'Indian and Black Races.'”

Eventually she was able to found the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and went to work to specifically serve these people in the United States.

She blazed a trail west, ministering to the Native Americans and African Americans so severely treated by much of the population. By the end of her life she’d established well over 100 missions, 50 schools for African American children and 12 schools for Native Americans.

Her work wasn't always welcomed, and she was even threatened by the KKK. However, St. Katharine was never dissuaded and was firm in her conviction to help the most despised groups of society.

Why Your Lent Always Falls Apart (and How To Fix It) With Brian Holdsworth

From Matt Fradd

Lent is here! Matt Fradd and Brian Holdsworth discuss the Catholic Church’s teachings on fasting and how to strike a balance between challenging yourself this Lent without overcommitting. Pour yourself a drink and kick back, it’s Last Call.

The Structure of a 'Synodal Church' Would Cause a Definitive Rupture: Here's Why

It would be a change from a Church founded by Christ upon a Divine Constitution to a Church with an artificial, manmade constitution.

From LifeSiteNews

By Bruno Jambor, PhD

Changing the structure of the Church to a synodal model would shift its guidance from the Holy Spirit to a mere natural basis.

Successive disturbing news filtering from the Vatican causes observers to paraphrase the saying of the Bard of Avon: “There is something rotten in the state of… the Vatican.” Cardinal Parolin’s recent refusal to join President Trump’s Board of Peace is very revealing. His rejection is in line with the goal of present leaders in the Vatican to reorganize the structure of the Church along a synodal basis, more like the UN, where a multitude of voices—good, bad, and ugly—are mixed together to come up with compromised solutions. The mission of the Church has always been to transform human society into a society built on the Son of God as a cornerstone. The Vatican cites the Spirit of Vatican II as the guide for the new direction that would change the constitution of the Church from a hierarchically ordered society attached to God, to one resembling a democracy.

To try to understand what that guideline is, we can look at the document called Dogmatic Constitution of the Church: Lumen Gentium, published in 1964 by the Second Vatican Council, and search for that spirit of change. It is not there. The document states that it intends to follow faithfully the teachings of previous councils, especially that of the First Vatican Council, under Pope Pius IX, which closed in 1870. It does indeed dovetail with previous councils. The society of the Church, it says, is structured hierarchically, forms a Mystical Body whose organisms coalesce into a unity of divine and human elements. Christ loves the Church as his Bride and formed a society that he commissioned Peter to shepherd. It is not possible to find anything in this document that would call for a change of structure suggested by that Spirit of Vatican II, which is now declared to be unchangeable. The move toward synodality would affect the hierarchy of the Church and the unique role of the pope. To clarify that role, it helps to refer to the work of theologian Matthias Scheeben. He left us some impressive works about the union of the Church with God, notably The Mysteries of Christianity.

The Church is a society unlike any other, says Scheeben. It is extraordinary because it gives to its members a new life, a supernatural character, a destiny of union with God, together with a support system to help them strive toward reaching that destiny.

The Fathers of the Church viewed the Incarnation as a marriage with the human race. It sets up a relationship of unification with mankind which comes to full blossoming in the Church. The Church is united to Christ as a Bride is united to her Bridegroom. The coming together in bodily form—the wedding—happens in the Eucharist, where the partaker of it becomes the bride of the Son of God. This brings out one aspect of the organization of the Church. The priesthood, as segregated from the laity, is an imitation and extension of Mary’s maternity. The priest conceives the Incarnate Son by the power of the same Holy Spirit that overshadowed Mary. The priesthood is for the Eucharistic Christ what Mary was for her son, the Son of God.

Lumen Gentium recognizes the dignity and role of Mary in salvation and lavishes on her many titles. The union of the Mother with the Son in the work of salvation is mentioned. It says that in no way does Mary impede the union of the faithful with Christ. She is called our mother in the order of grace. It mentions Leo XIII, Pius XI, and Pius XII calling her Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutorix, and Mediatrix in their various encyclicals. Those who refer to Vatican II as the source of their inspiration to put a distance between Mary and Christ must have not read Lumen Gentium.

The other aspect of the Constitution of the Church dealt with in Lumen Gentium that would be affected by synodality concerns the pastoral power regulating the relations between priests, bishops, and the pope. It was willed by God that Peter and his successors should be the single point of contact between Christ and his Holy Spirit and the rest of the Church. Only he can transfer the Holy Spirit from Christ to bishops by the sacrament of ordination, and then bishops can order priests who pass it on to the laity. Christ prayed for him alone to strengthen the faith of his brethren by his own faith. Peter was to act as directly representing Christ—in persona Christi. The pope has a unique position. He receives his orders from above and is mandated to pass them down to the rest of the body. He is the sign of unity of the Church. This mandate to be the sole contact with Christ, the head of the Church, is given to the pope so that a trace of the Trinity could be found in the Church.

The Church is called to image forth the highest unity of all, that of the Trinity. Christ prayed that his followers may all be one like his Father and he are one. In the Trinity there is a single source of divinity, called Father. The Father generates the Son, an exact image of himself that reveals him so truly that whoever sees the Son sees the Father. Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae, says that divine things are best named by our intellect in a way that belongs to created things, because we grasp God through created things (Prima Pars, Q12, A3, ad3). The divine nature, common to the three Persons, belongs to them in a kind of order: the Son receives it from the Father, and the Holy Spirit receives it from the Father through the Son. The power to create is attributed to the Father, the Creator. He creates everything through the wisdom of his intellect, and so we say that all things are created through the Son, the wisdom of the Father. The Father wills that everything he creates be united with himself through the Holy Spirit.

In his Summa, Thomas says that a trace of the Trinity is found in all rational creatures possessing intellect and will (Prima Pars, Q45, A7). The Father sent his Son, through whom the Church was made, to guide it to its eternal goal by the Holy Spirit. The Church, a society present in the world but belonging to God, is created from above, by action of the Trinity. The pope is the representative of Christ, as Christ is the representative of the Father. The pope is to rely on the wisdom of Christ, and pass that wisdom to the Church. He must not rely on the wisdom of the world. He is not to be swayed by the wisdom of the UN. The Holy Spirit has spoken to his predecessors, and previous councils have codified what was heard, and that wisdom cannot be changed. As the designated single representative of Christ and spokesman of the Holy Spirit, the pope must speak and act “in persona Christi” at all times.

When he writes about the role of the pope and what would happen if he became influenced by any source other than the Holy Spirit, Scheeben does not mince his words (The Mysteries of Christianity, Chapter XIX, section 80). He emphasizes that it would be “an imperfect planned measure of expediency unworthy of the sublime activity which the Holy Spirit unfolds in the Church.” The Church’s “center of gravity would be withdrawn from the direct influence of the Holy Spirit and shifted to a mere natural basis.” The face of the Church would be unrecognizable. These are weighty and ominous conclusions. They deserve careful consideration because of the seriousness of their implication. It means that a pope who accepts the institution of a synodal structure for the Church is stepping away from his responsibility of being a representative of Christ and spokesman of the Holy Spirit, and is in favor of adopting a structure that is not the one given by Jesus Christ.

According to the analysis of Scheeben, a pope who would do that would step into a snare. If by accident, he should immediately step out of it. If it is deliberate, the logical conclusion is that he is willfully abdicating his unique role as pope. Then, there is no reason to continue to pretend to be pope. He was not elected to change the nature of the Church but to preserve it. It is then time to remove the mask, and for all Catholics to become aware of the subterfuge being played on them. He does not wear the personality of Christ anymore. All faithful who love the Church must demand quick and just resolution of this crisis by making him aware of the consequences of his acts. Silence is not an option, as Bishop Strickland has pointed out.

A similar crisis was unfolding when the papacy was transplanted to Avignon and put under the control of the French King. Saint Catherine of Siena was part of the solution and cried out: “We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues. I see the world is rotten because of silence … Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills.” She convinced the pope to return to Rome.

The situation confronting us is clear. We have the choice of Christ and his Holy Spirit and the whole tradition of the Church represented by Mary, the Mother of God. The other choice involves those who want to untie the Church from Christ and his Holy Spirit. We have to choose. “I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)

Pictured: The Dome of St Peter's Basilica, by Michelangelo

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

Today's Holy Mass from SSPX ANZ-District. You may follow the Mass at Divinum Officium.

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

From Dom Prosper Guéranger's Liturgical Year:

The Lord searcheth the heart: if He find that our desire to be converted is sincere, what an Easter will the coming one be to us!

The Station for today is in the celebrated Basilica St. Mary’s across the Tiber. It was consecrated in the 3rd century under the pontificate of St. Callixtus, and was the first Church built in Rome in honor of our Blessed Lady.

COLLECT

Grant us, we beseech thee, Lord, the assistance of thy ice; that whilst we duly ply ourselves to fasting and prayer, we may be delivered from all enemies both of soul and body. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

EPISTLE

Lesson from the Prophet Jeremias 17:5-10.

Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come; but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, and spreadeth out its roots towards moisture; and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit. The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable; who can know it? I am the Lord that search the heart, and prove the reins; who give to everyone according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices, saith the Lord Almighty.

The Epistle and Gospel for today are intended as instructions upon Christian morality. Let us, for a moment, turn away our eyes from the sad spectacle of the plot which is being got up against our Redeemer by his enemies; let us today think of our own sins, and how to apply a remedy. The Prophet Jeremias here gives us the description of two classes of men: to which class do we belong? There are some men who make flesh their arm; that is to say, they only care for the present life and for created things; and this disposition of mind necessarily leads them to frequent violations of the commandments of their Creator. It was so with us, when we sinned: we lost sight of our last end, and the threefold concupiscence blinded us. Let us lose no time, but return to the Lord our God; a delay might bring upon us that curse which our Prophet says overtakes the unrepenting sinner: he shall not see good, when good shall come. The holy Season of Lent is fast advancing; the choicest graces are being daily offered us: woe! to the man whose mind is distracted by the fashion of this world that passeth away, (1 Corinthians 7:31) and takes no thought for eternity and heaven and, even in this time of grace, is like tamaric, a worthless weed of the desert. Oh! how numerous is this class! and how terrible is their spiritual indifference! Pray for them, O ye faithful children of the Church, pray for them without ceasing. Offer up your penances and your almsgivings for them. Despair not; and remember that each year, many straying sheep are brought to the fold by such intercession as this.

The Prophet next describes the man that trusteth in the Lord; his whole hope is in God, and his whole care is to serve him and do his blessed will. He is like a beautiful tree that is planted near a stream of water, with its leaf ever green, and its fruit abundant. I have appointed you, says our Redeemer, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain. (John 15:16) Let us become this favored and ever fruitful tree. The Church, during this holy time, is pouring out upon our hearts rich streams of God’s grace: let us faithful welcome them. The Lord searchest the heart: if he find that our desire to be converted is sincere, what an Easter will not the coming one be to us!

GOSPEL

Sequel of the holy Gospel according to Luke 16:19-31.

At that time: Jesus said to the Pharisees: There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the Angels into Abraham’s Bosom. And the rich man also died, and he was buried in hell. And lifting up his eyes, when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried, and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is fixed a great chaos; so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither. And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father’s house; for I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments. And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. But he said: No, father Abraham, but if anyone went to them from the dead, they will do penance. And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they believe if one rise again from the dead.

The commandments of God cannot be broken with impunity; he that sins, shall be punished. This is the teaching of today’s Gospel; and after reading it, we exclaim with the Apostle: How fearful a thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God! (Hebrews 10:31) What a terrible truth is here told us! A man is in the enjoyment of every comfort and luxury this life can give; when suddenly death surprises him, and he is buried in hell! In the midst of those eternal burnings, he asks for a drop of water, and that drop is refused him. Other men, whom he knew on earth a few hours ago, are now in the abode of eternal happiness, and a great chaos separates him from them forever. Oh! what misery! To be in despair for endless ages! And yet there are men that live and die without giving so much as one day to think upon hell! Happy, then, are they that fear! for this fear will aid them to lighten that weight of their sins, which would drag them into the bottomless pit.

Alas! what strange darkness has come upon the mind of man as a consequence of sin! People that are shrewd, and prudent, and far-sighted in everything that regards their temporal concerns, are mere idiots and fools in every question that regards eternity. Can we imagine anything more frightful than their surprise when they awaken in the next world and find themselves buried in hell? Observe, too, that our Savior, in order to make his instruction more impressive, has not here described the condemnation of one of those whose crimes scandalize the neighborhood, and make even worldlings look upon him as a pure prey of hell. The history he gives us is that of a man who led a quiet life; he was agreeable in company, and sought after; he was respected, and did honor to the position he held in society. He is not accused of any public scandals; there is no mention made of any atrocious crime; our Savior simply says of him: he was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day. It is true, he was not charitable to the poor man who lay at his gate; but he did not ill-treat him: he allowed him to lie there, and did not even insult his misery. When then, was this rich man condemned to burn eternally in that fire which God created for the wicked? It is because a man who leads a life of luxury and feasting, such as he lived—never thinking of eternity—caring for nothing but this world, which we are told to use as though we used it not, (1 Corinthians 7:31) — with nothing about him of the spirit of the Cross of Christ: — such a man as this is already a victim to the triple concupiscence of pride, avarice, and luxury; he is their slave, and seems determined to continue so, for he never makes an effort to throw off their tyranny. He has yielded himself up to them; and they have worked their work in him, — the death of the soul. It was not enough that he should not ill-treat the poor man that sat at his gate, he ought to have shown him kindness and charity, for such is God’s commandment. His very dogs had more compassion than he; therefore, his condemnation and perdition were most just. But, had he been told of his duty? Yes, he had the Scriptures; he had Moses and the Prophets; nay more, he had Jesus and the Church. Men who are leading a life like this, are now surrounded by the graces of the holy Season of Lent. What excuse will they have, if they so far neglect them, that they do not even give themselves the trouble to think of them? They will have turned their Lent into judgment against themselves, and it will have been but one great step nearer to eternal misery.

Bow down your heads to God.

Be favorable, O Lord, to thy servants, and hear their prayers in the grant of everlasting mercy; that glorying in thee their Creator and Governor, they may have all things perfected and perpetuated to them. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Hymn of Prudentius, which we have followed with so much interest during this week, thus closes.

HYMN

O Jesus! Teacher of holy doctrine! grant that we may all now walk courageously in the path thou hast marked out or thy followers; that our spirit, having subdued gluttony, may in all things triumph and be master.

O blessed fasting! It is the object of the devil’s hatred: it is dear to the King of earth and heaven; it makes the great sacrifice of the altar acceptable; it stirs up the faith of the drowsy heart; it takes from the soul the rust that clogs her power.

As fire is quenched by water, or as snow is melted by a scorching sun; so, (but by higher law,) are the wild weeds of our base sins uprooted by the sacred power of fasting, when joined with charitable alms unstintingly bestowed.

For this, too, is a great virtue, — to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to kindly help the needy, and to behave towards all, both rich and poor, as members of the one great family of mankind.

Right blessed is he, whose right hand works the praiseworthy deed of lavish alms, but whose left hand knows not the sweet charity done! Such a man shall receive eternal riches, and interest a hundred-fold shall be given to him that thus lends to the poor.