Traditional Catholic evening devotional prayers to close your day with your mind, heart, tongue, and soul on our Lord! The month of December marks the beginning of the new liturgical year and the season of Advent. It is also dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady. Begin and end each day with prayer.
04 December 2025
Traditional Catholic Evening Prayer | Advent
Traditional Catholic evening devotional prayers to close your day with your mind, heart, tongue, and soul on our Lord! The month of December marks the beginning of the new liturgical year and the season of Advent. It is also dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady. Begin and end each day with prayer.
Every Reigning European Royal Family Explained
I'm not sure how one would explain Andorra's "ruling family"!
How do you think these different monarchies will evolve over the next century? 👇 00:00 Windsor 00:35 Bourbon 01:06 Orange-Nassau 01:41 Saxe-Coburg & Gotha 02:20 Glücksburg 02:56 Bernadotte 03:30 Grimaldi 04:10 Liechtenstein 04:43 Nassau-Weilburg 05:17 Andorra 05.53 The Papacy
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
From SSPX ~ ANZ District. You may follow the Order of Benediction here.
Social Credit: Episode #37 - The Monopoly of Power
From Douglas Social Credit
In this episode, we examine how the monopoly on credit can be and is transformed into a monopoly on all other forms of social power.
This Martyr Found Her Way to the Faith by Reasoning About Creation
St Barbara, who is commemorated today, is an example to those who can't make the "leap of faith". She reasoned her way into the Faith by contemplating the need for a First Cause (the Angelic Doctor's second way of the Quinque viæ).
From Aleteia
By Larry Peterson
Contemplating the woodlands from her “prison,” she worked out that there must be a First Cause.
St. Barbara was born sometime in the middle of the 3rd century in Heliopolis, a city that today would be located somewhere in Lebanon. Barbara’s pagan father was a rich and influential man named Dioscorus.
As Barbara grew, she became more and more beautiful. When her mother passed away, her father became fixated on Barbara and began devoting himself to her in an ever-increasing and overbearing manner. He decided to hide her from anyone who did not know her.
Dioscorus built a tower for his daughter, and only her pagan teachers and servants were allowed to see her. Barbara had a view of the surrounding woodlands and would stare at the flowers in the meadows and the running streams. She began to wonder where they came from. Her reasoning helped her to realize that there must be a First Cause for such order and beauty.
It followed that Barbara’s reasoning would take her to realize that the idols her father and the pagans worshiped were soulless and possessed no power. She knew these “things” could not have created the world she could see. A desire swelled within her to know the real Creator of the world. She decided to spend her life in a state of virginity and to find this Creator.
But word of the beautiful young woman hidden away spread throughout the city, and many came to ask for her hand in marriage. Her father wanted her to marry someone he chose. She begged him to let her live her own life and told him that his persistence would drive them apart.
Dioscorus did not listen. But he did decide that his keeping her locked in a tower may have caused her to reject a different lifestyle. He proceeded to give her permission to leave the tower giving her freedom to choose her friends. Barbara headed into the city and met some young maidens. These ladies taught her about God and creation and the Blessed Trinity.
Soon after (and, many believe it was a special miracle of God’s grace) a priest from Alexandria, disguised as a merchant, arrived in Heliopolis. He spent time with Barbara instructing her in the Christian faith. Soon she was baptized, and after that, the priest returned to his own country.
Dioscorus wanted his daughter back home, so he decided to build her a beautiful house of her own with a huge bathhouse within. He ordered the bathhouse to have two windows, but Barbara asked the workers to put in three. She wanted them to represent the Blessed Trinity. She also carved a cross into the marble wall near the windows.
Her father was angry at the window being added, and when Barbara explained why she had done it and how she had become a Christian believing in the Triune God, Dioscorus was enraged. He grabbed his sword and was about to strike her with it, but she managed to run away.
He chased after her but she reached a hill that had a small cave, and she hid inside. Her father, unrelenting, tracked her down, found her, and dragged her from the cave. He handed her over to Matrianus, who was the head of the local authorities. Barbara was beaten again and again and during her torment prayed continually for courage and strength.
Finally, after being beaten and tortured and still refusing to give in to her father’s demands, Dioscorus took his daughter out to a field, and with his sword, beheaded his own child. It is said that on the way back to the compound he was struck by a bolt of lightning, and his body was devoured by flames.
As St. Barbara died in the late third century, much of what we know about her comes from the book called the Golden Legend (Legenda Sanctorum) written and compiled by Jacobus de Varagine. His work was the primary source for acquiring information about many saints and was used up until the Protestant Reformation when the “new learning” took hold in theology.
St. Barbara is among those who are called the Fourteen Holy Helpers and her protection is sought against lightning, fire, and explosions. Her feast day, shared with others (including St, Peter Chrysologus and St. John Damascene), is December 4.
St. Barbara, please pray for us.
A Major Shakeup of the Vatican Is Coming
Let's hope that Blasphemer Fernández's head is the first to roll!
Pope Leo XIV has announced a consistory for January, where all the cardinals will meet in Rome to discuss the pope's agenda moving forward. some speculate that what will follow are major personnel changes to the Roman Curia, with all eyes on Cardinal Fernandez.
Traditional Catholic Morning Prayers in English | Advent
The Quran Calls Protestants Liars About Mary
From Totus Catholica
I Analyzed 47 Quran Verses About Mary. Islam Just Proved Catholicism
Did Islam just accidentally prove the Catholic Church right about Mary? When the Quran names her directly 34 times and references her approximately 70 times total—including as mother of Jesus and daughter of Imran—when it dedicates an entire chapter to her, when Islamic teaching affirms her perpetual virginity and unique holiness, something remarkable emerges.
📌 I analyzed 47 Quranic verses about Mary and what I discovered challenges everything you thought you knew about Christian divisions. While Protestants often dismiss Catholic Marian devotion as unbiblical, the Quran—written six centuries after Christ—preserves truths about Mary that the early Church always believed. Today we're examining how Islamic scripture inadvertently testifies to the Catholic understanding of the Blessed Virgin Mary and why this matters for defending the faith.
✨ What You'll Discover:
📖 70 Quranic References to Mary – More mentions than in the entire New Testament
✝️ Surah Al-Imran (Chapter 3) – Allah chose Mary, purified her, and chose her above all women of the worlds
🕊️ Surah Maryam (Chapter 19) – An entire chapter dedicated to Mary, describing the virgin birth in vivid detail
📜 Early Church Fathers – St. Irenaeus (180 AD) and St. Ignatius of Antioch (107 AD) taught the same truths the Quran preserves
🔥 Four Marian Dogmas – Divine Motherhood, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, and Assumption
🛡️ Luke 1 – "Kecharitomene" (full of grace) reveals Mary's completed state of grace
💬 The Protestant Problem – How could a 7th century text emphasize Mary so profoundly if honoring her was invented later?
⏳ Chapters:
0:00 – Did Islam Just Prove Catholicism Right About Mary?
1:00 – Five Centuries of Protestant Criticism
2:15 – The Quran's Stunning Testimony: 70 References to Mary
3:32 – What the Early Church Fathers Taught
4:35 – The Four Marian Dogmas Explained
6:08 – Common Misunderstandings Addressed
7:01 – The Apologetic Opportunity: What Islam Got Right and Wrong
7:55 – Three Essential Truths That Emerge
🌐 Stay Connected:
📿 Daily Holy Hour – https://totuscatholica.org/rosary
🌍 Website – https://totuscatholica.org
✉️ Contact me – https://totuscatholica.org/contact
📖 Key Teaching & References:
Luke 1;28 – Angel Gabriel calls Mary "Kecharitomene" (full of grace)
Luke 1;42 – Elizabeth proclaims Mary "blessed among women"
Luke 1;48 – Mary prophesies "all generations will call me blessed"
Surah Al-Imran 3;42 – "O Mary, indeed Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above all the women of the worlds"
Surah Maryam (Chapter 19) – Entire chapter dedicated to Mary, describing the virgin birth
Surah Al-Imran 3;35-37 – Mary dedicated to temple service as a child, miraculously sustained
70 Quranic references to Mary – More than the entire New Testament
34 direct mentions by name – Mary is the only woman named explicitly in the Quran
"Isa ibn Maryam" (Jesus, son of Mary) – Islamic tradition emphasizing no human father
St. Irenaeus of Lyon (180 AD) – Taught Mary as the New Eve whose obedience reversed the first Eve's disobedience
St. Ignatius of Antioch (107 AD) – Wrote about the "virginity of Mary as a mystery wrought in God's silence"
CCC 491 – Mary "full of grace through God was preserved from original sin from conception"
Four Marian Dogmas – Divine Motherhood (Ephesus 431), Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception (1854), Assumption (1950)
Theotokos – "God-bearer," defined at Council of Ephesus in 431 AD
CCC 484-511 – Complete teaching on the four Marian dogmas
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