The Holy Name Society Roadmap for personal holiness 💪 After joining the HNS, I was given a framework of daily habits to help cast off sin and cultivate virtue. It was such a wealth of practical advice, and I am privileged to share some of it with you! 1. The Morning Routine ☀️ BEDTIME: The most important decision you will make is what time you go to bed each night. By sticking to a bedtime, you will dispose yourself to wake up on time and to pray well. UPON WAKING UP: Make the Sign of the Cross, recognize the presence of God, and say your Morning Offering. The Morning Offering is crucial, as this is when we offer our entire day to God and express our intent to receive all possible indulgences. MORNING PRAYERS: The quiet of early morning is typically the ideal time for spiritual exercises. At a minimum, you should recite prayers of your choosing, do some spiritual reading, and spend a few minutes in mental prayer. Some typical morning prayers might be the Our Father, three Hail Mary's, Glory Be, and the Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity. MAKE A RESOLUTION: Being properly disposed to God's grace, you should now make a specific resolution for improvement that day. Perhaps resolve to overcome a habitual sin, or to cultivate some virtue. 2. Throughout the day ⏰ FAMILY PRAYER: If you have a family, spend time together reciting some chosen family prayers before starting the day. THE ANGELUS: As close as possible to the times of 6:00 AM, Noon, and 6:00 PM, recite the Angelus. During Paschaltide, the Angelus is replaced with the Regina Coeli. MEALS: It is best to set aside specific times of the day for eating. Of course, you should recite the customary prayer before and after meals each time. BEFORE WORK: Before beginning an activity, recite an appropriate prayer (such as the Actiones Nostras) or invoke an associated Saint. BEFORE TRAVEL: Begin each car trip with a simple prayer (like the Hail Mary), invoking your Guardian Angel, Our Lady of the Way, and Saint Christopher. YOUR RESOLUTION: Call to mind your resolution throughout the day, as well as the presence of God. 3. The Brown Scapular 🤎 The graces associated with the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are abundant. People come with all kinds of excuses to not wear it. Just get enrolled and wear it daily! 4. Daily Rosary 📿 The Holy Rosary should be at the heart of our prayer life. Establish a fixed time to pray the Rosary and stick to it. In the family context, this should be so ingrained in your home's routine that everyone just shows up for it at the appointed time. The Rosary is not something to "fit in." Everything else should fit around this time spent with Our Lady. 5. Evening Routine 🌙 This is when we look back on the day and prepare ourselves for the night and tomorrow. As stated earlier, it is crucial to go to bed on time. You should try to start your evening prayers at a fixed time each day. HOLY WATER: Bless yourself (and if applicable, your family). PRAYER: Choose suitable prayers to recite each night. Some typical evening prayers might be the three Hail Mary's, the Act of Resignation, and the Memorare. EXAMEN: Examine yourself with respect to your dominant fault, habitual sins, and progress in virtue. Did you make progress on your resolution? Conclude your examen with the Act of Contrition. SIGN OF THE CROSS: Bless yourself before bed and think of a pious thought as you drift to sleep. 6. Weekly Routine: Holy Mass ⛪ You should orient each week towards its summit: Sunday Mass. Traditionally the Church required us to abstain from flesh meat on Fridays. We do well to take up this weekly practice. 7. Monthly Routine: Confession 🗓️ We should strive to avail ourselves of the Sacrament of Penance at least once a month. Many spiritual writers consider biweekly to be the ideal practice. Our daily practices, especially our nightly examen, should be tied to our preparation for confession. 8. Annual Routine: The Liturgical Year ⏳ Make sure you own (and use!) a liturgical calendar. Be aware of the Church's liturgical seasons (Advent, Pentecost, Lent, etc) and their associated devotions. Keep track of upcoming feasts in honor of Our Lord, Our Lady, and the Saints. Holy Mother Church also provides Ember Days and Rogation days as opportunities for penance. Take note of the Holy Days of Obligation for each year and do your best to schedule time off of work for them! YOUR RULE OF LIFE These daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly spiritual practices constitute a "Rule of Life" for yourself, and perhaps your family. Don't let pride trick you into doing everything at once. Pick one habit, do it for a week, and then add another. To define and live by a such a Rule is foolproof way of growing in holiness and staying on the path toward Heaven!

Trads often criticize Fr. Ripperger for theology-by-demon, but he's probably introduced more Catholics to Thomism than anyone else in the past 50 years. July 1 will be remembered as a watershed event for the traditionalist movement as a whole.

This is never a problem in TLM communities. It's always the dads in the schola, someone's teenage daughter playing the organ, grandmas washing the linens, young men running server training... Maybe it's just by necessity because the Mass has zero institutional support

Campos, Brazil remains the only jurisdiction in the Church dedicated exclusively to the TLM. This is a fascinating interview with the spiritual son of Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer, now 75 and awaiting a successor: "Everything depends on the Holy Father."

You can just pray things.

We should all be asking for the intercession of Saint Thomas More. "The Kingdom of God must be defended like any other kingdom." ~ A Man for All Seasons

Family Rosary in the MORNING — game changer!

Looks like we're gonna find out if there is truly "no other interpretation"

Grillo claims that the Novus Ordo and TLM are "contradictory rites" (based?)

I was given a copy of a recent letter from Bishop Goldade to friends of STAS. I believe this is the first letter from the seminary since the excommunications. Some excerpts: "The Consecrations seem to have triggered some limited pressure upon bishops to provide the Latin Mass. On the other hand, there were many comments from those who do not have the Faith or do not understand the fight for Tradition... "The Consecrations became more than an isolated event providing auxiliary bishops to ensure the continuation of traditional sacraments dependent on the episcopal office. They became an opportunity to highlight the root of the current crisis: the errors against the doctrine of the Faith. "Even some churchmen that we would consider modernist understand this. One commented: 'The fundamental issue, however, is the Council – that is, whether or not the Second Vatican Council is accepted.' For him and most modern churchmen, the Council is the foundational event which institutionalized the modern errors. "How did we come to the point where the controversies in the Church have sunk to the level of such things as Communion for the divorced and remarried...? "The simple answer is that the theologians of the Second Vatican Council who had been silenced under Pope Pius XII, reinstated under Pope John XXIII, and granted privileged positions by Pope Paul VI planted their formulations and innovations into the documents of the Council that grew into the official teaching of the Church. What were initially ambiguous formulations became contradictions of the Deposit of Faith. "Since errors opposed to the Faith are growing rather than lessening, and since the bishops cannot be trusted to amend the errors, the SSPX, for the sake of souls and the good of the Church could not wait any longer. The Episcopal Consecrations, therefore, were a necessity in defense of the Faith and the salvation of souls."

Concerning!