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03/06/2024

St. Thomas Aquinas, ora pro nobis!
Patron Saint of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
Feast Day - March 7th

02/28/2024

Easy of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
February 28th

02/28/2024

Feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
February 28th

09/15/2023

08/04/2022

St. Dominic, pray for us, our Church, our country and our world.

Blessed feast of St. Dominic!

In this fresco by Fra Angelico, we see St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order, the Virgin and Child, and St. Thomas Aquinas, who was born four years after the death of St. Dominic and joined his order.

May the prayers of St. Dominic and his holy example to guard and educate against heresy, be ever with us in today’s world!

06/29/2019

Nearly ten years ago an unknown auxiliary bishop from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, the Most Reverend Athanasius Schneider, wrote a brief treatise on the reception of Holy Communion, Dominus Est-It is the…

06/28/2019

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

06/27/2019

OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP FEAST DAY

Today is the feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. In 1867, Pope Pius IX established the Redemptorists’ special relationship to the Icon, telling us to make her image known throughout the world.

Our Mother of Perpetual Help, be with us in our suffering and grief. Intercede for us that our faith in God may strengthen us; that our hope in the Resurrection may console us; that our love for Jesus and for his little ones may empower us to continue to love and serve, as you did, even in your sorrow.

Light a candle to Mary: http://bit.ly/Candle_OMPH

06/24/2019

Happy Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, once known as "St. John's Tide." This is one of three birthdays celebrated in the liturgical calendar: Our Lord's, the Blessed Mother's, and St. John's. The length of day decreases from this point on, and only increases again at the Nativity of Our Lord in December.

Image -The Birth of St. John the Baptist, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (17th Century)

06/24/2019

Did you know .. the connection between the Feast of Nativity of St. John and modern music notation? Do, Re, Mi, ...

The hymn of the First Vespers of this Feast, Ut Queant Laxis, … is known for its importance in the history of Gregorian chant and music. … The initial syllable of each phrase rose just one degree higher than the preceding in the scale of sounds; thus was obtained, on bringing them together, the series of fundamental notes which form the basis of our present scale.
The custom was afterwards introduced of giving to the notes themselves the names of these syllables: UT queant laxis REonare fibris, MIra gestorum FAmuli tuorum, SOlvi polluti LAbii reatum, Sancte Ioannes (Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La).

The monk Guido of Arezzo, in his method of teaching, originated this custom; and by completing it with the introduction of the regular lines of the musical scale, he caused an immense stride to be made in the science of sacred music, until then so laborious to render and so tedious to acquire. [Eventually Ut became Do, and Ti was added to make our modern scale. Ti was originally SI – the first letters of "Sancte Ioannes."]

He thus acknowledged the honor due to the divine Precursor, St. John the Baptist – to the Voice whose accents reveal to the world the harmony of the eternal canticle: namely, that the organization of earth's melodies should be forever attached to his name. - from The Liturgical Year

Image - embroidery detail from a chasuble used at the Séminaire de Gricigliano - ICRSP

06/23/2019

The Holy Eucharist is intimately connected to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord. St. Margaret Mary tells us:
"One day, as I knelt before the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar, after feeling withdrawn within myself by an extraordinary recollection of all my senses and faculties, Jesus Christ, my sweet Master, presented Himself to me, all resplendent with glory, with His five wounds shining like so many suns. From all parts of His Sacred Humanity there issued flames but especially from His adorable breast, which was like a furnace. Opening it, He showed me His loving and lovable Heart as the living source of those flames."

"Jesus is found in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, in which Love binds him as a victim, ever disposed to be sacrificed for he glory of His Father and for our salvation. His life is totally hidden from the eyes of the world, which are only able to perceive the lowly appearances of bread and wine. ... Jesus is always present alone in the Blessed Sacrament.” - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque