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The Forgotten Customs of Assumption Day

Matthew Plese August 15, 2026

You have crowned the year with your bounty, and your paths overflow with a rich harvest; The untilled meadows overflow with it, and rejoicing clothes the hills. The fields are garmented with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain. They shout and sing for joy. -Blessing of Herbs on Assumption Day The Importance of the…

Matthew Plese August 15, 2026

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf August 14, 2026

In the green flow of the Vetus Ordo, “the old order,” Sundays, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost brings the last selection from St. Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians before the Epistles move on to Galatians. The order of these readings is exceedingly ancient, older than the developed form of the Divine Office. Our Roman forebears…

T. S. Flanders August 14, 2026

Zephaniah.

Charles A. Coulombe August 13, 2026

"Thou, O Christian Plato, didst enlarge the horizon of philosophy."

Massimo Scapin August 12, 2026

A voice that shaped the Baroque.

Robert Lazu Kmita, PhD August 11, 2026

One of the most beautiful pages of literature and Christian witness ever written.

T. S. Flanders August 10, 2026

Of the six latin courses I've taken since 4th grade, only after this one can I say, "yeah, I can read Latin."

Vinícius Couzzi Mérida, PhD August 8, 2026

The fundamental bedrock of his resistance to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf August 8, 2026

Deep in the green season after Pentecost, when the Church has passed through the great mysteries of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, the Roman liturgy turns our attention toward the harvesting of what has been planted. Pius Parsch observed that the 11th, 12th, and 13th Sundays after Pentecost form a kind of triad…