South Dakota Carmelite Nuns will build a new chapel dedicated to the Holy Face of Jesus . The purpose of this devotion is to make reparation for blasphemy against the first three commandments: denial of God, profanation of the Holy Name of God, and the non-observance of Sundays and Holy Days.
The Benedictine nuns of the Monastery of Mary, Queen of the Apostles in Gower, Missouri, are set to occupy Colwich Abbey in Staffordshire, England. CatholicHerald.co.uk (21 November) confirmed the purchase. Initially, the nuns set up a temporary residence for European sisters who couldn't get visas, in a makeshift religious house in the family home of an English sister. The nuns follow the Old Latin Rite liturgy. As a result, they have grown rapidly. After outgrowing their mother convent in Gower, they expanded into another in Ava, in the same state. Now the community is in the process of opening two more religious houses: one in Evansville, Indiana, and the other in England. Picture: Benedictines of Mary, #newsAqfnqorpnc
The three male Cistercian monasteries in Ireland - Mount Melleray Abbey (diocese of Waterford and Lismore), Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea (diocese of Killaloe), and Mellifont Abbey (diocese of Armagh) - will close in January. They will be merged into one community, initially based at Mount Saint Joseph Abbey in Roscrea. The future monastery will seek another location and will be called Our Lady of Silence. It begins with twenty-six members, three of whom are novices. The decision to close the monasteries was made because of the decline in vocations and the aging of the communities. It was approved by the Cistercian Order on November 22. The Cistercians were first established in Ireland in 1142 on the initiative of St Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh. He became friends with St Bernard of Clairveuax. The first monastery in Ireland was Mellifont Abbey. At the time of the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries, there were 43 houses of Cistercian monks and three of nuns. At present …More
Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò QUIS EST ISTE REX GLORIÆ? Spiritual Conference on the Second Sunday of Passiontide or Palm Sunday Exsulta satis, filia Sion, jubila filia Jerusalem. Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi. Za 9, 12 The solemn celebrations of Holy Week begin with the triumphal entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem, hailed as King of Israel. The Holy Church, the people of the New and Eternal Covenant, makes her own the tribute of public honors to her Lord: Hi placuere tibi, placeat devotio nostra: Rex bone, Rex clemens, cui bona cuncta placent. [May they please Thee, may our devotion please Thee, O good King, O gracious King, who likes all that is good] However, as if to highlight how fickle and manipulable the multitude is, today we see the festive crowd with palm and olive branches, and a few days later we hear them cry out, “Crucify Him.” and send that same King to death on the scaffold reserved for slaves. It is not known to us whether those who welcomed with jubilation the Lord at the gates of …More
Argentina's President Javier Milei ("El Loco") received communion when he attended the Eucharist in St Peter's Basilica on Sunday for the canonisation of Mama Antula, Argentina's first saint. Baptised and raised in a non-believing Catholic family, he doesn't practise the faith. Last year, he told ElPais.com that he reads the Penateuch ("Torah") every day and regularly communicates with "his rabbi" via WhatsApp. Nevertheless, when on taking office he entered the Buenos Aires cathedral with his vice-president Victoria Villarruel, who attends Mass at a PiusX chapel, they both made a simultaneous genuflection before the Blessed Sacrament, unlike Jorge García, the archbishop of Buenos Aires. When Milei visited Jerusalem earlier this month, he was considering converting to Judaism. Milei has no problem saying and doing everything and the opposite of everything. Zenit.org asked the question whether, in the foul spirit of Fiducia Supplicans, his sacrilegious communion was more a "pastoral" or …More
Probably mocking our Lady. Revelation 12 1 A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.