Bishop Schneider: Cardinal Roche’s Liturgy Report Is “Manipulative” and Distorts History by Diane Montagna

Bishop Schneider: Cardinal Roche’s Liturgy Report Is “Manipulative” and Distorts History by Diane Montagna

An exclusive interview on Cardinal Arthur Roche’s most recent defense of Traditionis Custodes.

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Announcing "The Disastrous Pontificate": Why This & Why Now

Pope Leo XIV reshapes Holy Week to what it should be - Silere non Possum

The Italian blog, Silere non Possum, has an important announcement. Pope Leo XIV will return to the proper celebration of the Sacred Triduum with a proper morning Chrism Mass and a proper Holy Thursday Mass in the Lateran Basilica of St. John, the actual Cathedral of Rome. Since 2013, we have endured the Begoglian liturgical insult and innovation of ignoring the liturgical norms and dignity and proper worship of God and the sorrow of the Triduum. The narcissistic, attention-seeking sham of foot washing and attendance at prisons and other places, to say nothing of the debasement of the ceremony and the intent, appears to be, thankfully, over.  Laus Deo!

The ritual of Washing of the Feet in the Usus Antiquior is not part of the Mass; it is a ritual that was undertaken at another time of the day. It was a superior washing the feet of inferiors and took place in cathedrals or monasteries, convents or even in a palace with the King washing the feet of his subjects. In the Novus Ordo, the rite was and remains optional. It allowed for the washing of the feet of the laity, but originally women,n which was altered by Bergoglio. Many priests, not wishing to deal with the matter of women, simply option it out. As part of the debatable wisdom of the 1955 Holy Week reform in the Usus Antiquior, it was inserted as an option in the Holy Thursday liturgy, but only for men and could include laity. The traditional manner for the Pope would be to wash the feet of priests, canons, or deacons in the cathedral, thus reflecting Our blessed Lord washing the feet of His apostles, or first bishops, as a sign of service. The idea of washing the feet of prisoners, women, moslems, as an example, as Bergoglio loved to do for attention, was a great thing -- on any other day of the year. Yes, wash the feet of the poor on any other day and not in front of cameras. Such a humble pope he was.

Patience friends. Pope Leo XIV is not Francis II; he is Leo XIV. Resetting takes time.

 
The end of the “Away Trips”: Leo XIV reshapes Holy Week and the Curia’s spiritual exercises - Silere Non Possum

Lily long foretold - Tate Pumfrey

Congratulations, Tate, well done!

Tate Pumfrey Music

O Virgin Mary, lily long foretold, You carry Him whom heaven cannot hold; That Heart which wakes the ever-beating sea Beats in your womb, New Adam from New Eve. Within the darkness of your flesh The Light of Light reposed; You lay your Saviour in the creche, The Word made flesh upon your word, And in the stable, nothing stirred, While coruscating angel wings, Like sunlit snowflakes round the King, Proclaim salvation’s Dayspring. O Virgin Mary, lily long foretold, You carried Him whom heaven cannot hold; That Heart which shed its Blood on Calvary, Beats in this Child, whose death will set us free.

Mendelssohn, There shall a star come out of Jacob

Gesu Bambino by Pietro Yon, Duet arrangement by Deux, Vocal Duo!

I wish you all a blessed Christmastide for 2025 and give you this from two years ago. 

I'm very honoured to have Angela Malek as a reader of this blog. Angela is a wonderful singer who recorded a lovely Christmas album with Crystal Jarrell Johnson in 2019. I was to post about it then, but something happened just before Christmas that year—a foul wind from Wuhan. Well, better late than never.

The recording includes some real gems among them, There is No Rose, which my choir will be singing before the Vigil Mass of the Nativity on the Lord, this Sunday, before Mass.

1. There is No Rose of Such Virtu, Trad./ arr. Deux

2. Veni, veni Emmanuel, Trad./ arr. Jerome Malek

3. Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, Trad. Gerald Self, recorder; Alison Fletcher, violin

4. Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 315, Heinrich Schütz

5. Laudamus Te, Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi, Alison Fletcher, violin

6. He Shall Feed His Flock/Come Unto Him, Messiah, G. F. Händel

7. Maria Wiegenlied, Max Reger

8. Ave Maria, Camille Saint-Saëns

9. Il est né le divin enfant, Trad./ arr. Gabriel Fauré/ Deux

10. Quand Dieu naquit a Noël, Trad./ arr. Claude Balbastre/J. Malek

11. Gesù bambino, Pietro Yon

The exquisite rendition of Pietro Yon's Jesu Bambino is below.

More information can be found at:

Deux - Vocal Duo, Music, Classical Musicians (deuxofficialwebsite.com)

And:

(10656) Deux - Classical Vocal Duo - YouTube

A Blessed and Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

No boring Christmas letter. Just a prayer and a hope from my wife, Francoise and me for a blessed and holy Christmastide. Blogging is less now, I've said and written most of it already. More to come, no doubt, but Substack and Podcasts dominate now, and readership is fractured. For those who still stop by, God bless you. Thank you for all your kindness and prayers over the years. To those who have wronged me, you all know who you are, and so do I. I'm still here, you're not, but I forgive you anyway. However, coal is all you will get in your stocking, and that's what you deserve. 

To the rest of you, God bless you and Merry Christmas!

David

O GREAT mystery,

and wonderful sacrament,

that animals should see the newborn Lord,

lying in a manger!

Blessed is the Virgin whose womb

was worthy to bear

the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Alleluia!

 

Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548 – 1611 

 

Giovanni Gabrieli 1554-1612 

 Morten Lauridsen b. 1943

May their memory be a blessing and God's mercy abound.

John 10:22-23. Douay-Rhiems.

"And it was the feast of the dedication (Hannukkah) at Jerusalem: and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch."

Ave Maria - Robert Parsons

Robert Parsons fell into the River Trent and drowned; he was only 37. At this funeral, the eulogy included:

"Qui tantus primo Parsone in flore fuisti, quantus in autumno in morerer flores."

"You who were so great, Parsons, in life's springtime, how great you would have been in autumn, had death not intervened."

From the Sermons of St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem. 

Who and what was the blessed and glorious Mary, always a Virgin, hath been revealed by God by the message of an Angel, in these words: Hail, thou that art full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women. It was fitting that a fullness of grace should be poured into that Virgin who hath given to God glory and to man a Saviour, who hath brought peace to earth, who hath given faith to the Gentiles, who hath killed sin, who hath given law to life, who hath made the crooked ways straight. Verily, she is full of grace. To others grace cometh measure by measure; in Mary grace dwelleth at once in all fullness. Verily, she is full of grace. We believe that the holy Fathers and Prophets had grace; but they were not full of grace. But into Mary came a fullness of all the grace, which is in Christ, albeit otherwise than as it is in Him. Therefore, is it said: Blessed art thou among women, that is, Blessed art thou above all women. The fulness of blessing in Mary utterly neutralized in her any effects of the curse of Eve. In her praise Solomon writeth in the Song of Songs, ii. 10,: Rise up, my dove, my fair one, for the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. And again: Come from Lebanon, my Spouse, come, thou shalt be crowned. ~iv. 8.

Not unjustly then is she bidden to come from Lebanon, for Lebanon is so named on account of its stainless and glistening whiteness. The earthly Lebanon is white with snow, but the lonely heights of Mary's holiness are white with purity and grace, brilliantly fair, whiter far than snow, sparkling with the gifts of the Holy Ghost, she is undefiled like a dove, all clean, all upright, full of grace and truth. She is full of mercy, and of the righteousness that hath looked down from heaven and therefore is she without stain because in her hath never been any corruption. She hath compassed a man in her womb, saith holy Jeremiah, but she conceived not by the will of fallen man. The Lord, saith the Prophet, hath created a new thing in the earth; a woman shall compass a man. xxxi. 22. Verily, it is a new thing. Verily, it was a new work of power, greater than all other works, when God, Whom the world cannot bear, and Whom no man shall see and live, entered the lodging of her womb, breaking not the blissful cloister of her virgin flesh. And in her body, He was borne, the Infinite enclosed within her womb. And from her womb He came forth, so that it was fulfilled which was spoken of the Prophet Ezekiel, saying: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. xliv. 2. Hence also in the Song of Songs it is said of her iv. 12,: A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed, thy perfumes are a garden of delights. Verily a garden of delights, filled with the perfumes of all flowers, rich with the sweet savour of grace. And the most holy Virgin herself is a garden enclosed, whereinto sin and Satan have never entered to sully the blossoms, a fountain sealed, sealed with the seal of the Trinity.

 

Savior of the Nations, Come

The Ursuline nuns of Quebec City are leaving their chapel in Old Quebec ...

The bleeding of the Catholic Church in Canada and, in particular, Quebec continues. An utter tragedy and a disgrace. The curse of the "Quiet Revolution," the "bloodless," Christ-hating, tradition-hating Marxist revolution in Quebec continues. 

As you now doubt, I am deeply involved in church music.  As Director of Music, I have built a choir of 12 and developed a training program for them, even though we come from miles apart. Our sacred music program over the Advent and Christmastide features classic chant hymnody and polyphony by Palestrina, Victoria, Handl, Charpentier, Witt, Gibbons and others as well as medieval folk carols. Our community has grown from about 40 after the lockdown insanity to almost 200 today. Do the math. We have babies galore, so many young families. We would have 16 altar "boys" except we lost 2 in September to a Catholic College in Eastern Ontario. More? How about 2 former young men, a Master of Ceremonies and the one he trained, both now ordained priests and one more in seminary!

Bishops of Canada! Here me well. The power to fix this lay in your hands!

Rorate Caeli | The Advent Prose

Lo! He comes with clouds descending | The Choir of Trinity College Cambr...

A Reflection on the Holy Gospel for the Last Sunday after Pentecost from The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Gueranger

Sequel of the holy Gospel according to Matthew 24:15-35

When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand. Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat. And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days. But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the Sabbath. For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be. Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together. And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet, and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh. So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors. Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.

Several times, during Advent, we meditated on the circumstances which are to accompany the Last Coming of Christ our Lord; and, in a few days, the same great teachings will be again brought before us, filling our souls with a salutary fear. May we, then, be permitted, on this last Sunday of our Liturgical Year, to address ourselves, in a prayer of desire and praise, to our adorable Lord and King, the solemn hour of whose Judgment is to be the consummation of his work, and the signal of his triumph.

O Jesus! who then art to come to deliver thy Church, and avenge that God who has so long borne every sort of insult from his creature man, that day of thy coming will indeed be terrible to the sinner! He will then understand, how the Lord hath made all things for himself, all, even the ungodly, who, on the evil day, is to show forth the divine justice. (Proverbs 16:4) The whole world, fighting on his side against the wicked (Wisdom 5:21) shall then, at last, be avenged for that slavery of sin, which had been forced upon it. (Romans 8:21) Vainly will the wicked cry out to the rocks to fall upon them, and hide them from the face of him that will then be seated on his throne: (Apocalypse 6:16) the abyss will refuse to engulf them: in obedience to him who holds the keys of death and hell, (Apocalypse 1:18) it will give forth, to a man, its wretched victims, and set them at the foot of the dread tribunal. Jesus, how magnificent will not thy power then appear! The heavenly hosts will also be standing around thee, forming thy brilliant (Apocalypse 19:14) court, and assembling thy elect from the four quarters of the earth.

For we also, we thy redeemed, who had become thy members by becoming the members of thy beloved Church, — we are to be there on that day, and our place, O ineffable mystery! is to be the one thou hast reserved for thy Bride, — it is to be thy own throne, (Apocalypse 3:21) where seated, we shall judge the very angels. (1 Corinthians 4:3) Even now, all those blessed of the Father, (Matthew 25:3) all those elect, whose youth, like that of the eagle, has been so often renewed by their receiving thy precious Blood, (Psalm 102:5) have they not had their eyes fitted to gaze, and without being dazzled, on the Sun of Justice, when he shall appear in the heavens? The tediousness of their long exile has given such keenness to their hunger, that nothing will have power to stay their flight, once the sacred prey of thy divine Body shall be shown them! What hindrance could be strong enough to check the impetuosity of the love, (Song of Solomon 8:6) which will bring them all together to the banquet of the eternal Pasch? The trumpet of the Archangel, which will ring through the graves of the just, is to be a summons calling them, not to death, but to life; to the sight of the old enemy’s destruction; (1 Corinthians 15:28) to a redemption, which is to include their very bodies; (Romans 8:23) to the unimpeded passover to the true Land of promise; in a word, to the Pasch, and, this time, quite real, and for all, and forever. What will not be the joy of that true Day of the Lord! (Psalm 117:24) What joy for them that have, by faith, lived in Christ, and loved him without seeing Him! (1 Peter 1:8) Identifying themselves with thee, O Jesus, notwithstanding the weakness of the flesh, they have continued here below, thy life of suffering and humiliation: what a triumph, when, delivered forever from sin, and vested in their immortal bodies, they shall be borne aloft before thy face, that they may forever be with thee! (1 Thessalonians 4:6)

But, their chiefest joy on that great Day, will be to assist at the glorification of their most dear Lord, by the manifestation of the power which was given to him over all flesh. (John 17:2) It is to be then, O Emmanuel! that, crushing the heads of kings, and making thine enemies thy footstool, (Psalm 109) thou wilt be shown as the one Ruler of all nations. (Psalm 2) It is to be then, that heaven, and earth, and hell, will bow their knee (Philippians 2:10) before that Son of Man, who, heretofore, appeared on earth as a slave, and was judged, and condemned, and put to death between two thieves; it is to be then, dear Jesus, that thou wilt judge the unjust judges, to whom, even in the midst of all the humiliations they put on thee, thou didst foretell this thy Coming on the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:64) And when, after the irrevocable sentence has been passed, the wicked shall go to everlasting torments, and the just to life eternal, (Matthew 25:46) thy Apostle tells us, that having conquered thine enemies, and been proclaimed undisputed King, thou wilt consign to thy eternal Father this thy Kingdom won over death; it will be the perfect homage of thee, the Head, and of all thy faithful members. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28) God will thus be all in all. It will be the perfect accomplishment of that sublime prayer thou taughtest mankind to make, (Matthew 6:9) which they daily offer up to the Father who is in heaven, and say to him: Hallowed be thy name! Thy Kingdom come! Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven! O blissfully peaceful Day, when blasphemy is to cease, and when this poor earth of ours, cleansed by fire from the filth of sin, shall be turned into a new paradise! Where, then, is the Christian, who would not thrill with emotion at the thought of that last of all the Days of time, which is to usher in beautiful Eternity? Who would not despise the agonies of his own last hour, when he reflects that those sufferings have really only one meaning in them, that is, as the Gospel words it, that the Son of Man is nigh even at the very doors!

O sweet Jesus, detach us, every Year, more and more from this world, whose fashion passeth away, (1 Corinthians 7:31) with its vain toils, its false glories, and its lying pleasures. It was thine own foretelling, that, as in the days of Noe, and Sodom, men will go on with their feasting, and business, and amusements, without giving any more thought to thy approaching Coming, than their forefathers heeded the threat of the Deluge, or of the fire, which came upon them and destroyed them. (Luke 17:26-30) Let these men go on with their merrymaking, and their sending gifts one to the other, as thine Apocalypse expresses it, because, so they will have it, Christ and his Church are then to be worn-out ideas! (Apocalypse 9:10) Whilst they are tyrannizing over thy holy City in a thousand varied ways, and persecuting her as no past period had ever done, they little think that all this is an announcement of the Eternal Nuptials, which are nigh at hand. All these trials were the fresh jewels, which the Bride was to have on her before all her beauty was complete; and the blood of her last Martyrs was to incarnadine her already splendid robes with all the richness of royal crimson. As for us, we lend an ear to the echoes of our home above; and, from the throne of our God, we hear going forth the voice heard by thy beloved Prophet of Patmos: Give praise unto our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, little and great! Alleluia! For the Lord our God the almighty hath reigned! Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory unto him; for the Marriage of the Lamb is come, and his Wife hath prepared herself! (Apocalypse 19:5-7) Yet a little while, till the number of our brethren be made up; (Apocalypse 6:11) and then, with the Spirit and the Bride, we will say to thee, in all the ardor of our souls that have long thirsted after thee: Come, Lord Jesus! (Apocalypse 22:17) Come, and perfect us in love, by Union eternal, unto the glory of the Father, and of thyself the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, forever and ever! Dom Prosper Gueranger. 

Why do the Church’s leaders persecute the most faithful Catholics?

"The reason the Church’s leaders persecute the most faithful Catholics is that, broadly speaking, the leadership of the Catholic Church on earth at this time is dominated by a network of active homosexuals and theological modernists."

Why They Are Taking Away Your Traditional Latin Mass | Pelican+

 

VOCES8: 'Locus Iste' by Anton Bruckner

"This place was created by God as a priceless sanctuary; it is without reproach."

From the Gradual of today's Mass for the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour.

André Campra — Quàm dilecta tabernacula tua Domine

Introit verse for the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour.

The Tallis Scholars - Requiem Officium Defunctorum - Tomas Luis do Victoria

Tallis - Audivi vocem de cælo

I heard a voice coming from heaven: come all wisest virgins;
fill your vessels with oil, for the bridegroom is coming.
In the middle of the night there was a cry: behold the bridegroom comes

LIVE: Michael Knowles speaks at the University of Minnesota on the Latin Mass

The demonic hatred of Charlie Kirk in this combox

September 17. Come on, you little coward, where are you? You won’t comment on this, you won’t disclose your real name. You little incel? An unmarried, sissy man, the very antithesis of Charles Kirk.

What kind of disgusting cretin leaves a comment such as this? Never did I think the hatred of the late assassinated Charlie Kirk would enter this combox (one post below). As for the personal comments about me, they reveal a great deal about the writer. A coward and a hypocrite and a liar. You present Marxist tropes, just as those who show bloodlust over his murder. You're a disgusting cretin. Get off my blog.

Grammar and spelling errors from "Robert." 

Robert has left a new comment on your post 'God rest Charlie Kirk. God damn to Hell his murderer!':

I am sorry that you have taken this position. You only show yourself to be an angry petty llittle man who goes on the attack if/when someone takes a diffent line than you. First, my last post was not even directed at you, it was addressed to Evangeline to clarify my position. As to Kirk and right-wing ideologies, he was a racist, an anti-semite, a mysoginist, and anti immigrant. So, definitely not a hero. I will still for the repose of his soul, but moreover I will pray for those known and unkown who have been harmed by his words. Btw, say hello to the Oratorians if they are willing to let you back in to their parish.

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Posted by Robert to Vox Cantoris at 14 Sept 2025, 16:39\

God rest the soul of Charlie Kirk and bring his murderer(s) to Your Divine justice!

Eternal rest grant unto Charles Kirk, O LORD, 

and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. 

Blood on your hands!

Absolutely right. So does the mother. She affirmed his demonic delusion. 

Mentally ill and should have been committed. 

Enjoy Hell, you rotten piece of shit.

Toronto's Catholic Register suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome

Only 4 days after the Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska and on the very day that the European globalist Heads of State are meeting at the feet of Donald John Trump, who is demanding an end to the killing, the irrelevant Catholic Register of Toronto writes this headline.

Trump-Putin summit fails to advance peace, justice | The Catholic Register

Perhaps, they might find it more worthwhile to write about this.

Vox Cantoris: A look back at The Desolate City of the Archdiocese of Toronto and a lost "Dialogue of Trust"

Judge refuses to dismiss sexual assault charges against Thomas J. Rosica and Basilians

 

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/judge-declines-to-dismiss-fr-rosica