The Rad Trad

A few years ago I wrote a short piece about the comparison of disobedience to idolatry and divination  in the context where lay parishio...

"In exitu Israël de Ægypto..." The words of the one-hundred and thirteenth psalm are sung by the souls being ferried by an an...

According to a quick Google search the Sacrament of Confession is the place where Catholic “receive absolution for the sins com...

Many functions can "exercise" parts of the brain seldom used in the doldrums of quotidian life: practicing arithmetic, learning...

"Israel they recognized for God's children only when the first-born died." After the Canticle of Canticles , one moves int...

One of my intentions for Lent was to re-familiarize myself with the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Scriptures, starting with the origina...

There's a new traddy-masculinist meme going around called Nineveh 90 , a sort of exercise in group discipline for overcoming habitual si...

Reading through Augustine’s City of God , one inevitably begins to draw parallels between the Fall of Rome to the Descent of the We...

Please note that the usual page for out practice of reciting the Office of the Dead during penitential seasons is now running. You can l...

According to my ordo recitandi  from the St. Lawrence Press today I must turn back my liturgical clock, if only a few hours. Lectio libr...

We have arrived at Lent and are now in the midst in the great Fast. So if you are at work, you hear your stomach growl, and you peal over y...

Today is the fourth Sunday after Epiphany (you were that right), which means tonight the Alleluia is sung for the last time until Mass ...

St. Jean, cathedral of the primatial see of France Let us resume our exciting series on the local liturgical usages of the French dio...

Here are today's chants for the Akathist to the Mother of God, the hymn sung in Byzantine parishes on Fridays of Lent to celebrate the ...

The Byzantine tradition dedicates the first four Fridays of Great Lent to anticipating the Annunciation of the Nativity of Christ to the Mo...

In a recent meditation on the 'gesima season before Lent we discussed illumination in Christ and Baptism, the end of Lent for cate...

Christmastide came to a close two weeks ago with the feast of the Purification of Our Lady, Candlemas, on February 2nd. We are now approach...