Category Search: Lent
Tenebrae & Holy Week • What is "holiness"? • Is everyone called to sanctity? • Is Christ King?
Tenebrae - The Office of "Darknesses". The spirit of Holy Week expressed in its ancient ceremonies. The 1955 modernists' revised rites of Holy Week. When did Satan realize Christ defeated Him? What is "holiness"? Is everyone called to sanctity? Sanctity in married life? Controversy erupts among "conservatives" - Is…
The Office of Tenebrae
Tenebræ is the name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week.
The Office of these three days was treated as a sort of funeral service, or dirge, commemorating the death of Jesus Christ. It is natural also that, since…
Spiritual hardships? • Why do bad things happen to good people? • Catholic healthcare • St. Gabriel
Are spiritual hardships punishments or blessings from God? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad people prosper while the good suffer? What to do when a co-worker challenges your faith and you don't know how to respond? Calling Protestant ministers "pastor"? A Catholic health care…
"Funeral" at St Patrick's • Mysteries of the Rosary • Mental disorders • “Spiritual, not religious?”
Prayer for USA. WCB online course offerings. Sacrilegious "funeral" at St Patrick's Cathedral requires exorcism? Francis says traditional Latin Mass impedes his plans. Rosary: why different mysteries on different days? Mental disorders on the rise? How to assist and advise those suffering from depression, panic, etc. Prudence is paramount…
Lent resolutions • Disciples or Apostles? • Questions about Hell • Patenting "intellectual property"
Recusant Catholics? Do Lenten resolutions involve sin? Partying during Lent? Disciples or Apostles? St Mark 13, 32: Does Christ not know the time of His Second Coming? Common cause with Lutherans? How can Satan be in Hell and in the Garden of Eden? How could Christ descend into Hell…
Reflections on Sexagesima from The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Guéranger
The Church offers for our consideration, during this week of Sexagesima, the history of Noah and the deluge. Man has not profited by the warnings already given him. God is obliged to punish him once more, and by terrible chastisement. There is found out of the whole human race one…
Nashville school shooting kills six. Did devils know identity of Christ? First Christians believed Christ truly in Blessed Sacrament. Are schismat...
This episode was livestreamed on 28 March 2023.
Crown of Venom: Coronavirus, Crown of Thorns
On this episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins discuss: •The Coronavirus and its implications.
(This episode was filmed on 23 March 2020.)
St. Patrick, COVID-19, Government, Lent, Live-streaming Holy Mass
On this episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins discuss: • St. Patrick • The coronavirus, the Catholic Church and the government • Live-streaming the Holy Mass • Lent
(This episode was filmed on 17 March 2020.)
Bp. Schneider on heretic pope. Coronavirus threat, The root of the problem.
On this episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins discuss: • Why paying attention to Pope Francis is important for traditional Catholics. • The explosion of recent media articles on a heretical pope. • The crisis of conscience among Catholics in the Novus…
Catholic Lent: the most beautiful time of the year
On this episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins discuss: • Thoughts for Lent • Ash Wednesday • The significance of fasting. • Spiritual reading for Lent • A question about Light and Peace: Instructions for Devout Souls to Dispel Their Doubts…
Saints for OUR times: The 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ignatius Loyola
On this Lenten episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins discuss the following spiritual edifying topics: • The Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste • St. Ignatius Loyola and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) • St. Thomas Aquinas • Words of advice for…
