Category: holy cross
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Continuing 1812
A meditation with a musical connection between the Sunday of the Cross and our on-going struggle against the French, the Freemasons and the Marxists, um… I mean… the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.
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Lift High the Cross
Aposticha of the Elevation of the Holy Cross Hail, life-bearing Cross, invincible trophy of true religion, door of Paradise, support of the faithful, wall of the Church. Through you corruption has vanished utterly and been destroyed, the power of death has been swallowed up and we raised from earth to heaven. Unconquerable weapon, opponent of…
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In the Glory of the Cross
FROM the Office of Readings for the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday: The cross is our trophy raised against the demons, our sword against sin and the sword Christ used to pierce the serpent. The cross is the Father’s will, the glory of the only-begotten, the joy of the Spirit, the pride of the angels,…
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We’re gonna have a R’lyeh big shew.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Elevation of the Holy Cross Numbers 21:4B-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Ut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium, et infernorum, et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris.That at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and…
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Sing my tongue
+JMJ+ A Blessed Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross! The office hymn today (in the tradition office, pre-V2, and as we used it at my monastery) tells a great mystery, repeated again in Holy Week: singing the whole plan of Salvation. It begins with Matins, in the dark with notes of prehistory and…
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We wanna go back to Egypt.
+ JMJ Today’s readings: Numbers 21:4B-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Cur eduxisti nos de Ægypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? deest panis, non sunt aquæ: anima nostra jam nauseat super cibo isto levissimo. Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted…
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