Resources for the Latin Mass Community
Growing up in Chicago and being 3rd generation Chicagoan the must see tv show of the 60s was Robert Stack in the untouchables. I remember one episode where Ness travels to Detroit to thwart the “purple gang” which was your typical gang of 1930s hoodlums who ran the city of…
St. Gertrude the Great Eastern Time Zone Some of these events obviously are in the church but I think all the services/masses will be live streamed on the link above WED 4/16/25 SPY WEDNESDAY ST. BENEDICT JOSEPH LABRE, C7:00 AM Low Mass †James Merk, †Dolores Rogers (AMB)8:00 AM Low…
When God hit me over the head with that Solemn high mass freshman year in college the return from apostasy did not happen overnight. It was still just too easy to sleep in Sundays and besides I was in no hurry, was gonna live forever right? After all I was…
I have been home brewing since 2008. I love the hobby and the best thing is you can drink your mistakes. I ran into the Tridentine brewing boys over in X (Twitter) a couple of years ago. Their motto is brewing for the greater glory of God. How can anyone…
I was born in 1953 and am a product of Catholic education from 1959 to 1975. I grew up first hand to witness the true Catholic faith slowly being ripped apart by the fruits of Vatican II. Grade School at St. Isaac Jogues in Niles Illinois we still had the…
This song actually has special meaning. Back in 1974 I was taking a history class, Napoleon and the French revolution at Benedictine college. Sister Juanita was the professor, a very smart women but her teaching skills…………well…………….. However, Sister Juanita Pavlic was one of the Vatican II nuns at Mt. St…
Many years ago I had a bible thumping Baptist living next door. To make matters worse he was an x-Catholic with an apparent ax to grind with the church. During the summer one of my joys in life was to sit on my deck listening to the cubs on the…
If I had to pick a generation that did the most harm to the human race it has to be mine, the baby boomer generation. I was born in 1953 right smack dab in the middle of it. Most but not all of us are self centered, selfish, try to…
Yesterday evening I was relaxing in the Tridentine bunker deep underground somewhere in the liberal wasteland of Metropolitan Chicago drinking one of my Our Lady of Mt. Carmel brown ale home brews. Our Lady”s brown ale helped numb the pain reading article after article on the destruction of the Catholic…
To people who ask me “Where do you stand in the church? What is your Catholic identity?” I have to honestly answer, “I have no clue”. The only thing I am sure of is I am a Latin Mass Catholic following the Catholic church as it was before Vatican II,…