Author: Ani Slattery with Church Fathers Posted: Month of the Holy Family, 24th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 This was composed by my wife with some minor changes and the additions of quotes from the Church Fathers: John Chrysostom: “If the Apostle commands us to take more care for others than for ourselves, and […]
Taurus Necrus
The Holy Labor of Weeding Out Modernism
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Family, 17th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023, St. Flavian’s Day St Flavian’s Day (pray for us) I have received two submissions which originated from this site for publishing. They have put me in the mind of more to say on the subject of literature, particularly the […]
The Warrior’s Tale
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Family, 6th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 This is an excerpt from a book I have written that is finished and undergone one round of edits. I am currently getting a cover made, and then will likely release it in advance copies for critique. It is […]
Excerpt from “A Catechism of Modernism”
Author: Fr. J.B. Lemius, adapted from Pascendi by Pope St. Pius X, public domain Posted: Month of the Holy Family, 2nd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023, Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of Good Success, and the Presentation Here is the topic: The Church, Its Origins, Nature, and Rights “Q: We […]
Fourth Decade
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Family, 1st Day, Year of Our Lord 2023, Vigil of the Purification These are fictive meditations on the fifteen traditional mysteries of the Rosary. This fourth is the Presentation, which is the mystery by which Our Lady who needs no purification walks to the Temple in Jerusalem several […]
Charity Seems to Have Completely Perish From the Face of the Earth
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 23rd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 My wife and I have been talking about this quote for a while, since I often use it, thinking it came from the apparition Our Lady of Good Success in Ecuador. In that very early apparition, two hundred years […]
Modesty
Author: The Reverend Alban Butler, public domain Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 21st Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 An excerpt from Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints, St. John Chrysostom: “The immodesty of women in their dress in that gay capital excited in him sentiments of the most just abhorrence and indignation. Some […]
Rorate Meditation
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 9th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 There is in the world many fires burning at the tips of candles, set to illumine this or that glory of God. All these are a type in goodness though with dimness of those wonderful stars which illumine Heaven, […]
Distraction: A Fictive Excerpt
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 8th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 This is something I wrote this morning inspired by my own experiences with minor distractions and stories about Padre Pio experiencing what I wrote. This is from an unfinished work with a working title: The Northern Man, which explores corruption […]
God’s Wrath Is Coming Very Quickly
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Immaculate Conception, 27th Day, Year of Our Lord 2022 On 24th of August 410, barbarians sacked and destroyed the Holy City of Rome. This was three and a half centuries after the sacking of Jerusalem, where God displayed His wrath with the Jews who had rejected His Son […]