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  Kash Patel says FBI officials have been fired for role in targeting Latin Mass Catholics
Posted by: Stone - 09-18-2025, 09:49 AM - Forum: General Commentary - No Replies

Kash Patel says FBI officials have been fired for role in targeting Latin Mass Catholics
Kash Patel also told Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday that the FBI is investigating 60 reports of anti-Catholic hate crimes.

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Sep 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below]) — FBI Director Kash Patel told Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) that FBI officials had been fired due to the bureau’s targeting of traditional Catholics, as shown by an infamous leaked 2023 memo.

Hawley questioned Patel about the FBI’s response to the persecution of Christians, especially Catholics, in the U.S. during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.

Referring to the bombshell memo, created under the leadership of former FBI Director Christopher Wray, Hawley asked Patel how the FBI came to recruit informants in Christian churches.

Patel said the FBI has made “permanent fixes” to ensure that informants are not placed in houses of worship unless needed for an “ongoing criminal or terrorism threat.”

“Has anybody been fired for this?” Hawley asked.

“There have been terminations related to this and resignations,” Patel said. The memo in question called for spying on and infiltrating traditional Roman Catholic groups, in particular, churches served by the traditional Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). The document claimed that so-called “Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology” was a magnet for “violent extremists.”

“Good… Because if this is gonna be standard at the FBI, nobody can trust the FBI,” replied Hawley. “You wanna talk about violation of the First Amendment? This has got First Amendment violation written all over it.”

“It is one of the most revolting chapters in the FBI’s history,” he added.

During the hearing, Hawley highlighted the heightened attacks on Christians in recent years, including shootings at Christian elementary schools and acts of vandalism and arson against churches across the country, as well as the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an outspoken Christian.

The senator cited a report that found that there were over 400 instances of hostility against churches in the U.S. in 2024, while another report found that there were over 500 attacks on Catholic parishes alone since May of 2020.

“What is the FBI doing to take on this rising tide of violence that seems to be motivated by anti-religious hatred?” asked Hawley.

Patel said the FBI is investigating 60 reports of anti-Catholic hate crimes, adding that he was able to disclose that the agency is conducting anti-Catholic hate crime investigations in the cities of Kansas City, Louisville, Houston, Nashville, and Richmond specifically.

When questioned about whether the FBI would investigate more deeply into potential “cells” helping to fund and facilitate such anti-Catholic attacks, Patel assured Hawley, “We are not stopping at the perpetrators themselves.”

The FBI director said his agency is “reverse engineering” the chain of events leading to such hate crimes to hold accountable those who fund them.

Months after the memo targeting traditional Catholics was released, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced that documents that he obtained from the FBI indicated that its field office in Richmond, Virginia, coordinated with two other offices across the country to spy on traditional Catholics.

The finding appeared to contradict Wray’s previous testimony that the FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics was only utilized at the one location in Richmond.

Violence against churches in the U.S. escalated after the leak of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. That decision, Dobbs v. Jackson, inspired a wave of threats and vandalism against churches and pregnancy centers, which mostly went unpunished, with former Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the supposed difficulty of gathering evidence.

However, hate crimes against Christians had already been growing in the country. A 2023 report from the Family Research Council (FRC) found that anti-Christian attacks on churches steadily increased from 2018 to 2022.

FRC “identified a total of 420 documented acts of hostility that targeted 397 individual churches” in the U.S. during that period.

The recent high-profile assassination of evangelical Christian Charlie Kirk has been described by some commentators, including Tucker Carlson, as motivated by anti-Christian hatred.

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  The Müller Mirage
Posted by: Stone - 09-18-2025, 09:47 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - No Replies

The Müller Mirage
Why Conservatives Keep Crowning a Theologian Who Undid the Faith


Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Sep 17, 2025

Gerhard Ludwig Müller is trending again. Diane Montagna just dropped Part I of a two-part interview (released today, September 17, 2025), and the Catholic commentariat is buzzing ahead of Part II tomorrow. Here at last, they say, is a prelate who calls Charlie Kirk a martyr, who calls the LGBT “Jubilee” a desecration, who names Islam and wokeism as cultural poisons. Traditionalists and conservatives alike are hailing him as a bulldog against Leo XIV’s Vatican.

But if Müller is our savior, then the Church has truly forgotten how to tell the difference between orthodoxy and camouflage. The record of his writings is the man. And that record reveals a disciple of Rahner, Kant, and Gutierrez.


Transubstantiation Replaced

In his theology manuals, Müller insists that “body and blood” do not mean the physical Christ under the accidents of bread and wine. Instead, he offers “transcommunication”: Christ’s presence is mediated symbolically, communicable in perception, a “reality-symbol.” Substance is no longer metaphysical reality but “food” and “human community.” The question of when the conversion happens he dismisses as meaningless.

This is the very dodge Pius XII warned against in Humani Generis: replacing the clear substance–accident language of Trent with elastic phenomenologies that empty the dogma while retaining its vocabulary. The altar is evacuated under the pretense of profundity.


The Virginity of Mary Dismantled

Worse still, Müller’s Katholische Dogmatik reduces the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God to metaphorical “horizons.” He flatly denies that the doctrine entails the bodily integrity of Mary during birth. Gone is the miraculous virginitas in partu defined by Fathers and popes, replaced with talk of “eschatological salvation” and the “personal relationship” of Mary to Jesus.

He approvingly cites Karl Rahner’s notorious minimization of the dogma; so notorious the Holy Office censored Rahner for it in 1962. Yet Müller, hailed as a “guardian of orthodoxy,” recycles the very error the pre-conciliar magisterium condemned.

Contrast this with St. Thomas and St. Augustine, who affirm that Christ was born utero clauso, as light passes through glass. That is the faith of the Church. Müller, by comparison, drowns it in transcendental gobbledygook.


Resurrection Reduced

The Resurrection fares no better. In his 2010 Dogmatik, Müller insists no camera could have recorded it; the event was not historical in the ordinary sense, but a “transcendental consummation.” What is historically verifiable, he says, is not the empty tomb or the risen Christ, but only the disciples’ belief.

This is Modernist reduction. It recasts the Resurrection as subjective faith-experience, precisely the tactic Pius X exposed in Pascendi: the “communication of an original experience.” If you believe because Peter believed, but the historical tomb does not matter, then Christianity is emptied into myth.


Vatican II Absolutized

Müller was no friend to Tradition in practice. As prefect of the CDF he told the SSPX that acceptance of Vatican II is as binding as belief in the Resurrection. He insisted they accept religious liberty and ecumenism as “fundamental human rights.” He demanded recognition of the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo Missae.

Here is the irony: Müller himself compared Vatican II’s pastoral novelties to the dogma of Easter, while in his own writings he stripped Easter of its historical core. This is the theologian conservatives now want to canonize as their lion.


Ecumenism and Liberation Theology

Müller publicly declared Catholics and Protestants already constitute “the one visible Church,” contradicting the dogma of the Mystical Body defined by Pius XII. He praised Gustavo Gutierrez, the Marxist-tinted liberation theologian, as one of the greats, and even coauthored a book with him. This reveals where Müller’s loyalties have long been.


Amoris Laetitia: From Resistance to Retreat

Conservatives often cite his resistance to Amoris Laetitia. But in 2017, after Francis stripped his allies from the CDF, Müller pivoted: Amoris, he said, posed “no danger to the faith.” The text was “very clear.” Clear in what? In ambiguity. Instead of standing up for the sanctity of marriage, Muller maneuvered to preserve status.


Why This Matters Under Leo

Leo XIV’s Vatican is a carnival of desecration. Transvestites in sanctuaries, rainbow-lit jubilees, and bishops outlawing the Latin Mass. The only antidote is dogma taught in eodem sensu, eademque sententia. Yet the man conservatives are celebrating as the antidote has already surrendered that ground. He denies the physical integrity of Mary’s virginity. He redefines transubstantiation into symbol. He relativizes the Resurrection into disciples’ belief. He binds Catholics to Vatican II as if it were revelation itself.

That is not a champion of orthodoxy. It is the revolution in disguise.


Stop Lowering the Bar

Traditional Catholics used to measure fidelity by adherence to defined dogma. Now they measure it by whether a man condemns gender ideology on camera. The Church deserves better. The martyrs did not die for soundbites. They died for the faith defined at Trent, Constantinople, and Lateran.

If Müller wishes to be counted among the defenders of the flock, let him repent of his errors, retract his Rahnerian evasions, and affirm the mysteries in the words the Church herself uses. Until then, conservatives coronating him are not resisting the revolution. They are laundering it.

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  Fr. Hewko: Catechism on the Works of Mercy
Posted by: Deus Vult - 09-18-2025, 08:30 AM - Forum: Catechisms - No Replies

Catechism on the Works of Mercy
Sept.17, 2025  (NH)

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  Oratory Conference: Pope Leo XIII Diuturnum Illud Sept.17, 2025
Posted by: Deus Vult - 09-18-2025, 08:25 AM - Forum: Conferences - No Replies

Pope Leo XIII Diuturnum Illud 
Sept.17, 2025  (NH)


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  Holy Mass in New Hampshire - September 21, 2025
Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2025, 11:34 AM - Forum: September 2025 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Matthew ApEv
w/ Commemoration of the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Date: Sunday, September 21, 2025


Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
              Holy Mass - 10:30 AM


Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
                      66 Gove's Lane
                      Wentworth, NH 03282


Contact: 315-391-7575                   
                  sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com

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  EU Commission admits: Corona vaccines were released without 'complete' safety data
Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2025, 09:36 AM - Forum: COVID Vaccines - No Replies

EU Commission admits: Corona vaccines were released without 'complete' safety data

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disclose.tv | September 17, 2025

The EU Commission admitted that COVID-19 vaccines were released without complete safety data. This raises concerns about accountability and risks for the public. Austrian EU MP Gerald Hauser questioned why citizens were not informed about the uncertainties in the vaccines' effectiveness and safety.

The vaccines received conditional approval, which allows access in emergencies despite incomplete data. Hauser criticized this, stating that it turned vaccinated individuals into "test subjects." Meanwhile, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is restructuring health authorities and has withdrawn COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women, emphasizing the need for stricter approval criteria.

New evidence suggesting 25 deaths among vaccinated children could further fuel the debate on vaccine safety.

Full article here: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-...li.2357156

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  Oratory Conference: "A Study on the Overthrown of Abp Lefebvre's Position" Part 3
Posted by: Deus Vult - 09-16-2025, 04:32 PM - Forum: Conferences - No Replies

"A Study on the Overthrown of Abp Lefebvre's Position"  Part 3
Sept.15, 2025  (NH)

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  Oratory Conference: "A Study on the Overthrow of Abp Lefebvre's Position" - Part 2
Posted by: Deus Vult - 09-16-2025, 04:29 PM - Forum: Conferences - No Replies

"A Study on the Overthrow of Abp Lefebvre's Position" - Part 2 
Sept.15, 2025  (NH)

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  Pope Leo omits the Filioque in Ecumenical Prayer Service
Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2025, 06:21 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV - Replies (1)



It is my understanding that in this regard, Pope Leo follows in the footsteps of his Conciliar predecessors: John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.

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  Global elites insisting on digital currency to phase out cash
Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2025, 06:14 AM - Forum: Global News - No Replies

Global elites insisting on digital currency to phase out cash
The aim is to have the digital euro fully in place by 2030 in order to move Europe fully into the United Nations' post-capitalist system described in Agenda 2030.

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President of European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde during the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs 
of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on September 26, 2022
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Sep 15, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below]) — It always pays to scrutinize closely the comments of financial elites because they are rarely honest about their intentions. An instance is the comments of Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB) who said there will be a vote next month in the European Union parliament on the next step toward creating a digital euro, which would be a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

A central bank digital currency is money issued by the central bank in digital form as opposed to digital credit issued by banks, which is the dominant form of money in Western societies. She claims that it will mean more freedom for Europeans and that there is nothing to fear.

Lagarde anticipates launching the digital euro in about 18 months. The aim is to have it fully in place by 2030 in order to move Europe fully into the United Nations’ post-capitalist system that is described in Agenda 2030.

Lagarde’s blandishments about what the digital euro represents do not survive close examination. She acknowledged that the main concern of the population is the privacy implications, claiming the ECB is looking at a technology that will offer protections. The private banks, she said, will apply the “rules of scrutiny” that already have access to the transactions. “We are not interested in the data. The private banks are interested in the data.”

Lagarde also said that the “people have dictated” the transition to a digital euro. This looks dubious. Neither the EU Commission nor the ECB is democratically elected. And if the main concern people have with a CBDC is privacy, then why would people prefer it over cash, which is immune to scrutiny? It is not as if a digital euro would satisfy an unmet need. Digital money – credit and online transactions – is already freely available in the banking system.

The ECB is also speaking out of both sides of its mouth, saying on one hand that the digital euro will only complement cash and on the other that cash will be eliminated.

Lagarde made it clear that the aim is to phase out cash completely. Agenda 2030, she claims, “can only be enforced in a cashless economy.” Why? What is it about cash that makes environmental policies impossible to implement? The answer is surely that a digital euro is needed to control people’s behavior, forcing them to comply with environmental rules.

Previous comments by central bankers suggest there is good reason for Europeans to be extremely suspicious. In 2021, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Agustín Carstens, said: “We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000-peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that.”

The pretext for the financial power play is climate change and the push toward net zero. A European CBDC is not, as implied by Lagarde, the creation of a new digital monetary mechanism. As economist Richard Werner points out, that already exists – credit and debit cards, for example. The significance of a digital euro is that it threatens the banking system.

A CBDC, like cash, has no interest rate on it. So why would people continue to use credit produced by private entities such as banks or credit card companies – currently over 95 percent of the money supply – on which they have to pay interest? As the Reserve Bank of New Zealand noted, CBDCs have the potential to destroy private banks.

That problem does not seem to concern the ECB, however. Indeed, fundamentally altering the banking system may be what they are aiming for. Lagarde said “climate compliance” will become a core element of bank supervision, not a separate initiative, “because climate change presents significant, material financial risks to banks and the entire financial system.”

The ECB’s supervision will mandate that banks integrate the management of climate-related and environmental risks into their existing risk management processes, particularly through new prudential transition planning requirements under what is called CRD VI. European banking, it seems, will no longer be defined by profitability and fiscal soundness but also by the politics of climate change.

The slipperiness of the ECB‘s arguments point to a much darker ambition. Werner says when CBDCs are connected to digital IDs “we are talking about the most totalitarian control system in human history … it gives you as a controller complete visibility on what everyone is doing, every transaction.

“The monitoring is only one aspect. These CBDCs are programmable and you can use big data algorithms, which they sell to us as artificial intelligence, in order to have rules about who can buy what and for what purpose, at what time and at what place – and therefore control all your movement. In the history of dictatorships, there never has been such a powerful control tool.”

There is a flaw, though, in the ECB’s push to change Europe’s financial architecture that may prove fatal to its ambitions. The EU and ECB do not have genuine central control. When the euro was established in 1998, the only way Germany was able to join was on the condition there was no consolidation of the government debt. So, although the ECB notionally sets interest rates for the zone, government debt is held at the national level and each country’s interest rate differs.

The ECB is thus a central bank in name only, unlike the U.S. Federal Reserve, or for that matter most country’s central banks, that oversee their national government debt. A European nation can choose to exit the EU, and each has to have its own monetary policy in spite of the ECB setting a uniform rate.

The push to create a digital euro is most likely an attempt to deal with these contradictions, but at best it will be a makeshift solution and it will take very little for it to fall apart. Disintegration of the European Union, and the common currency, is not out of the question.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is going in the opposite direction. In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which prevents the Federal Reserve from issuing a retail CBDC directly to individuals.

European debt is becoming increasingly parlous, especially in France where there have even been suggestions that there might need to be assistance from the International Monetary Fund. Italy’s debt, which is 138 percent of GDP, is also problematic. Lagarde is hoping for a rollout of the digital euro in 2027 and completion in 2030. But the Euro zone, and the ECB that oversees it, may not last that long.

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  The Catholic Trumpet: Is John Henry Newman a Saint?
Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2025, 05:34 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet - No Replies

✠ New Video: Is John Henry Newman a Saint?



The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | September 15, 2025

The Catholic Trumpet presents a new video in collaboration with Greg Taylor, founder and editor of The Recusant.

Watch Video Here:


Taken from Issue #64 of The Recusant (pp. 30–53), the presentation examines John Henry Newman’s writings, the testimony of his contemporaries, and the way “conservative” novus ordites, (concilliarists) modernists and liberals have claimed him. The verdict is clear: Newman’s philosophy was Anglican and un-Thomistic, his views on the Blessed Virgin Mary were low, and he hesitated to call Anglicans to the One True Church. His writings were received as liberal in his own time, and his followers after death were liberals and modernists. Today, conciliarists continue to promote him, hoping he will aid in undermining Traditionalist resistance.

Newman was not a Saint, nor a Doctor, nor ever will be. This video lays out the evidence and the reasoning behind this unavoidable conclusion.



Viva Cristo Rey.

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  Archived Bulletins of the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary for 2025
Posted by: Stone - 09-15-2025, 07:44 AM - Forum: Bulletin of the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary - No Replies

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Sorrowful Heart of Mary Oratory
Society of Saint Pius X - Marian Corps


The following links are for the Bulletins of the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary for 2025.

Not only do these Bulletins offer very edifying reading for their particular Sunday or Feast but they are a tremendous aid in following the pre-1955 Liturgical Calendar.


Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ / Nativity Octave

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph

II Sunday After Epiphany

III Sunday After Epiphany

Purification of the Blessed Virgin

V Sunday After Epiphany

Septuagesima Sunday

Sexagesima Sunday

Quinquagesima Sunday

Lent Begins

First Sunday of Lent

Second Sunday of Lent

Saint Joseph

Third Sunday in Lent

Ave Maria! Gratia Plena

Lætare Sunday

Passiontide

Holy Week

The Sacred Triduum

Eastertide

Quasimodo Sunday

Month of Mary Immaculate

Second Sunday After Easter

Solemnity of Saint Joseph

Third Sunday After Easter

A Woman Clothed with the Sun

Fourth Sunday After Easter

Fifth Sunday After Easter

Ascension Thursday / Holy Ghost Novena

Salve Regina Immaculata

Sunday Within the Ascension Octave

Pentecost Sunday

"Pierced With Thorns"

Corpus Christi

Sunday within the Corpus Christi Octave

Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul

IV Sunday After Pentecost

V Sunday After Pentecost

The Feast of Carmel

VI Sunday After Pentecost

VII Sunday After Pentecost

Month of the Immaculate Heart

Saint Laurence / IX Sunday After Pentecost

Our Blessed Lady's Assumption

X Sunday After Pentecost

Our Lady at Vilinhos

Feast Day: The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Feast of St. Bartholomew / XI Sunday after Pentecost

XII Sunday After Pentecost

Exaltation of the Holy Cross / XIV Sunday after Pentecost

Mater Dolorosa

Sorrowful Tears of La Salette

Feast of Saint Matthew / XV Sunday After Pentecost

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  Stabat Mater, the Hymn of the Virgin of Sorrows
Posted by: Stone - 09-15-2025, 07:09 AM - Forum: Marian Hymns - No Replies

Stabat Mater, the Hymn of the Virgin of Sorrows


NLM | September 15, 2025

Devotion to the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary originated in German-speaking lands in the early 15th-century, partly as a response to the iconoclasm of the Hussites, and partly out of the universal popular devotion to every aspect of Christ’s Passion, including the presence of His Mother, and thence to Her grief over the Passion. The feast that emerged as its formal liturgical expression of this devotion was known by several different titles, and kept on a wide variety of dates, but usually in Passiontide, or just after Easter. Before the name “Seven Sorrows” became common, it was most often called “the feast of the Virgin’s Compassion”, which is to say, of Her suffering together with Christ as She beheld the Passion. This title was retained well into the 20th century by the Dominicans, who also had an Office for it which was quite different from the Roman one, although the Mass was the same. It also appears in many missals of the 15th to 17th centuries only as a votive Mass, with no corresponding feast; this was the case at Sarum, where it is called “Compassionis sive Lamentationis B.M.V.” Its popularity continued to grow in the Tridentine period, until Pope Benedict XIII finally extended it to the whole of the Roman Rite in 1727.

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The Virgin of Sorrows; the central panel of the Van Belle triptych by Pieter Poubus (1523 ca. - 1580); in the church of St James in Bruges, Belgium. There were different traditions as to which events in Our Lady’s life counted as Her Seven Sorrows; here they are (clockwise from lower left) the Circumcision, the Flight into Egypt, losing the Child Jesus, meeting Christ on the road to Calvary, the Crucifixion, the deposition from the Cross, and the entombment. The Roman version of the Passiontide feast contains no specific list. (Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons.)

A second feast of the Seven Sorrows was promulgated in 1668 as the Patronal feast of the Servite Order, which was founded in the mid-13th century by seven Florentine noblemen, and soon spread all over Europe. (St Philip Benizi, who stands in their history as St Bernard does in that of the Cistercians, not their founder, but their most famous member, was almost elected Pope in 1271.) This order had always nourished a strong devotion to the Mother of Sorrows, and has its own rosary of the Seven Sorrows, and its own Marian stations of the Cross. Pope Pius VII added their version of the feast to the general calendar in 1814, after he returned from the exile in France shamefully visited upon him by Napoleon. Part of his reason for doing would certainly have been to ask the Virgin’s intercession and protection for the Church in the midst of the many horrors visited upon it by the French revolution and the subsequent wars. It was originally kept on the Third Sunday of September, as it had been first by the Servites, but when Pope St Pius X abolished the custom of fixing feasts to Sundays, it was placed on September 15th, the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.

As is often the case with later feasts, there was a considerable variety in the liturgical texts of the earlier version of the feast from one place to another, and between the traditions of the various religious orders. But of course, one of the most widespread was the hymn Stabat Mater Dolorosa, which is universally regarded as one of the great masterpieces of later medieval devotional poetry. The author of this hymn is unknown, and has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly conjecture. For a long time, many attributed it to a Franciscan friar name Jacopone da Todi (‘Big James from Todi’, about 80 miles north of Rome in Umbria; 1230 ca. – 1306); however, a fairly recent manuscript discovery has made this attribution untenable. Others have ascribed it to Pope Innocent III, who reigned from 1198-1216, and was certainly a very prolific writer in various genres, but this remains no more than a plausible conjecture.

In the Roman liturgical tradition, it is sung as a hymn in the Divine Office in one melody of the sixth Gregorian mode, and in another of the second mode as a Sequence at Mass, between the Alleluia and the Gospel.


Many great composers have also put their hand to setting it polyphonically, such as Josquin des Prez.


Palestrina’s version, composed shortly before his death in 1594, was traditionally sung in Rome on Palm Sunday.


One of the best known versions is by the Baroque composer Giovanni Battista Draghi (1710-36), who is generally known by the last name “Pergolesi”, after Pergola, the small town in the Italian Marches from which his family came. This was also composed very shortly before the author’s death, of tuberculosis at the age of only 26. This became the single most frequently printed work of sacred music in the 18th century, and, in the common fashion of the Baroque era, was reused by several other composers, including JS Bach, who turned the music into one of his German cantatas, albeit with a completely different text based on Psalm 50.

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  Fr. Hewko's Sermons: Seven Sorrows of the BVM [High Mass] - Sept. 15, 2025
Posted by: Deus Vult - 09-14-2025, 08:24 PM - Forum: September 2025 - No Replies

Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary - [High Mass]
Sept. 15, 2025  (NH)

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  Fr. Hewko's Sermons: Exaltation of the Holy Cross /Commemoration 14th Sun. aft Pentecost 9/14/25
Posted by: Deus Vult - 09-14-2025, 08:14 PM - Forum: September 2025 - No Replies

Exaltation of the Holy Cross with Commemoration of 14th Sunday after Pentecost
 [High Mass]
Sept.14, 2025  (NH)




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