Bradley PooleMar 20, 202119 min readForgotten Feasts: Feast of The Precious BloodThis feast, unlike many of the others in this series, actually made it into the Universal Calendar for a time, before being suppressed,...
Bradley PooleFeb 19, 202113 min readForgotten Feasts: Feast of the Holy Crown of ThornsAs we begin the holy discipline of Lent, the Church once again calls us to contemplate the events and instruments of Our Lord’s Passion....
Bradley PooleFeb 17, 20214 min readThe Anti-Epiphany: A Reflection on Ash WednesdayThe day long awaited and dreaded is upon us. At the stroke of midnight, the noise and fury of Carnival comes to an abrupt end. “The...
Bradley PooleFeb 12, 202110 min readForgotten Feasts: The Feast of the Passion of our Lord Jesus ChristHaving recalled Our Lord’s Prayer and Agony in Gethsemane over His impending Passion, it is fitting that we should now have a taste of...
Bradley PooleFeb 8, 202110 min readForgotten Feasts: The Feast of the Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of GethsemaneOne of purposes of Pope St. Pius X’s liturgical reform was to rescue the Masses of the temporal cycle (i.e. the Sundays of the year, the...