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Brother Andre Marie

Host of the ReConquest Show aired only on The Crusade Channel.

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* Church Triumphant

* Church Suffering 

* Church Militant

* Christopher Derrick

HEADLINE: In Praise of Triumphalism by Brother Andre Marie 

* So what’s wrong with triumphalism?

* I suspect that the enemy of triumphalism has a deeper problem, though. Triumphalism presumes there is something to be triumphal about. That would be the immense treasures of our Faith and its attendants: the good, the true, and the beautiful, wherever they are to be found; for these come from the Author of nature, who authored the supernatural order, too. Triumphalism also presumes that there exist evils over which we ought to triumph: the bad, the false, the ugly; sin, death, Satan; and their attendants — namely, whatever in the created order refuses to conform to God’s holy will. These ought to be hated, opposed, and combated, while God and all that stands on the side of God ought to be loved. There is no middle position, no compromise: Love of God implies hatred of evil and the will to triumph over it.

* Lunar Cycle - 

HEADLINE: Sanctifying Time as the World Ends by Brother Andre Marie 

* The Church’s traditional liturgy sanctifies our time — the day, the week, the month, the season, the year. What is quite literally mundane and temporal is thus transformed into something heavenly and spiritual, an anticipation of our partaking in God’s own eternity.

* At this time of the Catholic year when we look to the end of time, and also to its beginning again with the first Sunday of Advent next week, I would like to take a quick glance at how four natural divisions in the solar year coincide with four Christian feasts, how the Church dates Easter, how the beginning of the Church’s year is determined, and, lastly, how our superior Gregorian calendar came to replace its Julian predecessor.

* “Praise Ye Him, O Sun and Moon” (Ps. 148:3)

* The four seasons are traditionally sanctified by the four sets of Ember Days, but there are also four feasts on the sanctoral cycle that touch upon the astronomical events that define those seasons, to wit: the Annunciation, March 25, corresponding roughly with the Vernal Equinox; the Nativity of John the Baptist, June 24, corresponding roughly with the Summer Solstice; the Conception of Saint John the Baptist, September 23, corresponding roughly with the Fall Equinox; and Christmas, December 25, corresponding roughly with the Winter Solstice. There is some variation on the exact dating of these quarterly astronomical events, and there are useful tables online, like this one, which give the dates with astronomical precision.

* THERE ARE 4 FEASTS 

* The 24th and last Sunday after Pentecost. 

* Sanctoral Cycle - Saints Cycle actually begins today!

* Temporal Cycle - 

* Vernal (Spring) Equinox: March 20 (Near the Annunciation, March 25)

* Summer Solstice: June 21 (Near the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: June 24)

* Autumnal (Fall) Equinox: September 23 (The exact date of the Conception of Saint John the Baptist: September 23)

* Winter Solstice: December 21 (Near Christmas: December 25)

* 4 Feasts that fall on or very near to those 4 astrological events.