THE WISDOM OF PEMÁN

A clear and sound conscience

is the treasure I desire;

 I ask for nothing and expect nothing

 for tomorrow.

 I neither pursue glory, 

 nor does foolish ambition trouble me; 

 And upon being born each morning,

 I ask only of God

a clean house to shelter me,

 fresh bread to eat, a book to read, 

and a Christ to pray to;

 for he who strives and toils

 finds nothing that fulfills him, 

 and he who needs the least

 has more than he who has the most. 

 José María Pemán

ALL EYES

"Mary is all eyes, compassionate towards us and ready to help us. Saint Epiphanius calls Mary 'the one with many eyes'; she who is all eyes to see and help those in need. A man possessed by a demon was being exorcised, and when the exorcist asked him what Mary was doing, the possessed man replied: 'She goes down and goes up.' He meant that this most benign Lady does nothing other than descend to earth to bring graces to humankind and ascend to heaven to obtain divine favor for our supplications. Saint Andrew Avellino rightly calls the Virgin the administrator of Paradise, who is constantly engaged in obtaining mercy, imploring graces for all, both the just and the sinners. 'The Lord has his eyes on the righteous' (Psalm 33:16). But the Lady's eyes, says Richard of Saint Lawrence, are turned both towards the just and towards sinners. And this is because Mary's eyes are a mother's eyes, and a mother does not..."  "Look only to prevent your child from falling, but also, having fallen, to help him up."

Saint Alphonsus Liguori

THE TRADITIONAL HOLY MASS, THE MASS THAT SANCTIFIED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR MANY CENTURIES

For centuries before 1970, this was how Mass was celebrated throughout the world, the same Mass that nourished the souls of saints and sinners for centuries. The priest stood before the altar with the people, offering a sacrifice to God, present in the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle. With the exception of the homily, the Mass was sung, chanted, or spoken entirely in Latin.

⚜️This is the Mass where St. Joseph of Cupertino was seen levitating.

⚜️This is the Mass that St. Gregory the Great inherited, developed, and solidified.

⚜️This is the Mass that Saint Thomas Aquinas celebrated, lovingly wrote about, and to which he contributed (composing the Proper Mass and the Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi).

⚜️This is the Mass that Saint Louis IX, King of France, attended three times a day.

⚜️This is the Mass that Saint Philip Neri had to withdraw from before celebrating, because it easily led him into an ecstasy that lasted for hours.

⚜️This is the Mass that was first celebrated on the shores of America by Spanish and French missionaries, such as the North American Martyrs.

⚜️This is the Mass that priests secretly said in England and Ireland during the dark days of persecution, and this is the Mass that Blessed Miguel Pro Juárez risked his life to celebrate before being captured and martyred by the Mexican government.

⚜️This is the Mass that Blessed John Henry Newman said he would celebrate every waking moment of his life if he could.

⚜️This is the Mass that Father Frederick Faber called "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven."

⚜️This is the Mass that great artists such as Evelyn Waugh, David Jones, and Graham Greene loved so much, and whose loss they mourned with sorrow and alarm.

⚜️This is the Mass so revered that even non-Catholics like Agatha Christie and Iris Murdoch came to its defense in the 1970s.

P. MURR DIXIT

 

UNITY IS NOT ABOVE TRUTH

“The great danger that threatens Catholics today, and a large part of the hierarchy, is the desire to reconcile things that are irreconcilable… Some, in fact, do not realize that by declaring, ‘We must abandon the Catholic ghetto and adopt a more positive attitude toward the world,’ they open the door to the devil, who leads them to no longer see the irreconcilable and endless contrast between the spirit of Christ and the spirit of the world… Unity is not above truth.”

Dietrich von Hildebrand

PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PURITY OF THEIR CHILDREN.

Parents must watch over and nurture the purity of their children from a very young age, so that they acquire shame and honesty, and are modest in their speech, manners, and dress. It is the responsibility of parents to prevent their children from acquiring bad habits in this area, even if they do not understand the wrongness of their actions, because later it will be difficult for them to free themselves from vice.

Parents, take care of your children. Let us see what Pius XII says: “Unfortunately,” says the Pope, “it sometimes happens that Christian parents, with such care in the education of a son or daughter, always keeping them away from dangerous pleasures and bad company, suddenly see their children, at 18 or 20 years of age, victims of miserable and scandalous falls: the good seed they sowed has been ruined by the weeds.

Who was the enemy of humankind who caused so much harm?”  “What happened,” the Pope continued, “was that in that same home, in that little paradise, the tempter, the cunning enemy, stealthily entered and found there the corrupting fruit to offer to innocent hands. A book left by chance on the father’s table was what destroyed the faith of his baptism in the son; a novel abandoned on the sofa or in the bedroom by the mother was what obscured the purity of her first communion in the daughter.”

The weeds can enter by leafing through magazines or newspapers found around the house; through television, through a news segment the child happened to see. Parents, guard the souls of your children. Please keep them away from the internet, tablets, and iPads, where they can access practically anything. They already see so much evil outside the home. May they at least find purity and virtue within it, beginning with the example of their parents.

What good is it to gain the whole world if we lose our soul?  What value is there in the instant and fleeting satisfaction that causes us to lose heaven, deserve hell, and crucify Our Lord anew? Trusting in God, distrusting ourselves, with firm resolve, let us be chaste and pure according to our state in life.

Declaration of Catholic Faith to the Pope by the SSPX.

May 14, 2026, Menzingen. In a powerful letter, the Society of Saint Pius X has presented a declaration of Catholic faith to Pope Leo XIV.

The document, signed by Father David Pagliarani, reaffirms the pillars of Tradition in the face of modern errors that undermine morality.

The declaration is clear: the Catholic Church is the only path to salvation, and the Mass is a sacrifice, not merely a meal.

Furthermore, it defends the social reign of Jesus Christ and categorically rejects any changes to sexual morality or blessings outside the natural order.

This text seeks to confirm the faithful in the unchanging Roman Catholic faith, emphasizing that unity is only possible through shared truth.

A firm stance that marks the future of traditionalist dialogue in the Church and that deserves not only a response from His Holiness Leo XIV, but also the acceptance of an interview with Father Pagliarani before July to discuss the authorization of episcopal consecrations. If dialogue is to be practiced with everyone, it should also be practiced with those who share the same faith.

The full text follows:

Declaration of Catholic Faith addressed to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV by Fr. Davide Pagliarani Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X 

 Most Holy Father, 

 For more than fifty years, the Society of Saint Pius X has endeavoured to set before the Holy See a matter of conscience in the face of the errors that are destroying Catholic faith and morals. Regrettably, all the discussions entered into have remained without result, and none of the concerns expressed have received any truly satisfactory response. 

 For more than fifty years, the only solution truly considered by the Holy See has appeared to be that of canonical sanctions. To our great regret, it seems to us that canon law is thus being used, not to confirm in the Faith, but to lead away from it. 

 In the text that follows, the Society of Saint Pius X is glad to express to You, filially and sincerely, its devotion to the Catholic Faith, concealing nothing, either from Your Holiness or from the Universal Church. 

 The Society places this simple Declaration of Faith in Your hands. It seems to us to correspond to the minimum indispensable to be in communion with the Church, and to truly call ourselves Catholics and, consequently, your sons. 

 We have no other desire than that of living and being confirmed in the Roman Catholic Faith. 

 “Thus, remaining firmly rooted and established in the true Catholic Faith, strive always to be worthy ministers of the divine Sacrifice and of the Church of God, which is the Body of Christ. 

 For, as the Apostle says: ‘all that is not of faith is sin’,1 schismatic and outside the unity of the Church.”2 

 DECLARATION OF CATHOLIC FAITH 

 In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, divine Wisdom, the Word Incarnate, Who willed one sole religion, Who rendered the Old Covenant definitively null and void, Who founded one sole Church, Who triumphed over Satan, Who conquered the world, Who remains with us until the end of time and Who shall come again to judge the living and the dead. 

 He, the perfect Image of the Father, the Son of God made man, was appointed the sole Redeemer and Saviour of the world through the Incarnation and the voluntary offering of the Sacrifice of the Cross. Our Lord satisfied divine justice by shedding His Most Precious Blood, and it is in that Blood that He established the New and Eternal Covenant, abolishing the Old. He is therefore the sole Mediator between God and men and the sole way to come to the Father. Only he who knows Him knows the Father. 

 By divine decree, the Most Holy Virgin Mary has been directly and intimately associated with the entire work of Redemption; to deny this association — in the terms received from Tradition — is therefore to alter the very notion of Redemption as willed by divine Providence. 

 There is only one Faith and one Church by which we may be saved. Outside the Roman Catholic Church, and without the profession of Faith that she has always taught, there is neither salvation nor remission of sins. 

 Consequently, every man must be a member of the Catholic Church in order to save his soul, and there is but one baptism as the means of being incorporated into her. This necessity concerns the whole of humanity without exception and embraces without distinction Christians, Jews, Muslims, pagans, and atheists. 

 The mandate received by the Apostles, to preach the Gospel to every man and to convert every man to the Catholic Faith, remains binding until the end of time and responds to the most absolute and most pressing necessity in the world. “He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”3 Therefore, to renounce the fulfilment of this mandate constitutes the gravest of crimes against humanity. 

 The Roman Church alone possesses simultaneously the four marks that characterize the Church founded by Jesus Christ: Unity, Holiness, Catholicity, and Apostolicity. 

 Her unity flows essentially from the adherence of all her members to the one true Faith, faithfully preserved, taught, and handed down by the Catholic hierarchy throughout the centuries. 

 The denial of even a single truth of the Faith destroys faith itself and renders radically impossible all communion with the Catholic Church. 

 The only possible path to restoring unity among Christians of different confessions consists in the urgent and charitable appeal addressed to non-Catholics to profess the one true Faith within the one true Church. 

 The Catholic Church can in no way be regarded or treated on an equal footing with a false form of worship or a false church. 

 The Roman Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ, is the sole possessor of supreme authority over the whole Church. He alone directly confers on the other members of the Catholic hierarchy jurisdiction over souls. 

 “The Holy Ghost was not promised to the successors of Peter that they might make known, by His revelation, a new doctrine, but that, by His assistance, they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation transmitted by the Apostles, that is, the Deposit of the Faith.”4 

 To a unique Faith there corresponds a unique form of worship, the supreme, authentic, and perfect expression of that same Faith. 

 The Holy Mass is the perpetuation in time of the Sacrifice of the Cross, offered for many and renewed upon the altar. Although offered in an unbloody manner, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is essentially expiatory and propitiatory. No other form of worship offers perfect adoration. No other form of worship that is not ordered to it is pleasing to God. No other means is sufficient for the sanctification of souls. 

 Consequently, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can in no way be reduced to a mere commemoration, to a spiritual meal, to a sacred assembly celebrated by the people, to the celebration of the Paschal mystery without sacrifice, without satisfaction of divine justice, without expiation of sins, without propitiation, and without the Cross. 

 The help afforded to souls by the Sacraments of the Catholic Church is sufficient in every circumstance and in every age to enable the faithful to live in a state of grace. 

 The moral law contained in the Decalogue and perfected in the Sermon on the Mount is the only one practicable for obtaining the salvation of souls. Every other moral code — founded, for example, on respect for creation or on the rights of the human person — is radically insufficient to sanctify and save souls. In no way can it replace the one true moral law. 

 Following the example of St. John the Baptist, true charity obliges us to warn sinners and never to renounce the means necessary to save their souls. 

 He who eats the Body of Our Lord and drinks His Blood whilst in a state of sin eats and drinks his own condemnation, and no authority can alter this law contained in the teaching of St. Paul and in Tradition. 

 Sins of impurity that are against nature are of such gravity that they always and in every circumstance cry to God for vengeance, and are radically incompatible with every form of authentic Christian love. Such a ‘lifestyle’ can therefore in no way be recognized as a gift from God. A couple practising this vice must be helped to free themselves from it, and can in no way be blessed — formally or informally — by ministers of the Church. 

 The submission of institutions and nations, as such, to the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ flows directly from the Incarnation and the Redemption. Therefore, secularism of institutions and nations constitutes an implicit denial of the divinity and universal kingship of Our Lord. 

 Christendom is not a mere historical phenomenon, but the only order willed by God among men. 

 It is not for the Church to conform herself to the world, but for the world to be transformed by the Church. 

 It is in this Faith and in these principles that we ask to be instructed and confirmed by Him Who has received the charism to do so. With the help of Our Lord, we would rather die than renounce them. It is in this immutable Faith that we desire to live and die, in the hope that it may give way to the direct vision of the immutable eternal Truth. 

 Menzingen, 14 May 2026, on the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord 

 Davide Pagliarani