Month of May round-up (and then some)!

Posted on June 2, 2016July 17, 2017 | by aklusman

Well, May came and went like a rocket. Which… well, is good and bad. So, what’s happened in the meanwhile? My Uncle (Fr. Christopher!) was exemplified in the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus in mid-April. I was able to meet a number of Wisconsin Knights of Columbus, and found the KofC reach in […]

St Stanislaus, altar rails

Posted on May 4, 2016July 17, 2017 | by aklusman

Recently, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest at St. Stanislaus installed a new altar rail in the church. If you read Cream City Catholic, you’ll see a bit more information on the altar rail there. The original altar rail was removed in the sweeping centennial changes ushered in by the pastor of the […]

Devotion to St Dominic, a brief review

Posted on May 2, 2016April 21, 2016 | by aklusman

Devotion to St. Dominic is a rather short work written by the Provincial of Toulouse (at the time), and he exhorts and calls his fellow religious to rediscover the gifts of St. Dominic in the Dominican Order. I powered through the book in probably one or two hours (it was not a very long or hard read), […]

15 Tuesdays in Honor of St Dominic

Posted on April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 | by aklusman

Light of the Church, Teacher of truth, Rose of patience, Ivory of chastity, You freely poured forth The waters of wisdom, Preacher of grace, Unite us with the blessed. (O Lumen Ecclesiae) There is an old Dominican tradition of dedicating Tuesdays to St. Dominic, extending back to the translation of his relics in 1233 at Bologna (which took place on Whit-Tuesday, May […]

A hidden treasure in Milwaukee

Posted on April 21, 2016April 21, 2016 | by aklusman

It is without a doubt that Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a number of amazing “hidden treasures” all over the city, both secular and religious. Me being me, I’ll obviously have a primary focus on the religious ones, since that’s what I enjoy the most, but a few secular ones might pop up here and there (the […]

A few Dominican things…

Posted on April 11, 2016April 8, 2016 | by aklusman

It’s been more than a week since my last Dominican post, so here’s another one! First, New Liturgical Movement has posted a video of the Dominican Rite Mass on the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, which was celebrated by the priests of the Fraternity of St Vincent Ferrer in Rome. Second, this Breviarium S.O.P. post on […]

Holy Card Lent 2016 Roundup

Posted on April 7, 2016March 30, 2016 | by aklusman

If you’re interested in seeing the list of 40ish prayer and holy cards featured this past Lent, this post is for you. I hope to make this a regular Lenten and maybe Advent “feature”, so, I’ll keep these somewhat organized. Hopefully. As a note, I’ve taken my liturgical calendar from the FSSP’s Nebraska seminary website. […]

Anti-Catholic American sentiment

Posted on April 5, 2016March 20, 2016 | by aklusman

About a month ago, my Archbishop (Jerome Listecki) penned a wonderful opinion piece entitled “That old anti-Catholic bias is rearing its ugly head again” in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. In it, he discusses the ever-present anti-Catholicism that is tolerated and promoted by the elites and establishment of this country, as it has been for the last […]

Prayer before work

Posted on April 1, 2016March 20, 2016 | by aklusman

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, Catholics love to sanctify pretty much everything. As a Western Province Dominican recently wrote, “Blessing is a way of claiming something for God’s kingdom. All things should be blessed.” I think it is fair to extrapolate that out to everything we do should be done for the kingdom […]

Sacralizing the mundane

Posted on March 30, 2016March 8, 2016 | by aklusman

Once again I’ll point towards a great article over at New Liturgical Movement. Recently, Dr. Kwasniewski wrote a piece covering some exquisite custom-made altar cards from Notre Dame in Paris, France. They are rather beautiful, and they speak more and more to the great Catholic trait and habit of beautifying and sacralizing even the most basic […]