(Part 2) Best products from r/TraditionalCatholics

Traditional Catholicism, (read: Catholicism), is your birthright and the will of God.

Since you likely need to brush up on the basics to understand certain things, I highly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/My-Catholic-Faith-Louis-LaRavoire/dp/0963903268/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541519912&sr=8-2&keywords=my+catholic+faith

It's what the SSPX and FSSP use to teach adult catechism (generally).

If you can, find a good Traditional parish/chapel, and explain to Fr. your situation.

A fight for the Faith is a fight for your soul.

God will guide you where you need to go, in order to do His will. Trust in Him, and do what you can.

Fr. Adrian Fortescue was an English priests who wrote a number of books that were popular in the English Catholic world in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote about the Mass, about our separated Eastern brethren, etc.

He is best known these days for his work The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite, which describes the what and how of serving in the Extraordinary Form in great detail. It has information for any number of situations. It is a common first resource for MCs and priests, especially for those ceremonies that don't happen often (e.g. the Triduum). It is not a set of rubrics, as there aren't rubrics for servers, but his observations of the practices of various churches in his time.

Even after he went to his eternal reward, it has been updated - many editions were made under Fr. O'Connell. I'm not sure who does the most recent ones, but I think it's up to edition 15 or 16.

I'll send you a scan of the pages for Nuptial Mass in a bit, once I can dig it out.

Benedict XVI is the best non-traditionalist in my opinion. He has clear reasoning and no plain agenda. I mean he was clearly one of the progressives at the council and later was labeled a staunch conservative (haha). He has a lot of lectures and talks and writings out there. I also read this book which was good.

https://www.amazon.com/Theological-Highlights-Vatican-II-Benedict/dp/080914610X

This is a pretty good talk. Check out his book The Great Facade too.

No but there is an anthology of encyclicals going back to the 1700s: https://www.amazon.com/Papal-Encyclicals-1740-1981-Set/dp/0876502591s

Pretty much all of which is already on the Internet somewhere.

For other non-encyclical documents consult the Vatican website or the Internet.

For non-magisterial documents such as dramatic fiction, transcripts of lectures, poetry, brusquely worded notices to medieval English monarchs, letters of excommunication to German priests, ecumenical overtures and common declarations to ex-Catholic groups, addresses to the United Nations, greetings to groups of pilgrims to the Vatican etc etc etc consult the Internet but because of copyright laws you may need to search local libraries.

For other theological and controversial works, especially those from the first through the 18th centuries, consult the Internet or a library.

If you know Greek, Latin, and other ancient languages, Migne's Patrology is the obvious starting point.

And of course the encyclicals Benedictus Deus and Quomodo Omnia of Pope St Peter I are in most Bibles.

I think there may be a scrupulosity side to it, but as someone who often thinks the same, here are my thoughts:

1 - If you're focusing on the Hail Mary or the Our Father you're likely already meditating, just by considering what those words mean.

2 - Something I realized and that helps me a lot when I have too much on my head: you don't need to pray and meditate at the same time, you can meditate a little, pray an Ave, meditate a little, Ave, meditate a little, Ave, etc. And something that helped me with the "meditate a little" part was using the meditations in the book "The Rosary: With Illustrations and Meditations", for it has 10 meditations for each of the 15 mysteries, so you can think a little on each one before and after each Ave

The book is available for free on Archive.org (complete), and on my Google Drive (only the meditations, it's rar file with an epub and a mobi or azw3, I don't remember, it's better than the one on Archive), and you can buy a reprint on Amazon, if you prefer the physical thing, I don't know the quality though, I've never seen it.

I've heard the series A History of Christendom by Warren H. Carroll is pretty good. It's 6 volumes, so it should be in depth. Unfortunately an eBook of it isn't out if that's your preferred method of reading. Here's a link to the first volume. https://www.amazon.com/Founding-Christendom-History-vol/dp/0931888212

The author is Catholic, which I think is important if you want to actually get a good perspective about things, without having to constantly be vigilant for the always anti-Catholic bias that permeates every other secular or non-Catholic work. Doesn't make it infallible either though but generally it's a good thing to look out for.

The Middle Ages was awesome for Catholic philosophy and the Faith.

EDIT: You may find this book interesting! https://www.amazon.com/Those-Terrible-Middle-Ages-Debunking/dp/0898707811

What convinced me of the truth of evolution was hearing a talk from Dr. Kenneth Miller, author of Finding Darwin’s God. He’s a Catholic biologist who not only soundly explains the science of evolution and refutes scientific explanations for creationism, but also believes that rather than conflicting faith, an understanding of evolution enhances faith.

There's a really good book by Thomas E. Woods called How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. I believe his chapter on International Law briefly discusses Columbus. Once I get home this evening I'll check and see.

Edit: It turns out that Dr. Woods only uses Columbus as a way of introducing the topic of international law, and does not talk about Columbus himself.

So as a consolation prize, here's an article and video by Michael Knowles, with Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, arguing that Christopher Columbus was a good guy.

Free resources you should check out:

Peter and the Eastern Church by Fr. Ray Ryland

Infallability (especially the section titled 'The Pope')

Why I Didn't Convert to Eastern Orthodoxy by Fr. Brian Harrison O.S.

A Catholic (former Anglican) discusses Eastern Orthodox objections to Catholicism (there is a part 2 if you're interested)

 

Recommended books on the subject:

Jesus, Peter & the Keys: A Scriptural Handbook on the Papacy

20 Answers- The Papacy (20 Answers Series from Catholic Answers Book 10)

Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church

I’m interested to hear replies on this!

I watched a video that was posted on here a couple weeks ago about how it’s a sin or the bear occasion of sin to go to a public pool or beach. But maybe if TRad women wear appropriate swimwear and decide to go to a public swimming area, we could be an example to other women. :)

ModCloth and Amazon have awesome ‘40s style suits.

Red boy short one piece

Cherry print one piece

High waisted two piece

Black cover up

Cap sleeve bikini

Wine red sweetheart

Black skirt cover up

ModCloth two piece

I imagine that over the centuries some of the former pagans may have had some 'carry-over' occult rubbish but that would have been beaten out of them quickly. The only one I can think of is the fish symbol used by early disciples as a means to identify one another during persecution.Other than that all the art, in all it's forms, be it music or wrtings or paintings and so on only has one purpose, to glorify, and venerate our Lord.


https://www.amazon.com/Symbols-Christian-Faith-William-Steffler/dp/0802846769/ref=pd_rhf_se_s_pd_crcd__6/132-2055757-9738801?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0802846769&pd_rd_r=16c9f514-dd9d-481d-a2d7-4b87aa0313e6&pd_rd_w=g2n9J&pd_rd_wg=pbBXe&pf_rd_p=c6269878-d677-4a89-a68c-ff0df2b6ce6c&pf_rd_r=EQ7M0619FH7WG4ARJZP1&psc=1&refRID=EQ7M0619FH7WG4ARJZP1

https://www.amazon.com/Theistic-Evolution-Teilhardian-Wolfgang-Smith/dp/1597311332/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1549814631&sr=8-5&keywords=theistic+evolution

https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Evolution-Fr-Chad-Ripperger/dp/3848216256/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549814662&sr=8-1&keywords=metaphysics+of+evolution

You should read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280

https://www.amazon.com/Ceremonies-Roman-Rite-Described/dp/0860124622