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List of Patron Saints Expanded- 01/18/12

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"Should I Have Any Association with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)?" FAQ Updated - 01/14/12
This FAQ has been updated and expanded. For further information, click on FAQ04: Should I Have Any Association with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)?" in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics).

Sheet Music for Epiphany and Septuagesima Added - 01/04/12
The Gregorian chant and psalmody for the Third-Sixth Sundays of Epiphany, which occur on February 22-29 in 2012, has been added as an aid to small lay choirs in using Gregorian chant for the traditional liturgy. The Propers are given in psalmody, which is an approved, easier option for choirs to deal with than the full Gregorian chant. We are grateful to the St. John Schola for making this sheet music available to the TRADITIO Network for publication to our readers. For further information, see the TRADITIO Network's Gregorian Chant department.

The TRADITIO Network Reaches Its 15,000,000th Reader - 01/01/12
On January 1, 2012, in the seventeenth year of its apostolate on the internet, the TRADITIO Network logged its 15,000,000th reader. TRADITIO was the first traditional Roman Catholic site to appear on the World Wide Web and was founded on the Feastday of St. Michael the Archangel, September 29, 1994. We were here even before Newvatican was, even before Amazon.com was!
We thank the Lord for our over 15,000,000 readers over these years and for our hundreds of dedicated correspondents from all over the world, who keep us current on everything going on in the bowels of Newvatican, in the inner sancta of various traditional organizations, and at Traditional Latin Mass sites around the world. TRADITIO was determined by an Alexis-Amazon statistical survey to be the most read traditional Roman Catholic web site on the World Wide Web.
In their Daily Commentaries, the TRADITIO Fathers do not just copy news reports or the uninformed notions of johnny-come-lately "bloggers" in secular and religious publications, who in fact have very little background or understanding of the Traditional Catholic Movement. Nor is TRADITIO Network enslaved to any particular organization's viewpoint. Instead, the TRADITIO Network provides the hard-hitting, independent analysis and perspective of over half a century of Roman Catholic experience, even from before Vatican II.
The TRADITIO Network is avidly read within the highest bowels of at Newrome and Menzingen (SSPX). In addition to the Daily Commentaries from the Fathers, lively commentary on Church news from the traditional perspective, TRADITIO's other fifteen departments provide resources and materials for its readers to study and learn about the traditional Roman Catholic Faith.
We are particularly touched by the many thousands of messages that we have received from Newchurchers of the New Order, including Motarians, who say that they have been converted to the traditional Roman Catholic Faith because of TRADITIO's uncompromising, independent commentaries and materials. The TRADITIO Network is one of many means through which Our Lord appears be working out the Traditional Catholic Restoration of the 21st century.

2011 OFFICIAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY PUBLISHED - 12/16/11
THE TRADITIO NETWORK HAS BEEN INFORMED BY THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF TRADITIONAL LATIN MASSES THAT THE 17TH ANNUAL EDITION (2012) OF THE OFFICIAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY, LISTING ALL TRADITIONAL LATIN MASSES AND TRADITIONAL RESOURCES FOR NORTH AMERICA HAS BEEN PUBLISHED. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CLICK ON THE OFFICIAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY DEPARTMENT, PROVIDED TO THE TRADITIO NETWORK BY THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF TRADITIONAL LATIN MASSES. THE 2012 ANNUAL USE PRICE IS NOW DUE FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE 2012 EDITION AND ITS MONTHLY REVISED EDITIONS.

Read Today's Daily Commentaries from the TRADITIO Fathers

where every day the Fathers provide unique, provocative, often bitingly satirical commentary from half a century's observation of the Church both pre-and post-Vatican II, on current events in the Catholic Church from the traditional perspective.

Obtain the CURRENT MONTHLY REVISED EDITION of the Official Traditional Catholic Directory, Listing All Traditional Latin Masses and Traditional Resources for North America
Provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses

Those who have paid the $10 Annual Use Price for the current year's eBook Official Traditional Catholic Directory, Listing All Traditional Latin Masses and Traditional Resources for North America may update their copies to the CURRENT MONTHLY REVISED EDITION. We urge TRADITIO Network readers to buy and have on hand the current monthly revised edition of the Directory because we frequently refer our readers to it for traditional Mass locations and traditional resources, as well as the answers to many questions.
This 200-page E-book, in the universal and free Adobe Acrobat PDF format, includes the only complete list, by sponsoring organization, of the approximately 700 Traditional Catholic Latin Masses in the pre-Vatican II Roman Rite, regularly and publicly celebrated in North America, as well as contacts for Mass sites outside North America. It also includes a list of traditional Catholic periodicals, suppliers, organizations, seminaries, religious orders, lay societies, retreats, schooling, and a necrology of traditional Catholic priests.
For further information, click on the Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses.

Those who have paid the Annual Use Price to download the previous year's Original Edition and Monthly Revised Editions must pay the Annual Use Price for the current year, if they wish to use the current year's Original Edition and Monthly Revised Editions.

Pray Today's Traditional Divine Office

the most important prayer that the Church offers to Almighty God after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

See Today's Traditional Liturgical Calendar

where the Saint, rank, and color of the day are listed, together with any fast and abstinence applicable.

Listen to Gregorian Chant Provided to the TRADITIO Network by the St. John Schola for Gregorian Chant

For Gregorian chant recorded live, we recommend the St. John Schola CD series: A Traditional Chapel Sings Gregorian Chant:

Volume I: Christmas Matins of the Divine Office-An Abridgement (December 2006)
Volume II: First Mass of Christmas (December 2006)
Volume III: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (January 2007)
Volume IV: Pentecost (May 2007)
Volumes I-IV: Box Collection (May 2007)
Volume V: 14th Sunday after Pentecost (September 2007)
Volume VI: 4th Sunday after Easter (February 2008)
Volume VII: Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul (January 2009)
Volume VIII: Cantus Populares-Popular Chants (December 2009)
Volumes V-VIII: Box Collection (December 2009)
Volume IX: Holy Week and Easter (February 2011)

St. John Schola Volume I

In addition to its CD series, the St. John Schola has provided to the TRADITIO Network chant clips with supporting music sheets and booklets, which can be downloaded free of charge. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Gregorian Chant department.

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where the TRADITIO Network continuously offers for sale in a "silent auction" traditional Catholic books and compact discs that are typically hard to find and not listed on auction sites. Advance notice of this sale has been sent to those on our booksale E-mail list. If you would like advance notification of booksale announcements, simply E-mail your name and E-mail address to TRADITIO.

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