Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Family, 1st Day, Year of Our Lord 2023, Vigil of the Purification These are fictive meditations on the fifteen traditional mysteries of the Rosary. This fourth is the Presentation, which is the mystery by which Our Lady who needs no purification walks to the Temple in Jerusalem several […]
Taurus Necrus
Charity Seems to Have Completely Perish From the Face of the Earth
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 23rd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 My wife and I have been talking about this quote for a while, since I often use it, thinking it came from the apparition Our Lady of Good Success in Ecuador. In that very early apparition, two hundred years […]
Modesty
Author: The Reverend Alban Butler, public domain Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 21st Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 An excerpt from Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints, St. John Chrysostom: “The immodesty of women in their dress in that gay capital excited in him sentiments of the most just abhorrence and indignation. Some […]
Rorate Meditation
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 9th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 There is in the world many fires burning at the tips of candles, set to illumine this or that glory of God. All these are a type in goodness though with dimness of those wonderful stars which illumine Heaven, […]
Distraction: A Fictive Excerpt
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Holy Name, 8th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 This is something I wrote this morning inspired by my own experiences with minor distractions and stories about Padre Pio experiencing what I wrote. This is from an unfinished work with a working title: The Northern Man, which explores corruption […]
God’s Wrath Is Coming Very Quickly
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Immaculate Conception, 27th Day, Year of Our Lord 2022 On 24th of August 410, barbarians sacked and destroyed the Holy City of Rome. This was three and a half centuries after the sacking of Jerusalem, where God displayed His wrath with the Jews who had rejected His Son […]
Splendor
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Immaculate Conception, 26th Day, Year of Our Lord 2022 This is the foreword written by a dear friend of mine for a novel which is now available at TaurusNecrus.com. This novel is appropriate for women and men. It is a Catholic novel which I wrote as an alternative […]
Third Decade
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Immaculate Conception, 22nd Day, Year of Our Lord 2022 These are fictive meditations on the fifteen traditional mysteries of the Rosary. This third is the Nativity, which is the mystery by which the Incarnation of Our Lord appears in Creation outside of the Tabernacle, at midnight, in Bethlehem, […]
Why I have a publishing company
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Immaculate Conception, 19th Day, Year of Our Lord 2022 Let me give you some examples of popular novels which I regret reading recently. and alternative novels easily compared with them: Secular Novel Alternative Novel Priest speaks blasphemy and vulgarity before suffering a violent death Missionary prepares himself for […]
Don’t Tread On Me Part Two
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Immaculate Conception, 17th Day, Year of Our Lord 2022 This is a continuation of a scholarly work on American History from a Catholic perspective, by a local lecturer at Appalachian State University, who I have the honor of assisting to write it. It is the first part of chapter one. […]