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CMRI: A Traditional Catholic Religious Congregation
The Religious Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI) is dedicated to the preservation and spread of the traditional Catholic Faith. CMRI is responsible for over 50 traditional Catholic churches and Mass centers both in the U.S. and abroad, a number of schools staffed by religious, several publications, and a comprehensive online Catholic store. Read more about how these traditional Catholic priests, Brothers and Sisters live and spread the authentic Catholic Faith and the Fatima Message...
Announcements
On May 11 at Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska, Rev. Mr. Carlos Borja was ordained to the Diaconate, Rev. Mr. Nino Molina was ordained to the Subdiaconate, and Frater Michael Maria, CMRI, received the clerical tonsure.
On May 13, four young men were received into the CMRI novitiate in Omaha:
Brother Augustine Marie (Michael Walz)
Brother Francis Maria (Dominic Crawford)
Brother Philip Marie (Jonathan Davis)
Brother Mary Jerome (Nathan Williams)
Upcoming Events
| May 26 - June 3 | Sisters’ Novena in honor of the Queenship BVM | |
| July 9 - 13 | St. Joseph Seminary Boys’ Camp in Rathdrum, Idaho. Early Bird registrations must be in by June 15 to qualify for discount. | |
| July 9 - 14 | The Girls’ Camp staffed by the CMD Sisters will be held at the convent in Persia, Iowa. | |
| June 27 | Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help: Sisters’ Vows Ceremonies at Mount St. Michael. Final Profession of Sr. Michael Marie and Sr. Maria Veronica, CMRI; reception as CMRI Novices: Sr. Mary Knox and Sr. Theresa Peck | |
| July 23 - 27 | Knights of the Altar Boys’ Camp in Colorado. Registrations submitted by June 25 qualify for Early Bird discount. | |
| July 31-Aug. 7 | Camp St. Philomena for Girls: Early Bird registrations must be in by May 15 to qualify for discount. | |
| Aug. 8-16 | Ladies’ Retreat / R&R at Mount St. Michael (for women ages 25 and up) |
Current Editions of CMRI’s Publications
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The Reign of Mary CMRI’s quarterly magazine: (Subscribe) The latest issue of The Reign of Mary (#146) is almost completed. We expect to mail it out towards the end of the month. (See list of articles below.) |
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Adsum Mater Dei Seminary’s free monthly newsletter: (Subscribe) April 2012: Holy Week and the Easter Vigil at Mater Dei Seminary; Moral Theology questions: Holy Communion for the mentally retarded child. |
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Anima Mariae (Soul of Mary) CMRI Sisters’ free quarterly newsletter: (Subscribe) The Spring 2012 issue of Anima Mariae has been mailed. In this issue, we share with you some thoughts about Lent, news about the new Novitiate chapel, and we will tell you about the various steps in the life of a CMRI Sister, from the day she enters up to her Perpetual Profession of Vows. Our next issue: June. Novenas: Annunciation BVM (March 26) and Queenship BVM (June 4). |
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2012 Traditional Catholic Calendar Full color Catholic calendar with beautiful pictures of famous Catholic paintings of Jesus, Mary and the saints. Includes Traditional Church feasts (Pope Pius XII), Holy Days of Obligation, laws of fast and abstinence. Also available: traditional Catholic planner. |
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Traditional Catholic Books and Religious Goods: Browse through Mary Immaculate Queen Center, staffed by the CMRI Sisters, and see their comprehensive selection of traditional Catholic books, pamphlets and calendars, as well as Catholic music and DVD’s, rosaries, scapulars, crucifixes and much more. Be sure to sign up for MIQ’s free mailing list so the Sisters can let you know about specials, new items, etc. |
Recent additions to the Article Index:
• Conciliar Church Says Jews Need Not Convert
• The Role of the Mother in the Family
• The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
• The Looming Canonization of John Paul II
• “Come, Follow Me...” (Priestly and Religious Vocations)
• Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the Home
Of Special Interest
Reclaiming a Hijacked Priesthood: 
Ordained in the modern Catholic Church in 2008, Michael Oswalt soon came to see that not only were his orders invalid, but that his Church was not truly the Catholic Church. He came to Mount St. Michael in January of 2010 to prepare for ordination in the traditional Catholic rite, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 2011.
View Fr. Oswalt’s online interview (2009) His letter to the clergy of the diocese of Rockford, a superb explanation of why the modern Church is not truly the Catholic Church, was published in Issue No. 138 of The Reign of Mary and may also be read at this link.
Also available: Feb. 2010 Talk at Mount St. Michael (CD)
“Reclaiming a Hijacked Priesthood: One Man’s Story” (CD)
CMRI’s Quarterly Magazine: The Reign of Mary
• The Reign of Mary Issue No. 146 will be sent to the printer on May 14. We hope to have it in the mail by Pentecost week. Included in this issue are the following articles:
° Too Little, Too Late
The Vatican’s Latest Attempt to Rein in Its Liberated
“Religious” Women
by Rev. Benedict Hughes, CMRI
Last month the Vatican, through its Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, charged several American bishops with the task of reforming the LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious). The LCWR is a group of religious superiors from various congregations of Sisters, representing most of the women religious of the Conciliar Church in this country...
° Papal Infallibility and the Crisis in the Church Today
Part I: Explanation of Church Teaching on Papal Infallibility
by Rev. Fr. Noel Barbara
This two-part series is the translation of a lecture given originally in French by Fr. Barbara in the 1980’s. The author (who was probably the first European priest to come to the conclusion of the vacancy in the papal chair), after recalling the Catholic doctrine on the Church and its Magisterium, shows why the popes of Vatican II cannot be true popes.
° Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conversion of the Aztecs
Part II: “I Alone Have Engendered You and Brought You Forth”
by Rev. Fr. Brendan Hughes, CMRI
“But scarcely had the Most Holy Virgin of Guadalupe appeared and taken possession of her inheritance, when the Catholic Faith spread with the rapidity of light from the rising sun, through the wide extent and beyond the bounds of the ancient empire of Mexico. Innumerable multitudes from every tribe... recognized their natural dignity, forgot their misfortunes, put off their instinctive ferocity, and, unable to resist such sweet and tender invitations, came in crowds to cast their grateful hearts at the feet of so loving a Mother, and to mingle their tears of emotion with the regenerating waters of Baptism.”
° In Season — Out of Season
The Most Priceless Treasure of the Church: The Blessed Sacrament
by Rev. Fr. Casimir Puskorius, CMRI
As priceless, as beautiful, as inspiring as St. Peter’s Basilica is, there is something in the Catholic Church infinitely more beautiful, infinitely more priceless, infinitely more valuable. This is what we honor today — the most sacred Body and Body of our Lord Jesus Christ in the tabernacle...
° Adoremus in Aeternum
The Science of the Liturgy
Taken from Clerical Studies by Very Rev. J.B. Hogan, S.S., D.D.*
The professional knowledge of the Catholic priest is chiefly theological, but not exclusively so. Side by side with it stands another science not less sacred in its object, and, if anything, still more closely connected with the priesthood than theology itself: it is the science of the Liturgy.
° The Wisdom of the Saints
The Twelve Degrees of Humility
Taken from the Holy Rule of St. Benedict
Jesus renounced pride from the time of His Birth, right up to His Crucifixion. In one of His sermons, Our Lord stated: “Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted” (Luke, 14:11). Therefore, let us humble ourselves before God in our prayers, works and actions, striving to gain everlasting glory.
° Servus Mariae
Trust in God’s Love
by Rev. Fr. Dominic Radecki, CMRI
God values our love to such an extent that He planned all His creation around us. He created mankind in order to lavish His love upon us and to be loved by us in return. And even when man turned away from Him by sinning, God could not endure the thought of losing the love of men, and so He sent His own Son as a Redeemer, to recapture our love...
° World Watch (short news stories compiled by The Reign of Mary staff):
Vatican Launches Rare Criminal Probe into Leaks
Statue of the Virgin of Lepanto Found
Gambia: We Would “Rather Eat Grass” than Accept Homosexual Behavior
Priest Criticized for Announcing That Only Catholics in State of Grace
Receive Should Receive Communion
Holy Robe of Jesus Exposed
Ireland Proposes Law to Force Priests to Break Confessional Seal
Campbell’s Soup Not Family-Friendly
Seven-Foot Easter Bunny Leads Prayers During Mass
Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life Hosts Pro-Contraception, Pro-IVF Speakers
13-year-old Girl Invents Cure for Hiccups
“De-Baptism” Movement Growing in Europe
Georgetown Invites Sebelius to Speak at Commencement Ceremony
Augsburg to Close 800 of Its 1000 Parishes
Japan Faces Severe Underpopulation; Resorts to “Rental Relatives”
A Horrific Trade: Powdered Baby Flesh
Football Coach: Homosexuality is a Sin
Colombia Redefines “Family” to Include Same Sex Unions
