VLX 54: Christ On Fasting
Mt 9:14-17. Is fasting just something for the Old Testament folks? https://youtu.be/NgHH7RXLQl4
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02, 2021
A Thank You and Tax-Note to My Donors
Dearest Benefactors, Ave Maria! Thank you so much for your donations to me. As we approach tax season, please know that Peregrino Hermitage Ltd is a 501c3 non-profit. Its Federal tax ID is #83-4544433. For anyone who donated in 2020, you should be receiving an email from me on your total donations in 2020 very soon. If you don't, please email me at the email-address found on my donation page. According to my rule of life, I have been trying to pray a few hours a day and do online catechesis a few hours a day. This commitment (and lack of virtue) has delayed my responses to your snail-mail [...]
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02, 2021
CPX 53: The Hail Mary Part 2
Prayer part 11 in the Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 56 Q/A #7-11. Was it sappy poetry or philosophically true when Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote of Mary that she was “the Woman whom even God dreamed of before the world was made”? https://youtu.be/Y8UxEvsufuA
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02, 2021
Real Union Within the Catholic Church
With all these accusations of "schismatic" and "conspiracy theorist" being hurled from normy Catholics to traditional Catholics, let's see what St. Thomas Aquinas has to say: “The sin of unbelief, which fundamentally severs a man from the unity of the Church, simply speaking, makes him to be utterly unfit for receiving this sacrament of the Eucharist because it is the sacrament of the Church's unity.”—St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 3.80.5ad2 This means that sins against the Deposit of the Faith unchanged from Apostolic times is more what separates a Catholic from worthiness to receive the Eucharist than fighting for reform within the hierarchy. (In fact, fighting for Church reform comes from [...]
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02, 2021
VLX 53: Jesus Calls Matthew
Mt 9:9-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJImqIn6omI
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02, 2021
Replacement Morality and Risk Aversion
One of the effects of Fatima's foreboding "errors of Russia" is women in the workplace, which is tantamount to feminism. Feminism has changed the landscape of Catholic morality not only in specific areas of sterilization, contraception and abortion, but also in general areas of morality. For example, it has flattened any transcendent morality into an imminent morality of paranoid risk aversion. (A woman acting feminine is not the same as acting effeminate, so don't even try to call this a "misogynistic" post.) Last week, I walked out of a semi-enclosed marketplace drinking a cup of coffee. Naturally, the mask was below my chin. As I was about to exit out [...]
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02, 2021
Life Update 2021.02.08
Three things today: 1. My PO Box went down but it is now back in business. You can find it on my donate page. 2. Two unexpected diversions to my normal life of prayer was when a) a Catholic filmmaker invited several of us priests out for a super-charging retreat to his place in California... Mel Gibson, myself and Fr. Jim Altman spent four days in Southern California at Mel's place with a few other priests in January 2021. ...and b) after a wedding in Dallas I got to spend a morning (and later) an evening with Dr. Taylor Marshall: 3. Please note that even though I'll be [...]
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02, 2021
CPX 52: The Hail Mary, Part 1
Prayer part 10 in the Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 55 Q/A #1-6. (Mariology graph h/t to the Church Fathers, Dr. Scott Hahn and Catholic Answers.) https://youtu.be/FwBMSxDtuGg
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02, 2021
How Good Catholic Teens Are Getting Groomed by Online Predators (It’s Not How You Think.)
All parents should watch the below 7-minute video to see not so much how bad girls get trafficked but rather how good girls get trafficked. It is called The Dangers of Social Media (Child Predator Experiment) and it has over 61M views. This channel belongs to Coby Persin who is not a trafficker himself, but is fronting as a trafficker fronting as good teen-boy to meet a good teen girl: https://youtu.be/6jMhMVEjEQg However, unlike the above video, the person on the other end of your kid's FB app is usually not a good-man fronting as a trafficker. Rather, he is a real trafficker. It was brought to my attention twice this past week that Catholic families [...]
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02, 2021
VLX 52: Prayer Method Review
Newcomers and old-tymers can review the prayer methods of St. Bruno and St. Teresa of Avila as a mid-point study-session in our mental prayer series on St. Matthew’s Gospel. I discuss also why we rely so heavily upon the Church Fathers via Fr. Lapide SJ in this VLX series. https://youtu.be/7f9Q7tjYpa0