Sermons according to the Traditional

15 05, 2018

On Exiting the Gay Lifestyle 2 of 2

By |2019-04-04T20:36:00+00:00May 15th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

I interviewed Joseph Sciambra about his exit from work in gay pornography to a chaste life in the Catholic Church. This is part 2 of 2, live from the Castro, San Francisco. You can find a lot more about Joseph's life and apostolate at www.josephsciambra.com. You can watch both of these coffee-shop interviews with Joseph and myself on Sensus Fidelium.

29 04, 2018

Heresy Podcast: 4th century Arians vs. St. Athanasius

By |2019-04-04T20:37:17+00:00April 29th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

This podcast considers the heresy of Arius and how St. Athanasius (featured image on blog, feast day 2 May) promoted the faith that is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. That Christ is homoousian (of one substance or one in being) with the Father is the true and orthodox view.  Heterodox or heretical views include homoiousian (that the Son is of a similar substance to the Father but not the same) and homoian (that the Son is similar to the Father, in all things, without speaking of substance) and heteroousian (that the Son is of a different substance from the Father, that is, created, as Arius wrongly taught.)  But again, the orthodox teaching [...]

26 03, 2018

Heresy Podcast 3: The Third Century

By |2019-04-05T04:19:53+00:00March 26th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

This podclass tackles the heresies of the third century including Sabellius (founder of Modalism), Paul of Samosata (forerunner of the Adoptionist heresy), Manes (founder of Manichaeism that temporarily ensnared St. Augustine early on in his conversion) and  finally we consider two semi-heretics, Tertullian and Origin.   On the blog that has photos, you can see Tertullian above.  Below is Man-E-Faces, a good symbol of the Sabellian or Modalist heresy.  The third century heresies as outline by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the 18th century can be found on this link.

11 03, 2018

Mary’s Trust in Crisis

By |2019-04-05T04:20:21+00:00March 11th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Mary is the Heavenly Jerusalem even on earth at the cross, so we'll consider the virtue that helps frees us from Satan's bonds even before heaven. This sermon was given on Laetare Sunday, 2018. (I'll be away from the parish next week so there will be no podcast next week. In two weeks you'll hopefully have both a new sermon and Heresy Class 3.)

6 03, 2018

Heresy Podclass 2: The Second Century

By |2019-04-05T04:20:59+00:00March 6th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

In this “podclass” we’re going to see why Marcionism is the most prolific heresy today. Marcion was a second century heretic who taught that the God of the Old Testament was a different God from the New Testament. The section of St. Alphonsus Liguori's book can be found here. Scroll down to #8 to read about Marcion. Correction.  I should have said the following:  "St. Cyril of Alexandria taught that St. Paul wrote the New Testament book of Hebrews in Hebrew and St. Luke translated it to the Greek."

3 03, 2018

How to Meditate

By |2019-04-05T04:21:12+00:00March 3rd, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

In this sermon I teach the two ways of meditation, Lectio Divina and Mental Prayer, according to St. Bruno and St. Teresa of Avila, respectively. These are the two books I suggest are for learning Lectio Divina and Teresian Mental Prayer. This sermon was given on the third Sunday of Lent, 2018, but this is the longer version recorded in my room due to time constraints on our exit from the Missa Cantata at the basilica.  Here's another short example that I gave on how to meditate on the first Christmas.

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