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Is the Eucharist a “Prize For the Perfect”?

Many modernist-heretics since the 1970s have purposefully conflated the requirement to receive Holy Communion in a state of grace with the notion of receiving Holy Communion in a state of perfection.  This is purposeful and diabolical ambiguity.  The Bible and the Catholic Church have always taught that one must receive Holy Communion in "a state of grace."  One need not be in a "state of perfection" (normally seen as the unitive stage of prayer, or the religious state or the state of being a bishop) to receive Holy Communion. In light of the above purposeful-conflation, modernist heretics since the 1970s have often said things like "The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect" in order to deceive those in mortal sin to approach the Eucharist.  Yes, it really is that deliberate, and it really is that evil.  Perhaps such [...]

By |March 7th, 2024|

Who Gave Priests the Right To Defend Traditional Catholicism?

Anyone who tries to phone me knows that my device is in "airplane mode" about ¾ of the day and then in "moon mode" the other ¼ of the day.  This isn't to be rude, but because a traditional priest has several hours of prayer a day.  Due to this (and not having a community with whom to share various duties) my only time for "reading" is while washing dishes or cleaning my hermitage or running to the hospital for extreme unction.  Thus, I listen to pre-downloaded audio-books or podcasts or Rosaries on airplane-mode much of the day while not in prayer or writing.  My goal is to then turn my phone back on during the evening to respond to many texts, maybe one phone call. Yesterday, I listened to two very different podcasts that dovetail in this article.  Although [...]

By |March 5th, 2024|

VLX 146: Mt 25:14-30. “The Parable of the Talents.”

-My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; [...]

By |March 4th, 2024|

The Scarcity Principal on the Deposit of the Faith

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the Precious Blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.—1 Pt 1:18-19. The above quote from Sacred Scripture shows that the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ is objectively of infinite value to our salvation from sin, death, hell and demons.  But many Catholics today subjectively take the shed-blood of Jesus for granted.  As I have written before, a diocesan bishop once admitted to me that 80% of the Catholics in his Archdiocese received Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin every Sunday. And I agree with him. (I have no problem with him admitting that to me, except the casual manner in which he presented it.)) Earlier this year, I [...]

By |February 29th, 2024|

Fr. Leo: Denver’s Priestly Martyr of the 20th Century

The Martyrdom of Father Leo Heinrichs OFM, by David Gabler, citing the February 1908 edition of the Denver Catholic Register: Father Leo Heinrichs woke up the morning of Feb. 23, 1908, and prepared for the 6 a.m. Mass at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in Denver. While he normally said the 8 a.m. Mass, Father Leo asked his vicar, Father Wulstan Workman, if he would switch on account of a meeting he had later that morning. It was the last Mass the Franciscan priest ever celebrated. While distributing Holy Communion, an Italian immigrant named Giuseppe Alia approached the altar rail, and knelt down to receive Holy Communion as given to him by Father Leo. However, upon receiving it, Alia spit the Sacred Host out into his hand and threw it in the face of Father Leo. As the Eucharist fell [...]

By |February 27th, 2024|

TCE 55: The History of Catholic Rules on Fasting with Matt Plese

Did you know that the Catholic rules on fasting changed every few hundred years even before Vatican II? Mr. Matthew Plese may be the greatest historian alive today on the ascetical practices of past ages of Christianity. He joins us today to explain the changes of Catholic Rules on Fasting in this Theology and Current Events (TCE) #55.  (If you make it to the end, I can almost guarantee you'll find our 100 minutes of ascetical theology worth it.) -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate to me: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Mr. Plese’s site: https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com -St. Nicholas Telegram channel for fasting Catholics: https://t.me/c/1759540558/6158

By |February 26th, 2024|

IVF Kills Thirty Children For Every One That Survives

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is defined by Yale Medicine as "a procedure that involves retrieving a woman's eggs and a man's sperm sample and combining the two in a laboratory dish."  Most Catholics in the pro-life movement are against IVF because "IVF replaces the marital act with a laboratory act and that an affront to the dignity of a child who is conceived." While that is true, the main reason we should be against IVF is not a violation of the 6th Commandment, but rather a violation of the 5th Commandment:  IVF eradicates many embryos (new individuals) to yield only a few living children.  A Catholic woman named Jenny Vaughn has a blog called Catholic Sistas in which she courageously shared her conversion story following the IVF procedures done by her and her husband.  She wrote: The doctor had retrieved [...]

By |February 25th, 2024|

Christ’s Revelation Is Built Upon Natural Law

Top-left: St. Thomas Aquinas.  Top-right: Person at  funeral for trans.-person at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC, p/c Time Magazine. Recently, someone asked me about the Catholic Church's teaching on "transgenderism." Before we get to theology, we must realize that certain members of society identify as "transvestite." Transvestite means "one who has changed clothes."  It is obviously possible to change your clothes, whether this be for ordered reasons (like a certain male-martyr described in the ancient Roman Martyrology who dressed up as a woman to save a Christian woman in a Roman prison in order to replace her) or for disordered reasons, like a man erroneously believing he is a woman. But to go transgender is biologically impossible.  Here is why: There are between 36,000,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body. Each of 30+ trillion cells has a genome containing [...]

By |February 22nd, 2024|
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