QuickPod: Fear Leads to Sin
The phrase "be not afraid," is not just for your emotions... It's for your soul. https://rumble.com/embed/v2rncjq/?pub=e5jg1
Custody of the Eyes by St. Alphonsus
The following was written for religious, but lay people can learn much from The True Spouse of Jesus Christ by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori. The following excerpt is also found at www.saintsworks.net. 'Turn away your eyes lest they behold vanity; (cf. Ps. 119:37) for license causes souls to perish.'—St. Poemen Almost all our rebellious passions spring from unguarded looks; for, generally speaking, it is by the sight that all inordinate affections and desires are excited. Hence, holy Job made a covenant with his eyes, that he would not so much as think upon a virgin. Why did he say that he would not so much as think upon a virgin? Should he not have said that he made a covenant with his eyes not to look at a virgin? No; he very properly said that he would not think [...]
VLX 133: Mt 22:1-14. “Into the Highways.”
https://rumble.com/embed/v2n5oie/?pub=e5jg1 - St. Mary of Egypt life story: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2020/03/maryegyptpodcast/ - Fr. Paul Kramer on my podcast: https://rumble.com/v1d7wut-tce-46-fr.-paul-kramer-and-fatima.html - Miraculous Medal evangelization with Taylor Marshall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-g1DrkKh9U
Sermon from Lourdes
Second Sunday after Pentecost sermon.
Eastern Catholic Hermit from USA on Streets of Europe
https://rumble.com/embed/v2qqrxu/?pub=e5jg1
The Suicide of Altering the Faith
Before becoming Pope, Pope Pius XII wrote this in 1933: "I am concerned about the confidences of the Virgin to the little Lucia of Fatima. This persistence of the Good Lady in face of the danger that threatens the Church is a divine warning against the suicide that the alteration of the Faith, in its liturgy, its theology, and its soul, would represent. I hear around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her ornaments, and make her remorseful for her historical past. Well, my dear friend, I am convinced that the Church of Peter must affirm her past, or else she will dig her own grave. I will fight this battle with the greatest energy on the inside of the Church, just as outside of it, even if the [...]
RCT 20: “Suffered Under Pontius Pilate.”
The Roman Catechism of Trent {RCT} p. 51-53. The Creed, Article IV, Part A. - Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ - Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 https://rumble.com/embed/v2n5kum/?pub=e5jg1
Why Is Celibacy Higher than Marriage?
Realizing that most of my readers are lay, and realizing how the priest—child scandals have tanked not only the low trust placed in celibates not only by secularists but even by good Catholics, this blog has to tread on pretty raw ground. Let me stay at the outset that although Divine Revelation definitively holds it as true that celibacy is a higher vocation than marriage, the saints are clear that the priest's salvation is normally harder to attain than that of a lay person, due to the higher level of scrutiny at his particular judgment. This is obviously due to the duties and high-calling he has ostensibly answered in life. I will show you quotes from Our Lord and St. Paul, the Council of Trent and one amazing story from the Desert Fathers to demonstrate this. Notice that all those [...]
Who Is Sister Mary Wilhelmina OSB?
From Fr. David: Mary Elizabeth Lancaster was born on the 13th of April 1924 in St. Louis, MO. She entered Benedictine religious life as a teenager. Later in life, Sr. Mary Wilhelmina founded the traditional congregation Queen of Apostles. There, she died on 29 May 2019. Four years later, on 18 May 2023, she was exhumed and found incorrupt. (Incorrupt means minimal corruption to a deceased body, and this is normally seen as a sign of God affirming great sanctity in the life of the deceased.) The following guest post is written by Mother of Wildlings, @ravenousreader. Who was Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster? Most Catholics know her as the “Incorrupt Missouri Nun," but what was she like? She was an amazing woman who came from a pious family. She was born in St. Louis in 1934. She endured segregation and [...]
Spiritual Warfare in the US Military
From Fr. David Nix: Robert Green was my parishioner when I was a parochial vicar at a traditional parish on the East Coast. As the inside cover of his new book reads, Robert "has become one of the Navy's most vocal figures in the fight against the unlawful implementation of the military COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Banned from his building and fired from his position leading a 650-person unit, he is the author of numerous impactful internal Navy complaints, multiple whistleblower reports to Congress, and a key source of evidence for ongoing Federal Court cases related to the military vaccine mandate." Following Memorial Day, I believe this blog was best to honor our most loyal servicemen. Guest article, by Robert A. Green Jr.: For the secular powers of this present darkness, it is no longer sufficient for a service member (or [...]