The Apostolic Pardon
What are "Last Rites"? "Last Rites" is simply a compound-noun indicating the sacraments you hope to receive on your deathbed. First, the priest hears your confession. Then, you receive your final Holy Communion (aka Viaticum, literally "food for the journey.") Then, the priest gives you "extreme unction" (a Latin/English compound-noun simply meaning "anointing at the extreme—or end—part of your life.") After all of this, but before the Final Commendation of the Soul (of which I wrote about here for my mother) the dying person receives the Apostolic Pardon. (I also gave this to my mother, but didn't write about it in the above-linked blog post because most of you already knew about it.) But now, in retrospect, I realize I should have included it in the original blog post. This is because it is so powerful and beautiful (and important.) [...]
The Catechesis of Tradition
The above is a picture from the international Eucharistic Congress in 1926 at Soldier Field in Chicago. The faith and devotion in the picture seems obvious. I was at this night of entertainment in Rio De Janeiro in 2013 before the final "World Youth Day Mass" the following morning. However, great faith also appears present at the above picture at the Evening Vigil before the final Mass at World Youth Day in Rio De Janeiro in 2013. In fact, many more people were in Rio than at the Eucharistic Congress in 1926. Also, the Eucharist was exposed in a huge monstrance for probably a longer time Rio than in Chicago. I was there on that beach that night in Rio and I heard confessions until 2:30am. But something was still very "off" in Rio. As I wrote [...]
When Can You Judge Another?
When can you judge another? The short answer is that you can never judge another's intention, but you are required to judge the object of another's deeds when he interacts with you or tries to teach you. You are especially required to judge the object of another's deeds when his attempts at influencing you will affect your salvation or the salvation of those who are entrusted to you. Consider some quotes from Our Lord and the saints: Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.—Mt 7:1-6 When some monks planned to discipline a brother who was guilty of sin, they were reminded of this basic rule of non-judgement by the acted parable of one of the most loved and [...]
VLX 130: Mt 21:14-22. “The Mouth of Infants”
Production Update: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/04/production-update/ Why Apostolic Catholicism?: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/04/whyac/ https://rumble.com/embed/v2hyn7q/?pub=e5jg1
What Happened to the Jesuits… with Dr. Marshall
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Why “Apostolic Catholicism”?
Why do I always reference "Apostolic Catholicism" in my blogs and podcasts? Because I am convinced that what "normy-Catholics" label as "traditional Catholicism" is really nothing more than "Apostolic Catholicism." That is, our true faith and true liturgy goes back to what Christ gave to the Apostles. Granted, it's very easy for normy Catholics to mock traditionalists as being stuck in a time-warp to the 1950s. But our beef with modernism touches not on the level of wax in mustaches or which whiskey goes with a certain cigar. Rather, it has to do with the salvation of souls all across the world. You see, if the Catholic clergy of the 20th century attempted to change the Catholic doctrine and the Catholic liturgy necessary for our salvation without approval of God Himself, then the number one thing a priest like me [...]
RCT 17: The Incarnation
Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 44-46. The Creed, Article III, Part B: "The Incarnation." Production Update and Pilgrimage Info: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/04/production-update/ https://rumble.com/embed/v2h805u/?pub=e5jg1
“Let Nothing Disturb You” (Full Prayer)
Below is my own English translation of Let Nothing Disturb You, originally in the Spanish as Nada Te Turbe (far below) by the 16th century nun, St. Teresa of Avila. Let Nothing Disturb You Let nothing disturb you, nothing shake you. Everything passes, God does not change. Patience obtains everything. Whoever has God lacks nothing. Only God suffices. Elevate your thoughts to the heavens above. Let nothing distress you, nothing disturb you. Follow Jesus Christ with a big-heart, and come what may let nothing disturb you. Do you see the glory of the world? It's vain-glory. Nothing is stable, everything passes. Aspire unto the heavens which last forever. Faithful and rich in promises— God never changes. Love that which merits an immense goodness. But there is no pure love without patience. Confidence and a living faith maintain the soul. He [...]
The Feast Day for Two Early Papal-Martyrs
One of the most interesting arguments I hear against traditionalists these days goes something like this: "The lifestyle and liturgy of the early Christians was much more like that of modern charismatics than that of modern traditionalists." I too believed such silly arguments for a long time in my Catholic formation. Of course, there's mountains of evidence against such an assertion. The Roman Breviary for today's saints is just one such piece of evidence. Pope Saint Soter was martyred around AD 174 or 177. Pope St. Pope Caius (aka Gaius) was martyred in AD 296. Notice what the old Roman Breviary says about today's saints, but also notice what it also says about the lifestyle and liturgy of the very early Roman Christians: Soter, a countryman of Fondi in Campania, succeeded the holy martyr Anicetus. It was he who ordained that [...]
Avoiding Decisions in Desolation, Part 2: Specifics
p/c Daily Wire. In early 2023, Jordan Peterson (above left) interviewed Chloe Cole (above right) with probably well over 10 million listens across all forums. Chloe is an 18 year old woman who suffered gender-dysphoria and began to chemically "transition" at the age of 12. At the age of 15, she had a double-mastectomy that she described on this interview as "barbaric." She is now suing her surgeons and Kaiser Permanente of California as they proceeded into mutilating surgeries when she was not able to give informed-consent. Obviously, she could not give informed-consent to a mutilating reproductive surgery firstly because it was a mutilating sexual surgery and secondly due to her age and psychological desolation at the time. The first half of the two-hour interview was brilliant. However, I am not going to link the interview because in the second hour, [...]