RCT 19: The Hidden Mysteries
The Roman Catechism of Trent {RCT} p. 48-50. The Creed, Article III, Part D - My site: www.padreperegrino.org - Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 *** https://rumble.com/embed/v2lq94w/?pub=e5jg1
How to Offer Yourself at Holy Mass
As many of you know, the three parts of sacrifice as found in both the Old Testament and New Testament is 1) The offering and 2) The slaying and 3) the consummation of the victim. Regarding the second of those three, most of the Catholic world is unaware that the dual-consecration of the body and the blood entails the slaying. St. Gregory Nazianzus wrote, "The priest sunders with unbloody cut the body and blood of the Lord, using his voice as a sword." Keep in mind that St. Gregory was the Archbishop of Constantinople in the 4th century. That means he is very early and very Eastern in Church history, so even an Eastern Father like St. Gregory highlights the sacrificial nature of the Holy Sacrifice being found in the separation of the body and the blood of Jesus. This [...]
“I Will See You Again.”
A little while, and you will see me no longer, and again a little while and you will see me.—St. John 16:16 John 16 is one of the most intimate chapters of the New Testament. Jesus has just washed the feet of the Apostles (chapter 13) and then we have several chapters of Him explaining at the Last Supper the Father's love for the Son and the Son's love for His own Apostles. This is just before the arrest of Jesus Christ. As most of you know, St. John spends nearly half of his Gospel on the Triduum prayer and the Passion and Resurrection, and a large part of this is the Great Commandment and the Great Prayer found from John 13-18. Because John 16 is the chapter where Christ encourages the Apostles in regards to His own departure to [...]
One of the Original “Canceled Priests”
The top left is the late Fr. Enrique Tomas Rueda and the top right is the late Bishop Bonaventure Broderick. Both are, in some sense, among the original "canceled priests." I re-publish this tragic but inspiring account of Fr. Rueda written with the permission of Remnant Newspaper. Tu Es Sacerdos in Aeternum—by Thomas Ryan I hadn’t heard from Fr. Rueda in at least two months when an email message, forwarded multiple times, showed up in my inbox last month indicating he’d died. In time, I would learn there was some rather bizarre news associated with that of Father’s passing. Fr. Enrique Tomas Rueda was a native of Havana, Cuba. In fact, he’d spent some time in a Cuban jail following the Bay of Pigs invasion before coming to the U.S. as a seminarian. He graduated from Catholic University in Washington as a [...]
VLX 131: Mt 21:23-32. “By What Authority?”
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Complacency and Gratitude
The above is a picture I look of the art behind the main altar of the new Immaculata Church in St. Mary's, Kansas. While walking around the town of St. Mary's last week, and while praying in the new Immaculata Church, I started to wonder about all the Things We Lost in the Fire which was the title of last blog post regarding the history of the past 100 years in St. Mary's, Kansas and even the last 100 years of the Catholic Church at-large. The former seems to have been a microcosm of the former, especially in her demise under the Jesuits. But the renewal of the former (under inspiration of the Immaculata) also hopefully portends the restoration of the latter, even at a global scale in the Catholic Church. As I was bemoaning "the changes" of the Catholic [...]
RCT 18: The Virgin Birth and “The Chosen”
The Roman Catechism of Trent {RCT} p. 46-48 The Creed, Article III, Part C. - Life Update: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/04/production-update/ - My Chosen blog: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2021/04/chosenblasph/ - Benedictine Sisters singing: https://benedictinesofmary.org - Rumble channel (subscribe, please:) https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 https://rumble.com/embed/v2hys9i/?pub=e5jg1
Things We Lost in the Fire
As seen in the picture I took above, I visited the new Immaculata Church in Kansas. The new $42M Church was consecrated (dedicated to God) on the third of May, 2023. The Immaculata was built by the SSPX. They are canonically-irregular but not schismatic. Remember that in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI lifted the putative-excommunications previously placed on their bishops. Even the current Vatican recognizes all their Masses as valid, and even all their confessions as both valid and licit. Although I have no desire (nor intention) to leave my Archdiocese and apply to the SSPX, I very much admire their adherence to keeping the ancient Catholic faith during this time of near-global apostasy. (As I replied on Facebook earlier to a concerned reader, "A Franciscan visiting a Dominican Church in the Middle-Ages doesn't automatically make him a Dominican.") Recently, I was on [...]
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 [...]