RCT 14: His Only Son
The Creed, Article II, Part C. My site: www.padreperegrino.org Thanks to William Gil for bumpers, found at https://www.williamgil.net/cinema You can follow my daily updates on Telegram. https://rumble.com/embed/v25lrmi/?pub=e5jg1
A Circular Firing Squad of Catholics
Richard Williamson was born in the UK during WWII. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1971. He was later ordained a priest in 1976 and consecrated a bishop in 1988, both by Archbishop Lefebvre. Bishop Williamson was a bishop for the SSPX and later departed from them. Last year (in Spring 2022) I met Bp. Williamson in England and even stayed with him one evening. I found him very intelligent and gracious. However, you don't have to appreciate Bp. Williamson as much as I do to appreciate a prophetic quote from him below. I think even people who find him too "extreme" or too "controversial" or too "disobedient" need to keep reading. Last year, also in 2022, he was on Restoring the Faith's podcast (Apple link only there, as YouTube removed it for content violations.) I normally don't write a [...]
Septuagesima Sunday Sermon
Sunday Sermon Series (S1E9) My site: www.padreperegrino.org VLX 123: https://youtu.be/4wAfjP5jWFI
Early Martyrs Against Religious-Pluralism
Most modernist Catholics have a sentimental devotion to the early martyrs. Perhaps in the eyes of modernist Catholics, the early martyrs seem like weak but ignorant victims at the hands of bygone Roman procurators. Perhaps this is simply how things happened in a more cruel time of world history? Yet, we must remember that St. Felicity had her execution delayed with St. Perpetua precisely because she was pregnant. Even the Roman Empire would not kill an unborn baby, as they admitted this was shedding innocent blood. So, which age is more cruel? Ours or theirs? Another thing we may overlook today is that the pagan procurators of the Roman Empire wanted what most people today want: To be told that their own personal religion will get them to heaven. We are currently living through the same thing now, except for [...]
My Experience of the Sacraments in Africa
One of the few "racially insensitive" things I have said in my life (and by "insensitive" I mean how as a liberal, I spoke as a liberal, that is, talking down to ethnic folks while sounding like you're talking up to them) happened several years after my priestly ordination and I was visiting the FSSP seminary in Denton, NE. I met a Nigerian seminarian in the refectory and we talked about my mission work. (I told him how I had been on mission to Rwanda in 2014 as a priest. Then, I was still doing both the Novus Ordo and the TLM. See above picture and below picture.) In our conversation (around 2015, when I was nearly excluseively-TLM) I said to this Nigerian seminarian of the FSSP that I believed we in the West needed the Traditional Latin Mass, [...]
VLX 126: Mt 20:29-34. “Let Our Eyes Be Opened.”
- Donate: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ - Music bumpers: Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G-Maj perf. by Cooper Cannell. https://rumble.com/embed/v24i3u2/?pub=e5jg1 The blind woman who I reference in this sermon is standing next to me in this picture after the Walk for Life in San Fran.
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
-Sunday Sermon Series (S1E7.) -My blog "...by His Subjects" is at https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/01/whoinferior/
The Mystical Body’s Ever-Changing Crucifixion
The earliest age of the Church was the age of blood martyrs. As I currently am reading the Victories of the Martyrs by St. Alphonsus, I am repeatedly shocked how spontaneously the earliest Catholic men and women and children chide their Roman procurators for their pagan worship. Before the threat of flames, little girls openly declare they would rather suffer several minutes in the flames than the eternal flames to which the Roman procurator will throw himself if he does not repent for his idolatry. That early age of the Church carried the physical cross of Jesus Christ. Indeed, many of the early martyrs were literally crucified, as was Our Lord Jesus Christ. Then came the Edict of Milan. Early Church-history easily disproves the silly Protestant notion that AD 313 marked the bifurcation of the “charismatic Church” and the “hierarchical [...]
RCT 13: The Holy Name of Jesus
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 35-38 The Creed, Article II, Part B. https://rumble.com/embed/v23uh8a/?pub=e5jg1
Revisiting “Santa Muerte”
On my video called Theology and Current Events (TCE) #41 I was joined in early 2022 by Armando Valenzuela to discuss the Mexican “devotion” called “Santa Muerte.” Mr. Valenzuela is a former police officer and special-agent from the Los Angeles Police Department. One thing Armando made clear (and no one can accuse him of "racism" since he's half-Mexican and half-Pima Indian) is that the Santa Muerte devotion is not an old Mexican devotion based in Catholicism, but a new diabolical act of worship of the demon of death introduced into the country by Mexican drug cartels. Or, more likely, as we will see later, it is a return of the Aztec demons. On our podcast and video, Amando described going to a small Santa Muerte temple in Los Angeles. (Notice this "devotion" has spread beyond Mexico.) A man heavily involved [...]