TCE #36: All flesh shall see the salvation of God
If 6M Muslims a year convert to [mostly] non-Catholic Christianity, who is behind this? God or the devil? Listen to this "Theology and Current Events" (TCE) to get my best-guess. Yes, best-guess only here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HicsTNZ5pYc&t=1s
VLX 95: Their Heart is Far From Me
Mt 15:1-9 *** -Support my work here: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Mental prayer vs. Centering prayer: https://padreperegrino.org/2021/12/mentalprayer/ -True Obedience vs. False Obedience: https://padreperegrino.org/2021/08/obed/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtGBoN7yEbs
The Darkness Fears the Light
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.—Lk 2:1-2 Notice that Joseph and Mary had to go through a census or registration (ἀπογραφὴ or apographé in Greek in Lk 2:2 above) as Jews living under the foreign occupation of the Roman Empire. Herod, a half-Jew who was in cahoots with the Roman government that had invaded, presumably used this registration to track Jesus in his attempts to kill Him: Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.—Mt 2:16 [...]
Mental Prayer vs. Centering Prayer
A good friend recently asked me to explain the difference between traditional Catholic mental prayer (meditation on the life of Jesus that the Spanish mystics called oración mental) and New Age centering prayer (amorphous meditation promoted by pseudo-Eastern groups.) My online series on mental prayer called Video Lectio Divina tries to teach the former, but I have never tackled the difference in definitions. So what is the difference between mental prayer and centering prayer? A decent answer would be that that mental prayer looks outwards to God and centering prayer looks inward to self. This would be a decent answer. However, it's not a perfect answer because great mystics like St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila say we actually do look inwards in mental prayer. Yes, you might be surprised that within the Catholic view of [...]
Planned Mass Psychosis
Here's two excellent resources I would like to share to prove that the totalitarian overreach (using the pretext of COVID-19) is actually a planned mass-psychosis. The first is surprisingly a podcast with Joe Rogan and Dr. Peter McCullough MD. The second is a list of medical and sociological facts compiled by Kit Knightly. 1. Joe Rogan and Dr. Peter McCullough MD, MPH (See above picture) were in a three hour podcast here on Spotify. This is so incredibly important that someone as mainstream as Joe Rogan (admittedly less and less mainstream every day) has given a forum to one of the strongest medical voices on the truth of COVID-19. Rogan (usually quite crude but well behaved in this podcast) has over 11M subscribers on YouTube, so this is going to reach a lot of people (even though this individual podcast [...]
CPX 94: The Second Commandment
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 115-117 Q/A 1-16 Life-Update and Advent-Pitch: https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/adventmessage/ https://youtu.be/MyRoq5r26Io
VLX 94: The Hem of His Garment
Mt 14:34-36 *** Life-Update and Advent-Pitch: https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/adventmessage/ https://youtu.be/iNY1S0adS2E
Exceptions to Being Pro-Life?
Even in high school, long before my conversion to traditional Catholicism, I was pro-life. I remember one guy from my high-school with whom I would work in the soup-kitchen in downtown Denver. He was part of the young Republican club and he told me that he was "pro-life except in cases of rape and incest." Even back then, before I had studied the defense of the pro-life position, I knew that a child should not have to pay for her life for the crime of her father. I knew he was wrong. If the unborn baby were human, then murder could never be justified based on any crime that led up to that child's conception, especially since that child played no part in the guilt of the crime of rape. Since my high-school days, I am (of course) still against [...]
TCE 35: Four Years of Purgatory
Theology and Current Events (TCE) #35 is “Four Years of Purgatory” as the Key to Fr. Ciszek. The Catholic Church’s Servant of God Fr. Walter Joseph Ciszek SJ (1904-1984) wrote three books, the second of which is called “He Leadeth Me.” We look at pages 75-81 as a masterpiece of abandonment to Divine Providence in a real and difficult modern circumstance. -Please see my Life-Update and Advent-Appeal here: https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/adventmessage/ https://youtu.be/17AllrONbKU
CPX 93: The First Commandment (Part 2)
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 114-115 Q/A 13-22 Life-Update and Advent-Pitch: https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/adventmessage/ Zachary King and me: https://youtu.be/Lq8UXhjGBKk Zachary King rebuttals to critics: http://www.allsaintsministry.org/Home_files/Zac%20rebuttal%20for%20web_2.pdf How Hard Is It To Avoid Heresy? https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/heresy/ https://youtu.be/uI5zOSPkthI









