CPX 60: On the Simplicity of the Catholic Faith
Is Fr. David teaching basic Catholicism or advanced Catholicism? https://youtu.be/Hlxg9CRGVbI
Stockholm Syndrome Part 2
We've already covered a kind of Stockholm Syndrome being brought on by the State here. Now we will look at the Church. This week, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) answered in the negative to the question Does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex? This might seem an orthodox response (and it is) but the CDF ironically quoted Amoris Laetitia (the 2016 document allowing divorced and remarried to receive Holy Communion without confession or annulment) by then saying, “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family." Most in the LGBT community were disappointed, while others celebrated what they saw as an end to the "cognitive dissonance." One person commented [...]
VLX 60: Jesus Calls His Twelve Apostles
Mt 10:1-4 https://youtu.be/V_LYY_NbRno
Fear of Death Makes You Subject to Lifelong Slavery
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death, He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.—Heb 2:14-15 Wikipedia reports that the Black Death or Bubonic Plague between 1346 to 1353 left 70M-200M dead "and it is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population." Thus, a real plague is one where one out of every two people you know is dead. Imagine 50% of your neighbors dead. Imagine 50% of your family members dead. Imagine 50% of your friends dead. Really. Name ten family members and randomly cross out five of them. They are dead in a real pandemic. Write down the name of ten friends [...]
CPX 59: The Nature and Effects of Baptism
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) with baptism questions #1-4 and a discussion on the old-rite exorcisms as supplied rites. https://youtu.be/eO2Jit4dWLo
VLX 59: The Harvest is Plentiful
Mt 9:35-38 https://youtu.be/afb7gnBoGfk
“They Wash Not Their Hands.”—Mt 15:2
Yesterday's Gospel in the Traditional Latin Mass reads: Then came to [Jesus] from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread." But He answering, said to them: "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition?"—Mt 15:1-2 (DRB) St. Jerome comments on this in Matins: The stupidity of the Pharisees and Scribes is something extraordinary. (Mira pharisæórum scribarúmque stultítia.) They rebuke the Son of God because He doth not observe the traditions and commandments of men for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. It behoveth us to cleanse, not the hands of the body, but the hands of the soul, namely, our works, that we may do the commandments of God. If St. Jerome were alive today, [...]
CPX 58: Q and A with Fr. David
Everything from Pope Benedict XVI to Malachi Martin to coffees and teas. https://youtu.be/JyWzRBm4NMk
Round His Standard
The Irish World War I chaplain, hero and Jesuit priest called Fr. Willie Doyle SJ (seen above) once said: "I have long had the feeling that, since the world is growing so rapidly worse and worse and God has lost His hold, as it were, upon the hearts of men, He is looking all the more earnestly and anxiously for big things from those who are faithful to Him still. He cannot, perhaps, gather a large army round His standard, but He wants every one in it to be a hero, absolutely and lovingly devoted to Him; if only we could get inside that magic circle of generous souls, I believe there is no grace He would not give us to help in the work He has so much at heart – our personal sanctification." With reform of the Church [...]
VLX 58: Jesus Heals a Mute
Mt 9:32-34 https://youtu.be/0mubaNY0p5E