18 12, 2021

Mental Prayer vs. Centering Prayer

By |2021-12-16T02:37:34+00:00December 18th, 2021|Theology|

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 [...]

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16 12, 2021

Planned Mass Psychosis

By |2021-12-17T15:52:14+00:00December 16th, 2021|Theology|

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 [...]

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12 12, 2021

Exceptions to Being Pro-Life?

By |2021-12-12T15:54:09+00:00December 12th, 2021|Theology|

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 [...]

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10 12, 2021

TCE 35: Four Years of Purgatory

By |2021-12-23T20:37:13+00:00December 10th, 2021|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

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

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8 12, 2021

CPX 93: The First Commandment (Part 2)

By |2021-12-09T02:23:22+00:00December 8th, 2021|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

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  

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7 12, 2021

The First Week of July 1963

By |2022-04-28T17:57:54+00:00December 7th, 2021|Theology|

My mother's four grandparents moved from Ireland to Chicago in the first half of the 20th century,  so I grew up hearing from extended family and peers what great men Cardinal Bernadin and President Kennedy were.  I also graduated Boston College in 2000.  So, even though I was raised in Denver, the fact is that Chicago Catholicism and Boston Catholicism are in my bloodstream.   I trusted this version of Catholicism.  But to rebuild traditional Catholicism and understand who to trust, perhaps we have to expose some of this evil, for St. Paul writes, "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them."—Eph 5:11.  The following [...]

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3 12, 2021

Oath Against Modernism

By |2021-12-03T02:22:23+00:00December 3rd, 2021|Life|

As many traditional priests are currently being told they must take oaths in favor of modernism (to the possible endangerment of their souls) I hereby take the oath against modernism as Pope St. Pius X asked all priests to take: I, Fr. David Nix, firmly embrace and accept each and every definition that has been set forth and declared by the unerring teaching authority of the Church, especially those principal truths which are directly opposed to the errors of this day. And first of all, I profess that God, the origin and end of all things, can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from the created [...]

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