“Dominica in Albis” Sermon 2026.
-2026 Sermon for the Octave of Easter on 1 John 5 and John 20. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
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04, 2026
More Conversions (and Departures.)
p/c University of Notre Dame. Doubtless by this point you have seen the news of massive amounts of conversions of non-Catholic young adults coming into American Catholic parishes. This news has been covered by both religious outlets as well as secular ones. Many of these conversions are in unlikely places, like New York City. NCR/EWTN recently reported on a Dominican parish in lower Manhattan serving NYU: "88 people received the sacraments of baptism or confirmation at the Easter vigil this year." Part of this was due to current events: "Many of those coming into the Church, he said, have told him that conservative Christian influencer Charlie Kirk’s murder had a [...]
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04, 2026
Roman Breviary: Big Hours and Little Hours.
Happy Easter, Christ is Risen! Christ is Truly Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! The above picture is me praying in Croatia this spring of 2026 at the tomb of Blessed Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac. He was the Archbishop of Zagreb starting in 1937. The Cardinal was poisoned by the Communists in the 1950s. He died a slow death from that and died in 1960. He was declared a martyr for the faith. Switch topics for a minute. The old school Jesuits and Franciscans who were missionaries in the New World sent records back to the Old World of conversions and baptisms. This wasn’t so much to brag as to stay accountable [...]
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04, 2026
Easter Sermon 2026.
-To whom does the Preface refer when we hear that “he who conquered at the wood would be conquered at the wood”? -See where Adam is buried: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/08/skulladam/
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04, 2026
St. John and the Synoptics in the Triduum.
Every Triduum, thousands of Catholics (including me) ask the following question: Why do the Synoptic Gospels (Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke) place the Passover on one date and it seems that St. John places it on a different date? The answer I gave for several years was the calendar of the Pharisees was different from that of the Essenes. However, I discovered that that answer leads to more problems than solutions. Before we look at the real answer, I want to remind you of a definition known to most traditional Catholics. Archaeologism is a modernist fad found in Church history and liturgical studies, often used by charismatics. One aspect of [...]
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03, 2026
Trads Behind the Iron Curtain.
The only novel I have read since ordination was Michael O'Brien's Island of the World. It's a gripping and grinding historical-fiction account about a man named Josip who grows up in Croatia in the 1940s. His family and community is then destroyed by Tito's communism. Josip is sent to a gulag called Goli Otok in real life. There, he is tortured and loses his faith. After escaping, he wanders Italy and finally ends up a janitor in NYC. Does he regain his faith? You'll have to read the book. It was so good I read it twice since ordination. Since reading Island of the World, I have had a healthy [...]
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03, 2026
RCT 74: Making a Good Confession.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 304-310. -The Sacraments, ep. 26. -General Confession: https://youtube.com/live/6u1ZjJMBTiw -15 Mortal Sins: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/08/mortalsins/ -Marital Chastity: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2026/03/samb/
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03, 2026
Annunciation Sermon.
Let's help both the protestants and the modernists better understand the Immaculata. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
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03, 2026
Marital Chastity.
Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this: What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses? From the start, I have to give this disclaimer: I despise writing about this topic, especially since I endanger my own soul in bringing potentially-immodest writings to the internet (as if the internet does not already have enough.) However, I have discovered that the question of exotic behavior in the bedroom is unfortunately on the minds of countless Catholic couples across the globe. Similarly, I have unfortunately found that 98% of priest-confessors out there are misleading the Catholic laity on this topic. By what authority can [...]
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03, 2026
The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart.
Shortly after my conversion in my early 20s (during the 1990s) I ended up doing street evangelization in NYC. More specifically, I was sharing the faith in lower Manhattan at Washington Square near NYU. I noticed that one young man in my group was both extremely truthful and extremely charitable in his outreach to a very hostile neighborhood. I asked his secret to this balance. He told me that he prayed the Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus every day. I had never heard of it. The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a 10 minute prayer stemming from the apparition of Christ to St. Mary Alacoque [...]