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25 07, 2024

The “Universal Call to Holiness” Was Always There

By |2024-07-25T11:49:45+00:00July 25th, 2024|Theology|

Vatican II's Lumen Gentium's chapter five is titled "Universal Call to Holiness" and it includes this sentence:  "Therefore in the Church, everyone whether belonging to the hierarchy, or being cared for by it, is called to holiness." By "cared for by it," it simply means lay people. In other words, lay folks are also called to holiness. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with that sentence. But it's also super obvious, so something else is behind it. What is it? I don't know, but there's an old Protestant myth that Catholic priests and nuns told lay people they're not called to holiness.  Have modernists run with this in Vatican II?  We [...]

23 07, 2024

The Grey Wolves of Modernist Ambiguity

By |2024-07-24T02:15:19+00:00July 23rd, 2024|Theology|

p/c North American Whitetail. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.—Mt 7:15-16. Many traditional Catholics today rip on the ultra-leftists because it's easy to knock out of the park really low-hanging fruit like "Clown Masses" or social-justice warriors to oppose Eucharistic rallies because it detracts from the poor or even pro-abortion "Catholics."  Trads tackling people that far left on the political and theological spectrum are after "easy likes" on Twitter and Instagram. The bigger problem is that neo-conservative (non-traditional) priests who may be found making pro-life statements or be seen headlining at a national [...]

20 07, 2024

Praying for Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel

By |2024-07-20T21:01:20+00:00July 20th, 2024|Life|

Even though I recently read these intense parameters about how Catholics must always avoid all prayer with schismatics and heretics, I get an idea of which tribes in the world have never heard the Gospel from a Protestant website called Joshua Project's Unreached of the Day (JPUD.)  Some examples of tribes who have never heard the Gospel (or barely have heard the Gospel) are seen in the above screenshots of those targets of prayer as created in the catalogue of JPUD.  Yes, I admit it's sad that Protestants have a website like this, but Catholics do not. For the last 500 years of Protestantism, they only threw missionaries on the [...]

18 07, 2024

A Nanny-Church to Match the Nanny-State

By |2024-07-18T15:34:49+00:00July 18th, 2024|Theology|

Recently, Archbishop Viganò wrote, "Change – or better still, aggiornamento – has been so much at the center of the conciliar narrative that it has been the hallmark of Vatican II and has posited this assembly as the terminus post quem that sanctions the end of the ancien régime – the regime of the 'old religion,' of the 'old Mass,' of the 'pre-council' – and the beginning of the 'conciliar church,' with its 'new mass' and the substantial relativization of all dogma." Now, before everyone calls Viganò a "schismatic" for simply putting those two words "conciliar church" in scare quotes, we have to realize that some important clergy (who have [...]

16 07, 2024

How To Pray for the Enemies of Holy Mother Church

By |2024-07-16T02:39:52+00:00July 16th, 2024|Theology|

My post-Mass meditation usually comes from a 19th century book of Jesuit Meditations.  It's a phenomenal book.   The meditation following Sunday's Mass was about enduring persecutions in light of the Sermon on the Mount.  Before we get to the topic at hand, How To Pray for the Enemies of Holy Mother Church, I want to highlight a few other parts of Sunday's meditation on enduring persecutions. One of the most astonishing insights the anonymous Jesuit author made is that false-accusations make us already like Christ on earth.  It reads:  "And besides, is not the glory of being thus made like to the Son of God on earth before we [...]

15 07, 2024

VLX 153: Mt 26:47-56. “Twelve Legions of Angels.”

By |2024-07-15T22:39:04+00:00July 15th, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -STV: https://spiritustv.com/@padreperegrino Gospel: While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.” And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and [...]

14 07, 2024

To Belong to God Alone

By |2024-07-14T23:00:23+00:00July 14th, 2024|Life|

We all know the Bible and saints put the interior life far ahead of the exterior life.  However, the enemy of human nature often convinces us that we're the exception.  Like fools, we take the bait.  But then something befalls us (eithr good or bad) to remind us how dependent we are on the Blessed Trinity.  We see it's exactly as Jesus told the Apostles:  Without Me, you can do nothing.—John 15:5.  Nothing is nothing is nothing.  Every drop of a successful apostolate (even online or on the streets) is dependent on union with Christ. In light of this, I've taken on some new resolutions of mental prayer and exercise [...]

14 07, 2024

Trump Shot But Alive

By |2024-07-14T02:44:50+00:00July 14th, 2024|Theology|

This evening, on the 13th of July 2024, President Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, PA.  It was obviously a failed assassination attempt.  Trump got up triumphantly as seen in the picture above.  One America News reports:  "Butler county district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former President Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting." Here's the most important tweets I have seen so far: Impeached. Arrested. Convicted. Shot. Still standing. pic.twitter.com/ys50YJfdyZ — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 13, 2024 Joe Biden and the Democrats don’t get to wiggle out of this with half hearted statements. They framed [...]

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