RCT 69: The Mass is a Sacrifice.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 269-277. -The Sacraments, ep. 21. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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10, 2025
Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.
As we will see below, the order of operations is: 1) Accept Christ. 2) Abjure past errors and make a profession of the Catholic Faith. 3) Actual (or conditional baptism.) 4) Lifetime confession. 5) All other sacraments. Recently, God has been using me to bring some older folks into the Catholic Church. One of these was the mother of a friend of mine who had been raised Lutheran. After her daughter and her granddaughter and I visited her in the nursing home, she decided to go from Lutheran to Catholic on her deathbed. At the time she made this decision, she had almost no dementia or senility, so no one [...]
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10, 2025
Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.
p/c BBC. Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century at the University of Paris and he went on to baptize a half million people in East Asia. On his missions, he was pure charity to the Indians but he was sometimes fire and brimstone to the Portuguese settlers who he constantly found whoring, trading, slaving and fighting. After numerous fruitless warnings on the eternal salvation of these men who were impeding his mission, Xavier finally wrote King John of Portugal to tell him (in sober, respectful [...]
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10, 2025
PIP 8: Rules #15-16.
Fr. Dave Nix continues “Peregrino Ignatian Pathways” (PIP) # 8: Rules #15 and 16 in the discernment of spirits from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -The Suscipe prayer of St. Ignatius: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.” -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
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10, 2025
A Day In The Life (Video.)
Airport adventures and meeting Bishop Henry Rene Gracida again. I will be speaking at LifeSite News' Rome Life Forum on 5 December 2025. Please come to Rome and we can hopefully find time together after the conference.
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10, 2025
A Day In The Life (Audio.)
Airport tales and meeting an old bishop friend again. I will be speaking at LifeSite News' Rome Life Forum on 5 December 2025. Please come to Rome and we can hopefully find time together after the conference.
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10, 2025
We Need Another “Dagger John.”
p/c NYT My mother's four grandparents came from Ireland to the United States. They settled in Chicago by way of New York City in the first half of the 20th century. But in the 19th century, the Irish immigrants were so involved in sex, violence and drink that their mortality rate in New York City was higher than African-Americans in either Chicago or Baltimore today. City Journal (a non-Catholic production out of NYC) paints a bleak picture about the first Irish immigrants who crossed the Atlantic to the United States: “In 1847 about 40,000 died making the voyage, a mortality rate much higher than that of slaves transported from Africa [...]
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10, 2025
“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.
One of the most blasphemous lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ himself, who ‘came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him’ (Jn 1:11), lived among us as a stranger. For this reason, the Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord…” The author then misappropriates the Holy Family to argue for open-borders. Clearly, the Bible and the Catholic Church have always opposed chaos on national borders, as the true God is a God of order. But manipulating the Holy Family’s desperate [...]
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10, 2025
RCT 68: “The Reception of the Eucharist.”
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 261-269. The Sacraments, ep. 20. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org
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10, 2025
Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.
When I was a student attending a liberal Jesuit high school, I was very much against the death penalty. I even wrote letters for Amnesty International (before they had taken their pro-abortion stance) with my friends in Denver cafes at night, while other guys were out partying. Back in the early 1990s when I was in high school, I also knew of the book Dead Man Walking about an anti-death penalty sister who spent time on death row named Sr. Helen Prejean. Fast forward to the late 1990s where I am studying theology at Boston College, the second most prestigious Catholic University on the East Coast (second only to Georgetown.) [...]