Eastern Catholic Hermit from USA on Streets of Europe
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06, 2023
The Suicide of Altering the Faith
Before becoming Pope, Pope Pius XII wrote this in 1933: "I am concerned about the confidences of the Virgin to the little Lucia of Fatima. This persistence of the Good Lady in face of the danger that threatens the Church is a divine warning against the suicide that the alteration of the Faith, in its liturgy, its theology, and its soul, would represent. I hear around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her ornaments, and make her remorseful for her historical past. Well, my dear friend, I am convinced that the Church of Peter must affirm her past, or [...]
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06, 2023
RCT 20: “Suffered Under Pontius Pilate.”
The Roman Catechism of Trent {RCT} p. 51-53. The Creed, Article IV, Part A. - Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ - Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 https://rumble.com/embed/v2n5kum/?pub=e5jg1
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06, 2023
Why Is Celibacy Higher than Marriage?
Realizing that most of my readers are lay, and realizing how the priest—child scandals have tanked not only the low trust placed in celibates not only by secularists but even by good Catholics, this blog has to tread on pretty raw ground. Let me stay at the outset that although Divine Revelation definitively holds it as true that celibacy is a higher vocation than marriage, the saints are clear that the priest's salvation is normally harder to attain than that of a lay person, due to the higher level of scrutiny at his particular judgment. This is obviously due to the duties and high-calling he has ostensibly answered in life. [...]
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06, 2023
A Life in Pilgrimage
If I met me, the question I would ask me is: What do you do all day? As I said on a recent podcast, the hermit-thing isn't a total farce or lurk. I keep mornings entirely for prayer and exercise. Doing the old Divine Office means a few hours of Psalms in Latin every day. Perhaps because I didn't learn the old Roman Breviary in seminary (for we did the Liturgy of the Hours—something we traditionalists now call the Liturgy of the Minutes—since it is so short!) I didn't carve enough time out of my day at the beginning of my religious life for both several hours of prayer and [...]
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05, 2023
VLX 132: Mt 21:33-46. “The Stone the Builders Rejected.”
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05, 2023
A Tale of Two “Sisters”
As much as I dislike placing a blasphemous image of a "Sister of Perpetual Indulgence" (top left) next to a real saintly nun (Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster OSB above to the right) it has to be more than coincidence that the two biggest stories in the US Catholic world this week both have to do with women religious. The top left is a group of men mocking female-religious in Los Angeles. The top right is a real Benedictine foundress of a female congregation found incorrupt in Missouri just this week, May 2023. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI henceforth, also top left pic) are a group of men who dress up in [...]
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05, 2023
RCT 19: The Hidden Mysteries
The Roman Catechism of Trent {RCT} p. 48-50. The Creed, Article III, Part D - My site: www.padreperegrino.org - Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 *** https://rumble.com/embed/v2lq94w/?pub=e5jg1
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05, 2023
How to Offer Yourself at Holy Mass
As many of you know, the three parts of sacrifice as found in both the Old Testament and New Testament is 1) The offering and 2) The slaying and 3) the consummation of the victim. Regarding the second of those three, most of the Catholic world is unaware that the dual-consecration of the body and the blood entails the slaying. St. Gregory Nazianzus wrote, "The priest sunders with unbloody cut the body and blood of the Lord, using his voice as a sword." Keep in mind that St. Gregory was the Archbishop of Constantinople in the 4th century. That means he is very early and very Eastern in Church history, [...]
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05, 2023
Where Does Donor-Money Go?
Peregrino Hermitage Limited (PHL) is the charity I run. PHL is approved by the Catholic Church, the Federal Government and the State of Colorado as a 501(c)(3.) We have a board of directors. My diocese provides me with health insurance and dental insurance. However, as I am not in parish life, I must raise my own salary for room, board and ministry expenses. "Ministry expenses" include that which is necessary to teach the Catholic faith online to tens of thousands of Catholics (and non-Catholics) every month. Except Zelle donations (which go to my personal account) all your donations to PHL on my Donate Page (whether online or via snail-mail checks) go to [...]