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17 06, 2021

Ex Substántia Matris

By |2021-06-11T22:35:43+00:00June 17th, 2021|Theology|

On Holy Trinity Sunday, every traditional priest reads the Athanasian Creed during Prime.  Prime is the third canonical hour of his Divine Office (Roman Breviary) of the day.  What struck me while reading this in Latin was this line: Deus est ex substántia Patris ante sǽcula génitus: et homo est ex substántia matris in sǽculo natus. This is translated as: God, of the Substance of the Father, Begotten before the worlds: and Man, of the substance of His mother, born in the world. St. Athanasius in his 4th century Creed of Trinity (against the Arians) is asserting that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity who is consubstantial [...]

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16 06, 2021

CPX 71: Holy Mass Part 2

By |2021-06-16T14:06:13+00:00June 16th, 2021|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 81-82.  Q/A 11-21 Pope Pius XI's Marylike standards of modesty: http://www.olvrc.com/reference/documents/Modesty.Pius.XI.pdf
 Eric Sammons with AB. Cordileone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opvUFk9SSQY&t=2319s
 Text of St. Francis De Sales' Meditation on the Mass: http://www.semperficatholic.com/page19.html
 Video of St. Francis De Sales' Meditation on the Mass: https://vimeo.com/283322245
 Spiritual Communion of St. Alphonsus Liguori: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/act-of-spiritual-communion-339 https://youtu.be/vG6q-zgKc78

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15 06, 2021

Even the Left Criticizes Modernist Clergy

By |2021-06-15T23:12:50+00:00June 15th, 2021|Theology|

Notice this tweet from the Catholic Charities of the diocese of Oakland, California and how it had one "like" in 22 hours.   Perhaps nobody in the bay area pays attention to the Catholic Church anymore.  Or perhaps most Bay Area LGBT folks who are ex-Catholic have no interest in "liking" a group that can't even stand for its own values.  In other words, most people (straight or "gay") have no interest in "liking" a liberal branch of a conservative organization such as the Catholic Church.   Everybody knows we Catholics traditionally stood for chastity and purity for those who are "straight" and those who struggle with other issues.  However, twenty [...]

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14 06, 2021

VLX 71: Humble of Heart

By |2021-06-14T17:56:48+00:00June 14th, 2021|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Mt 11:20-24 Support my work here:  https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://youtu.be/TAk8qDoRr2Y   “One will be sent in the flesh,” thundered the most beautiful Trinity to the angels and all the courts of heaven eons ago.  In perfect harmony they rejoiced.   But later they wondered if anyone but a lowly archangel like Raphael (still more glorious than a burning star) could dare condescend again to take flesh as Raphael did for Tobit.  Their best guess for the new assignment was Gabriel.  God said “Gabriel will go…but in spirit as preparation.  One much higher than he will become flesh.”  “But how?” the angels wondered, “A cherubim's eyes would melt the trees and mountains.  No human [...]

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11 06, 2021

TCE 21: Antiquarianism

By |2021-06-11T12:27:59+00:00June 11th, 2021|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Theology and Current Events 21:  If Catholic doctrine "develops" rapidly is that from a good spirit or bad spirit? Support my work here: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGZ51jPFuw

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10 06, 2021

Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

By |2021-06-12T21:28:15+00:00June 10th, 2021|Theology|

This Act of Reparation was prescribed to be recited on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor (8 May 1928). A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful, who piously recite the above act of reparation. A plenary indulgence is granted if it is publicly recited on the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence, and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and [...]

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8 06, 2021

Propaganda Reveals A Nation’s Personality

By |2021-06-09T01:58:16+00:00June 8th, 2021|Theology|

The above picture is a 1931 Russian propaganda poster that reads We Smite the Lazy Workers and can still be found in a collection in the Russian State Library in Moscow.   Westerners might laugh at the notion of hard-work being a snare to any political system, but Russians always saw life (including manual labor) as communal, not individual, even before communism. Archbishop Fulton Sheen warned hundreds of times that Russia's communism might come to the United States.  But what many American Catholics may forget is that Sheen was a Russophile, a great lover of Russia.  AB. Fulton Sheen frequently pointed out that Russia's ancient desire for community and Holy Russia's [...]

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5 06, 2021

Life Update 2021.06.05

By |2021-05-27T18:15:45+00:00June 5th, 2021|Life|

This is the 19th century Papally-approved prayer I keep laminated in my Roman Breviary to pray before hearing confessions: Da mihi, Domine, sedium tuarum assistricem sapientiam, ut sciam judicare populum tuum in justitia et pauperos tuos in judicio. Fac me ita tractare claves regni coelorum, ut nulli aperiam cui claudendum sit, nulli claudam cui aperiendum sit. Sit intentio mea pura, zelus meus sincerus, charitas mea patiens, labor meus fructuosus. Sit in me lenitas non remissa, asperitas non severa; pauperem ne despiciam, diviti ne adulor. Fac me ad alliciendos peccatores suavem, ad interrogandos prudentem, ad instruendos peritum. Tribue, quaeso, ad retrahendos a malo solertiam, ad confirmandos in bono sedulitatem, ad promovendos [...]

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