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15 12, 2019

The True Account of Alana Chen

By |2023-08-21T14:45:12+00:00December 15th, 2019|Life|

I, Fr. David Nix, led about 20 Colorado University students to Rwanda in 2014. Upon return, Alana Chen (then at CU) encouraged 20 CSU students from our Africa trip to write letters about my character when it was doubted by older folks back in the US on issues of pastoral kindness. This was around one of the very last times I saw her (2014) and she sadly died this past weekend (7 Dec 2019.) I am extremely grateful for her defending my good name even from the grave, when doubted on similar issues of pastoral kindness towards University students this past week of mourning her loss. May God grant salvation, [...]

2 12, 2019

Please Help Me Build a Hermitage

By |2019-12-29T01:18:57+00:00December 2nd, 2019|Life|

Dear Friends and Readers, Ave Maria! As many of you know, I am beginning life as a diocesan priest hermit. My rule of life has been tentatively approved by the Archdiocese of Denver and it includes much prayer and some ministry.  I am now seeking to raise $250,000 under Peregrino Hermitage Ltd., a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) organization, in order to buy a small home or condo in Denver as a hermitage.  Here are a few reasons why you should continue to believe in my priesthood: I will continue praying Holy Mass and the Divine Office. I will be praying several hours a day for the restoration of the Catholic Church and the [...]

15 08, 2018

The Best Day of my Priesthood

By |2023-05-24T14:56:29+00:00August 15th, 2018|Life|

I spent 2017 as the parish priest in a small bayou parish in south Louisiana. Their normal pastor was serving as a chaplain for the US Army for a year, and he needed someone who knew the Traditional Latin Mass. His tiny bayou parish was very unusual insofar as it was under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, but was 1962-sacraments-only. The bishop down there was very good to me. Like most “Latin ghettos” in other dioceses, this Latin Mass parish was found in a poor part of the state, in this case on Tiger Bayou, full of gators and ditched oil rigs. I describe Louisiana as a “Catholic [...]

19 11, 2017

“The Office” Catholics

By |2019-05-18T15:11:32+00:00November 19th, 2017|Life|

The Office is not a particularly edifying TV show and I would not recommend it for its secular world view.   I’ve never seen the UK version of The Office and I’ve only seen a few episodes of the American version.  Still, it struck me this week that the personalities (not the religious or political views) but the personalities of The Office characters seem to reflect the very personalities attracted to various movements of American Catholicism in the 21st century. Notice equal-opportunity target-practice below:   JPII Catholics≈Jim These are the young Catholics who want to make Catholicism look relevant. Jim Halpert is no neo-conservative on the TV show, but his [...]

3 11, 2016

Henry Thomistic Swamp Theology

By |2016-11-03T05:10:53+00:00November 3rd, 2016|Life|

Creation and Redemption and the Bayou.  Henry Thomas gives us some classic but modern Thomistic Theology on gaining wisdom in spiritual warfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUlPgIGVUs0

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