Theology

15 07, 2021

Extreme Evil Requires an Extreme Remedy

By Father David Nix|2021-07-15T12:02:13+00:00July 15th, 2021|Theology|

"They wound; they kill; they go down to hell."—St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises #108. Leaving a sick call about 10 years into my priesthood, I ran into a gothic-looking fellow. He was about 30 years old and decided to strike up a conversation with me. I didn't have much time to talk, but I realized this would be one of his only interactions with a priest his whole life, so I couldn't brush him off. As usual, I had to listen to someone preach to me. (This is ironically more common than me preaching to someone.) In any case, this guy was a little different. He just wanted to [...]

14 07, 2021

How To Use a Layman’s Missal at the TLM
How To Use a Layman’s Missal at the TLM

How To Use a Layman’s Missal at the TLM

By Father David Nix|2021-07-21T19:43:43+00:00July 14th, 2021|Theology|

If you are new to the TLM, you will hopefully find this blog post very helpful. In late 2017, I taught a class at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Jacksonville, FL on how to use the layman's missal while attending the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM.) People new to the TLM needed some help thumbing through their ribbons in their layman's missal. Now, because of how many people came to the TLM last year, my friend recently suggested this that I do a re-post of my five classes: TLM Class 1 TLM Class 2 TLM Class 3 TLM Class 4 TLM Class 5 Also, St. Francis De Sales wrote [...]

13 07, 2021

Teamwork in Saving One Soul
Teamwork in Saving One Soul

Teamwork in Saving One Soul

By Father David Nix|2021-07-13T17:12:51+00:00July 13th, 2021|Theology|

There's a couple who listens to my podcast from California, but the wife had to rapidly return to her home state of Louisiana for an emergency: Her uncle (who she described as basically her brother growing up, as they were close in age) was hit by a drunk driver. The drunk driver then ran over his head. Somehow, he surived and was life-flighted to a trauma center in another part of Louisiana. He lived for about 10 days after numerous surgeries. I received a modification to my blog after publication from his niece about what really happened on scene: "You wrote that his head was ran over, which is technically [...]

8 07, 2021

How Can I Close the House of God?—Fr. Ganni

By Father David Nix|2021-07-07T21:46:52+00:00July 8th, 2021|Theology|

About four years ago, I said on the phone to my Navy SEAL friend (with whom I did this podcast and this podcast this year) that I feared the rise of militant Islam would persecute Christians in the West again. What he said surprised me, namely that he feared more the rise of secularism in the West as a bigger threat to Catholics. We'll come back to this suggestion halfway through this blog. On the 3rd of June 2007, Trinity Sunday after Pentecost, a 35 year-old Chaldean Catholic priest named Fr. Ragheed Ganni was shot and killed in his home country of Iraq by Muslims for not converting to Islam [...]

6 07, 2021

Discerning “The Great Reset” vs. “The Empire of Love”
Discerning “The Great Reset” vs. “The Empire of Love”

Discerning “The Great Reset” vs. “The Empire of Love”

By Father David Nix|2021-07-04T02:14:14+00:00July 6th, 2021|Theology|

Michael Matt recently made the point that the Great Reset is not an attack on man as much as an attack on God. As Mr. Matt mentioned here, "even Adolph Hitler paid lip-service to God." Indeed, the architects of the Great Reset like Klaus Schwab want to direct all of humanity in place of God without mention of God. The Great Reset is not only a project of genocide, but also an attempted attack on God Himself. I believe the most common phrase in the entire Bible is "Be Not Afraid." It is in the Bible over 365 times. So, if Christ's message is: "Be Not Afraid" then we must [...]

2 07, 2021

Catholic Schools, EMS and the Death Jab

By Father David Nix|2021-07-02T05:58:27+00:00July 2nd, 2021|Theology|

In this short podcast, Patrick Coffin describes how the Catholic diocese of Orange, California issued an invitation to a Zoom meeting with an auxiliary bishop and the Superintendent of Catholic schools and two physicians including the President of the Orange Co. Chapter of the American Association of Pediatrics. This was a Zoom meeting originally meant for Catholic parents of Catholic kids (going to Catholic schools) to "ask questions" about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for their kids. But this Q &A session for Catholic leaders and Catholic parents didn't happen. What did happen on that Zoom meeting, as Mr. Coffin relates, was "a non-stop aggressive sales-tactic with one goal in [...]

1 07, 2021

Marian Prayer of Bl. Junipero Serra
Marian Prayer of Bl. Junipero Serra

Marian Prayer of Bl. Junipero Serra

By Father David Nix|2021-06-28T13:32:10+00:00July 1st, 2021|Theology|

You may wish to save in your note-app this little-known prayer of a saint to Mary and pray it every day: O Purest Queen of heaven and earth, most perfect work of the Holy Trinity, since from all eternity the Father chose you for His daughter, the Son selected you to be His Mother and the Holy Spirit selected you as His spouse, there could not be the slightest imperfection, not even the smallest shadow of original sin on your soul. As the first fruit of the redemption, your soul was free, beautiful and free from the initial moment of your conception. Receive, O Mother, in virtue of this singular mystery, my [...]

29 06, 2021

How Humble Are Traditionalists?

By Father David Nix|2021-06-29T13:00:44+00:00June 29th, 2021|Theology|

For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures: And that He was seen by Cephas; and after that by the eleven.—1 Cor 15:3-5 DRB. The Apostle Paul is writing here that what he delivered over to the early Christians is exactly what he first received (tradidi enim vobis in primis quod et accepi.) And this tradition was not just "small-t tradition," but "Big-T Tradition." In other words, St. Paul delivered over Divine Revelation to others just as it [...]

27 06, 2021

“Always is Also a Forever”—Pope Benedict XVI
“Always is Also a Forever”—Pope Benedict XVI

“Always is Also a Forever”—Pope Benedict XVI

By Father David Nix|2021-06-27T21:06:21+00:00June 27th, 2021|Theology|

It is a good thing that both Ann Barnhardt and Estefanía Acosta frequently remind us of this decisive clue in unlocking the second greatest crisis in Catholic Church history second only—and linked—to what started in the 1960s: “The ‘always’ is also a ‘forever‘ – there can no longer be a return to the private sphere. My decision to resign the active exercise of the ministry does not revoke this. I do not return to private life, to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences, and so on. I am not abandoning the cross, but remaining in a new way at the side of the crucified Lord. I no longer bear [...]

24 06, 2021

Pope St. Pius X and Joe Biden
Pope St. Pius X and Joe Biden

Pope St. Pius X and Joe Biden

By Father David Nix|2021-06-24T13:25:23+00:00June 24th, 2021|Theology|

The current contention on the pro-abortion unelected-President Joe Biden receiving Holy Communion is a late outgrowth in the debate between traditionalists and modernists on issues of dogma vs. conscience and Church vs. State. Pope St. Pius X saw all of this mayhem coming when he warned against those modernist political Catholics in Pascendi Dominici Gregis over 100 years ago. Pascendi, as it is now known, was an encyclical released by Pope St. Pius X on the 8th of September 1907. It is also known as "The Doctrines of the Modernists." The following is the saintly Pope's description of how bad Catholic Politicians were justifying themselves even when he wrote it: [...]