Predestination: Calvinism vs. Catholicism.
The top left is John Calvin, the theological father of modern Presbyterianism who believed in Double-Predestination (the notion that God creates some people for heaven and God creates others for hell.) The top right is St. Francis De Sales, a Catholic saint and doctor of the Church. Both said a lot about pre-destination. Granted, we Catholics have some Church Fathers who seemed to have flirted with Double Pre-Destination even before John Calvin did, so it's not a clear-cut topic. But ultimately, St. Francis De Sales navigated the true way between the Fathers and Common-Sense on God's mercy. Fr. Ludwig Ott has a book titled Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma in which he beautifully quotes St. Francis De Sales. I highly suggest you read it. Recently, I received an email from a young man struggling with the topic of predestination. Although [...]
Bonum Ex Integra Causa.
Bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque defectu is Latin for "Goodness comes from a complete cause, evil from any defect whatsoever." You may remember the free catechetical series I produced called Catechism of Pius X (CPX) which is a YouTube playlist at that link. If you're converting to Apostolic Catholicism (either from Protestantism or modernism) I highly suggest you watch that series. On CPX, I explained the traditional Catholic faith in about 20 hours. Also online, I'm currently teaching the Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT.) It is also a YouTube playlist at that link. Unlike CPX, we have not yet come to the end of RCT. As you can imagine, I very much prefer the CPX and the RCT to the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) partly because the CCC has a few errors. One of [...]
RCT 76: The Good Confessor.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 312-316. -The Sacraments, ep. 28. -Scrupulous vs Sensitive Conscience: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2021/02/scrupsens/ -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Ascension Sermon 2026.
The two most underrated feasts of our salvation are the Annunciation and Ascension. Both are bookends to the life of Christ. Listen here to hear why. Thanks to the Benedictines of Mary for the music bumpers. You can follow me on Telegram here or donate to me here.
Who Showed Up to Vatican II? Who Didn’t?
My favorite assignment as a parish priest began in 2017 when I was on-loan to the diocese of St. Augustine in Florida. I lived and offered the Traditional Latin Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Jacksonville. The families who attended my Mass loved not only the Mass, but also the Catholic faith. After Mass, a surprising amount of families would come to the basement of the Cathedral to talk to each other and attend my classes on how to use all the tassels of the layman's Missal for the old Mass. I came to know many of these families. They loved God, the faith, their priests and each other. They were truly Glad-Trads, not Mad-Trads. It was probably my best year as a priest. One evening in the autumn of 2017, there were about 10 [...]
Three Ages of Martyrs.
The men of that [last] generation will have no deeds whatever, but there will come upon them temptation, and those who are worthy in this temptation will be higher than us and our fathers.—St. Ischyrion of Egypt, early Desert Father. Recently, I was thumbing through my friend’s Saint Andrew Daily Missal. The middle of that layman’s missal has a surprising history of the Catholic Church’s saints and martyrs. It describes the early Church saints in these shocking terms: “With very few exceptions, such as St. Gregory the Wonderworker (November 17th), St. Mary Magdalene (July 22nd), St. Martha (July 29th) and St. Petronilla (May 31st) the saints of the first four centuries on the Roman Calendar suffered martyrdom.” That same layman’s missal then labels the First to the Forth Centuries as “The Age of Persecution.” It then lists 27 of the [...]
Finding of the Holy Cross.
Sunday Sermon Series (SSS) continues from Fr. Dave Nix on St. Helena finding the True Holy Cross, and how you can find your own cross. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Why Do We Need Two Judgments?
Last week, I got this email, and I was given permission to publish it: What does “judge the living and the dead” really mean? We face particular judgement and that is final (correct?). So what happens to the already dead at the second coming? Especially those in hell? Or, as Tom puts it, Why are You coming to judge the already judged? I feel as though I should know this at my age but alas…drawing a blank. Thank you!!! Here was my response: Yes, so Jesus will judge you at your death as worthy of heaven or hell. But at the end of time, He also comes to judge the living and the dead. Let’s look at “the living” first. At the end of time, Jesus will judge those on earth at his Second Coming and each of them will [...]
The USCCB’s Bible Translations.
One can always detect the preferred heresy of the age by what is removed from the Bible. So, before we look at the USCCB’s Bible translations, let’s look at two examples of what heretics over the last 500 years have removed from their own versions of the Bible. 1) The Protestant rebels removed Maccabees because of Purgatory. Maccabees is like the Braveheart of the Old Testament. It's one of the most exciting books of the Bible, so no one should have removed it. But the 16th century heretics like Martin Luther removed 1 and 2 Maccabees because it showed Purgatory and the necessity of sacrifice for the dead. Here's the Bible: Then under the tunic of each one of the dead, they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And [...]
Third Sunday After Easter Sermon.
-Sermon on St. John 16:16-22 on the Church crisis by Fr. David Nix. -Everything I produce is gratis and add free. You can donate so that all can learn and enjoy at: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/