Pharisaical Word-Games from the US Bishops
The Catholic Church has always had blessings for people and items. Blessings for people are usually for individuals, but occasionally a priest may bless groups living in a vocation designed by God (like a family.) Blessings for items can be anything from a vehicle to a crucifix. But there is a new heretical document from Cdl. Fernandez that reads: "III. Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex. 31. Within the horizon outlined here appears the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex, the form of which should not be fixed ritually by ecclesial authorities to avoid producing confusion with the blessing proper to the Sacrament of Marriage." (emphasis mine.) Catholic News Agency has an article titled "U.S diocese respond to Vatican declaration on same-sex couple blessings." [...]
The Holy Fools of Christ
Matins for the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in the old Rite Roman Breviary includes this reading today: For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.—1 Cor 4:9-13. The first "fool for Christ" was [...]
RCT 31: The Two Judgments.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 83-87. The Creed, Article VII, Section A. Donate: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/
“They Will Put You Out of the Synagogues.”—John 16:2
Jesus said, I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor Me.—John 16:1-3. What is interesting about Our Lord's above prediction for the coming persecution against His Apostles in Acts of the Apostles is that the Jewish leaders who would kick them out of "the synagogues" would do so because they would believe "they are offering service to God." In other words, the religious leaders who happen to have the power over buildings will kick out the true religious who are preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations (that is, the newly ordained Apostles.) [...]
Telling the Truth Will Set You Free
p/c Catholic Arena, Dublin. Recently, Tucker Carlson gave a talk in Las Vegas, found in-part here. Below in italics are my favorite quotes from his talk. Following each quote, I apply it to the current situation in the Catholic Church, especially in relation to the clergy. Tucker Carlson: I can't think of a single case where someone was destroyed for lying. There's no penalty for lying...What they did was tell the truth. And that is the case everywhere...But go through the last fifteen famous people who were canceled for "saying the wrong thing" and ask yourself: "Is the thing they said wrong?" Me: Do a little experiment on paper with me here. On the left side of a piece of paper, write the names of the ten most infamously corrupt heretical priests, bishops and Cardinals. On the right side of [...]
“Mortal” Only If Done With Full-Knowledge?
Probably daily across this country a few conversation go like this between young Catholics: -Catholic 1: Did you know pre-marital sex is a mortal sin? -Catholic 2: Well, did you know for a sin to be mortal you have to have full-knowledge and full-consent? -Catholic 1: I guess so, but does that mean it's not a mortal sin to have pre-marital sex? -Catholic 2: Not if you didn't know it. Catholic 2 is a smarty-pants who takes St. Thomas out of context, but is still morally wrong. Here's why: Even the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) admits that you don't get a "pass" from God (so to speak) on ignorance of the moral law unless there's absolutely no way you could have known the truth: A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If [...]
VLX 141: Mt 24:1-14. “The Love of Many Will Grow Cold.”
VLX stands for "Video Lectio Divina" which is a Patristic Bible Study and Ignatian Prayer Series online. Today we look at St. Matthew 24:1-14. The Temple-Mount is not where the world thinks it is: https://youtu.be/6tzom66XhZ8 The Secret Still Silenced: https://youtu.be/vIJHTQYQ6_k?si=-ZFGOyPidQ2vfZ1R
Immaculate Conception: The Temporal and Eternal One
Here's a text I got from a friend yesterday: "Okay, also, how is the Holy Spirit the uncreated Immaculate Conception, as Maximilian Kolbe says? Any good ideas on explaining it?" My reply: "Yes it's because the Holy Spirit proceeds in eternity (not time) from the Father and the Son that one can even use the term 'ETERNAL Immaculate Conception' but one has to be very careful to extricate any sense of sex or time from it, since it's spiritual, there's no genders involved and the spiration of the Holy Spirit is in eternity ('Spiration' is the old school way to describe how the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.) Now get this: Mary is the TEMPORAL Immaculate Conception. That's why she didn't say at Lourdes to St. Bernadette "I am immaculately conceived" but why she said [...]
RCT 30: The Results of the Ascension.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 80-82 The Creed, Article VI, Section B.
Levate Capita Vestra Ad Redemptio Vestra
What did it mean to pray for the Jews to pray for the First Coming of the Messiah? What does it mean for Christians to pray for the Second Coming of the Messiah? Notice that for the former, it was not a matter of despair, but rather of hope, to pray for the first coming of the Christ. This is revealed in the life of St. Anne as seen in a vision by Ven. Mary of Agreda in the Mystical City of God: The most fortunate Anne had a house in Bethlehem and was a most chaste, humble and beautiful maiden. From her childhood she led a most virtuous, holy and retired life, enjoying great and continual enlightenment in exalted contemplation. Withal she was most diligent and industrious, thus attaining perfection in both the active and the contemplative life. She [...]