From Charismatic To Traditional
This is a guest post written by my good friend Jesse Romero. With his permission, I reproduce it from his own site. I crosspost it because his move from charismatic to traditional was very much like my own, with both of our own parents having been involved in the Catholic charismatic movement. As always, Jesse's writing here is both clear and profound. Make sure to see my recent interview on his show starting at minute 21 here about a recent adventure in my life. The Toronto blessing started in 1994, it was something that swept Protestant pentecostalism by storm for several years and it made its way into the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR). The truth be told, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a poor imitation of protestant Pentecostalism, they do it better. I was introduced to the CCR by my parents. [...]
RCT 62: Worthy Communion.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 225-229. -The Sacraments, ep. 14. -My site: www.padreperegrino.org -Barring big news, I will greatly reduce social-media this summer except for occasional updates on Telegram. It's a free app you can add to your phone or computer. My channel is "Padre Peregrino."
Sermon for Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
I'm sorry about the ridiculous Muslim prayer-droning from the nearby minaret, as I'm in a Middle-Eastern country preaching this (in a Catholic Church, of course.) Read about St. Mariam of Jesus Crucified (The Little Arab, The Lily of Palestine) here: https://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2010/07/blessed-mariam-baouardy-little-arab-and.html?m=1
The Priest As The Best-Man to Christ.
In Christ's Passion, we see what we ought to suffer for the truth, and in His resurrection, what we ought to hope for in eternity.—St. Thomas Aquinas At Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, one can go to the exact site where Jesus Christ was crucified. Under a Greek altar, one can put one's fist into a hole going to the rocks split asunder and also where tradition tells us the Cross was placed during the crucifixion of the Son of God. Of all the icons that could have been used directly above the hole into the ground of Calvary's cross, they chose "Christ the Bridegroom." See the word in Greek, "O Nymphios," meaning The Bridegroom. Before we get to the true interpretation of the priesthood, let's look at some limping ones. Nowadays, a Catholic seminarian [...]
The Bombshell Without a Bang.
This month of July 2025, Miss Diane Montagna, an American journalist based in Rome, released an article here titled "Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditiones Custodes (TC.)" She writes: "The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that 'the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.'" But only 30% of the bishops had even responded in that 2020 questionnaire. Miss Montagna asserts that a new report states "that Summorum Pontificum played 'a significant, albeit relatively modest, role in the life of the Church.' By 2021, 'it had spread to around 20% of the Latin [Western] dioceses worldwide, [...]
PIP 1: Rules #1-2.
Peregrino Ignatian Pathway (PIP) 1: Rules #1-2 from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -Suscipe prayer: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.” -Rules: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/06/literalrules/ -Fr. Jambon books: -In spanish: https://www.romanitaspress.com/product-page/meditaciones-ignacianas -In English: https://www.romanitaspress.com/product-page/ignatian-meditations -Manresa by Tan: https://a.co/d/f0xpcPu -Barring big news, I will greatly reduce social-media this summer except for occasional updates on Telegram. It's a free app you can add to your phone or computer. My channel is "Padre Peregrino."
Interview with Virgin Most Powerful Radio
Jesse and Terry interview me about a recent adventure. I enter the conversation at minute 21 here or embedded here: https://rumble.com/embed/v6th8hx/?pub=4
The Human Soul is “Capax Dei.”
St. Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa I-II Q 2: Consequently man's happiness cannot consist in fame or glory. On the other hand, man's good depends on God's knowledge as its cause. And therefore man's beatitude depends, as on its cause, on the glory which man has with God; according to Ps. 90: "I will deliver him, and I will glorify him; I will fill him with length of days, and I will show him my salvation..." Fr. David: On social-media, I frequently see Catholics post pictures of saints while misrepresenting Church history or true theology. Such a post of a saint with bad theology may have thousands of likes just because it included the picture of a saint. If I were a Protestant seeing such stupid theology, I would think the old-school accusation of Protestants against Catholics were true: [...]
US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders.
p/c PBS The USCCB continues to issue statements against Trump as they clamor for the billions back once received for illegal activity under the Biden Administration in facilitating open-borders in the United States. However, the Department for Homeland Security also takes the offensive. Homeland issued the following statement to Catholic Charities and the USCCB, among other NGOs: “The chairmen are examining whether these NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity, as the previous administration incentivized millions of inadmissible aliens to cross our borders—many of whom were subsequently aided by NGOs after being released at the border under the Biden-Harris administration’s mass catch-and-release policies.” Over the last 14 years, leftist open-border policy has been publicly supported in the Vatican in an ostentatious manner from the last regime, but is now promoted in a more subtle way. Similarly, the USCCB and [...]
RCT 61: The Sacrament of Confirmation.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 210-224. The Sacraments, ep. 13. www.padreperegrino.org Barring big news, I will greatly reduce social-media this summer except for occasional updates on Telegram. It's a free app you can add to your phone or computer. My channel is "Padre Peregrino."