PIP 3: Rules #5-6.
-Fr. David Nix continues "Peregrino Ignatian Pathway" (PIP) #3. Today we discuss rules no. 5 and 6 of discernment from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -Suscipe prayer of St. Ignatius: “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.”
Annulment Blues
A guest poem, half-serious, half-joking from a friend we'll call "POB." I thought that I was married to you, But I got a case of the annulment blues. And even Francis decided to disparage The vast majority of Catholic marriage. I thought that you were the cutest dame, Then they told me I had toxic shame. They said it was clearly evident That I never formed true consent. I said "I do," and I started kissing. Then they said that my discretion was missing. And I asked the tribunal for its intercession, But they said, "Boy, you lack due discretion." My daddy drank and my mom would chew, And so I can't be married to you. And nothing at all now at this junction'll Make my family less dysfunctional. My mom and dad, I'll have to phone'em And say we [...]
Jerusalem’s Own Stations of the Cross: Where to Find Them.
We walk through the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (including a hidden passageway through two Eastern Monasteries) to trace the footsteps of Christ's Passion. https://youtu.be/vN-m9jlTHTg
Who Became the Head of the “Church of England”?
Question: Who became the head of the Church of England after the death of King Henry VIII? Answer on AI: "After Henry VIII (top-left) died in 1547, his son Edward VI (top-right) succeeded him as the head of the Church of England. During Edward VI's reign, England became more Protestant, and policies were enacted to enforce Protestant doctrine." Answer in reality: Both after and before the death of King Henry VIII, the head of the “Church of England” remained the Roman Catholic Primate of England, provided he never defected to heretical Anglicanism. You see, when a heretic like Henry VIII hijacks the Catholic Church in his region, it does not make him “head” of anything ecclesial—only a political leader. So also, we can apply the hijacking of 2013 to Henry VIII and the heir-apparent (apparent being the operative word here) [...]
RCT 63: The Matter of the Eucharist.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 230-236. -The Sacraments, ep. 15. -My site: www.padreperegrino.org
Two Big Lies from Leila Lawler
On 26 July 2025, I reposted the Facebook (FB) post of a married woman named Christine Ruby. Her original post from 14 July 2025 was 1,512 words long. The first words to her post read: "Sinful Foreplay, Oral Sex, Sodomy, Use of Contraception, Enhancement Drugs, and Sex Toys Are Morally, Mortal and Grave Sins." In regards to acts disallowed by the Catholic Church in the marriage bed, Mrs. Ruby quoted definitive sources like Pope Pius XI's Casti Connubii. She also quoted at length St. Alphonsus Liguori and even the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC.) As I mentioned above, I only reposted her long and catechetical post on my FB profile here. The only header I gave to my own was to clarify the confusing meme that began Mrs. Ruby's (otherwise excellent) post. I wrote: "Every saint I have [...]
St. Thomas Aquinas’ Mass Prayers
Before Mass: Almighty, everlasting God, look down in mercy upon me, Thy servant, who now again draws near to the most holy sacrament of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I approach as one who is sick, to the physician of life; as one unclean, to the fountain of mercy; as one blind, to the light of eternal brightness; as one poor and needy, to the Lord of heaven and earth. I implore Thee, therefore, out of the abundance of thy boundless mercy, that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to heal my sickness, to wash away my defilement, to give sight to my eyes, to enrich my poverty, and to clothe my nakedness; that I may receive the bread of angels, the king of kings, the Lord of lords, with such reverence and humility, such contrition and devotion, such purity and [...]
An Open-Letter to Cardinal Burke.
Your Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke, Ave Maria. On this Vigil of the Feast of St. James, I write to you today with the utmost respect for your office since I recognize you as a Prince of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Your Eminence, I remember learning about you five years after my ordination as a Catholic priest when you tenaciously exposed the errors of Amoris Laetitia. You made a private correction, but then you went public. Nine years ago, in 2016, you boldly wrote a public paternal correction in the form of several “dubia” (doubts) in regards to the moral theology heresies of Amoris Laetitia. If it went unanswered, you threatened (in the most charitable way) there would be a public correction from you. Not only was this promise made to the Vatican, but to all Catholics. And since we [...]
Euthanasia in Canada: A True Story.
Recently, the Pillar reported: "Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD, including many Catholics." Now, I don't really like the current medical definitions for active euthanasia vs. passive euthanasia, but here's the basics of the vocabulary that weak bioethicists throw around today: Active euthanasia involves deliberately causing a patient's death, while passive euthanasia involves withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, allowing the patient to die naturally. The problem with their definition is that both are murder, which is why I don't really like the moral theology downgrading of passive murder as somehow "not as bad" as active murder. That being said, most people do not understand just how active the current [...]
PIP 2: Rules #3-4.
Fr. Dave Nix continues the "Peregrino Ignatian Pathway" (PIP) 2: Rules no. 3 and 4 of discernment 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.” -St. Ignatius' rules (without commentary:) https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/06/literalrules/