VLX 113: Drowned in the Depths
Mt 18:6-10. https://rumble.com/embed/v16hytk/?pub=e5jg1
CPX 112: Grades of Sin
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.152-153 Q/A 1-14. https://rumble.com/embed/v15fe6r/?pub=e5jg1
Advice to Young Courting Catholics, Part I
If you want to marry someone, you need to have more than just the "checklists" covered of orthodoxy and wanting-lots-of-kids. You actually need to be in love (at least somewhat!) with someone of the opposite sex. And they should be (somewhat!) in love with you. You only got one shot at this, and you really don't want an annulment. Go slowly and deliberately in courting. Marry someone you love, but don't look for someone who is perfect, for perfect people don't exist. Yes, the checklist should exist as far as being a traditional Catholic, but there has to be some "chemistry" with the other person. So, don't "settle" for a loser, because it's better to be an old-maid or an old-bachelor than to marry the wrong person. You should only attempt to court another Catholic who is equally-yoked theologically. If [...]
VLX 112: Become Like Children
Mt 18:1-5. https://rumble.com/embed/v156yat/?pub=e5jg1
QuickPod: My Struggle with the Trinity
Live video I did in my car about a theological struggle in high school on the Divinity of Christ. https://rumble.com/embed/v15kpgb/?pub=e5jg1
CPX 111: The Beatitudes
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.149-151 Q/A 1-15. https://rumble.com/embed/v14gx8a/?pub=e5jg1
Season After Pentecost or “Ordinary Time”?
p/c Star of the Sea, San Francisco. The 1950 Carmelite devotional Divine Intimacy reads: “The Father and the Word, mutually beholding Their infinite goodness and beauty, love each other from all eternity, and the expression of this unitive love is a third Person, the Holy Spirit. As the Word is generated by the Father by way of knowledge, so the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son by way of love. The Holy Spirit is, therefore, the terminus, and the effusion of the reciprocal love of the Father and the Son, an effusion so substantial and perfect that it is a Person, the third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, to whom the Father and the Son, by the sublime fruitfulness of their love, communicate their very own nature and essence, without losing any of it Themselves.”—DI #186. [...]
Was the Church Formed on Good Friday or on Pentecost?
The Church Fathers say that the Catholic Church was formed on Good Friday. Indeed, this is when the water flowing from the pierced Sacred Heart of Jesus was more than symbolic for the water that would one day wash us clean of sin in baptism. Was not the Roman soldier, St. Longinus, washed clean by that very water as he pierced the Sacred Heart of Jesus with his own spear and believed in Him? Furthermore, the Church Fathers teach that the Most Precious Blood that flowed from Christ's pierced heart on the day of His crucifixion is literally the same as the blood that fills the priest's chalice after the consecration at Holy Mass. Hence, we are on firm ground to hold that the Catholic Church's sacraments were formed on Holy Thursday (establishing the Eucharist and Holy Orders) as well [...]
What Happens Spiritually in an Abortion
Gloria Polo, a middle-aged Columbian woman, had a near death experience in May of 1995 when she was struck by lightning in Bogotá. After cardiac arrest (but before God gave her another chance on earth) she saw the effects of all of her life's actions on earth from a spiritual perspective. Her initial sentence (before resuscitation) was hell. I cleaned up a translation from the Spanish and put it on my blog here a few years ago. The entire thing is worth reading. But the section regarding what happens spiritually in an abortion will change you forever. I extricate two parts from her above linked account and quote them verbatim below. The key line to look for in the following text is this: Seals that God has put to impede evil to come out, but that, for every abortion, it [...]
VLX 111: Kings of the Earth
Mt 17:24-27. https://rumble.com/embed/v13fsqr/?pub=e5jg1