VLX 108: He Will Restore All Things
Mt 17:9-13 https://rumble.com/embed/vzaben/?pub=e5jg1
Mass Meditation
p/c Cream City Catholic A few years ago, I had spliced in scenes of the Passion of the Christ into a video on Vimeo of my own low Mass with the words I had thought came from St. Francis De Sales. However, a priest showed me the meditations did not come from De Sales. I believe he said the meditation preceded him. Either way, you can use these words to meditate at each part of the Traditional Latin Mass: When the priest goes to the foot of the Altar: Jesus enters the garden. O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Who wast pleased voluntarily to endure mortal terror and anguish at the view of Thine approaching passion, give me grace henceforth to consecrate all my sorrows to Thee, O God of my heart! Assist me to support my [...]
QuickPod: Three Types of Christians
We look at Catholic and Orthodox and Protestant as the three major categorizations of Christians. https://rumble.com/embed/vzaadz/?pub=e5jg1
Can I Eat in a Place with Idols?
"May I eat in an ethnic restaurant with pagan idols up as long as I'm not eating there because of the idols?" The short answer to this is: If you have kids and/or want to stay on the safe-side, just avoid such restaurants, especially since there are so many options of restaurants and markets without idols out there. But what about a Catholic missionary living in India who has the choice between buying flour with a ganesh on it or entering a restaurant with a shiva in it or just starving to death? I know the tough-guy trad-answer is "Just starve to death." However, the Saints, Fathers and Doctors give a little more nuanced answer, so as to not give too much credit to idols (eg demons) in the first place, especially after Christ has totally conquered death for the Christian. [...]
CPX 107: Scripture and Tradition
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.139-143 Q/A 14-36. https://rumble.com/embed/vytatx/?pub=e5jg1
VLX 107: Good That We Are Here
Mt 17:4-8 (VLX stands for “Video Lectio Divina.” It is the only Patristic Bible Study and Ignatian Prayer Series online.) https://rumble.com/embed/vyt0ao/?pub=e5jg1
The Geography of the Holy Sepulcher
Happy Easter, Christ is Risen! Please be aware that the email-notification app on this blog no longer works, so you'll just have to check this front-page Theology Section and the Life Updates every week. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to all my talks and videos at Padre Peregrino on Rumble. I have only been to the Holy Land once and I went with a Catholic travel group just before being ordained a deacon in seminary. Rifling through the travel itinerary before arriving in Tel Aviv, I was very confused that we were going to visit the "Church of the Holy Sepulcher" (see above picture) but there was no indication on our travel list that we would visit Golgotha or a Church of the Resurrection. Perhaps it was for the best that I was so obtuse on something that many people figure out [...]
Nemo Laeditur Nisi A Seipso
Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep My word, he shall not see death for ever.—Jn 8:51 (From the Gospel from the First Sunday of Passiontide.) Several years ago I would have written something like this: "If you are living in sanctifying grace, your soul is invincible but your body is not." Not that I totally disagree with that statement now, but as I go a little deeper into theology, I would say almost the opposite—or at least the inverse: "If you are living in sanctifying grace, your body is invincible but your soul is not." That last sentence might sound weird to you, but here's why I stick with it: If you die in grace, then you are absolutely guaranteed that you get a resurrected body back. (And the way to die in sanctifying grace is [...]
TCE 43: Held in Slavery
Theology and Current Events (TCE) #43 is called "Held in Slavery." As world events progress, the veil is dropping more every month between the two masters we can follow. God leads to freedom. Satan leads to slavery. https://rumble.com/embed/vxkh40/?pub=e5jg1
Christ: The Desert Rose
In EMS, we had a shorthand communication term called auto-ped which simply meant "pedestrian hit by a car." In four years on the ambulance, every auto-ped I saw was a hit-and-run. In other words, every time I showed up after someone ran over another person with their car, the perpetrators all fled the scene without helping the victim. 100% of them. Now, granted, if you talked to paramedics who were in the field for 20 years, they would probably say 95% of their auto-peds were hit-and-runs. (Their numbers would be different because medics in the field for more than just four years would have seen a few people stop for their victims, I suspect.) But in my four years of pre-hospital medicine, I never saw any driver stop for their victims. The reason for this is clearly self-preservation. Recently, I [...]