The Marriage of Faith and Reason
The collect in the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) for St. Albert the Great today reads: O God, Who made blessed Albert, Your Bishop and Doctor, eminent in the submission of human wisdom to divine faith, grant us, we beseech You, so to follow the path of his teaching that we may enjoy perfect light in heaven. This is such a beautiful prayer because it captures what a genius St. Albert was in matters of both human wisdom (called humána sapiéntia in the TLM collect today, now called "science") as well as matters of divine faith (called divínæ fídei in the TLM today, also called Divine Revelation.) As you know in 2021, you have no reason to trust the liberals in science. The same group of people that thinks it's okay to kill unborn babies or mutilate toddlers' between the legs or [...]
VLX 90: Death of John the Baptist
Mt 14:1-12 https://youtu.be/bWPCeLzf6xA
How Hard Is It To Avoid Heresy?
Consider a putatively-conservative Roman Catholic archbishop who invites his priests to pray with Lutherans in a Lutheran community building. This really happened. But because this bishop is "pro-life," he is considered "conservative" by most of his laity. Thus, most mainstream Catholics will pretty quickly forgive a bishop inviting their own Catholic priests to a Lutheran prayer service. That is, if they even think there's anything to forgive in that. I think the attitude among most of the laity today is basically: Well, I make mistakes in my vocation, so I can't judge my superiors who make mistakes in their vocations. Fair enough. There's some humility in that attitude. But there's several reasons that promoting the heresy of indifferentism (the notion that all religions can get you to heaven) is very different from, say, arguing with your spouse. The first reason [...]
TCE 32: How to Navigate a Church Crisis
This is Theology and Current Events (TCE) #32 and is taken mostly from St. Vincent of Lerins on how to Navigate a Church Crisis. -All quotes from St. Vincent of Lerins are found at New Advent at https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3506.htm. -This podcast is my reading of my own blog here https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/lerins/ https://youtu.be/3V959H1AJtQ
St. Vincent of Lerins on how to Navigate a Church Crisis
Many Catholics think that "Catholic" means "universal," and they are correct, but they make the mistake of thinking this is universal not through history but just today in this current Church crisis. We look to the great saint and doctor of the Church of the 5th century, St. Vincent of Lerins, for how to navigate a Church crisis when many bishops believe and teach different things. St. Vincent of Lerins was one of the very, very few bishops who fought against the global 5th century heresy of Arianism believed by 99% of the bishops of his day. We will see below in his writings why "Catholic" does not mean "universal" (for example, as in an opinion poll of a certain time of history) but rather that Catholicism is that what has been believed "everywhere, always and by all" Catholics [...]
CPX 89: Matrimony 2
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 107-108 Q/A 8-13 CPX 33: The Eastern Rites https://youtu.be/600fkzBHdBc Ratum non Consummatum https://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2013/12/19/canon-law-marriage-consummatum/ https://youtu.be/JPbHysJL26Q
Thoughts on “The Restrainer”
And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the [...]
VLX 89: The Carpenter’s Son
Mt 13:53-58 - Act of Faith: O my God, I firmly believe that Thou art one God in Three Divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I believe that Thy Divine Son became Man, and died for our sins, and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived. - Act of Hope: O my God relying on Thy almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, by the help of Thy grace, and Life Everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. - Act of Charity: O my God, I love Thee above all things, with my whole heart and soul, because [...]
No Feasting Without Fasting
by Andromeda “I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.” Luke 13:3 The novel idea which claimed, and still claims, that modern man is exempt from the precepts of the Gospel, ‘because times have changed,’ entered into, and firmly established itself in the Catholic ethos during the post conciliar period of the Church. We were, it was proclaimed, to enter into a new Springtime, throwing off the dark and dowdy ways of thinking and being, and by so inaugurating a new human fraternity which would bring about a heaven right here on earth. It followed as a natural consequence of this happy hypothesis, that many traditions which were in fact handed down from the early Church, were abruptly tossed out and suddenly deemed as dangerous to the health and spiritual life of priests, [...]
TCE 31: The spirit of the antichrist
Theology and Current Events (TCE) #31 is on the spirit of the antichrist and the false-prophet. "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God."—1 John 4:2-3a. https://youtu.be/3kLDjScZk4g