Life Updates2021-12-06T17:31:59+00:00
2108, 2021

Rule of Life Approved

By |August 21st, 2021|

The above is the renewal of my rule of life under the Archdiocese of Denver from 26 July 2021 to 30 June 2024.  I blurred out my chancery's seal so as to prevent online hackers from copying it.  But more interesting:  Notice that first date in reference to the life of the Latin Mass world in the Church. Now, some people ask me: Why does a hermit maintain some external apostolates?  Isn't this more the life of a monk-missionary than a hermit?  Yes.  But I give two reasons here: 1) I struggle with insomnia, I may do my several hours of prayer one day at a different time from the next day.  That is why in my rule of life below (again, approved by my Archdiocese) I fulfill my prayer but the horarium (schedule for someone in religion) is a [...]

1007, 2021

Life Update 2021.07.10

By |July 10th, 2021|

I was recently  thinking about being an ex-paramedic and my desire to work with mercenaries involved in the rescue of child slaves. Mercenaries rescuing child-slaves is not something only found in the congregations of the Middle Ages like the Trinitarians or the Mercedarians or the Knights Hospitaller. The fact is that today there are Catholic organizations of laymen dedicated to rescue Christians kidnapped by Muslims. However, due to the corrupt situation found in the leadership in both Church and State, these modern mercenaries must work around the Catholic hierarchy and around European and African governments, not with them. In other words, these Catholic mercenaries fly under the radar of both bishops and Presidents, unlike the happier days of the Church when both would sponsor such high-liability congregations. To be clear, I have done no work with such groups. But I [...]

2606, 2021

Life Update 2021.06.26

By |June 26th, 2021|

The Overton Window of Evangelization The Overton Window is described by Wikipedia as "the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.  It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences." Notice that the enemies of Christ have changed their strategy the past two years.  What was seen as unthinkable just two years ago is now promoted by the left as not only acceptable but necessary.  For example, "Critical Race Theory" taught in schools was unthinkable two years ago.  Now it is necessary to reveal the racist roots of our country (while conveniently covering over the fact that almost all slave owners [...]

506, 2021

Life Update 2021.06.05

By |June 5th, 2021|

This is the 19th century Papally-approved prayer I keep laminated in my Roman Breviary to pray before hearing confessions: Da mihi, Domine, sedium tuarum assistricem sapientiam, ut sciam judicare populum tuum in justitia et pauperos tuos in judicio. Fac me ita tractare claves regni coelorum, ut nulli aperiam cui claudendum sit, nulli claudam cui aperiendum sit. Sit intentio mea pura, zelus meus sincerus, charitas mea patiens, labor meus fructuosus. Sit in me lenitas non remissa, asperitas non severa; pauperem ne despiciam, diviti ne adulor. Fac me ad alliciendos peccatores suavem, ad interrogandos prudentem, ad instruendos peritum. Tribue, quaeso, ad retrahendos a malo solertiam, ad confirmandos in bono sedulitatem, ad promovendos ad meliora industriam: in responsis maturitatem, in consiliis rectitudinem, in obscuris lumen, in implexis sagacitatem, in arduis victoriam; inutilibus colloquiis ne detinear, pravis ne contaminer; alios salvem, meipsum non perdam. [...]

2905, 2021

Life Update 2021.05.29

By |May 29th, 2021|

Red Rose Rescue I didn't realize that my second arrest for peacefully counseling inside a baby-killing center was on the internet, but someone sent this to me yesterday: https://youtu.be/QRI6nW-UQ5Q  

2205, 2021

Life Update 2021.05.22

By |May 22nd, 2021|

p/c to @MrsCasey6 on Twitter.  (It's not me at the altar.) A Little Thank You to My Donors... I was talking to a friend today complaining how I am having trouble getting my swimming legs for my 15 resolutions a day on prayer and apostolate and personal health.  As I was complaining, I was explaining that I no longer have any excuse of living homeless or not being sure where my money was coming from.   I complained how bad I was at emails and letters and that I no longer had any excuses.  This good friend told me to rest in the Lord, explaining that going from major amounts of PTSD to a fully active apostolate again can take some time. But as much as this reduced my guilt for sluggishness, it hit me how thankful I am to [...]

805, 2021

Life Update 2021.05.08

By |May 8th, 2021|

Why Online Church Reform? I learned French, Spanish and Portuguese to go to the mission. Why now am I a hermit who prays several hours a day and now works at Church reform online? In my last non-Latin Mass assignment for my home diocese, I was hearing 10-40 hours of confessions a week, less than a golf shot from a large State University. Most of my penitents were University students and I'd sometimes hear confessions past midnight. I had no iPhone (only a flip-phone) and I had no FaceBook, Twitter, blog or podcast. I had no desire for social media. However, approximately one complaint per month against my orthodox doctrine (as well as me having called the police on an employee having a nervous breakdown with aggressive behavior to me) was my reason for removal from my last non-Latin Mass [...]

1704, 2021

Life Update 2021.04.17

By |April 17th, 2021|

Jews vs. Catholic Basketball Game (10 Years Ago This Weekend) This weekend is the 10th anniversary of the Jews vs. Catholics basketball game that Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm and I started as chaplains of University of Colorado in Boulder. (You can see how young I looked in my first year of my priesthood  in 2011.) Catholic News Agency covered the story 10 years ago in Boulder: Although the idea began as a joke, and still elicits laughter from students, an April 17 “Jews versus Catholics” basketball game has a serious purpose for the priest and the rabbi who organized it as a form of outreach to their communities' non-practicing members. “These are the two main religions of the West, and there are a lot of people who left them,” said Fr. Dave Nix, parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center [...]

604, 2021

Life Update 2021.04.10

By |April 6th, 2021|

Resurrection Grace Just before my diaconate ordination about 12 years ago, I went with a seminary professor and about 50 older adults to the Holy Land.  I was just a layman and I paid for myself via donors, not the seminary.  My seminary professor wanted nothing to do with me (yes, even back then!) so I ended up wandering the streets of Jerusalem one evening.  (Earlier that week, I had hoped for really cool graces at the location where Jesus was executed, but felt little consolation.) However, that evening of wandering old Jerususalem, I came into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and inside that Church is both the location where Christ died and where he rose.  Where Christ rose is a now a chapel inside a Church (as seen in the above photo.)  I went in there as the [...]

2703, 2021

Life Update 2021.03.27

By |March 27th, 2021|

Vaccine vs. Ivermectin The 512th reason I won't take the Covid vaccine is because people are hawking it in front of supermarkets on a poster boards that look slightly less professional that what the Girl Scouts would use: I took this picture of a shady drug deal outside a Denver supermarket last week. Instead, I will be taking this if I catch COVID-19: Please be aware of four other things: 1. Don't take the horse medicines of Ivermectin. It might be too strong for the human liver.  A nurse friend sent me the above ivermectin that I snapped it a picture. Notice:  Made for humans, not horses. 2. The "ingredients" to the Pfizer vaccine can be found here. 3. A Yale University professor and renowned cancer researcher said here that “The bottom line is that ivermectin works."  He continued: [...]

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