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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]