8 04, 2025

“Peregrinus Sum Apud Te.”

By |2025-04-08T01:39:57+00:00April 8th, 2025|Life|

Last week, on the second anniversary of my Mom's passing, I went to my sister's Byzantine Catholic Church for Vespers of St. Andrew of Crete.  My brother-in-law sang the litanies as you can hear in the audio example below. Vespers was three hours long, as it went through all of Salvation History.  In the litanies that night, every person compared himself to each sinner of the Old Testament and New Testament.  I sang in Byzantine tones that I myself was worse than each one of those Biblical sinners.  So did everyone else in that little Eastern Catholic Church.  We made nearly 300 nose-to-ground prostrations, begging for God's mercy.  But it [...]

7 04, 2025

VLX 166: Mt 27:57-66. His Own New Tomb.

By |2025-04-01T23:32:36+00:00April 7th, 2025|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Gospel: When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.  The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, [...]

24 03, 2025

VLX 165: Mt 27:51-56. The Veil of the Temple.

By |2025-03-16T02:10:56+00:00March 24th, 2025|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Gospel: And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus [...]

8 04, 2024

VLX 148: Mt 26:1-13. “In Memory of Her.”

By |2024-03-28T00:21:32+00:00April 8th, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -R.:: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 *** The Gospel: When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”  Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”  Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up [...]

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