“What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers … For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’” (Luke 23:34)
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoLay folks are getting more and more into Carmelite theology. And that is a great thing. Carmelite theology is all about detaching from creatures in order to attach to the Creator. For a Carmelite priest like St. John of the Cross, this was ascetically difficult but strategically simple: Detaching from creatures will automatically make a soul [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoTucker Carlson recently had on his show the former Navy-man Jack Posobiec. Jack frequently attends the Traditional Latin Mass. Tucker seems to be on his way to Catholicism, or at least is taking his Christianity very seriously these days. I set the time stamp in the above video around 1:43:00 in a chapter called [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.126-128 The Creed, Article XI, Section B. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Music bumper “O Mary of Graces” found on YT channel @DaughtersofMaryPress
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Site: Padre PeregrinoSome thoughts from my pick-up truck on one of my favorite chapters of the New Testament. https://www.youtube.com/live/diH2__H2h_w?si=a1dqapVdvfg6rjlQ
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Site: Padre PeregrinoSome people debate online if I'm a hermit because I asked to leave parish life or because I was kicked out of so many parishes. The fact is that I asked to leave parish life because I wasn't willing to fight with lay "Eucharistic Ministers" about their lack of Eucharistic vigilance. The problem is that [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoAnd I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.—Isaiah 3:4 Today, we're going to consider at who is allowed in a US seminary (the 6-7 year long post-graduate school where celibate men study for the Roman Catholic Priesthood.) But this article is not going to be macho. I [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Epoch Times recently estimated that 17,000,000 people have been killed by the "Covid-Vaccine." I believe that number is an extremely conservative estimate. Whether high or low, we now know that the injection causing so many deaths was not in fact a vaccine, but rather gene therapy made from aborted babies. It was released under [...]
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino *** Gospel: “Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following Him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoVatican II's Lumen Gentium's chapter five is titled "Universal Call to Holiness" and it includes this sentence: "Therefore in the Church, everyone whether belonging to the hierarchy, or being cared for by it, is called to holiness." By "cared for by it," it simply means lay people. In other words, lay folks are also called [...]
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Site: Padre Peregrinop/c North American Whitetail. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.—Mt 7:15-16. Many traditional Catholics today rip on the ultra-leftists because it's easy to knock out of the park really low-hanging fruit like "Clown Masses" or social-justice warriors to [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.124-126 The Creed, Article XI, Section A. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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Site: Padre PeregrinoEven though I recently read these intense parameters about how Catholics must always avoid all prayer with schismatics and heretics, I get an idea of which tribes in the world have never heard the Gospel from a Protestant website called Joshua Project's Unreached of the Day (JPUD.) Some examples of tribes who have never heard [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoRecently, Archbishop Viganò wrote, "Change – or better still, aggiornamento – has been so much at the center of the conciliar narrative that it has been the hallmark of Vatican II and has posited this assembly as the terminus post quem that sanctions the end of the ancien régime – the regime of the 'old [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoShawn Ryan won't accept the new face of the USA. Me neither for the nanny church. https://youtu.be/mUx9bpa3csc?si=MUZ6ehsqTlgwervE
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Site: Padre PeregrinoMy post-Mass meditation usually comes from a 19th century book of Jesuit Meditations. It's a phenomenal book. The meditation following Sunday's Mass was about enduring persecutions in light of the Sermon on the Mount. Before we get to the topic at hand, How To Pray for the Enemies of Holy Mother Church, I want [...]
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.” [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoWe all know the Bible and saints put the interior life far ahead of the exterior life. However, the enemy of human nature often convinces us that we're the exception. Like fools, we take the bait. But then something befalls us (eithr good or bad) to remind us how dependent we are on the Blessed [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThis evening, on the 13th of July 2024, President Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, PA. It was obviously a failed assassination attempt. Trump got up triumphantly as seen in the picture above. One America News reports: "Butler county district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoFr. Walter J. Ciszek S.J. wrote: Though our situation may have been somewhat unique, the temptation [to give up] was not. It is the same temptation faced by everyone who has followed a call and found that the realities of life were nothing like the expectations he had in the first flush of his vision [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoIn a Vatican-approved apparition from the 16th century, the Mother of God appeared to a Spanish nun living in Quito, Ecuador in what became known as Our Lady of Good Success. (Yes, I know I normally criticize those who do transliterations when a translation is required, and yes I know "Good Success" is a transliteration [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.120-123. The Creed, Article X, Section B. *** -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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Site: Padre PeregrinoMore and more diocesan priests are becoming interested in becoming a diocesan hermit under Canon 603. That's what I am. (My rule of life with approved apostolates is here.) Some traditionally-minded Roman Catholic priests have contacted me over the last few years because they want to offer the traditional sacraments and no longer want to [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoAnd to all the "Catholic" and "pro-life" organizations that said you can just "follow your conscience" on destructive gene-therapy from aborted babies because that's what the USCCB said... please watch this four and a half minute video so you can repent and make public reparation for misleading your flock: https://youtu.be/WXc1wdCx0GE?si=M5Vjzmt6ZAMZveRf
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Site: Padre PeregrinoJesus left the temple and was going away, when His disciples came to point out to Him the buildings of the Temple. But He answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”—Mt 24:1-2 [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe featured image above is a picture of the last scheduled TLM in the Melbourne, Australia Cathedral (which just took place this June of 2024.) Although there are serious theological and historical errors in it, the liturgical letter Desiderio Desideravi (henceforth DD) is correct in at least one sentence, in that it identifies the liturgical [...]
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Bumpers "Recomposed Richter Vivaldi Spring 1." Gospel: And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” And going a little farther he fell [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoWhen I first started listening to an exorcist's talks on the link between Marxism and demons’ psychology, I came to the conclusion that narcissism was a major trait of demons and those on the left. However, the more I study Marxism and demonology, the more I started that narcissism was not simply one of the [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoAs they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. What then [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.117-120. The Creed, Article X, Section A. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -15 Mortal Sins to Confess: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/08/mortalsins/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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Site: Padre PeregrinoLast week, Archbishop Viganó wrote this on his site: "The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has informed me, with a simple email, of the initiation of an extrajudicial penal trial against me, with the accusation of having committed the crime of schism and charging me of having denied the legitimacy of 'Pope Francis' [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoFirst hour we talk about TLM rumors and the emergency sacrament that lay people can give:
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe top-left picture was drawn by Fr. Mario Rupnik SJ. The top-right is an icon I snapped at the Greek Catholic Church in Athens earlier this year. National Catholic Register wrote about the Jesuit who drew the above left picture: "Father Rupnik, a priest and artist, has been accused of spiritual, psychological, and sexual abuse [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoMany conservative and traditional Catholic parents know the dangers of kids having cell phones. These dangers include inappropriate images and bullying. But most good Catholic parents somehow still think their children are beyond the reach of predators because they have relatively-obedient children. In this article, you're going see why that's you need to put away [...]
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Fr. Walter Joseph Ciszek SJ’s Four Years in Purgatory: https://youtu.be/17AllrONbKU -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoAs you know, for the first seven years of my priesthood, I offered the new sacraments. The last seven years I have offered exclusively the old sacraments. But now I'm switching from a 1962 TLM Missal to a 1939 TLM Missal. This has little to do with the papacy or obedience or rebellion or political [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoWhat do you do if you come across a dying person? Should you prioritize getting a paramedic or a priest? What can a lay person do for a dying person who is baptized or unbaptized? What should a priest do for a dying person who is baptized or unbaptized? The traditional answers are relatively simple. [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThese days, St. Catherine of Siena is frequently quoted in her love of the pope of her day (as well she should be.) However, she is less frequently quoted in what she had to say about the antipope of her day. There have been 20-40 antipopes in history, so a discussion on this topic is [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.113-116 The Creed, Article IX, Section E. My article on how any decent Catholic can recognize a heretic in "the hierarchy": https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/01/whoinferior/ -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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Site: Padre PeregrinoLast year I wrote an article titled, Why Do Rad-Trads Keep “Guessing” Everything Right? In it, I explained it was not a coincidence that traditional Catholics were accurate on everything from resisting "the covid vaccine" to seeing the current Church crisis accurately. Why is this? It wasn't because my Google-button worked better than the priests [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoIn the more righteous days of Christendom, Catholic countries did indeed reserve the death penalty for men or women who had killed children. This is seen in the fact that in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Church Fathers and the Popes held that the death penalty was not only for safety [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoRecently, I was featured in an article at Baptist News called The Harrison Butker story is so much weirder than you know. It was a hit piece against several high-profile American traditional Catholics, including myself. The featured image to their hit piece is reproduced above (photo credit to the lefty Baptist News) capturing many people [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoGOSPEL: Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoMass with two families on '45 calendar.
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Site: Padre PeregrinoRiding my bike around Denver as a 12 year old boy, I got good at maps. These were obviously the days before cell-phones and GPS, so I studied my maps as a hobby. I studied city maps of Denver and Chicago, state maps of Colorado and the Eisenhower Interstate System. I would look at globes [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoLast week in Florida, a woman demanded Holy Communion from a 66 year old priest named Fr. Rodriguez. When he quietly informed her in that Communion line that she had to be a practicing Catholic, she grabbed numerous hosts (the body of Jesus Christ) in his ciborium. As she crushed them in her hand, he [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.111-113 The Creed, Article IX, Section D. *** -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -R.: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063
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Site: Padre PeregrinoMr. Murray Rundus interviews me about the poor, the pro-life movement and my vocation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdj1s77WB0A
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Site: Padre PeregrinoIn Florida , a non-Catholic approached Holy Communion, tried to grab it, and a priest bit her forearm. https://youtu.be/llVcGN2gJqw
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Site: Padre PeregrinoOne of the more common heresies over the last 50 years goes something like, "Jesus discovered His vocation at His baptism." Of course, that denies the Divinity of Christ. But a reader recently told me about the opposite heresy she came across. She saw that I recently said on social media that I do not [...]
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