That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
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Site: Home LivingThis was a recent sunrise, and it has not been enhanced, believe me.I was looking for the original meaning of the word 'fearfully' in the scripture:I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.Psalm 139:14 In the original Hebrew, fearfully does not mean the kind of fear that we associate with being Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.com13
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Site: Home LivingGreetings!I am honored by your visit to The Manse today and I hope you are enduring the current circumstances the best you can. I like the contrast of the shiny cup against the freshly plowed ground.All is well here.Today I talked about an unusual way to use Proverbs 31 and I hope you enjoy it. There is also a small lesson for children on words that sound alike, and some possible ways Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.com12
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Site: Home LivingGreetings dear Ladies,I staged a corner of a room to entertain your dear hearts while you get something done at home.Please observe this beautiful flower garden planted by some of my descendants!!The Manse seems to be very story-book today. I must create some interesting characters to go-with.I followed an exercise with Lucy Wyndam-Read today while I was outside,and while catching up Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.com5
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Site: Home LivingWelcome Dear Ones,Thank you for visiting today and for all you do to encourage me.In my broadcast today I talked about this amusing sign that I made:I walked in this layer of fog today, ...and tried this 5 minute seated exercise with Lucy.I found this frothy coffee (in the picture at the top of this post) recipe quite amusing:Gently roll or scrunch up 1 small white paper napkin or face Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.com5
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Music bumper: Chanticleer performing Biebl's 'Ave Maria': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7C-VXZVSTw Gospel: And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death. And they brought him bound, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Judas, who betrayed [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoWe discuss euthanasia, living wills, ordinary vs extraordinary care, hospice, health care proxies and narcotics. Watch on Rumble, also embedded from Rumble below:
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Site: Padre PeregrinoAbove left is St. Mary of Egypt and above right is St. Benedict Labre. Both were single celibates wandering around without community who later became canonized. It is not the ideal to go through life without a family or convent, but it is possible to become a saint in such unusual circumstances. This article is [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoMost Catholics are called to be married folks or priests or nuns/sisters. But there are some other unusual vocations in the Church that good Catholics are talking about more and more. An infrequent but valid vocation is a single-celibate or consecrated-virgin living in the world. It is most certainly a real vocation if one takes [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoWhat is required in good Catholic bioethics regarding end of life decisions? 1) Heretical “Pontifical Academy for Life’s” errors summarized at "New Daily Compass": https://newdailycompass.com/en/vatican-pavs-latest-publication-condones-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide 2) Avoiding euthanasia with true and traditional Catholic bioethics: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2024/08/paleuthansia/ 3) Palliative care and its deceptive cover: https://clmagazine.org/topic/end-of-life/palliative-care-the-new-stealth-euthanasia/ 4) Why to say “no” to organ donation: Mine: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/04/no-organ-donation/ USA Today: [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoFr. Prümmer wrote the definitive book on Catholic morals in 1921. His section on Magnanimity is worth printing out and putting on your wall (as I did in my hermitage:) "The characteristics of this virtue are well portrayed by St. Thomas following the teaching of Aristotle: the magnanimous man a) takes a restrained delight in [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoIs the truth always in the middle of an opinion poll? Certainly not on dogma in times of a Church crisis. Three minute video:
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Site: Padre PeregrinoI went to a mainstream seminary that touted itself as conservative but not traditional. There, we had a Monsignor from South America who taught us canon law, and he was admittedly quite traditional. He told us one day in class that back in Peru, there were no vocation directors. Msgr. explained that good priests spiritually [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoSimilar to the recent talk I gave at a women's conference called Restore Tradition, my article today is about the history of women's fashion, long before it is a statement on morality. Even non-traditional Catholic believe the miracle of Fatima was real. Thus, they should equally believe one of the seers, Bl. Jacinta of Fatima, [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.137-141. The Creed, Article XII, Section A. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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Site: Padre PeregrinoA reader gave me permission to publish her letter to me (anonymously). I include my reply below, too: Dear Father Nix, I just listened to your homily on Sensus Fidelium about Woman's Submission where you encourage and admonish the husbands to live like Christ in their marriages. I thought it was a wonderful homily and [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThis is a talk I gave at the 2024 “Restore Tradition” Women’s Conference, in Littleton, CO. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
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Site: Padre PeregrinoNot long ago, I wrote an article about why leftists promote the "errors of Russia." The "errors of Russia" is obviously leftism, which Mary warned against at Fatima. In that article, I cite Jack Posobiec and Tucker Carlson, for they show that Marxism has killed 100 million people in the name of compassion. This has [...]
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Site: Padre Peregrino-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” And when he went out to the entrance, another servant [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoLate last week I visited a family that lives an hour and a half from my hermitage. The wife of the family has been my friend for 20 years. The husband has been my friend for about 10 years. They have six children. After a nice dinner of street tacos, they asked me for blessings [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThere's a lot of people on the good side of the Church crisis who strangely still choose silence under pretext of prudence. Decent priests may say things like, "I won't preach against the heresy coming from the Vatican because I don't want to be removed from my congregation," or "I'll offer the Traditional Latin [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe following is "Advice to Parents," by St. Alphonsus Liguori, Saint and Doctor of the Church: The gospel tells us, that a good plant cannot produce bad fruit, and that a bad one cannot produce good fruit. We learn from this, that a good father brings up good children. But, if the parents are wicked, [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoThe Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.128-136 The Creed, Article XI, Section C. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Music Bumpers thanks to Benedictines of Queen of the Apostles https://benedictinesofmary.org
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Site: Padre PeregrinoTowards the end of an article at Tradition in Action, Dr. Marian T. Horvat, Ph. D wrote the following about Mary's own Triumph at the Cross. I will put Dr. Horvat's words in below italics and my own commentary in this bold-orange font. But at the same time that her own heart was pierced with [...]
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Site: Padre PeregrinoPhoto Credit at top: "Pontifical Academy for Life." A new article at Crux is titled Vatican loosens stance on food, water for patients in vegetative state. It reports on the "Pontifical Academy for Life" which just released an 80 page pamphlet in Italian nearly eliminating past parameters on end-of-life issues. Shockingly, even the USCCB [...]
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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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