St. Peter

Peter’s Response

Valuing the gifts over the gift-Giver and His will is a serious, common problem. “I didn’t have time to think about these things, with work, family, and electronic media all vying for my attention” is the mantra of so many souls in hell. Response from St. Peter at Heaven’s gate? “You erroneously substituted “have” for […]... Read More
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The Devil’s Playbook for the End Times

Many Catholics are familiar with the story of Pope Leo XIII falling into some kind of trance after Mass one day in the 19th century and having a vision of Jesus and Satan conversing. The devil allegedly said he could destroy Christ’s Church if allowed to cause havoc for the following hundred years. Jesus granted […]... Read More

3 Levels of Human Life

The 3 levels of human life – vegetative, animal, and rational – are sustained by water, blood, and spirit respectively. Given on the cross from the human nature of Jesus, the conduit of divine life, is water and blood (Jn 19:34) and Spirit (Jn 19:30), to sacramentally nourish us in Baptism (water), Eucharist (blood), and […]... Read More
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The Era of Unreason

Other than the point that they’ve chosen the never-ending misery of hell as their eternal destiny, the problem with post-Christian “progressives” is that while they crown humanity its own god, they must reject not only faith, but reason. There’s no way to reasonably claim human beings don’t begin at conception, that marriage is meant to […]... Read More
Christ and bride

The Mass: the Nuptial Celebration of the Eternal Marriage

The Mass is the nuptial celebration between Christ and His bride the Church.  As with all marital love, there is first intimacy of words before intimacy of bodies. Christ tells His bride how much He loves her in the liturgy of the word. She then gives herself to Him in the offertory; and He enters […]... Read More
Thinker

Late-night pondering, out loud…..

A little late-night pondering out loud….. Most Asian nations are shame-societies, because, for the most part, they’re pre-Christian. It makes sense they’re still living Genesis 3:7-8 as their psycho-social norm. Christian nations are joy-societies, especially the poor ones, now mainly found in Africa and Latin America. They’re Acts chapter 2 societies, that know God redeemed […]... Read More