Fr. Thomas Petri, OP
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@PFIC_DHS President - Doctor of Moral Theology - @opeast friar - @ProvidenceCol Trustee - Missionary of Mercy for @pontifex
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It’s remarkable that a Catholic president of the United States can openly say he is pro-abortion and actively work to secure abortion access in the country, and yet there is no obvious consequence for his communion with the Church of Jesus Christ.
That he could say parents
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Twenty-five years ago, I went to Mexico as a seminarian to learn Spanish. It was a complete submersion in Spanish. I lived in Cuernavaca with a lovely family who spoke no English. Unknowingly, I traveled at the age of 19 with the beginnings of Chicken Pox.
Deathly ill, I
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It’s me!
House of Horrors…Den of thieves…Factory of indietrismo.
Ground Zero, friends.
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This week my family is remembering the sixth anniversary of my nephew’s death. Jason was only five years younger than I. We grew up like brothers, but he ended up in a wayward life with addiction and jail. He was on the path of recovery when he lapsed. He died from a
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REMINDER: November 1st is a HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION.
Catholics *MUST* go to Mass either on the evening of October 31 or sometime on November 1st. Without mitigating circumstances, it could be a mortal sin that should be confessed if you miss.
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Hot take: Most modern Catholic hymns are not only bad theology but unsuited to congregational participation. I’m looking at you
@OCPmusic
. Too many quarter notes and eighth notes. Syncopated between the two. And you wonder why the faithful don’t sing this dribble? They can’t.
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I would never have gotten to that point. The moment someone I don’t know and who doesn’t have a relationship with the parish requests a funeral Mass for a loved one who also isn’t known, I ask questions. “Who are you? Who was he?”
I google names. By that point the thing
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This is the problem. Nobody should know a priest’s “sexuality” and if the priest has achieved the virtue of chastity (and not merely sexual continence) then he will be fully integrated, his attractions are not an issue, and certainly not apparent to others.
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Not only was Galileo unable to prove his position at the time, we now know that he was, in fact, wrong.
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I was at the Marian Eucharistic Conference in Greenville, SC these last couple days. During one of the breaks:
Young boy: I’ve never seen a priest dressed like you.
His dad: He’s a Dominican. They’re the best. He’s special forces for the Church.
Boy: Really?
Me: It’s true.
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A half hour into the Hulu documentary on Pope Francis conversing with young adults--Catholics, an evangelical, and an atheist or two--the subject abortion comes up. One young woman, who teaches catechism, points out that she supports women whatever their choice.
This opens up
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Right, because the Holy Spirit speaks through the majority…. and the revealed Word is determined by democratic vote. Got it.
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President Biden chooses and picks on his faith. He’s a cafeteria Catholic, and sadly the issues he ignores are the most important ones for life and the foundation of society.
Wilton Cardinal Gregory (
@WashArchbishop
) on President Biden:
“I would say that he's very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts. There is a phrase that
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For all you Catholics out there, this is the shortest Advent season we can possibly have. It’s only three weeks long because the Fourth Sunday of Advent is December 24th. But you don’t get a twofer. There’s an obligation for Sunday and an obligation for Christmas.
This can be
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If you listen to what he says, the President is quite clearly pro-abortion without limit for any reason. This is not simply an issue of faith or of religion. Life is a basic human right upon which all other rights depend, and even atheists can and do recognize that fact.
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A priest who claims to be an artist employs an artistic process that includes the evil, impious, and sacrilegious abuse of consecrated women. The product, his so-called “art”, is forever tainted as evil, impious, and sacrilegious. It thus has no place in the sacred temple of God.
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Please pray for father!
The news I feared is here. I have a big cancerous tumor. They don’t know if they can operate or even shrink. So I guess my next appointment will determine what my future is. I am at peace and at the same time scared. I pray for all who hear the cancer news for first time. Not fun
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The difference between continence and chastity is this. Continence is generally successful in keeping things zipped up. Chastity, on the other hand, keeps the intellectual and interior life free from being distracted or perturbed by sexual thoughts and fantasy.
There’s a
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My brother Mike is learning to play basketball and dribble for the Kentucky Special Olympics. He’s doing well. But I’ve been told that recently he was in his driveway practicing. He fell.
He was very proud that he put his hands out to protect his fall. He said he did that
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Years ago, I celebrated a Mass in the main chapel of the JPII shrine, surrounded by Rupnik’s mosaics, which I thought were ugly then. Now, though, I’ll never celebrate Mass in any of the chapels at the JPII Shrine with Rupnik’s evil art.
Walkers on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage have been given instructions aimed at avoiding Rupnik controversy at DC's JPII Shrine:
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Interesting fact: when I brought my brother Mike to Rome a few years ago, though he can’t read, he does notice his name, my name, and our surname. He was fascinated to see “Petri” written seemingly everywhere. As in… Sepulcrum Sancti Petri Apostoli.
I explained that our name
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Today’s the feast of St. Catherine of Siena. I’ve been fortunate to celebrate Mass in Rome in the room where she died. (That’s my brother Mike serving.)
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us!
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My brother Mike was part of a start-up Special Olympics basketball team for his home county in Kentucky. They had only 7 players and still went 18-3 for the season. They lost the state championship to became the state runners-up— their first year. With seven players. GO BULLDOGS!
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One of many problematic assumptions is that people (and especially the young) want the music (and even the Mass) to be relevant and akin to what they experience daily. On the contrary, the Mass is *other* and we all intuit it should be so.
Hot take: Most modern Catholic hymns are not only bad theology but unsuited to congregational participation. I’m looking at you
@OCPmusic
. Too many quarter notes and eighth notes. Syncopated between the two. And you wonder why the faithful don’t sing this dribble? They can’t.
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In fact, this is the response of love. Accompaniment with the truth but in the arms of God’s mercy.
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Grateful for the testimony of
@pursuedbytruth
and the other sisters here. I am increasingly of the opinion that apart from a few very defined and limited circumstances, ongoing spiritual direction should not be “a thing.”
For some time now, I have told inquirers that I’d be
An allegedly abusive priest was banned from giving spiritual direction for five years.
These women say it was not enough.
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Nota Bene: The Church requires a homily delivered at every Sunday Mass except on Palm Sunday, when it’s optional. There have been a few Palm Sunday’s during his Pontificate when Pope Francis has opted not to give a homily. It’s not news.
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This. So much this. No matter how reverent and intentional the celebrant and servers are, contemporary hymnody undermines it all.
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Rupnik’s mosaics are not sacred art. On the contrary, they’re sacrilegious. Happy to visit with
@CatHadro
on
@EWTNNewsInDepth
today.
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Topic of my lecture? St. Thomas Aquinas on the Blessed Mother. All these points are from him:
• She’s more blessed than Eve
• She’s absolutely sinless (not even a venially sinful thought)
• She’s the truly liberated woman because she’s fully free in grace to be what we’ve all
I had the honor of a lifetime last evening to deliver the annual Pio Cardinal Laghi Lecture at my college alma mater: the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. What a great homecoming to a great seminary that helped me become the priest I am.
Was able to pay my
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The Church teaches that the religious life is the highest vocation. All this means is that the religious life has all the tools one needs to grow in holiness. It doesn’t mean that any religious man and woman is holier than lay man and woman. In fact, depending on how much a
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5. Don’t imagine or fantasize about big juicy hamburgers. (I only have this problem on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday)
#AshWednesday
Fasting Tips:
1. Drink LOTS of water. (Coffee and/or tea is also ok.)
2. Don't complain about or exaggerate it.
3. Pray for those who don’t have food security on a daily basis.
4. Offer it up for a special intention or someone you love.
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Al Kresta was a great gift to the Church, because he had been given great gifts by God. God reward him. I’ll be offering a Mass for him and his family. I
Al Kresta, a longtime Catholic radio host, author, and founder and president of Ave Maria Radio, died Saturday at his Michigan home after a battle with liver cancer. He was 73.
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I’ll be on my annual personal retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the next several days. I’ll pray for all of you and for our nation.
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Top Three Most Contentious Claims I Make in Public:
3. The Blessed Mother knew the incarnation would happen even before the annunciation.
2. The Blessed Mother would never say “no” to the angel, but she was radically free nonetheless.
1. God indeed loves some people more
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Words seem trite to express it, but I’m incredibly grateful to God today for the dual gifts of the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and the Sacred Priesthood of Jesus Christ. These two sacraments not only channel Christ’s grace to us, but they continue the trajectory of
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Oh, there are so many, but here are a few;
“Let us build the city of God…”
“Let peace begin with me…”
“You and I are the bread of life”
“Sing a new church into being…”
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The Holy Father has often noted how smart the Devil is, and that we should never engage him. He can always trick us.
It’s also true that we can never outsmart God. He always knows what we’re up to, even if we lie to others or to ourselves.
Play mental hopscotch all you want,
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My office. A bust of St. Thomas Aquinas along with first class relics of the apostle St. Paul, and St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. My patrons who inspire and intercede in my spiritual life and my theological study.
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How it started with my Goddaughter and how it’s going with her—Dominique Marie. She was a Dominican before I was.
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Without downloading any new pictures, what’s your energy going into 2024?
Without downloading any new pictures, what’s your energy going into 2024?
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A regular confessor is more important than a spiritual director, IMHO.
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And I’m really tired of “As Thomas Aquinas would say, you allow your conscience to guide you.” Please. The conscience is not infallible and appeals to conscience are not always genuine. When you know better and play mental hopscotch, you know (your conscience knows) you’re
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Tomorrow, February 4th, would be my mother’s 89th birthday (+2011) and the 46th anniversary of her marriage to my father (+2004). In your kindness, please remember them both in your prayers.
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Exactly,
@canonlawyered
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Two men (along with Margaret Thatcher) who brought down the Soviet Union without a war.
“A communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Ronald Reagan
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Needed to check in with the boss today… couldn’t get an appointment with his Successor, so I settled for some prayer time with Primo.
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Upon application to and admission as a novice to become a Benedictine Monk at Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island, Mattson “was determined to be a biological male.”
How and by whom?
Proposal: Mandatory blood testing—look for the Y and go from there.
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Remembering and praying for my own Mother (Mary Orielda Defer-Petri). She passed away in 2010, a little more than a year into my priesthood. I’m grateful she got to be at the ordination and to celebrate her funeral.
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I’m thrilled to see that a life of virtue was for Servant of God Mother Alphonsa (Rose) Hawthorne, OP was declared today by the Holy See! She was the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and founded the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who care for the cancerous poor. Venerable
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Rupnick’s art is evil, impious, and sacrilegious. Full stop.
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Controversial? It’s Sacred Scripture; it’s St. Paul.
“For it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to desire and to act for his chosen purpose” (Phil. 2:13).
We should pray not to do greater things or to be called to higher places. Rather, we should pray simply not
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It probably seems strange to a lot of folks.. but while Christ is the Dominican’s greatest friend. Books come in pretty high on the list. It’s hard to be a Dominican if you don’t enjoy reading books.
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Please pray for this little boy, Landon, and his mother Ashley. Landon was born premature and is going through the wringer even as he’s gotten older. He needs our prayers.
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“Infinite” certainly means “without limit” but it can also mean “incalculable” or “inestimable.”
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The
@ThomisticInst
chapter in Mexico City arranged for a private Mass when I was there a few months ago. It was special. I was able to say “thank you” to Our Lady of Guadalupe who guided me through my stroke and brain aneurysm nearly 20 years ago.
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One of our more intelligent friars complains that after all these years and all his education, he still sometimes stumbles on “principle” vs. “principal.”
Me: Oh, I learned that distinction in middle school, but only because I was sent to the principal’s office so often.
True
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Enjoying Handel’s Messiah at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra.
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On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I’m grateful I was able to celebrate a Mass at her shrine last month with some students of the
@ThomisticInst
chapter at
@UPInstitucional
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Visiting the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and seeing his statue in the square, it’s hard not to recall the tremendous mutual love St. John Paul II and the Mexican people had for each other.
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Today is the 20th anniversary of my father’s death. He died at the age of 67. His only sibling, a younger sister, my Aunt Mary, died last week at the age of 84. We’ll bury her on Saturday.
I was grateful that we had a reunion of all my dad’s children and Aunt Mary last summer.
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On Aquinas’s imprisonment by his family before he was allowed to return to the Dominicans: “It is, after all, hard to imprison a hermit. Still, it is difficult for some people to understand how much of a blessing it is to an intellectual to have privacy and access to literature.“
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On May 29, 2009, my classmates and I were ordained Priests of Jesus Christ by Archbishop Celestino Migliore (then the Vatican’s Observer to the United Nations).
I’m grateful to God for these past 15 years and pray for the gifts of continued fidelity to Him and perseverance in
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I’ve made it back after 25 years. This time I’m with the student leaders of the
@ThomisticInst
at
@UPMexico
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Arrived in Rome earlier this morning. My classmate Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP will be made a Master of Sacred Theology by the Dominican Order on Thursday. And I’m here for it!
@_Angelicum
@Dominican_Order
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Arrived this evening at St. Dominic’s Monastery of cloistered nuns on Blue Mountain in Linden, Virginia. It almost didn’t happen this year, but it worked out. I’ve spent the Christmas Octave (and a few extra days) here for over a decade now.
It’s a wonderful period of respite
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Honored to receive a medal this evening from the St. Thomas More Society of America (
@DCforMore
) along with Helen Alvare and Robert Royal for our defense of human dignity.
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Returned home from Maine this evening to find the awesome announcement of the high school graduation of a young woman with Down Syndrome, who is the daughter of one of my oldest and bestest friends. Amazed by her and her parents in this great accomplishment.
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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about” - GK Chesterton
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It’s the Solemnity of the St. Joseph. After I gave the annual Pio Cardinal Laghi Lecture at my college seminary (the Pontifical College Josephinum), it became clear to me how St. Joseph has been part of my vocation since the beginning.
From studying in the “House of Joseph” (as
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@jdflynn
@CatholicSat
@austeni
@jzipple
The process of making the art was itself not only scandalous but impious, evil, and sacrilegious, thereby making the product impious and sacrilegious. It would be the same thing if an artist used blood from a human sacrifice to paint a crucifixion scene. I don’t know why people
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