February 23, 2022Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy St. Peter Damian’s feast day (on the old calendar). And what a joyous day it is!Is it any wonder that Dante placed our patron saint in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Francis of Assisi.It is my pleasure this month to publish all the comments and letters I have received from our members concerning the effect that St. Peter Damian and the League has had on their lives. If I have missed any of your comments, please resend.I hope you will enjoy these emails and commentaries and continue to support the work of the League into the New Year. Please note that our website at www.stpeterdamian.com has been updated to include all of Peter Damian’s Letters to date, so you can print out any of them at your convenience. We will return to our regular format in March. Randy Engel 
Letters and Commentaries on
Saint Peter Damian and the League
From: S.C. in Utah:Re: Letter 55 on the subject of DeathLoved the letter. Poor Saint Peter Damian – he suffered greatly on his sick bed. Coughing up blood with fever – sounds like an exacerbation of consumption. Maybe his immune system, with God’s hand, walled off the infection once and for all.
He is so tender, so holy and kind. I loved that he called the missive his “brainchild.”
Thanks for sharing. St. Peter Damian is smiling. Dear St. Peter Damian, pray for us, enveloped in the Covid hysteria, that we may learn to prepare for our death by living each day fully, without fear and filled with gratitude.
From: C.F. in Wyoming
Re: Letter 21 On the Last Judgment
Thank you for continuing to send me the League’s newsletter.
It is a beacon of light in this dark world, which seems to be growing ever darker, to be able to read classic, traditional Catholic teachings.
When I was rotting in the hole for three weeks waiting to be transferred to a new dungeon, I was fortunate enough that your newsletter was one of the pieces of mail they gave me. It was very much a blessing to me.
Though baptized Catholic as an infant, I did not properly enter the Church until an adult. The Bishop confirmed me just before Covid put an end to Mass and other sacraments.
I still pray my rosary every day, even though it is held together with bits and pieces, it still works. I pray mostly Catholic prayers, some in stumbling Latin, for some hours every afternoon. I am very sorry I do not have access to the sacraments.
Thank you again for your ministry and all you do. We need the voices of those in the Communion of the Saints more now than ever.
Thank you and God bless.
From: D.V. in Texas
Re: The League Apostolate
A half century of experience has convinced me that prayer and penance are the essentials for the apostolate, or as others have stated: Contemplation constructs Christendom.
Our family is having Mass said for the League of Saint Peter Damian at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on May 25th, June 2nd and June 10th.
From: B.D. in Alaska
Re: Thank you for the League Mailings [2 letters]
I thank you for the information I am receiving pertaining to the League of St. Peter Damian. It is very important that we Catholics know the docuмents from our history that informs us as to the past and how God raised up faithful souls to defend truth so that it would come down to us unadulterated and true. …
I send my dues for the works of the League along with my prayers and penances for all the members and their associates.
Please keep me in your prayers as I alone am resisting the Covid Protocols of the D.O.C. which is pushing the pseudo-vaccine (abortion-tainted) and the shameful face diapers. I am one of 500. Most [prisoners] have gotten the vax, wear the masks and test regularly. All have been infected even after the vax.
I am the last man standing.
I am free from the infection; I do not mask; I will not test. And so I am confined to solitary in a 10 x 10 cell with only a small port window to view the world.
I look to our patron, St. Peter Damian, and ask him to assist me to live a life of abnegation, self-denial and penance for the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so wounded by the indifference, sacrilege, and blasphemies of men – I chief among them. … I ask the members to remember this poor sinner before Our Lord in adoration, for I have neither spiritual director, priest, or sacraments to sustain me. I have my Brown Scapular and my passport – my Rosary.
From: Rev. C.K. in Nevada
Re: The League Apostolate
Thank you for your work and devotion. I will remember you and the members of the League at Holy Mass tomorrow on Saint Peter Damian’s feast.
With God’s blessing and my prayers. In His Service.
From: F.D. in France
Re: On the Filioque
People today say” Stay safe, etc.
They sell their souls for “safety.”
Am so grateful for the League. Viva Cristo Rey
From: E. in Florida
Re: On the Spiritual Life of St. Peter Damian
St. Peter Damian has been my anchor against the “gαy/ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ/lesbian/queer/bisɛҳuąƖ/transgender,transvestite,drag-queen/nonbinary” – extolled on T.V. the other night at the ice skating competitions and the moral, spiritual, sɛҳuąƖ decline, degenerative de-Christianization, ungodly culture, and its present relentless, openly diabolical takeover of the little innocent children.Woe to us if we fail to fight this openly in every public arena and avenue.
God bless us, Jesus Mary and Joseph guide us.
From: F.D. in Connecticut
Re: Letter from Prison
I thank God in heaven that I have been given such grace of one so underserving an opportunity to serve Him and the Church in the League of St. Peter Damian, a saint of little notoriety, and to be truthful, I knew not until I began to know him by your correspondence and have learned to love him.
Truly he lived at a time when he could have been murdered for taking a position such as speaking out against a corrupt and immoral clergy. He was brave and courageous beyond anyone of his time. He was despised by many. He exposed all the ills of the Church and he set a pure and simple example as to how one good and loving heart can cast a shadow of light and bring the suffering Church from the brink of death into the light of His loving and only begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.
May Our God embrace the work of the League of St. Peter Damian and love and protect it from evil and subterfuge by those who are the enemy of the only Church of God, and keep the League’s heart and soul lily white.
From: E.V. in Canada
Re: The Covid Debacle in Canada
We are locked out of our churches all over our country. The liquor stores and pot shops are opened, but we haven’t access to the Sacraments or the Mass. We are doing the best we can at home.
Thank you, Randy, for your tireless work with the League of St. Peter Damian, and for the monthly mail outs with wonderful info so very edifying. We forward them to our children, and they read them to their children mostly at mealtime. Tomorrow we will invoke Our Blessed Mother on her Feast of the Annunciation to plead for our churches to reopen and the eradication of this virus.
Keep the home fires burning.
From: R.S. in Australia
Re: St. Peter Damian On the Spiritual Life
I am terrified of my judgement. I have some idea of the terrible consequences of failing to prepare for death. And yet it seems that our priests and bishops have no idea that there will be any sort of an audit of their activities on earth.
Am I missing something?
From: M.H. from Florida
Re: On the Spiritual Life
I honestly believe that the Church of the East and the Church of the West would still be united if the Pope listened to St. Peter Damian about the dangerous French cardinals, in particular, Cardinal Humbert.
From: K.R. in New Jersey
Re: The League Makes a Difference
Thank you so much for the Christmas card and the Catholic Bible that the League sent me.
It brought a big warm feeling haven’t felt since my graduation from DePaul Catholic High School.
I am happy that I will be released from prison in May of 2026 so that I still will be able to live a full life, perhaps, even get married, if that is what God wants.
Again, thanks for what the League is doing. It makes a difference.
From: Rev. C.T. from Texas
Re: St. Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church
I especially remember you, Randy, and the mission and attentions of the League of St. Peter Damian in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Memoriam of St. Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, on February 23rd.
I cannot express how spiritually edified I am to concelebrate in persona Christ Ipsum Capite the same Dominican Rite Mass and chant the same Dominican Rite Chant as St. Dominic and St. Thomas Aquinas, and by which Dominican saints Catherine of Sienna and St. Catherine de Ricci, born in Florence. received the precious Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and to pray and receive by the same prayers in concelebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in unity of Faith, Hope and Charity. The Mass is eternal and transcend all moments.
From: S.S.S.
Re: On the Spiritual Life
St. Peter Damian’s words have given me a greater appreciation of the Sacrament of Penance. He has helped me to realize what a wonderful gift Our Lord has given us in this holy sacrament.
From: J.T.
Re: On the Last Judgement
Excellent read…something we should hear much more about from our pastors and bishops …
Si Vis Pacem-Para Bellum Semper Fi
(Anyone on the battlefield who is still alive, stand up and fight!)
From: J.C.
Re: Letter 114 On Clerical Celibacy
Amazing how this corresponds to the present day and situation.
From: A League member in CaliforniaRe: Christ the King Prison Ministry and ReformDoes The League have a modicuм of media presence? If so, let me know, as I want to get the word out on the Kingship of Christ to other Catholics and to the nation in general. Can you do this through print, broadcast, or internet?I believe that prisoners should be REFORMED in prison and taught the spiritual life on a voluntary basis as the Constitution does not recognize the Kingship of Christ. Abbots [and order and diocesan priests] should be appointed to train the prisoners in their charge on the spiritual life and to instruct them in spiritual matters such as the eradication of sin, the replacement of sin with virtue, asceticism, detachment, and other instruction on the Gregorian chant, philosophy and Scholasticism. As it is, California prisons are way behind the rehabilitation bandwagon, but the Department of Corrections has made some improvements that permit prisoners to earn a college degree and lead productive lives after their release – but they get no opportunity for spiritual formation. From my observation in my college classes, I notice that there are prisoners with good grades who do not apply themselves, and there are others who take college courses to impress the Parole Board.As a whole, I have observed that prisoners, or should I say “criminals,” love Liberalism because it justifies their immoral behavior.Of course, I am the only Traditionalist here, but many guys have realized that I am the real thing. The problem is that we have a Novus Ordo chaplain, and he is conflicted between Tradition and Liberalism – schizophrenia like.The Letters of Saint Peter Damian have confirmed my thoughts both on Papal Reform and on personal spiritual reform.So that you know, I have been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for a crime I did not commit.
I am not alone.
Please understand that even though California is a super-liberal state, its judicial system is brutal. It has an unwritten policy of human warehousing for profit. Everyone in the system makes money including judges, prosecutors, and lawyers. It’s an all-boys-club in the courtrooms. Working together they get convictions even of the innocent, and keep California’s 35 prisons including 21 federal prisons and prison camps, full to overflowing. The judicial system in California is a cash cow.
Sadly, most people, including Catholics, have no idea of what is really going on or why.
Thank you to the League for permitting me to express my thoughts on these subjects.
If there is any Catholic lawyer in the League who would be interested in reviewing my case
please contact me through Randy Engel, Director of the League of St. Peter Damian.
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