Miracles for Each of Us

July 8, 2012By

6th Sunday after Pentecost 2012

Apparent death takes place when we can no longer observe the signs of life, but real death takes place when the soul leaves the body – a moment that cannot be observed.  This is why a priest should still be called after apparent death, so that he can conditionally anoint and absolve the deceased.

The Divine Office of today recalls the story of Nathan the prophet chastising King David for his sin, and David’s subsequent conversion.  This should be a reminder to all of us of the necessity of an integral confession.

We are given the leaders that we deserve.  In the face of bad leadership, we must remain faithful to the truth, and we must continually change our lives for the better.
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The Blood of the Lamb

July 1, 2012By

Feast Of The Precious Blood 2012

Pope Pius IX extended this feast to the entire Church in gratitude to Our Lord’s granting victory over His enemies.  The Gospel for today was written by St. John, the only Apostle to witness the last moments of Our Lord’s earthly life.  After the side of Christ was pierced on the Cross, copious amounts of Blood and water flowed forth.  This moment had been prefigured by the sacrificial draining of the paschal lamb’s blood and demonstrated that Christ was the perfect, spotless, victim offered to His Father.  The Blood of our Redeemer is called precious because it is the representation of the human life possessed by the Son of God.  In the total surrender of His life, to the last drop, Christ made infinite worship to God the Father and offered an inestimable gift to each of us
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The Edifice and the Rock

June 29, 2012By

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul 2012
Today the Church focuses particularly on St. Peter.  He was a simple fisherman, yet he was chosen to lead the Church.  We should desire to imitate the great love and docility that St. Peter showed throughout his life.  We observe the flaws of his nature in the Gospel.  However, we also see that, by the hand of God, a supernatural edifice was built on that natural foundation, just as the Church was built on this rock.  This great saint instructs us in the lesson he was taught by Christ – to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God.  He had such trust in Our Lord that during his imprisonment and in the face of his execution, he slept soundly in his cell.  This is the feast which reminds us that we too must possess undying trust and hope in the providence of God.
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Like Our Father In Heaven

June 17, 2012By

Sermon On The
3rd Sunday after Pentecost 2012
✟Father Violette
In our day, when fatherhood is so attacked, all those who belong to this vocation must redouble their efforts to live up to their calling. A true father is unselfish, prioritizing his obligations before all else. It is a vocation which requires selfless solicitude at all times, but we are promised superabundant help from God to progress continually in this state of life.

Aware of our great need, the liturgy of the Church is constantly imploring God’s help for us. We must rely on God’s infinite mercy, while never forgetting is infinite justice. We are asked to remain confident and trustful, in an age of distrust, and we are assured that Our Lord will always provide the help we need.
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Lose Yourself in His Heart

June 15, 2012By

Feast Of The Sacred Heart 2012

It has been said that the heart of St. Paul was the Heart of Christ, because he learned to be Christlike through his sufferings.  He understood Our Lord not merely theoretically but experientially.  That is why his words are used for this Mass.

The Gospel for this Mass was chosen because it recalls the moment that the Sacred Heart was opened to pour out divine life to us all.  In the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano, it was His Sacred Heart that Our Lord chose to show to the world.  We live in the days of a cold and loveless society which is more in need of this devotion than ever.  If we familiarize ourselves with the details of St. Margaret Mary’s life, we will come to appreciate why Christ chose her to propagate this devotion.  Our Lord told her that the burning love of His Sacred Heart could no longer be contained, and that this devotion will be His last gift to mankind in this latter age of the world.
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The Promise of Holy Communion

June 10, 2012By

2nd Sunday after Pentecost 2012

First Communion Sunday

The death of Our Lord was constituted by the shedding of His Precious Blood, but it was the intentionality of the Savior which made that act meritorious.  It was His conscious and deliberate consent to the surrender of His life that redeemed us.  The feast of the Sacred Heart is the assurance of Christ’s love for us.

The reason why the first communicants dress of for their important day is to reflect the preparation of their souls to receive Our Lord.  Christ has promised to all those who receive him in Holy Communion that He will bring them to Heaven and raise up their bodies on the last day.  We must renew our trust and gratitude to Our Lord for the great gift of the Blessed Sacrament, and promise to receive Him often throughout our lives.
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The Sacrament of Perfect Union

June 7, 2012By

Feast Of Corpus Christi 2012
On this day, a priest recognizes the purpose of his existence.  Before his duty of teaching and saving souls, the priest exists for the Holy Eucharist.  If a priest does not understand this, he is no true priest.  St. Bonaventure tells us that if this sacrament were to be taken from the Church we would have nothing but infidelity and error, and the Christian people would be no better than a herd of unclean animals.  We see these prophetic words proven true in our own day.  This day was instituted at the request of Our Lord to confirm faith in His true presence, to strengthen the faithful on their way to virtue by their love of the Blessed Sacrament, and finally, to make reparations for attacks against Our Lord in the tabernacle.  We should express our belief that Our Lord is truly present in the Sacrament of the Altar as soon as we enter the Church and kneel before Him.
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The Central Doctrine of Our Faith

June 3, 2012By

Trinity Sunday 2012
Belief in the Holy Trinity is necessary for our salvation.  Every Mass renews the Passion and death of Our Lord, in which He offers Himself to the Father through the Holy Ghost.  Although there were hints of this doctrine even in the Old Testament, it was not until the public life of Christ that it was clearly taught to the believers.  All Persons are co-equal and co-eternal.  The Father is the Unbegotten, the Son is the Only Begotten, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son.  Today we must thank the Trinity for creating us and making us the children of God through Baptism.  All those in the state of grace possess the Holy Trinity dwelling within their souls.
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Regina Nostra

June 1, 2012By

Conference On First Friday, June 2012 
The Blessed Virgin Mary is a true queen, with authority and jurisdiction granted to her by her Divine Son.  She was given this title from the days of the catacombs.  Our Lord is a true King in the proper sense, both as God and man, due to His Grace of Union; and here we find the root of Our Lady’s queenship.  Because of her unique relationship with almighty God, she is what one might call the “Queen Mother.”  The human nature of God the Son was produced from her and, because of this, Our Lord would not be King in His human nature if it were not for her.  She is, therefore, not only queen of Heaven and Earth, but also queen of Purgatory.  She is queen of angels and saints, and queen of religious orders.

Catholics should understand the true nature of the gift of tongues which was granted to the Apostles on Pentecost.  The miracle was found in the fact that all the foreigners heard the Apostles speaking in their own languages.  It should not be identified with the false “gift of tongues” found in heretical religious sects.  This miraculous gift was granted to the early Church to strengthen and unify it in its infancy and to aid in the spread of the true Church.
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A Place Waiting For You

May 27, 2012By


Pentecost Sunday 2012
With the celebration of Memorial Day, we should always remember that the soldiers who have served our country, both living and dead, are in need of our prayers.  Apart from the discussion of the politics and morality of war, these people who have suffered and died for us deserve our spiritual help.

Our Lord’s visible reign on Earth ended on the feast of the Ascension and on that day, Heaven became our home.  All the joys and pleasures of this world are as shadows compared to the happiness of Heaven.  The Holy Ghost was sent to mankind so that the presence of God would not be limited to the physical presence of Christ on Earth, but that it might be spread throughout the entire world.  There is a childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in the spiritual life which mirrors that of our natural development.  The Apostles passed through these stages as we all must, and their development reached its final stage on this day.  From that moment on, the Apostles were confirmed in grace and preserved from committing any grave sin.
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