Ticket To Heaven

May 13, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Ascension Thursday 2021

The dogma of the Faith that teaches that Our Lord ascended into heaven today was revealed to the apostles by the two angels as described in St. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles. On their return to Jerusalem they remained there as instructed to await the coming of the Holy Ghost. They gathered around the Blessed Mother in prayer and we imitate this first novena with our own starting this Friday. The Ascension is the third critical element to our spiritual life. Our Lord’s Death, Resurrection and Ascension are all essential in the plan of redemption. We must die with Christ so we can rise to life and go to heaven. The Ascension strengthens our faith and hope because our head is in heaven and we as members of His Mystical Body will be there one day.
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Faith Without Works Is Dead

May 9, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Fifth Sunday After Easter 2021

This Thursday is the Ascension and then we begin the novena to the Holy Ghost. We also have several important saints this week. St. James has been a prominent apostle during Paschal time through his epistle and today he teaches that our love of God and neighbor is shown by the practice of good works. The Gospel is another instruction to the apostles in preparation for Our Lord’s departure and His sending of the Holy Ghost. Today is also Mother’s Day and a time for us to honor our own mothers and especially our heavenly mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Queen of Angels And Men

May 7, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Conference On First Friday, May 2021 – Feast Of St. Stanislaus
St. Stanislaus is the patron saint of Poland and an example of a bishop who gives his life to protect his flock. The month of May is dedicated to Our Lady’s queenship and ends with Her feast day. Pope Pius XII instituted the feast with an encyclical that sounds prophetic in its words: “especially in troubled times the world has turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen”. This is for several reasons beginning with Her divine maternity which started at the Annunciation. By Her “fiat” God became man and thereby showed that all graces would come from Him but through Her. The Blessed Mother is Queen by being the highest of any creature in charity and all the other virtues. She also has the title by earning it with Our Lord at Calvary as His cooperator in redemption. We must proclaim Her sovereignty and draw close to Her.
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Jesus Loves You

May 2, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

4th Sunday after Easter 2021 – First Holy Communion Sunday
This week we have the feasts of St. Monica, whose prayers and tears were necessary to convert her son, and St. Pius V, whose papal initiatives preserved our traditional Latin Mass and saved Christendom at the battle of Lepanto. Congratulations to our first communicants who will receive at this Mass. This is a great day for our Savior Who wanted this communion from all eternity. There is no greater love than Our Lord’s because He surrendered His life on the cross so to be able to come in communion today. Christ asks you to give Him your hearts. You have the model of a eucharistic saint in the boy who received holy communion from the angels while tending his flock far from church.
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Good Example

April 25, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Third Sunday after Easter 2021
Today is also the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist and the day for the Greater Litanies, which are more ancient than St. Mark’s day. St. Peter in the Epistle is asking the faithful to practice the Faith and thereby be models for non-Catholics and poor Catholics. He reminds us of practicing the virtue of obedience before God and our neighbors. Our good example and brief words, not preaching, convert others. The story of a priest simply asking a girl “not to hurt God” is a wonderful case in point.
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I, Myself, Will Shepherd My Flock

April 18, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Good Shepherd Sunday 2021
Our Lord’s Resurrection is the foundation of our faith and so we celebrate this during Paschal time and on every Sunday. Christ spent these forty days preparing His apostles and stirring their hearts with ardor and love. This Sunday shows Him as the Good Shepherd Who gives His life for His Sheep and will ever protect and care for them. Others He has entrusted with this task in His absence but woe to those who betray that trust. Jesus assures us that He will shepherd His flock Himself.
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Gospel Of Faith

April 11, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2021
The Easter Octave is completed today and our recently baptized neophytes put aside their baptismal garments and now begin the life as one of the faithful. This is particularly done by following Our Lord in the Liturgy in our prayers. The Paschal candle is Christ with us now and lights the way in appreciating His Resurrection. The Faith is all important and essential. Today’s Gospel teaches us how we must approach this gift with humility knowing we cannot achieve this by our own power. This theological virtue which has God as source and goal will lead us to heaven one day.
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Guardians Of The Liturgy

April 4, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Sunday 2021
We gather at the stational Church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary because she was the first to see her Risen Son Who truly died and rose again. At this Mass we join with those from last night’s vigil in renewing our baptismal promises and the renouncing of Satan and all his works and pomps. This Mass is mystic and the Introit expresses the eternal unity of the Blessed Trinity and much more. The priests and those preparing for the priesthood must heed the last prophetic reading from the vigil last night which carries a warning for those commissioned to protect Our Lord in the Mass and sacred liturgy. Happy Easter.
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Easter Vigil Baptisms

April 3, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Vigil 2021
During this Vigil in anticipation of Our Lord’s Resurrection at midnight we begin outside in the darkness by lighting the Paschal Fire. Then we carry the Light of the World in through His Candle which is praised in the exquisite praeconium called the Exsultet. Prophetic readings and the Litany of the Saints ready us for the making of the baptismal water and finally the solemn Baptism of our catechumens. Mass begins and we join with the neophytes as they receive their first Holy Communions. Happy Easter.
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