12th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
The month of August is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and we should imitate our Blessed Mother whom Our Lord said “heard the word of God and kept it”. This Gospel about the Good Samaritan reminds us that we can see how much we love God by how we love our neighbor. Christ summarized all the law by saying that we must love God with all our being and our neighbor as ourselves.
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Feast Of The Immaculate Heart Of Mary 2020
On this beautiful feast of Our Lady we learn about being clothed in the habit of our community on the road to the priesthood. In following a vocation which God has chosen for us we must attend carefully to these instructions on our dispositions which are critical to being successful. We then hear about the significance of the different parts of the habit and what they mean in the religious life. Finally, the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary is described and how wonderful it is for us to have recourse to her on the way of perfection.
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11th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
This Sunday continues the renewal of the Paschal mystery with the account from St. Paul’s epistle of the several appearances of the Risen Lord before His Ascension – one to over 500 people. The Gospel about the cure of the deaf mute is so impressive that it has been incorporated into the ceremonies surrounding one of the Paschal sacraments, namely, Baptism. Yet, this miraculous cure pales in comparison with the Consecration at today’s Mass.
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10th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
Today’s Gospel contrasts the prayer of the Pharisee and the Publican. The proud Pharisee thanks God for making him better than everyone else, especially the Publican. We should compare ourselves to the best so as not to be complacent and even foster our own humility at the same time. Humility of will is that virtue by which we not only realize our need for humiliation but enjoy it. We learn this in the lives of the saints like St. Peter. This holiness of the saints is one of the ways, along with Christ’s miracles like the Resurrection, to find proofs that Catholicism is the True Church.
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9th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
Conference After Mass
After the Epistle and Gospel, Father spoke about the care he received the last few weeks and his attendance at Mass and how much it is centered on God. Then he spoke about today’s feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori who is the patron of moral theologians and who propagated the system of probabilism through his newly founded congregation and its priest members. St. Alphonsus’ father opposed his vocation to the priesthood until he heard his son’s first sermon and then he approached him in sorrow and repentance for causing him difficulty in pursuing it. St. Alphonsus wrote many devotional works, was the instrument of miracles and the example for other saints like St. Gerard Majella.
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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 2020
After hearing about Saints John Gualbert, Veronica, Bonaventure, Henry, the Carmelite Sisters of Compiegne and Camillus we had a renewal of the Paschal sacraments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist in the Epistle and Gospel. The Divine Office recounts the story of King David and how his sloth led to sins of adultery and murder. His meekness saved him when his crimes were exposed by the prophet Nathan. We should imitate his repentance and reject the devil and all his works. Receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion faithfully will lead us to union and heaven one day.
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Feast Of The Precious Blood 2020
This feast marks a victory and stands in thanksgiving for it. Pope Pius IX was exiled from Rome in 1848 by an army of the enemies of the Church. He promised to honor the Precious Blood of Christ after God would restore him to Rome and that happened on the last days of June in 1849. So, the pope fulfilled his promise and instituted the feast. We realize the infinite value of the Blood of God which had been prophesied throughout the Old Testament. The Holy Ghost taught that without the shedding of Blood there would not be redemption. Our Lord completed His mission by dying on the Cross and shedding every drop of His Blood. This Blood continues to save at by every Mass. We must love and thank God always to live with Him in Heaven eventually.
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