Quasi-Divine

December 8, 2021By

Immaculate Conception Evening 2021

The reading of the introduction of this encyclical for the proclamation of the dogma that Our Lady was preserved free from original  sin is doctrinal and devotional.  Listening to the words of the proclamation is awe inspiring.  The Blessed Mother had to be created as a worthy mother for a worthy Son.  For this reason, authors say that God could have a created a better world but not a better Mother for His Son.  This privilege elevates the Blessed Mother to a status far superior to all the saints and angels combined.
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Preserved Immaculate

December 8, 2021By

Feast Of The Immaculate Conception 2021
Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854 after years of preparation and prayer.  In the encyclical that contains the definition the pope begins to prove the truth of the doctrine by showing that the liturgy of the Church from its earliest days honored Our Lady under this title and privilege.  So in turning to Mass texts of this feast we see the beauty of our Blessed Mother explained.  We pray to fulfill her prophecy in the Magnificat that we are part of the present generation that calls her blessed.
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Abound In Hope

December 5, 2021By

Second Sunday Of Advent 2021
The feasts of Saints Nicholas, Ambrose and Damasus are this week.  It would be good for parents to teach their children about the practices we have during this season like the Advent wreath, Santa Claus and the Christmas tree.  St. Paul in the Epistle reassures us Gentiles, using the prophet Isaias, that we are saved by God’s mercy and we should have hope.  St. John the Baptist sends his remaining faithful followers to Christ so they realize that Our Lord is the Messiah.  The Mass texts foster prayer in us and we should pray always.  We should not succumb to the fear and force that controls our society today but we have a better story about a God who saves by coming as an Infant.  Finally, the story of Our Lady’s intercession to save a soul confirms the adage that Hope Springs Eternal.
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Signs Of His Second Coming

November 28, 2021By

First Sunday Of Advent 2021
Today begins a new liturgical year and prepares for Christmas and Christ’s return at the end of time.  We have been given signs which will alert us to the second coming and these are explained so that we who remain faithful to Our Lord will lift up our heads and rejoice when we see Him with His angels coming to judge the world and take His own with Him into heaven.  Isaiah, St. John the Baptist and the Blessed Mother are the persons who will guide us throughout Lent.  This Q&A ends with answers about the current situation, exorcists, conclaves and the remembrances of the living at the dead at Mass.
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The End Of The Liturgical Year

November 21, 2021By

26th & Last Sunday After Pentecost 2021
This Sunday marks the end of the liturgical year and is a reminder not only of our own particular judgment but that of the general judgment.  Our Lord prophesied about this and used the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans as a sign of what is to come.  That was a terrible event as will be the last days of the world.  However, God will not abandon those who remain faithful and He will deliver them from the trials of the final days.
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God Speaks Through Reading

November 14, 2021By

25th Sunday After Pentecost 2021
In today’s Gospel about the mustard seed Our Lord teaches us the importance of the spiritual life in a world that seems so foreign to His kingdom.  We should make a perfect act of charity daily, practice mental prayer and spiritual reading.  We have an apostolate to prisoners and there is read a beautiful story from 1939 about a prisoner’s conversion through the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Sharing Your Lives Together

November 13, 2021By

Wedding of Tyler & Patricia Smith
This is a happy day for the bride and groom and all who know and love you.  The marriage bond was given by God to Adam and Eve and then it was raised to a sacrament by Christ when He walked among us.  The purposes of this sacrament are the procreation and education of children, mutual support and a remedy to concupiscence.  The primary purpose is raising children, not just to live in this world but, for heaven.  This holy institution demands responsible adults whose love for each other gives them the ability to share sufferings together and to be humble in bearing one another’s weaknesses.  Through this you will both have a happy life together and win a reward in heaven.
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Comfort Her

November 8, 2021By

Funeral Mass for Saundra Warner
The Church encourages us to pray always for the deceased that she be released from Purgatory if she is still detained there.  We know that praying for the dead is not in vogue but its practice is pre-Christian because all peoples, sharing the primitive revelation from Adam and Eve, offered sacrifices for their departed loved ones so they could be freed from a place of purifying after death.  It was recognized that after death we were rewarded or punished for our deeds in life.  Christ approved of the Jews praying for the dead during His life in the Holy Land.  We can help pay the debt for one of our own and thereby comfort her.
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The Church Endures

November 7, 2021By

24th Sunday After Pentecost 2021
Today’s Gospel is warning and a consolation that the good and evil grow together but are separated at the end and receive different rewards based on their deeds in life.  The Church has gone through troubles in the past and present but will always survive because of God’s preserving grace.  The enemies will have their apparent power stripped away.  We should not assume that we are the wheat and neglect to watch over our hearts and have weeds grow there instead.  The most successful apostolates are good example and prayer.  The virtuous life becomes easier as we practice it.
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Christ The King Conference

November 5, 2021By

First Friday, November 2021
Two final notes concerning the Holy Souls are how they pass time in Purgatory and how we relate to them. We are raised with the secular teaching that the Church and State should be separated.  Christ spoke to the people of His time as integral individuals and did not dichotomize them by their public and private lives.  The Our Father petitions for the coming of His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.  Christ did not limit Himself to individuals but commanded preaching to entire nations.  All this is based on the hypostatic union which constitutes Our Lord as priest and king.  St. Pius X said that the problems of the world are permitted by the laxity and lukewarmness of passive Catholics.
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