3rd Sunday After Pentecost 2020
The Gospel shows Our Lord coming to protect us and this is perfect for Father’s Day as well. When asked how to pray Christ gave us the Our Father. When we receive Holy Communion we are united with Our Lord. We are meant to be saints and must pray and strive for that always. Not to desire sanctity is a sin. We should do everything for our Heavenly Father and someday reach eternal happiness.
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Feast Of The Sacred Heart 2020
Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus must be part of everyone’s life, especially the consecrated who are baptized, confirmed or ordained. The reason for this is that His Human Heart belongs to God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and contains those mysteries that St. Paul alludes to in today’s Epistle. The Mass texts for today tell us more about the Heart of Jesus as revealed starting with the opening of It on the Cross. Private apparitions to St. Margaret Mary gave the impetus for spreading this devotion and the popes have encouraged it throughout the centuries. Many benefits accrue to us by practicing this love and one is the peace and rest that comes to our own heart and soul by learning to be meek and humble like Our Lord.
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2nd Sunday after Pentecost 2020
Among the themes of the time after Pentecost which we are beginning is the assurance given us by Divine Providence. No matter the crisis we face God is always with us and never tests us beyond our strength. The Holy Ghost reminds us of this through the sacred liturgy which celebrates feasts of consolation like the Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart. Today’s Mass provides us with the same confidence and in the Gospel which describes sufficient and efficacious grace we are cautioned not to allow the concupiscence of the eyes, the flesh and the pride of life to deflect us in our journey towards God and heaven.
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Corpus Christi 2020
We must be thankful for the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and be humbled in its presence. During our long journey to Heaven we must constantly practice docility to God and He will reward us. Christ revealed what we all acknowledge and believe as the essence of the doctrine, namely transubstantiation. Whenever we receive we are close to Heaven and our path there is secure. Those endanger themselves needlessly when they neglect this great sacrament. We are united in the Holy Eucharist through Our Lord’s Real Presence and are so inspired as to make the texts of this Mass, which were composed by St. Thomas, our source of contemplation. The rites of the Mass re-enact the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord.
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Trinity Sunday 2020
The angelic St. Thomas Aquinas has his feast day this week and we are reminded of his being a patron for the finding of lost items. God is wonderful in His saints. This feast of the Holy Trinity starts a new season of the liturgical year. It is right that this be the case because everything comes from the Father, Son and Holy Ghost and all honor, praise and glory return to the Triune God. This fundamental mystery of Three Divine Persons in One and the Same God is essential for salvation because denial of this prevents one from entering heaven. God has revealed to us His inner workings where the Unbegotten brings forth the Only Begotten and Their mutual Love is the Person of Love, the Holy Ghost. This Trinitarian life goes on within the souls of those in the state of grace and is offered to all. Christ’s final command to the apostles was to go forth and baptize in the name of the Blessed Trinity. We must pray that all will be saved.
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Pentecost Sunday 2020
This feast is on par with Easter and is deserving of the greatest eloquence in speaking about it. The descent of the Holy Ghost on this day was prepared for 1500 years earlier when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the decalogue, fifty days after the Passover when the chosen people escaped from Egypt. The Person of Love was sent by the Father and the Son to inaugurate the New Law by entering the Cenacle and giving His graces to those present. The Blessed Mother was a perfect receptacle for her Spouse and through Him Our Lady is the model for us of love and of heaven dwelling within us. Never blaspheme against the Holy Ghost and instead learn to turn within and commune with the Triune God who lives in the souls of those in the state of grace.
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Sunday After The Ascension 2020
Today is also Memorial day and not a time to discuss just war theory but to honor and to pray for the soldiers who died for us. This month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and we should be doing something everyday in Her honor. Thanksgiving to God because of Her intercession for our return to the Mass and Sacraments is a recommended prayer now. Today is a renewal of the Ascension and a continuation of our preparation with the Apostles for the coming of Pentecost. This trial for them was the illuminative way in which we are meant to share. The Mass texts are beautiful and the Postcommunion reminds us of Our Lord’s priestly prayer for unity. We should pray and be faithful.
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Ascension Thursday 2020
Today Our Lord gloriously entered heaven and made it a home for all humanity through His Sacred Human Nature seated at the right hand of God the Father. To emphasize this, all the saved who had been detained in the Limbo of the Patriarchs from Adam to St. John the Baptist entered heaven in triumph with Christ. With His departure the apostles began their novena in preparation for the coming of the Holy Ghost and entered into their own spiritual purification by detaching themselves from all that hindered their progress in the spiritual life. We must join them during these days of prayer & penance before Pentecost. Our attention should always be focused on our goal which is our heavenly home. With society collapsing around us we have heaven as our one remaining hope.
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5th Sunday after Easter
Today is also the feast of St. Paschal Baylon, the patron saint of Eucharistic Congresses because of his extraordinary devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Later this week is the fest of St. Rita who is a favorite patron of our community because of her intercession in obtaining the gift of ordination for our priests. The Epistle today from St. James stresses the importance of doing good works and stands in opposition to the heresy of being saved by faith alone. We must love God and do so by ridding ourselves of the terrible virus of sin. The Blessed Virgin Mary is our ally in this and we should be practicing special devotion to her this month. The Rosary is a perfect means of doing this and the standard prayer that our vocations have in common.
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4th Sunday After Easter 2020
The Law of Incarnation is fundamental to understanding Creation, Redemption and our sacramental Church. It means that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, while returning His Divinity, became Man and bridged the infinite gap between Creator and creature. Because of this, anything Christ thought, willed, said or did was of infinite value and this made His Death on the Cross so valuable for us. The fallen angels refused the thought of this and fell from grace. Our Lord left this infinite power of acting through material things in His Church and specifically in the seven Sacraments. God touches us through the Sacraments which enable us to receive His life of grace and ultimately its fruition in heavenly bliss.
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