Know The Risen Christ

May 3, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

3rd Sunday After Easter 2020
At the midway point between Easter and the Ascension we look back and ahead. Our Lenten penances have prepared us for the revelation of the Risen Christ and the renewal of our baptismal vows. We attest our faith in this fundamental proof of all Jesus said and did. This month of May is dedicated to Our Lady and we should pray the Rosary daily. Our Lord visited His Mother first after He rose again and then made a series of visits to His followers which culminated in Galilee when over 500 saw Him on the mount. St. Paul says without the Resurrection our faith is vain and knowing the Risen Christ is essential to being a Christian. This Mass renews all the joys of Easter and teaches us how to live in this world because in a little while we will rejoice with God in heaven.
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The Intimate Love Of God

April 26, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Good Shepherd Sunday 2020
The beautiful expanded account of the Gospel of the Good Shepherd is comforting and consoling. We are free from fear and death. As Catholics we do not simply submit to our demise as the animals do but we embrace it as Our Savior did. A plenary indulgence is attached to such a heroic death. Christ suffered terribly to save us and speaks lovingly to us as our Shepherd. His love will not permit anything truly evil to touch us. Any cross He allows us the privilege to carry will bring us to a happier future.
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Faith Overcomes The World

April 19, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2020
Today is called Low Sunday in comparison to the High Sunday of Easter last week. This Lent was our opportunity to tell God we are sorry for our sins and we resolve to continue having this sorrow throughout our lives. Faith is the center of our reality and source of our victory. We are like the apostles in today’s Gospel who receive the consoling words from the Risen Savior, “Peace be to you”. Repeat the indulgenced words of St. Thomas often, especially at the elevation, “My Lord and My God”. Live the life of God in our souls now through the Indwelling of the Blessed Trinity.
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Understanding Is The Gift Of Easter

April 12, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Sunday Morning 2020
English speaking Catholics call this “Easter” Sunday because it is another example of the power of the Church and the liturgy to Christianize even evil pagan elements. The glory of the risen Savior will be ours one day but many saints were transfigured even in this life. We are “eighth day Christians” because God rested on the seventh day of creation as Christ rested in the sepulchre and rose on Sunday marking a new week on the eighth day. The octave day is a sign of eternal life. The calculation of Easter each year was carefully studied and was miraculously made known. As believers were rewarded by seeing Our Lord glorious and immortal so we today can see God through Faith enlightened by the gift of understanding.
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Easter Midnight 2020

April 12, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

The Resurrection of Our Lord at the Midnight Mass and the reception of Him in the Holy Eucharist should be the cause of an increase of Faith and a deeper sense of gratitude. We do not want to abandon our penitential and prayerful spirit of the last forty days but incorporate this into our interior life during the Paschal season.
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Faith And Gratitude At Easter

April 11, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Vigil & Midnight Mass 2020
These are the last moments of Lent and culminate in the greatest vigil of the liturgical year. This ceremony has many elements which we review before starting so we worship with the utmost awareness and devotion. We have the Paschal fire and candle, the Praeconium, the lessons, the blessing of water and all leading to the Resurrection of Our Lord at the Midnight Mass and the reception of Him in the Holy Eucharist. Our reaction should be an increase of Faith and a deeper sense of gratitude. We do not want to abandon our penitential and prayerful spirit of the last forty days but incorporate this into our interior life during the Paschal season.
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She Is In Bitter Grief

April 10, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Good Friday 2020
The Church mourns the death of God in an even more dramatic way this year. The Solemn Liturgical Action expresses this loss through the Passion of St. John and the two prophecies. Then we join with Christ on the Cross for His universal prayers for all. We venerate our means of salvation by reverencing the Holy Cross and finally we join with our Savior in Holy Communion. All of this inspires us to return the Divine Love of the Sacred Heart which shed every drop of the Precious Blood for us and to convert from sin which exacted such cruelty upon our innocent Lord.
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Restore The Holy Eucharist

April 9, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Holy Thursday 2020
We celebrate the anniversaries of the institution of the sacrifice of the Holy Mass and the sacraments of the Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders today. The Mass is the central act and purpose for the Church which Christ commanded at the Last Supper to be offered and from it flows Our Lord’s Real Presence among us in the Blessed Sacrament. He is our Food and the reason for the joy and freedom we experience even at the worst of times. The Priesthood was established to accomplish this until the end of time. St. John Vianney said that love of the Mass and the priesthood are signs of predestination. Priests must cherish these things most of all. St. Paul in the Epistle warns that our infirmities are caused because of the neglect of the Holy Eucharist. These mysterious days in which we are living have as their root cause the mistreatment of Our Lord in the most sacred sacrament of the altar.
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Jesus, Come To Me, Embrace Me

April 5, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Palm Sunday 2020
While unable to attend Mass, we must be more devout at home, especially by practicing spiritual communion. The Indwelling of the Blessed Trinity and the action of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in our souls will inspire us. That type of inspiration is what moved the people in Jerusalem to proclaim Our Lord King today; although they cried for His death less than a week later. The palm is a sign of victory and why it was used to welcome Christ into the Holy City. It is a pledge of our victory today.
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