Prayer Is The Answer

November 9, 2025By

Dedication of the Basilica of Our Savior 2025

Pope St. Martin I is the pope for our times.  He chose to endure the greatest indignities and even martyrdom rather than compromise with the enemies of the Church.

Catholic parents will pay a heavy price if they do not train their children to pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.  Prayer is the remedy that we have all been prescribed.  “It is a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead,” this is the instruction we receive right from God’s mouth.  Despite the title of “Co-redemptrix” being attacked, holy popes like St. Pius X promoted this appellation of the Blessed Mother without hesitation.  The Basilica of Our Savior was the very first church to be consecrated 1,701 years ago.  This church is considered the Mother Church of the world.  Every stone which makes up the church represents each practicing Catholic.  All the persecution which led to this day of triumph was worth it.
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Requiem Æternam

November 3, 2025By

All Souls Day Evening 2025
Although this is not a Holy Day of Obligation, faithful Catholics flock to the churches today so they may help the holy souls in Purgatory, who cannot help themselves.  Purgatory is a creation of love.  One must be perfect to enter Heaven, so God in His mercy gives souls a way to burn out the roots of their vices so they may freely receive their eternal reward.  This may be our very last All Souls’ Day Mass before we die.  The words “Requiem æternam done eis Domine” were found on the tombs of Christians of the third century.  The Church has adopted those words for this Mass.  We must take up the standard of the Catholics of years past and fervently pray for the dead.
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Our Purgatory Now

November 3, 2025By

All Souls Day 2025
The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed is not only for the benefit of the Church Suffering, but also for the benefit of all living Catholics.  Throughout the liturgy of this Mass, we are reminded of our own future judgment and how we too may be in need of the prayers of the living.  We must always remember that God is both infinitely merciful and infinitely just, and that He will demand an account, not only of our sins, but even of our time wasted.  Today is our reminder that we too must die one day, and that we must use the time God has allotted to us for the removal of sin, and the punishment due to it, from our souls.
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Forgive Without Delay

November 2, 2025By

21st Sunday after Pentecost 2025
The servant in this Gospel owed more money than he could ever hope to repay.  We too are unable to pay our debts to Our Lord.  Through our own ability we cannot thank God and His Mother enough, nor can we make sufficient reparation for our sins.  We desire that God forgive us immediately, yet we hold a grudge against our neighbor.  We cannot forgive without God’s help.

The practice of mental prayer is essential for our salvation.  Vocal prayer and spiritual reading are great aids to the practice of mental prayer.  True prayer comes from both the mind and the heart.
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The Church’s Glorious Crown

November 1, 2025By

All Saints Day 2025
By instituting this Holy Day of Obligation, Pope Urban IV wished to supply for any deficiencies in the honor offered to the saints throughout the year.  Christ the King, Who has made all the saints, is celebrated immediately before the Church Triumphant.  This beautiful Mass is like entering the courts of Heaven.  The Epistle for this Mass is frightening, but those who strive to follow God throughout their lives have nothing to fear.  The eight beatitudes are the qualities of those who truly love Our Lord.  We have them inscribed on the walls of the chapel along with many statues of the saints to inspire and encourage us.  On this day, we participate in the Communion of Saints by praying to our friends in Heaven.  Our struggles in this life only last a moment, and they will be replaced by the rewards of a joyful eternity.
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Am I Of The Truth?

October 26, 2025By

Feast of Christ the King 2025
The words of today’s Epistle are solemn and frightening. Our Lord expects to be believed, followed, and obeyed and those who refuse to do so, whether they be in the Church or civil society, will be punished severely. Life is not about pleasures and possessions; it is about Heaven and its obtainment.

In our shrine, we have a relic of the True Cross and of the nail which pierced Our Lord’s flesh. It is especially fitting on this day to venerate these sacred items.

It was 100 years ago when this feast was established to combat secularism and to spread Christ’s dominion throughout the world. Our Lord told us that all power in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Him, and that we are commanded to preach His Gospel to every creature. We must not be like those cowardly Catholics who cooperate with the enemies of Christ, but we must fight against and condemn all those who oppose the reign of our King.
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The Trinity’s Warning

October 19, 2025By

19th Sunday after Pentecost 2025

We should prepare ourselves spiritually to face Christ our King.  “Putting on the new man” refers to the state of Sanctifying Grace. If we live habitually in the state of grace, this is likely how we will die. In the Gospel for today, we see those who should be Our Lord’s closest friends stand in opposition to Him. We are all invited to the marriage feast, but through our free will we have the ability to reject that invitation. The refusal to wear the wedding garment is the rejection of Sanctifying Grace. We should ask ourselves how we may practice what we believe after we leave the chapel. Let us pray that God keeps us safe and ever faithful.
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Help for Our Neighbor

October 12, 2025By

18th Sunday after Pentecost 2025
During the reign of Pope St. Callistus I, the Church suffered her first schism led by the antipope Hippolytus.  However, years later, when Hippolytus was imprisoned with the true Pope St. Pontian, successor to St. Callistus I, he renounced his sin and was reconciled with the Church.  Hippolytus died a martyr beside the true pope and was canonized a saint.

There is a clear parallel to be drawn between the cure we see take place in today’s Gospel and that of the cripple at the pool of Bethsaida.  The friends of the paralytic would stop at nothing to help their companion while the man by the pool remained without assistance for 38 years.  This shows us how important we are to our neighbor and how we must rely on one another to reach our final reward.
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Thou Art Just, O Lord

October 5, 2025By

Sermon From
17th Sunday After Pentecost 2025
The people of the world do not care for our eternal welfare.  If only one of us hears the message of Our Lord and takes it to heart, he will lift up everyone with him.  At this Mass we ask that God protect us from the defilements of the devil.  When we fall into sin the two consequences are guilt and punishment.  We are freed from guilt through the sacrament of Penance.  The debt of punishment may be removed through good works such as prayer, alms, fasting, as well as the indulgences granted by the Church.  We ask God to help us despise the things of this Earth, so we may rejoice in His heavenly gifts.  We must pray for the enemies of Christ especially during the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary.
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The Doctrine of Indulgences

September 30, 2025By

Conference – September 2025

When we commit a sin, we accrue the debt of guilt as well as the debt of punishment.  The guilt may be removed through the sacrament of Penance or perfect contrition.  For those sins forgiven but not yet satisfied, God’s justice demands that the debt of punishment must be removed through the sufferings of Purgatory after death.  However, we may also remove this temporal punishment through the sacraments as well as the application of indulgences.  Indulgences are not an invention of the Church, but rather the application of the Power of the Keys.  An indulgence is the extra-sacramental removal of temporal punishment for sins already forgiven.  They are based on the economy of salvation, which includes the infinite merits of Our Lord’s sacrifice on the Cross, the superabundant merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the merits of the saints.  Plenary indulgences remit the entire debt of punishment, while partial indulgences remit only part of the temporal punishment due to sin.  The origin of the practice of indulgences demonstrates how close we are to one another and how we may assist our neighbor through our meritorious works.  How beautiful it is that we may bear each other’s burdens in this way.
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