14th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
Seek first God’s holiness and that begins with the virtue of Faith. We need that to achieve everything worthwhile in our daily activity. We should strive to learn more and more about God. The acts of the virtues produce the fruits of the Holy Ghost which give us a certain sweetness in living the spiritual life and thereby encourage us to draw closer to the Blessed Trinity.
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13th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
The Collect Prayer for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost sums up our desire for an increase of the theological virtues and a desire to love God as He wants. For this, we should pray the Acts of Faith, Hope and Charity daily because these virtues are essential for gaining heaven and we can never have enough of them. The Gospel reminds us that we must be grateful to God for His gifts as the leperous Samaritan was after Christ healed him.
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12th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
Conference After Mass
The parable of the Good Samaritan revolutionized the ancient world’s outlook on how to treat the less fortunate. Its impact is still felt today because even our secular society has “Samaritan” laws and institutions recalling this lesson from Our Lord. There is a deeper meaning to this story which explains how Christ is the Good Samaritan toward each of us who have fallen because of our sins. A yet more elevated understanding of this truth creates the desire in a Christian to face the evils in this world and transform them into good. The practice of a deep interior life is necessary to accomplish this sanctification of self and of the world around us.
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11th Sunday After Pentecost 2017
We must do good to others and be grateful for whatever gifts we receive. To live a spiritual life requires prayer more than our natural life needs the air we breathe. By its power we are enabled to make all the daily sacrifices God requires of us along the path of perfection. The goal is heaven and the greatest experience of seeing God whereas the alternative is the terrible pain of loss in hell.
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Assumption Evening 2017 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is her ultimate triumph over the devil, sin and death. This is why the story of Judith is recounted in the Mass for this feastday. Our Lady was taken to heaven at the end of her life by the power of God and she reigns…
Assumption Day 2017
Through Our Lady’s Assumption God has empowered the Mother of God with extraordinary intercessory power which enables Our Lady at Fatima to promise salvation to those who embrace devotion to Her Immaculate Heart. The anticipated resurrection of the Blessed Mother is one of the reasons why She can assure heaven to Her devotees. The Immaculate Conception and the Blessed Virgin Mary’s fullness of grace and love are causes of Her Assumption. Her union with the Passion and Death of Her Son is a further reason for Her joining Him in His Resurrection and Ascension.
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10th Sunday after Pentecost
In today’s Gospel about the Pharisee and the Publican Our Lord taught a valuable lesson to those who trusted in themselves and despised others. The teaching concerned having a humble estimation of ourselves which would thereby prepare us for the glories of heaven because those who humble themselves shall be exalted.
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Feast Of The Transfiguration 2017
The Transfiguration of Our Lord came six days after St. Peter’s confession of Faith in the Son of God. Then Christ took the three leading apostles up a mountain where He permitted them to glimpse His divinity while He spoke to Moses and Elias. This was to encourage the apostles for the trials ahead. We too are meant to be strengthened by this feast and to realize that everything leads us to our true inheritance in heaven.
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Feast Of St. Dominic – 1st Friday August 2017
St. Dominic travelled through southern France on a trip to Rome with his bishop in the 13th century and he was moved with compassion for the plight of the fallen away Catholics there who were deceived by an ancient heresy which had made a resurgence and was known as Catharism (or Albigensianism). St. Dominic besought the help of the Blessed Mother when his efforts were not successful and Our Lady told him to use Her Rosary as an aid to his preaching. This assured him success and has done the same throughout the centuries as seen at Lepanto and Belgrade, for examples. The Blessed Virgin Mary promised that someday She would save the world through the Rosary.
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