Sexagesima Sunday 2018
During this sacred time before Lent we should examine our conscience so we know the predominant fault we will battle through penance once Ash Wednesday arrives. St. Paul is our spiritual director for this as we think about original and actual sin. The young especially have an opportunity to respond to grace and be instruments of sanctity in the world today.
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Feast Of St. Blaise 2018
St. Blaise was an early martyr bishop whose intercessory power was well-known especially by two famous miracles. The elements of these divine favors are what make up the blessing of throats on his feastday. The spiritual benefits from this sacramental are increased by our devout reception of this blessing.
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Feast Of The Purification 2018
This ancient feast is celebrated today in the same way as Sylvia described the ceremony in the fourth century. Our Lord and His Mother exercised humility by submitting to the Mosaic laws that did not apply to these sinless Personages. The Holy Infant was ransomed this day so that He could be offered for our redemption in the future. Our Lady did not need any purification in order to return to the temple but she identified herself with us sinners. The first procession took place on this day with Simeon and Anna joining the Holy Family.
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Septuagesima Sunday 2018
This talk after Mass begins with the reasons for arming the faithful against the pernicious innovations that they face today. Then the Gospel for Septuagesima Sunday is explained. The parable about the hiring of workers to go into the field is the story of how Christ through His Church seeks to save souls. First there is the invitation which is a divine power to follow Our Lord. This impulse can come at anytime in life, even at the eleventh hour. Once accepted the recipient of this grace must correspond to it and work out his salvation. Heaven is earned through cooperating with the actual graces God sends us.
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3rd Sunday after Epiphany 2018
This is the Third Sunday after the Epiphany and the theme of the season is still proclaimed: undying faith in the Son of God becoming Man. St. Paul, whose feast this week celebrates his conversion, reminds us in the Epistle to be, as much as possible, at peace with all men. In the Gospel Our Lord performs a miracle in curing the leper and then another miracle for the servant of the centurion. This account again emphasizes the showing of His Divinity through His Humanity to the Jews in the leper and to the Gentiles in the servant of the pagan centurion. We should take up the prayer of the soldier, especially at Holy Communion, and ask that our souls may be healed. Then we can hear those beautiful words to the leper that made him clean of that terrible disease.
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2nd Sunday after Epiphany
The time after the Epiphany is a transition from celebrating the Incarnation to beginning to move towards the Redemptive aspect of the liturgical year. The awareness of God becoming Man is made clear by His manifestation to the Magi, the theophany at the Baptism of Christ and the working of His first miracle during the wedding feast at Cana. All these elements are contained in the Mass of this Second Sunday after Epiphany and they call on us to respond as the first apostles did when they saw and believed.
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Feast Of The Holy Family 2018
From St. Paul’s Epistle for the feast of the Holy Family we learn about charity and mercy. We are bound to forgive whenever someone is truly sorry for his offenses against us. The Gospel for this feast is about the finding of Our Lord in the Temple which St. Luke wrote from the recollections of our Blessed Mother. Christ’s first recorded words when He was twelve years old show His knowledge of His identity as Son of God and His mission to do what His Father commands. Coming after the Epiphany we learn about the Magi and their star of attraction which led them to the Messias. We too must be generous and follow Our Savior.
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Octave Day of Nativity 2018
The Sacred Liturgy, like nature itself, anticipates great feasts, celebrates them and only gradually leaves them. So Christmas has its First Vespers, its three Masses and then a week to relish the reality of the Incarnation before renewing the mystery again on its octave day, today. We also have the recalling of Our Lord’s circumcision on this day when He first shed His Blood for our salvation and we profess our love and devotion to the Blessed Mother for her divine maternity and perpetual virginity. Today we are grateful for all this and we consign our past to God’s mercy and live in the present moment by God’s grace. We entrust the future to God’s Providence and use prayer, reflection and counsel to know His signified Will and His Will of good pleasure. We will achieve the tranquility of order in the coming days by knowing and following God’s plan for us.
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Christmas 2017 Midnight Mass
Against the world’s propaganda, we proclaim the truth of Christmas that the Son of God became man and was born in Bethlehem of the ever Virgin Mary who remained a virgin physically and morally before, during and after the birth of her Son. Christ did this first for the glory of His Father and then to give Himself to us. This union of the divine and human natures in the Person of the Word is a supreme act of humility that will last for as long as God is God. As Jesus showed us the way by becoming a little Infant, so we must heed His words that unless we become as little children we will not enter the enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Vigil Of Christmas 2017
At the vigil Mass the joy of Christmas is already felt and this happy way that we receive the Infant King reassures us that His second coming will not be a harsh one for us. On this last day of Advent St. Joseph is brought before us as the worthy descendant of David who will protect the Blessed Mother from scandal, hardship and from the devil. Our receiving this “Bread from Heaven” will ease our burdens in this life.
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