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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8th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
The Introit for this Mass speaks of the beautiful temple which was a faint image of the church wherein Our Lord is present. Yet God loves us and not just a building. He is our Father and loves us like that. Prayer enables us to feel God’s presence in our lives and make us long for our home in heaven. Sin is the horrific obstacle which can block that path and defile us. More is expected of us than the pagans because greater love is demanded of us because we have received greater gifts.
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7th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
During the current crisis a spirit of normalcy has pervaded this chapel but it is good to remember that we are in the midst of a tremendous struggle for the Christian world order and the salvation of souls. Parents have a particular responsibility in preparing their children well to live in this society while not being dragged down by it.
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6th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
After learning about the saints this week, particularly St. Mary Magdalen, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the brown scapular were explained.  This Sunday’s Mass is concerned with the Easter Sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Eucharist which are the thoughts found in the Epistle and Gospel. The Blessed Sacrament will strengthen us throughout life and we must always pray that we be preserved from a sudden and unprovided death in the end.
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5th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
The season after Pentecost is the time for sanctity. We should grow in love of God and of neighbor (which is the measure of love of God). Today’s Mass warns against the obstacle that anger presents in accomplishing this goal. Although a natural passion, anger easily becomes inordinate and sinful because of the effects of original sin. Combating the first motions of anger will turn us from this vice and then we should turn to prayer instead and gain the peace that comes from a holy life.
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1st Friday July 2017 – Feast Of Saints Cyril & Methodius
Saints Cyril and Methodius were blood brothers who were the missionaries that converted many of the people of central Europe. Their Mass Alleluia mentions Melchisedech who is a mysterious person from the Old Testament that prefigures Our Lord’s priesthood. St. Peter typifies everything a priest is because he followed the example of Christ the High Priest so well. Often, we recall St. Peter’s shortcomings but do not emphasize those qualities so essential to a priest and summed up by his great love and generosity.
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4th Sunday after Pentecost 2017
The Bible records the greetings of St. Gabriel at the Annunciation and St. Elizabeth at the Visitation which the Church has combined into the beautiful prayer of the Hail Mary. July 2nd commemorates the Blessed Mother generously traveling to assist her cousin during the final months before the birth of St. John the Baptist. We should imitate Our Lady whenenver God calls us and we should instruct our children to do the same while learning to be humble and grateful.
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Feast Of The Precious Blood 2017
The feast of the Precious Blood was instituted by the saintly Pope Pius IX in gratitude for the restoration of Rome to the Holy See.  St. Peter called Our Lord’s Blood Precious in his epistle and It is so because of the hypostatic union which joins Christ’s humanity to His divinity. The Sacrifice of the Mass as that on Calvary depends on the shedding of this Blood and our communion with It. Our bodies are thereby sanctified as temples of God and should never be cremated. The Precious Blood sustained the early church during centuries of persecution so successfully that by the time of Constantine there were 1800 dioceses.  Finally, there is a special message for priests and aspirants to the priesthood on the sanctifying power of the Holy Mass as seen in the life of St. Bernadino Realino whose holiness was attested by miracles from his own blood.
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