My Happiest Day

June 2, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{2nd Sunday After Pentecost 2013}Today our children receive their First Holy Communion. Our Lord left us this sacrament so we would not be orphans when He ascended into heaven. The Holy Eucharist and the special graces given by Christ will help us to reach heaven. The state of grace in us means that the Holy Trinity lives inside us. With such strength we are able to resist the enemies of God. Ask Our Lord to make us good and bring us all to live with Him forever. This is the happiest day of our lives and we should receive Holy Communion often, even daily.
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Draw All Things To Myself

May 30, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{The Feast Of Corpus Christi 2013}St. Bonaventure warned that removal of the Blessed Sacrament from the Church would leave the people like a herd of animals. St. Paul in the Epistle gives a monitum about irreverence to the Holy Eucharist in his day. What about our times? This feast has a special history because of its origin around a miracle. St. Thomas Aquinas composed the texts for this Mass and today’s Divine Office. The teaching about this sacred gift from God is clear and separates our true Church from all other false religions. Christ died to give us Himself in this way and it is sacrilegious, ungrateful and irreverent to treat the Sacrament of His Body and Blood in anything less than a loving and devout manner.

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Pentecost And The Holy Ghost

May 19, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Pentecost Sunday 2013}Father begins by explaining the beauty and meaning of the Pentecost vestments that were given to him on his anniversary of ordination. The sermon continues in describing that today begins the visible reign of the Holy Ghost Who is called the forgotten Person of Love. Pentecost and its octave close out the Paschal season and the connection between this feast and our redemption is a summary of this liturgical part of the year. We are in much need for the coming of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity into our spiritual life as was the case for the Apostles. These loyal disciples of Our Lord were profoundly changed by the coming of the Paraclete and so are we.
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The Fifth Commandment and Self Defense

May 3, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

First Friday Conference May 2013

Many prelates in the Church stand against a person’s right to bear arms and, by extension, to defend himself. This comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of the natural law. The Ten Commandments, which express the natural law, encompass more than what is strictly stated. Within the fifth commandment we are not only forbidden to take a life unjustly, by the negative principle, but we are also instructed to do what is necessary to preserve our lives. It is not sinful for an individual to possess the means of defending his life and limb, and the lives of those dependent on him, and he is commanded to do so if possible.
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The Covenant Has Been Renewed

March 31, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Sunday 2013
We have now had the culmination of the whole Lenten season. We have been catechumens and penitents in preparation for our union with Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Now we walk with Christ in the liturgy. Our Lenten time of training began with the season of examination, then we had to follow Christ to Jerusalem. The Blessed Mother offered her Son on the Cross for each one of us. We have now renounced Satan and proclaimed our faith. We may be small and afraid, just as the Apostles were, but Our Lord had not forgotten them and he has not forgotten us. All order is restored by Christ’s words, “peace be to you.”
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Joy Amidst Suffering

November 9, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Conference On Purgatory}^{1st Friday November 2012}The Holy Souls in Purgatory experience eviternity, or what is called discontinuous time, which is that time which measures the change in a soul. God lives in a reality independent of time, and one might say that the souls in Purgatory live in a reality between time and eternity. If one dies without being completely prepared, the presence of God would be too intense for the soul to endure. It must first be purified completely before seeing God, and this is the reason for Purgatory. The joy experienced in Purgatory is like the joy of Heaven amidst suffering.
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Supply What I Lack

April 8, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Easter Sunday 2012}We pray that we may receive all the benefits of this Mass. The Mass of today, the greatest of all feasts, is the crown of the liturgical year. The historical event is made present again at the Mass. The Resurrection is the central doctrine of the whole Catholic Church. Christ came for the purpose of saving us. When we receive Holy Communion at the Mass today, we can receive any graces we did not obtain this Lent.
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Watch For The Signs

November 20, 2011By Servants Of The Holy Family

Last Sunday after Pentecost 2011
Death comes to us all, and at the moment of our death judgment is passed instantaneously. No longer distracted by the material world, the soul is given a direct intuition of its state in the eyes of God and its eternal abode is fixed forever. The Holy Souls thirst for our prayers, because they are utterly incapable of helping themselves anymore.

The end of the world is spoken of by Christ more than any other topic. No matter what happens in the times to come, we must maintain trust in God, knowing that He will not let anything happen to the souls of His friends. The reason there will be a General Judgment is because every sin has a public aspect to it, and God’s justice must be vindicated publicly. God gives us signs predicting the end of time to console the just and frighten the wicked, and we must be able to recognize these nine signs, so we may know when our judgment is at hand.
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