He Craves Our Love

June 7, 2013By

Sermon From
The Feast Of The Sacred Heart 2013
It is sad how feasts like this one have been neglected by priests in the past to the detriment of the devotion of the faithful.  Our Lord came to St. Margaret Mary, showed her His Heart and with other things said that even consecrated souls mistreated Him.  Pope Pius XII taught that no Catholic is free from practicing this devotion because it is so essential to the Christian life of sacrifice and of returning love by reparation to God.  The Heart of Our Savior beats ceaselessly with deep affection for each of us and for mankind as a whole.  We must reciprocate by imitating Christ’s life in our own as the saints have especially those with the stigmata.
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My Happiest Day

June 2, 2013By

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

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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We Proclaim the Dogma

May 26, 2013By

Trinity Sunday 2013
The world is fraught with temptations which undermine vocations of young men and women.  The result is that there are very few good vocations today.  Through the intercession of St. Rita, the patron saint of impossible causes, our community was granted priestly vocations.

The most solemn dogma of the Trinity is proclaimed by the Church on this day.  Although we can reason to the existence of a single Creator, we cannot reason to the existence of three Persons in that one God.  We believe in the Trinity because it was God who revealed this truth to us.  Constant reference is made to the Holy Trinity throughout the Mass, and it is in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost that we are baptized.  We testify and proclaim without ambiguity that this dogma is true, and we dedicate ourselves to the honor of our Triune God.
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Pentecost And The Holy Ghost

May 19, 2013By

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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Our Lord’s Final Gift

May 12, 2013By

Sunday After The Ascension 2013
When St. Peter says that “charity covers a multitude of sins” he does not refer to the expressions of human affection, but rather the infused virtue which abides in our souls as the first consequence of a share in God’s life.  Charity is superior to all the other virtues because it gives us the ability to love God with the love He has for Himself and it unites us to God in His very essence.  Even the smallest acts are worthy of a great reward if they are performed with charity.

On Mothers’ Day we pray for all mothers, both living and dead, but we especially honor the Blessed Mother, who was given to us from the Cross.  She was the last gift that Christ gave His followers before the Redemption.  Devotion and veneration of Our Lady was practiced from the earliest days of the Church.  She was united with her Divine Son in His death.  Although she brought forth her Son without pain on Christmas, she participated so intimately in that act of Redemption which merited divine life for us, that it can truly be said that she brought us forth spiritually with great anguish.  It is impossible to find the Son without the Mother.
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The Hour Has Come

May 9, 2013By

Ascension Thursday 2013
We believe that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, by His own power, ascended into Heaven forty days after His resurrection from the dead.  It is because of this belief that we gather today.  The angels assure us that Christ will return from the East, just as He was seen going up.  On this day Our Lord led all those saints and patriarchs of the Old Testament, who waited for so long in captivity, into their glorious abode.  The Paschal Candle, which represents the physical presence of Christ, is extinguished after the Gospel and is now taken away.  Just as He prayed for His followers on the day He ascended, He also prays that the love of the Holy Trinity may remain always within our souls.
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True Happiness in Virtue

May 5, 2013By

5th Sunday after Easter 2013
When we ask that God will “give us this day our daily bread,” we pray for all mankind, but especially for our fellow Catholics, because God is the Father of those baptized members of the Mystical Body in a far more intimate way than all those who remain outside His Church.  We are closer to one another through our share in God’s life, than we are with our blood relations, and we have the obligation to love one another.  The Our Father is the loftiest prayer, being composed by Christ Himself, and it reminds us of the importance of receiving the Holy Eucharist often as well as making frequent spiritual communions when we cannot receive.

Faith is essential for our salvation, but Faith alone does not save, as St. James confirms.  We must possess all the virtues to be saved.  We must practice good works, especially mental prayer.  Perfect happiness is found in the practice of virtue.  Even Aristotle recognized this fact and recognized that it is impossible for man to reach this ideal without divine assistance.
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The Fifth Commandment and Self Defense

May 3, 2013By

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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Our Struggle for an Everlasting Crown

April 28, 2013By

4th Sunday after Easter 2013
The prayers composed by the Church express the intentions for which God wishes us to pray.  In today’s Collect we pray that our hearts may remain forever set on that place where true joys reside.  The angels and saints in Heaven, because of their complete conformity to God’s Will, never resist His desires.  We pray that mankind may submit itself to God in the same way on Earth.  We have the potential, when in the state of grace, to allow God to operate through us.  It is only because of the obstacles we place in God’s way that we do not see that operation in our lives.  Holy Scripture warns us about the heavy consequences of the rejection of Christ by the worldly.  Temptations are a normal struggle for all, but the struggle is nothing in comparison to the reward in store for those who remain faithful.
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