The One Most Like God

September 29, 2012By

Feast of Saint Michael 2012
This feast has been celebrated for nearly 1,500 years.  The existence of angels, or some form of spiritual guardian, has been affirmed by people of every culture and religion.  We have not only been told about their existence through Divine Revelation, but God has allowed them to visit us innumerable times throughout history.  The angels are quasi-infinite in number, because each of them was made to reflect a perfection of God.  We will never appreciate all our guardian angels have done for us.  We give our good angels great joy when we are virtuous, and we give them great power to aid us when we invoke their help.  St. Michael was chosen as God’s great defender, not because he was the most powerful, but because he was most Godlike in his love.
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Everything from God’s Hand

September 23, 2012By

17th Sunday after Pentecost 2012
St. Paul tells us that we must live the life of holiness to which we have all been called.  When we speak of our neighbor we refer to both our friends and enemies.  Everything that happens to us comes from God.  He controls the universe and wills everything except for sin itself.  It should be easy for us to practice patience and forbearance, if we see all the actions of our neighbor as directly willed or at least permitted by God.  Our enemies provide crosses for us to carry with patience and provide us with the opportunities to practice virtue.  We do not know the conscience of our neighbor, but we know all the graces we have received and the malice of our own souls.  How easy it should be to judge ourselves harshly while being slow to judge our neighbor.
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The Safeguard of Loyalty

September 16, 2012By

16th Sunday after Pentecost 2012

During an early persecution of the Church, St. Januarius was so loyal to his friends that, at the risk of his own life, he went to visit them while they were imprisoned.  This heroic choice led to his arrest and martyrdom.  The importance of the virtue of loyalty should be inculcated by parents into their children.

We have received great instruction during the thirty days of Our Lady.  The reason why the devotion of the five first Saturdays of the month exists is because Our Lord desires that we make up for the five great attacks against His Holy Mother, particularly the attacks against her perpetual virginity.  Thirty days are not enough to make up for all the Blessed Virgin has suffered for each of us.  We must remain confident that God will have mercy on us if we persevere in prayer.
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Mother in Joy and Sorrow

September 15, 2012By

Feast of the Seven Sorrows 2012
The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Mother do not include all the sufferings which the Virgin Mary endured throughout her life, but only the most poignant moments of her pain.  All the sufferings Our Lord endured led to the instant of His death and our redemption.  All of His Mother’s sufferings led to that same moment.  She became the Mother of God in a moment of joy, and became our Mother in a moment of sorrow.  This is the feast that allows us to see Our Lady, devoid of all simplistic sentimentality, in the stark reality of who she really was.  The word compassion literally means to suffer with someone.  The true practice of this virtue is seldom found in our day.  It is perfectly exemplified in that deepest share the Blessed Mother was given in the sufferings of her Divine Son.
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Obedient Unto Death

September 14, 2012By

Sermon From The Feast Of
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2012
We should study and meditate on the cross of Our Lord, because it was on this cross that His greatest work was accomplished.  While the Son of God was suspended on the cross, He was thinking of each of us.  This device used for torture and execution has become our symbol of consolation and hope.  It was under this sign that Emperor Constantine conquered, and it was St. Helena, his mother, who led the expedition to recover the True Cross from the Holy Land.  We should not be fearful and reluctant in the face of the trials Our Lord sends us.  If we embrace these crosses, then we too will be obedient to the Will of God even unto death.

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God’s Gratuitous Gifts

September 9, 2012By

Sermon From The
15th Sunday after Pentecost 2012
✟Father Violette
If we wish to know how we are to live our lives, we need only study the Holy Liturgy.  So often when we read the Gospels it is as if we are being instructed on a certain topic for the very first time.  Today’s Collect tells us that we should cry out to God in our helplessness.  Unfortunately, too few of us appreciate how helpless we really are.  We cannot do anything in our natural state to obtain our ultimate goal of Heaven.  We all bear one another’s burdens.  Not only do we suffer because of the sins of others, but we benefit from the merits of the saints.  We are called to live a holy life so that we may save our own souls and those of our neighbors.
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The Solidarity of the Human Race

August 26, 2012By

13th Sunday after Pentecost 2012
We cannot gain an increase of Sanctifying Grace for other souls, however through congruent merit, we have the ability to win an increase of divine assistance for our neighbor. The closer we are to God the more He will bless those around us. This is referred to as the solidarity of the human race. It is also why we pray for the intercession of the saints. It is as if the close friends of Our Lord have a claim on His goodness.

The most important of the moral virtues is prudence, because it governs all the other moral virtues. It is prudence which prevents both excess and defect in the practice of the other virtues
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Paying the Price of Sin

August 19, 2012By

12th Sunday After Pentecost 2012
The Epistle tells us that “the letter kills, and the spirit gives life,” which reiterates the fact that the Old Law has been fulfilled in Christ.

It is of the utmost importance for the youth to pray that God guides them to their true vocation in life.  The Church teaches us that the primary purpose of the married state is for the couple to aid the children God sends them in their journey back to God.  The pure love shared among the members of the Holy Family should be our model.

The man found half dead in this Gospel account represents us and the wounds we bear on our souls due to sin.  The Samaritan who saved the life of his enemy represents Our Lord Who saves the souls of sinners.
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The Honor of Our People

August 15, 2012By

Sermon From
The Feast Of The Assumption 2012
At the moment of the Blessed Mother’s visitation, when St. John the Baptist leapt in the womb of Elizabeth, Our Lord was only three days old in the womb of the Virgin Mary. This is a biblical condemnation of the modern belief that the life of the child only begins after birth – an argument used to excuse the murder of the unborn.

The Blessed Mother did not carry herself to Heaven by her own power, she was assumed, body and soul, by the power of Almighty God. She was raised to the highest position in Heaven, second to the Holy Trinity, because of the degree of divine life she possessed. Sanctifying grace makes us lovable in the eyes of God, and it is the greatest of God’s gifts. The first fruit of Sanctifying Grace is sublime and supernatural divine love. We are not meant for this life. There is a place destined for us where there is no more sorrow or fear, and the Assumption of the Blessed Mother is the promise that one day we might enjoy it.
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Stand Fast

August 12, 2012By

Sermon From
11th Sunday After Pentecost 2012
Honor should be given to a priest, not because of who he is in himself, but because of the character he possesses through the sacrament of Holy Orders.

When reading the words of St. Paul’s Epistle we have hope for our enemies.  St. Paul persecuted the Church of Christ, but by God’s grace he was converted.  We must pray for those who persecute the Church of Christ today and do what we can to make up for the blasphemies and insults that the Blessed Mother and Our Lord endure.  No matter how bad the crisis in the Church and society appear to be, we are assured that God will triumph in the end.  The victory will come, and we will be filled with joy and thanksgiving, but only if we remain faithful.
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