23rd Sunday after Pentecost
God loves us infinitely more than we love ourselves and this thought should turn us to Him in prayer often. Today’s Mass is about the Last Judgment and our eternal destiny afterwards. All will be revealed and corrected. Christ is the Son of God and Our Lord gave evidence to help us believe Him. Some of the demonstrations of His Divinity are His perfections, miracles and teachings.
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19th Sunday after Pentecost 2019
Beginning with the words of the Introit we are given peace in the midst of whatever tribulations we experience. St. Paul in the Epistle tells us that by Baptism we are no longer in sin and must live a new life of grace. All previous lying, stealing and refusing to work must be abandoned. Our new life should reach to the control of anger so we only use it when necessary and for good reason. This state of grace is seen in the Gospel as represented by the wedding garment. Without this we cannot be saved. With grace we can show our gratitude to God and rejection of sin, even venial sin.
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Easter Sunday 2019
The details given in the Gospels about Our Lord’s rising from the dead provide the compelling evidence for our faith in the Resurrection. Christ first came to visit His own Mother and spent time with her until His appearances around the sepulchre. Later in the afternoon He walked with the two disciples to Emmaus and ended the day by seeing the apostles in the upper room. We must rejoice with them over our King’s Victory. There are some in the world who think they can conquer Our Savior. These have been deceived by the devil.
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Easter Vigil 2019
God created on the first day of the week at midnight, He was born at midnight and we keep vigil now waiting for His rising at midnight. All the infinite merits of Christ’s Passion and Death were won on the Cross but only applied to us when He rose from the dead and now distributes these treasures through the Liturgy. This vigil has us renew our baptismal vows and witness a Baptism. All this prepares us for the Easter Mass when we offer our sacrifice with Christ and unite with Him in Holy Communion, the foretaste of heavenly glory.
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Octave of the Nativity 2019
The Octave of the Nativity is an ancient feast with roots in pagan times. The Christians felt the need to gather on the first day of the new year to do penance for the pagan revelry of the previous night. This popular penitential devotion moved the Church authorities to institute this feast and thereby add a renewal of Christmas job along with a commemoration of the Circumcision and an honoring of the Blessed Virgin Mary who was the key to these mysteries. We should promise to take our Christian life seriously this year. The carol about the twelve days of Christmas was a catechism lesson for the persecuted Catholics in the past and full of beautiful truths during our days of celebrating the Nativity.
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19th Sunday after Pentecost 2018
The 19th Sunday after Pentecost reminds us not to neglect the divine invitation to the marriage feast and to come prepared wearing our wedding garment symbolizing grace. Clothed as a new man we will put aside sin and follow the commandments. Today is also the feast of St. Jerome, the translator of our missal texts and patron of Scripture study. This then provided an opportunity to refute several attacks against Catholics concerning the Bible.
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11th Sunday after Pentecost 2018
The feasts for this week give cause for us to thank God and take strength in upholding the faith. This Mass for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost recalls Our Lord’s Resurrection and the Easter sacraments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist. St. Paul lists all the witnesses to Christ’s Risen Body and the Gospel relates the story of the healing of the deaf and dumb man. The exact gestures and words of Jesus are repeated during the ceremonies for Baptism. All this leads to union with Our Lord in Holy Communion.
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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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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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