Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2020 We rejoice to be able to honor this feast day with a High Mass. The chant was full of enthusiasm and devotion which is reminder of St. Augustine’s adage that “he who sings prays twice”. This is an ancient feast commemorating the dedication in Jerusalem of the basilica on…
Feast Of The Precious Blood 2020 This feast marks a victory and stands in thanksgiving for it. Pope Pius IX was exiled from Rome in 1848 by an army of the enemies of the Church. He promised to honor the Precious Blood of Christ after God would restore him to Rome and that happened on…
Trinity Sunday 2020 The angelic St. Thomas Aquinas has his feast day this week and we are reminded of his being a patron for the finding of lost items. God is wonderful in His saints. This feast of the Holy Trinity starts a new season of the liturgical year. It is right that this be…
Ascension Thursday 2020 Today Our Lord gloriously entered heaven and made it a home for all humanity through His Sacred Human Nature seated at the right hand of God the Father. To emphasize this, all the saved who had been detained in the Limbo of the Patriarchs from Adam to St. John the Baptist entered…
Good Friday 2020 The Church mourns the death of God in an even more dramatic way this year. The Solemn Liturgical Action expresses this loss through the Passion of St. John and the two prophecies. Then we join with Christ on the Cross for His universal prayers for all. We venerate our means of salvation…
Palm Sunday 2020 While unable to attend Mass, we must be more devout at home, especially by practicing spiritual communion. The Indwelling of the Blessed Trinity and the action of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in our souls will inspire us. That type of inspiration is what moved the people in Jerusalem to proclaim…
Passion Sunday 2020 The last two weeks of Lent are the most sacred and have a special name, Passiontide. In today’s Gospel, Our Lord proclaimed His Divinity with the result that He had to hide from those who wanted to stone Him. The Church incorporates this into Passiontide by hiding Christ and all the reminders…
Laetare Sunday 2020 – Carmelite Clothing Day This is a joyful day and a preparation for the total gift of self that is to come at the religious profession. All has been left behind and that includes any reliance on self because now it is time to rely on God alone. Religious life is the…
Feast Of Christ The King 2019 This week is the feast of All Saints which honors God in His heroic examples of sanctifying power. Today is the feast of Christ the King which was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to combat secularism and to re-assert God’s rights in modern society which have been…
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…
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