The Advent Conferences 2024
Bishop’s Conference for Advent – Learn about the historical and liturgical meaning of the season of Advent, as well as the great danger of a vice we all suffer from – lukewarmness.
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The Advent Conferences 2024
Bishop’s 2nd Immaculate Conception Conference – Learn how the account of the fall of man found in the book of Genesis predicts the great privilege of the Immaculate Conception that would be given to the Mother of God.
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1st Sunday of Advent 2024
Today is New Year’s Day in the Church, and we are reminded by the violet color at the beginning of the liturgical year to do penance for our sins. We have a lot of work to do this Advent to prepare for the coming of Our Lord into our souls. This is the time to make spiritual New Year’s resolutions. If we wish to obtain our heavenly reward, we must perform the spiritual and corporal works of mercy and maintain purity of body and soul through prayer and mortification. The Son of God honored our flesh when He took to Himself a human nature. In following the purpose of this Advent season, let us “put aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light!”
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Feast of the Purification 2024
The candle is one of the great sacramentals of the Church. It is like a sacrament in the sense that it is an outward sign, but unlike a sacrament, it does not give grace automatically. This day links Our Lord and the Blessed Mother so closely. Today we remember both the joyful mystery of the Rosary and the first of the Virgin Mary’s great sorrows. Because the Mother of God was not affected by original sin, and because of the Virginal Birth, she was not subject to the law requiring purification. However, she submitted to it in all humility. God used the New Eve to carry the New Adam into the Garden, when the Blessed Mother carried Our Lord into the temple.
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3rd Sunday after Epiphany 2024
St. Paul teaches us to be at peace with all men when it is possible. Of course, there are times when peace is not possible, but for a good Catholic war is only for the sake of restoring the peace once again. A person who is vengeful in his anger cannot claim to be a true Christian. The centurion of the Gospel is a model for all Catholics. He was compassionate, humble, but so confident and full of faith as to make the Son of God marvel. We repeat the words of the centurion multiple times at every Mass so we may imitate his humility and confidence before receiving our Divine Lord.
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2nd Sunday after Epiphany 2024
The Magi had open minds and were seeking the truth. They followed the star and received Christ into their hearts. Unlike God’s revelation to the Magi or St. John the Baptist, the wedding feast was a manifestation of Christ’s divinity to everyone. In the divine plan, God did not change His mind but made the miracle at Cana dependent on the Blessed Mother’s request. The Virgin Mary was sensitive to the interests of the host of the feast, and her interest is carried over to each one of us. The water turning into wine was a prefiguring of Transubstantiation.
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Feast of the Holy Family 2024
St. Joseph is the head of our family. He was formed in the image of God the Father because he was given a share of the same love that God possesses for His Son. St. Joseph loves us as he loved Christ, because we are part of the Mystical Body. The Blessed Virgin is the true Mother of God because she gave Him His human life. Our Lord knew all things in His Divine Mind, but He chose to learn as we do in His human mind, so He could be the perfect model of humility. He wanted to be like us, so we would want to be like Him. Today we are taught about the virtue of obedience, without which we cannot be saved.
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Christmas Octave 2024
The saints of the Christmas season are St. Stephen, the model of resistance against unbelief, St. John, the Apostle against division within the Church, and the Holy Innocents, who are the models standing against corrupt governments. Today is the feast of the Circumcision, which offers proof of the true humanity of Christ, because on this day He shed the first drops of His Precious Blood. In participating in this ceremony of the Old Law, Christ was associated with us sinners, and will be for all eternity. Today God was given a name that all could utter. When we call upon the name of Jesus, we ask God to save our soul. Today is also the Solemnity of Mary which proclaims the Virgin Birth.
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Sunday within the Christmas Octave 2023
No longer are we slaves of the law, no longer are we separated from God. God has made us His friends. He loves every creature He has created but He is forced, so to speak, to hate the sinner by the sinner’s own choice. God’s irrational creatures fulfill His will by necessity, but we have been given a free will and the ability to choose. Our friendship with God may be maintained by simply following His commandments as His other creatures do. We must ask ourselves if throughout the previous year we have risen to the role of true Christians or if we are Christians only in name.
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Christmas Day 2023
We have the privilege of giving glory and proper worship to the Trinity on this day. We celebrate the dogma of the Redemptive Incarnation. In His infinite love, God became man, lived with us and died for us. Our Lord’s enemies try to attack and undermine this great feast, but without success. We must love justice and hate iniquity. The Light spoken about in the Gospel is the Son of God Himself. Everyone is offered the light of God’s grace, and those who receive it are made sons of God. The devil’s plan is to turn mankind from God, but we know the victory has already been won. In the face of the world, we are unwavering in our obedience to the Trinity.
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