Good Shepherd Sunday 2020 The beautiful expanded account of the Gospel of the Good Shepherd is comforting and consoling. We are free from fear and death. As Catholics we do not simply submit to our demise as the animals do but we embrace it as Our Savior did. A plenary indulgence is attached to such…
Low Sunday 2020 Today is called Low Sunday in comparison to the High Sunday of Easter last week. This Lent was our opportunity to tell God we are sorry for our sins and we resolve to continue having this sorrow throughout our lives. Faith is the center of our reality and source of our victory. …
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…
Quinquagesima Sunday 2020 The Epistle for today teaches the importance of the supernatural virtue of charity which is not to be confused with natural human kindness. Charity not only enables us to love God and neighbor but it gives us knowledge beyond the highest attainable during our earthly lives. Today was also the clothing day…
14th Sunday after Pentecost 2019 We celebrate wonderful saints at this time of the liturgical year. This week we have the following: St. Francis and his stigmata, St. Joseph Cupertino, St. Januarius and St. Matthew. The Epistle for this Mass is a lesson on the spiritual life. Our Lord stresses the importance of seeking this…
Low Sunday 2019 The Epistle draws the comparison between the Persons of the Blessed Trinity and the witnesses left for us in the world: The Spirit, the water and the blood. The Gospel about doubting Thomas reminds us that we owe much more to St. Thomas for our Faith than to St. John who believed…
Good Friday 2019 The Church is in sorrow and desolation on God’s Friday because it is the day He died for our sins. This should move us to deep repentance for what our sins have done and thanksgiving to Our Lord for His great love in redeeming us this way. The Solemn Liturgical Action for…
Feast Of St. Joseph 2019 The Gospel for this feast is taken from St. Matthew about the so-called doubt of St. Joseph. These few verses contain a wealth of doctrinal information about his fatherly love of the Son of God, his pure love of his wife, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the unique holiness of…
3rd Sunday after Epiphany 2019 The Introit and some of the Mass propers for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany will be repeated on the next two Sundays. They renew the joy of the Incarnation and show forth the divinity of Our Lord. These are reminders of the essential quality of the liturgy in sanctifying our…
Gaudete Sunday 2018 The Third Sunday of Advent is called Gaudete Sunday because of the mitigated penance it communicates as we draw closer to Christ’s arrival. St. John the Baptist comes before us again in today’s Gospel as he heralds the Messiah and Christmas. He had great holiness and all the qualities necessary to prepare…
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