3rd Sunday After Pentecost 2020
The Gospel shows Our Lord coming to protect us and this is perfect for Father’s Day as well. When asked how to pray Christ gave us the Our Father. When we receive Holy Communion we are united with Our Lord. We are meant to be saints and must pray and strive for that always. Not to desire sanctity is a sin. We should do everything for our Heavenly Father and someday reach eternal happiness.
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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 a heroic death. Christ suffered terribly to save us and speaks lovingly to us as our Shepherd. His love will not permit anything truly evil to touch us. Any cross He allows us the privilege to carry will bring us to a happier future.
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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. We are like the apostles in today’s Gospel who receive the consoling words from the Risen Savior, “Peace be to you”. Repeat the indulgenced words of St. Thomas often, especially at the elevation, “My Lord and My God”. Live the life of God in our souls now through the Indwelling of the Blessed Trinity.
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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 proximate call to holiness and the ceremony of the clothing in the Carmelite habit is meant to impress this on us. The habit, especially the Brown Scapular, is the constant sacramental reminder of the call to contemplative prayer and divine union. As a chosen bride and spouse of Our Lord, the religious is joined to Him on the Cross as a victim for the Church, priests and the salvation of souls. Do not look back but press on to the goal of union with Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.
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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 for one of our seminarians and the sermon continued on the topic of a vocation to the priesthood and religious life. The importance of grace as a necessity for supernatural endeavors was explained. The following qualities are essential during the future preparation for service to the Church: perseverance, trust in God, distrust of self, dedication and strength in adversity. All of these will aided by the sacramental of the religious habit.
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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 life in union with Him above all other considerations. Today we also commemorate the Seven Sorrows of our Blessed Mother and her close participation in the sufferings and death of her Divine Son.
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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 in the Resurrection so quickly. As we enter the chapel we should leave all worldly concerns behind and be grateful for the Faith that God has died to give us.
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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 today includes the opening prostration and prayer; the prophecies and Passion, solemn collects, veneration of the Cross and finally Holy Communion. All lead us to victory with Christ.
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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 St. Joseph. Because of these prerogatives he is a wonderful intercessor for everyone and every need as attested by countless saints. The litany of his praises is deservingly offered to him on his feast in gratitude for all he does for souls.
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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 lives.  The Gospel in particular manifests Christ’s divine power, first to the Jews in the person of the leper and then to the Gentiles in the person of the centurion’s servant. St. Paul’s epistle stresses charity as the hallmark of Christians.
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