Grace Upon Grace

March 23, 2025By

3rd Sunday in Lent 2025

It is only by divine grace that we can absorb everything this Mass contains.  Grace builds upon grace, and to those who accept the graces of God more is given.  This Lent could determine our eternal sentencing at our judgment.  Have we kept our Lenten resolution?  Our Lord is praising His Mother in today’s Gospel.  She listened to the Word of God, the Logos, and remained with Him her entire life.  This is the Mass of the liturgy.  The Introit describes liturgical prayer, and how we look up to God as He looks down on us.  Today we can conquer the devil with the help of the sacrament of Penance.
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The Value of Penance

March 9, 2025By

1st Sunday of Lent 2025
We must imitate the example of Our Lord in the face of temptation.  When we are afflicted by evil thoughts we should turn to the powerful defense of Sacred Scripture.  Christ’s victory over the devil in this Gospel foreshadows His ultimate victory on the Cross.  Unless we do penance, we will surely perish.  We should have a thorough understanding of what the word “penance” means.  Lent is a time of joy, when we shake off sin and prepare for Heaven.  This season presents to us God’s mercy and gives us the opportunity to obtain a peaceful conscience.  God in His justice is bound by His very nature to punish sin, but when we punish ourselves with works of penance, even our smallest acts have great value, if they come from the heart.  There are many such acts that every Catholic should know and put into practice during this season.
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We Must Be The Fertile Ground

February 23, 2025By

Sexagesima Sunday 2025
The season of Septuagesima is a very ancient season of the liturgical year.  The color violet reminds us to examine our consciences and reflect on our lives.  In this season, the Divine Office calls to mind the history of man’s creation and fall, and the Gospel last week instructed us that it is never too late to labor for Christ and gain Heaven.

In today’s Epistle, St. Paul gives his credentials to the gentiles to convince them of his authority as a true minister of Christ, yet all he accomplished was made possible only by the grace of God.  In the Gospel of St. Luke, Our Lord tells us to possess a good heart so that the word of God might bear fruit in our souls.
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Saved By Love

February 9, 2025By

5th Sunday after Epiphany 2025
This week in the liturgical year is filled with important days.  The lives of St. Blaise and St. Apollonia, as well as the details of the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes, should be well known to every Catholic.

During these days, we consider the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt.  They covered a distance of roughly 300 miles through the desert, and all the pains they suffered during this trip were offered up for us.

God wills the salvation of all men, but not all are saved.  With the graces He offers at every moment, our God tries to save us despite the sins we continually commit.  God gives us his love always.  We must not only know God, but we must love Him, because it is only through love that we are saved.  If we truly love God, He should occupy our thoughts more than anything else and we should be on fire with love when we receive Him in Holy Communion.
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Be On Guard

January 26, 2025By

3rd Sunday after Epiphany 2025
As Catholics, we should be well informed about the feast days celebrated this week.  We should know the details of the account of St. Paul’s conversion and how it changed the course of the Church, as well as the lives of Saints Polycarp, Francis de Sales, John Bosco, and Ignatius of Antioch.  In the Epistle for today’s Mass, St. Paul instructs us to avoid the sin of revenge.  We must believe that God will reward the good and punish the wicked, either in this life or the next.  In this Gospel account, the deforming disease of leprosy is shown as a symbol of sin.  We are reminded to have gratitude toward God for both spiritual and corporeal favors.  The Roman centurion was a friend to the Jewish people and a monotheist.  His beautiful words of faith have echoed through the centuries at countless Masses.  We must imitate the virtues of this good centurion if we wish to be cured of our spiritual illness and live a holy life.
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The Holy Family Provides

January 12, 2025By

Feast of the Holy Family 2025
The Blessed Mother kept the mysteries of Our Lord’s life in her heart, and we should invoke her help whenever we meditate on those mysteries.  Holy Scripture shows St. Joseph to be the clear head of the Holy Family, not by his words but by his actions.  The event recorded in the Gospel took place when Christ was twelve years old, at the time when He became a “Son of the Law.”  By His words Christ makes it evident to the whole world that He knew He was God at every moment of His life.  St. Paul tells us in his Epistle the virtues of the Holy Family which we must imitate and use in examining our consciences.  The father is the head of the family and must be the example of the virtue of religion.  The mother is the heart of the family, who keeps all the spiritual and material needs of the children in her heart.  God has given us parents to assist us in attaining Heaven, and children are called to submit to their parents in holy obedience.  Nothing bad will ever happen to us but that which our loving Father allows.
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Simple New Year’s Resolutions

January 5, 2025By

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus 2025
Not only this day, but this entire month is dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus.  The first miracle the Apostles worked was the cure recorded in today’s Gospel account.  The Second Commandment of the Decalogue is: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.  We live in a time that deliberately violates this commandment.  God’s name is “I am Who am”, and the Jews were forbidden to say this name except once a year in the Holy of Holies.  In the Old Testament, we see David ask for God to have mercy on him because of the love he has for His Holy Name.  We have been instructed to do all in the name of Our Lord.  Let us fall on our knees with the Magi in adoration of Jesus Christ and in reparation for the blasphemies against Him.
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Inebriated by His Blood

January 1, 2025By

Octave of Christmas 2025
This is the day on which Our Lord began to redeem us by shedding His Blood in the circumcision.  How many sins are committed at every moment?  Yet, the Precious Blood makes up for them infinitely.  How beautiful that our God still desires our love.  Today is also a feast for our Blessed Mother.  We can never do enough to show our love for her.  At the beginning of the new year, we rededicate ourselves to our God and His Mother and renew our promises to them.  The phrase Anno Domini was created so that every year would be measured from the most important day in history.  We must never forget that God created us to show forth His goodness and share with us his everlasting happiness in Heaven.
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His Birth in Our Hearts

December 25, 2024By

Christmas Day 2024
Although all three Masses of Christmas refer to the birth of Our Lord in the hearts of mankind through grace, this is the Mass which is particularly focused on that aspect of Christmas.  The indwelling of the Son, with the Father and Holy Ghost, in the souls of the just, was promised by Christ while He was on Earth.  When the Holy Trinity make Their abode in us, Their vital presence communicates a created share of God’s life to our souls.  Our Lord did not choose to be born in the palace of a King, nor in the bustling environment of the inn, but in a secluded cave.  If our souls are as proud as a royal palace, or as filled as the inn with the distractions of the world, Christ will not seek admittance.  But if our souls are emptied of worldly attachments and as humble as the cave, Christ will not resist in entering.
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Hope In The Darkness

December 25, 2024By

Christmas Midnight Mass 2024
This is the day for which we have been preparing for so long.  This Mass is one of the three Masses of Christmas, because one Mass is not enough for this great feast.  The first Mass is particularly special, because it has been believed from the earliest days of the Church that Our Lord was born at Midnight.  The first Mass remembers the eternal generation of the Son from the Father – His birth in eternity.  The Mass at Dawn commemorates the birth of Christ in time.  The Third Mass celebrates the birth of Christ in the hearts of mankind.  This Mass dispels the darkness of the world, of the devil, and of sin.  Our Lord is the Light of the World, and He is the sole path to salvation.
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