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Queen of Angels And Men

May 7, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Conference On First Friday, May 2021 – Feast Of St. Stanislaus
St. Stanislaus is the patron saint of Poland and an example of a bishop who gives his life to protect his flock. The month of May is dedicated to Our Lady’s queenship and ends with Her feast day. Pope Pius XII instituted the feast with an encyclical that sounds prophetic in its words: “especially in troubled times the world has turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen”. This is for several reasons beginning with Her divine maternity which started at the Annunciation. By Her “fiat” God became man and thereby showed that all graces would come from Him but through Her. The Blessed Mother is Queen by being the highest of any creature in charity and all the other virtues. She also has the title by earning it with Our Lord at Calvary as His cooperator in redemption. We must proclaim Her sovereignty and draw close to Her.
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Favored By God

March 25, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of The Annunciation 2021
This feast celebrates the moment when salvation began with the acceptance by the Blessed Virgin Mary of her role as Mother of God and Co-Redemptrix of the human race. God became Man today and the Incarnation is the chief teaching of the Catholic Church about Jesus Christ. This also marks the anniversary of Our Lord’s ordination as a priest. All this elevates the Immaculate Virgin to the threshold of divinity by her proximity to the hypostatic union which took place in her womb. This can be considered her greatest feast. It was a privilege for some of us to have visited the Holy House of Loretto because this is the place where it started. We should not be rude in prayer by letting ourselves be distracted from speaking with God.
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Father Of God

March 19, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of St. Joseph 2021
The Incarnation and the Redemption depend also on the head of the Holy Family, St. Joseph, who was the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the father, although not the biological father, of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without St. Joseph our salvation would not have been accomplished. God the Father infused a spark of His own paternal love and care into the heart of St. Joseph so this man would love His Son on earth and raise Jesus to be the Perfect Man. Although Christ looked like His Mother, Jesus acted like St. Joseph. As he cared for Our Lady and Our Lord, St. Joseph has cared for us and all those dedicated to him. The vestments today attest to that care by St. Joseph and miracle of the Holy Stairs in Santa Fe do also. Go to Joseph because he watches over us.
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Purification, Presentation and Candles

February 2, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of The Purification 2021
This feast was already old in the fourth century. It celebrates Our Lady’s fulfilling the Law by going to the temple forty days after giving birth so she could be admitted once more ceremonially to worship. Her humility was extraordinary because she was not bound by the Law but she freely submitted as her Divine Son did also. In addition, on this same day, Christ was presented in the temple as the first born Son to receive His rightful place and to be ransomed for a time until His hour has come and He will return to complete the sacrifice. The candle which is blessed and used in today’s procession reminds us of the Holy Infant being carried in the first procession centuries ago which revealed the Light of Revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of Israel.
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The Epiphany And The Holy Family

January 10, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of The Holy Family 2021
The crèche is a composite of many events surrounding the Nativity and culminating with the adoration of the Magi which is celebrated on the feast of the Epiphany. The first Sunday after this feast is that of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The Gospel tells the story of the finding of Our Lord in the Temple at the age of 12. The Holy Family is a model of liturgical prayer for our families because of its fidelity and devotion to all the celebrations of the Old Testament like the Passover. Our religious community has enjoyed the patronage of the Holy Family for 44 years and we are grateful for that and for all the assistance we have received from the faithful.
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Have Courage

January 1, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Octave of Christmas 2021
As we face the unknown that awaits us during the coming year, we can take comfort in the divine promise that Our Lord will be with us always. In addition, Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us through Juan Diego that she is our Mother and cares for us. This octave day of Christmas renews all the joys of the Nativity. It also commemorates the Circumcision and honors in a special way the divine maternity and the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Mother. Finally, advice is given in the form of resolutions which will help us progress in our spiritual life in the days ahead.
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Joy And Fear

October 11, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

19th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
Feast of the Divine Maternity
Today is also the feast of the Divine Maternity which was clearly taught at the Council of Ephesus to correct the errors of Nestorius. The Holy Virgin is the Mother of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity Who has a divine and a human nature. St. Paul in the Epistle encourages us to put on a new life of grace and abandon lying, stealing, anger and all other vices incompatible with God’s life in the soul. Our Lord tells the parable of the marriage feast in today’s Gospel. This was spoken on Tuesday of Holy Week to those about to kill Him. To the saved it was the promise of enjoying the heavenly banquet one day but to the unrepentant evildoers it was a warning of being cast out for eternity.
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The Prayerful New Eve

March 25, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast The Annunciation 2020
This ancient feast celebrates the moment that God became Man in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Council of Ephesus declared this dogma which clearly defines that Our Lady is the Mother of God. Everything that had been destroyed by Adam’s sin was restored by the Blessed Mother’s consenting to the divine maternity. The Redemptive Incarnation and all that flows from it would not exist without her generous response. God was not outdone by the devil’s machinations in the garden but repaired perfectly every detail of the fall. In particular, Our Lady, unlike Eve, was found by the angel, St. Gabriel, in prayer and thereby disposed to accept God’s call with humble obedience.
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Patron Of All

March 19, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of Saint Joseph 2020
St. Joseph is described as a just man in the Gospel which means he was deeply religious. His virtues prepared him for his vocation to be the spouse of the Blessed Mother and foster father of the Son of God. His fears after the Annunciation were about his own worthiness to fulfill his role in so Divine a mission. The angel reassured St. Joseph and he never wavered in his loving fidelity to duty. Unlike the Apostles, his job was to protect and to conceal the Savior until His hour had come. His virginal paternity is a perfect reflection of that of God the Father. St. Joseph fulfilled his roles as saint, husband, father and worker so that he truly is the patron of all.
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