Ascension Thursday Evening 2025 The Church is filled with joy on this day, because of Our Lord’s glorious entry into Heaven and because our human nature, hypostatically united to the Son of God, now sits at the right hand of the Father. However, despite the great joy, the Apostles surely felt some sadness at the departure of their Lord and Redeemer. We feel the same way during those moments in our spiritual journey when we no longer receive consolations and Our Lord seems far from us. It is only by our passage through these purifications that our love of God may be tried, purified, and perfected. Today God calls us to our heavenly Home. #20250529B
Ascension Thursday Morning 2025 During these forty days following the Resurrection, Our Lord appeared to all his disciples. After He gave them His command to preach to the world, He ascended into Heaven. Throughout the Gospels, the cloud is the symbol of the Holy Ghost, and when the cloud took Our Lord out of their sight it was as if the Holy Ghost was embracing Him, welcoming Him home. Our Lord with His human nature and all His wounds is even now sitting at the right hand of the Father, perpetually praying for us. We read in the Postcommunion about these “visible mysteries.” In the liturgy, “mystery” is a synonym for “sacrament.” The virtue that we need most in this age of crisis is hope, because the devil is forever trying to discourage us. Today is the feast of hope. #20250529M
Low Sunday 2025 We must put out of our minds all distractions while we attend the Holy Mass, so that we may focus solely on the Son of God Who is sacrificing Himself before our very eyes. When God was creating the cosmos, He had the future sacrifice of His Son in mind. Everything the Son of God did was for love of His Father. God permitted the sinful doubt of St. Thomas the Apostle to assist in the fulfillment of His plan. We thank St. Thomas for his doubt because due to it, Our Lord proved His bodily resurrection and removed any doubt from our own hearts. If any man sincerely looks for the truth and prays to God to help him find it, God will surely give it to Him. Let us imitate the great saints and martyrs of the past in their desire for salvation and remove everything from our lives which stands between us and Heaven. #20250427S
Easter Sunday Morning 2025 Despite what the nonbelievers may say, Our Lord truly and bodily rose from the dead. Our faith is vain without the Resurrection, because this miracle is the greatest proof that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Although no one can see the Divinity of Christ, this act shows that He has power over life and death. Even in the face of these great wonders, just like the Apostles before us, we must still believe. This great day is dependent on the victory of the Cross. We are united to our Divine Redeemer in Baptism, and we will be united with Him in our own resurrection. In this world we have affliction, but we take courage because He has overcome the world. #20250420
Feast of The Annunciation 2025 One could argue that this is the greatest of all the feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sin never touched Our Lady, yet no one ever suspected how holy she truly was due to her great humility. The Angel Gabriel offered God’s invitation, not His command, to the Virgin Mary to become the Divine Mother. How can we have hope in these darkest days? Our confidence is sustained knowing that nothing is impossible with God. This is the day on which Our Lord became a priest, because from the moment of His Incarnation He possessed the office of Mediator between God and man. The Author of Grace comes to humanity through the Blessed Mother and, as the Mediatrix of All Graces, all the graces bestowed on us come through her too. We were created to manifest the glory of God by freely choosing to love honor and serve Him, with the help of His Most Holy Mother. #20250325K
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. #20250105M
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. #20241225B
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. #20241225K
Christmas Conference 2024 In a moment in time the Word assumed a human nature and from then on, He was completely God and completely man and will be so for all eternity. This feast of Christmas also includes the doctrine of the Virgin Birth. The Blessed Mother was virgin before, during, and after the birth of Christ. This miracle foreshadowed the Resurrection, in which Christ passed through His tomb while leaving it shut.
The reason why the Son became man was first to honor His Father, and only secondarily for the salvation of mankind. All things were made as an expression of His goodness, and all mankind was made for God first. God became a Father in a new way on Christmas, because it was only then that He became Father in the flesh. Our Lord came to dwell forever in our hearts as the King of Peace. This is a feast of hope which offers a foretaste of the final victory at the end of time. The three Masses of Christmas focus, first on the eternal birth of the Son from the Father, then the birth of the Word in the Flesh, and finally the birth of the Word in men’s hearts. Christ appeared as a helpless child, and all are drawn to the innocence and purity of an infant. It teaches each one of us to become like little children so we might enter the kingdom of Heaven. #20241220
First Friday, December 2024 Conference on Grace and The Immaculate Conception – When we speak of perfect passive conception, we refer to the moment in which the product of active conception is infused with a soul and becomes a human person. From this moment of perfect passive conception, the Virgin Mary was redeemed in a preservative, not a liberative, manner. The Blessed Mother from this point possessed a greater union with God than all the angels and saints. Our Lady was not only free from the guilt of Original Sin, but also the concupiscence of the flesh, of the eyes, and the pride of life. By a divine ligature, she was unable to consent to even the slightest imperfections.
Sanctifying Grace is a created share in the supernatural life of God. When God breathed human life into Adam, He breathed a share of divine life into him as well. Grace must be valued above all things. We must be willing to live and die to preserve it. The Blessed Mother was given the plenitude of grace in preparation for her role as the Mother of God, as well as Mother to each one of us. #20241206
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