Hope

In Expectation of Our Savior

June 28, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

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We are reminded by the Introit and Collect of today’s Mass that, despite the great turmoil we face in the world at this moment, in the church we can find rest for our souls. God desired to give a created share of His divine life to all angels and men, but He permitted the fall of mankind so He could bring forth an even greater good. We are living in a time of penance and suffering, waiting for the adoption as sons of God. The Church is cast about on the stormy seas of the world, but we must remain firm in the virtues of faith and hope, knowing that Our Lord remains always with us.

After years of study and preparation, the first communicants have come to the most important day of their lives. They have been given the virtue of faith and today they receive the greatest gift of Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. It is the means of our sanctification, and it is the promise of eternal life.
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Our Most Sublime Prayer

June 21, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

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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Keep Them From Evil

May 24, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Sunday After The Ascension 2020
Today is also Memorial day and not a time to discuss just war theory but to honor and to pray for the soldiers who died for us. This month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and we should be doing something everyday in Her honor. Thanksgiving to God because of Her intercession for our return to the Mass and Sacraments is a recommended prayer now. Today is a renewal of the Ascension and a continuation of our preparation with the Apostles for the coming of Pentecost. This trial for them was the illuminative way in which we are meant to share. The Mass texts are beautiful and the Postcommunion reminds us of Our Lord’s priestly prayer for unity. We should pray and be faithful.
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Heaven Is Our Real Home

May 21, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Ascension Thursday 2020
Today Our Lord gloriously entered heaven and made it a home for all humanity through His Sacred Human Nature seated at the right hand of God the Father. To emphasize this, all the saved who had been detained in the Limbo of the Patriarchs from Adam to St. John the Baptist entered heaven in triumph with Christ. With His departure the apostles began their novena in preparation for the coming of the Holy Ghost and entered into their own spiritual purification by detaching themselves from all that hindered their progress in the spiritual life. We must join them during these days of prayer & penance before Pentecost. Our attention should always be focused on our goal which is our heavenly home. With society collapsing around us we have heaven as our one remaining hope.
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The Intimate Love Of God

April 26, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

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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Faith Overcomes The World

April 19, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

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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Understanding Is The Gift Of Easter

April 12, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Sunday Morning 2020
English speaking Catholics call this “Easter” Sunday because it is another example of the power of the Church and the liturgy to Christianize even evil pagan elements. The glory of the risen Savior will be ours one day but many saints were transfigured even in this life. We are “eighth day Christians” because God rested on the seventh day of creation as Christ rested in the sepulchre and rose on Sunday marking a new week on the eighth day. The octave day is a sign of eternal life. The calculation of Easter each year was carefully studied and was miraculously made known. As believers were rewarded by seeing Our Lord glorious and immortal so we today can see God through Faith enlightened by the gift of understanding.
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Faith And Gratitude At Easter

April 11, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Vigil & Midnight Mass 2020
These are the last moments of Lent and culminate in the greatest vigil of the liturgical year. This ceremony has many elements which we review before starting so we worship with the utmost awareness and devotion. We have the Paschal fire and candle, the Praeconium, the lessons, the blessing of water and all leading to the Resurrection of Our Lord at the Midnight Mass and the reception of Him in the Holy Eucharist. Our reaction should be an increase of Faith and a deeper sense of gratitude. We do not want to abandon our penitential and prayerful spirit of the last forty days but incorporate this into our interior life during the Paschal season.
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Bride, Spouse and Victim

March 22, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

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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