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
1st Sunday of Advent 2024 Today is New Year’s Day in the Church, and we are reminded by the violet color at the beginning of the liturgical year to do penance for our sins. We have a lot of work to do this Advent to prepare for the coming of Our Lord into our souls. This is the time to make spiritual New Year’s resolutions. If we wish to obtain our heavenly reward, we must perform the spiritual and corporal works of mercy and maintain purity of body and soul through prayer and mortification. The Son of God honored our flesh when He took to Himself a human nature. In following the purpose of this Advent season, let us “put aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light!” #20241201K
This Sunday is not only a reminder of the end of time, but a reminder of the end of each individual life and our particular judgment. Christ foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, typifying the chastisements the world will face in the last days. We should be encouraged in seeing how God spared the Christian community of Jerusalem who heeded His warnings. We too should watch for the signs in our own times and prepare our souls for Christ’s coming. Whether or not we witness the Three Days of Darkness and the coming punishments of the world, we know that we are all destined to face God and must prepare to do so with the time we have left. #20241124B
All Souls Day 2024 – Evening The Vestment for tonight’s Mass displays a cross intertwined with the branches of a weeping willow, reminding us to weep for those souls who have not reached their heavenly reward. Because of its implicit denial of the general resurrection of the dead, the practice of cremation was so condemned by the Church that it incurred the penalty of excommunication. We see how ancient the practice of praying for the dead is from the account of the Machabees. To say that everyone goes to Heaven directly contradicts the words of Christ, the Scriptures, Tradition, and reason. The souls in Purgatory are so close to their eternal end, and we must do what we can to speed their journey. #20241102S
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