The Greatest Gift
Christmas Greeting
Bishop’s greeting after Mass.
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Hope In The Darkness
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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The Dogmas of Christmas
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.
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The Best Gift for His Mother, Part 2
The Advent Conferences 2024
Bishop’s 2nd Immaculate Conception Conference – Learn how the account of the fall of man found in the book of Genesis predicts the great privilege of the Immaculate Conception that would be given to the Mother of God.
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The Best Gift for His Mother
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.
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For Those Who Have Lost Their Way
1st Friday Conference September 2024
St. Tarcisius lived during the days of great persecution. He was ordained an acolyte or deacon as a young man, and was commissioned to care for the Christian prisoners. While bringing Viaticum to these captives, St. Tarcisius was accosted by a group of pagans. He gave his life rather than expose the Holy Eucharist to desecration.
Devotion to the Holy Infant of Prague is loved and honored by Our Lord Himself. Our Lord is not a child now, but this is the humble state in which He first appeared in the world. The statue depicts the Holy Infant as both God and Man, as well as King of all creation. His welcoming gentleness seems to radiate out from the Infant Jesus of Prague. He makes Himself a guide to all those who have lost their way.
Much is said about the accomplishments of St. Pius X, but not enough about his interior life. His prayer had reached the heights of contemplation and was directed by the Holy Ghost. He radiated goodness and wanted to comfort everybody, yet fought unwaveringly against the enemies of his spiritual children.
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God’s Promises Accomplished
Conference on 1st Friday July 2024
In St. Paul’s instruction to the young bishop, St. Timothy, he emphasized the importance of spiritual reading. If this instruction is given to a bishop, it applies all the more so to the laity. Prayer and spiritual reading are necessary for the growth of sanctity.
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria became a physician in his early life but soon discovered that his calling was not to heal men’s bodies but their souls. He dedicated his life to the assistance of the dying and the welfare of children, and his great love of the Holy Eucharist led to his institution of the 40 Hours Devotion.
In gratitude for the victory over the forces of Free Masonry, Pope Pius IX elevated the feast of the Visitation. There were two annunciations in preparation for the coming of the Redeemer – the annunciation of the birth of St. John the Baptist and that of Our Lord. St. John the Baptist was the herald of Our Lord not only in his words, but in his life. In the Visitation we see the great love of the Blessed Mother, who cares for even our smallest needs.
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Where Joy and Sorrow Meet
Feast of the Purification 2024
The candle is one of the great sacramentals of the Church. It is like a sacrament in the sense that it is an outward sign, but unlike a sacrament, it does not give grace automatically. This day links Our Lord and the Blessed Mother so closely. Today we remember both the joyful mystery of the Rosary and the first of the Virgin Mary’s great sorrows. Because the Mother of God was not affected by original sin, and because of the Virginal Birth, she was not subject to the law requiring purification. However, she submitted to it in all humility. God used the New Eve to carry the New Adam into the Garden, when the Blessed Mother carried Our Lord into the temple.
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The Family, The Foundation of the World
Feast of the Holy Family 2024
St. Joseph is the head of our family. He was formed in the image of God the Father because he was given a share of the same love that God possesses for His Son. St. Joseph loves us as he loved Christ, because we are part of the Mystical Body. The Blessed Virgin is the true Mother of God because she gave Him His human life. Our Lord knew all things in His Divine Mind, but He chose to learn as we do in His human mind, so He could be the perfect model of humility. He wanted to be like us, so we would want to be like Him. Today we are taught about the virtue of obedience, without which we cannot be saved.
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Light Will Conquer Darkness
Christmas Day 2023
We have the privilege of giving glory and proper worship to the Trinity on this day. We celebrate the dogma of the Redemptive Incarnation. In His infinite love, God became man, lived with us and died for us. Our Lord’s enemies try to attack and undermine this great feast, but without success. We must love justice and hate iniquity. The Light spoken about in the Gospel is the Son of God Himself. Everyone is offered the light of God’s grace, and those who receive it are made sons of God. The devil’s plan is to turn mankind from God, but we know the victory has already been won. In the face of the world, we are unwavering in our obedience to the Trinity.
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