From Death to Life

April 19, 2025By

Sermon From The
Easter Vigil 2025
From the moment we enter this world, we are on a journey towards our destination in Heaven.  We have traveled alongside our Divine Lord and shared in His sufferings during the season of Lent.  At the beginning of the ceremony, we are all cast into darkness to witness the lighting of the Paschal Fire – the symbol of Christ Who is the Light of the World.  The incense being burned represents the offering of our prayers.  We do not appreciate as we should the importance of responding to the actual graces God sends us.  After the baptism of this night, we will have a saint among us, and we will renew our vows with the newly baptized.  Tonight let us cast out the devil and cling to Our Lord.
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He Has Loved Us to Folly

April 18, 2025By

Good Friday 2025
This is the day on which we put our God to death, and when we sin, we attempt once more to destroy the God Who created us.  The prostration in this ceremony is an expression of our utter nothingness.  Friday was the day on which man was created, and so it is on this day he is redeemed.  God loved us from eternity – loved us to folly.  We are the perpetrators of the Passion, and yet Christ still gave us the grace to be sorry.  The Blessed Mother would have willingly died a million times for our sake, yet she was sustained through the unimaginable pain of soul she endured.  We hope that we might share in our Redeemer’s death today, so that, like the Good Thief, He might remember us also in His kingdom.  The Cross of Christ, along with all His sufferings, will be offered for all eternity to the Trinity for us.  Even if we were saints, we could not fathom how our God could love us in this way.
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The Infinite Worshiper

April 17, 2025By

Holy Thursday 2025
Today we are celebrating the birthday of the Sacrifice of the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, and the priesthood.  We have been warned that we must learn from the sacred things we witness during this time, and it is incumbent upon us to call to mind the details of Our Lord’s life during these last days and moments before His death.  Christ explained to the Apostles at the Last Supper that the bread, wine, and lamb of the Passover meal are all one in Him.  For all priests all Thursdays are a day of retreat in commemoration of this great anniversary of the priesthood.  After the moment of the Incarnation all the prayers of the angels now pass through the Son of God made man.  First, He gave us Himself in the consecration of the bread, then in the consecration of the wine He gave us the Mass, and lastly, He instructed the Apostles to “do in like manner” and in these words He gave us the priesthood.  Today we continue the great feast of love practiced by the early Church and thank God for the birthday of the Eucharistic Christ.
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The Standard of Our King

April 13, 2025By

Palm Sunday 2025
Through the liturgy we relive the events of the past, we reap the benefits in the present, and we receive a foretaste and promise of the future. Our Lord allowed Himself to be honored as King on Palm Sunday so that the prophecy of Zacharias might be fulfilled, yet He still entered the Holy City in all humility. In union with the priest, we unite with Christ today in His triumphal march. We hold the blessed palms as a sign of Christ’s coming victory during the procession and, as the countless martyrs throughout history, we are united in His suffering during the reading of the Passion. We are called to carry the blessed palms into the world as the standard of our King, while we conduct our lives as living images of Our Lord.
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The Obligation of Gratitude

April 6, 2025By

Passion Sunday 2025
In the Epistle for this Mass, St. Paul makes reference to the sacrifices and ceremonies of the Hebrew Day of Atonement and how they prefigured the sacrifice of Our Lord.  The Redemption of the human race was the fulfillment and consummation of all the sacrifices of the Old Law.  Passiontide is not only a time of deep sorrow but also a time of profound gratitude for the gifts we have been given.  The very fact of our existence should be enough to inspire a lifetime of gratitude, but when considering the humiliation and suffering which the Son of God endured out of love for us, our thanksgiving should know no bounds.  It is only through the Mass and our union with the prayer of God the Son to His Father that we can give sufficient thanks for the inestimable gifts we have received.
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Fortified by Heavenly Bread

March 30, 2025By

4th Sunday In Lent – Laetare Sunday 2025
At this Mass we are encouraged to continue onward in our journey through Lent with the help of the Holy Eucharist.  Our Lord gave His ambassadors the power to cast out devils, and in a certain sense, we all participate in this power when confessing our sins.  With this miracle of the multiplication of the loaves Our Lord prepared His followers for Holy Communion.  Baptism and the Holy Eucharist are the sacraments called to mind in this week’s liturgy through the manna in the desert and the water from the rock.  On this Sunday of the Golden Rose, let us remember the Mystic Rose, the Blessed Mother, who will guide us to our eternal reward.
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Grace Upon Grace

March 23, 2025By

3rd Sunday in Lent 2025

It is only by divine grace that we can absorb everything this Mass contains.  Grace builds upon grace, and to those who accept the graces of God more is given.  This Lent could determine our eternal sentencing at our judgment.  Have we kept our Lenten resolution?  Our Lord is praising His Mother in today’s Gospel.  She listened to the Word of God, the Logos, and remained with Him her entire life.  This is the Mass of the liturgy.  The Introit describes liturgical prayer, and how we look up to God as He looks down on us.  Today we can conquer the devil with the help of the sacrament of Penance.
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Angelic Virtue and the Greatest Sin

March 16, 2025By

2nd Sunday in Lent 2025

St. Julian of Cilicia is a little-known saint who was martyred during the reign of Emperor Diocletian.  He is a model of Catholic fortitude because of the torments he endured rather than offer sacrifice to the pagan gods.  He was tortured for over a year, but he never compromised.

St. Paul instructed the laypeople of Thessalonica to strive after perfection.  We should deny ourselves with constant concern for salvation.  We never remain stagnant in the spiritual life, but are always either growing closer to God or falling away from Him.  St. Paul speaks directly to us when he instructs the practice of purity of mind and body.  The practice of purity places us higher than the angels and if we do not practice it, we are lower than the animals.  We are tempted most of all at the moment when we are dying, and if we don’t have control over our thoughts in those moments we will be lost.  Let us make ourselves suffer a little for love of our God.
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The Value of Penance

March 9, 2025By

1st Sunday of Lent 2025
We must imitate the example of Our Lord in the face of temptation.  When we are afflicted by evil thoughts we should turn to the powerful defense of Sacred Scripture.  Christ’s victory over the devil in this Gospel foreshadows His ultimate victory on the Cross.  Unless we do penance, we will surely perish.  We should have a thorough understanding of what the word “penance” means.  Lent is a time of joy, when we shake off sin and prepare for Heaven.  This season presents to us God’s mercy and gives us the opportunity to obtain a peaceful conscience.  God in His justice is bound by His very nature to punish sin, but when we punish ourselves with works of penance, even our smallest acts have great value, if they come from the heart.  There are many such acts that every Catholic should know and put into practice during this season.
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The Beginning of Our Sanctification

March 5, 2025By

Ash Wednesday Evening 2025
The sacramental of ashes is meant to be for us a memento mori – a reminder of our mortality.  We have the testimonies of St. Justin Martyr and St. Irenaeus, from the earliest centuries after Our Lord, which speak of the ancient practices of Lent and the use of blessed ashes, as well as the numerous examples of ashes being used by penitents in the Old Testament.  On this day, we stand at the border of our sanctification, and if we take advantage of the days ahead, we could be true saints by the end of this season.  There is no more difficult conflict than the battle to overcome oneself, so we must use the tools available to us in order to win our victory.  The practice of mental prayer, spiritual reading, and almsgiving are the great tools which Holy Mother Church instructs us to use during the season.
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