Today Is Our Victory

Ascension Thursday Evening 2026
The Gospel account speaks of Our Lord being “taken up to Heaven,” which means He was “assumed,” yet we are told by the Gradual and Alleluia that He “ascended” into Heaven.  Both these words can be applied, because this was an act of all three Persons of the Trinity.  Our Lord ascended by His own divine power, but He was also brought home by the power of the Father and the Holy Ghost.  Just as the Apostles gathered in prayer with the Blessed Mother after the departure of Christ, we are together with her now.  Angels from Heaven revealed the dogma to us, and to deny this dogma of the Ascension maliciously prevents one from entering Heaven.  Although this is a glorious mystery of the Rosary, we cannot help but feel sad at the physical departure of Our Lord.  We may be sorrowful because He left, but we are joyful because of His promised return.  Today Our Lord prepared a place for us in our heavenly home.
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Help Us Reach Our Home

Ascension Thursday Morning 2026
This day marks the completion of Our Lord’s work on Earth 2,000 years ago.  The Ascension is the departure of Christ from His Apostles to His place at the right hand of the Father, and it completes the Paschal Mystery.  Our Lord’s Passion and death is renewed at every Mass, and on a feast day such as this, we receive the graces given to the Apostles and disciples.  In reading the Holy Scriptures we read about the persecution of Our Lord’s followers.  Just as they did, we rejoice when we must endure persecution.  Before He departed, Christ rebuked the Apostles for being slow to believe and hard of heart.  Are we better than they?  We always feel a sense of melancholy when the Paschal Candle is extinguished.  The symbol of Our Lord’s physical presence is now gone, but we are destined to be reunited with Him in Heaven.  Those who remain faithful are rewarded on this day.
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The Biblical Easter Celebration

Low Sunday 2026
This week we are given the splendid examples of the saintly lives we should imitate in St. Hermenegild, Bl. Margaret of Castello, St. Justin Martyr, St. Benedict Joseph Labre, St. Magnus of Orkney, and St. Anicetus.  We should familiarize ourselves with the details of their lives.

The Apostles were so overjoyed to see Christ risen that they began to wonder if their own excitement was causing them to imagine His presence.  Our Lord asked for food, that He might prove His bodily resurrection.  For St. Mary Magdalen, it was enough to hear her Lord’s voice, but St. Thomas had to put His hand into Our Lord’s side in order to believe.

We reject the so-called “New Synodal Church,” along with its false Divine Mercy devotion.  The Divine Mercy image has no Sacred Heart and no wounds, and it was condemned by the pre-conciliar Church.  We Catholics celebrate the biblical account of what Christ did on this day.
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The Providence of the Resurrection

Easter Sunday Evening 2026
Bishop Ward’s Easter greeting following Benediction
Despite what many Modernists might say, it is a dogma of the Faith that Our Lord rose bodily from the dead. We are greatly blessed to have such a prayerful chapel and beautiful vestments with which to honor Our Lord. We die because of the consequences of sin. In conquering death our Redeemer conquered sin and all those who cause it in the world. Divine Providence is God’s plan for our lives, and that plan includes all the trials and all the blessings. The enemies of Christ can do nothing to hurt us. We enjoy great peace in knowing that Christ has overcome death and sin. If we give ourselves to Him and trust in His grace, we can rest assured that all will end well for us.

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Walk In The Newness Of Life

Easter Sunday Morning 2026
The entire liturgical year prepares us for this greatest of all feasts when the Church celebrates the triumph of its beloved Redeemer.  It is fitting that this day falls during the Spring, when all creation appears to be coming forth with new life.  It is because of Easter that Christians recognize the Lord’s Day as Sunday.  We place our joy in a work which is greater than that of creation itself, and we rest on Sunday to commemorate it.  All the faithful recognize the dogma of Christ’s bodily resurrection as the foundation of our Faith.  As St. Paul tells us, “If Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.”  The Apostles gave testimony to this fact by shedding their blood in defense of it.  Now that we have been buried with Christ and have risen in His new life, we must persevere in the practice of virtue and vigorously combat the temptation to return to the slavery of sin.  Like our risen Lord, may we die no more and forever walk in the newness of life.
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We Thirst For The Water

Easter Vigil 2026
We are a liturgical people and during this week we are living the liturgy at its highest level.  Throughout this ceremony we will be taught repeatedly about the mysteries and sacraments.  Unafraid, we go out into the darkness of the devil’s world and ignite the Light of Christ to shine through that darkness.  Holy Mother Church reminds us of the power of the light and the power of the waters.  Because of the doubt of Moses, he was not permitted to lead the people into the Promised Land.  The enemies of the Church cannot make us doubt.  The propaganda of the devil will not succeed.  When the water has been anointed it becomes Christ’s and, after we are sprinkled with His water, we renew the promises of our baptism.  Christ then comes to us in the greatest of the sacraments – the Holy Eucharist.  Tonight we thirst for His arrival.
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Mother of God, Mother of Sorrows

Feast The Annunciation 2026
Today is the most pivotal of Our Lady’s feasts.  The Immaculate Conception was only granted to her in light of this moment, and the Assumption and Queenship are a result of the moment when she became the Mother of God.  Eve, like King Achaz, trusted in her own designs rather than in God’s plan, while the Virgin Mary, model of humility, placed her trust entirely in her Lord.  While Eve immediately accepted the deceitful offer that she could be equal to God, the Virgin Mary hesitated in accepting her great dignity, mindful of her vow of virginity.  The long-awaited moment of the Incarnation was delayed for the sake of purity.  Today the joys of Christmas pierce through the Lenten season, but since this feast falls during Passiontide, we cannot help but see the consequences of the Blessed Mother’s acceptance – today, she also becomes the Mother of Sorrows.  We must give ourselves to God through His Mother as He gave Himself to us through her.
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My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

Quinquagesima Sunday 2026

Catholics should familiarize themselves with the lives of great saints like St. John of Matha, St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Apollonia, St. Scholastica, and St. Valentine.
The readings from the Divine Office over the last week teach us about Original Sin, while this week’s focus on Actual Sin.  This Sunday we are called to make an examination of conscience.  In today’s Epistle St. Paul is not boasting; he is simply establishing his credentials as a true Apostle and follower of Christ.  He was only able to accomplish these deeds by God’s help.  Our Lord always gives us sufficient graces to resist temptations as well as graces to call back those who have already fallen into sin.
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Love for Our Enemy

3rd Sunday after Epiphany 2026
Those who refuse to forgive the offenses they have received will not be heard when they ask God to have mercy on them.  Christ told us that we must love our neighbor as He has loved us.  We should not allow ourselves to become bitter but should have pity for, and even empathize with, those people of the world who are so lost and confused.  St. Paul tells us that we must feed our enemies, and if we are not able to do this materially, we must do so spiritually.  Those who live a good Catholic life experience the joy and peace of a good conscience and have a desire to bring that lasting peace and joy to their neighbor in the world.  Untold numberers of souls have been saved by Catholics who truly love their enemies.
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The Eternal Wedding Feast

2nd Sunday after Epiphany 2026

St. Agnes had many suitors who asked for her hand in marriage, but she desired to remain a perpetual virgin.  The governor said that if she did not submit to marriage, they would forcefully take her virginity.  But she replied that God would protect her, and so He did.  Virginity is a virtue that is particularly pleasing to God.

This Gospel is a perfect example of the Virgin Mary fulfilling her role as Mediatrix of All Graces.  Those who would deny her this role are enemies of God.  The miracle of turning water into wine is a promise of the Mass which would be instituted, in which wine is turned into Christ’s Blood.  The entire universe revolves around the Mass.  Here on the altar we have Heaven renewed.  Heaven will be the eternal Mass and the eternal wedding feast.
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