Miracles

The Blood of the Lamb

July 1, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of The Precious Blood 2012

Pope Pius IX extended this feast to the entire Church in gratitude to Our Lord’s granting victory over His enemies. The Gospel for today was written by St. John, the only Apostle to witness the last moments of Our Lord’s earthly life. After the side of Christ was pierced on the Cross, copious amounts of Blood and water flowed forth. This moment had been prefigured by the sacrificial draining of the paschal lamb’s blood and demonstrated that Christ was the perfect, spotless, victim offered to His Father. The Blood of our Redeemer is called precious because it is the representation of the human life possessed by the Son of God. In the total surrender of His life, to the last drop, Christ made infinite worship to God the Father and offered an inestimable gift to each of us
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The Sacrament of Perfect Union

June 7, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of Corpus Christi 2012
On this day, a priest recognizes the purpose of his existence. Before his duty of teaching and saving souls, the priest exists for the Holy Eucharist. If a priest does not understand this, he is no true priest. St. Bonaventure tells us that if this sacrament were to be taken from the Church we would have nothing but infidelity and error, and the Christian people would be no better than a herd of unclean animals. We see these prophetic words proven true in our own day. This day was instituted at the request of Our Lord to confirm faith in His true presence, to strengthen the faithful on their way to virtue by their love of the Blessed Sacrament, and finally, to make reparations for attacks against Our Lord in the tabernacle. We should express our belief that Our Lord is truly present in the Sacrament of the Altar as soon as we enter the Church and kneel before Him.
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A Place Waiting For You

May 27, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Pentecost Sunday 2012}With the celebration of Memorial Day, we should always remember that the soldiers who have served our country, both living and dead, are in need of our prayers. Apart from the discussion of the politics and morality of war, these people who have suffered and died for us deserve our spiritual help.

Our Lord’s visible reign on Earth ended on the feast of the Ascension and on that day, Heaven became our home. All the joys and pleasures of this world are as shadows compared to the happiness of Heaven. The Holy Ghost was sent to mankind so that the presence of God would not be limited to the physical presence of Christ on Earth, but that it might be spread throughout the entire world. There is a childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in the spiritual life which mirrors that of our natural development. The Apostles passed through these stages as we all must, and their development reached its final stage on this day. From that moment on, the Apostles were confirmed in grace and preserved from committing any grave sin.
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The Extraordinary Gift of Faith

May 17, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

Ascension Thursday 2012

Today is one of the only times when a dogma of the Faith was proclaimed by the angels. Our Lord predicted that the preaching of the Apostles would be confirmed by the miracles they would work. Even a cursory knowledge of Church history gives ample confirmation of these words. Miracles aid in belief, but they do not cause the virtue of faith. We should pray for an increase of faith every day of our lives.

The Apostles were commanded on this day to make the world Christian, and we are put to shame when we remember the heroism of the missionaries who sacrificed their lives to follow that command.

Our Lord has prepared a throne for us in Heaven and gives us a foretaste of this coming happiness every time He comes to us in Holy Communion.
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Our Daily Duty

May 13, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

5th Sunday after Easter 2012
As we near the end of this season of great happiness, the Church never ceases to rejoice. St. James gives practical advice in this Epistle for the practice of virtue and avoidance of bad example. The theme of this Mass is one of prayer and sacrifice.

On this day on which we congratulate our mothers, we must remember the primary purpose of marriage and the evil of artificial contraception. The vocations most attacked by the world are those sacramental vocations of marriage and the priesthood. We thank God for the gift of good mothers who work alongside the priests for the salvation of souls.
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The Eyes of Faith

April 15, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2012
We should all pray for a happy death because we cannot merit it without asking for God’s grace in those last moments. We should also frequently ask that all the punishment due to our sins be removed on our deathbed by the reception of Extreme Unction. The Church has always taught that the priest can not only forgive sins but remove the punishment due to them.

This Mass is about faith, but we must remember that no saint has had great faith without great humility. It is only when we realize how much we need help that we ask God for help. We possess nothing good which we have given ourselves. Even faith is a gift from God for which we cannot take credit. Humility is the foundation, faith is the walls, and charity is the roof of the great structure God has built in us.
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The Prophecy of the Resurrection

April 8, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Easter Midnight Mass 2012}All the scenes of the paschal mystery are also prophecies of things yet to come. Before Christ comes to judge the living and the dead, cataclysms will affect the whole Earth, and He will send angels to announce the Savior in glory. Just as the soldiers were terrified and fell down as dead men, so too will the enemies who have fought Our Lord react to His coming in those days. It will be at the darkest moment when everyone is at the brink of despair and all seems lost, when Our Divine Savior will make His appearance and triumph over all. May we receive all the fruits God desires for us on this day while we confidently await the victory to come.
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A Taste of Triumph

April 7, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Easter Vigil 2012}Our Lord is the Author and Minister of the holy liturgy, and because all the acts of Christ during His life on Earth were acts of worship, we relive His life through the liturgy. These rituals are not empty, but are a true living memorial which places us as participants in these mysteries. The liturgy also points to a time yet to come. It points to the day when all the works of the Son of God will be fulfilled in the final victory over all His enemies. This night we receive a foretaste of that triumph. The sacramental order uses the simple elements of creation to impart supernatural favors. When the fire is lit, God begins to renew His Resurrection from the dead, and our Redeemer, in the light of the candle, leads us to the baptismal water that purifies our souls.
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