Feast of Saints Peter & Paul 2024 This feast is considered so great that, since the earliest days of the church, it was given a vigil for preparation. Red vestments are used on this day to symbolize not only the blood of these two great martyrs, but more importantly the fire of their love. They…
4th Sunday after Pentecost 2024 St. Jerome explains the meaning of Our Lord’s quote, “Call no man Father,” telling the faithful that it refers to giving man the honor due to God alone. The theme for this Sunday is hope. We have much to endure in this battle we wage against the devil. After Adam…
2nd Sunday after Pentecost 2024 Tonsure Ceremony With first tonsure one becomes a cleric. This ceremony has been part of the Church since the 5th century. Just as slaves were shorn to show their complete ownership by their master, so the cleric shows that he now belongs to Christ. The surplice is imposed to represent…
Trinity Sunday 2024 Today we honor the dogma at the heart of our Catholic Faith. God, through His Divine Son, chose to reveal the truth of the Holy Trinity to mankind. Although we could never reason to the existence of this great doctrine on our own, nor can we completely understand it in our finite…
Conference given on 1st Friday May 2024 Although some traditional Catholics refuse to celebrate the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, because they believe it is Communist in origin, the fact is that it is an example of the Church’s Christianization of something contrary to the Faith. There are many examples of this throughout the…
Confirmation Sunday 2024 The youth of our day are in the greatest need of the sacrament of Confirmation. The Holy Ghost gives an outpouring of strength and a unique participation in the share of Our Lord’s passion and death in this sacrament. In His weakness we receive our strength. The Gifts of the Holy Ghost…
Confirmation Saturday 2024 Confirmation marks a new outpouring of the graces of the Holy Ghost. At Baptism we are able to teach the Faith in our own name, but with Confirmation we are given a new strength and the ability to teach and defend the Faith in the name of the whole Church. In days…
Good Shepherd Sunday 2024 If we have charity, we desire the salvation of all our neighbors and pray for both our loved ones and our enemies. The words, “I know mine and mine know me,” refer especially to the clergy. How could we be saved without the priest – without his prayers and instructions. Those…
1st Sunday in Lent 2024 We are particularly the objects of temptation during this season in which God is calling us to sanctity. During the temptation of Christ in the desert, Our Lord was not drawn to the evil as we are. St. Margaret of Cortona after discovering her lover’s body, made a complete conversion…
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…
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