16th Sunday After Pentecost 2022 The Lord is sweet and mild. It should be easy for us to love our God. We are moved to act as God wants us to by the grace given to us before, during, and after we act. St. Paul speaks of the life blood of the Mystical Body of…
15th Sunday After Pentecost 2022 The Epistle for this Mass warns us against vanity. It should be easy for us to see our neighbor as better than we are, because we know our own sins and we do not know how others will be judged. How humble should we be when we remember that our…
12th Sunday After Pentecost 2022 Enthronement Of The Holy Infant Of Prague – The popularity of the devotion to Our Lord in the image of the Holy Infant of Prague has spread worldwide. After the original image had been treated with disregard and forgotten for many years, through the miraculous direction from Heaven, it was…
10th Sunday After Pentecost 2022 This Mass is a Mass for the proud. Every aspect of this liturgy has some reference to the superior moral virtue of humility. The Gospel exemplifies humility in the publican, but as we advance in the practice of this virtue our understanding of it must develop as well. Not only…
9th Sunday After Pentecost 2022 We must not neglect the saints. We should know something about the great saints this week like Saints John Vianney, Lawrence, and Clare. But we must not forget those saints that are especially attacked in our day, like St. Philomena and St. Christopher. Those who speak ill of God and…
5th Sunday After Pentecost 2022 We are sensitive to offenses against us, but what are we like to our neighbor? Our love for God can be measured by our fraternity. Catholics must be more united than ever before. We must stand unified against the onslaught of vices and perversions of all kinds that the world…
Passion Sunday 2022 Saints this week include Sts. Isidore and Vincent Ferrer. Friday honors our Mother of Sorrows. We should imitate St. Joseph and the Holy Family and make every effort to attend Holy Week ceremonies, especially the Sacred Triduum. St. Paul in the Epistle shows how the Old Testament prefigured Our Lord’s Passion and Death. …
Third Sunday In Lent 2022 Yesterday’s feast of St. Joseph with the solemn Mass was another encouraging grace during our Lenten retreat days. Now St. Joseph prepares us for this week’s feast of the Annunciation which celebrates the Incarnation and the beginning of our redemption. Every day in Lent has its own Mass and stational…
First Sunday In Lent 2022 This Friday begins Stations of the Cross and this is an appropriate devotion for Lent that was begun by our Mother of Sorrows. Fasting and abstinence began on Ash Wednesday and their origins go back to Noah. These practices are essential to our Lenten retreat days. This week is the feast…
24th Sunday After Pentecost 2021 Today’s Gospel is warning and a consolation that the good and evil grow together but are separated at the end and receive different rewards based on their deeds in life. The Church has gone through troubles in the past and present but will always survive because of God’s preserving grace. …
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