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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We Are Called to Serve

5th Sunday After Easter 2026
We are told by St. Bede that the Resurrection of Our Lord is called “Easter” because the name was derived from the Old English “Eostre,” which was the name of a pagan goddess believed to rise from the East.  The adoption of this name was not for the purpose of giving honor to a false deity, but to change false worship into honor given to the one true God.  This is a far cry from the participation in false worship we witness from the hierarchy today.

We must take a real, honest interest in our vocations, which are so important for our salvation, and pray sincerely that God will guide our decisions.  There should be no question in our mind that God is calling each of us to serve Him.  If we are dedicated to sin, our prayers will not be heard, but if we are sincerely dedicated to God, we can be assured that they are answered.  The less we communicate with the world, the more we will hear God.
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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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Requiem Æternam

All Souls Day Evening 2025
Although this is not a Holy Day of Obligation, faithful Catholics flock to the churches today so they may help the holy souls in Purgatory, who cannot help themselves.  Purgatory is a creation of love.  One must be perfect to enter Heaven, so God in His mercy gives souls a way to burn out the roots of their vices so they may freely receive their eternal reward.  This may be our very last All Souls’ Day Mass before we die.  The words “Requiem æternam done eis Domine” were found on the tombs of Christians of the third century.  The Church has adopted those words for this Mass.  We must take up the standard of the Catholics of years past and fervently pray for the dead.
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Our Purgatory Now

All Souls Day 2025
The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed is not only for the benefit of the Church Suffering, but also for the benefit of all living Catholics.  Throughout the liturgy of this Mass, we are reminded of our own future judgment and how we too may be in need of the prayers of the living.  We must always remember that God is both infinitely merciful and infinitely just, and that He will demand an account, not only of our sins, but even of our time wasted.  Today is our reminder that we too must die one day, and that we must use the time God has allotted to us for the removal of sin, and the punishment due to it, from our souls.
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The First Fruit of the Redemption

Assumption Evening 2025
Judith of the Old Testament is a figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary who crushes the head of Satan and defeats sin.  In the Gospel, the Blessed Mother was early with child when she traveled to visit her cousin Elizabeth. With the infant Jesus only three days old in her womb, the Virgin Mary was affirmed by St. Elizabeth to be the Mother of God.  Tradition teaches us that when the Blessed Mother was near death, the Apostles were inspired to come to the place where she was to die.  Before the Apostles’ very eyes, she rose from the dead and was assumed into Heaven.  The Blessed Mother is the first fruit of the Redemption.  It was only in view of the coming Redemption that she was preserved from Original Sin.  Today is a true homecoming.  Heaven, not Earth, is our home, and we pray that Our Lady will lead us to that home one day.
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