Ascension Thursday Evening 2025 The Church is filled with joy on this day, because of Our Lord’s glorious entry into Heaven and because our human nature, hypostatically united to the Son of God, now sits at the right hand of the Father. However, despite the great joy, the Apostles surely felt some sadness at the departure of their Lord and Redeemer. We feel the same way during those moments in our spiritual journey when we no longer receive consolations and Our Lord seems far from us. It is only by our passage through these purifications that our love of God may be tried, purified, and perfected. Today God calls us to our heavenly Home. #20250529B
Ascension Thursday Morning 2025 During these forty days following the Resurrection, Our Lord appeared to all his disciples. After He gave them His command to preach to the world, He ascended into Heaven. Throughout the Gospels, the cloud is the symbol of the Holy Ghost, and when the cloud took Our Lord out of their sight it was as if the Holy Ghost was embracing Him, welcoming Him home. Our Lord with His human nature and all His wounds is even now sitting at the right hand of the Father, perpetually praying for us. We read in the Postcommunion about these “visible mysteries.” In the liturgy, “mystery” is a synonym for “sacrament.” The virtue that we need most in this age of crisis is hope, because the devil is forever trying to discourage us. Today is the feast of hope. #20250529M
Although Memorial Day is a secular holiday, every Catholic should remember those who courageously gave their lives in service of our country and pray for them on that day.
This Mass commands us to pray in the name of Our Lord, and we fulfill this command through the liturgy. We should pay special attention to the prayers of today’s Mass. The maniple was not originally a vestment of the priest. In ancient times, so many priests needed a handkerchief during the liturgy, because they were moved to tears, that the handkerchief became an official vestment. St. James the Less reminds us to be a doer of the word, not a hearer only. He was the cousin of Our Lord, and he is chosen to teach us the truths of the Faith during Paschaltide. We remember this month that the Blessed Mother is Queen of Heaven and Earth, let us treat her as such. #20250525M
The Church would not be able to distribute its spiritual blessings to us without our support. A Mass stipend is not a payment for the Mass, but merely a gesture of gratitude and a donation for the daily sustenance of the priest.
This week we recall the lives of Saints Bernadine of Siena and Rita of Cascia. St. Bernadine fought tirelessly against the vice of gambling, as well as witchcraft and sins of impurity, while St. Rita lived a life of heroic virtue as a wife, mother, widow, and Augustinian nun. She is the saint invoked for impossible causes.
In the Epistle for today’s Mass, St. James speaks of the source of our consolation and reminds us that we are the greatest creation of the Holy Trinity. We must remain pure and meek as we cast out all evil from our lives. #20250518K
On Mother’s Day we must call to mind the Mother of all of us – the Blessed Mother. From the instant of the Immaculate Conception, she loved the Blessed Trinity more than all the angels and saints, and that love and holiness increased every moment of her life.
Today, on their feast day, we must recall the details of the lives of the great Saints and Apostles Philip and James.
We cannot be saved without the virtue of obedience. We must first of all be obedient to the will of God and to true principles. This is a time of great joy for all Catholics, because we spend this time in the company of the risen Christ. #20250511S
Low Sunday 2025 We must put out of our minds all distractions while we attend the Holy Mass, so that we may focus solely on the Son of God Who is sacrificing Himself before our very eyes. When God was creating the cosmos, He had the future sacrifice of His Son in mind. Everything the Son of God did was for love of His Father. God permitted the sinful doubt of St. Thomas the Apostle to assist in the fulfillment of His plan. We thank St. Thomas for his doubt because due to it, Our Lord proved His bodily resurrection and removed any doubt from our own hearts. If any man sincerely looks for the truth and prays to God to help him find it, God will surely give it to Him. Let us imitate the great saints and martyrs of the past in their desire for salvation and remove everything from our lives which stands between us and Heaven. #20250427S
Easter Sunday Morning 2025 Despite what the nonbelievers may say, Our Lord truly and bodily rose from the dead. Our faith is vain without the Resurrection, because this miracle is the greatest proof that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Although no one can see the Divinity of Christ, this act shows that He has power over life and death. Even in the face of these great wonders, just like the Apostles before us, we must still believe. This great day is dependent on the victory of the Cross. We are united to our Divine Redeemer in Baptism, and we will be united with Him in our own resurrection. In this world we have affliction, but we take courage because He has overcome the world. #20250420
Sermon From The Easter Vigil 2025 From the moment we enter this world, we are on a journey towards our destination in Heaven. We have traveled alongside our Divine Lord and shared in His sufferings during the season of Lent. At the beginning of the ceremony, we are all cast into darkness to witness the lighting of the Paschal Fire – the symbol of Christ Who is the Light of the World. The incense being burned represents the offering of our prayers. We do not appreciate as we should the importance of responding to the actual graces God sends us. After the baptism of this night, we will have a saint among us, and we will renew our vows with the newly baptized. Tonight let us cast out the devil and cling to Our Lord. #20250419K
Christmas Conference 2024 In a moment in time the Word assumed a human nature and from then on, He was completely God and completely man and will be so for all eternity. This feast of Christmas also includes the doctrine of the Virgin Birth. The Blessed Mother was virgin before, during, and after the birth of Christ. This miracle foreshadowed the Resurrection, in which Christ passed through His tomb while leaving it shut.
The reason why the Son became man was first to honor His Father, and only secondarily for the salvation of mankind. All things were made as an expression of His goodness, and all mankind was made for God first. God became a Father in a new way on Christmas, because it was only then that He became Father in the flesh. Our Lord came to dwell forever in our hearts as the King of Peace. This is a feast of hope which offers a foretaste of the final victory at the end of time. The three Masses of Christmas focus, first on the eternal birth of the Son from the Father, then the birth of the Word in the Flesh, and finally the birth of the Word in men’s hearts. Christ appeared as a helpless child, and all are drawn to the innocence and purity of an infant. It teaches each one of us to become like little children so we might enter the kingdom of Heaven. #20241220
All Souls Day 2024 – Evening The Vestment for tonight’s Mass displays a cross intertwined with the branches of a weeping willow, reminding us to weep for those souls who have not reached their heavenly reward. Because of its implicit denial of the general resurrection of the dead, the practice of cremation was so condemned by the Church that it incurred the penalty of excommunication. We see how ancient the practice of praying for the dead is from the account of the Machabees. To say that everyone goes to Heaven directly contradicts the words of Christ, the Scriptures, Tradition, and reason. The souls in Purgatory are so close to their eternal end, and we must do what we can to speed their journey. #20241102S
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