The Heroic Life Of Mothers

May 14, 2023By

5th Sunday after Easter 2023
This Mass prepares us for the feast of the Ascension.  We are joyful because “God has liberated His people.”  There are many who hear the word, but it does not move them to action.  The faith of those people is dead, and they will not enter Heaven.  We look to the Blessed Mother as the model of all mothers.  We see her share her Divine Son with the world.  She offers up her Son on the cross for the love of God and all mankind who are also her children. It is a heroic life to be a good mother.
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His Necessary Departure

May 7, 2023By

4th Sunday after Easter 2023
This is a season of consolations, but we know the consolations must soon pass.  We see the heinousness of the sin committed in condemning Christ to death even more clearly when we witness the great gifts given to the Apostles on Pentecost.  The Gospel for today proves the Catholic belief in the Filioque – that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.  In our own spiritual life, it is sometimes necessary for Christ to hide Himself from us so that we may live more perfectly by Faith with the help of the Holy Spirit.
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One Redeemer, One Priesthood

April 16, 2023By

Low Sunday 2023
50th Priestly Anniversary of Fr. Ward
We are here first to love and honor God, because this day is dedicated to thanking Him.  We thank God for sending us a holy priest, for the Church, and for her truth.  What better day to speak about the priesthood than the day on which we were given the sacrament of Penance.  The words of Our Lord, “you shall be holy because I am holy,” were said to everyone, but first of all to His priests.  It was Christ who said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God.”  Priests are privileged to share in the royal lineage as Christ Himself.
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Victory Over Death

April 9, 2023By

Easter Sunday Morning 2023
We pray that this Easter will give us a greater attachment and devotion to our risen Lord.  Christ would have given His life even if it was to only redeem a single soul.  This day gives us the hope that the promises of Christ will be fulfilled.  God loves each one of us, even His enemies.  Our souls should dwell in Heaven even while we live on Earth.  We must be baptized to enter Heaven, which is why we go to such lengths to ensure baptisms are performed validly.  We are buried with Christ in the waters of baptism and rise with new life just as He did.  We must never lose hope.  “Risen with Christ, the Christian must raise his desires to Heaven and detach himself from worldly pleasures.”
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The Fight for Salvation

March 19, 2023By

Laetare Sunday 2023
As we pass the middle of Lent, we are given this Sunday a spirit of joy.  The Holy Catholic Church is the new Jerusalem, and we, as the Church Militant, are called to fight for our salvation with the use of prayer and the sacraments.  There are no exceptions when it comes to accepting God’s Word and the articles of Faith.  In the miracle of this Gospel account, we see the figure of the Eucharist and Baptism in the multiplication of the loaves and fishes.
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Join The Sacrifice

February 19, 2023By

Quinquagesima Sunday 2023
This is a time of examination of conscience.  Once our predominant fault is identified, we can battle against it.  At the end of this Septuagesima season, the Church reminds us that we must have Charity.  We should not only go to confession when we are in mortal sin, but often.  This is a great aid in cutting down our vices.  The priest at the “Orate Fratres” asks you to join with him in his sacrifice.  Let us truly join the priest at his Sacrifice at the Altar.
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We Fear Our Mighty King

October 30, 2022By

Feast Of Christ The King 2022
We often forget that Christ, as the Son of God, owns us completely.  We belong to Him because He created us.  All power on earth comes from above, because it all comes from God.  Although, we often remember the meekness of Christ, we should also be filled with holy fear when contemplating His might.  We read in the Scriptural account how an entire cohort of men, armed with weapons, drew back, and fell to the ground at the words and look of the Savior and how St. John describes a formidable image of the conquering Christ in his apocalyptic vision.  We desire the social kingdom of Christ in which Our Lord is obeyed by all nations and all governments throughout the entire world.
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Taste And See His Sweetness

July 31, 2022By

8th Sunday After Pentecost 2022
”Taste and see how sweet the Lord is”  These words are from the earliest Communion psalm, which was a favorite among the early Christians.  We celebrate the feast of the Holy Maccabees, the only Old Testaments saints celebrated in the liturgy, and their story reminds us of our need for fortitude during suffering, to stand against persecution, and to be true to our principals.  Our Rosary and spiritual reading are more powerful against the world than carrying signs of protest.
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God’s Heart

June 24, 2022By

Sacred Heart 2022
The highest function of which we are capable in this life is the act of love.  In Heaven, from the intimate knowledge of the divine Essence, flows an ineffable love, which we will direct towards God for all eternity.  We come from an age of profound neglect of the clergy in their effort to explain the fundamental doctrines of the Faith.  Too few Catholics know and love the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Our Lord promised to St. Margaret Mary that he would pour forth lavishly the influence of His divine love on all who honor His Sacred Heart.  He gave us this devotion at the dawn of the last age as a remedy to a cold, cruel, and faithless world.  How did Our Lord choose to appear in the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano?  He desired that His Heart would remain with us forever.  Proper devotion to the Sacred Heart is found in one who surrenders completely to our Divine Master and asks nothing in return.  We love in return for the love He has shown us.
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The Saints’ Saint

June 24, 2018By

Feast Of St. John the Baptist 2018
In preparation for the upcoming feast of the Precious Blood, Catholics should understand why this feast is so intimately connected with the nature of sacrifice itself, and the supreme surrender of Our Lord in the Redemption of the human race.  This week we also remember the important feasts of Saints John and Paul and Our Mother of Perpetual Help.

Today was once a Holy Day of Obligation with three Masses offered.  The life of St. John the Baptist parallels that of Our Lord in his annunciation, the miracles surrounding his birth, and his brief but most influential public life, culminating in his martyrdom.  The detailed retelling of his story highlights the wonderful power of God to Whom nothing is impossible.  God sanctified St. John in the womb of St. Elizabeth, through the Blessed Mother, and his life of holiness is a model for all to follow.
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