Feast Of St. Michael The Archangel Today’s new vestment is a beautiful depiction of St. Michael defeating the devil who rebelled against God. St. Michael received his name from his response to Lucifer’s challenge to the Blessed Trinity. The leader of the good angels asked “who is like God” (Quis ut Deus)? And that became…
17th Sunday After Pentecost 2021 Today is also the feast of St. Januarius who was martyred in the fourth century. A vial of his blood is preserved in Naples in a reliquary and on his feastday it often liquifies to show the saint’s protection of the city. It did so today. On this day in…
15th Sunday after Pentecost 2021 All profession days are beautiful moments for our religious communities and for the people. Today is also unique and reminiscent of Jesus’ words about St. Paul at his conversion, “I will teach him to suffer for My Name”.  This joyful day is also a pure and perfect sacrifice in union…
11th Sunday After Pentecost 2021 This Sunday continues the theme of humility that we saw last week. St. Paul in the Epistle especially points out what we are like on our own merits and what we can become with God’s grace. True humility is seeing ourselves as we are before God. In the spiritual life…
9th Sunday After Pentecost 2021 This week we celebrate the feasts of Saints James the Greater, Martha, Ignatius of Loyola and the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Anne. This Sunday is providentially placed in the summer to help us combat temptation and sin. The Epistle warns us how easily we can fall from…
6th Sunday after Pentecost 2021 Patriotism is part of the virtue of piety and recalled today. This Sunday has humility as a theme and it is easy to remember because without God’s help we are sinners and that thought should keep us humble. Mortal sin is the worst thing in the world and venial sin…
Palm Sunday 2021 In response to a recent statement that the Virgin Mary’s title of Co-Redemptrix is “foolishness” we have this special message. It is a brief and powerful defense of our Blessed Mother’s title of Co-Redemptrix with a simple explanation of its meaning and how important it is for the Church’s prayer and life.…
Passion Sunday 2021 Today is also the feast of St. Benedict whose influence has had such an impact on western civilization. Later this week we have St. John Damascene who defended our use of images of the saints. The liturgical year is our response to Our Lord’s command at the Last Supper to “Do this…
3rd Sunday in Lent 2021 Today is also the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas who is a model of many things including fidelity to a vocation. The Liturgy of Lent continues to prepare the catechumens and penitents for the Sacred Triduum. The daily Masses for this week are geared by the Church for this purpose. …
Ash Wednesday 2021 Neglect of practicing penance during Lent is a cause of the problems we experience in the world today. The virtue of penance is a power from God which makes us hate sin, be sorry for it, make reparation for it and convert because sin offends God Who loves us. Penance spurs us…
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