Her Fitting Assumption

August 15, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{The Feast Of The Assumption 2013}Congratulations to all the confirmands who received the Sacrament of Confirmation last Sunday. You have received an increase of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost which were originally received at your Baptism. You now are soldiers of Christ and represent the Church to the world. This is a serious obligation which we all must honor in our lives. The better to do so means not only knowing the names of the Gifts but what they are and do for us. This is the feast of Our Lady’s Assumption into heaven body and soul. It is a dogma of the Faith and must be believed by Catholics. Critics complain that the Blessed Mother has been too highly placed by us but actually it is Christ Who is first exalted on this day. It is most appropriate because His Mother imitated Our Lord in all His redemptive actions and so she should share in His Resurrection and Ascension. Our Queen must reign in heaven and this is more perfect with her body.
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Much Is Forgiven Those Who Love

July 21, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From The}^{9th Sunday After Pentecost 2013 – 10am Mass}Tomorrow is the feast of the great penitent, St. Mary Magdalen. Early in life she fell into sin which made her like Satan. However, Our Lord’s love frees us from sin. Some, like the Pharisees, rejected His love. Even mortal sins can be forgiven by a perfect act of contrition. The Blessed Mother will help us as St. Mary Magdalen discovered. Christ praised our saint for choosing the better way in contemplation and giving all as shown by her anointing Him with oil. After the Epistle and Gospel follows an instruction on the priesthood and religious life which stresses the importance of zeal for the commandments as expressed through the vows so thereby we lay up treasures in heaven.
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Prepare For The Second Coming

July 21, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{9th Sunday After Pentecost 2013}During the announcements today we learn what things are necessary for the upcoming Confirmations. This Mass is a warning so we are ready when Our Lord returns for the Final Judgment. Jerusalem and people in general live lives of distraction which deflects their attention from the important things in life and this renders them oblivious to Christ on the day of His visitation. If we heed the words of the Epistle and Gospel we will have a clear conscience and receive Jesus as we should.
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The Sign Of His Love

July 1, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{The Feast Of The Precious Blood 2013}The shedding of Our Lord’s Precious Blood is a sublime and essential truth of our Faith. Many clergy and laity have easily fallen away because they did not appreciate this and other truths of God. We fall by degrees and not mortally immediately. We must maintain our fervor and love in this life because it is more important on earth than knowing much. We can only love that for which we have suffered. The history of this feast shows its importance in modern times to overcome the particular dangers that attack Christ and His Mystical Body. The Blood of the Savior redeemed us and is the everlasting token of how much He loves us. We are granted to receive this life giving refreshment whenever we receive Holy Communion.
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He Craves Our Love

June 7, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{The Feast Of The Sacred Heart 2013}It is sad how feasts like this one have been neglected by priests in the past to the detriment of the devotion of the faithful. Our Lord came to St. Margaret Mary, showed her His Heart and with other things said that even consecrated souls mistreated Him. Pope Pius XII taught that no Catholic is free from practicing this devotion because it is so essential to the Christian life of sacrifice and of returning love by reparation to God. The Heart of Our Savior beats ceaselessly with deep affection for each of us and for mankind as a whole. We must reciprocate by imitating Christ’s life in our own as the saints have especially those with the stigmata.
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My Happiest Day

June 2, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{2nd Sunday After Pentecost 2013}Today our children receive their First Holy Communion. Our Lord left us this sacrament so we would not be orphans when He ascended into heaven. The Holy Eucharist and the special graces given by Christ will help us to reach heaven. The state of grace in us means that the Holy Trinity lives inside us. With such strength we are able to resist the enemies of God. Ask Our Lord to make us good and bring us all to live with Him forever. This is the happiest day of our lives and we should receive Holy Communion often, even daily.
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Draw All Things To Myself

May 30, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{Sermon From}^{The Feast Of Corpus Christi 2013}St. Bonaventure warned that removal of the Blessed Sacrament from the Church would leave the people like a herd of animals. St. Paul in the Epistle gives a monitum about irreverence to the Holy Eucharist in his day. What about our times? This feast has a special history because of its origin around a miracle. St. Thomas Aquinas composed the texts for this Mass and today’s Divine Office. The teaching about this sacred gift from God is clear and separates our true Church from all other false religions. Christ died to give us Himself in this way and it is sacrilegious, ungrateful and irreverent to treat the Sacrament of His Body and Blood in anything less than a loving and devout manner.

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The Covenant Has Been Renewed

March 31, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

Easter Sunday 2013
We have now had the culmination of the whole Lenten season. We have been catechumens and penitents in preparation for our union with Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Now we walk with Christ in the liturgy. Our Lenten time of training began with the season of examination, then we had to follow Christ to Jerusalem. The Blessed Mother offered her Son on the Cross for each one of us. We have now renounced Satan and proclaimed our faith. We may be small and afraid, just as the Apostles were, but Our Lord had not forgotten them and he has not forgotten us. All order is restored by Christ’s words, “peace be to you.”
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