The Advent Conferences 2024
Bishop’s Conference for Advent – Learn about the historical and liturgical meaning of the season of Advent, as well as the great danger of a vice we all suffer from – lukewarmness.
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The Advent Conferences 2024
Bishop’s 2nd Immaculate Conception Conference – Learn how the account of the fall of man found in the book of Genesis predicts the great privilege of the Immaculate Conception that would be given to the Mother of God.
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First Friday, December 2024
Conference on Grace and The Immaculate Conception – When we speak of perfect passive conception, we refer to the moment in which the product of active conception is infused with a soul and becomes a human person. From this moment of perfect passive conception, the Virgin Mary was redeemed in a preservative, not a liberative, manner. The Blessed Mother from this point possessed a greater union with God than all the angels and saints. Our Lady was not only free from the guilt of Original Sin, but also the concupiscence of the flesh, of the eyes, and the pride of life. By a divine ligature, she was unable to consent to even the slightest imperfections.
Sanctifying Grace is a created share in the supernatural life of God. When God breathed human life into Adam, He breathed a share of divine life into him as well. Grace must be valued above all things. We must be willing to live and die to preserve it. The Blessed Mother was given the plenitude of grace in preparation for her role as the Mother of God, as well as Mother to each one of us.
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1st Friday Conference September 2024
St. Tarcisius lived during the days of great persecution. He was ordained an acolyte or deacon as a young man, and was commissioned to care for the Christian prisoners. While bringing Viaticum to these captives, St. Tarcisius was accosted by a group of pagans. He gave his life rather than expose the Holy Eucharist to desecration.
Devotion to the Holy Infant of Prague is loved and honored by Our Lord Himself. Our Lord is not a child now, but this is the humble state in which He first appeared in the world. The statue depicts the Holy Infant as both God and Man, as well as King of all creation. His welcoming gentleness seems to radiate out from the Infant Jesus of Prague. He makes Himself a guide to all those who have lost their way.
Much is said about the accomplishments of St. Pius X, but not enough about his interior life. His prayer had reached the heights of contemplation and was directed by the Holy Ghost. He radiated goodness and wanted to comfort everybody, yet fought unwaveringly against the enemies of his spiritual children.
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3rd Sunday after Epiphany 2024
St. Paul teaches us to be at peace with all men when it is possible. Of course, there are times when peace is not possible, but for a good Catholic war is only for the sake of restoring the peace once again. A person who is vengeful in his anger cannot claim to be a true Christian. The centurion of the Gospel is a model for all Catholics. He was compassionate, humble, but so confident and full of faith as to make the Son of God marvel. We repeat the words of the centurion multiple times at every Mass so we may imitate his humility and confidence before receiving our Divine Lord.
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2nd Sunday after Epiphany 2024
The Magi had open minds and were seeking the truth. They followed the star and received Christ into their hearts. Unlike God’s revelation to the Magi or St. John the Baptist, the wedding feast was a manifestation of Christ’s divinity to everyone. In the divine plan, God did not change His mind but made the miracle at Cana dependent on the Blessed Mother’s request. The Virgin Mary was sensitive to the interests of the host of the feast, and her interest is carried over to each one of us. The water turning into wine was a prefiguring of Transubstantiation.
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Feast of the Holy Family 2024
St. Joseph is the head of our family. He was formed in the image of God the Father because he was given a share of the same love that God possesses for His Son. St. Joseph loves us as he loved Christ, because we are part of the Mystical Body. The Blessed Virgin is the true Mother of God because she gave Him His human life. Our Lord knew all things in His Divine Mind, but He chose to learn as we do in His human mind, so He could be the perfect model of humility. He wanted to be like us, so we would want to be like Him. Today we are taught about the virtue of obedience, without which we cannot be saved.
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Christmas Octave 2024
The saints of the Christmas season are St. Stephen, the model of resistance against unbelief, St. John, the Apostle against division within the Church, and the Holy Innocents, who are the models standing against corrupt governments. Today is the feast of the Circumcision, which offers proof of the true humanity of Christ, because on this day He shed the first drops of His Precious Blood. In participating in this ceremony of the Old Law, Christ was associated with us sinners, and will be for all eternity. Today God was given a name that all could utter. When we call upon the name of Jesus, we ask God to save our soul. Today is also the Solemnity of Mary which proclaims the Virgin Birth.
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Sunday within the Christmas Octave 2023
No longer are we slaves of the law, no longer are we separated from God. God has made us His friends. He loves every creature He has created but He is forced, so to speak, to hate the sinner by the sinner’s own choice. God’s irrational creatures fulfill His will by necessity, but we have been given a free will and the ability to choose. Our friendship with God may be maintained by simply following His commandments as His other creatures do. We must ask ourselves if throughout the previous year we have risen to the role of true Christians or if we are Christians only in name.
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Christmas Day 2023
We have the privilege of giving glory and proper worship to the Trinity on this day. We celebrate the dogma of the Redemptive Incarnation. In His infinite love, God became man, lived with us and died for us. Our Lord’s enemies try to attack and undermine this great feast, but without success. We must love justice and hate iniquity. The Light spoken about in the Gospel is the Son of God Himself. Everyone is offered the light of God’s grace, and those who receive it are made sons of God. The devil’s plan is to turn mankind from God, but we know the victory has already been won. In the face of the world, we are unwavering in our obedience to the Trinity.
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