Low Sunday 2024 Today is called Low Sunday because it is small in comparison to the great feast of Easter. St. Thomas’ doubt has made it easier for us to believe, because the proofs of the Resurrection that Christ offered help strengthen our faith. Now that we have put to death the old man, we must shut the doors of our soul to the world. After we have been given new life, like Lazarus we are bound hand and foot if we remain attached to the world. Even the great can fall if they do not avoid occasions of sin and resist the devil “steadfast in the faith.” #20240407B
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. #20230514M
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. #20230507B
3rd Sunday after Easter 2023 Only those who are sorry receive that forgiveness of Christ. Our Lord in this Gospel says that in a little while He will die and then in a little while His Apostles will see Him alive again in glory. It is not in the Resurrection but in His glorious Second Coming when we shall experience joy unimaginable. We are told that those who pray will be saved and through mystic prayer we may begin to experience Heaven on Earth. We should read the lives of the Saints and imitate them according to supernatural prudence. #20230430S
2nd Sunday after Easter 2023 There is only one fold and one shepherd. We have complete trust in Christ as our Good Shepherd, and it is the call of all priests and bishops to watch over the flock and to bring those who are lost back to the true fold. As we have heard before and we continue to reiterate, the price of our salvation is the Blood of the Lamb – the Blood of Christ, shed for our salvation. The beautiful Paschal Candle stands as a consoling reminder of Christ’s presence with us for the forty days after His Resurrection. #20230423K
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. #20230416S
4th Sunday After Easter 2022 “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” In hearing these words, we must remember that this refers to unjust anger. The irascible passion of anger, when justified, is not only important but even necessary. This is why we are told to, “be angry, and sin not.”
The Spirit of God will magnify the Son by expressing all His goodness, holiness, and truth. This recalls to mind the words of the Blessed Virgin, “My soul magnifies the lord…”. Not only all of creation, but particularly the virtue and humility of God’s creatures expresses the His glory.
The children who receive Holy Communion today remind us all of the happiest day of our own lives, when we received the Holy Eucharist for the first time. Even those who have left the true Faith still admit that this was the happiest event of their lives.
The beautiful clothes of the children reflect the beauty of their souls, now prepared for welcome Christ. We are ready to become Christ’s home. He made us that He might come to us and also bring us to Himself. Every gift received is from Christ, who loves us more than any mother or father could.
People forget these basic truths and live lives of pleasure, pride, and greed. At the end of their lives they are filled with great fear, knowing they must leave everything behind. We must avoid the tricks of the devil and bad friends and remain always faithful to Our Lord in this Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. #20220515
This Thursday is the Ascension and then we begin the novena to the Holy Ghost. We also have several important saints this week. St. James has been a prominent apostle during Paschal time through his epistle and today he teaches that our love of God and neighbor is shown by the practice of good works. The Gospel is another instruction to the apostles in preparation for Our Lord’s departure and His sending of the Holy Ghost. Today is also Mother’s Day and a time for us to honor our own mothers and especially our heavenly mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. #20210509K
Conference On First Friday, May 2021 – Feast Of St. Stanislaus St. Stanislaus is the patron saint of Poland and an example of a bishop who gives his life to protect his flock. The month of May is dedicated to Our Lady’s queenship and ends with Her feast day. Pope Pius XII instituted the feast with an encyclical that sounds prophetic in its words: “especially in troubled times the world has turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen”. This is for several reasons beginning with Her divine maternity which started at the Annunciation. By Her “fiat” God became man and thereby showed that all graces would come from Him but through Her. The Blessed Mother is Queen by being the highest of any creature in charity and all the other virtues. She also has the title by earning it with Our Lord at Calvary as His cooperator in redemption. We must proclaim Her sovereignty and draw close to Her. #20210507
4th Sunday after Easter 2021 – First Holy Communion Sunday This week we have the feasts of St. Monica, whose prayers and tears were necessary to convert her son, and St. Pius V, whose papal initiatives preserved our traditional Latin Mass and saved Christendom at the battle of Lepanto. Congratulations to our first communicants who will receive at this Mass. This is a great day for our Savior Who wanted this communion from all eternity. There is no greater love than Our Lord’s because He surrendered His life on the cross so to be able to come in communion today. Christ asks you to give Him your hearts. You have the model of a eucharistic saint in the boy who received holy communion from the angels while tending his flock far from church. #20210502
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