2nd Sunday In Lent 2021
Our Lord took the three apostles who would soon be tested during His agony in the garden and showed them a glimpse of His divinity during the theophany on Mt. Tabor so they would be strengthened by the remembrance of it at that crucial time. We too are consoled by this sight as we struggle through Lent with our eyes always fixed on the goal which is our glorification in the end with our Risen Savior.
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Octave of Christmas 2021
As we face the unknown that awaits us during the coming year, we can take comfort in the divine promise that Our Lord will be with us always. In addition, Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us through Juan Diego that she is our Mother and cares for us. This octave day of Christmas renews all the joys of the Nativity. It also commemorates the Circumcision and honors in a special way the divine maternity and the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Mother. Finally, advice is given in the form of resolutions which will help us progress in our spiritual life in the days ahead.
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Christmas Midnight Mass 2020
Despite all the efforts to lessen the reality and the message of Christmas by those opposed to God, we again celebrate the feast of Our Lord’s Nativity. The Light has come into this world of darkness and brings truth, life and freedom from sin and its evil effects. The Son of God, while retaining His divine nature, assumed a human nature and was born in Bethlehem from His ever virgin Mother. His coming is just the beginning and instills the world with hope for a better future which will lead eventually to heavenly glory. We must love this Holy Infant in return and pray and help those less fortunate than us to receive the graces offered at Christmas.
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First Friday Conference December 2020
Advent is the time of preparation for Christmas and the second coming of Christ. The sacred liturgy has the ability because of God’s power to relive a past event like the Nativity, bring its graces to us in the present and prepare us for its fulfillment in the future with Our Lord’s return. St. Matthew’s Gospel about the signs at the end of time is meant to warn us for the trials of those days. St. Luke also gives these signs and encourages us to lift up our heads knowing that our redemption is near. This conference then contains a listing and description of the signs of the times so we can be ready.
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15th Sunday after Pentecost 2020
Our Lady’s 30 days end this week so we must be grateful for the graces received through her intercession. The Introit shows how God allows us to pray with confidence because of Christ the High Priest. St. Paul warns us to labor for spiritual rewards so we will received incorruptible merits and never to forget from where we come. In commenting on the Gospel St. Augustine reminds us that the miracle of raising those dead in mortal sin is greater than the raising of the widow’s son.
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Good Shepherd Sunday 2020
The beautiful expanded account of the Gospel of the Good Shepherd is comforting and consoling. We are free from fear and death. As Catholics we do not simply submit to our demise as the animals do but we embrace it as Our Savior did. A plenary indulgence is attached to such a heroic death. Christ suffered terribly to save us and speaks lovingly to us as our Shepherd. His love will not permit anything truly evil to touch us. Any cross He allows us the privilege to carry will bring us to a happier future.
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Sunday Within The Octave Of Christmas 2019
The eight days starting with Christmas are the daily celebration of the Incarnation and the Sunday within those days is a highlight of that. Despite all the propaganda, we should adhere to the Church Fathers, not only in upholding the dogmas surrounding this feast like the virgin birth, but other truths handed down to us like December 25 being the date of Christ’s birth. This Epistle recalls the dogmatic truths and the Gospel warns us, as the Blessed Mother, that her Infant Son will inspire persecution against Himself and His followers like the saints of Christmas. We already willingly stand with Him and pray to continue to be faithful.
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Christmas 2019
As we gather at the crib of Bethlehem we renew our belief in the fundamental truths of the Incarnation (God made Man) and the miraculous virgin birth (the Blessed Mother’s perpetual virginity). After thousands of years of suffering in consequence of Adam’s sin this night marks the beginning of our redemption and the elevation again to the supernatural life. All of this is the cause of the joy experienced by the faithful and which even effects our pagan, secular world. God with us gives us hope for a better future and the promise of living with Him in heaven one day.
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All Souls Day 2019
Mother Mary Austin wrote movingly about the Holy Souls in Purgatory and her congregation was dedicated to helping them. These saved individuals are holy but not perfect yet and fling themselves into Purgatory to be purified before entering God’s presence. We have the responsibility to pray and to sacrifice for the relief and release of the Holy Souls and especially now when they are ignored and neglected. Our model in this is the Blessed Mother whom Our Lord entrusted with care of His Church Suffering.
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