First Friday – Feast Of St. Agatha 2021 With the beginning of the Easter Cycle through the season of Septuagesima it is a good time to review what the Sacred Liturgy is and how it leads our spiritual lives through the purgative, illuminative and unitive states. The Holy Mass is the highest form of prayer…
Passion Sunday 2020 The last two weeks of Lent are the most sacred and have a special name, Passiontide. In today’s Gospel, Our Lord proclaimed His Divinity with the result that He had to hide from those who wanted to stone Him. The Church incorporates this into Passiontide by hiding Christ and all the reminders…
Laetare Sunday 2020 – Carmelite Clothing Day This is a joyful day and a preparation for the total gift of self that is to come at the religious profession. All has been left behind and that includes any reliance on self because now it is time to rely on God alone. Religious life is the…
3rd Sunday of Lent 2020 St. Paul teaches us the importance of imitating God during Lent. These are trying times which offer us the opportunity to face them as Our Lord would. In the Gospel we see how the insincere twist even the holy works of Christ to their own destruction. This account ends with…
2nd Sunday of Lent 2020 Lent is a long retreat for catechumens to prepare for Baptism and for penitents to prepare for Communion. We follow in their footsteps as we learn from each of the Lenten Masses as seen, for example, in this week’s story of Esau and Jacob. Today’s Epistle stresses God’s holy will…
Funeral Mass March 7, 2020 Our first duty in the face of death is to pray for the soul of the faithful departed so that she may be released from Purgatory as soon as possible. We have confidence because all the consolations of the Faith through the sacraments were given to the deceased but we…
First Sunday of Lent 2020 This sermon begins with a review of the Lenten regulations and a recalling of the life and the struggle for his vocation of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose feast is this week. Then we learn about the sacramental of ashes which is a powerful aid during this season which offers us…
Ash Wednesday 2020 The origins of this day date back to the beginning when God told Adam after his fall that he was dust and unto dust he would return. To counter the sin of pride by eating the forbidden fruit we are called to practice humility by fast and abstinence. All peoples have felt…
Passion Sunday 2019 Passion Sunday begins an intensification of our Lenten penances with the veiling of the crucifix and statues which are spiritually encouraging to us. The key to this season is to strive to have the thoughts of Christ, especially those of His Passion. With this, prayer and hope we can rely on God…
Laetare Sunday 2019 After learning about the wonderful saints of this week, Francis of Paola, Isidore of Seville and Vincent Ferrer, the Epistle of St. Paul about the son of the slave girl and the heir of the free woman is explained. Then the Gospel, which is the beginning of St. John’s famous sixth chapter…
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