Give All To Obtain All
Septuagesima Sunday 2026
The season of Septuagesima begins roughly 70 days before Easter. Through the Nativity season we witnessed the Son of God physically and literally come to Earth to save His children. Now, God will lift us up by His divine power. We have the privilege to reform our lives; we have the ability to become holy. It is a struggle we must all pass through to reach Heaven. Our God already won the prize which St. Paul refers to, yet we must still run the race on the road to Heaven. We are called to change this season. The lukewarm will become fervent, the fervent will become perfect, the perfect will begin to practice heroic virtue.
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To Bear Our Fruit in Due Season
7th Sunday after Pentecost 2025
The main theme of this Mass is the tree and the fruit it bears. When we practice good works, we bear good fruit and edify our neighbor, but if we practice evil, we bear bad fruit and scandalize our neighbor. Our Lord warns us to beware of false prophets and tells us to judge them by their fruits. Immodesty among Catholics offends the Sacred Heart of Jesus and is a temptation to our neighbor, so we must strive to remain always modest, especially during the heat of summer. It is important for all Catholics to read the lives of the saints so we might imitate their virtues and become “the tree planted beside the water, which bears fruit in due season.”
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Conversion Sunday
Sexagesima Sunday 2023
St. Paul, one of the greatest converts in the history of the Church, instructs us on our need for conversion. This conversion of St. Paul could not have happened without the prayers of St. Stephen. We must pray for our friends and our enemies. We must not think that we are the good seed of the Gospel. The word of God has not brought forth fruit a hundredfold in our hearts yet. We wish to be better, we wish to learn, and this is the time for vigilance and growth in the love of God.
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The Battle for Souls
16th Sunday After Pentecost 2022
The Lord is sweet and mild. It should be easy for us to love our God. We are moved to act as God wants us to by the grace given to us before, during, and after we act. St. Paul speaks of the life blood of the Mystical Body of Christ – charity. We must first be humble before we can be charitable. Humility removes our self-love so that we may have the ability to love purely with true charity. There is a battle for the souls of the youth and their path in life is being formed right now. The youthful soul enhanced by grace is more powerful than the devil, but it must be formed. We must commit ourselves with all our hearts.
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Forgetting Self
15th Sunday After Pentecost 2022
The Epistle for this Mass warns us against vanity. It should be easy for us to see our neighbor as better than we are, because we know our own sins and we do not know how others will be judged. How humble should we be when we remember that our sins affect the whole Mystical Body and make us deserving of hell? We must hate our sins, love those who despise us, and embrace the humiliations that God sees fit to send us.
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The Devil Hates Us
First Sunday In Lent 2022
This Friday begins Stations of the Cross and this is an appropriate devotion for Lent that was begun by our Mother of Sorrows. Fasting and abstinence began on Ash Wednesday and their origins go back to Noah. These practices are essential to our Lenten retreat days. This week is the feast of St. Dominic Savio who was a student of St. John Bosco and died young at the age of 15. This account of his spiritual life is moving and an exemplary example for the young of all ages. Finally, we learn from today’s Gospel about Our Lord’s temptations in the dessert after His forty days of fasting at the beginning of His public life. The devil was permitted to tempt the Son of God without the least degree of success; however, the devil vents his anger against God now through his attacks on us, especially during holy times like this season preparing us for Holy Week and Easter.
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Lent Is A Season Of Joy
Ash Wednesday 2022
Septuagesima season has prepared us for this time of removing sin from our lives. This should comfort us as we begin this time of penance. When examining our conscience we should not look at self but at Our Lord crucified to realize the effects of our evil on Him. Lent is the bond of unity in the Church when we all struggle together. By Penance we understand different things. It is the sacrament, a moral virtue and the acts flowing from it. Ashes are given today because they are one of the three major sacramentals in the Church and remind us powerfully of death which is the consequence of Adam’s sin. Finally, practical suggestions are given to help us choose and practice spiritual exercises which will make Lent truly beneficial for us.
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You Will Die the Death
Septuagesima Sunday 2022
This is the beginning of the Septuagesima season as we transition from the joys of Christmas towards the sorrows of Holy Week and the glories of the Resurrection. The stational church for today is St. Lawrence outside the Walls which reminds us of the death we inherit from Adam and Eve because of the cemetery that is attached to this church. The Gloria and Alleluia are dropped from today’s Mass to re-enforce the realization of our fallen state. Parents should not imitate our first parents in exposing their children to dangers which can destroy God’s life in their souls.
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We Belong In Heaven
3rd Sunday After Epiphany 2022
From the life of St. Raymund of Pennafort we learn that it is never too late to follow a life of holiness. This Mass reminds us that we do not belong here below but above with God in heaven. Therefore we should pray always with that intention and separate ourselves from even just thoughts which will plague us on our deathbeds. Finally, Our Lord stresses the importance of the priesthood in the Gospel when He directs the cured leper to show himself to the priests. We need good and holy priests and generous vocations.
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