11th Sunday After Pentecost 2017
We must do good to others and be grateful for whatever gifts we receive. To live a spiritual life requires prayer more than our natural life needs the air we breathe. By its power we are enabled to make all the daily sacrifices God requires of us along the path of perfection. The goal is heaven and the greatest experience of seeing God whereas the alternative is the terrible pain of loss in hell.
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10th Sunday after Pentecost
In today’s Gospel about the Pharisee and the Publican Our Lord taught a valuable lesson to those who trusted in themselves and despised others. The teaching concerned having a humble estimation of ourselves which would thereby prepare us for the glories of heaven because those who humble themselves shall be exalted.
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Feast Of The Transfiguration 2017
The Transfiguration of Our Lord came six days after St. Peter’s confession of Faith in the Son of God. Then Christ took the three leading apostles up a mountain where He permitted them to glimpse His divinity while He spoke to Moses and Elias. This was to encourage the apostles for the trials ahead. We too are meant to be strengthened by this feast and to realize that everything leads us to our true inheritance in heaven.
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Feast Of St. Dominic – 1st Friday August 2017
St. Dominic travelled through southern France on a trip to Rome with his bishop in the 13th century and he was moved with compassion for the plight of the fallen away Catholics there who were deceived by an ancient heresy which had made a resurgence and was known as Catharism (or Albigensianism). St. Dominic besought the help of the Blessed Mother when his efforts were not successful and Our Lady told him to use Her Rosary as an aid to his preaching. This assured him success and has done the same throughout the centuries as seen at Lepanto and Belgrade, for examples. The Blessed Virgin Mary promised that someday She would save the world through the Rosary.
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Fr. Superior mentions in today’s Epistle how Judith saves the Jewish people from the terrible Holifernes. She is a type of Our Holy Mother saving us from the terrible clutches of Satan. He then recalls briefly the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin. Fr. Superior makes an analogy in describing how we must embrace our own sorrows in life as a kind of “Tuition for Life.” He describes Our Holy Mother in her role as Co-redemptrix of the Human Race and how Our Lord, while on the Cross, gave Her to us to be our solace and our hope as we pay our “Tuition for Life.” Most especially are we to remember that with the Cross we have already won as long as we accept and embrace it in our lives.
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In this first Friday conference, Father briefly talks about St. Stephen, the King of Hungary, whose feast it is today. Father continues with the first words from the sermon on the mount, “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” and explains this beatitude and its relationship with the gift of the Holy Ghost known as fear of the Lord.
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Father speaks on the topic of our fallen nature versus grace, wherein grace acts as a curb to our tendencies to rail against and provoke our neighbor. As Christ was often criticized by the crowd while he was preaching, so we are subject to the same sort of provocations by our neighbors. As He bared wrongs patiently, so must we with the help of grace that He sends us. It’s easy to fly off the handle but far more difficult, and profitable to our souls, to suffer in silence and leave the matter to God Himself. Jesus was moved by the tears of the widow and so will be moved by our tears and sufferings at Judgment time.
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With the Commemoration of the Holy Machabees we are reminded of their heroic sacrifice for the Faith and its practices. We are called to be like them today and prayer is essential to remaining faithful.
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Feast of St. Michael 2015
Since at least the fifth century, St. Michael the Archangel has been given widespread honor in the Church. We have this feast to thank God for creating the angels, and to help us rejoice in their happiness and imitate their great love of God. Although they were not redeemed as we were, the angels receive all their virtues from Our Lord, making each of them a reflection of His perfections. We also honor the angels today because of the pivotal role they played in our Redemption. When reciting the Gloria at the Mass we should remember we are reciting the prayer of the holy angels, and if we ask them to, they will join us in our prayers.
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