Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time February 23, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“With what assurance does that person pray who harbors animosity toward someone who has offended him?”
(Anonymous, Incomplete Work on Matthew, Homily 14)
Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English) Septuagesima Sunday (Latin) February 16, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“The soul transformed into Jesus can do the work of Jesus, which is to glorify the Father. Thus the divine Jesus leads souls to the Father, in whom all perfection is consummated, because all things find their happiness when they return to their beginning.” (Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, p.42)
Fifth Week of Ordinary Time February 9, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ‘Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.’” (Luke 5:8)
Presentation of the Lord (English) Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Latin) February 2, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: ‘Where are you?’” (Genesis 3:9)
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time January 26, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“Nehemiah was an official of the Persian court whom King Ar-ta-xerxes authorized to go to Jerusalem, in the province of Judah, and rebuild the city.” (The Navarre Bible, Book of Nehemiah, Introduction).
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (English) Second Sunday after Epiphany (Latin) January 19, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“All life must needs be perfected, and it is perfected by pursuing its end. Absolute perfection means the actual attainment of that end. This we shall attain only in Heaven. There, through the Beatific Vision and pure love, we shall possess God, and our life will have its complete development.” (Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life, p.1)
The Baptism of the Lord January 12, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“The Lord was baptized by His servant, and He, although destined to grant the remission of sins, did not disdain to have His body cleansed with the water of regeneration.” (Saint Cyprian, The Good of Patience 6).
The Epiphany of the Lord (English) Most Holy Name of Jesus (Latin) January 5, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls; and perfection, the most faithful and perfect reproduction, consists in the transformation of souls into Jesus.”
(Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, p.5)
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 29, 2024
“Do Thou, O Lord, bring us whom Thou hast refreshed with heavenly mysteries to imitate the example of Thy Holy Family, that at the hour of our death, with the Virgin Mother and blessed Joseph at hand, we may be received by Thee into our everlasting home.”
(Post-Communion Prayer for the Mass of the Holy Family [1962 Roman Missal])