Fourth Sunday of Advent: Archbishop Rodi’s Message
Third Sunday of Advent December 15, 2024
“Fratres: Gaudéte in Dómino semper: íterum dico, gaudéte. Dóminus prope est. (translation)
Brethren: Rejoice in the Lord always: again I say, rejoice. The Lord is nigh.”
(Saint Paul, Letter to the Philippians)
Second Sunday of Advent December 8, 2024
“The precursor of Christ—the voice of one crying in the wilderness—preaches in the desert of
the soul that has known no peace.” (Origen, Homilies on the Gospel of Luke)
First Sunday of Advent December 1, 2024
“He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ Amen, Come Lord Jesus!”
(Revelation 22:20)
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 24, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #48
“The priest administering Communion cannot know the state of a soul of the person seeking to receive it. Is there any justification, then, for his ever denying Communion to any Catholic?”
(Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology, p.264)
Thirty-Third Week of Ordinary Time Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Latin) November 17, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #47
“St. Thomas said that the Eucharist is the greatest sacrament.”
(Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology, p.264)
Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time November 10, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #46
“Does my reception of the Eucharist, like intercessory prayer, help those I love as well as myself?”
(Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology, p.283)
Thirty-First Week of Ordinary Time Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Latin) November 3, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #45
“He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin.” (2 Maccabees 12:43-46)
Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time October 27, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #44
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, PROVIDED (emphasis added) we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
(Romans 8:15-18)
Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost (Latin) October 20, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #43
“But in order to perceive the true answer to the ‘why’ of suffering, we must look to the
revelation of divine love, the ultimate source of the meaning of everything that exists.”
(Apostolic Letter of John Paul II, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, p.17)