The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 26, 2021
The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #37)
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterword he was hungry.” (Matthew 4:1-2)
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Sept. 12, 2021
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass)
September 12, 2021
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #35)
“The supernatural life of grace has a beginning, and we call that beginning baptism.” (My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone, p.520)
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Sept. 12, 2021
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost – 9.19.2021
The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass)
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflections #36)
“How, then, can they (infants) accept the Christian The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021Faith? That requires belief, and they are incapable of believing?” (Fathers Rumble and Carty, Radio Replies 2nd Volume, #735)
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 5, 2021
“Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him. But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thow to me? And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him. And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descend as a dove and coming upon him.” (Matthew 4:13-16, Douay-Rheims Holy Bible)
The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 29, 2021
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #33)
The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
“On July 25,1968, shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI promulgated a much-anticipated encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae. Historically, it was a time of much confusion: the sexual revolution was in full swing, the Pill was being hailed as the long-awaited perfect contraceptive to cure the social ills related to overpopulation, and even Catholic clergy advised the pope to reconcile the Church with the times in response to the report of the commission established by Pope John XXIII.” (Kimberly Hahn, Life-Giving Love, p. 21)
The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 22, 2021
The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
“The childhood is fully vulnerable because the child is powerless, while those who care for him enjoy an all-powerful freedom. Instead of leading him rightly they can lead him astray in a variety of egotistical ways, oftentimes in a manner which is quite unconcious of its moral indifference.” (Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child, pp. 12-13)
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Mary (August 15, 2021)
The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Homilies
August 15th, 2021
Deacon Groves Homily: “I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers: he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
Fr. Saucier’s Homily: “And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women” (Luke 1:28) Douay-Rheims Edition
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily
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“God Ineffable—whose ways are mercy and truth, whose will is omnipotence itself, and whose wisdom
‘reaches from end to end mightily, and orders all things sweetly’—having foreseen from all eternity the
lamentable wretchedness of the entire human race which would result from the sin of Adam, decreed, by
a plan hidden from the centuries, to complete the first work of his goodness by a mystery yet more
wondrously sublime through the Incarnation of the Word.”
(Apostolic Constitution of Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, The Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1854.)