The Ascension of the Lord May 29, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“In Christ ascended into heaven, the human being has entered into intimacy with God in a new and unheard-of way; we henceforth find room in God forever.”
(Excerpt From, Holy Days, Pope Benedict XVI)
Sixth Sunday of Easter May 21-22, 2022
“For you bring certain ideas to our ears, and so we would
like to know what these things mean” (Acts 17:20)
Sixth Sunday of Easter 2 (by Deacon Groves)
Fifth Sunday of Easter Fourth Sunday after Easter (Latin Mass) May 15, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“Our soul is a little heaven in which the Creator of Heaven and Earth takes up His abode. Is there anything so grand as to see Him, whose grandeur would fill a thousand worlds, hiding Himself in such a little dwelling as our soul!” (Saint Teresa of Jesus)
Fourth Sunday of Easter May 8, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“. . . This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” (Matthew 17:5)
Third Sunday of Easter Second Sunday after Easter (Latin Mass) St. Joseph the Worker, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Confessor May 1, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“After Jesus and Mary, Joseph was in the mind of God for all eternity as one who would one day be created to play a part in our salvation.”
(Dominic De Domenico, O.P., True Devotion to St. Joseph and the Church, p.69)
Easter Sunday April 17, 2022
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord (New Mass) Palm Sunday (Traditional Latin Mass) April 10, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“‘The ass which was tied’, says St. Bonaventure, ‘denotes a sinner’. . . But, as
Jesus Christ could not sit on the ass before she was loosed, so He cannot dwell in a soul bound with her own iniquities.”
(St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermon for Palm Sunday)
Fifth Sunday of Lent Passion Sunday (Latin Mass) April 3, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without
church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ,
living and incarnate.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, IBooks by Apple, p.193)
FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT March 27, 2022 – by Deacon Groves
You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed
You to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last (John 15:16a)
Third Sunday of Lent Third Sunday in Quadragesima (Latin Mass) March 20, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“All the direction we really need regarding a devotion to St. Joseph is already to be
found in the deposit of Faith safeguarded by holy Mother Church. Thus a true devotion
to St. Joseph does not depend on any other revelations or apparitions as we shall see.”
(Dominic De Domenico, O.P., True Devotion to St. Joseph and the Church, p.8)