Third Sunday of Lent March 23, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.” (Exodus 3:2)
Second Sunday of Lent March 16, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“Love is not loved!”
(Jacapone da Todi [1230-1306] religious poet who became a Franciscan after his wife died.)
First Sunday of Lent March 9, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“It is fitting that it be recorded that the first Adam was cast out of Paradise into the desert, that you may observe how the second Adam returned from the desert to Paradise. . . .”
(Saint Ambrose, Exposition of the Gospel of Luke)
Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English) Quinquagesima Sunday (Latin) March 2, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit
“In order to finish His work He sent us the Holy Ghost. This Divine Spirit, who is none other than the substantial love of the Father and the Son, was not satisfied with instilling grace into our souls together with the infused virtues, especially divine charity, but gave Himself to us in order that we might not only enjoy His presence and possess His gifts, but even His very person.”
(Very Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life, p.41)
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)