The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 31, 2023 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #1
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.”
(John 6:53-57; King James Bible)
Fourth Sunday of Advent December 24, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“No word of God must be incredible to us, as long as no work of God
Is impossible for Him.” (Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible)
by Deacon Groves
Third Sunday of Advent; Gaudete Sunday (English and Latin Masses) December 17, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of Paradise; but to gain Heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss.”
(Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent.)
Second Sunday of Advent December 10, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.” (Isaiah 40:1)
First Sunday of Advent (English and Latin Masses) December 3, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Bestir, O Lord, Thy might, we pray Thee and come; that, defended by Thee, we may deserve rescue from approaching dangers brought on by our sins, and being set free by Thee, obtain our salvation.”
(taken from the Lain Mass Collect for the First Sunday of Advent)
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 26, 2023 The Final Sunday of the Church Year
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ – November 25, 2023
by Deacon Bullock
Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time November 12, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Paul didn’t just say that you may not be saddened, but that you may not be saddened as the
heathen are, who do not have any hope. It is unavoidable, after all, that you should be
saddened; but when you feel sad, let hope console you.” (Saint Augustine, Sermons 173.3)
Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) November 5, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“The existence of a purgatory I have never denied. I still hold that it exists, as I have written and admitted many times though I have found no way of proving it incontrovertibly from Scripture or reason.”
(Martin Luther, “The Thirty Seventh Article”, Luther’s Works, 32:95.)
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 29, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“He joyously shouts, ‘It is finished!’ [John 19:30]. Yes, those seem to be sorrowful words, but
they were words of joy to that soul aflame and consumed in the fire of divine charity, the soul of
the incarnate Word, God’s Son. It is as if the gentle Jesus wanted to say, ‘I have completely
fulfilled what was written of me. Fulfilled too is my painful desire to redeem the human race. I
am happy, exultant, that I have finished this suffering.’”
(taken from The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena, vol. 1)
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time October 22, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness . . .
(Genesis 1:26)
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
by Deacon Groves