Solemnity of The Nativity of The Lord December 25, 2022 Christmas

“O sweet Child of Bethlehem, grant that we may share with all our
hearts in this profound mystery of Christmas. Put into the hearts of
men this peace for which they sometime seek so desperately and
which you alone can give to them. Help them to know one another
better, and to live as brothers, children of the same Father.
Reveal to them also your beauty, holiness, and purity. Awaken in
their hearts love and gratitude for your infinite goodness. Join them
all together in your love. And give us your heavenly peace. Amen.”

by Pope St. John XXIII, from his Journal of a Soul

Christmas Homily 2022 (Deacon Bullock)

(Homily by Deacon Bullock)

Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Twenty-Fourth and Last Sunday after Pentecost (Latin Mass) November 20, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph

“Any new departure in the discipline or liturgy of the Catholic Church tends to be accepted, almost at once, as a legacy from immemorial antiquity. Probably most people think of this feast, the Feast of the Kingship of Christ, that is if they think of it at all, as something that has always been there, like Trinity Sunday, or even All Saints’ Day. As a matter of fact, it was established in the year of jubilee, 1925.”
(Ronald Knox, Pastoral and Occasional Sermons, p.521)

Christ the King Sunday 2022

“Traditional institutions, laws and modes of thought and emotion do not always appear to be in
harmony with today’s world. This has given rise to a serious disruption of patterns and even of norms of behavior.”

(Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Vatican II, paragraph 7)

Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time 2022

Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Twenty-Second after Pentecost (Latin Mass) November 6, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph

“And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every
weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: Looking
on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross,
despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:1-2)

Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time 2022

Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time October 30, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph

“Though its founding may be better explained in terms of the Protestant Reformation or the
secular Enlightenment and though the impact of Catholicism is more palpable in other countries
and languages, the United States still resonates with the influence of Catholic ways, a fact that
may be adduced not only from the cities, counties, and streets named after Catholic saints,
feasts, and even sacraments, but from the very holidays—secular as well as sacred—it keeps.”

(Michael P. Foley, Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Fridays –
The Catholic Origin to just about Everything, p.1)