“So then, my brethren, let us contend, knowing that the contest is nigh at hand, and that, while many resort to the corruptible contests, yet not all are crowned, but only they that have toiled hard and contended bravely. Let us then contend that we all may be crowned.” (Ancient Homily referred to as Saint Clement of Rome, Second Epistle to the Corinthians, circa A.D. 120–140)

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

“Wherefore are there strifes and wraths and factions and divisions and war among you? Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace that was shed upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ? Wherefore do we tear and rend asunder the members of Christ, and stir up factions against our own body, and reach such a pitch of folly, as to forget that we are members of another?”

(Saint Clement of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, circa 95-96AD)

Baptism of the Lord

“Let us note how free from anger He [God] is towards all His creatures.”
(Saint Clement of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, circa 95-96 AD)

Epiphany of the Lord

“Today the liturgy takes us back to Nazareth, that we may catch a glimpse of the life of the Holy Family.”

(Dom Benedict Baur, homily on the Feast of The Holy Family)

The Holy Family 2025

Message from Most Reverend Archbishop Rivituso

Most Rev. Mark Rivituso Homily for the Fourth Sunday.12.21.2025

“Anyone who wishes to give love must also receive love as a gift.” (Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love)

Third Sunday of Advent

“A voice or sound is an obscure utterance, manifesting no secret of the heart but signifying this only: that the one who calls out wants to say something. A word, however, is rational speech, opening the heart’s mystery. While a voice as such is common to both animals and men, a word is fitting only to humans. Thus John was called a voice and not a word, because, through John, God demonstrated neither his mercies nor his justice nor his counsels prepared before the foundation of the world but only this: that God was planning to do something great in human history.”

(Anonymous, Incomplete Work on Matthew, Homily 3)

Second Sunday of Advent

“When Christ taught us that no one knows the day on which the end of time will come, not the angels and not even himself, he removed from us any need to be concerned about its date.” (Saint Hilary of Poitiers)

First Sunday of Advent

“Sacrifice – The supreme public and external act of divine worship by which a sensible offering of a victim is made to God, by a legitimately appointed priest, in recognition of his supreme dominion over all creation, and, in the opposition of sin, to express consciousness of guilt and hope of pardon.” (taken from A Catholic Dictionary, Donald Attwater, General Editor)

Christ the King Sunday

“Death teaches us that we’re weaker than we thought–we’re mortal–and there must be something more than this. There must be a love that is stronger than death. That type of love is the deepest longing of all our hearts. It’s the love for which we were made. And as life draws to a close, our hearts long for it more, not less.”

(Scott Hahn, Hope to Die: The Christian Meaning of Death and the Resurrection of the Body, pp.7-8)

Thirty-Third Week of Ordinary Time 2025