“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

“The Church’s task is to help people to properly orientate the whole temporal order and direct it to God through Christ. Thus the Church makes herself the servant of mankind and lay people ‘participate in the mission of service to the person and society.’”

(Pope Saint John Paul II, General Audience, April 13, 1994)

The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica.11.09.2025

“O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, grant to the souls of Thy servants and handmaids the remission of all their sins that they may obtain by loving prayers the forgiveness which they have always desired.” (Collect for the Holy Mass of All Soul’s Day, held on November 3 in the Traditional Latin Mass)

All Soul’s Day 2025

“Since we ourselves are a gift of God, we are called to make a return gift of ourselves to him. This is to be done gradually in the course of our lives as we express that return gift of ourselves to him in our service to others. Ultimately, it will involve a total self-surrender to him at the end of our lives.” (Archbishop Emeritus Alfred C. Hughes, Spiritual Masters: Living and Praying in the Catholic Tradition, p. 159)

Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time

“Christ: My child, the highest goal of your life is union with Me in Heaven. Let your intentions throughout the day be guided by this truth. In all things be sure to stay on the path which leads to Heaven. Do not become too deeply interested in the passing desires and brief enjoyment of this earthly life.” (Anthony J. Paone, S.J., My Daily Bread – A Summary of the Spiritual Life, p. 2)

Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time

“A strong supernatural hope inclines you to view life with positive attitudes and a broader perspective.”

(Anthony J. Paone, S.J., My Daily Life, p. 276)

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Childrens Homily Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time 2025

“Faith is the beginning of happiness in the mind.  It is even more than this.  Because faith proposes to man the possibility of attaining the vision of God, it gives man the beginning of happiness in his heart.  Faith then lays the foundation of hope in the heart of man.”

(Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D., My Way of Life: Pocket Edition of Saint Thomas, The Summa Simplified for Everyone, p. 333)

Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time 2025