The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 26, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #50)
In an instant [God] gives to the confirmed soul the fullness of the spiritual maturity. (St. Thomas Aquinas: “My Way of Life”)
The Fourth Sunday of Advent December 19, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #49)
“Of how much greater faith and salutary fear are they who . . . confess their sins to the priests
of God in a straightforward manner and in sorrow, making an open declaration of conscience
. . . I beseech you, brethren, let everyone who has sinned confess his sin while he is still in this
world, while his confession is still admissible, while the satisfaction and remission made
through the priests are still pleasing before the Lord.”
(St. Cyprian of Carthage, The Lapsed, A.D. 251)
The Third Sunday of Advent December 12, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #48)
“When he saw their faith, he said, ‘As for you, your sins are forgiven.’ Then the scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves, ‘Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?’”
(Luke 5:20-21)
The Second Sunday of Advent December 5, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #47)
“The whole history of Jesus Christ is marked by mercy and compassion for suffering humanity. From the moment of His incarnation till the hour of His death every thought and word and act of His Divine life was directed toward the alleviation of the ills and miseries of fallen man.” (James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers, p.277)
The First Sunday of Advent November 28, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #46)
“When he saw their faith, he said, ‘As for you, your sins are forgiven.’ Then the scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves, ‘Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?’”
(Luke 5:20-21)
The First Sunday of Advent 2021
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Christ the King Sunday) The Last Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) November 21, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #45)
“He was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.’” (Luke 11:1)
The Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time The Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) November 14, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #44)
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
blood, you do not have life within you. . . For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.” (John 6:53, 55)
The Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time November 7, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #43)
Homily by Deacon Groves
So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of your youth. For I hate divorce, says the Lord... (Malachi 2:15-16).
The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time October 31, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #42)
The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
Deacon Charlie Groves’ Homily
Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:18-24; Tobit 8:4-8; Proverbs 31:10-13; Sirach 26:1-4;
Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 19:3-6; Mark 10:6-9; John 15:12-16
Romans 8:31; I Corinthians 13:4-13; Ephesians
The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 24, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #41)
The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
Deacon Groves Homily
“Willed by God in the very act of creation, marriage and the family are interiorly
ordained to fulfillment in Christ and have need of his graces in order to be healed
from the wounds of sin and restored to . . . the full realization of God’s plan”
(Familiaris Consortio – Pope John Paul II)