The Baptism of the Lord January 9, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove.” (Luke 3:21-22)
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Most Holy Name of Jesus (Latin Mass) January 2, 2022 Year of Saint Joseph
“But while the preaching of the divine Word should never be interrupted in the Church, surely in these, our days, it becomes necessary to labor with more than ordinary zeal and piety to nourish and strengthen the faithful with sound and wholesome doctrine, as with the food of life.” (Excerpt From: The Catechism of the Council of Trent)
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).