Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 30, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant

“This preaching and this faith the Church, although scattered over the whole world, diligently observes, as if it occupied but one house, and believes as if it had but one mind, and preaches and teaches as if it had but one mouth. And although there are many dialects in the world, the meaning of the tradition is one and the same.”
(Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies, circa AD 130-200)

 

Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2023

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 9, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant

“Have you noted the measure of obedience? Pay attention to love’s high standard. If you take
the premise that your wife should submit to you, as the church submits to Christ, then you
should also take the same kind of careful, sacrificial thought for her that Christ takes for the
church. Even if you must offer your own life for her, you must not refuse. Even if you must
undergo countless struggles on her behalf and have all kinds of things to endure and suffer, you
must not refuse. Even if you suffer all this, you have still done not as much as Christ has for the
church. For you are already married when you act this way, whereas Christ is acting for one
who has rejected and hated Him. So just as He, when she was rejecting, hating, spurning and
nagging him, brought her to trust Him by His great solicitude, not by threatening, lording it
over her or intimidating her or anything like that, so must you also act toward your wife.”

(Saint John Chrysostom, Homily on Ephesians)

Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2023

Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time (Mass of Pope St. Paul VI) Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) July 2, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant Part One

“This subjection, however, does not deny or take away the liberty which fully belongs to
the woman both in view of her dignity as a human person, and in view of her most noble
office as wife and mother and companion; nor does it bid her obey her husband’s every
request if not in harmony with right reason or with the dignity due to a wife; nor, in fine,
does it imply that the wife should be put on a level with those persons who in law are
called minors.” (Pope Pius XI, On Christian Marriage [Casti Connubii] #27)

Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2023

The Most Holy Trinity June 4, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant

“St. Leo has said, that the nature of God is, by its essence, goodness itself. Now, goodness naturally diffuses itself. And by experience we know that men of a good heart are full of love for all, and desire to share with all the goods which they enjoy. And therefore he (God) ardently desires to make us partakers of his own happiness.” (Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermon for Trinity Sunday)

Most Holy Trinity 2023