Pentecost Sunday May 28, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“You shall count until the day after the seventh sabbath, fifty days; then you shall present an offering of new grain to the Lord.”
(Leviticus 23:16)
Homily by Deacon Groves
The Ascension of the Lord (New Mass) Sunday After the Ascension (Latin Mass) May 21, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the
Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water,
but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
(Acts 1:4-5)
Sixth Sunday of Easter May 14, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you always,
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows Him.
But you know Him, because He remains with you, and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17)
Fifth Sunday of Easter Fourth Sunday after Easter (Latin Mass) May 7, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.” (First Corinthians 3:16-17)
Fourth Sunday of Easter April 30, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’” (Acts 2:38)
Third Sunday of Easter April 23, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
Deacon Groves Homily
Second Sunday of Easter Divine Mercy Sunday April 16, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“As there is no true devotion to His Sacred Humanity, which is not mindful of His Divinity, so there is no adequate love of the Son, which disjoins Him from His Mother, and lays her aside, as a mere instrument, whom God chose as He might choose an inanimate thing, without regard to its sanctity or moral fitness.”
(Rev. Frederick Faber, The Foot of the Cross, p.11)
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord April 9, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“I hope, my dear Christians, that, as Christ is risen, you have, in this holy paschal time, gone to
confession, and have risen from your sins. But, attend to what St. Jerome teaches—that many
begin well, but few persevere.” (Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Sermon XXI, For Easter Sunday)
Palm Sunday April 2, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Art is a very eloquent witness, because it does not speak to the ears but directly to the soul,
through its lines and colors.” (Luigi Gambero, Mary and the Fathers of the Church, p.85)
The Fifth Sunday of Lent March 26, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“It is a greater deed to create men than to raise them again from the dead. Yet he deigned both to create and to raise again; to create all, to resuscitate some.”
St. Augustine of Hippo from Tractates on the Gospel of John)
~ Homily by Deacon Bullock ~