Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time September 10, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To what can I compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I show you for your
comfort, virgin daughter Sion? For great as the sea is your distress; who can heal you”
(Lamentations 2:13)
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) September 3, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.” (Proverbs 18:17 Douay-Rheims Bible)
The Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time August 27, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
Christianity never consists in knowing about Jesus; it consists in knowing Jesus. Jesus demands a personal verdict. (Emphasis added)
(William Barclay Commentary on Matthew)
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) August 20, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.” (Hail, Holy Queen Prayer)
The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time August 13, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“For I could wish that I myself were accursed and separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kin according to the flesh.” (Romans 9:3)
The Transfiguration of the Lord August 6, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“God reveals himself to the humble in the humblest things, while the great who never penetrate
beneath the surface, do not discover him even in great events.”
(Father J.P. de Caussade, S.J., Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence, p. 5)
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 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)
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (English Mass) Seventh Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) July 16, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope.” (Prayer)
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)