May 5, 2019, Third Sunday of Easter

Sacrifices for Lent 1. Our Lord has said: “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” (Lk 9:23) St. Paul has written: “With Christ I am nailed to the cross. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. And …

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If we look to the Old Testament, we can see numerous instances when the Lord instructs Israel to hold a memorial of some significant event God’s plan to restore fallen man. The most famous example is the Passover, the Paschal Sacrifice and Feast. The Passover, the memorial of the Israelites’ being freed from Egypt, was …

Read moreFrom the Rector, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 8/9/2020

40 Hours of Adoration-Part I For over 500 years one of the most beautiful of all Catholic devotions has been the one known as Quarant Ore, or Forty Hours. The Blessed Sacrament is solemnly exposed for 40 hours outside the tabernacle and continuously adored by the faithful. In past centuries, especially in the late Middle …

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Faith 1814 Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself. By faith “man freely commits his entire self to God.” For this reason the believer seeks to know …

Read moreFrom the Rector, Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 2, 2022

Daily Examen: Part 2 of 3 A Method of Examen based on the Psalms An Examen from John Paul II General Audience Wednesday, 4 February 2004 Psalm 15[14] We now come to the 11 requirements listed by the Psalmist, which can constitute the basis for a personal examination of conscience every time we prepare ourselves to confess our sins in …

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On Thursday of this week we celebrate the Coronation of Mary, and thus Her Queenship. This of course is the final mystery of the Most Holy Rosary: that Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth by Her Son, Jesus Christ, the Sovereign King of the Universe. It would be fitting then, not only to …

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