44 Easter 2nd Sunday

The Road to Emmaus

DVRodriguez2024-05-02T06:41:00-04:00

Contemplate Christ. Keep your eyes fixed on Him. Set your heart on Him alone. Meditate upon the gospels and epistles from Easter week. St. Peter and St. Paul teach – by the power of the Holy Ghost – not their own ideas but they 'teach Christ.' The disciples journeying to Emmaus pattern a progressively deeper encounter with the Risen Lord. [1] They desire Christ, sharing their limited knowledge and love of Him. [2] Jesus then teaches them the Scriptures, showing we all need proper interpretation from the rightful authority. [3] Christ remains with them and feeds them. Every Christian is called [...]

The Road to EmmausDVRodriguez2024-05-02T06:41:00-04:00

Mane Nobiscum

DVRodriguez2023-05-22T08:06:42-04:00

Read the resurrection accounts with faith for a deeper understanding. Far too many people invent their own way of believing in Jesus. Instead, note how Christ establishes His Church and chooses to remain with us (Teaching, Apostles, Mass, Eucharist). These are patterns He continues to this day. Follow the examples of St. Mary Magdalene, the Emmaus disciples, and St. Thomas. With great desire remain with Christ!

Mane NobiscumDVRodriguez2023-05-22T08:06:42-04:00

Motherly Instinct and Abortion

DVRodriguez2022-06-12T14:20:28-04:00

Saint Monica is a mother par excellence. Her prayers, tears, and sacrifices ultimately converted her husband and children. Today we celebrate motherhood, remembering our mother's love and her labor pains (which often endure into our adult years). Yet our world is trying to destroy femininity and the motherly instinct. Abortion has even become an explicit satanic ritual act. This culture of death is in desperate need of much healing. Even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we need to win hearts and minds.

Motherly Instinct and AbortionDVRodriguez2022-06-12T14:20:28-04:00

See My Glorious Wounds

DVRodriguez2022-06-07T12:48:08-04:00

The world speaks endlessly about love but knows not how to love. This we must learn from Christ on the cross. His Easter message calls us to reflect upon and contemplate His glorious Wounds. The waters of salvation flow eternally from His open side (vidi aquam). Familiarize yourself with the private relations of Sister Marie-Martha Chambon (+1907) concerning devotion to Christ's Holy Wounds (these include a Rosary, a Chaplet, and beautiful promises). To offer to the Father the Sacred Wounds of Christ is to offer to God adequate honor and glory!

See My Glorious WoundsDVRodriguez2022-06-07T12:48:08-04:00

Faith in Christ is a Eucharistic Faith

DVRodriguez2021-05-01T10:03:37-04:00

Our Savior gives us Himself in the Blessed Sacrament so that we may truly believe in Him. All the Easter Octave gospels emphasize that belief in Christ is centered upon the Holy Eucharist. Anyone who calls himself a Christian, but does not have this faith, is very confused. A conception of Christ without the Eucharist is terribly erroneous. Yet even those who profess this belief have a very weak and frail Eucharistic Faith. Has it been completely lost? Consider our lack of forgiveness, or our fear over sickness and death, or our willingness to believe the media and others to the [...]

Faith in Christ is a Eucharistic FaithDVRodriguez2021-05-01T10:03:37-04:00

Unity of One Flock

svfonline2019-05-30T10:20:43-04:00

Let us consider the desire we have for unity and how best to nourish it. Christ calls us to be one as He and the Father are one. He is the only Gate by which to enter Heaven, and thus He has established one Church in which all are to be united in the one true Faith. There is no unity without truth, but a sign of truth is unity. Hence it is one of the marks of the Church. Unity has great attractive power. We can only find it in Tradition and by submitting, not to the spirit of the [...]

Unity of One Flocksvfonline2019-05-30T10:20:43-04:00

Supreme Act of Christs Infinite Love

svfonline2019-05-20T07:13:19-04:00

The Supreme act of Christ's infinite love is constantly renewed upon the altars of His Church. The Mass is the culmination and center of the Christian religion. It should thus be obvious that this has to be most stable (the rock of our Faith), for if it is radically changed, what will happen to the entire Catholic religion? At the Mass, we offer perfect adoration and thanksgiving to God (incredible!) and God's grace and mercy descends upon us. At Mass, the merits won by our Divine Redeemer are made available to us. Participating actively at Mass is the baptized's chief duty [...]

Supreme Act of Christs Infinite Lovesvfonline2019-05-20T07:13:19-04:00

Two Kinds of Shepherds

svfonline2019-05-12T07:31:51-04:00

On this Good Shepherd Sunday, let us reflect upon one important way shepherds become good and stay good. A pithy statement expressing this principle is “There are two kinds of priests, those for whom people pray for and those for whom people do not.” I first heard this when the terrible priest scandals were coming to light around the turn of the 21st century. Two historical examples which help illustrate this truth are: St. Nicholas of Cusa (+1464) and Bishop Wilhelm Ketteler of Mainz (+1877).

Two Kinds of Shepherdssvfonline2019-05-12T07:31:51-04:00