18 Epiphany 3rd Sunday

The Mission of Husband and Wife

DVRodriguez2021-02-11T08:03:35-05:00

Keep your Nativity Scene up until Feb 2 so as to continue looking upon the Holy Family - our exemplar model. Families should also strive to imitate the Three Kings, who offered gifts of love, prayer and mortification. By the command of Christ, marriage is meant to give rise to a people, fellow citizens with the saints in Heaven, who render fitting worship to the true God. Marriage is a sacrament and it symbolizes exalted mysteries, such as the union of Christ and His Church. Husband and wife must strive to subject themselves to God and hold their passions check. Chastity, [...]

The Mission of Husband and WifeDVRodriguez2021-02-11T08:03:35-05:00

Do Not Despair

DVRodriguez2020-03-07T19:22:15-05:00

Do you ever ask God to end your life now, thinking it be better to die than live? As man is a social being, without proper support from fellow men, he loses the will to live. Despair and depression are terrible things to struggle through. Worse, the devil preys upon it. Even great personages from the Bible struggled with this, such as Job, Elias, Tobit and Sarah. Three major points of commonality they had: [1] Living in a time of God's wrath; [2] None gave up on God; and [3] Despair was trigged by a failure in human relations (barbed words). These conditions are present today and [...]

Do Not DespairDVRodriguez2020-03-07T19:22:15-05:00

St Athanasius and Why Atheism is Growing

wpengine2026-01-30T12:20:00-05:00

St. Athanasius explains that there are at least three ways man can come to know God without fail: (i) creation, (ii) saints, and (iii) divine revelation. Today, all three have been displaced by imaginings of modern man and the crafty devices of the devils. Consequently, a vacuum exists, allowing atheism to rise, while occultism and Islamism fill in the gaps. How important it is, then, for us to see the harmony of God's Creation, to strive to be holy and follow good priests, and to study our Holy Catholic Faith. In this way, atheism will not be allowed to grow in [...]

St Athanasius and Why Atheism is Growingwpengine2026-01-30T12:20:00-05:00