Liturgical Year

Command Obedience Promise

svfonline2019-06-14T05:53:43-04:00

The Ascension bridges all the mysteries of the Incarnate Word on earth and in Heaven. Three central aspects of the Ascension which you should reflect upon are: [1] It directs the mind and heart to Heaven. The Christian must follow Christ - all the way to where He is now. Your strongest conviction ought to be that you exist for the purpose of getting to Heaven. Orient all your life in conformity with this truth. [2] It teaches us how to get to Heaven, for Our Lord provides the means. One must believe the truths He taught and live by the [...]

Command Obedience Promisesvfonline2019-06-14T05:53:43-04:00

Every Best and Perfect Gift

svfonline2019-06-01T13:37:15-04:00

Listen to these true words of St. James with faith: "'Every best gift and ever perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights." These best gifts include grace, truth, and eternal life. They all come through the hands of Our Lady. I urge you to grow in your devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the collect, the Church prays that we [1] receive the grace to love what God commands; [2] desire what God promises; and [3] fix our heart on Heaven. Each of these three is very connected to the message Our Lady brought at [...]

Every Best and Perfect Giftsvfonline2019-06-01T13:37:15-04:00

Christ Ascended to a Real Place

svfonline2019-06-01T10:40:24-04:00

His Majesty ascended into Heaven today. He did so fully human, body and soul (glorified). We are all to rise again, and those with sanctifying grace will ascend to their place in Heaven. Yes, Heaven is a real place - because real human bodies are there. Many in our day, even high-ranking prelates, doubt (even outright deny) that Heaven is a place. This is because they start with the faulty science of relativity, thinking that there is no direction in our cosmos. Sadly, they then end by denying the bodily resurrection, asserting instead only a "resurrection of persons" This reflects the [...]

Christ Ascended to a Real Placesvfonline2019-06-01T10:40:24-04:00

Saying No to Undo the Yes

svfonline2019-06-01T10:36:57-04:00

As many times as we have said YES to temptation, to doing something not in the law of true liberty established by God, we have to undo it later with a NO, perhaps even fourfold times. Habitual sin, evil behavior, proximity to temptation and vice all have to be undone by their virtuous opposites. Each sin is like loading a crate onto a heavy truck. The more a truck weighs, the harder it is to bring it to a stop and reverse direction. All the times we spoke ill of another, drank too much, took a second look... God will allow [...]

Saying No to Undo the Yessvfonline2019-06-01T10:36:57-04:00

Concerning Mary Never Enough

svfonline2019-06-01T10:28:08-04:00

De Maria numquam satis. Your can never praise, honor, love, exalt or serve Mary enough. You can never sing enough Marian hymns or recite enough of her chaplets, prayers, and litanies, or put enough flowers before her statues and icons. As De Montfort states: all the external glory which Heaven and earth vie with each other to give her is nothing compared to what she has received interiorly from her Creator. In other words, the Almighty has done great things for her; therefore, we should not be hesitant or ashamed to do anything and everything for her and for her honor.

Concerning Mary Never Enoughsvfonline2019-06-01T10:28:08-04:00

Widows and Orphans

svfonline2019-06-01T05:09:12-04:00

Our society has been attacked by a great enemy - Feminism. We have suffered the loss of our husbands and fathers and become a society of widows and orphans (in biblical terms, that denotes those who are in great tribulation, suffering and need). Feminism, created in the 1800s, seeks to eliminate patriarchy and masculine vocations. It wages its war in two ways: [1] by masculinizing women and [2] by feminizing men. We must get over the lie that feminism can ever be good -- it only has rotten fruit. How to resolve this? [1] Reject the evil and purge ourselves from [...]

Widows and Orphanssvfonline2019-06-01T05:09:12-04:00

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

Memory is Powerful

svfonline2019-05-29T12:06:58-04:00

“These things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized … yea the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God … But these things have I told you, that when the hour shall come, you may REMEMBER that I told you of them.” We live in a time of many scandals with many people falling away. We live in a time when Christians are being killed simply for being Christian. Although trials for Christians have always been present, they are presently becoming more universal and closer to home. Our Lord [...]

Memory is Powerfulsvfonline2019-05-29T12:06:58-04:00

Crimes of Homicide-Deicide

svfonline2019-05-29T12:02:43-04:00

The charges of homicide and Deicide were dropped on Easter Sunday, for the Body of the Victim is now risen. Murder charges on Good Friday make no sense with the Resurrection three days later. But having been freed from these charges, let us not crucify Jesus again by our own personal sins.

Crimes of Homicide-Deicidesvfonline2019-05-29T12:02:43-04:00

NotreDame Abandoned Mother

svfonline2019-05-29T11:59:50-04:00

Children who visit their mothers regularly are sorrowful when they see her die, but their grieving is healthy and natural. They are sad but still hopeful. But children who distanced themselves from their mother, even abandoning her in her old age, are struck with a grief at their mother’s death … a grief that can be coupled with a deep guilt. Now consider the scene which horrified us all - Notre Dame burning. Parisians gazed upon their mother dying and they were filled with grief … and with guilt, for so many have abandoned Holy Mother Church. Let us make sure [...]

NotreDame Abandoned Mothersvfonline2019-05-29T11:59:50-04:00