51 Trinity Sunday

Give Glory to the Blessed Trinity

DVRodriguez2020-11-13T21:49:50-05:00

It is our solemn duty - it's why we exist - to give glory to the Blessed Trinity. How do we do this? By living according to this short prayer: "I desire to serve Thee, to please Thee, to obey Thee and to love Thee." Submit your mind to the Truth about God. It IS a Mystery; while we can't fully understand it, we can profess it. Meditate upon His infinite perfections, e.g. His perfect love and holiness. Give the Father due glory by striving to do His will. Glorify the Son by imitating Him and following in His footsteps. Give glory to [...]

Give Glory to the Blessed TrinityDVRodriguez2020-11-13T21:49:50-05:00

Feminie Modesty

svfonline2019-07-09T06:36:26-04:00

We live in a time of great immodesty; yet it has not always been this way. Society reveals itself by the fashions it promotes. Modesty is connected to self-control and acts as a guardian for purity. There are objective standards for modesty provided by the Church, and to set our secular time of utter immodesty as any kind of standard is insanity. Women in the past lived far harder lives, raised larger families, on less income, without modern conveniences, and still managed to engage in all their activities in modest attire appropriate to their gender. Women have a duty to dress [...]

Feminie Modestysvfonline2019-07-09T06:36:26-04:00

Hunger for the Most Blessed Sacrament

svfonline2019-07-05T06:34:45-04:00

Many great miracles were performed by St. Anthony of Padua. Yet perhaps the most notable is when a starving donkey preferred to adore its Creator in the Eucharist over eating fresh hay. St. Ignatius of Antioch (+107 AD) likewise longed for his Creator, writing "I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ... I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love." Too many of us prefer to be satisfied by worldly passing things than by the Bread of Heaven. Let us instead long to consume Our Savior and to be consumed by Him [...]

Hunger for the Most Blessed Sacramentsvfonline2019-07-05T06:34:45-04:00