Signs miracles, Saint Paul tells us are for unbelievers. And they are given to unbelievers for a warning because indeed an unbeliever might see a sign and still not repent. There are many examples of that, in history as well as of course, in the scriptures. The wise men came from the east to Jerusalem because they had seen a sign and they believed and they undertook the journey. They arrived in Jerusalem – and they spoke of this sign. “Where is the Infant king we have seen His star and we have come to do Him homage”. And yet Herod didn’t believe… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

We live in an age of deception. Which tells us nothing other, of course, than that which St. Maximilian told us one hundred years ago. He said that modern times increasingly would be dominated by Satan. His influence would be so great, that not even the wisest or the strongest man would be able to resist him. Those who will be able to escape the deception are those who are particular consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin. It is to She and She alone, that God has given the power to overcome the evil one with his deception. The art, the skill, the tool that Satan uses today, is that of words. No longer are we exact and precise in our language and in our use of words. So there is increasing confusing and misunderstanding and worst no knowledge of the truth. Satan is exceedingly cunning. He will not tell us an outright lie, he knows we are intelligent enough to detect it. But what he will do, is to mix a single grain, a poisonous lie, tiny undetectable and let that lie, like yeast do its work. So when he approached our first parents, or rather our first mother. As we know, Adam was not deceived, Eve was. He said… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

In the opening chapter of Genesis at the creation we hear how the Lord God created all things; time, space, light and darkness, the globes of Heaven, the Earth, how He created the creatures. We are told at each point, each day of the creation; God looked at it and saw that it was good. In a certain sense it is a proclamation of who God is, because all of His works are good. Now if all of God’s works are good, it means He Himself is good. The essence of goodness, the source of goodness is love… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

I will put enmities between thee & the woman & thy seed and her seed by Fr Linus Clovis

St. Thomas Aquinas who is known for his wisdom but above all for his clarity of thought, says “what is first thought of is the last thing that is executed”. If you want to do something, you have to make preparations for it. For example, Our Lord speaking in the Gospels tells us, “Which one of you wanting to build a tower would not first sit down, calculate how much it would cost and then begin to build”, so the first thought is to build a tower, the last thing you do is actually build it. Equally we think of the building of the temple in Jerusalem, where David wanted to build the temple. However because his hands had shed so much blood, God did not allow him to build the temple but rather his son Solomon. So what did David do, he made the preparations; he got the gold, the silver the bronze, the metals, the lead, the wood, the stone and the craftsmen. He had them all ready. Then the building of the temple was that of Solomon. The end was a temple, glorious to be seen from the description given to it by Scripture and secular authors. So the first idea we have, we need to make preparations to complete it. Since we are made in the image and likeness of God, we should think that God also works in that way, not that He needs to, but that we might understand what He is doing. So when we read the book of Genesis, the first chapter, we see that God takes six days to build this world. Already the Angels had been created. The book of Genesis begins, “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.” We’re not told how the Heavens were created, but we are certainly told how the Earth was created… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

Our Blessed Lord speaks to us, Saint Matthew relates that He spoke to the crowds and to His disciples and although He did this some two thousand years ago in the flesh, none the less He speaks to us today, the crowds and His disciples in the spirit and certainly in the authentic teaching of His Church. He says the scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses chair, so practice and observe what they tell you and not what they do. For they preach but do not practise. St. Thomas would always make a distinction and what is striking is, that the scribes and Pharisees, many of them were priests, and Our Lord didn’t say the priests sit on Moses chair, but rather he made the distinction of those who separate themselves from others. At the same time, Our Lord didn’t want to speak badly of Moses and the Mosaic authority, how could He since this was delivered to us by God. In addition to this St. Paul and St. Peter both tell us, that all authority comes from God. That is essentially why we respect, we honour and we obey because this is the way in which God speaks to us. But we need always to make distinctions which Our Lord certainly does, practise and observe what they tell you. It is understood that as long as what they tell us is not contrary to Gospel, not contrary to the teachings of Christ and certainly not contrary to the teaching of the Church. But He says we have to be careful in what we see them do. How does this apply to us today? In many ways we know what the Church has always taught, throughout the centuries the Church has always taught us the things that belong to God and has defined it in the sacred Councils, in the authentic teachings of the Magisterium, by the lives and the teachings of the saints that are recognised by the Church… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio

When our Blessed Lady came to Fatima a hundred years ago, in June of that year, as she was about to depart, she showed the children her Immaculate Heart, which they described, she was holding in her hand and it was surrounded by thorns. We think of what that means, surrounded by thorns. Where do these thorns come from? We should not be surprised to find that the thorns in fact represent sin, because it is sin that wounds the heart of Our Lord and consequently necessarily it must wound the heart of his Mother. But these thorns have their origin at the very dawn of creation. The moment our forefather, Adam sinned, at that moment, the thorns began to grow. We know this from the words of the Lord God Himself, who after He had punished the serpent, on your belly you will go, after He punished the woman, your desire will be for your husband, he will lord it over you, in child birth you will bear children in pain, he turned to the man, by the sweat of your brow will you will eat bread. The earth which up to now has borne you fruit will now start to bear thorns… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

We are now in the month of November, and the Churches liturgical year is winding down to its end and soon it will be a new liturgical year. So the Church, as we come to the end of the year reminds us of the four last things, namely Death, Judgment which follows it, then Hell and Heaven. It’s important that we reflect on these things at least once a year, though ideally we should do it every day since we do not know when our last day will be. So in November, the Church reminds us of the Holy Souls, those who linger in Purgatory, where they expiate temporal punishment due to their sins. Of course it’s important that we understand the meaning of this doctrine which the Church offers for us especially as this year we recall the Protestant revolution, that the doctrine of purgatory and with it Indulgences were so brutally savaged, attacked. Also in this year 2017, a hundred years ago, Our Blessed Lady came to Fatima and reminded us of the reality of that Dogma, that teaching, namely Death, Judgement, Hell and Heaven. If we start with the apparition of Our Lady, the three children of Fatima in the Cova in May the 13th… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

Our blessed Lord speak to us, His little flock. He tells us, we ought not to be afraid. For the simple reason that our Father has given us a Kingdom. In another place He tells us that, towards the end of His life when He speaks the parable of the Great Judgement, how the sheep and goats will be separated, He says take as your possession the Kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the World. In another place He tells us that God’s Will is our salvation. St. Paul tells us, God does not wish anyone to be lost. He did not create Hell for us but for the devil. There are some very foolish people that believe God has made some for salvation and others for damnation. No, all of us are meant to inherit the Kingdom, but it is left all to our free choice. And knowing this we should not be afraid we should have confidence and faith in God Who wishes our salvation… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

This evening I wanted to explore the Eucharist as a sacrament and a sacrifice. We speak of the Mass as the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There is a connection between the Eucharist and the Mass. If we begin with the examination of the two; the Eucharist is a sacrament and it is a sacrifice. These two words sacrament and sacrifice need to be explained. The sacrament and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are performed in the same consecration. When the bread and wine are consecrated at the moment we have a sacrament and sacrifice, yet they are two different concepts. The Eucharist is a sacrament, why? Because in it we receive Christ, that is, we are nourished when we eat. So it is nourishment for our souls. It is a sacrifice, because in the Eucharist we offer a gift to God… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.