Sunday Sermon

Why did Christ give back the young man to his mother, after having restored him to life? Did he still belong to his mother? No; once death has intervened, although one is restored to life by a miracle, all the bonds are loosed which during life connect men with each other, whether they arise from natural ties, or from mutual agreement. Thus, if today a husband dies, and tomorrow is restored to life again, his former marriage is annulled, and both husband and wife are freed from all obligations toward each other. Still, if a child restored to life should belong to any one, there is no doubt that it is to his mother. Therefore: “He gave him to his mother.” After this digression I return to the matter I have already spoken of. I have said and proved that it is indispensably necessary to make restitution in order to avoid eternal damnation, so that inability alone can excuse one from making it. But there is still one point, and that is the manner and circumstances of restitution.

Do we ever fail to thank God for all His blessings which He provides us? Do we only go to God when we need something but forget about Him when we get what we want?

I found that Thomas Aquinas and Saint Gregory the great make a distinction between pride and vainglory, with pride being the cause of vainglory. So what’s the difference between Pride and Vainglory?

"Many are called, but few are chosen." With these words our Lord charges us to rise to the challenge of His divine invitation. Just as in the parable of the wedding feast, today the King sends invitations with his servants to all the world. Do we make excuses so as not to respond? Or if we do respond, do we show disrespect to the good King by removing the wedding garment which He has provided us? Hear today of the great choice we have - the choice to be chosen!

Have you ever had the experience to look for for your glasses and you look and look and look and you can not find them anywhere? And then at some point you find them and it was on your head the whole time. I am sure that each of us have had that experience at one point or another.

“No man can serve two masters;” no one can serve God, and at the same time the devil, the flesh, or the world. This sermon will be profitable not only for sinners, to arouse them to repentance and amendment, but also for those who have already repented of and amended their wicked lives, to keep them from relapsing into sin, and also for the just and the innocent, to give them a greater knowledge of the malice of sin, and thus inspire them with a greater horror of it.

There’s no child of God that does not feel that conflict in his soul – the spirit against the flesh and the flesh against the spirit, but the Spirit always has its witness and always has its fruit.

St. Paul wanted to remind the Church at Corinth that if we have riches, it is because God provided those riches; if we have abilities or strengths or skills, it is only because God has provided each one of us with what we are good at; if we have a roof over our head and food on our table every day, it is because God provides.

Our Lord relates the parable of the vineyard put into the care of unjust husbandmen. These treat the servants and even the son of the master with contempt and put them to death. Don't we do same when we disdain the messengers of the Lord and even the Lord Himself, thinking ourselves masters when we are rather to be loyal stewards of the goods placed in our care?

Pius 12th instituted today's feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession, in his words, "peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue"