Holy Day of Obligation - Saturday, December 8th -- Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mass Times
Friday, 5:30pm - Vigil Mass for Immaculate Conception
Saturday, 9am - Solemn Mass for Immaculate Conception (with incense)
Saturday, 5:30pm - Vigil Mass for Sunday

Any Mass from Friday evening through Saturday evening will fulfill the obligation (including the Saturday evening anticipatory Sunday Mass) - most agree that the Saturday evening Mass can't "count" for both the Holy Day and Sunday, in other words, you have to attend Mass twice, once for Immaculate Conception and once for Sunday.

For those in the USA who are wondering -- YES, December 8 is an Holy Day of Obligation, even tho it falls on a Saturday. For other Holy Days, if they fall on Saturday or Monday, the US Bishops have lifted the obligation - but because the Immaculate Conception is the patronal feast of the USA, the obligation is retained even when December 8 is a Saturday or Monday (likewise with Christmas).

Sunday Sermon, November 25 -- Christ, the King of Every Hearth and Nation

Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King to affirm that Jesus is not only the king of every individual, but also of every nation. As our Lady had revealed at Fatima, there will only be peace when every nation and all peoples submit to the reign of Christ the King, and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

If we desire Christ to be the King of our hearts, we might do well to consider the precepts of the Church and, during this coming Advent season, take a small step forward in each of these areas.

Rather than confession once a year, try once a month (or more). Not only communion once a year, but weekly time in adoration. Not merely Mass on Sundays and Holy Days, but even once or twice a week. In addition to abstaining from meat on Fridays, add extra penance on Wednesdays and Saturdays during Advent. And, in addition to your regular giving to the Church and to the needy, make an extra end-of-the-year gift, to express your thanks to God for having given everything to you.


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Sunday Sermon, November 18 -- Jesus Knows the Day and the Hour of Judgment and of Your Death

"Of that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

And yet, the Church has always taught that Jesus did and does know the day and the hour of the final judgment even in his humanity. Jesus knows everything that can be known, because his knowledge is perfect. This does not make him less human, but in fact makes him to be fully and perfectly human.

St Peter said, "Lord, you know everything." Jesus is said "not to know" only insofar as he does not allow us to know the day of judgment. Furthermore, Jesus knows in his humanity, but not from human experience - he knows only from the intimate union of divinity and humanity in his one divine Person.

We do not know when the final judgment will occur, nor do we know when we will die. This makes us afraid. But we must remember that Jesus knows that day and hour, and he loves us, and he will make it a good day and hour for us if only we are faithful to him.


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Sunday Sermon, November 11 -- The Mass is not the Multiplication of Sacrifices

In the ninth and tenth chapters of his Letter to the Hebrews, St Paul states that the one sacrifice of Christ is sufficient, and that no further sacrifices need be offered day after day for the remission of sin. How then can we Catholics claim that the Mass is truly a sacrifice?

The Mass is a sacramental and unbloody sacrifice which takes nothing away from the one sacrifice of the Cross, but makes that sacrifice to be present and effective through history until the end of time.


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All Saints Day Sermon, November 1st -- Imitating the Saints

"Be ye imitators of me, and mark them that walk according to the example you have in us." Philippians 3:17.

The Scriptures command that we imitate the example of the saints, and look to there lives as the sure path to holiness. Notices that St Paul does not merely state that we should imitate Christ, but that we must imitate the saints. This is because the saints show us what Jesus would do in every vocation and walk of life.


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