Christmas Sermon: Imitating Jesus in Consecration to Mary and Joseph

Jesus chose to come into the world through the Blessed Virgin Mary, and he was totally consecrated to her in all things. Her will was his will, her desires his desires, her joys his joys, her sorrows his sorrows. Jesus began his saving plan in the womb of Mary and competed the work of redemption with her at his side. As Christians, we are called to be Christ-like. This is why we must consecrate ourselves Mary: Because Jesus was truly consecrated to his most holy Mother.
Furthermore, Mary wasn't only a woman, she was a wife. If we love the wife, we must love the husband. And, even as Jesus entrusted himself to the care and patronage of St Joseph, we too consecrated ourselves to St Joseph as the Patron of the Universal Church.


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Daily Sermons, December 22, 23, 26

Sermons from daily Masses, December 22, 23, 26.

Mary's Magnificat, Christmas Eve, St Stephen.

Sunday Sermon, December 13th -- The Perfect Knowledge of the Infant Christ

4th Sunday of Advent -- The Perfect Knowledge of the Infant Christ

"75. Now the only-begotten Son of God embraced us in His infinite knowledge and undying love even before the world began. And that He might give a visible and exceedingly beautiful expression to this love, He assumed our nature in hypostatic union: hence - as Maximus of Turin with a certain unaffected simplicity remarks - "in Christ our own flesh loves us."[156] But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love. O marvelous condescension of divine love for us! O inestimable dispensation of boundless charity! In the crib, on the Cross, in the unending glory of the Father, Christ has all the members of the Church present before Him and united to Him in a much clearer and more loving manner than that of a mother who clasps her child to her breast, or than that with which a man knows and loves himself." (St Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi)

St John the Baptist was given the use of reason as he leaped in the womb of his mother. If St John had reason in the womb, how much more did Christ Jesus! We consider the perfect knowledge of Jesus Christ who even in his humanity was a perfect man in the moment of his conception.

What Child is this? Who coming into the world said, "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me: Holocausts for sin did not please thee. Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God." (Hebrews 10:5-7)

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Weekday Sermons, December 16-19

Sermons from daily Masses, December 16 through 19.
Christmas Novena, O Antiphons, St Joseph, Silence.

Sunday Sermon, December 14 -- Profiting from God's Inspirations

Sunday Sermon, December 14 -- Profiting from God's Inspirations.

The hidden meaning of St John's words, "I am not worthy to loosen the strap of his sandal."
The joyful expectation of Christmas which leads us to prepare the way for the Lord.
How to overcome two obstacles to profiting from God's inspirations: Procrastination and Spiritual Avarice.

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