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A collection of sermons and reflections from the deanery

Et Reliqua

Check the Dean’s sermons and reflections from past Sundays and holydays.

The name Et Reliqua is taken from the Office of Matins, in which the commentary by the Church Fathers on the Gospel of the day is preceded by part of the Gospel itself.  Rather than read the Gospel in its entirety, only the first sentence is included, followed by the words, Et Reliqua, translated into English as “And so on and that which followeth.”

Last Sunday after Pentecost

Abomination

The new order of Mass was introduced by Paul VI into our churches back in the 1960s.  It is not acceptable.  It is not acceptable because it is not Catholic.  The fact that we are all here in this church this morning, attending the ancient rite of Mass that goes

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Last Sunday after Pentecost

Delivered From Darkness

There probably isn’t a more fearful Sunday in the year than this Last Sunday after Pentecost.  When our Lord speaks of the abomination of desolation being established in our holy place, his terrible prophecies fill us with dread—more so this year than ever, as the Bergoglian church is on the

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26th Sunday after Pentecost

As The World Turns

The Carthusian Order was founded by St. Bruno in the year 1084.  The motto and arms of the order consists (as I’ve mentioned before more than once) of a globe representing the world, with a cross standing on the top of it.  If we had a modern version today, what

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26th Sunday after Pentecost

Is Woke Really Broke?

In the days since the Election we have been entertained by the spectacle of the far left in meltdown.  From the politicians and bureaucrats of Washington to the celebrities of Hollywood, evangelists of the woke theology have been in a mindless state of denial, panic and vitriol, fighting and blaming

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25th Sunday after Pentecost

I Am The Resurrection And The Life

Early this past Wednesday morning our nation breathed a collective sigh of relief as votes were finally tallied and it became clear that the progressive agenda had been rejected on a massive scale.  Depression, anxiety, fear, anger, were all lifted from our shoulders and we experienced something we had almost

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25th Sunday after Pentecost

The Fight Begins

A message from His Grace Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Donald J. Trump’s victory in the electoral competition for the Presidency of the United States of America constitutes a historic moment in the dramatic events of the present and marks a formidable setback for the criminal plan of the New World

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24th Sunday after Pentecost

A Happy Death

As yesterday was All Souls’ Day, we’re going to take a look today at death.  Not a long look, and hopefully not a fearful or depressing look at death.  But there’s something we need to figure out so we can best prepare for this last great milestone in our lives.

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A painting of a man laying on a bed.
24th Sunday after Pentecost

Extreme Unction

As we enter November, the month of the Holy Souls, it is fitting that we review the Sacrament that helps us transition from this life to the next, diverting us from the path to the eternal fire and preparing us for Judgment.  The Sacrament of Extreme Unction (or “Last Anointing”)

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All Saints

Blessed Are They

During our Lord’s most well-known sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, he gave to his disciples an eight-fold list of what is required from the Church Militant in order to gain the everlasting bliss of heaven.  In other words, these Eight Beatitudes lay out what we need to do if

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22nd Sunday after Pentecost

Rendering Unto God

Our Lord gives us two commandments in today’s Gospel.  Not the famous “Love God and Love Thy Neighbor” commandments, but two other distinct duties we must fulfill towards God and Caesar, or in other words, towards Church and State.  As our Lord pointed out, all laws depend on the first

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22nd Sunday after Pentecost

Rendering Unto Caesar

With our blessed Lord commanding us in today’s Gospel to “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s” it’s a good time to take a look at who Caesar is in our case, and what we should give him. Back in our Lord’s day, there was, of course, no doubt

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21st Sunday after Pentecost

As We Forgive Them

There’s something our Lord told us that most people just don’t seem to get.  It’s a hidden gem almost hidden in his words, and we skim over them without thinking.  We need to take a closer look at that line where our Lord tells us that after loving God, the

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21st Sunday after Pentecost

Warnings From The Sun

On this day many years ago, tens of thousands of people gathered together to witness a miracle.  They didn’t know ahead of time that it would be a miracle.  There were many people there who thought, perhaps cynically, that nothing at all would happen and that three small children would

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Holy Rosary

Shedding Light On The Luminous

You know what the problem is with the “woke folk?”  They believe that everything can be improved on.  Everything must be constantly changed in order to make it more “relevant” to the current whims of the world.  They fail to realize that there are some things that should be left

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Holy Rosary

Is It Too Late?

God has consistently sent messengers to tell us what we must do to save our souls.   In the Old Testament he sent prophets to remind the people of God to remain faithful to their laws.  In the New Testament he sent his only-begotten Son, who actually made reparation for all

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Michaelmas

The Nine Choirs

In the book of Daniel, we read that thousands of thousands of Angels ministered to God, and ten thousand times an hundred thousand stood before him.  The number of the Angels is in fact so great that the Angels themselves cannot count it.  It is a number that only their Maker

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Michaelmas

What A Wonderful World!

I’m sure many of you will know that old song of Louis Armstrong, called “What a wonderful world”.  It is, in its own small way, a reminder that this world of ours was created by God in his own image and likeness, and that it is therefore, a world of

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18th Sunday after Pentecost

The Religion That Will Not Say Its Name

I know you must be sick and tired of me talking about all the terrible things happening around us in this world of sin.  The reason I keep coming back to this subject is twofold.  Firstly because we are under a perpetual onslaught of evil coming from every direction imaginable,

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18th Sunday after Pentecost

September Feelings

So many things go through our head this month of September.  With the ever approaching darkness of winter, we are introduced to new sentiments of anxiety and fear that had been dispelled for a while by the summer sunshine.  The usual suspects—the conciliar Church and the deep state of our

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A painting of a man laying a dead man on a bed.
Seven Sorrows of BVM

Cause Of Our Joy

“There stood by the cross of Jesus his mother.”  During the course of her life, the Blessed Virgin Mary had to endure many sufferings.  Chief of these were the seven sorrows we commemorate today.  We’re familiar with them, or should be, by now: two of them in our Lord’s infancy,

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