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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.”

Christmas Day

Seize The Day!

More than any other day of the year, Christmas Day is a day of rejoicing.  After four weeks of hope and anticipation, the day’s traditions are slowly fulfilled as we treasure every familiar aspect of our most beloved holiday.  The wrapping of presents, Christmas caroling, Midnight Mass, the unseen visit

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4th Sunday in Advent

What Shall I Give Him?

At some point every Advent we hit an annual snag in our Christmas shopping. What to buy for the person who has everything. And it’s true, isn’t it, that in every family, there’s someone, maybe a few people, who are very hard to buy for. They already have all they

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4th Sunday in Advent

The Other Side Of Christmas

While it’s true that every cloud has a silver lining, it’s equally true that when you unwrap that silver lining there’s very often a cloud inside it.  Our sorrowful mysteries have their joyful side—it’s why we call that awful day on which our Lord was crucified “Good Friday”, signifying the

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3rd Sunday in Advent

Who Art Thou?

The first line of today’s Gospel introduces us to St. John the Baptist.  There he was, out in the wilderness, preaching to the people and baptizing them in the River Jordan.  But who was this man?  It was about thirty years since three wise men had come from the east,

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3rd Sunday in Advent

The Time of Wisdom

Every year on December 17 we transition into the last part of the season of Advent. This “mini-season” has the name of Sapientiatide, which means The Time of Wisdom.  Rather than treating this as just another tidbit of trivial knowledge, our natural curiosity as thinking and rational beings should induce

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Immaculate Conception

Your Redemption Is Nigh

“Before ever the earth was, when there no depths, I was conceived.”  These words are taken from today’s Epistle for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Our Lady herself seems to be speaking to us, applying to herself the words of the eternal Wisdom.  She

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Immaculate Conception

Be Ye Perfect

We all know by now that God never asks for the impossible.  We know, for example, that if we are very sick, we are no longer under the obligation to fast or to go to Mass that Sunday.  If we really can’t do something, then it’s not going to offend

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Advent Sunday

Out Of Synch

As traditional Catholics, we often get the feeling that we and the world don’t quite see eye to eye.  And there’s probably no other time of the year when we’re so far apart, so far out of synch, than in Advent.  They’re already celebrating Christmas, while we’re doing penance and

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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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