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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.”

4th Sunday in Lent

Forty Days And Forty Martyrs

Several Sundays ago, we followed Our Blessed Lord into the wilderness.  There we beheld the Son of God, as he undertook a long fast of forty days and forty nights.  He went without food and drink, giving us an example of how we must subjugate our frail human bodies with

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4th Sunday in Lent

A Call To Prayer

Without fully endorsing the person of Raymond Cardinal Burke, who, despite his many well-founded criticisms, remains convinced of the legitimacy of Bergoglio’s papacy, we are transmitting today to the faithful of St. Margaret Mary’s and of our online readership, the Cardinal’s call to pray a nine-month Novena to Our Blessed

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3rd Sunday in Lent

Dividing The Kingdom

“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth,” words of our Lord in today’s Gospel.  He made this declaration in answer to an objection that he is casting out demons in the name of the devil.  Those who made this ridiculous

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3rd Sunday in Lent

Guinea Pigs

We live in a world of misguided experimentation.  Every single day we are bombarded with the latest ridiculous attempts by the elite to test out their theories.  And unfortunately, it is “we the people” who are the guinea pigs in those experiments. It doesn’t seem to matter how crazy the

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2nd Sunday in Lent

Two Sides Of A Coin

First of all, my apologies for not being able to make it here last week.  We were all ready to make the drive back to Ohio when the snow storm hit and we had to postpone.  I hope you were all able to make up for the loss of another

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A stained glass window depicting a man reading a book.
2nd Sunday in Lent

Faith Without Works

One of the many heresies invented at the time of the Protestant Rebellion was the notion that man could be saved by faith alone.  In spite of their protestations that their sole and supreme source of belief was “the Bible”, this heresy plainly goes against the words of Holy Scripture. 

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A painting of a man plowing a field.
Sexagesima Sunday

Good Seed Bearing Fruit

Throughout the ages, God has raised up men—learned doctors of the Church who fought against the errors of their times; or sometimes martyrs whose blood injected the Church with renewed life and who inspired the rest of us ordinary Christians with their courage and example. For the sixty or so

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Sexagesima Sunday

Time To Sow The Seed

It’s a very strange thing, when you think about it… When we’re presented with something truly wonderful, something that will transform our lives into one of peace and happiness, something that will ensure a blissful future that can never be disrupted or lost, we don’t immediately rush to take advantage

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Septuagesima Sunday

The Right Shoes For The Job

One of the most popular games that they play at children’s parties in England is called the sack race.  Like any other race, the purpose is to see who can get to the finish line first.  The only difference is that all the competitors are wearing a large sack over

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A painting of a man and a woman looking at each other.
Septuagesima Sunday

Counting Our Losses

As we begin the season of Shrovetide, our annual preparation for Lent, we are invited to reflect on the inner workings of our soul and make sure they’re up to speed.  We search within, contemplating what we find, and holding up our deepest thoughts, dreams and fears to the light

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3rd Sunday after Epiphany

Children Of The Kingdom

We have a tendency to treat Holy Scripture like any other book.  We read the Gospel as though it was just someone telling us a story.  A true story, to be sure, but merely the retelling of events that happened in the past and which are supposed to have some

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3rd Sunday after Epiphany

Thou Shalt Not Kill

We all learned the Ten Commandments when we were children.  We can find them in our catechism, our moral theology manuals, and of course, in the Scriptural Book of Exodus.  They were written by none other than God himself, miraculously engraved upon two tablets of stone and presented to Moses. 

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A painting of jesus pouring water into a pot.
2nd Sunday after Epiphany

Nothing Is Impossible

One of the most prominent features of the liturgical Advent season is the formidable presence of one man in particular, St. John the Baptist.  He is the “voice crying in the wilderness”, the man sent by God to “prepare the way of the Lord”.  He is the prophet who, according

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2nd Sunday after Epiphany

A New Advent?

One of the most prominent features of the liturgical Advent season is the formidable presence of one man in particular, St. John the Baptist.  He is the “voice crying in the wilderness”, the man sent by God to “prepare the way of the Lord”.  He is the prophet who, according

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2nd Sunday after Epiphany

My Father’s Business

The Gospel story today is simple enough.  It’s been twelve years since the Christchild was born in Bethlehem, and Mary and Joseph have decided he’s old enough to make the pilgrimage with them to the Holy City of Jerusalem.  Afterwards on the way home, thinking their Son was with other

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2nd Sunday after Epiphany

Moving On…

The problem with the holidays is that sooner or later they must come to an end.  That gradual realization that we are transitioning from the joys of the Christmas season into the drab months of winter affect our general mood as we grit our teeth and settle back down to

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Sunday in Christmas Octave

Our First Resolution

It’s the last day of 2023, and we should be looking forward to all the good things, real and imaginary, that the New Year will bring.  We may be a little hesitant in placing too much hope that such good things will actually happen, but we hope nonetheless.  We are,

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Sunday in Christmas Octave

A Liturgical Christmas

You’ve all noticed, I’m sure, the similarity between this week’s schedule and last week’s, with Christmas Day and New Year’s Day falling on the same day as usual, both of them holydays of obligation, calling us to Mass this year two days running for two weeks in a row.  It’s

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A christmas tree is lit up in the snow.
Christmas Day

O Tannenbaum

I like old movies.  There’s something comforting about those old black and white celluloid trips to the past, to a better time when people were nice to each other and nearly all believed in God and went to church on Sundays.  They’re especially reassuring around this time of year.  From

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A painting of jesus.
Christmas Eve

Seeing Is Believing?

There’s been a lot of doubting and worrying going on this past week.  On Thursday, we had the feastday of Doubting Thomas, the Apostle who couldn’t believe in the Resurrection until he actually saw our Lord, complete with all the wounds of his crucifixion.  Now today it’s the turn of

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