Immaculate Heart of Mary Sermon
Today's Daily Mass sermon was about the Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. John the Beloved and your role in the Church today leading to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
I'll be posting some daily Mass sermons like this one since I'm [surprisingly] back in a parish.
Confession and the 10 Lepers
The four parts of a good confession.
St. Maximus the Confessor
A history of Christological errors and their remedies in six minutes.
The Simplicity of Catholicism Sermon
How the parable of the Good Samaritan links the two Great Commandments in the Eucharist and corporal works of mercy.
May Catholics Attend a “Gay Wedding” for Pastoral Reasons?
This was a real email I got tonight. My response also follows verbatim. Hi, Fr. DN, I asked three local pastors in the area I live in in NJ about what Catholics should do if they are invited to same sex marriages. They all said that if it is a close relative that you should attend so as not to lose the relationship or bond with that relative. Does the Catholic Church have any dogma on this? Thank you, Karen Dear Karen, Those priests are wrong. You would be committing grave mortal sin in participating in the attempted "marriage" of same-sex people by going to their "wedding." Your sin would be what the Catholic Church calls "being an accessory to another's sin" and it comes in 9 ways. In your case, you would be committing sins number 3 and 5 [...]
How to Attend Holy Mass Like the Saints
This is an hour long video on how to attend Holy Mass like the saints. They come from meditations from St. Francis De Sales on the Passion of Christ within the Traditional Latin Mass. https://vimeo.com/283322245
What Catholics Are Missing in the Death Penalty Debate
WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. Before skimming this article to see if you like my conclusion on the death penalty, please realize that this blog post is a work on systematic theology, not moral theology. Systematic theology is a consideration of the levels dogma in the Catholic Church. Indeed, the question of By What Authority must precede visceral reactions to difficult issues that divide Catholics today like the death penalty or gay "marriage." Against the better judgment of half-my-mind, I’m going to give you (here in the first paragraph) the dogmatic conclusion of this blog post that will be proved below: The Catechism of the Catholic Church is not infallible. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is not infallible. I imagine this sentence will delight many liberal Catholics (who like to put moral relativism above the Catechism under the auspices of [...]
Holy Faith is Your Triumph Over Enemies
In this sermon for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, I reference a 1995 death experience of Gloria Polo and an ancient prophesy of St. Francis of Assisi.
A Formation Commensurate to Baptism
Any species of animal must have a formation commensurate to its nature. We are humans with a human nature, but we are called to participate in the Divine Nature through baptism. How can our formation equal the grace already transmitted in the sacraments? Two ways: 1)To live according to the spirit, not the flesh (Romans 8) and 2) To go to the mother who singularly formed the human nature of the God-man.