Thank you, Father, for the comments about the Christmas Tree. As a lifelong Catholic, I have never heard these facts concerning the Christmas Tree until now. Thank you for the beautiful and thought-provoking commentary about marriage!
Blessings, Father. The most lovely aspect of my Christmas tree is the Nativity scene right below it, and my photo of our beloved little flower St Therese of Lisieux hanging from one of the branches. Regina Pace Ora Pro Nobis.
thank you Father...great sermon & reflection on Holy Family...God Divine Plan of Salvation is revealed in the Holy Family...Adam & Eve failed mainly because they are not Born in the Womb of a Loving & Merciful Mother and had not experience the love, nourishment, care,support, encouragement & guidance of a Mother & Father...Perfect Humanity can only be perfectly form in a Holy Family settings...That's why Satan wanted to destroy every family so that a child cannot be form in virtues to become a Perfect Human that can be able to defeat his wiles,snares & temptation as Jesus did to him...But who formed the perfect humanity of Jesus it was entrusted to Mary & Joseph (a Family)...God the Father gave the Incarnate Word in a form of a 'helpless child"...the Begotten Son stripped with glory and power had to depend everything on a Motherly & Fatherly care and support...In contrast Adam & Eve came a grown up man & woman, a description in our world today as independent individual strong enough to challenge the temptation of Satan but as we all know it's bound to fail...In the Garden of Eden Adam & Eve failed...but in the New Paradise after the Triumph....Satan will fail because he will be facing the New Adam & Eve...man & woman perfected in virtues like Jesus...and who will form their humanity....a Loving & Merciful Mother.,,the Sovereign Queen.. more Mother than Queen....Godbless! S&IHMMP4us.Amen
Americans have such a hard time understanding what a traditional Catholic family looked like in the past. And most younger traditional Catholics seem unable to strike a balance. An uncritical return to preV2/19th century family structures as they were is a BIG mistake. The feminist movement that began around the 1880s was justified, sane and natural. Women had always been effectively viewed as possessions incapable of much other than motherhood or religious life. It was wholly and objectively unfair. No wonder our Lord said daughters of Jerusalem weep for yourselves. We SHOULD NOT allow men to do that to us again ladies. Some of us-indeed many of us-are too equipped intellectually, artistically or athletically to limit ourselves to our highest calling, motherhood. Nor did women do so in the past when they had a good husband and lived with their extended family, as was the norm. Wise women made sure they had a “village” around them to help them with their mothering (I don’t think the breastfeeding maids were a good idea). Mothers, in-laws, in-house Nannie’s, neighbors, servants, etc. despite the fact that women were thought by men to be incapable of intellectual thinking, political ideas, management and ownership of property, etc. Motherhood is indeed the highest most sacred and beautiful calling, but it doesn’t have to be the only focus of a woman. These objective past injustices naturally led to the demands of the initial, original feminists and legitimate requests for Church support which led to the needed Church council. V2 was co-opted but the calling of a council was needed for a humbler, more sincere and transparent understanding of the rightly-ordered female nature.
This priest is a good Shepherd 🕊
Thank you, Father, for the comments about the Christmas Tree. As a lifelong Catholic, I have never heard these facts concerning the Christmas Tree until now. Thank you for the beautiful and thought-provoking commentary about marriage!
Blessings, Father. The most lovely aspect of my Christmas tree is the Nativity scene right below it, and my photo of our beloved little flower St Therese of Lisieux hanging from one of the branches. Regina Pace Ora Pro Nobis.
Amem! Holy Family have mercy on us; thank you father, hope everyone understood your Holy Sermon. 3 Hail Marys for the priest.
A new year, perhaps with all our good intentions and prayers,and all of the very special Priests of this world we might just turn this around!
Amen. God bless you all !
thank you Father...great sermon & reflection on Holy Family...God Divine Plan of Salvation is revealed in the Holy Family...Adam & Eve failed mainly because they are not Born in the Womb of a Loving & Merciful Mother and had not experience the love, nourishment, care,support, encouragement & guidance of a Mother & Father...Perfect Humanity can only be perfectly form in a Holy Family settings...That's why Satan wanted to destroy every family so that a child cannot be form in virtues to become a Perfect Human that can be able to defeat his wiles,snares & temptation as Jesus did to him...But who formed the perfect humanity of Jesus it was entrusted to Mary & Joseph (a Family)...God the Father gave the Incarnate Word in a form of a 'helpless child"...the Begotten Son stripped with glory and power had to depend everything on a Motherly & Fatherly care and support...In contrast Adam & Eve came a grown up man & woman, a description in our world today as independent individual strong enough to challenge the temptation of Satan but as we all know it's bound to fail...In the Garden of Eden Adam & Eve failed...but in the New Paradise after the Triumph....Satan will fail because he will be facing the New Adam & Eve...man & woman perfected in virtues like Jesus...and who will form their humanity....a Loving & Merciful Mother.,,the Sovereign Queen.. more Mother than Queen....Godbless! S&IHMMP4us.Amen
Jong Ricafort you need your own blog
Thanks for leading me here. Interesting perspective on The Fall I never heard before. Father makes a great case for spousal relationships.
The holy family
Amen!!!
Americans have such a hard time understanding what a traditional Catholic family looked like in the past. And most younger traditional Catholics seem unable to strike a balance. An uncritical return to preV2/19th century family structures as they were is a BIG mistake. The feminist movement that began around the 1880s was justified, sane and natural. Women had always been effectively viewed as possessions incapable of much other than motherhood or religious life. It was wholly and objectively unfair. No wonder our Lord said daughters of Jerusalem weep for yourselves. We SHOULD NOT allow men to do that to us again ladies. Some of us-indeed many of us-are too equipped intellectually, artistically or athletically to limit ourselves to our highest calling, motherhood. Nor did women do so in the past when they had a good husband and lived with their extended family, as was the norm. Wise women made sure they had a “village” around them to help them with their mothering (I don’t think the breastfeeding maids were a good idea). Mothers, in-laws, in-house Nannie’s, neighbors, servants, etc. despite the fact that women were thought by men to be incapable of intellectual thinking, political ideas, management and ownership of property, etc. Motherhood is indeed the highest most sacred and beautiful calling, but it doesn’t have to be the only focus of a woman. These objective past injustices naturally led to the demands of the initial, original feminists and legitimate requests for Church support which led to the needed Church council. V2 was co-opted but the calling of a council was needed for a humbler, more sincere and transparent understanding of the rightly-ordered female nature.