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Fifth Sunday after Easter
The Object of Prayer “Ask, and you shall receive.” John 16:24. What is easier than asking? What more agreeable than to receive all you ask for? And he says it who cannot fail to fulfill his promise, for with God to will and to accomplish are one and the same thing. “Amen, amen, I…
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Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Carelessness of the Avaricious in Neglecting God during Life “And entering into the temple, He began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.” St. Luke 19:45. So far are men carried away by the desire of money and temporal riches that they do not hesitate to place the honor of…
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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
The Order and Manner in Which to Do our Daily Work “The same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.” Luke 16:1 What are we in this life? We are all stewards of God the great Master; the goods that he has entrusted to us are our souls and the gifts…
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Fourth Sunday after Easter
The Hopeless State of Those Who Boast of their Sins “And when he is come he will convince the world of sin.” St. John 16:8. The sin of which the Holy Ghost will convince the world is the want of faith in Jesus Christ, who, in the Gospel of today, expressly says: “Of sin,…
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Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
On the Torment Caused by a Bad Conscience “Grace be to you, and peace.” I Thess. 2:10. Yes, peace! But there is no peace, where there is a domestic war and torture; whose business it is to torment sinners day and night, namely their bad consciences. O sinners, if you are not sunk in…
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Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
The Necessity of Friendship with God in the Married State in Order to have Temporal Happiness. “The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.” Matt. 13:24. What a pity! What useless and vexations labor it is for a man to scatter the seed and reap no…
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Fourth Sunday after Epihany
The Necessity of Removing the Proximate Occasion of Sin “Lord save us, we perish.” Matt. 8:25. “Lord, save us: we perish!” The disciples of Christ could offer this prayer with the greatest confidence of being heard and saved. They were in imminent danger, but they had followed their divine Master into the ship, and…
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Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Human Frailty in Dangerous Occasions “And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples to the wedding.” John 2:2. Truly that was a happy marriage-feast, at which Jesus, the Son of God, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and the Apostles of our Lord appeared among the guests. Ah, Christians, would that all our social…
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The Powerful Means of Salvation that all Men Have on Hand
The Almighty has prepared for all men, not only necessary and sufficient, but frequent, abundant, and, as far as He is concerned, efficacious graces and helps with which, if they wish to co-operate with them, they can easily gain heaven; therefore he who has the good will to serve God truly has nothing to…
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The Comfort of a Good Conscience in Death
First; a good conscience takes away all that death has terrible in itself. Secondly; a good conscience takes away all that it has terrible in its circumstances.—Preached on the feast of the Purification of the B. V. M. “Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord.” Introduction. Remarkable and extraordinary is this canticle of…