June is the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is a devotion to the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ for us, especially His love for us as manifested in the Holy Eucharist. This devotion to Our Lord’s physical heart, as a symbol of His love for us, existed during the Middle Ages, but in the 1600s, Our Lord Himself came down on earth to explicitly ask for Catholics to practice this devotion and for t...
Jun 16, 2026•17 min•Season 2026Ep. 19
Two weeks ago, we celebrated Mothers’ Day in order to honor our physical mothers, who brought us into this world and nourished and took care of us when we were children. During the whole of this month of May, we honor our spiritual mother, Mary, Our Lady, who takes care of all our spiritual needs as mediatrix of all the graces we receive. With today’s great feast of Pentecost, we honor yet a third mother, we have yet another Mother’s Day in the month of May. The mother we honor today is Holy Mot...
May 25, 2026•19 min•Season 2026Ep. 18
In today’s epistle, we have this very astonishing scene where Our Lord is speaking to the Apostles, instructing them. And then, suddenly, Our Lord starts lifting up from the earth and goes up into the heavens until He disappears in the clouds. The way it is described, it almost seems like he is in the middle of speaking to them when this happens. Whereas, the way it is described in Luke, the same author, He gives them a last blessing and then goes up to Heaven. The Apostles are not sad about Our...
May 17, 2026•13 min•Season 2026Ep. 17
In today’s epistle, St. James tells us that God, “of his own will hath begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.” In the New Testament, we hear a lot about this idea that our Father in Heaven “begets” us. It is mentioned in every Mass, at the Last Gospel, when we hear: “As many as received him, Our Lord gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, no...
May 03, 2026•16 min•Season 2026Ep. 16
“Shout with joy to God, all the earth. Sing you a psalm in his name. Give glory to His praise.” These words of today’s Introit are inviting us to rejoice in God and not only to praise Him but to give glory to His praise. How are we to do this? By singing. As human beings, singing is one of the best means we have to express the joy that is in our hearts and also give solemnity to our rejoicing. God has given us the great gift of our human voice and practically everyone around the world uses it at...
Apr 28, 2026•16 min•Season 2026Ep. 15
We call today “Good Shepherd Sunday” because of the Gospel where Our Lord compares Himself to a shepherd. It is traditional today to speak of the question of vocations, because of the fact that a priest is a shepherd of souls. The question of a vocation is a crucial one because it concerns God’s plan for our life. As Catholics, we believe that God has created each one of us for Himself, for us to dwell with Him forever in Heaven. Meanwhile, God creates us and places us on this earth, asking us t...
Apr 19, 2026•16 min•Season 2026Ep. 14
Why does the Church have us read about the patriarch Joseph on the feast of St. Joseph?
Apr 09, 2026•10 min•Season 2026Ep. 13
What is real and what is not real? There are many things that we know through direct observation. But reality is much greater than what we can observe directly. For instance, for centuries, mankind was not aware of the microscopic world. There were some who speculated about it but could not prove that it existed. Regardless of what human beings thought about it, though, that microscopic world was existing. Through the invention of microscopes, we are now able to directly observe microbes, cells,...
Apr 06, 2026•17 min•Season 2026Ep. 12
During the second half of Lent, the Church does something remarkable in the traditional liturgy: she has us read almost exclusively from the Gospel of St. John. From day 21 until the last day of Lent, there are only two Gospels that are not from St. John, outside the readings of the Passion. During that time, we read about 43% of the Gospel of St. John. It is clear that the Church wants us to focus on this Gospel in order to learn about the Passion. We know that this Gospel is unique: it was wri...
Mar 24, 2026•20 min•Season 2026Ep. 11
When we read the epistles of St. Paul, we are mainly reading letters written by an Apostle to former pagans. These were people who had grown up in the world of the Roman Empire. It was a world of great military power and of amazing engineering feats, but also one of great decadence. These people were not just used to leading immoral lives; leading such lives was a way of life. In other words, it was considered normal behavior to be immoral. By this, I mean getting drunk, committing fornication, ...
Mar 08, 2026•17 min•Season 2026Ep. 10
#sermon #catholic There are two times during Lent when the Church tries to give us a boost and encourage us to persevere in our Lenten practices. One time, of course, is Laetare Sunday, which occurs just after the halfway point of Lent. The other time is today, when we are a quarter of the way through Lent. The fact that the Church tries to encourage us today indicates to us that we should already be feeling a bit worn out by our Lenten resolutions. We should be needing a second wind. If we have...
Mar 02, 2026•16 min•Season 2026Ep. 9
#catholic In today’s Gospel, we see that Our Lord allows Himself to be tempted. He does this for many reasons, but one of the reasons is this: to show us that everyone is tempted in this world, no matter how holy they are. This is comforting for us, because we all experience temptation and we are sometimes tempted to confuse temptation with sin. Our Lord is perfectly sinless and He was tempted. Thus, it is clear that the mere fact of being tempted is not a sin, and also that we are meant to have...
Feb 22, 2026•20 min•Season 2026Ep. 8
#catholic #sermon Superbowl billboard during halftime show: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love”. Comment on Twitter that got four million views: “Imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you’re a good person”. But the halftime performer Bad Bunny was singing songs that were completely sensual and debased, and calling it love, while the dancers were cavorting in a perverse way on the stage. What we have here is a debate about the meaning of love. Both sides agree that love i...
Feb 16, 2026•16 min•Season 2026Ep. 7
Thirty-eight years ago, Archbishop Lefebvre performed the heroic act of consecrating four bishops without papal mandate. Because of that act: The movement of traditional Catholicism has been able to grow and thrive in the past four decades. Countless souls have been able to receive the traditional and authentic teaching of the Church and worship at the Mass of all time. Other traditional communities, like the FSSP and the ICK, have been allowed to exist. Many, many souls have been saved. This pa...
Feb 09, 2026•18 min•Season 2026Ep. 6
#catholic #sermon Dramatic shift with Septuagesima Sunday: we stop saying Alleluia until Easter; we put on purple, the sign of penance. In the office, we go back to the beginning of the Bible, the opening chapter of the book of Genesis. This season represents a new start for us. We learn about the creation of the world along with the creation of mankind. We learn about the sin of our first parents. The Church wants us to start off this season with a reminder that we are wounded with Original Sin...
Feb 03, 2026•17 min•Season 2026Ep. 5
The audio file for this sermon has very bad audio from 2:00=15:40. One of the cornerstones of a Catholic civilization is the phenomenon known as the large family. Catholics have always been known for having large families. But large Catholic families stand out more today than they have in the past just because families themselves are becoming rarer, not just large families. Young people today are finding it harder and harder to get married. The median age for marriage today is 30 for men and 28 ...
Jan 28, 2026•20 min•Season 2026Ep. 4
#catholic #sspx On this Second Sunday after Epiphany, it is customary to speak about the sacrament of matrimony, because of the Gospel about the wedding feast at Cana. Today, however, I would like to speak about a different kind of marriage, the union that exists between Christ and His Spouses in the religious life. We have this incredible blessing here at St. Isidore’s that the Consoling Sisters are planning to build a novitiate. This will be a place where young women will be prepared to become...
Jan 22, 2026•16 min•Season 2026Ep. 3
#sspx #sermon #catholic #sunday On this feast of the Holy Name, we have the joy of inducting new members into the Holy Name Society. This Society was founded in the Middle Ages to help men increase their faith in the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. One way in which this is done is by asking the members to respect the name of Our Lord and to foster respect for the name of Our Lord and good use of language in those around them. But the Society also wants to assist men in their belief in Our Lor...
Jan 07, 2026•17 min•Season 2026Ep. 2
#catholic #christmas #sermon When God Himself became incarnate in this world, when He assumed our human life, He decided that there would be two symbols that would be representative of His life. Those two symbols were the manger and the cross. Both of them are made of wood. On both of them, Our Lord lied down. Our Lady laid Him down in the manger, while the Roman soldiers laid Him down on the Cross. On both of them, Our Lord was bound and in a state of helplessness. In the manger, He was wrapped...
Jan 03, 2026•17 min•Season 2026Ep. 1
#catholic #sspx #advent There are two comings of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the first at Christmas and the second at the Last Judgment. St. Paul speaks of the Last Judgment today when he says: “pass no judgment before the time, until the Lord comes, Who will both bring to light the things hidden in darkness and make manifest the counsels of hearts.” We know this is one of the characteristics of the Last Judgment: everything will be revealed. But this is also one of the characteristics of the First C...
Dec 21, 2025•18 min•Season 2025Ep. 31
#catholic #sspx #sermon Doctors tell us that if we want our bodies to be healthy, we must exercise our bodies regularly. If our bodies are always at a state of rest, not moving, not straining, they will deteriorate over time. It is interesting to note that many exercises consist of pushing back against gravity. We have this force of gravity that is always being exercised upon us, which pulls us down. We find that, if we sometimes work against that force of gravity, if we strain our bodies agains...
Dec 17, 2025•19 min•Season 2025Ep. 30
#catholic #sspx #ourlady The Immaculate Conception of Our Lady was a unique privilege given to her alone by God. Of all of the people born into this world after the sin of Adam and Eve, only one was prevented from contracting Original Sin by the intervention of God. This is implied by Pope Pius IX when he defined the dogma in 1854: “We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and p...
Dec 10, 2025•16 min•Season 2025Ep. 29
#advent #catholic #sspx Advent is a holy season of waiting. We learn how to wait for God. Waiting well is an important spiritual skill, because God often moves slowly. When we look at the history of the world and of the human race, we see that God is never in a hurry. God is outside of time. All of time is like a single moment for Him. He sees all of human history from the highest perspective. When we interact with God, we have to be willing for Him to act slowly. We have to be willing to wait. ...
Dec 01, 2025•18 min•Season 2025Ep. 28
#endtimes #catholic #ourlady Today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year and it represents the end of time. That is why the Church gives us a Gospel passage of Our Lord speaking about the Last Judgment. Whenever Our Lord speaks of the Last Judgment, He wants to give us certain means by which we may identify it, while at the same time He does not want to tell us when it will happen. Rather, He wants us to always watch and be ready for His coming. Today, I would like to speak about some other ...
Nov 25, 2025•19 min•Season 2025Ep. 27
On July 13, 1917, Our Lady appeared for the second time to the three children of Fatima. She promised to work a miracle on October 13, so that everyone would believe. Then, she asked the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to pray the following prayer when doing so: “O Jesus, it is for love of you, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” These three young children were already familiar with the conception of pray...
Nov 17, 2025•16 min•Season 2025Ep. 26
#sspx #catholic #catholicchurch We have a special feast day today, the dedication of the archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. It is interesting that the Church makes this a second class feast, while the feast of the dedication of St. Peter’s Basilica, which will take place next Tuesday, is only a third-class feast. The main reason for the special honor given to St. John Lateran is that it was the first official church of the Catholic Church. When you visit St. John Lateran in Rome, you see ...
Nov 11, 2025•17 min•Season 2025Ep. 25
#catholic #sspx #christtheking If we look at all the of the problems in the world and in the Catholic Church today, they all really boil down to one problem. It is a first commandment problem. The first commandment is hardly being honored and practiced today. Now, it may seem that the first commandment is the easiest one of all to practice. “I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.” We can understand this commandment too simplistically, thinking it just commands us not ...
Oct 28, 2025•17 min•Season 2025Ep. 24
By the design of God, the first second of our existence passes in a dark place, the womb of our mother. We remain in the darkness for three quarters of a year, growing, making the transition from an embryo to a fetus to an infant. Finally, the day comes when we emerge into this world and we get to see for the first time what sort of world we are born into. Our vision is at first very blurry and is limited to a range of about half a foot. The infant’s perception of reality, of the world that he h...
Oct 16, 2025•16 min•Season 2025Ep. 23
God has created a law for the natural order such that what goes up must come down. God has made there to be the same law for the supernatural order: what goes up must come down, and what goes down must come up. If you are prideful in this life, if you make yourself out to be something greater than you are, if you despise others and are selfish, you will go down to hell after this life is over. If on the other hand, you are humble during this life, if you willingly accept corrections and humiliat...
Sep 28, 2025•15 min•Season 2025Ep. 22
#sspx #catholic #catholicism #priesthood Fr. James Chipperfield is a strange man. He is only 26 years old and he is already a priest. That is a strange and rare thing in today’s world. It is what we call the young vocation. The average age of a newly ordained priest in the USA today is 34 years old, but Fr. Chipperfield was ordained when he was still 25 years old. The other Australian who was ordained with him was also 25 and the priests ordained for the SSPX are usually in their 20s. These youn...
Sep 22, 2025•13 min•Season 2025Ep. 21
