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Posted on September 28, 2019September 27, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope Ignoring the Poor Is a Damnable Sin—A Homily for the 26th Sunday of the Year This Sunday’s Gospel about the rich man and Lazarus contains some important teachings on judgment and Hell. We live in times in which many consider the teachings on Hell to be untenable. They struggle to understand how a God described as loving, merciful, and forgiving could assign certain souls to Hell forever. Despite the fact that the Doctrine of Hell is taught extensively in Scripture as well as by Jesus Himself, it does...

“Finding Jesus: A Joyous Epiphany” (Matthew 2:1-12) Today is January 6, and that means today is Epiphany. The Epiphany of Our Lord is a major festival in the church year, a big one, almost on a par with Christmas. And, like Christmas, Epiphany is a fixed-date festival, meaning it always falls on the same date, regardless of the day of the week. So most years we celebrate Epiphany with a special service on a day other than Sunday, and we have to make a special effort to get here. But this year January 6 happens to fall on a Sunday,...

It's Good Friday.  Why is it good?  Because Sunday's coming!  Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.  Behold the King of the Jews, dying for the salvation of all! Matthew 27:1-57 Jesus Handed Over to Pontius Pilate 1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. 2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Judas Hangs Himself 3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and...

For those who have not heard the truth, there is finally been something done about the so called self-proclaimed "King of the Jews",one Jesus, son of Joseph a carpenter from Nazareth. This Jesus has for 3 years been wandering about the Holy Land professing his blasphemous anti-Mosaic Law clatter. The man is a threat to the social order, NO MORE! He was observed closely by our wonderful priests of the temple recently in many heretical public meetings, claiming to be the Son of the true and living God! An end has finally come to all the distracting attention this man...