Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX

#SSPX #prayer When God created man, at the same time He wanted to create the human family. He created one man and one woman, Adam and Eve, and then He married them. He made them two in one flesh. When God Himself chose to come down upon this earth in the fullness of time, He chose to do so in a family. The family had existed for the entire history of man up to that point, but now mankind would hav...

Today, we honor the holy name of Jesus. The Church has a special feast dedicated to this name. The name is holy because it came directly from God. It was given to Our Lady by the angel Gabriel just before she conceived Our Lord in her womb. It was given to St. Joseph by an angel in a dream when he was wondering what he should do about the pregnancy of Our Lady. Our Lady and St. Joseph gave Our Lor...

The life of man is marked by a paradox: there is in each one of us the desire to serve another because of the fact that we are creatures, but there is also in us the desire to be independent such that we want to stand on our own feet and be free from all control. Firstly, we have a desire to serve another. We cannot avoid the obvious fact that we are limited and helpless in many respects. We try t...

Christmas is the night when God gives Himself to us. Isaias gives us a name to call Our Lord when He comes: “God with us”. And he also emphasizes: “A child is born to us. A child is given to us.” It is difficult for us to understand because it exceeds our understanding. God is born, in person. God is born for you, for your sakes. There is a particularity about Christmas, a concreteness, that has t...

#homily #gaudete For the past month, there has been a lot of news concerning who President Trump is choosing to be part of his next cabinet when he takes over the reins of government on January 20. When a new name is announced and you read the reaction of the person chosen, you hear them saying something like, “I would like to thank President Trump for his trust in me. This is the honor of my life...

St. Isidore Capital Campaign website: growstisidore.org Today, I want to speak to you about glory. It’s the second Sunday in a row that we have a Gospel about the Last Judgment. Typically, when we think of the LJ, we think of a terrifying spectacle, where the world will be consumed in fire, where everyone on the earth will die, where all nations and towns will be wiped away. No more Denver, no mor...

#resurrection #catholic At the beginning of the second century, around the year 100, a man named Justin was born in the city of Flavia Neapolis. That is a town in modern day Palestine. Growing up, Justin was educated as a philosopher in the school of Platonic philosophy. He was a pagan and he heard talk about a group of people called Christians. He was told that they were terribly immoral people....

#Catholic #SSPX Whether you drive to St. Isidore’s from Byers or Bennett, Aurora or Denver, or elsewhere, you come to a church in a rural setting, surrounded by farmland. You come to a church that was built by farmers and which is dedicated to a saint who was a farmer, St. Isidore. You come to the traditional Latin Mass, which often presents Gospels for your reflection that have some relation to f...

As we come to the feast of Christ the King this year, everyone has politics on their mind. There are important elections coming up in less than two weeks that will decide the course of our country for the next four years. The coincidence of this feast and the elections provides for us an opportune moment for us, as Catholics, to remind ourselves of our politics. Our political stance is very simple...

With the sudden death of Bishop Tissier de Mallerais on October 8, there are many who are concerned about the future of the SSPX, realizing that the SSPX needs bishops to survive. This is a good moment for us to remind ourselves about three things: why the consecrations of bishops took place in 1988; why there have not been more bishops consecrated since then; and what we might expect for the cons...

In our Catholic doctrine classes for the past three weeks, we have been going over Pope Leo XIII’s beautiful encyclical on marriage Arcanum Divinae . Early on in the encyclical, he says the following: “the Universal Church has always taught that Christ our Lord raised marriage to the dignity of a sacrament; that to husband and wife, guarded and strengthened by the heavenly grace which His merits g...

#demons #angels In our images, we depict St. Michael standing over the devil and thrusting a spear into him while holding the scales of justice. This is because St. Michael is the victor over the devil. The book of the Apocalypse speaks about this victory. “And there was a great battle in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels: and they prevaile...

You know that Sts. James and John approached Our Lord to ask Him that they might reign with Him, that they might sit at His right and left hand in His kingdom, once He had entered into His glory. Our Lord, in response, said to them, “Can you be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am to be baptized?” (Mk. 10:38) And they said, “We can.” You see in this request the desire to be identified with Our...

One of the great roles of Holy Mother Church is to teach us how to speak to God, to create in our hearts the proper dispositions of religion. She does this especially through her liturgy, where we have a ceremony prepared for us such that all we have to do is enter into it and make ourselves one with it, as far as possible, in order to become holy. One of the most powerful ways in which the Church...

Once a man went off to the mountains for a hike. When he arrived at the trailhead, he read a sign that said, “For your safety stay on trail”. He did this for a little bit but soon he became curious about the glittery and shiny things that he saw in the forest next to the trail. So, he left the trail and entered into the forest as the sun started going down. As he got deeper into the forest, it got...

Having seen how St. Pius X was totally consumed with love for God, we may wonder how he could also have room for a great love for his fellow man. And, we may say that, in the end, there was not enough room, for he died of a broken heart. We all know that the spiritual life begins with humility. That virtue provides the foundation on which all else is built. But, then, once its roots have been well...

We know that Our Lord says that “where your heart is, there also your treasure is.” And I believe that this indicates that every man must have some love within him, some predilections, and that it is the central love of his heart that really directs and explains all of his activity. And when we try to plumb the heart of our sainted patron, I do not think that it is too difficult to find what was b...

When the Israelites were traveling in the desert, God was with them every step of the way. He made His presence manifest to them by appearing as a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire during the night. He provided for them. He gave directions to them through Moses. He rained down food for them from Heaven every day except the Sabbath. Once, he caused water to flow forth from a rock...

The role of the priest to preach to the faithful is a difficult one because we have to preach about things that exceed human understanding. Any topic about God is going to be something that is above us and that we are not fully able to grasp. This is particularly true for the topic of today’s sermon: God’s love for us. God has a love for you that exceeds all other loves. Just as God’s power exceed...

As bad as it is to be physically impaired, however, it is even worse to be spiritually impaired. God has not only given us our senses to know reality; He has also given us a mind. We are supposed to use our mind to know the world around us, to understand the truth. We find this difficult because we are wounded by original sin with the wound of ignorance. This makes it laborious for us to discover...

We live in times that are difficult in the Church and the world, in that they are collapsing in a certain sense. In such times, it is very important that we maintain the theological virtue of hope. People are tempted to think that God has abandoned His Church or abandoned the world, or to think that the grace of God is not working any more, that this world is too far gone. That would be to fall in...

You belong to a counter-cultural movement called Traditional Catholicism. But the world at large does not at all share your traditional Catholic faith and in some respects is hostile to it. You come here to St. Isidore’s because you want the traditional Catholic faith, the same faith taught by the Apostles and held by Catholics throughout the ages. You come here to be instructed in the same moral...

I want to tell you an amazing but true story. It is a story you know well. It is about a Jewish man who claimed to be God 2000 years ago. He chose twelve uneducated men as His disciples. After teaching them for three years, He commanded them to go throughout the entire world preaching the message that He had given them. They accomplished this command with incredible success. Over a period of 1000...

Holy Mother Church dedicates this Sunday to the capital vice of anger. Let us look at three different types of sinful anger and then a story that illustrates a Catholic view on anger. First type concerns those whom we call “irritable”: they are angry too quickly and for a slight cause. These are people who blow up for no reason or who easily snap. Those who are around them know that they can lose...

Sermon for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 2024