Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX

We are tempted today by the false idea of religious indifferentism: this is the idea that all religions are equally good, that they all lead to Heaven. The Athanasian Creed is very clear in saying the opposite. Its opening words say the following: “Whoever wills to be in a state of salvation, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith, which except everyone shall have kept w...

When Our Lord came on this earth, He issued a new commandment, one that summarized and complemented the ten commandments given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. He did not issue this commandment from a mountain, accompanied by thunder and smoke, but He issued it in the midst of a last supper with His twelve Apostles. It was then that He said, “A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as...

The four sets of Ember Days are a beautiful part of our Catholic heritage. According to Pope Leo the Great, the Ember Days go all the way back to the Apostles. Think about the millions of Catholics for whom the practicing of fast and abstinence on the seasonal Ember Days was just part and parcel of their Catholic life. Despite their age-old practice, they were done away with in 1966 by Pope Paul V...

The book of Job tells us that “the life of man upon earth is a warfare”. We are in a battle over our own souls. We are besieged by the cares of this world, by our daily grind, by the relentlessness of life. In this battle, sometimes we need to attack life head-on; at other times, we need to retreat, in order to recuperate our spiritual forces and renew ourselves for the battle. Sometimes, it is by...

This feast represents the first stage of God’s great plan to save mankind from death. It is a mystery of life. We know that one of the most horrible scenes that can be imagined in this life is for children to be slaughtered in front of their parents. This is what happens daily before the face of God. He sees everything that happens in this world. In so many cases, what is happening is that souls a...

God is at the origin of two orders in creation, the natural and the supernatural. The natural order concerns God’s material reality and the things of this earth. The supernatural order concerns God’s spiritual reality, the things of Heaven. These two realms are very distant from one another. When we speak of two things being very far from one another, we say it is like the distance between heaven...

If you want to listen to the message of Fatima, and you believe that it provides a roadmap for salvation in our difficult times, there are two things you must do to honor Our Lady: recite the Rosary daily and make reparation on the first Saturdays of the month. Our Lady of Fatima asked for the daily recitation of the Rosary each of the six times that she appeared there. She stresses the daily Rosa...

In 1978, four businessmen pooled their resources to found the home improvement chain Home Depot. The point of the store was to provide a place where homeowners could go to buy tools and parts to renovate or repair their house. One of the slogans over the years was, “You can do it. We can help.” Home Depot represents something of the American spirit. We have a go-getter, do it yourself attitude. Wh...

I would like to focus on the parable of today’s Mass and explain what it means in relation to our salvation. The parable tells the story of a day of hiring. “Day” in this parable, as far as the story goes, refers only to a 12 hour period, or that part of the day that is in daylight. But the Fathers have understood this 12 hour period to be a symbol of two different longer periods of time, namely,...

Modern society hates families. It is directed to pleasure and wealth and families are an obstacle to that. Even the Church today seems to be joining in on the attack against families by approving the blessing of same-sex couples. To attack families, you have to attack the components that make up families: men and women. Since men are the heads of families, there is a special attack directed agains...

Right before Our Lord left the Apostles on the day of His Ascension, He said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me”. He also said to them, “I will be with you all days, even to the consummation of the world”. We believe that Our Lord is omnipotent. We believe that He rules this world. But how often are we also not tempted to think the opposite, to think that Our Lord is p...

The crisis of today’s world is a crisis of leadership. God has so created human beings and human society that it is absolutely necessary that there be leaders if the common good is to be fostered. There need to be good parents to direct and instruct children; there need to be good mayors and presidents to organize cities and countries and work for the welfare of its citizens; there need to be good...

The life of God is greater than the death of men. God came upon this earth and men put Him to death. But God cannot die. This is what the Cristeros told the Communists who were trying to destroy Catholicism in Mexico. You may kill us and we will die. But God never dies. Dios nunca muere The life of God exists before our life, during our life, after our life. The life of God is the existence that i...

Discouragement kills hope. And “when hope dies, there is very little chance for faith and charity.” Hope is directly tied to the final end; it makes us believe that the end is attainable. When this belief is lost, we have no reason to go on. Why does discouragement have such a power over us? Dom Zeller compares it to the cockle which chokes out the good seed. The good plants are continually having...

Our goal is to develop a supernatural outlook on failure. When we do this, “the flaws which inevitably attend a created order which has known original sin no longer have the power to daunt utterly: they are judged materially no longer. When supernatural values are substituted for earthly values, a complete reversal takes place and the things which menaced before are now so many evidences of God’s...

Recollection based on Dom Hubert van Zeller's Approach to the Crucified First principle: “God tells man what is needed for happiness.” God has constructed us; He has constructed us perfectly. He made us for happiness, but He made us for a happiness that can only be achieved on His terms. We have no power to change our user’s manual. Second principle: “God does not condemn man to suffering; man con...

I do not know if we are in the end times or when the end of the world is going to be. I have no idea. It could be tomorrow. It could be a 1000 years from now. What I do know and what we have to recognize is that there is a triple iniquity in our time that makes it harder for us to save our souls. Firstly, the crisis in the Church, where churchmen in the highest positions of the Church have betraye...

We must make this effort today: to set aside revolutionary man and give way to redeemed man. We must somehow put away the atmosphere of our modern world, so that we can joyfully proclaim Our Lord Jesus Christ as our King. How do we do this? We do it first of all by hating the revolution because it gives us terrible leaders. The revolution has destroyed leaders by destroying authority and it has le...

Purgatory really exists and we must want to reflect on the doctrine of Purgatory, thinking about why it exists and what it is like to be there. Scripture tells us that “nothing defiled can enter Heaven” (Apoc. 21:27). Our Lord also tells us that “every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment” (Matt. 12:36) These two quotations indicate to us why t...

I don’t hate rock ‘n’ roll with my lower nature, the side of my emotions and passions. I am a human being just like everyone else. As human beings, we have an animal side and a spiritual side, a side on which we are like the animals and a side on which we are like God. Rock ‘n’ roll speaks to our animal side, it appeals to it, and our animal side is incapable of resisting that appeal. Anyone who i...

God asked St. Joseph to take care of Him when God can take care of Himself. “He made him ruler of his household and prince over all his possessions.” This imposed a great burden on St. Joseph because it was a difficult role. Our Lord was hated and hunted down. Think of a life where you have to flee to a different country and keep a low profile, where you are wondering each day if you are going to...

The most common thing that humans do when they are in a state that is not pleasant or in a mood that they cannot control is to seek some escape. They say to themselves: I will binge on movies; I will binge on video games; I will binge on alcohol or drugs. These things act like a reset for the soul. We drown the state of mind that was bothering us by overwhelming our senses or overwhelming our syst...

Advantages and disadvantages of public school, homeschooling, and traditional Catholic schooling

The persecution of Catholics in the early history of the USA required sacrifices by those Catholics to keep the faith. Those same sacrifices are demanded of traditional Catholics today, who are being persecuted for wanting to hold on to Tradition.

What is it Our Lord wanted to teach us by this miracle? Why did He do it? What truths does this miracle tell us about?