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In order to move closer to perfection, we must fast—not only from food, but from sin as well. By chastening the body, we elevate our spirit and instill charity in our soul.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Archive on SSPXpodcast.com > 📳 Subscribe to the SSPX on YouTube > ❤️ Like th...

The sin of presumption is especially dangerous. All of us fall into it at times, believing that we can place ourselves in danger of committing mortal sin or falling into temptation without worry. How many times do we tell ourselves that nothing is wrong, God will forgive, and continue on our wayward path? But in doing so, we tempt God and imperil our souls.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon o...

As Catholics, we are called to have a love for the sacrament of confession. Along with the Eucharist, confession is the primary means by which we may save our souls. Yet many of us find it difficult to confess our sins regularly and too often make excuses for not devoting ourselves fully to this great gift of grace.  📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Ser...

How should we perform our penance? That is, what should be our heart's disposition? Two indispensable dispositions are, first, to love God and, second, to unite our penance with the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. For our acts penance will lack fruit unless they lead us back to God.  📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episod...

We fast and abstain during the Lenten season in order, among other things, to control the concupiscence of the flesh while elevating our souls to God. Both practices also offer us an opportunity to make reparation for our past sins and imitate Our Lord, fasted in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights.  📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to...

Every apparition of Our Lady has one consistent message: prayer and penance. For while we may wish for our bodily or material maladies to be addressed when we appeal to the Blessed Virgin and Christ, these temporal cures mean nothing if we do not first heal our souls. And so in this time of Lent, we must focus on what is eternal, namely our salvation, which can only come about by dedicating oursel...

We must enter Lent with a spirit of charity, for if we are charitable with others, God will be charitable with us. Yet to begin on the path of charity, we must recognize that the greatest battle we have in his life is within our own souls. Cowardice often drives us from confronting this hard truth. With charity and reliance on Our Lord, however, we will have the strength to face our faults and ove...

To arise in humility, we must have a fear of pride. Moreover, we cannot rest on our own abilities and virtues. We must, rather, look to God with humility so He can work in our souls while remembering that we can only claim our weaknesses for ourselves.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Arc...

In the midst of life's trials, do we rejoice in them and see them as an opportunity for spiritual growth? Without trials, we are often tempted to believe we do not need God while remaining attached to the passing things of this world.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Archive on SSPXpodcas...

If we are not watchful, our minds quickly lose focus on the one true thing needful. When we do not put our whole selves into our prayers and devotions, we begin to see our spiritual lives as a burden and oppressive. Before we know it, our connection with God begins to unravel and we become susceptible to destructive temptations that place our salvation in peril.   📺 View / Listen to this Ser...

As we approach the season of Lent, Holy Mother Church prepares us for the penitential effort this time of the liturgical year demands. This is not a negative. Penance is not just a burden or a pain we must endure, but an opportunity to grow in virtue. Moreover, by detaching ourselves from the world, we are given an opportunity to draw closer to God.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTub...

Sloth is a voluntary and repugnant repudiation to effort. It is a vice that encroaches upon every aspect of our lives. If we give in to it, we risk losing our connection with God and thus imperil our salvation.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Archive on SSPXpodcast.com > 📳 Subscribe...

God's love for us as friends is a great gift. Yet how is it possible for us, as mere humans, to be friends with God? But as St. Thomas Aquinas points out, the union between God and man arises from charity. For as God loves us, so are we called to love God--and it is in this mutuality that friendship lies.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podca...

According to the Church’s rubrics, the Candlemas candles can only be blessed if they will be lit and carried in procession. In this way, these candles are a symbol of the light we, as Catholics, must carry out into the world as a sign of our life in Christ in a state of sanctifying grace.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every e...

If an all-good God exists, why is there evil in the world? This objection has been used by persons from ancient times to modern days as a basis to reject Christianity. The answer to this objection is that evil does not come from God, but from creatures. What this means concretely and how it relates to man's free will is the subject of this sermon.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube...

The Feast of the Purification commemorates the offering of Our Lord as a sacrifice to God the Father. In the Catholic Church, when a young man offers himself as a cleric, he imitates the offering of Our Lord and accepts God as His only reward. And it is in this offering of self that a cleric finds meaning in his life, one that is lived for God, whom he loves.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon...

The mystery of presentation of the Child Jesus in the temple expresses to us the reality of Christ as the true Light of the world. Our mission, as followers of Christ, is also to be a light in the darkness. The blessed candles that are given to the faithful on this day, express each Christian’s mission to be a light that draws souls to God, guides souls to God, by our faith and by our charity. &nb...

The miracle of Our Lord calming the tempest on the waters is an allegory for how he calms the tempest in our souls. Like the apostles of old, we are buffeted by turmoil and temptations. And like them, we must reach out to God, knowing always that our lives and salvation depend upon Him.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every epi...

To no man should we render evil for evil, even the "enemy of the hour," that person who may momentarily vex or wrong us in some way. It could be a neighbor, a friend, or even a family member. Instead of contemplating revenge or relishing in the pain of our "enemy," Our Lord calls us to show charity and therefore manifest His love in the world.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube >...

What has God given to us? Everything--and that is why we must acknowledge and give thanks for Our Lord's gifts. We must never forget that God owes us nothing; everything is a free gift of His immeasurable love for us.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Archive on SSPXpodcast.com > 📳 Sub...

What has God given to us? Everything--and that is why we must acknowledge and give thanks for Our Lord's gifts. We must never forget that God owes us nothing; everything is a free gift of His immeasurable love for us.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Archive on SSPXpodcast.com > 📳 Sub...

So many of us think that evil justifies evil, at least when evil is done unto us. In the context of the family, this pernicious principle manifests itself when spouses keep a running tally of the other's apparent wrongs or, worse, use the faults of extended family members to cover up their own. The only true way to overcome evil is by embracing the good, even if this means we must suffer the wrong...

Our Lord begins his public ministry by instituting the sacrament of marriage. This is why we must be mindful to treat the occasion properly, never forgetting that the true joy we should feel is for the public sacrament that was just effectuated and God’s blessing over the union.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode &gt...

The Cross is a necessary part of any great undertaking, including the sacrament of marriage. This is because the Cross represents a sacrificing of oneself or, rather, a consecration to any cause that is good and noble. For to have a truly Christian marriage, one must be prepared to set aside oneself for one's family.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX S...

To receive the sacraments fruitfully, we need to receive them with good dispositions that can only come through prayer. An easy and fruitful way to strengthen our interior life is by making visits to the Blessed Sacrament.   📺 View / Listen to this Sermon on YouTube > 🔊 Subscribe to the SSPX Sermons podcast to get every episode > 🎤 Browse our Sermons Archive on SSPXpodcast.com >...