Dear Friend,

Cardinal Burke’s Operation Storm Heaven Holy Mass was a tremendous gift to all of us. How great it was to start the New Year with His Eminence chanting Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit) at the beginning of the Holy Mass. This hymn calls on the Holy Spirit's guidance, protection and blessing before endeavoring something new; it is also sung or recited on Pentecost Sunday. 

During the homily, His Eminence spoke about the great redemptive mystery of the Incarnation of Our Lord, Jesus Christ:

“The text of the holy scriptures draws us three aspects…. that God, the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, has united His Divine nature, to our nature, the human nature, taking under the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a human heart, taking on human flesh in order that He might be born of Mary at Bethlehem and through His public ministry and most of all through His passion, death, resurrection and ascension, save us from our sins and win for us the grace to live in Him during our days on earth and so to, to be with Him, one day forever in heaven.”

More highlights from the homily: 

“Today, we remember the circumcision of Our Lord, a first participation in the passion in the shedding of blood in this rite. He shows Himself to be completely one with us in our human nature, of course and everything except sin. And His first shedding of blood on the part of our Savior, which also, surely was a cause of suffering for His mother, for her to see Her child suffering in this way…it finds its fulfillment and consummation in the piercing of His Most Sacred Heart, after He died on the cross for us, pouring forth of the blood and water from His most Sacred Heart, it is a sign of that grace which He has won for us, the grace of the Holy Spirit, that we might in the words of St. Paul in the Epistle for today’s mass lead upright, just and Godly lives during our days on earth so when the crown of righteousness, be with Our Lord in eternal joy when we pass from this life, to this life which is to come.”

“The name of Jesus says everything about the reality of who He is – God made man for our salvation. The name Jesus which means Savior; God saves us.  We know that in Jesus Christ we alone can find our salvation.” 

“We pray today, in a special way today, that Mary, who is the Mother of God, will intercede powerfully for us, that we might cooperate more fully in our lives with the grace which first came into the world at the birth of Our Lord.  The grace of God’s life with us in the Church through the outpouring of the Sevenfold Gifts of the Holy Spirit from His Most Sacred Heart, into our hearts.” 

Click here to view the Holy Mass and Rosary. The homily begins at 10:58. 

In this New Year and especially on this traditional feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, may every head bow at the sound of His sacred name. 

Yours in the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
https://www.catholicaction.org/

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