Dear Friend,

Our Shepherd, Cardinal Burke, offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for all the intentions of the Rosary Warriors of Operation Storm Heaven, as well as for those who submitted intentions, from his private chapel in Rome.

As many of you know, Cardinal Burke offers the Traditional Latin Mass, as well as following their liturgical calendar. February 1 began the Pre-Lent season called Septuagesima. The word Septuagesima is Latin for “seventieth.” It is both the name of the liturgical season and the name of the Sunday.  

February 1, Septuagesima Sunday, marked the beginning of the shortest liturgical season, which is 17 days. This season was created to help the faithful ease into Lent. You will notice in the video that both the Gloria and the Alleluia are omitted. His Eminence is wearing a violet-colored vestment. 

Homily Highlights

His Eminence spoke on the second great cycle of the Church, after having completed the Christmas cycle. 

“Today we enter the second great cycle of the Church, here having completed the Christmas cycle celebrating the great mystery of the Incarnation, God the Son, second Person of the most Holy Trinity, uniting our human nature to His divine nature, so that He might suffer, die, rise from the dead and ascend to the right hand of the Father, to win for us our eternal salvation, to win for us the grace to live in Him, to overcome sin in our lives and to live in Christ, to have a good and holy life in the service of God and for the good and salvation of our neighbor. Today, then, too we enter the second great cycle, which celebrates the mystery of redemption, the finality of the Incarnation of our Lord, even as we have been rejoicing over the past weeks of the Christmas season in the great mystery of God's love for us, that to redeem us He would send us His only begotten Son, to be one with us, to win in our human nature the victory over sin and death.”

Cooperating with the grace of Christ and the Holy Spirit.

“And so, we should never give way to discouragement, we should never lose trust and hope, the work of Divine grace given to us through the Incarnation of Our Lord for our salvation, for our redemption. And we should be most realistic about this. And we have this time now, three weeks before we enter the season of Lent, under the realism of the grace of Christ and this grace of the Holy Spirit poured forth. And so, during this most blessed time, the second cycle of the church celebrating the great mysteries of redemption, we'll go on to permit and to cooperate with the grace of Christ in us, to transform our lives and transforming our lives to transform our world.”

Open our lives to the work of God's grace.   

“Today, rightly so, many people are concerned about the situation of our world. We seem to be even more divided, even more threats of wars and of destruction. And of course, we know too that the daily violation of the most fundamental norms of the moral law, those regarding human life itself, the family and our worship of God. As I say, we're rightly deeply concerned about the situation. But what should we do? Well, this season that we're entering now indicates to us exactly what we should do, namely, open our lives in every aspect more fully to the work of God's grace. To the work of Christ and Christ with us, and transforming our lives and transforming that portion of God's inward and trusting and care, we will contribute then to that which brings about peace in our world. So, I urge you very much, Rosary warriors, you are constantly praying for the needs of the church and the world to make this season, this pre-Lent season and the Lenten season, which we’ll soon be entering, a time of deep transformation and thus a time of transformation for our whole society and for our world.”

Here is the link to the Holy Mass and Rosary. The homily begins at 6:12.

May the Heart of Jesus, the treasure-house of all wisdom and knowledge, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

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

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