Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels. God continues to send his angels to watch over and guide us and defend us from the demons who seek our destruction. - Wednesday in the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Sept 29th, 2021 - S + L Mass at MQW Cathedral downtown Montreal

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Sign of the + Cross                 Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael

Good Morning. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ…. Brothers and Sisters, today we venerate the 3 Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael who were sent by God to help us, as we celebrate the Holy Eucharist in this cathedral dedicated to Mary Queen of the World.  

Penitential Rite         Brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.  (Formula 1)  

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Saint Joseph, pray for us.              Blessing and Dismissal 

The Archangels by Marco d'Oggiono (Public Domain) via Wikipedia Commons 
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HOMILY

The heart of our human drama is what we suffer because of the impression that we are far away from God. This is actually an illusion caused by the damage done to our mind, heart, and spirit at the dawn of humanity when Satan the Accuser, the Devil and Adversary of God lied to our first human mother Eve and her companion and husband Adam, and they believed the lie.

This tragic and dramatic deception originated in Heaven, in the eternal Presence of the Most Holy Trinity; when Lucifer, the most luminous and beautiful angel, rebelled against God. He refused to be among those who would bow down and worship a human being not yet born. This man was destined by the Father to be the human life to be taken on by the Son of God later in time when the Virgin would conceive by the Holy Spirit. She was to call her son Jesus, a Hebrew name which means “God saves”. Other angels also rebelled and became demons.

The moment we human beings stopped trusting in God, we cut ourselves off, and the first effect was our feeling isolated and far from God. It is an illusion because it is impossible to run or hide from God. God existed before the Universe came into being; so, there is no place that can exist separately from God. However, to respect our freedom, God has made it possible for us, if we choose, to join with the demons and exist separately from God, in complete darkness and cold away from the light and warmth of his love and mercy. This is called hell. 

God does not desire the destruction of any of his creatures, which is why demons continue to exist. They are fallen angels who refuse to cooperate with the Creator God’s plan to give life and salvation to all of his creatures. They refuse to obey or to serve. Nevertheless, in spite of the demons’ rebellion, God’s power is so great that the Most Holy Trinity actually arranges for the trouble making activity of the demons to serve God’s greater purpose anyway. God also continues to send his angels to watch over and guide us. Let us be attentive and follow them.

At every moment that demons tempt or confuse us or lead us astray, the Holy Spirit makes these dark moments into opportunities for us to break the rebellion and, instead of turning away from God, to go in the opposite direction and turn directly towards God. In other words, God is making the demons’ trouble making activity into reminders for us to put all of our trust in God.

That is actually why we can rejoice and be glad in every trial and tribulation, in every temptation and even in sin, because all these experiences remind us how weak we are and in need of God’s mercy, forgiveness, and love. So, go to Confession and meet Jesus face to face.

O my Jesus, I trust in You. Mother Mary, pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us.

        Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, Saint Raphael, pray for us. 

We give praise to You, O God, the Father, + the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, is our Mother; like Jesus, she cares for each of us and all that we experience. - Wednesday in the 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Sept 15th, 2021 - S + L Mass at MQW Cathedral downtown Montreal

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Our Lady of Sorrows 

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Good Morning. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ…. Brothers and Sisters, today we venerate Mary who, in sharing Jesus’ Passion became Our Lady of Sorrows, as we celebrate the Holy Eucharist in this cathedral dedicated to Mary as Queen of the World.  

Penitential Rite Brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.  (Formula 1)  

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Tonight we have a wonderful opportunity to be in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters who will begin to celebrate "Yom Kippur", the "Day of Atonement", through prayer, fasting, and penance, calling upon the Lord for forgiveness for their sins. 

The original Day of Atonement came when the people of Israel repented of having built and worshipped a golden calf and Moses pleaded to the Lord to forgive them. Then Moses instructed them to build the "Tabernacle", the "Ark of the Covenant", the visible witness to God's covenant with his people and in which were deposited the stone tablets of "The Torah", "The Law". 

Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, is a Jewess, a daughter of Israel, and her sorrow is the same as that of God and his people over our sinfulness, and Mary intercedes for us with God for his mercy and forgiveness, and she calls upon all of us to repent of our sins, to fast and do penance, to pray to God, to offer sacrifices for sinners, and to adore the Lord our God.  

Saint Joseph, pray for us. Blessing and Dismissal 

HOMILY

We who are members of the living mystical Body of Christ have been made his members by the Lord Jesus through Baptism, and by believing in Him, He has made us children of God our Father. In his unlimited generosity, the Lord Jesus has also given his Mother Mary to us as our own heavenly Mother. This bequest or inheritance was one of Jesus’ final acts on this Earth as He agonized on the Cross and shed every drop of his precious life’s Blood.

Mary is the first human being, after Jesus, to be so completely taken into the intimate life, love, and communion of the Most Holy Trinity. She has been loved from all eternity by the Father as his own special daughter. She was chosen by the Father to be the Mother of his only begotten Son and she was instructed by the Archangel Gabriel to name God’s Son "Yeshua", Jesus, “God saves”. The moment Mary said “Yes!” to God when she replied to Gabriel, “Let it be done to me as you say.”, she became the chosen Spouse of the Holy Spirit, who overshadowed her in a mysterious way and brought about the Incarnation of the Son of God within her womb.

Mary is our own Mother because she is the Mother of Jesus who became our brother when the Son of God became man. Mary is our own Mother a second time because Jesus entrusted her to his Apostle John and John to her as her son. In declaring this as part of his last will and testament, Jesus intended Mary to become the Mother of us all, and for all of us to love her, care for her, honor her, and listen to her as our very own heavenly Mother.

Mary is our very own Mother a third time because we who believe in Jesus and have been baptized in the Most Holy Trinity are living members of the mystical Body of Christ that is the communion of saints. At this very moment, Mary weeps over our sins and sufferings as she did over the Passion of her divine Son Jesus. Mary, like Jesus, takes to heart everything that happens to us, and to every human being.

In every generation humanity gets into a great deal of trouble because of its separation from the love of God: rebellion, sin. With great compassion for us, God the Most Holy Trinity has repeatedly sent Mary to Earth to bring the message and call to repent, turn away from sin, trust in God, pray, fast, do penance, offer sacrifices for sinners, and care for the poor. Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima.... Mary even makes her statues weep human tears and tears of blood to get the attention of humanity. Our time is short. 

We human beings, for the most part, have turned away from God. Like ungrateful people in Jesus’ parable, we turn down the invitation to the wedding banquet. The wedding banquet is real… it is the eternal life in heaven happening right now… and the wedding is the marriage of God with humanity in the Person of Jesus, who is both God and man. Every day God eagerly waits for us to accept his marriage proposal, his invitation to love Him and our neighbour as ourselves. 

O my Jesus, I trust in You. Mother Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us.

We give praise to You, O God, the Father, + the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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