Bishop’s Corner Low Week certainly made for high spirits, with the series of splendid Spring days, and grounds and garden bright with Easter colors. We were all happy to have our students back, and to offer again the beautiful school Masses with their inspiring singing at 11:20. Faithful from throughout the world gratefully follow these […]
If you missed Bp. Dolan’s Holy Week sermons, be sure to listen to them here: Maundy Thursday Morning: Not My Will, but Thine be Done Maundy Thursday Afternoon: Wash Away Your Neighbor’s Faults Good Friday: Let Go Holy Saturday: Rest Easter Sunday: Fear Not Bishop’s Corner Blessed Easter Octave Day to you, and blessings of […]
If you missed Bp. Dolan’s Holy Week sermons, be sure to listen to them here: Maundy Thursday Morning: Not My Will, but Thine be Done Maundy Thursday Afternoon: Wash Away Your Neighbor’s Faults Good Friday: Let Go Holy Saturday: Rest Bishop’s Corner A very blessed Easter Sunday to you! May the blessings of the Risen […]
March 2010 St. Gertrude the Great Newsletter No. 114 is now available. See what our school children have been up to. Also read about Elias’s exile in Sarephta.
Bishop’s Corner Palm Sunday! A day of victory and of defeat, a day, too, for donkeys! Humble beast, and so blessed to bear the Lamb in all humility as He rides meekly on to die. Let us, sinners, make this the best Holy Week ever by “bearing one another’s burdens” these blessed days, and so […]
Bishop’s Corner This year’s Spring is as splendid as it is sudden, and so, so welcome. It seems only a fortnight ago that all was dark and chill, and now the sun has coaxed the crocuses into bloom. I write this on a beautiful St. Patrick’s Day, both within and without. After a hard winter […]
Bishop’s Corner Let us rejoice this Sunday not that Lent will too soon be over, but that God’s mercies have given us yet another season of prayer and penance, that glorious and delightful time we call Lent. Still, some standard rejoicing is on the calendar this week with the feasts of St. Patrick and St. […]
Bishop’s Corner I write this on a sunny, early (very early) Spring day, hoping the fullness of this season of rebirth will soon be ours: sun in the soul as well as the sky; rebirth for our spiritual, family and church life. Meanwhile Caravaggio and Puccini are unusually chipper and frolicsome. I think they are […]
Bishop’s Corner “Come Winter, have another flight,” the verse reads for a sunny Candlemas dawn. Ours was cloudy, but Winter came back anyway, giving us, with its difficulties and crosses, many opportunities for Lenten sacrifices. The ones God chooses are always better than the ones we pick. Persevere in your devotion to the Poor Souls, […]
February 2010 St. Gertrude the Great Newsletter No. 113 is now available. Read about Bp. Dolan’s most recent European trip.
Missed Bp. Dolan’s Ash Wednesday Sermon? Listen Here: Pray for Souls in Need Bishop’s Corner We started this Lent in the cold dead white of Winter. The Holy Souls, however, provided warmth against the chill by their presence which filled the pews and swelled the congregation, as they drew near to find relief, and speedy […]
Bishop’s Corner After Candlemas’ cruel promise of early Spring, Winter has come for a second flight. Its severe beauty dazzles us, leaving everything white in its snow reflected light, cold and bright. The world has forgotten what Winter is in its obsession with “global warming.” Our Creator, however, has seen fit to remind us as […]
Bishop’s Corner It is Sexagesima, the middle Sunday of the pre-Lenten season. The church it seems bare in its post-Christmas sobriety, a good sign of the seriousness of the soon coming forty day fast. Still, joy fills our hearts, engendering generosity towards the good God who is ever so good to us. Last Sunday I […]
Bishop’s Corner Our blessed January ends today (and with it, soon, the Christmas season) and we view already a glimpse of Easter’s light after the purple and penance of our coming Lent. The days grow longer at long last, and there are little hints of Spring, regardless of whether or not our resident groundhog, Senex, […]
Epiphany III
Follow Fr. Cekada’s ongoing commentary on the recent controversies: www.traditionalmass.org/blog Bishop’s Corner We’ve already had our late January freeze, so I wonder if “Global Warming” will work in our favor, and we’ll have a temperate week? Well, whatever weather Our Lord chooses, will be fine with us, although …it is easier for so many to […]
Also listen to Bp. Dolan’s Sermon from Epiphany: A Christmas Pageant Bishop’s Corner I’m writing to you on Epiphany afternoon, as we prepare for the last and the greatest of our Christmas celebrations, and a well deserved dinner for all of our generous and good workers, volunteers, and faithful. May God reward them, and you, […]
Also listen to Bp. Dolan’s Sermon from January 1: Five Words Bishop’s Corner New Year’s greetings in the Holy Name of Jesus! May Jesus and Mary be often on your lips and always in your heart during this New Year, and it will be a blessed one. Today we honor the Infant of Prague, as […]
Listen to Bp. Dolan’s Christmas Sermon: Entering Bethlehem Bishop’s Corner I hope all of you are enjoying the Christmas holidays, with families and friends and feasting for our dear Savior’s birth. I welcome and thank Fr. Ercoli who is with us again today, as he was to help us for Christmas with his beautiful singing. […]
Follow Fr. Cekada’s ongoing commentary on the recent controversies: www.traditionalmass.org/blog Bishop’s Corner I was moved almost to tears at dear George Wissing’s funeral the other day that something so beautiful and perfect (I was seated at the sedilia, and listening to our school children sing for the first time the Dies Irae) could still be […]
Follow Fr. Cekada’s ongoing commentary on the recent controversies: www.traditionalmass.org/blog Bishop’s Corner Our long, sweet Fall finally gave way to the wind and the dark cold rain of December. Still, what a string of simply splendid Saturdays we enjoyed this Autumn. Wednesday’s high winds took our power away for several hours. We had prudently installed […]
December 5, 2009 St. Gertrude the Great Newsletter No. 112 is now available as a PDF download. Read about Fr. Ercoli’s missionary trip to Nigeria!
Bishop’s Corner Already our short lived Advent is a week old. How have you done in preparing for the Holy Child Jesus, in making yourself a child for the sake of the Kingdom? Ask Mary, our Queen Immaculate, for her assistance this week. Please pray the Immaculate Conception novena with us this week to defeat […]
Also listen to Bp. Dolan’s Advent Sunday Sermon, “Why Do They Fall Away?“ Bishop’s Corner Blessed Advent Sunday to you all! After days of feasting, gaming and shopping, the Apostle pierces our surfeited souls with his cry: “Cast off the works of darkness!” Let each Christian soul pray and prepare thus for Christ’s coming into […]
“School Dazed” Fr. Cekada on some recent controversies Bishop’s Corner Blessed St. Gertrude’s Day, and happy anniversary. Today we keep the solemn, public feast of our patroness with great thanksgiving, and yes… thanksgiving! It is easier to say thank you when covered with compliments and comfort, as we have so often been. But the bitter […]
Bishop’s Corner What a beautiful day was last Sunday, as we opened with confidence our 12 Sundays of the Mother of Good Counsel counting on her intervention and miraculous aid. It was a perfect day for our cemetery rosary. Alas, the somewhat symbolic confusion caused by a combination of error and criticism led to two […]