Episodes

  • Why You Need to Go on Retreat, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Why You Need to Go on Retreat, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    May 16 2024
    • The book of Job tells us that “the life of man upon earth is a warfare”. We are in a battle over our own souls. We are besieged by the cares of this world, by our daily grind, by the relentlessness of life.
    • In this battle, sometimes we need to attack life head-on; at other times, we need to retreat, in order to recuperate our spiritual forces and renew ourselves for the battle. Sometimes, it is by retreating that we are able to gain a victory that otherwise was not possible.
    • The faithful may ask themselves: why do priests, monks, and nuns need to go on retreat? They are doing holy things all of the time. It is clear that the Church thinks it very important for those who have dedicated their lives to God to take this time once a year, in order to maintain their spiritual stamina in the battle for souls.
    • If priests and nuns need this time, how much more do the faithful need it, when they do not have as strong a spiritual life?
    • There are several reasons why retreats are needed for everyone: priests, religious and layfolk.
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    21 mins
  • Natural and Supernatural Motherhood, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Natural and Supernatural Motherhood, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    May 6 2024
    • God is at the origin of two orders in creation, the natural and the supernatural.
    • The natural order concerns God’s material reality and the things of this earth. The supernatural order concerns God’s spiritual reality, the things of Heaven.
    • These two realms are very distant from one another. When we speak of two things being very far from one another, we say it is like the distance between heaven and earth.
    • At the same time, they are connected. God does not separate them into two completely separate realms but He makes there to be an interaction between them. We ourselves are natural creatures but God has elevated us to the supernatural level.
    • Many of the realities that we experience in our everyday natural level also exist on the supernatural level, only they are more elevated and sublime.
    • I want to take one example of this today: that of motherhood. Let us look at the motherhood that God has created in our natural world and then look at supernatural motherhood.
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    20 mins
  • Home Depot Catholicism, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Home Depot Catholicism, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    Apr 29 2024
    • In 1978, four businessmen pooled their resources to found the home improvement chain Home Depot. The point of the store was to provide a place where homeowners could go to buy tools and parts to renovate or repair their house. One of the slogans over the years was, “You can do it. We can help.”
    • Home Depot represents something of the American spirit. We have a go-getter, do it yourself attitude. Why hire someone when you can just figure things out, buy the parts and do it on your own. Doesn’t that save a lot of trouble?
    • What I want to point out in this sermon is that such a spirit is not proper in the realm of religion; it must not be translated to the religious sphere such that we become Home Depot Catholics, such that we pursue a do it yourself salvation.
    • What do I mean by a Home Depot Catholicism or a Do It Yourself Catholicism?
    • Home Depot Catholics come to church merely to acquire the material parts they need to keep their souls going and so attain salvation. Get Mass. Get confession. Get Communion. Throw some money in the collection basket. Go home. Save my soul.
    • This is not the way that Our Lord established His religion, His Mystical Body. He established it in such a way that the members of the Catholic faith are not only united with Him, but they are also united with one another through Him. They all live the same life; they form one body together. And they are meant to live that reality by associating themselves with one another.
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    22 mins
  • The Meaning of 'Day' in Our Lord's Parable, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    The Meaning of 'Day' in Our Lord's Parable, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    Apr 25 2024
    • I would like to focus on the parable of today’s Mass and explain what it means in relation to our salvation. The parable tells the story of a day of hiring.
    • “Day” in this parable, as far as the story goes, refers only to a 12 hour period, or that part of the day that is in daylight. But the Fathers have understood this 12 hour period to be a symbol of two different longer periods of time, namely, the time before Christ, and the duration of our life.
    • If we take the “day” of the parable as the time before Christ, following Origen, we can understand the various calls at the different hours as missions given to the great figures of the Old Testament by God to accomplish His work. They are to work in His vineyard, which represents the field of labor in which a person is living for Heaven and is trying to get as many people as possible to follow him on that path to Heaven.
    • The second sense of the “day” is the span of the lifetime of each individual. Each person is called to work for the kingdom of Heaven, that is, for his own salvation.
    • Some are fortunate enough to be called in the morning of their life, by being born into a Catholic family. Others convert as teenagers, others as young adults, others as mature men, others as old men. For each of these is reserved the denarius of salvation or eternal life.
    • But there is a condition. Each one must remain working in the vineyard, once they are called. It is only when evening comes that the payment is given. Those who are not present at the evening, or the end of their life, will not receive payment from the householder. We must remain in the state of grace if we are to receive the reward of Heaven.
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    20 mins
  • Society Needs Catholic Men, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Society Needs Catholic Men, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    Apr 21 2024
    • Modern society hates families. It is directed to pleasure and wealth and families are an obstacle to that. Even the Church today seems to be joining in on the attack against families by approving the blessing of same-sex couples.
    • To attack families, you have to attack the components that make up families: men and women.
    • Since men are the heads of families, there is a special attack directed against them.
    • There is an effort today to make men anything but what they need to be in order to fulfill their God-given mission to be good husbands and fathers.
    • The typical man that today’s society creates is soft, pleasure-seeking, selfish, emasculated.
    • This is why society so desperately needs good Catholic families today. This is why we pray, “Lord, grant us many holy Catholic families”. But to have good Catholic families, we must have good Catholic men, men of faith who have as their model not some football player, not some womanizing politician, not this Hollywood star or this MMA fighter, but Our Lord Jesus Christ.
    • What society needs is men who dedicate their lives to the service of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to the service of His name, to the service of His Kingship, to the service of His Church.
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    24 mins
  • Easter 2024: God Never Dies, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Easter 2024: God Never Dies, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    Apr 1 2024
    • The life of God is greater than the death of men. God came upon this earth and men put Him to death. But God cannot die. This is what the Cristeros told the Communists who were trying to destroy Catholicism in Mexico. You may kill us and we will die. But God never dies. Dios nunca muere
    • The life of God exists before our life, during our life, after our life. The life of God is the existence that is at the basis of all reality. The life of God is the basis for our life. It is not so much that God lives; He is life itself.
    • Our Lord died in His humanity, but He lived on in His eternal divinity. Nature was not dying but was being renewed by the death of Our Lord.
    • The life of God is greater than the death of men, and the death of God is the life of men. By the death of Our Lord, we will all live again.
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    14 mins
  • Why did God give St. Joseph his role? And ours? Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Why did God give St. Joseph his role? And ours? Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    Mar 8 2024
    • God asked St. Joseph to take care of Him when God can take care of Himself. “He made him ruler of his household and prince over all his possessions.”
    • This imposed a great burden on St. Joseph because it was a difficult role. Our Lord was hated and hunted down. Think of a life where you have to flee to a different country and keep a low profile, where you are wondering each day if you are going to be found out.
    • Wasn’t all of this unnecessary? If God has no problem taking care of Himself, why did He ask St. Joseph to take on this role? Wouldn’t life have been easier and more comfortable for St. Joseph if he did not have to be the foster-father of the God man?
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    17 mins
  • Seven Rules for Carrying the Cross, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Seven Rules for Carrying the Cross, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    Feb 26 2024
    • Our Lord was always thinking about the Cross. Our Lord loved the Cross. Our Lord longed to die on the Cross.
    • If we do not understand this, we cannot understand Him. If we do not understand Him, we cannot understand His teaching. If we do not understand His teaching, we cannot follow Him.
    • I want to share with you some of the rules that St. Louis de Montfort gave in his “Letter to friends of the Cross”.
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    19 mins