Episodes

  • Believe or Be Condemned, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Believe or Be Condemned, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    May 26 2024
    • We are tempted today by the false idea of religious indifferentism: this is the idea that all religions are equally good, that they all lead to Heaven.
    • The Athanasian Creed is very clear in saying the opposite. Its opening words say the following: “Whoever wills to be in a state of salvation, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith, which except everyone shall have kept whole and undefiled without doubt he will perish eternally. Now the catholic faith is that we worship One God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the substance.”
    • These words, while they represent what we believe, are very jarring to modern ears. Modern people say: “Why is this the case? How is it that we can be damned to Hell for a single false belief? “How can God damn me to Hell for the way that I think? Did He not give me free will? Why would He care what I think?”1. The truth is part of what gets you to Heaven. You cannot get to Heaven without the truth. The truth of the Trinity is a truth about God Himself. It is God telling you Who He is. If God tells you who He is and you refuse to believe it and worship something else, then you are not worshiping the true God. You are worshiping a false god!
    • 2. Heresy is a sin against God. We are obliged to obey Him because we are His creatures. If God tells me Who He is and tells me to believe Him, then I sin against Him by rejecting what He has said. I am saying that I do not believe Him. I am saying that I do not want Him. This is why belief in the Trinity was so important for Our Lord. Remember what He said:“Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). “He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believes not shall be condemned” (Mk. 16:16)This is why the martyrs throughout the history of the Church were willing to die rather than deny the faith. They realized that when they were being asked to deny the faith, they were being asked to make a choice: lose your physical life or lose your eternal life.
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    19 mins
  • Love Requires Suffering, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

    Love Requires Suffering, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
    May 25 2024
    • When Our Lord came on this earth, He issued a new commandment, one that summarized and complemented the ten commandments given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
    • He did not issue this commandment from a mountain, accompanied by thunder and smoke, but He issued it in the midst of a last supper with His twelve Apostles.
    • It was then that He said, “A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.” (Jn. 13:34)
    • The teaching of Our Lord transformed the world. It made the world Christian and civilized in the truest sense. It did so by teaching the world how to love. He clarified that true love means:
    1. We love God above all things. We acknowledge Him as our Father, we worship Him as our God, we seek to honor Him in all that we do. We follow His will. We love Him by keeping His commandments.
    2. Love means giving ourselves; it is not about receiving. It is about doing good to others. It is about sacrificing ourselves. It is about spending ourselves; it is about giving away our lives.
    3. Giving ourselves for God and for others means suffering. Love requires suffering. It requires that we carry a cross. This is what Our Lord makes clear for us. Do you want to follow the commandment of love? Do you want to be a lover like Christ? Take up your cross! Die on the cross! Our Lord has the most astonishing words to say to us: “He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.”
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    18 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