Father Bradford has been informed a parishioner at Mass last Sunday tested positive for Covid on Monday. The individual had no symptoms on Sunday and was not in close contact with anyone. Our Mass will be celebrated as usual on Sunday, January 16th.

If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your January 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

• “Four Marks of the Church,” an excerpt by Monsignor Ronald Knox
• “Walk the Walk” by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
• “Welcomed by Those Who Need Saving” by Father Bradford
• “Enter by Way of Little Streams” by Saint Thomas Aquinas
• “Our Second Birth” by Bishop Faustus of Riez 
• “Who Keeps the Pro-Life Movement Alive” by Monsignor William M. Helmick 
• “We are Only Christians if We Encounter Christ” by Pope Benedict XVI

Sunday, January 2nd at 5:00 PM

Father Bradford has written to say he is ill with symptoms which might be Covid and is therefore self-isolating. As such, he is CANCELLING the 7:30 Mass for the Immaculate Conception on December 8th. Father Patrick Armano will celebrate our regular Sunday Mass on December 12th and, if necessary, December 19th. Please keep Father Bradford in your prayers.

If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your December 2021 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

• “What is This Word?,” a portion of a Christmas Day sermon preached by N. T. Wright
• “Everything Stands Present to God,” an excerpt from a reflection by The Very Reverend Romanus Cessario
• “God Remembers,” a reflection by Father Vincent Nagle, F.S.C.B.
• “Sons in the Son by Divine Adoption,” an excerpt from a sermon preached by Saint John Paul II
• “A Day of Universal Joy” by St Peter Canisius
• “Charity,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford

Father Bradford preached this sermon at Mass on the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity, November 14, 2021, at St Lawrence Church.

In preaching on today’s Gospel, Father quoted Moses saying in Deuteronomy 30:19, “… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying His voice, and cleaving to Him, for that means life to you and length of days.”

Father Bradford’s sermons back to 2014 are here.

If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your November 2021 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

• “A Strange and Wonderful Way,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford
• “Entering into the Real Paschal Mystery,” an excerpt from Gaudium et spes
• “The Real Counterforce Against Evil” by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
• “Father Junipero Serra” by John Garvey, President of The Catholic University of America
• “Let the Gospel Circulate in Our Life” by Pope Francis
• “The Two Comings of Christ” by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem

Father Bradford preached this sermon at Mass on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, October 24, 2021, at St Lawrence Church.

As Father said, “When we begin to see things from God’s point of view, there is only one thing to do, and that is to get up and follow Him. So we are to learn from what Bartimaeus did. He ignored the wisdom of the crowd, pressed through it and came to Jesus, received his sight, and followed the Lord on the Way. For Bartimaeus and for anybody else, that is the winning combination..“

Father Bradford’s sermons back to 2014 are here.

Father Bradford preached this sermon at Mass on the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, October 17, 2021, at St Lawrence Church.

As Father said, “The path is clear for all those who are followers of Jesus Christ. God Incarnate is a servant, and He said, “follow Me.” The path of servant-hood is the only way to the highest success. That is the success to which James and John aspired, and for which our souls, like theirs, were created: To be with Jesus.“

Father Bradford’s sermons back to 2014 are here.

Father Bradford preached this sermon at Mass on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, October 10, 2021, at St Lawrence Church.

As Father said, “Jesus is indeed the Great Physician of Souls. We must never forget that. Our Blessed Lord is more than able to make you and me strong enough and wise enough to succeed in our venture for His glory. That is the Gospel, and the Gospel is good news.”

Father Bradford’s sermons back to 2014 are here.