Homily for Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Memorial Mass for Deceased Basselin Alumni and Professors at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America
February 28, 2025
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Washington, D.C.
Wisdom 3:1-9
Romans 5:17-21
Matthew 5:1-12
We are summoned by God in His compassion here today as a family to offer this Eucharist in memory of Theodore Basselin and of our departed professors, colleagues, friends, and brothers who like so many of us received so much through the gift of the Basselin scholarship. Whenever God summons the Church to worship Him at Mass, He offers each and all of us a sign of hope and invites us to offer an act of hope. This is most clearly true when the Eucharist is offered for the repose of the souls of the faithful departed.
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