Thank you so much Father’s for everything explained so beautiful about faith 🙏🙏🙏

Thanking you Fr Matthew - you seem to be a very sweet soul. May the Lord protect you and strengthen you with the power of His Spirit 🙏

Prayers for Fr. Chris mom and family.

Thank you Father Matthew......

Beautiful talk, Fr. Matthew! God bless you. Praying for Fr. Chris' mom and his loved ones and his ministry.

Thank you, Fr. Matthew, for a very informative talk on the Liturgical Season. May the Lord bless & strengthen you in your ministry. Praying for Fr. Chris & his mother. God bless the Marians.

Nice to "meet" you, Fr. Matthew! I hope Fr. Chris knows the his mother is in many of our prayers.

Thank you Fr. Matthew, another lesson learned. God bless you!

Thank You Fr. Matthew! I have learned so much from your talk. I am going to watch it again and this time with pen and paper at hand. I am going to put much of the information you gave us in my calendar and in the note pages. I grew up in a catholic family that only celebrated Christmas and Easter (no meat on Fridays during lent). I never knew why we did this until I began learning my faith in 1992 (born 1964) and on to this day. Sadly, but not surprisingly, no one in my family practices the faith we were so blessed to be born in. I always offer my prayers for their conversions. God Bless you Father and all the Marian Fathers!

It’s a rich, abundant knowledge of the Liturgical Seasons that added to my attention of it’s importance, thank you, Fr. Matthew, for the splendid lessons you give us. The spiritual treasures in the Catholic Church bring us to perfect holiness if we observe and live them in our lives the call that says,” Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” You’re serene explanation is highly appreciated and may Almighty God bless you and filling you more practical wisdom for us to share. Thank you and praying for you daily together with the Marian family. Special prayers too for Fr. Chris, his Mom and the entire family.

Great information Father Matthew‼️ So many things to learn. It’s sad that the teachings of our Faith is dwindling but I am learning so much with all the Sessions on this informative program & teaching of my Catholic Faith.❤️🙏🧎‍♀️🙏 Ty🙏 Ty🙏 Ty🙏 May almighty God continue to Bless you Father Matthew, Father Alar and all involved in this important moment of our lives.❤️🙏🧎‍♀️🙏 Peace ☮️ & with your Spirit 🕊

Thank you Fr. Mathew I have learned so much from your talk. Very informative and educational. Godbless you always.

God bless you father Matthew

Thank you Fr Mathew!

Thank you Fr. Matthew for a very informative talk .

Thank you Fr. Mathew for taking the time to teaching us our faith. A lot of what shared here I did not know and how over the years I lost the meaning of the holy days. Thank you.

Fr. Matthew I really enjoyed this talk about the liturgical seasons of the Church. You did a really good job of explaining why there is each season. You and the other Marians are always in my prayers. Fr. Chris I hope that your mom is doing well. I also keep your dad, sister, cousin as well as you in my daily prayers.

Excellent talk - thank you Fr Matthew!

How blessed we are to be associated with the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, whose loving efforts, keep us so well grounded in the Reverent Worship of Our Almighty God. Thank you for this very insightful talk and the added richness to our Catholic faith by following the Church Calendar and customs of our ancestors.

Thank you, Fr Matthew. I learned a lot! In New Orleans we have the same seasons as you did in Florida. When my daughter first went to FUS, she called and said “It’s snowing!😊” Now she says “It’s snowing….☹️” 😂😂😂😂

Father Mathew Tomeny thank you for your insight and inspiration in details for the topic : -Liturgical Seasons: The Church Calendar Explained - Marian Teaching.

Thank you father Matthew 🙏🏽

Thank you for the enlightening talk Fr. Matthew. Greetings from Manila

Prayers for Fr. Chris and all the seminarians, Marian helpers. God bless you all.

Father Matthew: "Thank You" for a very informative talk on the Catholic Church Calendar. I learned so much and want to listen to it again. Time is Sacred and Our Catholic Feast Days in the Life of Our Lord are Sacred. So good to be reminded of the Sacredness of Our Catholic Faith as we live it throughout the Year!!! God Bless You and All Marian Priests. Father Chris and his mother are in my prayers!

Yesterday was a perfect time for this talk. My homeowner ass’n Has imposed strict rules regarding our Christmas decorations and when we may display them. Hopefully a little education will go a long way in my neighborhood. PS: Well done Michigan. 🏈🏈🏈. They pulled off a win with literally moments to spare. Father Chris leading the team in prayer before the game was definitely the secret weapon I have no doubt in my mind.

thanks for the enlightening talk, Fr Matthew. Come visit Virginia...we have seasons, too!

Awesome. Thank you so much . Great summary. Blessed Thanksgiving

Thank you Father Matthew for the very interesting lesson on the church calendar, and it’s connection to our civil calendar. Some of your points brought me way back to my childhood in Catholic School in the late fifties. I’m old enough to remember Septuagesima, Sexigesima, fasting during Lent, Holy Days of Obligation Ember Days, and a different ( and I think more devout) Catholic culture than exists today, especially in the U S. In my opinion, some changes that occurred from Vatican II, made life “easier” for Catholics, while lessening devotion. Of course, this all happened when prayer was taken out of public school. I so appreciate the Marians’ steadfast orthodoxy. I must say that your talk made me nostalgic for those days. Using terms like BCE instead of BC and CE instead of AD, saddens me. I love your reference to “sacred time” and that Jesus also lived in man’s time. I also enjoy your devotion to the Holy Family in your invocations. I am enjoying getting to know you Father Matthew, through your homilies and your talk today. You and all the Marian Priests and Brothers are always in my prayers. May God bless and protect all of you. Praying also for safe travels for Father Chris, and that he finds all well with his family in Michigan. WELL DONE 👍 🏈 Michigan. Winning the game with moments to spare. There’s no doubt in my mind that Father Chris leading the game in prayer pregame was your secret weapon.

With gratitude I bow to you Fr Matthew, thank you. I was one of those who (for several years) would start Christmas in October. I had my house lights strung up by 10/01. In my defense, it was because I wanted to light up the house for Trick or’ Treaters. A way to invite children to my merry & bright home. Also, I wanted to honor Jesus’ birthday for 3 months, not just 1. That was my justification! Now I see the err of my ways….and indeed I took the house lights & tree by 01/02. And, I am one of those folks who have my Nativity set: BMM, St Joseph & Precious Infant Jesus in His wee cradle out all year long in my home altar. Ahh haha, I am always always learning new things from our amazing Marian Priests, in such a truly loving, gentle & meek manner. For who could ever get offended, but only love our Holy Clergy even more. Thank you Fr Matthew. This year, under Fr Alar & your teachings, I put up my house lights & tree on 12/01! And I won’t take it down till Fr Alar says so!

God bless you father shalom to you ave Maria

I forgot about Ember Days. When you were talking about it, it took me waaaaaayy back to when I was a very young child. I remember mom talking about it.

Thank you Fr. Matthew. Definitely interesting and informative. We appreciate the time you have shared with us to teach. Praying for all the Marian's as well as Fr. Chris and his Mom. God's peace be with you all!!🙏❤

Learned so much!! Thank you!! (I had a question about fasting and feast days… now I know. Thanks so much!)

Very interesting topic. I never realized Advent had its own hymns too.

First, a Hail Mary for Fr. Chris's mother and family. In addition, 3 Hail Marys for Father Matthew and all the MIC Fathers, Brothers and Marian Helpers. This is to offer all your intentions to Our Lady, who will surely ask for you what is most important for your salvation. Special thanks to Fr. Matthew for making sense of the Septuagesima, and of the Ember Days. I was a very small child when the changes took place, so I'd never heard of them until I came across some seemingly prickly "Rad Trads" ("radical Traditionalists") on chat threads. I can now appreciate their disappointment and upset, especially knowing about the prayers for priests. I'll overlook the impact of their emotion on disrupting the explanations they tried to give me, and which only confused me. Having heard so often from my parents at "how old fashioned and out of touch" the Church "used to be," before the reforms, I don't expect that any of that generation in the hierarchy would be interested in bringing those days back onto the Church calendar. After hearing Fr. Matthew's explanation, however, I will pray that these days are restored. In the Archdiocese of Detroit, no priests were ordained at Pentecost in 2022, this year. That prompted the Archbishop to ask us to pray daily in unity with all the parishes in the Archdiocese. He composed a prayer for this intention, and asked us to pray it from Pentecost 2022 to Pentecost 2023. This is the first time ever that there hasn't been even one ordination in the Archdiocese. I could see it coming as entrants to the seminary decreased, and fewer of those were considered to be "priest material." I certainly can't "armchair quarterback" the assessments of the spiritual directors and formators who form seminarians into fit priests. Yet I still pray that their discernment is guided by the Holy Spirit and not by their personal preferences, so to speak. Earlier I described the prickliness of "Rad Trads," but I have encountered equally prickly "Vatican 2 Loyalists." I'm in the middle, feeling kind of robbed of my Catholic heritage because I'd never learned of the practice of Church Prayer such as the Ember Days. I'm concerned that the young men I've known who went to seminary with a hunger for the Ancient Faith, were turned away from ordination due to something called "rigidity," whatever that means. I'm grateful that Fr. Matthew was given this education, and that he was ordained _with_ this education. May the Holy Spirit guide those who form priests to welcome the useful ancient practices, and may the bishops reinstitute these practices.

Is Fr. Alar's mom not doing well?

I also dislike the use of BCE/CE instead of BC/AD. However, although the idea was to secularise the calendar, note that [B]CE can also stand for [Before] CHRISTIAN Era. so even though the secularists have tried to exclude Our Lord, we can let him in again by the back door. Re fasting and abstinence during Lent. It was not vegan or vegetarian, as fish and seafood [cockles, crab, mussels, prawns, shrimps etc] were permitted. Here in England our bishops have reintroduced Friday abstinence [no meat or poultry, but fish and seafood permitted], on all Fridays throughout the year except those in the Christmas and Easter Octaves and when a Solemnity falls on a Friday.

When did only 2 days of fasting for Lent begin? I thought no meat on Fridays and Fridays was fasting.

Fr Mattthew, what about the Feast of Divine Mercy - on the Octave of Easter??? The feast requested by Jesus Himself! tsk tsk!!

Wonderful talk, thank you Fr. Matthew for many great insights on my end that enrich my spiritual bank, so to speak:) Sunday is called " Domingo" as well, in my dialect from one of the islands in the Philippines:)