Daily Mass is celebrated:
Monday through Saturday at 8 a.m.
The Sunday Mass schedule is:
Saturday at 5 p.m. in English
Sunday at 7:30 a.m. in English
Sunday at 9 a.m. in English
Sunday at 11 a.m. in English
Sunday at 1 p.m. in Spanish
Please contact the parish office at
949-494-9701 to schedule.
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Our greetings from the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua.
Peace and all good❤
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✝️ IN PETER, WE SEE THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS, BUT NOT HOW YOU THINK
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At first glance, this sounds dangerous.
👉 Are we saying Peter created the Sacraments?
👉 Are we replacing Christ with a man?
No.
And if you misunderstand this… you miss something profound.
👉 Christ instituted the Sacraments.
👉 But in Peter… we see how they actually work.
Not in theory.
👉 In a life.
✝️ 1. BEFORE THE KEYS… THERE WAS A CALL (BAPTISM)
“Follow me…” (Luke 5:10)
Peter leaves everything.
Not gradually. Not safely.
👉 Completely.
This is what Baptism truly is:
👉 Not a ritual alone…
👉 but a rupture with the old life.
Peter doesn’t just receive a call.
👉 He becomes a new man.
✝️ 2. FROM FEAR TO FIRE (CONFIRMATION)
The same Peter who trembled before a servant girl…
Now stands before crowds.
“God has made Him both Lord and Christ!” (Acts 2:36)
What changed?
👉 Not personality.
👉 Not training.
👉 The Holy Spirit.
This is Confirmation:
👉 Grace that strengthens what fear once destroyed.
✝️ 3. HE FELL… BUT HE RETURNED (RECONCILIATION)
“I do not know the man.”
Three times.
And then…
👉 Silence.
👉 A look from Christ.
👉 And tears.
“He wept bitterly” (Luke 22:62)
Here is the difference that changed history:
Judas despaired
Peter returned
👉 This is Reconciliation.
Not perfection.
👉 But the courage to come back.
✝️ 4. “FEED MY SHEEP” (EUCHARIST)
“Do you love me? … Feed my sheep.” (John 21:15–17)
This is not just leadership language.
👉 It is sacramental.
To feed Christ’s flock…
👉 is to give them Christ Himself.
The Eucharist is not an idea.
👉 It is nourishment entrusted to the Church.
✝️ 5. A MAN WITH A HOUSE (MATRIMONY)
Jesus heals Peter’s mother-in-law (Mark 1:30).
Which means:
👉 Peter had a family.
And yet…
👉 He was called into mission.
This matters.
Because it destroys the illusion that God only works through “perfect situations.”
👉 Grace enters real life.
Not ideal life.
✝️ 6. THE KEYS WERE GIVEN (HOLY ORDERS)
“I will give you the keys…” (Matthew 16:19)
This is not poetry.
👉 This is authority.
Not to replace Christ…
👉 but to serve what Christ established.
Peter becomes:
👉 a steward
👉 a shepherd
👉 a visible center of unity
This is the heart of Holy Orders:
👉 authority in service of grace.
✝️ 7. WHEN CHRIST HEALS… THE CHURCH CONTINUES (ANOINTING OF THE SICK)
In Peter’s own house:
👉 Christ heals the sick.
Later:
“They anointed with oil many who were sick” (Mark 6:13)
And the Church continues:
“Anoint with oil…” (James 5:14)
Do not miss this:
👉 What Christ did visibly…
👉 the Church now does sacramentally.
✝️ THE SHOCK THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Peter is not the source.
👉 Christ is.
Peter is not the creator.
👉 Christ is.
So why Peter?
Because in him we see:
the called
the strengthened
the broken
the restored
the entrusted
👉 In him… we see ourselves.
✝️ FINAL LINE THAT SHOULD STAY WITH YOU
👉 The Sacraments do not come from Peter…
👉 but in Peter, we finally understand why we need them.
✝️ AND THIS IS THE CHURCH
Not built on perfect men…
👉 but on men transformed by grace.
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