Jun 26 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: Pray with Faith, but Always Accept God’s Will
Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Archive for June, 2009
Audio (MP3)Jun 26 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Two Roman Officers
Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Jun 25 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St William of Vercelli
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Homily #090625 ( Ave Maria! Mass readings |
Video – Apostles Creed: Art 3 – Conceived by the Spirit, Born of the Virgin
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the third article of the Creed: “Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina, spiritual child of St. Philip Neri. Ave Maria! |
Pope John Paul writes to Priests
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Ave Maria Meditations
In his 1986 Holy Thursday Letter to Priests, Pope John Paul II wrote:
The Mass was for John Mary Vianney the great joy and comfort of his priestly life. He took great care, despite the crowds of penitents, to spend more than a quarter of an hour in silent preparation. He celebrated with recollection, clearly expressing his adoration at the consecration and communion. He accurately remarked: “The cause of priestly laxity is not paying attention to the Mass!”
The Curé of Ars was particularly mindful of the permanence of Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist. It was generally before the tabernacle that he spent long hours in adoration, before daybreak or in the evening; it was towards the tabernacle that he often turned during his homilies, saying with emotion: “He is there!”
It was also for this reason that he, so poor in his presbytery, did not hesitate to spend large sums on embellishing his church. The appreciable result was that his parishioners quickly took up the habit of coming to pray before the Blessed Sacrament, discovering, through the attitude of their pastor, the grandeur of the mystery of faith.
Dear brother priests, the example of the Curé of Ars invites us to a serious examination of conscience: what place do we give to the Mass in our daily lives? Is it, as on the day of our Ordination — it was our first act as priests! — the principle of our apostolic work and personal sanctification? What care do we take in preparing for it? And in celebrating it? In prayng before the Blessed Sacrament? In encouraging our faithful people to do the same? In making our churches the House of God to which the divine presence attracts the people of our time who too often have the impression of a a world empty of God.
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Jun 24 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St John The Baptist
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Homily #090624 ( Ave Maria! Mass readings |
June 24 – St. Pio Daily – The Distinguishing Mark
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity “Let us highly esteem the virtue of charity if we want to find mercy before the Heavenly Father. Let us love charity and practice it; she is that virtue, which makes us children of one same Father, Who is in Heaven. Let us love and practice charity, being that it is the precept of the Divine Master: from this we are distinguished from the people, if we love and practice charity. Let us love charity and flee even from a shadow, which in any moment could cloud it.” |
June 23 – St. Pio Daily – Let it be done with Charity
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity “ ‘But above all these things’ says St. Paul ‘have charity, which is the bond of perfection’. See: he is not content with recommending to us patience, mutually bearing with one another, even though these, too, are noble virtues. But no, he wants charity, and for a good reason – because it could very well be that one patiently supports another’s defects, and even forgives the offences he has received; but it could all be without merit, when it is done without charity.” |
Jun 23 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Vigil St John The Baptist
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Homily #090623 ( Ave Maria! Mass readings |
Video – No Apologies #94 – Purgatory and Right Reason
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Ave Maria! The doctrine of purgatory is completely reasonable once we understand two distinctions: guilt vs. punishment, mortal sin vs. venial sin. Ave Maria! |
Jun 22 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: St John Fisher and St Thomas More
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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St. Thomas More
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Ave Maria Meditations
St. Thomas More (1478-1535)
Third Order Franciscan
Feast Day: June 22nd along with St. John Fisher, bishop and martyr
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Jun 22 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Patron Saint of Politicians
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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June 22 – St. Pio Daily – To Light Our Hearts
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity “The virtue of charity is so extremely beautiful that the Son of God, precisely to light it in our hearts, wanted to come down Himself from the womb of the eternal Father and make Himself similar to us so as to teach it to us and, by the means that He left us, make it easier for us to acquire this most illustrious virtue.” |
Jun 21 – Homily – Fr Tito: Living In A Category 4 Culture
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Homily #090621t ( Ave Maria! Mass readings |
