Archive for September, 2009
Sep 30 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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Audio (MP3)Sep 30 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Saint Jerome
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Homily #090930 ( Catechism of the Catholic Church The Second Vatican Council indicates three criteria for interpreting Scripture in accordance with the Spirit who inspired it.78 112 1. Be especially attentive “to the content and unity of the whole Scripture”. Different as the books which compose it may be, Scripture is a unity by reason of the unity of God’s plan, of which Christ Jesus is the center and heart, open since his Passover.79 113 2. Read the Scripture within “the living Tradition of the whole Church”. According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church’s heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church carries in her Tradition the living memorial of God’s Word, and it is the Holy Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (“. . . according to the spiritual meaning which the Spirit grants to the Church”81). 114 3. Be attentive to the analogy of faith.82 By “analogy of faith” we mean the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan of Revelation. Ave Maria! +++ |
Video – Great Marian Figures, part I – Dr. Miravalle: MCast 77
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Marycast #77 ( Ave Maria! +++ |
In Defense of Purity 1
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
As promised, here is my first post on Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Purity: The Mystery of Christian Sexuality (originally published as In Defense of Purity). It is probably longer than will be my other posts on the book. We will see. I thought there were some basic ideas about “shame” that I wanted to establish from the beginning. Part of my work here will be to do a comparative study of von Hildebrand’s writing on Purity vis-à-vis John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Book I: Purity; Part I: Sex; Chapter I: Sex Distinguished from Other Bodily Appetites
Catholic tradition describes this tendency to conceal sex as “modesty.” It is a certain kind of shame. We would do well to understand what it is and what it is not. The shame of EnglishIn his book, Purity: The Mystery of Christian Sexuality, Dietrich von Hildebrand distinguishes between different kinds of shame. (more…) |
September 29th: Feast of the Archangels
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009St. Michael the Archangel
The name Michael signifies “Who is like to God?” and was the warcry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against satan and his followers. Holy Scripture describes St. Michael as “one of the chief princes,” and leader of the forces of heaven in their triumph over the powers of hell. He has been especially honored and invoked as patron and protector by the Church from the time of the Apostles. Although he is always called “the Archangel,” the Greek Fathers and many others place him over all the angels – as Prince of the Seraphim. St. Michael is the patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police and sickness. On Sunday April 24th 1994, Pope John Paul II recommended this prayer be used by all Catholics as a prayer for the Church when he said: ‘”May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: ‘Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power’ (Ephesians 6:10). The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel (Revelation 12:7). Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid recollection of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to St. Michael throughout the Church. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world.”‘ |
Sep 29 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: MI CA EL
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Video – No Apologies #106 – Doesn’t Celibacy Bring Immorality?
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Ave Maria! What is to be said about St. Paul’s letter to Timothy which reads that “a bishop must be married only once?” And what about the objection that celibacy brings with it immorality? Ave Maria! |
Video – Roving Reporter #79: Celebrating Marriage Renewal of Vows
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Ave Maria! At this summer’s Celebrating Marriage event conducted by the Rhode Island chapter of the the National Organization for Marriage Scott Spear gives an address on the beauties of Marriage before the crowd of couples that gathered at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick who are ready to renew their wedding vows. Ave Maria! |
Sep 28 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St Wenceslas
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Homily #090928 ( 35 “I came to set a man at variance”… Not that this was the end or design of the coming of our Savior; but that his coming and his doctrine would have this effect, by reason of the obstinate resistance that many would make, and of their persecuting all such as should adhere to him. +++ |
Sep 28 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: St. Lawrence Ruiz, Philippino Martyr, and Companions
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Homily #090928m ( +++ Saint Lawrence was a devoted husband and father of three children in the Philippians. After being wrongfully accused of murder, he fled with Christian missionaries to Japan where he was tortured and killed for the faith. He died profession: “I shall die for God, and for Him I would give many thousands of lives if I had them.”
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Sep 27 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: “Whoever is not against us is for us..”
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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Thoughts on Pilgrimage
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Ave Maria Meditations
I ask your prayers as I prepare for a pilgrimage to holy places in Italy
including Siena, Assisi, and Rome. Ave Maria! SrJMMfti
 Prayers for Pilgrims
Pilgrimage is traditionally a journey to a holy place — a place where saints have walked, a place where God has met people and blessed them. People through the ages have journeyed with God on pilgrimage — to perform a penance, to ask for healing, to pray for places where there is war or national disaster, to pray for friends. Pilgrimage is an opportunity to travel lightly, to walk free of daily routines, to meet people, to make friends, to enjoy and celebrate God’s creation. An opportunity, too, in the traveling, in the conversations, and in the silences to reflect on the journey of our lives and on our journey homeward to God. Prayers before setting out on a pilgrimage God of the guiding star, the bush that blazes |
Sep 27 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Near Occasion of Sin
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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Sep 26 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: The disciples did not understand His words..
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
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