Conferences #164 – St. Joseph’s Friary ( 43min) >>> Play

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“Suffering is always a grace.” – Canon Francis Joseph Ripley

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Homily #120209 ( 05min) Play – Even though Solomon saw Our Lord twice he still fell away from Him. If we don’t stay vigilant and maintain good habits we too can fall away from our God.
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Mass: Ordinary Form – Thursday 5th Week of Ordinary Time
Readings:
1st Reading: 1Kings 11:4-13
Responsorial Psalm: 106:3-4, 35-36, 37, 40
Gospel: Mark 7:24-30

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The Franciscans of the Immaculate, inspired by the example of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, are seeking to conquer the world for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the maternal mediation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The primary role of the contemplative branch is to sustain the Church, and more specifically the missions of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, by their hidden life of prayer and penance. Each Friary of the contemplative friars is called a Ritiro Mariano, which in Italian has the sense of a “Marian Hermitage” where the contemplatives retreat and pray. Recently the contemplative friars have undertaken the sacred and prayerful work of restoring altars. Your donations will aid the contemplative friars and their restoration work for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.  – http://www.novenamasses.org/

A Day With Mary #20 – Fr. Giles speaks on Our Lady ( 21 min) >>> Play

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Fr. Giles speaks on Our Lady during the “Day With Mary” held at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in City Beach, Western Australia on 4 February 2012.

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Homily #120208 ( 12min) Play – Truth is Jesus Christ Himself. The access to Truth comes through Holy Mother Church.
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Mass: Ordinary Form - St. Jerome Emiliani – Optional Memorial
Readings: Wednesday 5th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 1Kings 10:1-10
Responsorial Psalm: 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40
Gospel: Mark 7:14-23

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On Living for ‘something greater”: But if you wish to know how these things come about, ask for grace not instruction; desire not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligent reading; the Spouse not the teacher; God not man; darkness not clarity; not light but the fire that totally inflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and burning affections.

This fire is God, and his furnace is in Jerusalem and Christ enkindles it in the heat of his burning passion, which only he truly perceives who says: My soul chooses hanging and my bones death. Whoever loves this death can see God because it is true beyond doubt that man will not see Him and live. 

Let us, then, die and enter into the darkness; let us impose silence upon our cares, our desires and our imaginings. With Christ crucified let us pass out of this world to the Father   so that when the Father is shown to us, we may say with Philip:     It is enough for us. Let us hear with Paul: My grace is sufficient for you. Let us rejoice with David saying: My flesh and my heart have grown faint; You are the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion forever.

Blessed be the Lord forever and all the people will say: Let it be; let it be... Amen.

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A Day With Mary #19 – Fr. Sharbel speaks on the Eucharist ( 19 min) >>> Play

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Fr. Sharbel speaks on the Eucharist during the “Day With Mary” held at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in City Beach, Western Australia on 4 February 2012.

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Conferences #163 – St. Joseph’s Friary ( 37min) >>> Play

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When you gather all the scraps of your time, you’ll see that you have sufficient time for prayer.

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Homily #120205t ( 07min) Play – The tension is rising before our eyes in the culture war as we see the church persecuted further by politicians.
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Mass: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: job 7:1-4, 6-7
Resp: psa 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
2nd: 1co 9:16-19, 22-23
Gsp: mar 1:29-39

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