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Homily #100319 ( 19min) Play -

Saint Joseph was by birth of the royal family of David, but was living in humble obscurity as a carpenter, until God raised him to the highest office ever accorded a mortal man, by choosing him to be the spouse of the Virgin Mother, the virginal father and guardian of the Incarnate Word. Joseph, says Holy Scripture, was a just man. He was innocent and pure, as became the husband of Mary; he was gentle and tender, as one worthy to be named the father of Jesus; he was prudent and a lover of silence, as became the master of the holy house; above all, he was faithful and obedient to divine calls. (more…)

Homily #100318 ( 07min) Play – Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.
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Homily #100317 ( 15min) Play

If the virtue of children reflects honor on their parents, much more justly is the name of Saint Patrick rendered illustrious by the innumerable lights of sanctity which shone in the Church of Ireland during many ages, and by the colonies of Saints with which it peopled many foreign countries. The Apostle of Ireland was born in Scotland towards the close of the fourth century, in a village which seems to be the present-day Scotch town of Kilpatrick, between Dumbarton and Glasgow. He calls himself both a Briton and a Roman, that is, of mixed extraction, and says his father was of a good family named Calphurnius. Some writers call his mother Conchessa, and say she was the niece of Saint Martin of Tours.

In his sixteenth year he was carried into captivity in Ireland by barbarians. There he was obliged to shepherd cattle on the mountains and in the forests, in hunger and nakedness, amid snow, rain, and ice. The young man had recourse to God with his whole heart, in fervent prayer and fasting, and from that time faith and the love of God acquired a constantly renewed strength in his tender soul. After six months spent in slavery (more…)

Homily #100316 ( 04min) Play – Through our Lord we are now able to get up from our sins and walk anew.
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Homily #100315 ( 07min) Play – We are called to have faith in the words our Lord has spoken, words that do not return empty. This is My Body…this is My Blood…
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Homily #100314 ( 17min) Play – Today is Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, which is like Gaudete Sunday in Advent, a day of joy in the midst of a season of penance.  Common to both these days are the joyful rose vestments and Fr. Bonaventure relates this to the Gospel of the day which is the parable of of the Prodigal Son and how the son is robed in festive vestments due to the father’s joy in the return of his wayward son. Fr. Bonaventure highlights the importance of repentance if we fall and how all penance leads to joy if we persevere to the end.
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1: Josh 5:9,10-12
R: Ps 34:2-7
2: 2 Cor 5:17-21
G: Lk 15:1-3,11-32

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Homily #100227 ( 03min) Play -  Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need to pray constantly for others especially to ask that Mary, Mother of Christians, intercede for those who are enemies of the Church.
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1: Deut 26:16-19
R: Ps 119:1-2,4-5,7-8
G: Mt 5:43-48

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Homily #100226 ( 08min) Play – One sin is enough to send us Hell, but if we repent and ask God’s forgiveness then we will join the blessed in Heaven and enjoy the Beatific Vision for all eternity.
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1: Ezek 18:21-28
R: Ps 130:1-8
G: Mt 5:20-26

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Homily #100225 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on today’s Gospel that tells us of the need to love God above all else because he knows what we need and we can love all others through Him.
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1: Esth C:12,14-16,23-25
R: Ps 138:1-3,7-8
G: Mt 7:7-12

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Homily #100224 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches that during Lent we are to fast and mortify our body in preparation for Good Friday but we are also to feast on the vivifying Word of God in preparation for Easter just as Jonah called for a fast in Nineveh so that they would live.
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1: Jon 3:1-10
R: Ps 51:3-4,12-13,18-19
G: Lk 11:29-32

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Homily #100205 ( 10min) Play – In Herod’s unlawful marriage we see adultery, lust, murder and more.
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Homily #100204 ( 05min) Play – Dissent causes great sorrow to the Mother of Christ, for it was Christ Who established it beginning with His Apostles.
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Homily #100203 ( 06min) Play – Yes He is the carpenter, the son of Mary, and yes He is the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon?  And yes His sisters are here among you?
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Homily #100202 ( 08min) Play – “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted ‘and you yourself a sword will pierce’…  We are given here a public pronunciation of our Lady as Co-Redemptrix.
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Homily #100201 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains that today’s Gospel account of the man possessed by the legion and the other accounts of possession shows us the terrible state we can end up in, both in this world and the next, by falling into mortal sin.

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1: 2 Sam 15:13-14,30; 16:5-13
R: Ps 3:2-7
G: Mk 5:1-20

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