Homily #120517 ( 09min) Play – The glory of this day when our Lord ascended into Heaven is beyond our mind. Our Lord ascended only after 40 days after His resurrection in order to correct and strengthen  His disciples.

Ave Maria!
Mass: Ascension of the Lord Thursday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 1:1-11
Resp: psa 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: eph 1:17-23
Gsp: mar 16:15-20

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Homily #120516 ( 08min) Play - In today’s Gospel Our Lord teaches us many truths about the Holy Spirit. “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form -  St. Margaret of Cortona - Memorial
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1
Responsorial Psalm: 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
Gospel: John 16:12-15

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Homily #120514 ( 06min) Play - As Our Lord exhorts us in today’s Gospel, St. Matthias, at the end of his apostolic ministry, laid down his life for his friends.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form - St. Matthias the Apostle – Feast
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26
Responsorial Psalm: 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
Gospel: John 15:9-17

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Homily #120513 ( 35min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure on the Gospel message “This I command you, Love one another as I love you.”  He reflects that following God’s commandments is the way to love Him and so abide in His love and so be able to love ones neighbor. There is no opposition between love and the law for love fulfills the law and obeying the law fulfills love. This is what Jesus did on the Cross for all of us.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sunday 6th Week of Easter – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
2nd: 1jo 4:7-10
Gsp: joh 15:9-17

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Homily #120508 ( 08min) Play – Our Lord points out how things are in the eyes of God and seeks to strengthen His disciples. We as members of the body of Christ must also share in suffering.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 5th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 14:19-28
Resp: psa 145:10-11, 12-13, 21
Gsp: joh 14:27-31

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Homily #120428 ( 07min) Play - In todays Gospel is Our Lord’s teaching on the Holy Eucharist – His real presence amoung us till the end of time – probably one of the greatest promises He made to his disciples.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form - St. Louis Marie de Montfort - Optional Memorial
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 9:31-42
Responsorial Psalm: 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
Gospel: John 6:60-69

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Homily #120425 ( 10min) Play – There is a tradition (lower case “t”) that St Mark was the young man, in his own Gospel account, who at the garden of Gethsemane fled away naked after the soldiers tried to seize him.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form –  St. Mark the Evangelist – Feast
Readings:
1st Reading: 1Peter 5:5-14
Responsorial Psalm: 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17
Gospel: Mark 16:15-20

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Homily #120426 ( 06min) Play – Today we are blessed to be able to celebrate a feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary – the feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel – the Motherhouse of the Franciscans of the Immaculate in Frigento, Italy.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form –  Our Lady of Good Counsel – Feast 
Readings:
1st Reading: Isaiah 9:1-3, 5-6
Responsorial: Sirach 14:20,21-22,23-25,26-27
Gospel: John 2:1-11

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Homily #120424 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need to love our Lord in the Eucharist, the Bread from Heaven. Let us strive to keep His presence in our minds in our souls, minds, and bodies.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday 3rd Week of Easter
1st: act 7:51-8:1
Resp: psa 31:3-4, 6, 7, 8, 17, 21
Gsp: joh 6:30-35

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