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Homily #100307m ( 07min) Play – Fr. John Joseph exhorts us to pray with the Samaritan woman, uniting our prayers with hers and asking, “Lord, give me this living water. Give me this grace of yours to serve you more faithfully. Help me in my trials. Help me to overcome my sins, my defects, and my faults, while at the same time being patient with ourselves.”

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Homily #100110m ( 15min) Play – Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord.  Fr. John Joseph explains what it means to follow the example of Jesus Christ, to be baptized and live as true children of God.
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Homily #100101m ( 00min) Play – Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.  Fr. John Joseph explains how fitting it was that God should create His Immaculate Mother so awesome, wonderful, and spectacular.  We might be tempted to think that She is distant from us, but this special feast reminds us that She is not only God’s Mother, but ours as well.
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Homily #091227m ( 20min) Play – Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.  Fr. John Joseph explains how the family is the first society in which we learn all kinds of virtues.  The Catholic home is the domestic church, the little church at home where the faith is taught..
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Homily #091225m ( 09min) Play – Today we  celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord.  Fr. John Joseph explains how Our Lord came to us newly born in rags and in poverty. Throughout this year let us bear in mind the poor in Christ, who He came to redeem, especially the neglected, the forgotten, the least of all.
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Homily #091220m ( 18min) Play – “Most blessed are you among women…” (Luke 1:42)  Fr. John Joseph explains that as we come to know Our Lord, Our Lord will give us the gift to know the greatest thing that we could know in His creation, Our Lady.
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Homily #091214ms ( 16min) Play – Today we celebrate the feast of St. John of the Cross, priest and doctor of the Church, patron of contemplatives, mystics, and Spanish poets.

Fr. John Joseph touches on how St. John was a great spiritual mystic and spiritual director, known for his teaching on the “Dark Night of the Soul“.

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Homily #091213m ( 09min) Play – The third Sunday of Advent is called “Gaudete Sunday“, when the pink Advent candle is lit, priests wear rose-colored vestments, and we rejoice and are glad, for the Lord is near…
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Homily #091210m ( 13min) Play – Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Loreto, which refers to the Translation of the Holy House of Loreto, the house in Nazareth where Mary was born and where the Annunciation occurred.  According to tradition, angels lifted up and transported the little house several times, finally to its current resting place in Loreto, Italy.

Father John Joseph explains how Our Lady exemplifies the role of the mother in the home. The home is where children can see the faith of their parents, where they learn their Christian virtues and what it means to be Catholic.

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Homily #091209m ( 11min) Play – “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart…” (Matt. 11:29)  Fr. John Joseph reminds us to bear in mind the meekness of Our Lord.  We, too, must follow in His ways, taking up our cross of suffering to follow in His footsteps, for our sanctification and that of our brothers in Christ.
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Homily #091208m ( 18min) Play – Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Fr. John Joseph explains how sin never had any part in the one who was to be the Mother of God, and how in our own lives we must strive to imitate Her purity.  It was a gift given to Her, but it’s a gift also given to us so that we can share in that grace.
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Homily #091206m ( 08min) Play – John called to repentance the Jewish people, the people of God.  This is a time to share in that work and to point out Christ. This is our job as Catholics, to be witnesses of Christ.  Christ in our own lives must increase.  He must grow and we must become little, as it were to disappear, so that only Christ lives in us…
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Homily #091129m ( 18min) Play – As we begin a new liturgical year today, Father John Joseph encourages us to enter into the spirit of this Advent season by resolving to make some new act of penance, prayer, and charity.

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Homily #091127m ( 09min) Play – Today we celebrate the feast of the Miraculous Medal (1830).  Originally called the “Medal of the Immaculate Conception”, this sacramental comes directly from the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother. It is not only highly venerated and promoted by the Franciscans of the Immaculate, but has become an integral part of their habit, devoutly worn over their hearts.

Father John Joseph encourages us to wear the Miraculous Medal, wear it worthily, and to live our lives showing that we want to be children of our Immaculate Mother, united with Her will and the will of Her Son.

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Homily #091126m ( 09min) Play – St. Leonard of Port Maurice (1676-1751). Joining a branch of the Franciscans of the Strict Observance, St. Leonard desired to be sent on mission to China but was held back by sickness. He instead began preaching missions in Italy and attracted huge crowds in Rome. This great preacher worked for devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, Sacred Heart, Immaculate Conception, and the Stations of the Cross, of which he erected almost six hundred throughout the lands.

Father explains how, following the example of our patron saint of parish missions, St. Leonard, we should encourage missions at our parish as these can be times of very special graces..

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