Monday, December 19th, 2011
Ave Maria Meditations
Wait when the seed is planted,
Wait for the rain to fall;
Wait for the restless green sprout,
Wait while the plant grows tall.
Wait for the coming Savior,
Wait through the heart’s slow race;
Wait for the kingdom’s dawning,
Wait till we see his face! (more…)
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
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Homily #111218 ( 12min) Play – Fr Angelo expains why today’s readings are so appropriate in preparation for Christmas.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form – 4th Sunday of Advent – Solemnity
Readings:
1st Reading: 2Samuel 7:1-5, 8-11, 16
Responsorial Psalm: 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29
2nd Reading: Romans 16:25-27
Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
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Homily #111216 ( 05min) Play – During this Advent Season Fr. Dominic exhorts us to grow closer to Our Lord and help others do the same by following the example of Our Lady who, when she was bearing the Lord in her womb, visited the house of St. Elizabeth and so brought great spiritual blessings.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Friday of Ember Week in Advent – Ferial – Form: EF, Prope es Tu
Readings:
1st: isa 11:1-5
Gsp: luk 1:39-47
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
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Homily #111204 ( 37min) Play – On this 2nd Sunday of Advent Fr. Bonaventure takes his queue from John the Baptist who points to the true Messiah taking the attention off of himself. Jesus is the true Christmas gift because He gives us salvation from our sins. Let us respond well and so be prepared for His Second Coming.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 2nd Sunday of Advent – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 40:1-5, 9-11
Resp: psa 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14
2nd: 2pe 3:8-14
Gsp: mar 1:1-8
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
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Homily #111202 ( 05min) Play – That’s what Advent is – coming into the light.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form – Friday in the 1st Week in Advent
Readings:
1st Reading: Isaiah 29:17-24
Responsorial Psalm: 27:1, 4, 13-14
Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
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Homily #111128 ( 00min) Play – We have the obligation to prepare to receive Him well in Holy Communion – very appropriate for the season of Advent where we prepare for His coming at Christmas.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form – Monday of the 1st Week in Advent
Readings:
1st Reading: Isaiah 4:2-6
Responsorial Psalm: 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
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Homily #111127k ( 08min) Play – Draw Close. We must be humble and schooled by the Virgin in order to receive the sweetness of the humble Heart of Jesus.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 1st Sunday of Advent – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 63:16-17, 19
Resp: psa 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
2nd: 1co 1:3-9
Gsp: mar 13:33-37
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Ave Maria Meditations
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The infant Christ is the whole Christ. Christ was not more God, more Christ, more man, on the Cross than He was in His Mother’s womb. His first tear, His first smile, His first breath, His first pulsation in the womb of His Mother, could have redeemed the world, in fact, Christ chose the life of growth and work and suffering, and the death on the Cross which we know; but by His own choice all this was to depend on a human being giving herself to Him in His infancy, giving her own humanity to the actual making of that infant’s humanity and giving Him her life in which to rest.If every person in whom Christ lives at all, in whom He is an infant – which means anyone whose soul is alive at all- surrendered themselves to Him, resting in Him so that He might rest in them, in each one of them the world’s redemption would begin as it began in Mary, the Mother of God. Christ is formed in us, and we are formed into Christ, when we rest in Him and He rests in us.
During Advent Christ rested in Mary – still, silent, helpless, and utterly dependent. The Creator trusted Himself to His creature. He trusted to her the expression of His love, the expression of God’s love for the world and of His love of His Father, just as the work of His love would be trusted to us, in His life in us.
He was dumb; her voice was His voice.
He was still; her footsteps were His journeys.
He was blind; her eyes were His seeing.
His hands were folded; her hands did the work of His hands.
His life was her life; His heartbeat was the beating of her heart.
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
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Homily #101221 ( 07min) Play – Today the Gospel recounts the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist. Fr. Dominic preaches on how she provides very human assistance to St. Elizabeth in her time of need, bearing the precursor of Christ who will prepare Israel for His coming. Thus, Mary demonstrates her central role in the preparation that we all must do in this season of Advent.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday in the 4th Week in Advent – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: son 2:8-14
Resp: psa 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21
Gsp: luk 1:39-45
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
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Homily #101217 ( 04min) Play – Today Fr. Angelo briefly expounds on the Gospel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Her cousin, St. Elizabeth.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Friday in Ember Week of Advent; Form: EF,
Readings:
1st: Isa 11:1-5
Gsp: luk 1: 37-47
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
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Homily #101201 ( 04min) Play – Jesus is calling us to Him in this Season of Advent even if He is already coming to him. Fr. Dominic mentions the blessings that we will receive if we come as did his disciples in today’s Gospel who were cured of their diseases and relieved of their hunger.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday in the 1st Week in Advent – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 25:6-10
Resp: psa 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6
Gsp: mat 15:29-37
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
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Homily #101128 ( 10min) Play – Fr Dominic preaches on the opening of Advent when we prepare for the coming of Our Lord when He is born at Bethlehem on Christmas Day. Father focuses on the Marian dimension of this season when we should renew our consecration to Mary so that we can prepare all the better, gaining graces, overcoming bad habits.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 1st Sunday of Advent – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 2:1-5
Resp: psa 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: rom 13:11-14
Gsp: mat 24:37-44
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
One Minute Meditation
The Lord has shown His great mercy. Enkindle in your hearts ardent desires and burning wishes for Our Lord to come to you in the virtue of His charity, love of the Father, and of every human being. Say with the Royal Prophet, “I opened my mouth and panted.” And your Savior will respond, “Surely I come quickly; you shall see Me very soon.”
Your eyes at the midnight Mass will gaze upon the elevated Host and your lips will utter, “My Lord and my God.” A few minutes more and the little Infant will have come to you. His Immaculate Mother did not hold Him more truly in her arms that first Christmas midnight than you will have Him, Heart to heart. Then all the love of that Infant Redeemer will be poured out upon you. It’s a thirst of the heart of every creature that desires to be loved, and the love which can alone satisfy that craving is the Divine Love.
Let your heart delight in the love your God has for you, personally, individually. No soul ever in ardent fervor desires to unite herself to our Lord in Holy Communion, as our Lord desires to unite Himself to her. So Holy Communion is a delight to your Infant Savior; because He loves you, oh, how immeasurably! He tells you in His Heart to heart interview that He has become a little Infant so that you may love Him with a human love without fear. He wants you to confide in Him, approach to Him with a conviction that His Great Majesty is annihilated that you may no longer see in Him but a little Child, with a body and soul just as you have. And the mystery of love is this: that He unites His Body to your body and your soul to His Soul, so that yours may be a member of His very own.
This Christmas Holy Communion will unite you to our Lord, it is my prayer, more intimately than ever before in all your lives so that even the smallest of your actions may by this union be animated with divine Life – and all for the honor of the Father and the salvation of souls. May you participate in His life of charity, and may a divine light illumine you to see the depths and heights of the charity of a God made Man to redeem that which was lost. You participate in the spirit and the immense charity of Christ so as to be born this Christmas to a new life of charity – for “he that abides in charity, abides in God.”
+St. Katherine Drexel
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