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Homily #101106 ( 18min) Play – On this First Saturday devotional Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of  Mary we have the Gospel account of the losing of the child Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth and the  finding in the Temple three days later. Fr. Angelo relates how Mary and Joseph did, in fact, experience grief but they did not despair nor where they completely ignorant of the meaning of Christ’s staying in the Temple contrary to modern Bible scholars. Father explains the purpose of Human knowledge as it relates to faith and to the apparitions of Mary at Fatima from whence the First Saturday Devotions come, where she tells us to offer up our suffering in reparation for the offense to her Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of our impious age.
Ave Maria! – Mass: – Readings:
1st: jud 13:17-20, 15:9
Rsp: luk 1:46-55
Gsp: luk 2:46-51

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Homily #101017 ( 19min) Play – Our Lord gives us the parable in today’s Gospel of the unjust judge who cares nothing about God nor man, but after being pestered enough by the woman seeking justice he gives her request. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to follow this woman’s example to pester God who is, instead, a just Judge, and so will all the more give us all that is good. Not only is it good to keep pestering good but Jesus give us a command to do so. He know all that we need ahead of time but we need to show him our trust in his goodness by continuing to beseech him even when we get tired of praying.
Ave Maria! 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: exo 17:8-13
Resp: psa 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
2nd: 2ti 3:14-4:2
Gsp: luk 18:1-8

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Homily #100908s ( 14min) Play – today on the feast of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary we have our annual professions where our novices make first profession and those in temporary vows renew theirs. Fr. Angelo relates this generous sacrifice of their lives (to the service of God) to the calling mentioned by Paul in the first reading and the calling of Mary and Joseph to the exulted role of heading the Holy Family that is related in the Gospel. He also relates this to the sacrifices of St Maximilian (one of the patrons of our order) who pursued heroic efforts to spread the faith and how difficulties when conformed to Christ becomes effective to the conversion of others.

Ave Maria! – Mass: – Readings:
1: Rom 8:28-30
R: Ps 13:6
G: Mt 1:1-16,18-23

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Homily #100826 ( 07min) Play – On this feast day of the Seven Joys of Our Lady, celebrated by the Franciscans, commemorating the Franciscan Crown of the Seven Joys of Lady. Fr Angelo Geiger preaches on the Gospel account of the Annunciation where Our Lady finds joy in the message of the angel that she was to conceive by the Holy Spirit and have the presence of God within her. He ralates this to St. Francis who, after his conversion, was liberated from all that held him back from following Christ and was able to find joy in the ever-present Lord despite the fact that he had no earthly possessions.
Ave Maria!   Readings: 1st: Song 2:1-14
Gspl: Luk 1:26-38

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Homily #100825 ( 10min) Play – Fr Angelo, on the occasion of the Anniversary of the Dedication of our Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe here in Griswold, preaches on how we are on a journey, a pilgrimage, here on earth where we are searching for our final resting place, the Heavenly Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is the subject of the first reading taken from the Book of Revelation for the dedication of a church and Father points out how the physical churches that we build are little way stations along this journey a small piece of heaven for rest along the journey.

Ave Maria! Readings:
1st: Rev 21:1-5
Gspl: Luk 19:1-10

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Homily #100824 ( 06min) Play – On the Feast of St Bartholomew Fr. Angelo preaches on one of the Four Marks of the Church that of the Apostolic Succession that the current bishops are successors of the Apostles in an unbroken chain.
Ave Maria! St. Bartholomew, Apostle – Mass: EF, Mihi Autem – Readings:
1st: 1co 12:27-31
Gsp: luk 6:12-19

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Homily #100801 ( 14min) Play – Fr Angelo preaches on the Gospel which today is the parable of the publican and the pharisee who pray in the Synagogue. Father gives the context of the parable which is the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who accused Jesus of breaking the sabbath but then broke it themselves by plotting His death on the the Sabbath. He compares this to  the failures of people in authority today both in the Church and in society as a whole and how this causes cynicism against all authority especially in regard to fatherhood that is increasingly put down in today’s society. But cynicism is not the answer for we will be judged on our own merits and focusing on others’ faults as the Pharisee did in the parable will bring a similar judgment upon us.
Ave Maria! Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Cum Clamarem – Readings:
1st: 1co 12:2-11
Gsp: luk 18:9-14

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Homily #100725 ( 11min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel where Our Lord weeps over Jerusalem whom he wanted to embrace with divine mercy but they would not have a part of it. He points out that Our Lord is very concerned about us and our salvation, extending His mercy despite our sinfulness. But the time for mercy is only during this life. Let us make haste and open our hearts to His grace and mercy before we enter final judgment and eternal life.
Ave Maria! Ninth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Ecce Deus Adiuvat – Readings:
1st: 1co 10:6-13
Gsp: luk 19:41-47

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Homily #100715 ( 11min) Play – Today is the Feast day of St. Bonaventure and Fr. Angelo preaches on how St Bonaventure combined true sanctity and high education and so he became the Seraphic Doctor in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St. Francis, the seraphic saint. St Bonaventure focused on the importance of the will in theology as opposed to St Thomas who focused on the intellect. He also worked to ‘refound’ the order when it was in danger of splitting.
Ave Maria! St. Bonaventure – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 8:2-7, 16-18
Resp: psa 16:5-5, 7-8, 9, 11
2nd: 1co 2:6-13
Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Homily #100714 ( 07min) Play – The Gospel from St Luke tells His apostles to not carry a walking staff or extra clothes but depend on others to provide these things. St Francis of Assisi after reading this passage threw off his good clothes and put on a simple ones and proceeded on the life of evangelical poverty that so marked his life and charism and contrasted to the life style of the clergy of that time. St. Francis of Solanus also followed this and like the first St Francis received miraculous powers to convert hearts throughout the missionary lands of South America, converting many thousands. Let us pray for these graces to be able to bring many new converts to Christ.
Ave Maria! St. Francis Solano – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: rom 10:10-18
Resp: act 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 6-8
Gsp: luk 10:1-9

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Homily #100712 ( 00min) Play – In today’s Mass we honor St. Gualbert, who abandoned earthly knighthood, after Our Lord rewarded him miraculously for forgiving an enemy under heroic circumstances.  St. Gualbert became a monk, fought against simony, and later founded an very austere form of benedictine life.

The story of St. Gualbert reminds us that the knighthood of Christ and true Catholic militancy is found, not in pulling down of strongholds (2 Cor 10:4), but in the spiritual might of the Lord that frees us from selfishness.

Ave Maria! St. John Gualbert, Abbot – Mass: EF, Os Iusti – Readings: 1st: sir 45:1-6 – Gsp: mat 5:43-48

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Homily #100627 ( 15min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord gives us a higher standard than is enjoined on us in the ten commandments that represent the natural law.

For He says:

…it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother: Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say: Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Fr. Angelo thus preaches on the need to love our neighbor as Jesus has loved us, that is, selflessly even to giving our lives.

Ave Maria! Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Exaudi Domine – Readings: 1st: 1pe 3:8-15 – Gsp: mat 5:20-24

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Homily #100530 ( 26min) Play – For Holy Trinity Sunday and the closing Mass for the Knights of Lepanto Father-Son Encampment, Fr Angelo preaches on how the Trinity is three Persons and yet united as if it where and Army, working as one for the salvation of all men. He stresses the need to acknowledge that the Second Person of the Trinity became man to win our salvation and so enable the Holy Trinity to dwell within us. Our hearts then become the divine fortress of the Trinity and this forms the base to sally forth and practice the virtues, especially charity.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Prov 8:22-31
R: Ps 8:4-9
2: Rom 5:1-5
G: Jn 16:12-15

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Homily #100523 ( 12min) Play – Today on Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on Mary and the Apostles. Fr. Angelo focuses on the fact that the Gospel reading for this feast are from the Last Supper where Our Lord institutes the Eucharist and thus the connection between the transformative power of the Holy Spirit and that of the priestly ministry, especially during the consecration of the bread into the Eucharist and, in turn, for the transformation of ourselves into His disciples.
Ave Maria! Pentecost – Mass: EF, Spiritus Domini – Readings: 1st: act 2:1-11 – Gsp: joh 14:23-31

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Homily #100522 ( 06min) Play – Today in the extraordinary form of the Mass we celebrate the Vigil of Pentecost. Fr. Angelo preaches on the readings which focus on the expectation of the coming of the Holy Spirit to give us inspiration, courage and fidelity. Let us ask Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, to give us this gift.
Ave Maria! Vigil Mass of Pentecost – Mass: EF, Cum Sanctificatus – Readings: 1st: act 19:1-8 – Gsp: joh 14:15-21

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