Homily #120520 ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel according to St. John where Jesus prays to His Father that His apostles would be protected and would maintain unity in charity and truth. He does this because He was about to leave them as far as a visible presence in concerned by being crucified for our sins. Then He was Resurrected and Ascended into heaven but promised that He would send the Holy Spirit who will give them the needed graces. So they prayed for the coming of the Comforter in the upper room for nine days completing the first novena of prayer.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sunday 7th Week of Easter – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 1:15-17, 20-26
Resp: psa 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20
2nd: 1jo 4:11-16
Gsp: joh 17:11-19

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Homily #120420 ( 04min) Play – The courage of the Apostles shows the truth of the risen Lord.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Friday 2nd Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 5:34-42
Resp: psa 27:1, 4, 13-14
Gsp: joh 6:1-15

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Homily #111028m ( 20min) Play -

This is the first of three homilies from when Fr. Peter was at Mt. St. Francis for a visit in late October. On the Feast of Sts Simon and Jude, he reflects on how Jesus called 12 men to be his co-workers in the New Covenant. He is giving us a mission us to be His co-workers, but we must understand that any true mission comes from God and depends on Him.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sts Simon and Jude – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eph 2:19-22
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: luk 6:12-16

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Homily #111028 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the two saints of today’s feast, St. Simon and St. Jude, who were of the original twelve Apostles, the first members of the new family of God established by God to fearlessly renew the family of men even in the very face of persecution.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sts Simon and Jude – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eph 2:19-22
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: luk 6:12-16

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Homily #110628 ( 05min) Play – Fr Dominic preaches on how the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul are representatives of truth given to us by Christ and so represent the gift of infallibility given to the Magesterium of the Church in the Bishops, the successors of the Apostles.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Vigil of the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul – 2nd Cl – Form: EF, Dicit Dominus
Readings:
1st: act 3:1-10
Gsp: joh 21:15-19

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Homily #110507 ( 05min) Play – We have nothing to fear be cause Our Lord is with us. This is the message of today’s Gospel as Father preaches on Jesus coming out to the Apostles on the sea of Galilee
Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday 2nd Week of Easter – Form:
Readings:
1st: act 6:1-7
Resp: psa 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19
Gsp: joh 6:16-21

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Homily #110503 ( 11min) Play – On the feast of St. James and St. Philip Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the important role that these Apostles and the Apostles in general played, being transformed from cowering disciples at the crucifixion to faith-filled Apostles at Pentecost who were ready to traverse the globe and sacrifice their lives to bring the Gospel to all peoples. We must joyfully follow in their footsteps, working for the salvation of souls, bringing them into the unity of Christ’s Church.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sts. Philip and James – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1co 15:1-8
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: joh 14:6-14

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Homily #110121 ( 09min) Play – Christ establishes the twelve Apostles as the foundation of the Church. Today we celebrate the feast of St. Agnes an early Roman martyr.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Agnes – Memorial – Form:
Readings: Friday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time
1st: heb 8:6-13
Resp: psa 85:8, 10, 11-12, 13-14
Gsp: mar 3:13-19

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Homily #101028 ( 10min) Play – Today is the feast of Sts Simon and Jude and Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the foundation that Our Lord builds from the foundation stones of the Apostles. He covers what is know about these more obscure apostles, how they worked together and won the martyr’s crown in Persia and how St Jude is the patron saint of difficult cases, then on the apostolic nature of the true Church as one of its chief marks of authenticity and how the apostles were given the impossible mission and carried it out with miraculous results.
Ave Maria! Sts Simon and Jude – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 2:19-22
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: luk 6:12-16

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Homily #100907 ( 09min) Play – The Power that we see in the Apostles and their successors is not their own but is the power of God working through His Church.
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 1co 6:1-11
Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9
Gsp: luk 6:12-19

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