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Homily #120102k ( 07min) Play – Shedding our spiritual blood will lead us to the newness of the Nativity.
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Mass: Sts Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen – Mem – Form: OF
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Homily #101029 ( 08min) Play – Our Lord uses the example of the Ox and the Ass in today’s Gospel in reference to whether he should heal a man with dropsy on the Sabbath. He asks, who among you has an ox or ass which if stuck in a cistern would not try to rescue it? Fr. Bonaventure associates the Ox with the Jews who were burdened with the Law of Moses and the Ass to the Gentiles who were rendered unintelligent through sin. Jesus is the saving Sabbath who through the sacrifice of his own Body and Blood saves us from the cistern of sin.
Ave Maria! Friday in the 30th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: phi 1:1-11
Resp: psa 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 14:1-6

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Homily #100701 ( 04min) Play – Today we celebrate the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Fr. Ignatius focuses on how this sacrifice fulfills the Old Testament and renders the old sacrifices useless because of the infinite worth of Christ’s. He also points out that we are called by Christ to take up our cross and follow him. Let us persevere in this.
Ave Maria! The Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ – Mass: EF, Redemisti Nos – Readings: 1st: heb 9:11-15 – Gsp: joh 19:30-35

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Homily #100423 ( 06min) Play – The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?”

Here in the Blessed Sacrament is the same Jesus that live in Nazareth and died on Calvary.

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Homily #100401 ( 22min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to keep in mind that by remembering the events of the Last Supper which we celebrate today and the events of the next three days we make them present to us. This is true at every Mass when Our Lord is made present to us in the Eucharist when Our Lord said,
‘This is my body that is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.’
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Ex 12:1-8,11-14
R: Ps 116:12-13,15-18
2: 1 Cor 11:23-26
G: Jn 13:1-15

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Homily #091231s ( 04min) Play – According to the Extraordinary Form of the calendar the Feast on January 1st is the Circumcision of The Child Jesus which is what we will celebrate tonight. In the morning we will celebrate the Solemnity of the Mother of God according to the new rite. Tonight Father explains that the circumsision that Our Lord went through was to show us the importance of redemptive suffering even in this Season of Joy. [Note: The first minute of the homily was lost but we managed a smooth edit. ]
Ave Maria! Octave Day of the Nativity – Mass: EF, Puer Natus Est – Readings: 1st: tit 2:11-15 – Gsp: luk 2:21-21

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Homily #091212 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains how terribly morbid and depraved the Aztec culture was, despite being very organized, in that they sacrificed tens of thousands of humans of humans each year to the Aztec serpent god. Listen as Father explains the astonishing rapidity that this culture ceased these bloody sacrifices and embraced Catholicism, all through the intercession of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Zech 2:14-17
R: Jdt 13:18-19
G: Lk 1:26-38

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Homily #090614 ( 21min) Play – On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, Fr. Angelo Geiger explains how much we should give thanks to God for the Eucharist which re-presents to us His bodily sacrifice on Calvary. This sacrifice is the greatest thing ever done by God including all His works of creation and His miracles.
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No Apologies #76 – “Eating blood and blood-transfusions are two different things.” ( 07min) >>> Play

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Today we look at a common sense argument and some Sacred Scripture showing that accepting a blood transfusion does not break the Old Testament law of not “eating blood.”

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No Apologies #64 - 1Cor. 10 &11 ( 05min) >>> Play

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St. Paul writes of the Eucharist twice. Both times he’s clear that we partake of the Body and Blood of Christ.

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NOVENA TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD

By the Voice of your Blood, O Jesus, I would press you, solicit you, importune you. Though you seem to reject my supplications I will not leave your bleeding feet until you hear me. Too many graces, too many mercies flow from your Blood for me not to hope in its efficacy. Then, O Jesus, by the Precious Blood seven times shed for the welfare of all, by each drop of that sacred price of our redemption, by the tears of your immaculate mother, I imploe you, hear my earnest prayer. (here specify your request) O Jesus, during all the days of your mortal life you consoled so many sufferers, healed so many infirmities, raised so often a sinking courage, you will not fail to have pity on one who cries to you from the depths of anguish. Oh! No, it is impossible. Another profound sigh from my heart, and from the wound in your own there will flow to me upon a wave of your merciful Blood the grace so ardently desired. O Jesus, Jesus, hasten the moment when you will change my tears into joy, my sighs into thanksgiving. Holy Mary, source of the divine Blood, I implore you not to lose this occasion of glorifying the Blood which made you immaculate. Amen.

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Homily #080617 ( 07min) Play – Love your enemies by praying and working for their salvation even to the shedding of your blood just as Jesus did.
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