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Variety #193 – Fr. Thomas Ward ( 18min) >>> Play

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Fr. Thomas Ward of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Binghamton, NY, expounds on the sacred truth of the Dignity of the Human Person. This Truth is under attack on all sides by the one who is the “Father of lies” and “Murderer from the beginning.” Father Ward explains how tolerance of lies and sin ultimately leads to the destruction of human life, and the loss of souls.

He then exhorts us to respond with uncompromising truth, generous kindness, and universal charity, all of which must animate the merciful work of the Pro-Life movement.

This sermon was given for the Annual Pro-Life Prayer Service organized by the Broome County Right to Life Committee.

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Homily #120201 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel for today where Our Lord goes to His home town of Nazareth where He is not given the same honor he received elsewhere. Father exhorts us to charitably, humbly speak up and give good example when it is needed even if we do not expect a warm welcome.
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Mass: Wednesday 4th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 2sa 24:2, 9-17
Resp: psa 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7
Gsp: mar 6:1-6

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Homily #120105 ( 05min) Play – As Christians we are called to practice Charity – which flies in the face of what the world practices.
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Mass: Ordinary Form - St John Neumann - Memorial
Readings: - Jan 5 – Weekday before Epiphany

1st Reading: 1John 3:11-21
Responsorial Psalm: 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5
Gospel: John 1:43-51

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Homily #111201 ( 05min) Play – Do you fulfill your daily duties well? Do you do your own will or God’s Will?
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Mass: Ordinary Form – Thursday in the 1st Week in Advent 
Readings:
1st Reading: Isaiah 26:1-6
Responsorial Psalm: 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27
Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27

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Homily #111002 ( 00min) Play –  Fr. Ignatius preaches on today’s Gospel where Our Lord asks the Pharisees Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? When the Pharisees would not answer Our Lord answers by healing the sick man on the Sabbath and so teaches that we should practice charity always and everywhere.
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Mass: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Sunday – Form: EF, Miserere Mihi Domine
Readings:
1st: eph 3:13-21
Gsp: luk 14:1-11

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Homily #110706 ( 11min) Play – Today Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the life of St. Maria Goretti, how she heroically preserved her virginity, paying the price of her life. He mentions the role of pornography in the depraved actions of Alessandro, her attacker, and finally how both Maria and her mother Assunta forgave him.
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Mass: St. Maria Goretti – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1co 6:13c-15a, 17-20
Resp: psa 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17
Gsp: joh 12:24-26

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Conferences #143 – Fr. Ignatius on Charity ( 61min) >>> Play

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In this third talk for the Mission on Heroic Virtue in England, Fr. Ignatius explains the theological virtue of charity, the queen of virtues.

CCC 1822-1829 – “Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God…”

He considers this charity towards God under three aspects: 1) God as the immediate object of love 2) The way in which we love God 3) Zeal for God’s honor

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Homily #110531 ( 11min) Play – On this Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr. Dominic preaches on serving and the practice of charity, exemplified by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: zep 3:14-18
Resp: isa 12:2-3, 4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 1:3956

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Homily #110220 ( 13min) Play – “Be therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.” Fr. Dominic explains how to be perfect by being charitable.
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Mass: 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: lev 19:1-2, 17-18
Resp: psa 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13
2nd: 1co 3:16-23
Gsp: mat 5:38-48

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Homily #110118 ( 05min) Play – Sorry, I missed part of the homily. (I had to restart this PC)

The pharisees were not really concerned about the observance of the law but in their hearts they were concerned about their loss.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time – – Form:
Readings:
1st: heb 6:10-20
Resp: psa 111:1-2, 4-5, 9-10
Gsp: mar 2:23-28

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Homily #101117 ( 10min) Play – Today is the feast of St Elizabeth of Hungary patron saint of the Franciscan Third Order. Fr. Dominic preaches on her short life focusing on her acts of charity and her heroic patience when her husband died and her royal in-laws kicked her out of the palace where she had to live in poverty. Even after being reinstated in the palace she decided to live a poor life in a convent doing good works.
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Mass: St. Elizabeth of Hungary – Franciscan Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: sir 26:1-3, 15-18, 24
Resp: psa 31:8-5, 8-9, 20, 24-25
2nd: 1ti 5:3-10
Gsp: mat 25:31-40

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Homily #101003t ( 09min) Play – Neglect to teach faith and they’ll never reach charity.
Ave Maria! 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: hab 1:2-3, 2:2-4
Resp: psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: 2ti 1:6-8, 13-14
Gsp: luk 17:5-10

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Homily #100919 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the first reading and the need to recognize the one true faith and the need to be a member of the one Church founded by Christ.

Ephesians 4:1-6:

1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called: 2 With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. 3 Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

Ave Maria! Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Iustus Es Domine – Readings:
1st: eph 4:1-6
Gsp: mat 22:34-36

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Ave Maria! Linda Andrade Rodrigues of South Coast Today (online version of New Bedford’s Standard Times) published an article about us today, St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Feast Day. She had many kind words about us and Mother Teresa’s Order in New Bedford. We will have to explain to her,  though, that we are not quite ready for canonization. Thanks, Linda!

The saints who live among us | SouthCoastToday.com.

August 14, 2010 12:00 AM

NEW BEDFORD — Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton wrote, “Oh my God! You see what a barren and desolate place this world is —- send us saints!”

The answer to his prayers, our city is blessed by the good works of saints.

Walk along our streets, and you’ll see Mother Teresa’s nuns in their white and striped-blue habits, ministering in our neighborhoods.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta sent her order, the Missionaries of Charity, to New Bedford, and on June 14, 1995, she visited the city, worshipped at the Church of St. Lawrence Martyr and touched the lives of countless SouthCoast residents.

Dressed in simple gray robes with sandaled feet, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate reach out to this city’s homeless and forgotten, and offer spiritual guidance to a constant stream of strangers who wander through the doors of Our Lady’s Chapel in downtown New Bedford. More …

Homily #100814 ( 20min) Play – St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Martyr of Charity who gave up his life to save that of another in the Concentration Camp Auschwitz. This is after a life of dedicated service to God by spreading devotion to Mary through the most advanced mass media operation in Poland at the time and the largest such operation of a religious nature in Europe. Fr. Bonaventure explains how important his  ideals are to our modern world and especially for the Franciscans of the Immaculate who take St. Maximilian at their Patron. Catholic Online

Ave Maria! – St. Maximilian Kolbe Mass: OF

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