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Homily #100621 ( 09min) Play – Today is the memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga and Fr. Angelo focuses on the the saint’s extraordinary innocence of life as well as his penance. May we, who have not followed St. Aloysius in his innocence, follow him in his penance.
Ave Maria! St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor – Mass: EF, Minuisti – Readings: 1st: sir 31:8-11 – Gsp: mat 22:29-40

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Homily #100427 ( 10min) Play – St. Peter Canisius lived in the 1500s in a time that fulfilled the prophecy of St. Paul in today’s first reading:

For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

Listen how St. Peter tactfully and lovingly deals with these errors.

Ave Maria! St. Peter Canisius, Confessor and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Homily #100129 ( 13min) Play – St. Francis de Sales was Bishop of Geneva where through acts of charity and preaching of the truth he brought many Protestants back to the faith whose itchy ears were turning to novel doctrines.
Ave Maria! St. Francis of Sales, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Homily #100128 ( 04min) Play – St. Peter Nolasco was founder of the Mercedarians who worked to gather alms to free the Christian captives of Muslims. He even went so far as to offer his very self as a substitute so that others could be set free. As such he fully lived the message in today’s Gospel :

Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Ave Maria! St. Peter Nolasco, Confessor – Mass: EF, Iustus Ut Palma – Readings: 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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Homily #100115 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Ignatius explains how St Paul the Hermit (229-342) showed extraordinary zeal and devotion by spending almost one hundred years of his very long life in the deserts of Egypt, alone with God. Then he asks why should this be so extraordinary.
Ave Maria! St. Paul the First Hermit, Confessor – Mass: EF, Iustus Ut Palma – Readings: 1st: phi 3:7-12 – Gsp: mat 11:25-30

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Homily #100111 ( 03min) Play – St Thomas of Cori was a Franciscan priest who lived in Italy in the 1700′s exemplifying the holy, humble life.
Ave Maria! St Thomas of Cori, Confessor – Mass: EF, Common of a Confessor not a Bishop I, Os Iusti – Readings: 1st: sir 31:8-11 – Gsp: luk 12:35-40

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Homily #091203 ( 06min) Play – Today we commemorate St Xavier and Fr. Ignatius gives a biography of this great saint who through zeal, learning and miracles spread the faith far and wide through Asia, including Mozambique, India, New Guinea, and Japan.
Ave Maria! St. Francis Xavier, Confessor – Mass: EF, Loquebar – Readings: 1st: rom 10:10-18 – Gsp: mar 16:15-18

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Homily #091120 ( 06min) Play – We will share in the sufferings of Christ but by offering up these sufferings in union with His, then we will do much spiritual good for ourselves and others.
Ave Maria!

St. Felix of Valois, Confessor – Mass: EF, Common of a Confessor not a Bishop II, Iustus Ut Palma – Readings: – 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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