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Homily #120317 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Dominic on the life of St Patrick and how God miraculously converted Ireland through his hands. He exhorts us to embrace the same spirit of self sacrifice and charity that is exemplified in St Patrick’s missionary zeal.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Patrick – Form: OF
Readings:
1st – Isaiah 52:7-10
Gospel Luke 5:1-11

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Homily #120225 ( 07min) Play – Fr Dominic, preaching on the Gospel account of Matthew’s conversion, emphasizes that when we reach out to sinners it should be to convert them not to show approval of the sin.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 58:9-14
Resp: psa 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 5:27-32

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Homily #120117 ( 08min) Play – We see in St Anthony an extraordinary example of conversion.
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Mass: St. Anthony of Egypt – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 1sa 16:1-13
Resp: psa 89:20, 21-22, 27-28
Gsp: mar 2:23-28

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Homily #111124 ( 06min) Play – What makes a nation great?
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Mass: Ordinary Form - St. Andre Dung Lac and his companions – Memorial
Readings: Thursday 34th Week of Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Daniel 6:12-28
Responsorial: Daniel 3:68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74
Gospel: Luke 21:20-28

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Homily #110921 ( 13min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on how quickly Matthew converted from being a sinner to a saint and, therefore, we should not judge others.

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Mass: St. Matthew the Evangelist – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eph 4:1-7, 11-13
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: mat 9:9-13

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Homily #110827 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the life of St. Monica and how she strived to convert her son, St. Augustine, and how we should also strive to convert others.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Monica – Mem – Form: OF

1st: Sirach 26:1-4, 13-16
Gsp: Lk 7:11-17

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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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Face of Pro-Life #121 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes continues his story from last episode where he related his conversion story. Now he covers his ministry work in the land down under, Australia. He first fills in the details of his conversion and then relates his experience of being in Toodyay and Perth, Australia for ten years. He covers his ministry with the youth where he uses his skill at skateboarding to break the ice. He has been able to start many conversations with the youth and even win the friendship of whole neighborhoods of kids. His passing out of Miraculous Medals, his trip to World Youth Day in Sidney, his trips to skate parks and many, many encounters with people of all ages.

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Face of Pro-Life #120 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes of the Franciscans of the Immaculate relates his journey in faith that led to his ministry with youth in Australia. He first talks about his early life, how he started to get serious about his faith and his calling to the Franciscans. He mentions the devotion of his parents, the rosary and Eucharistic adoration as factors in his conversion.

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Homily #101031t ( 05min) Play – Jesus is passing through Jericho “city of sin” and we the citizens  “sinners” have the opportunity to invite Jesus into our lives.

Ave Maria! 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 11:22-12:1
Resp: psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13, 14
2nd: 2th 1:11-2:2
Gsp: luk 19:1-10

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Homily #101101 ( 12min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the need to desire sanctity in order to get to heaven and this is why we honor all the saints on this Solemnity of All Saints, to spur our desire. This desire must extend beyond our first fervor of a moment of conversion, and be fostered until the day we depart from this life. We must have purity of heart to achieve peace with God and peace among men in the likeness of Mary Immaculate. To get this long-lasting desire we must pray for it.
Ave Maria! All Saints – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: rev 7:2-4, 9-14
Resp: psa 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
2nd: 1jo 3:1-3
Gsp: mat 5:1-12

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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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Ave Maria Meditations

Nothing is far from God. - Saint Monica

Son, nothing in this world now affords me delight. I do not know what there is now for me to do or why I am still here, all my hopes in this world being now fulfilled.

- Saint Monica, about the conversion of Augustine

The day was now approaching when my mother Monica would depart from this life; you know that day, Lord, though we did not. She and I happened to be standing by ourselves at a window that overlooked the garden in the courtyard of the house. At the time we were in Ostia on the Tiber. And so the two of us, all alone, were enjoying a very pleasant conversation, “forgetting the past and pushing on to what is ahead..”

We were asking one another in the presence of the Truth – for you are the Truth – what it would be like to share the eternal life enjoyed by the saints, which “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, which has not even entered into the heart of man.” We desired with all our hearts to drink from the streams of your heavenly fountain, the fountain of life. That was the substance of our talk, though not the exact words.

But you know, O Lord, that in the course of our conversation that day, the world and its pleasures lost all their attraction for us. My mother said, “Son, as far as I am concerned, nothing in this life now gives me any pleasure. I do not know why I am still here, since I have no further hopes in this world. I did have one reason for wanting to live a little longer: to see you become a Catholic Christian before I died. God has lavished his gifts on me in that respect, for I know that you have even renounced earthly happiness to be his servant. So what am I doing here?”

 I do not really remember how I answered her. Shortly, within five days or thereabouts, she fell sick with a fever. Then one day during the course of her illness she became unconscious and for a while she was unaware of her surroundings. My brother and I rushed to her side, but she regained consciousness quickly. She looked at us as we stood there and asked in a puzzled voice: “Where was I?”

We were overwhelmed with grief, but she held her gave steadily upon us, and spoke further: “Here you shall bury your mother.” I remained silent as I held back my tears. However, my brother haltingly expressed his hope that she might not die in a strange country but in her own land, since her end would be happier there. When she heard this, her face was filled with anxiety, and she reproached him with a glance because he had entertained such earthly thoughts. Then she looked at me and spoke: “Look what he is saying.” Thereupon she said to both of us, “Bury my body wherever you will; let not care of it cause you any concern. One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.” Once our mother had expressed this desire as best she could, she fell silent as the pain of her illness increased.

- from the Confessions of Saint Augustine

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Homily #100827 ( 08min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the Feast day of St. Monica where we  have the Gospel story of the only son who is raised from the dead and given back to his mother with great rejoicing. Father relates this to the conversion of St. Augustine the son on St. Monica who prayed and wept for his conversion for decades. He points out the need for prayer and penance to bring about conversions.
Ave Maria! – Mass Ordinary Form: – Readings:
1st: 1 Cor 1:17-25
Gspl: Luk 7:11-17

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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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