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Homily #110301 ( 06min) Play – Why is persecution a gift?
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 8th Week of Ordinary Time – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: Sir 35:1-12
Resp: Psa 50:5-6, 7-8, 14, 23
Gsp: Mk 10:28-31

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Homily #100425 ( 22min) Play -  Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, the forth Sunday in Easter where the readings refer to Jesus as the Good Shepherd, specifically how he leads His sheep to eternal life. It is also the Church-wide prayer day for vocations to the priesthood. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need for good shepherds, especially in the face of Church scandals and in the face of a society that is in a state of moral decay which is leading so many to eternal death.

Jesus said:
“My sheep hear my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
No one can take them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.
The Father and I are one.”

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Acts 13:14,43-52
R: Ps 100:1-2,3,5
2: Rev 7:9,14-17
G: Jn 10:27-30

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Ave Maria Meditations

November 16th: St. Gertrude  (1256-1302)

Prayer to Saint Gertrude:

Model of total fidelity to the Heavenly Bridegroom and to your Cistercian Rule, the Lord was pleased to make available wonderful private revelations through you. Help religious to realize that where there is total generosity, trials are usually not lacking, but there is also God’s infinite love. Make all religious generous like you. Amen.

Prayer of Saint Gertrude to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary. O my adorable and loving Savior, consume my heart with the burning fire with which Yours is aflamed. Pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Your love. Let my heart be united with Yours. Let my will be conformed to Yours in all things. May Your Will be the rule of all my desires and actions. Amen.

Prayer of Saint Gertrude the Great to the Blessed Virgin Mary:

HAIL, MARY, queen of mercy, olive-branch of forgiveness, through whom we receive the medicine that heals our mortal sickness, the balsam of pardon; Virgin Mother of the divine offspring, through whom the grace of heavenly light has been shed upon us, the sweet-scented scion of Israel! Through thy Son, thy only Child who stooped to become the Brother of mankind, thou art become the true Mother of us all. For the sake of his love take me, all unworthy as I am, into thy motherly care.  Sustain, preserve, and enlighten my conversion; be thou for all eternity my incomparable cherished mother, tenderly caring for me throughout my earthly life, and enfolding me in thy arms at the hour of my death. Amen.

Prayer of Saint Gertrude the Great for the Souls in Purgatory:

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen

Immaculate Music #27 – 12th Article of the Creed ( 03min) >>> Play

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Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the twelfth and final article of the Creed: “I believe in life everlasting.”

Ave Maria!

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Homily #090717 ( 07min) Play – The immersion in water in Baptism is a symbol of our participation in the death and Resurrection of Christ. Let us live keeping in mind that we only live once and so be worthy of eternal life.

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Homily #081006 ( 12min) Play – Twenty-seventh Monday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the Good Samaritan and the need to show charity and mercy to our fellow man in order to gain eternal life.
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Homily #080819 ( 10min) Play – Our Lord warns us that riches can be a serious obstacle to entering into eternal life. Hear Fr Ignatius explain why Christ warns us of this danger. Ave Maria! Mass readings +++

Homily #080407 ( 06min) Play – The disciples seek Jesus but not for the right reason. They wanted more physical bread whereas Jesus wanted to feed them with heavenly food that gives eternal life, to have Faith in Him. Faith is the first of the works that enable us to do all the other works as mentioned in James. Fr. uses this to explain how St John Baptist de la Salle taught his children not only how to earn their bread, but also taught the Faith that gives them eternal life.

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Homily #080401 ( 06min) Play – “The Son of Man must be lifted up” (Jn 3:14) for eternal life tells us of the love of God the Father and the key for living life in this world.
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