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Homily #110820 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the authority of Our Lord as our true Teacher, Father, and Master.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Bernard of Clairvaux – Mem – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: rut 2:1-3, 8-11, 4:13-17
R: psa 128:1-2, 3, 4, 5
Gsp: mat 23:1-12a

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Homily #110412 ( 08min) Play – Jesus claims to be equal with God the Father in today’s Gospel. Fr. Bonaventure relates the objections of the Pharisees to those of His own disciples and to those of our modern society.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 5th Week of Lent – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: num 21:4-9
Resp: psa 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21
Gsp: joh 8:21-30

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Homily #110315 ( 04min) Play – In today’s Gospel we have the cleansing of the temple where Jesus shows his zeal for giving glory to His Father and sets an example for us.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday of the First Week in Lent – Form: EF, Domine Refugium
Readings:
1st: isa 55:6-11
Gsp: mat 21:10-17

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Homily #101114 ( 10min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us to be prepared for the Day of the Lord when he comes the second time to judge the living and the dead. He will come publicly in the end times in full Glory and those alive at that time should indeed be ready for it. But Fr. Dominic focuses on our personal Day of the Lord when we will die and meet our Lord to be judged. This is something that all of us will face and we do not know when it will come. As such, Father exhorts us to organize our lives to be continually prepared for that day, doing prayer and penance so that we can be with Our Blessed Lord for all eternity.

Ave Maria! Mass: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time -  OF
Readings:
1st: mal 3:19-20
Resp: psa 98:5-6, 7-8, 9
2nd: 2th 3:7-12
Gsp: luk 21:5-19

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Homily #101106 ( 18min) Play – On this First Saturday devotional Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of  Mary we have the Gospel account of the losing of the child Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth and the  finding in the Temple three days later. Fr. Angelo relates how Mary and Joseph did, in fact, experience grief but they did not despair nor where they completely ignorant of the meaning of Christ’s staying in the Temple contrary to modern Bible scholars. Father explains the purpose of Human knowledge as it relates to faith and to the apparitions of Mary at Fatima from whence the First Saturday Devotions come, where she tells us to offer up our suffering in reparation for the offense to her Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of our impious age.
Ave Maria! – Mass: – Readings:
1st: jud 13:17-20, 15:9
Rsp: luk 1:46-55
Gsp: luk 2:46-51

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Roving Reporter #117 – Anthony Aarts ( 4 min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

During the last few minutes of our weekly “Gate of Heaven Radio” program in Perth, Australia, Father Joseph interviews Anthony Aarts about his involvement with the Legion of Mary.

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Homily #101006 ( 11min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord gives us the Our Father prayer. Fr. Dominic preaches on this prayer, explaining each line and exhorts us to put it in practice.
Ave Maria! St. Bruno – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gal 2:1-2, 7-14
Resp: psa 117:1, 2
Gsp: luk 11:1-4

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Homily #100928 ( 04min) Play – Father Ignatius preaches on how much it can cost to follow the Gospel. It cost St. Wenceslaus peace in in his family and ultimately his life.
Ave Maria! St. Wenceslaus, Martyr – Mass: EF, In Virtute - Readings:
1st: wis 10:10-14
Gsp: mat 10:34-42

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Homily #100905 ( 35 min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us that we must love Him above all things and be well prepared in our engagement with the world. He tells us this in the form of two parables, the building of the tower and the king who contemplates going into battle. Fr. Bonaventure explains this in the context of Catholic action, where our preparation consists in building up our love of, and trust in, God who has forces vastly stronger than the enemy and that action starts with prayer and contemplation and only secondarily with physical action. Father also outlines the many ways that we are in true, open and explicit battle with the modern culture and philosophy, always relating it back to its spiritual nature.
Ave Maria! 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 9:13-18
Resp: psa 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17
2nd: phm 1:9-10, 12-17
Gsp: luk 14:25-33

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Fi News #78 – Slip-n-Slide  ( 04min) >>> Play

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During the “Knights of Lepanto Father and Sons Summer Encampment” a “Slip-n-Slide” is set up to cool down.

The Knights of Holy Mary Victrix at Lepanto is a specific group for men only within the Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix  (MIM). The MIM is the Roman Catholic public association of the faithful, founded by Fr. Stefano M. Manelli and attached to the religious institute that he also founded, the Franciscans of the Immaculate.  The spirituality of the MIM is unlimited consecration to Mary according to the teaching of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe.  Thus, the Knights of Lepanto is a group of men who are formed to live consecration to Mary in a masculine way.

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Homily #100801 ( 14min) Play – Fr Angelo preaches on the Gospel which today is the parable of the publican and the pharisee who pray in the Synagogue. Father gives the context of the parable which is the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who accused Jesus of breaking the sabbath but then broke it themselves by plotting His death on the the Sabbath. He compares this to  the failures of people in authority today both in the Church and in society as a whole and how this causes cynicism against all authority especially in regard to fatherhood that is increasingly put down in today’s society. But cynicism is not the answer for we will be judged on our own merits and focusing on others’ faults as the Pharisee did in the parable will bring a similar judgment upon us.
Ave Maria! Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Cum Clamarem – Readings:
1st: 1co 12:2-11
Gsp: luk 18:9-14

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Mary Vitamin July 30th

Topic: Fourth Sorrowful Mystery – Carrying of the Cross
In honor of the Month of the Precious Blood

Quote:
Then therefore [Pontius Pilate] delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him forth. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
John 19:16-17

Meditation:
Father Frederick Faber
It was a dreadful thing for a mother to walk the streets over her own son’s blood. (more…)

Mary Vitamin for July 28th

Topic: The Second Sorrowful Mystery – Scourging at the Pillar
In honor of the Month of the Precious Blood

Quote:
[Pilate said] “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.” And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.” Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. MT 27:24-26 (more…)

Homily #100715 ( 11min) Play – Today is the Feast day of St. Bonaventure and Fr. Angelo preaches on how St Bonaventure combined true sanctity and high education and so he became the Seraphic Doctor in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St. Francis, the seraphic saint. St Bonaventure focused on the importance of the will in theology as opposed to St Thomas who focused on the intellect. He also worked to ‘refound’ the order when it was in danger of splitting.
Ave Maria! St. Bonaventure – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 8:2-7, 16-18
Resp: psa 16:5-5, 7-8, 9, 11
2nd: 1co 2:6-13
Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Mother of the Redeemer Events #9 – Fr. Bill Casey ( 23min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

In June, 2010, Fr. Bill Casey of the Fathers of Mercy preached a retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center on “Confidence in God”. This is the third and last homily of this retreat. In this talk, Father Casey discusses the topic of fatherhood.

Ave Maria!

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