Homily #100907 ( 09min) Play – The Power that we see in the Apostles and their successors is not their own but is the power of God working through His Church.
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 1co 6:1-11
Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9
Gsp: luk 6:12-19

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Homily #100817 ( 08min) Play – It is difficult for a rich man to enter Heaven because of the trust that he has in his wealth.
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 20th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eze 28:1-10
Resp: deu 32:26-27, 27-28, 30, 35-36
Gsp: mat 19:23-30

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Homily #100708 ( 06min) Play – The Apostles are to go out to all the world and freely give what they have received. We see in today’s Franciscan saints; Saints Gregory Grassi and Companions, an example of freely giving all, in their martyrdom.

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Homily #100706 ( 11min) Play – The people realized that our Lord was greater than the prophets in that the demons obeyed Him. We celebrate the feast of St. Maria Goretti, a saint that lived and witnessed to the sanctity of virginity at the beginning of our record-breaking decadent century.
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Homily #100424 ( 10min) Play -

Saint Fidelis was born of noble parents at Sigmaringen in what is now Prussia, in 1577. In his youth he frequently approached the Sacraments, visited the sick and the poor, and spent many hours before the altar. For a time he followed the legal profession and was remarkable for his advocacy of the poor and his respectful language towards his opponents.

Finding it difficult to be both a rich lawyer and a good Christian, Fidelis entered the Capuchin Order and embraced a life of austerity and prayer. Hair shirts, iron-pointed girdles, and disciplines were penances too light for his fervor. At Weltkirchen, where he was Superior of the convent during an outbreak of the plague, he devoted himself indefatigably to the care of the sick soldiers and citizens. Animated by a desire for martyrdom, he rejoiced at being sent with several fellow Capuchins on a mission to Switzerland, which the newly-founded Congregation of the Propaganda named him to preside. There he braved every peril to rescue souls from the errors of Calvin.

When preaching one day at Sevis he was fired at by a Calvinist, but fear of death could not deter him from proclaiming divine truth. After his sermon, when leaving the city he was waylaid by a body of his enemies, who attacked him and tried to force him to embrace their so-called reform. But he said, “I came to refute your errors, not to embrace them; I will never renounce Catholic doctrine, which is the truth of all ages, and I fear not death.” On this they fell upon him with their daggers; and the first martyr of the Propaganda, losing his life for Christ, went to find in heaven the veritable life his Master promised to all who are losers for His sake.

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Homily #100420 ( 05min) Play – When you accept our Lord as the True Bread of life you will not hunger for the false bread this world has to offers.
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Homily #100419 ( 06min) Play – Our Lord advises us to labor for existence in the Life to come. How much society would change for the good if all labored for what is truly good, and would remember that those who live only for this present moment will indeed find themselves forever in Hell.
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Homily #100408 ( 00min) Play – All the evil we see going on in and outside the One True Church is due to a lack of faith, a crisis in faith. We can see in Saint Peter how in his lack of faith he denied his Lord, his Friend. Faith comes through repentance and obedience to our Lord.
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Homily #100120 ( 08min) Play – “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”
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Homily #091207 ( 05min) Play – Our Lord came in order to bring mercy and forgive us our sins.
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