Friday, October 9th, 2009
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Homily #091009 ( 08min) Play – “When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said:
‘By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.’” Fr. Bonaventure explains how this is the ultimate blasphemy.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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Homily #091008 ( 05min) Play – Today’s Gospel tells us that prayer is all important for our relationship with God. Lack of prayer explains the increasing evils in our day. To counter this we must persevere in prayer and Our Father will not refuse to open the door to holiness even for our entire society.
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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Homily #091007 ( 08min) Play – Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary – Our Lady gave the Rosary to the Church as a weapon for spiritual combat that has lead to many spiritual and even physical victories.
Ave Maria!
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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Homily #091006 ( 06min) Play – Mary chooses the better part as compared to Martha but Martha’s activity can be rendered virtuous if she unites it with Mary’s contemplation and so works solely out of love for Our Lord and not for human respect.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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Homily #091005 ( 06min) Play – We must become like children as Our Lord did toward His Father in obeying Him, becoming humble of heart even if this means accepting death, death on a cross.
Ave Maria!
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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Homily #091004 ( 23min) Play – Today is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi (New Advent), the Poverello, who is the founder of the Franciscan Orders and so his feast supersedes Sunday’s liturgy at our Franciscan friary. Fr. Bonaventure explains the importance of the love of poverty that was so central to St. Francis’ spirituality and how this relates to devotion to Christ and Mary and the importance of the incarnation and the bodily death of Christ and to the renewal of the Church in our materialistic times.
Ave Maria!
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
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Homily #090926 ( 09min) Play – Jesus tells His disciples, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” The apostles do not understand this. However, Fr. Bonaventure explains how the Blessed Virgin Mary did understand and how important this is to the mystery of salvific suffering.
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
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Homily #090919 ( 11min) Play – Fr Bonaventure preaches on St Januarius and Our Lady of La Salette both of whom are commemorated today and father focuses on the common theme of the need to pray in order to prevent chastisements and to become mature Christians.
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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Homily #090913 ( 27min) Play – In today’s Gospel Peter professes the divinity of Christ but then shows his weakness by not accepting the fact Jesus must suffer. Peter’s weakness points out the need to have on going catechisis to reinforce over and over again the profound truths of our Faith.
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
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Homily #090828 ( 05min) Play – St Augustine was restless in his heart until he found his rest in God and became a great pastor and defender of the faith.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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Homily #090827 ( 05min) Play – St. Monica prayed and shed many tears for the conversion of her wayward son, St. Augustine.
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
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Homily #090823 ( 14min) Play – The Eucharist is a great mystery and the best response given to this teaching of Jesus is that of Peter, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
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Homily #090821 ( 12min) Play – Pope St. Pius X was elected at a critical time in the Church’s history when the error of modernism was at its first high mark. Let us look to him as an example to fight against it today when it has reached a new high point.
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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Homily #090815 ( 13min) Play – In this event of the Assumption of Mary into heaven both body and soul, which we memorialize today, we honor all the virtues and events in Our Lady’s life that was so closely intertwined with Our Lord, her Son. Fr. Bonaventure relates this to the dignity of the human body which was created by God to give Him glory.
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