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Homily #100216 ( 07min) Play – The Messiah will be the Son of God, and the Blind Man knew this. Our Lord knows what we kneed, but still He wants us to ask. Let us imitate this seeing blind man, and persist in our prayer though others discourage us.
Ave Maria! Quinquagesima Sunday – Mass: EF, Esto Mihi – Readings: 1st: 1co 13:1-13 – Gsp: luk 18:31-43

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Homily #091222 ( 04min) Play – There is one penance that is above all other penances; the sacrament of confession. Make a good through confession in preparation for Christmas. Remember, though a person may hide a serious sin from the priest out of shame, it is not hidden from God. Although the person receive absolution from the priest, the sin remains and is not forgiven.
Ave Maria! Fourth Sunday in Advent – Mass: EF, Rorate Coeli – Readings: 1st: 1co 4:1-5 – Gsp: luk 3:1-6

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Homily #091221 ( 06min) Play -  We see here fallen human nature in an Apostle, in one who spent three years in close friendship with God.
Ave Maria! St. Thomas, Apostle – Mass: EF, Mihi Autem – Readings: 1st: act 5:12-16 – Gsp: mat 19:27-29

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Homily #091003 ( 07min) Play – “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go…To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart…and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.”

“…on the first Saturday, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, in a spirit of reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necesary for the salvation of their souls.”  -Our Lady of Fatima

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Homily #091002 ( 07min) Play –

DIRECTORY ON POPULAR PIETY AND THE LITURGY

PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES

Vatican City December 2001

Paragraph 217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:

The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture.
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Homily #091001 ( 09min) Play – Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery – the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the “material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.” Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them…   -Catechism of the Catholic Church
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Homily #090930 ( 08min) Play – “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ!” -St Jerome

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Second Vatican Council indicates three criteria for interpreting Scripture in accordance with the Spirit who inspired it.78

112 1. Be especially attentive “to the content and unity of the whole Scripture”. Different as the books which compose it may be, Scripture is a unity by reason of the unity of God’s plan, of which Christ Jesus is the center and heart, open since his Passover.79

113 2. Read the Scripture within “the living Tradition of the whole Church”. According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church’s heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church carries in her Tradition the living memorial of God’s Word, and it is the Holy Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (“. . . according to the spiritual meaning which the Spirit grants to the Church”81).

114 3. Be attentive to the analogy of faith.82 By “analogy of faith” we mean the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan of Revelation.

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Homily #090929 ( 07min) Play -

“MI-CA-EL,” or “Who is like unto God?” was the cry of the great Archangel when he smote the rebel Lucifer in the conflict of (more…)

Homily #090928 ( 07min) Play – Mat. 10: 34 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. 35 For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

35 “I came to set a man at variance”… Not that this was the end or design of the coming of our Savior; but that his coming and his doctrine would have this effect, by reason of the obstinate resistance that many would make, and of their persecuting all such as should adhere to him.
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Homily #090907 ( 03min) Play – Do not be anxious about tomorrow, about what you are to wear or eat.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: gal 5:16-24 – Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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Homily #090905 ( 06min) Play – The wisdom of St Lawrence in giving up the goods of this life for the life to come. Three points; The shortness of this life, The uncertainty of happiness in this life, and The glory of the life to come.
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Homily #090903 ( 00min) Play – This canonized holy Pope of the twentieth century remains beloved by all as “the Pope of Frequent Communion.”-magnificat.ca
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Homily #090822 ( 04min) Play -  The joy that citizens would have if they had a perfect Queen to represent them. This is what we have in the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Homily #090820 ( 09min) Play – Founder of 163 monasteries.
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Homily #090817 ( 07min) Play – We see in St. Hyacinth a great example of Marian devotion. Where do we look, to whom do we attribute the failings of the Church?
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