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Homily #091120 ( 06min) Play – We will share in the sufferings of Christ but by offering up these sufferings in union with His, then we will do much spiritual good for ourselves and others.
Ave Maria!

St. Felix of Valois, Confessor – Mass: EF, Common of a Confessor not a Bishop II, Iustus Ut Palma – Readings: – 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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Homily #091118 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Ignatius reminds us to keep our eyes on our goal, that is, heaven, and so be able to endure the many trials of life.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – Common of the Dedication of a Church, Mass: Terribilis – 1st: rev 21:2-5 – Gsp: luk 19:1-10

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Homily #091115 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Ignatius explains the parable in today’s Gospel of how the Kingdom of God is like a muster seed that grows into into the largest of bushes. This miracle of growth from the tiniest of seeds  occurred by the action of God in the form of miracles and also by the action of men in the witness they gave by practicing their faith to a heroic degree. God is still performing miracles. Are we doing our part?
Ave Maria!
Readings EF – 1st: 1th 1:2-10 – Gsp: mat 13:31-35

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Homily #091106 ( 06min) Play – Fr Ignatius gets to the Heart of Christianity.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: eph 3:8-19 – Gsp: joh 19:31-37

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Homily #091105 ( 05min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord is approached by the multitudes for healing, but Fr. Ignatius points out that by touching Our Lord, virtue is what comes from him which, first and foremost, heals us of sin.
Ave Maria!

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Homily #091102 ( 06min) Play – Today we celebrate Mass for the souls in Purgatory and Fr. Ignatius points out that this is an act of mercy that we are obliged to do and that we must consider that all of us will be judged and live our lives accordingly.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: 1co 15:51-57 – Gsp: joh 5:25-29

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Homily #091101 ( 08min) Play – Fr. Ignatius draws from today’s Gospel reading how all are called to be saints, no matter what our station in life is.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: rev 7:2-12 – Gsp: mat 5:1-12

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Homily #091024 ( 04min) Play – Today Fr Ignatius asks, How Many Know God? So many people in the world today yet how what percentage take God seriously?
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: tob 12:7-15 – Gsp: joh 5:1-4

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Homily #091022 ( 07min) Play – Today we celebrate the dedication and consecration of the Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe here in Griswold, CT and all the many graces that have resulted. May more Churches open an fewer close.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: rev 21:2-5 – Gsp: luk 19:1-10

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Homily #091021 ( 06min) Play – In the first reading we read form Ephesians: “walk circumspectly: not as unwise, But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

We need to make sure not to waste time in our short life. We must find tome to pray.

Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: eph 5:15-21 – Gsp: joh 4:46-53

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Homily #091020 ( 05min) Play – St John Cantius was a priest born in Poland and combined holiness and learning in the simple life of a diocesan priest.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: jam 2:12-17 – Gsp: luk 12:35-40

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Homily #091011m ( 04min) Play – To “put on the new man” means to put on Christ, to imitate His virtues.. to become other Christs.. to live the life that He lived, so that “it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
Ave Maria! Mass readings (EF) 1st: Eph 4:23-28 – Gsp: Mat 22:1-14

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Homily #091010m ( 04min) Play – All of us are called to be martyrs. Every Saint is a martyr, that is every Saint must have the will of a martyr, and must be willing to lay down his life for Christ in the Gospel..
Ave Maria!

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Homily #090923 ( 06min) Play – Saint Pio, still affectionately called Padre Pio, is one of our Patron Saints at the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Fr. Ignatius outlines the life of this great saint, miracle worker and mystic who died in 1968.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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Homily #090911 ( 05min) Play -  The holy life of the Franciscan Bl Bonaventure of Barcelona underscores the importance of the religious rule in a religious order.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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