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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..
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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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Homily #090910 ( 09min) Play – St. Nicholas of Tolentino led a holy life from his youth. This highlights the need for good parents who discipline their children and give them good example.

Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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Homily #090909 ( 05min) Play – The Mass is central to the spiritual life where the Sacrifice of Calvary is made present. But, we need to be prepared for receiving these graces.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: gal 5:16-24 – Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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Homily #090908 ( 04min) Play – On Our Lady’s Birthday Fr. Ignatius focuses on this evenings prefession of first vows for our four Novices and relates this to our Baptismal vows.

The first few seconds of the homilies were not captured.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: pro 8:22-35 – Gsp: mat 1:1-16

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Homily #090906 ( 08min) Play – Today Fr. Ignatius preaches on the Gospel which tells us “You cannot serve God and mammon.” “Therefore be not solicitous for your life . . . nor for your body . . . For your father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice.” This is telling us to walk in the spirit instead of the flesh.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: gal 5:16-24 – Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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Homily #090904 ( 06min) Play – St. Rose of Viterbo was a 3rd Order Franciscan who preached penance and to follow the will of God.

Ave Maria!  Readings EF – 1st: 2co 10:17-11:2 – Gsp: mat 25:1-13

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Homily #090818 ( 08min) Play – St Beatrice De Silva is a great example of humility, having renounced the vanities of the Portuguese court to start her own religious order.
Ave Maria! Mass readings

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Homily #090816 ( 11min) Play – Fr. Ignatius starts with the Gospel Miracle of the healing of the deaf mute to explain the importance of guarding our speech, to use this wonderful gift with responsibility.
Ave Maria! EF Mass readings 11th Sun after Pent

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