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Homily #091013 ( 08min) Play – When he was raised to the throne, the virtues of his earlier years, simplicity, gentleness, humility and a tender charity, but above all his angelic purity, shone with new brightness. By a rare inspiration of God, though he married to content his nobles and people, he preserved perfect chastity in the wedded state. So little did he set his heart on riches, that three times when he saw a servant robbing his treasury, he let him escape, saying the poor man needed the gold more than he. He loved to stand at his palace-gate, speaking kindly to the poor beggars and lepers who crowded about him, and many of whom he healed of their diseases. The people rejoiced in having a Saint for their king.

Today also is the anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima.
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Homily #091012 ( 08min) Play – Their moment of grace came and they let it go by. When we sin venally, mortally, or by faults, we let grace go by.
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Homily #091011 ( 27min) Play – Why did God create us? To know Him, to love Him, to serve Him, that we may be happy with Him for all eternity in the next life.
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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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“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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FI News #56 – Fra George Mary Pio of Our Lady of Fatima makes First Vows ( 06min) >>> Play

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Here’s a video of our 4 newly professed friars who took their first vows on September 8th, 2009.  All 4 will soon be in Italy to begin studying for the priesthood.  The houses of philosophy and theology for the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate are in Italy, just outside of Rome.  All FIs who study for the priesthood go to Italy, so when the Italian friars pick them up at the airport, our newly professed with be greeted with those familiar words: “Ave Maria! Parli l’italiano?”

Note: The optional  price for viewing this video is one Rosary to Our Lady for these new friars, per request of the one who wrote this post.  (St. Therese, pray for us!)

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Homily #090918 ( 12min) Play – St. Joseph of Cupertino

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Homily #090917 ( 18min) Play – As Christ received His wounds on the cross for us, so St. Francis received the Stigmata for his neighbor. The Church says today in its liturgy, at the Collect: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, when the world was growing cold, You reproduced the sacred marks of Your passion in the body of the most blessed Francis, in order that Your love might also set our hearts afire.’
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Homily #090916 ( 08min) Play – ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard,
a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
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Homily #090915 ( 11min) Play – Mary’s great sorrows began at the prediction of Simeon that a sword would transpierce Her heart. Soon afterwards, She was obliged to flee with the newborn Infant, already object of a fatal search. She lost Him in the temple for three inexpressibly painful days; She met Him on the road to Calvary, and the sight indeed pierced Her heart. She saw Him die, heard His final cry, and witnessed the opening of His side with the effusion of His last drops of blood, mingled with water; She received in Her arms the inert body of the most beautiful of the sons of men. Finally, She was obliged to depose Him in a tomb, leave Him there and return with Her adopted son, John, to a deicidal Jerusalem.
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