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On Living for ‘something greater”: But if you wish to know how these things come about, ask for grace not instruction; desire not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligent reading; the Spouse not the teacher; God not man; darkness not clarity; not light but the fire that totally inflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and burning affections.

This fire is God, and his furnace is in Jerusalem and Christ enkindles it in the heat of his burning passion, which only he truly perceives who says: My soul chooses hanging and my bones death. Whoever loves this death can see God because it is true beyond doubt that man will not see Him and live.  (more…)

Homily #120112 ( 04min) Play – Fr Bonaventure preaches on the healing of the leper and that by telling everyone about the cure he gave glory to God and showed his sincere gratitude.
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Mass: St. Bernard of Corleone – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Thursday 1st Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 1sa 4:1-11
Resp: psa 44:10-11, 14-15, 25-26
Gsp: mar 1:40-45

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Homily #110812 ( 03min) Play – A short homily is a good homily!
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Mass: Friday 19th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Ordinary Form
Readings:
1st: Joshua 24:1-13
Resp: Psalm 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22, 24
Gsp: Matthew 19:3-12

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Homily #110630 ( 04min) Play – Today Fr. Dominic preaches on the life of St Paul and his many journey and labors that he undertook to spread the Gospel and build the early Church. Father emphasizes that he did all this through the grace of God. St Paul himself would only boast in his weakness.
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Mass: Commemoration of St. Paul – 3rd Cl – Form: EF, Scio Cui
Readings:
1st: gal 1:11-20
Gsp: mat 10:16-22

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Day #25: The Eucharist

MARY: Jesus was not content merely to open to you the channels of grace with the Sacraments; he wished to give you himself so that you could live totally by him and in him. (more…)

Day #24: A Canticle of Love

(According to the Spirituality of the Canticle of Canticles)

THE SOUL: O Jesus … the only desire of my soul, only good of my being, come! (more…)

Day #23: The Aspirations of the Heart

MARY: A soldier who wants to keep himself really faithful to his duty should not be one who serves under constraint; he should have an ideal toward which he aspires. (more…)

Day #22: The Misery of Human Judgment

MARY: You are so afraid of human judgment and so many times you betray God in order not to contradict a poor creature, (more…)

Day #21: Human Respect

MARY: Among the enemies you must fight against, my child, there is one which is small, wretched, foolish, but which can paralyze you. (more…)

Day #20: Spiritual Combat

MARY: The life of man is warfare on the earth. He, like a soldier, (more…)

Day #19: Soldier of Jesus Christ

THE SOUL: I was signed with holy Chrism, O Jesus, I girded myself with a mystical sword and solemnly said: I will do combat for your glory! (more…)

Day #18: My Miseries

THE SOUL: At your feet, O Mary, I want to consider once again the miseries of my nothingness in order to appreciate better the solemn renunciation which I made in holy Baptism. (more…)

Day #17: The Passions and the Flesh

MARY: The demon penetrates into you by means of the passions and, (more…)

Day #16: Renouncing the Demon

THE SOUL: I know that in holy Baptism I renounced the demon and I?m happy with that renunciation. (more…)

Day #15: The Spirit of Jesus Christ

MARY: Opposed to the spirit of the world, which is a mass of duplicity, resentment, struggles, presumption and degradation, is the spirit of Jesus Christ, (more…)