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Homily #101113 ( 07min) Play – We must turn to the Virgin of perfect faith, asking for the grace to serve God in faith until our last day.
Ave Maria! St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 3jo 1:5-8
Resp: psa 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 18:1-8

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Homily #101112 ( 09min) Play – We need to put our trust in the providence of God and not look back to our comfort zone to the things we are familiar with and know.

Ave Maria!

Mass: OF – Memorial, St. Josaphat, Martyr

Readings: Friday in the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: 2jo 1:4-9
Resp: psa 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
Gsp: luk 17:26-37

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Homily #101111 ( 10min) Play – St. Martin of Tours from roman soldier, to hermit, to bishop shows us that we can be holy in whatever situation comes our way in life.
Ave Maria! St. Martin of Tours – Thursday in the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: phm 1:7-20
Resp: psa 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
Gsp: luk 17:20-25

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Homily #101108 ( 07min) Play – Temptation will always be about us drawing us toward sin, but the only evil in this is to give into sin.

Today we celebrate the feast of Blessed John Duns Scotus.

Though belief in Mary’s Immaculate Conception never wavered among the truly faithful, for centuries theologians were at a loss to explain adequately and with satisfactory doctrinal clarity this privilege accorded the Mother of Christ. Then in “the greatest of centuries” a humble and brilliant friar brought resolution to this knotty question: How was Mary, who was like all human beings in need of redemption, conceived without sin?

To the keen and penetrating mind of the thirteenth-century Franciscan philosopher and theologian, Blessed John Duns Scotus, all Christendom owes respect and honor. For it was Duns Scotus who (more…)

Fi News #89 – Friar Gabriel SK8′s for the Kids ( 01min) >>> Play

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The annual “All Hallows Eve” celebration at Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary in Griswold CT. was blessed by the visit of Friar Gabriel. This was his first time back in America since being sent to the Australian mission.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #101007 ( 24min) Play – Originally this feast was known as “Our Lady of Victory” as we see in the battle of Lepanto, a battle won through the power of the Rosary.

Men at Arms and God’s Victory

Providence, mediated through the maternal Heart of Mary, brought the natural forces of gallant knights under the influence of supernatural direction and power. Pope St. Pius V sent Don Juan of Austria and the Holy League with rosaries into battle, and he asked all of Christendom to pray along with them and for them. He said: “I am taking up arms against the Turks, but the only thing that can help me is the prayers priests of pure life ” (Kriesel, 54). Philip II of Spain had responded to that providence, and although he would prove himself fickle and jealous of his half-brother, Don Juan, he would show himself Our Lady’s instrument, in spite of himself. The year before the Battle of Lepanto, Philip received a parcel from the Archbishop of Mexico City, in New Spain. (more…)

Homily #101001s ( 06min) Play – We cannot fathom the infinite virtues that fill the Heart of Christ. Every saint shines more in one virtue then another, but Christ contains all in their perfection.
Ave Maria! Votive Mass of the Most Sacred Heart – Mass: EF, – Readings:
1st: eph 3:8-19
Gsp: joh 19:31-37

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Homily #100926t ( 06min) Play – The covetousness of the rich is insatiable and the dog shows more sympathy to the beggar. To give to the poor is to lend to the Lord.

Ave Maria! 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: amo 6:1, 4-7
Resp: psa 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
2nd: 1ti 6:11-16
Gsp: luk 16:19-31

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Homily #100924 ( 10min) Play – “…But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter answering, said: The Christ of God.” Peter is the first to be given the grace to know who Jesus is. Where Peter is, there is the One True Church; the Catholic Church.
Ave Maria! Friday in the 25th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: ecc 3:1-11
Resp: psa 144:1-2, 3-4
Gsp: luk 9:18-22

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Homily #100922 ( 09min) Play – God does not work miracles (e.g. expelling demons)  outside the One true Church; the Catholic Church.
Ave Maria! Wednesday in the 25th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: pro 30:5-9
Resp: psa 119:29, 72, 89, 101, 104, 163
Gsp: luk 9:1-6

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Homily #100921 ( 08min) Play – The tax collector Matthew was not involved in the corruption that went on around him; he was a just man treating his neighbors fairly.
Ave Maria! St. Matthew the Evangelist – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 4:1-7, 11-13
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: mat 9:9-13

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Homily #100920 ( 07min) Play – It is the mystery of iniquity when Lucifer and his followers chose…  When man is given all good things from the hand of God and still chooses…
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Fi News – Fr Ignatius Manfredonia Celebrating in the Extraordinary Form

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After three years of being guardian at Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary in Griswold, CT, USA (which is headquarters for AirMaria) Fr. Ignatius will be leaving for Italy on October 13th to continue his studies for his doctorate in Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Fr. Dominic Murphy, who has been transferred from New Bedford, MA where he was guardian, has already assumed the role of guardian at the friary and you can see his first homily on AirMaria here.

We will definitely miss you, Fr. Ignatius, and we will pray for the success of your studies and for every grace from God. Arrivederci!

Ave Maria!

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Homily #100912 ( 23min) Play – In today’s Gospel we have the parables of mercy, the lost coin, the lost sheep, and to top it off, the parable of the prodigal son. Fr Dominic, during his first homily as the guardian of the friary here in Griswold, emphasizes the greatness of this mercy that is almost too good to be true if it weren’t spoken by Truth Himself. We need mercy and, fortunately, God wants to give it if we humble ourselves with true contrition for our sins and a firm resolve to reform our lives and persevere in this. This firmness of our resolve is the necessary and only worthy response to this great mercy that our great God is offering.  He also exhorts us to show mercy to others and pray for each other and to make use of the sacrament of mercy, that is, Confession, and the intercession of the saints. All of which is consistent with a firm resolve to amend our lives.
Ave Maria! 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: exo 32:7-11, 13-14
Resp: psa 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19
2nd: 1ti 1:12-17
Gsp: luk 15:1-32

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Homily #100908 (13min) Play – For four thousand years many souls were born into to the world but only one of these would bring the Savior of mankind. The dawn of light appeared in the dark of sin, through the birth of the sinless Virgin Mary.
Ave Maria!

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