Homily #120113 (05min) Play – Fr Bonaventure preaches on the authority that Christ has to forgive sins and heal and how this points to His divinity which is why the witnesses to these healings exclaimed, “We have never seen anything like this.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Hilary of Poitiers – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Friday 1st Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 1sa 8:4-7, 10-22
Resp: psa 89:16-17, 18-19
Gsp: mar 2:1-12
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.
Ave Maria!
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
Homily #111002 (00min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on today’s Gospel where Our Lord asks the Pharisees Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? When the Pharisees would not answer Our Lord answers by healing the sick man on the Sabbath and so teaches that we should practice charity always and everywhere.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Sunday – Form: EF, Miserere Mihi Domine
Readings:
1st: eph 3:13-21
Gsp: luk 14:1-11
Homily #110911 (11min) Play – Mercy is now. Justice is in eternity. Every body needs mercy and it is only the mercy of God which brings healing.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Ordinary Form
Readings:
1st Reading: Sirach 27:30-28:7
Responsorial Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12
2nd Reading: Romans 14:7-9
Gospel: Matthew 18:21-35
Homily #110523 (06min) Play – Today Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the first reading where Paul and Barnabus must convince the people of Lystria from offering sacrifice to them after Paul miraculously cures a crippled man. He uses this to underline the need for the one true faith in the living God.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Monday 5th Week of Easter – – Form:
Readings:
1st: act 14:5-18
Resp: psa 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16
Gsp: joh 14:21-26
Homily #110318 (04min) Play – Today Fr. Dominic talks about the need to change our life and so not return to our sins when we go to confession. In this way we will not offend Our Lord by showing ingratitude for his mercy.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Friday of Ember Week in Lent – Form: EF, De Necessitatibus
Readings:
1st: eze 18:20-28
Gsp: joh 5:1-15
Conferences #90 – Therese Bonapartis on post abortion trauma (48min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
Theresa Bonapartis (bio) uncovers the true nature of the “Choice” of abortion and the trauma it induces. She explains how this led to the complete destruction of her own life and how she could not find help for getting over this hidden pain. Listen to her very moving account of how the healing action of her rediscovered Catholic faith and becoming a leader in helping others find healing has turned her life around where she is now a major public speaker and was a leader in developing many groups to help women including her group Lumina.
Homily #100311 (03min) Play – God Created us to know, love and serve God, and be happy with Him for ever in Heaven. Fr. Ignatius preaches on the idea that love is always a two-way street and so we receive much more love from Him. This is demonstrated by the many healings in today’s Gospel.
Ave Maria! Thursday of the Third Week in Lent – Mass: EF, Salus Populi – Readings: 1st: jer 7:1-7 – Gsp: luk 4:38-44
Homily #100208 (05min) Play – Fr. Angelo points out that the miracles of healing still exist in our present age. We still have the challenge of believing in His presence just as people who saw Jesus had to believe that he was also God, but then he will give us his healing grace just as he did then.
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!
Homily #090628 ( 18min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains in the Gospel account of the healing of the woman with the hemorrhage that Jesus is not a Guru but one who has power from God to work miracles of bodily and spiritual healing and even to heal the general culture of Paganism.
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Homily #090222 (22min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains how the faith of the friends of the paralytic, who lowered him through the roof to Jesus, healed the paralytic and healed his soul. So, too, we must always work with non-Christians to help them come to Christ, as opposed to isolating ourselves from the world.
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