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Homily #091123 ( 04min) Play – This poor widow gave from the abundance of her heart.
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1: Dan 1:1-6,8-20
R: Dan 3:52-56
G: Lk 21:1-4

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Homily #090708 ( 06min) Play – Judas is given a time of grace, an opportunity to realize Who our Lord was. God willed that Judas be saved even after his betrayal.

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Homily #090707 ( 07min) Play – Not until our Lord came was it ever scene; the devil cast out of a person. Our world is full of falsehood and deceit, and we priest and religious are called in special way to help our Lord cast out sin and be an example.

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Homily #090628t ( 08min) Play – if he touch any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to any uncleanness wherewith he is wont to be defiled…She shall touch no holy thing…For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I shall be healed…

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Homily #090530s ( 14min) Play – Charity a gift of the Holy Spirit; the fire of Love.

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Homily #090209 ( 06min) Play
Ave Maria! Fr. Bonaventure says, “Let us always pray that the Lord will continue to work the miracles.  But let us more earnestly pray that we may persevere in His grace so that we may become witnesses to His love at the end of our lives.”  Mass readings
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Homily #090208t ( 06min) Play
Ave Maria!  Fr. Tito talks about King Midas who loved his gold more than all else and wished that everything he touched would turn to gold.  Of course, this ultimately makes him miserable as the people he loves also turns to gold and he ends up promising to give up all of his gold if his magic touch would be taken away.  Like King Midas, in the O.T., original sin is the touch of evil.  Sin and death spread throughout the human race.  In the readings, Job discusses his plight and feelings of hopelessness.  He needs someone to turn the tide.  In today’s Gospel, we see that the tide was turned.  We are saved from the plight we brought on ourselves!  Mass readings
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Homily #090207 ( 04min) Play – IN 976, Sergius, a nobleman of Ravenna, quarrelled with a relative about an estate, and slew him in a duel. His son Romuald, horrified at his father’s crime, entered the Benedictine monastery at Classe, to do a forty days’ penance for him. This penance ended in his own vocation to religion. After three years at Classe, Romuald went to live as a hermit near Venice, where he was joined by Peter Urseolus, Duke of Venice, and together they led a most austere life in the midst of assaults from the evil spirits. St. Romuald founded many monasteries, the chief of which was that at Camaldoli, a wild desert place, where he built a church, which he surrounded with a number of separate cells for the solitaries who lived under his rule. His disciples were hence called Camaldolese. He is said to have seen here a vision of a mystic ladder, and his white-clothed monks ascending by it to heaven. Among his first disciples were Sts. Adalbert and Boniface, apostles of Russia, and Sts. John and Benedict of Poland, martyrs for the faith. He was an intimate friend of the Emperor St. Henry, and was reverenced and consulted by many great men of his time. He once passed seven years in solitude and complete silence.
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Homily #090206s ( 15min) Play – Our community “Franciscans of the Immaculate” celebrate the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus on July 1st, on this consoling Feast Day, Thom and Marc Girard passed away, Thom on the vigil, and Marc the morning of. Less than 24hrs later Fr. Angelo offered the Precious Body and Blood of our Lord for the repose of their souls.

When I was going through the video footage for “Extreme Makeover” of Marc’s knighting, one of the knights reading a declaration, said, “…Marc, soon to be known through out the world for his unique talents…”  Here we are less than a year later after that statement and Marc’s story will be told through out the world on ABC.

This homily was never posted for one reason or another.

We find it fitting to post this homily on this First Friday two days before the show airs on ABC. May the Girard story be told as it truly is.
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Homily #090205 ( 09min) Play – She said no to this powerful man, for she had offered her self to God; body and soul. For choosing what was more perfect she suffered torture and died a virgin and martyr.
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Homily #090204 ( 05min) Play – Imagine if God never punished us, what a sign of not being loved.
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Homily #090203 ( 05min) Play – Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, follow His example, because there are many things in this life that will lead us into sin, the one thing that separates us from God.
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Homily #090202 ( 08min) Play -Known originally as the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a relatively ancient celebration. We know that the Church at Jerusalem was observing the feast as early as the first half of the fourth century, and likely earlier.

According to Jewish law, the firstborn male child belonged to God, and the parents had to “buy him back” on the 40th day after his birth, by offering a sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons” (Luke 2:24) in the temple (thus the “presentation” of the child). On that same day, the mother would be ritually purified (thus the “purification”).

St. Mary and St. Joseph kept this law, even though, since St. Mary remained a virgin after the birth of Christ, she would not have had to go through ritual purification.    -catholicism.about.com
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Homily #090125t ( 07min) Play – God gives second chances, look at Saul; who became St Paul.
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Homily #090117 ( 06min) Play – Have holy fear of the Lord, with complete confidence in His infinite love and mercy.
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