Feb 05 – Homily – Fr Dominic: A Treasure Beyond All Price
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
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Audio (MP3)Video – A Day With Mary #10: Fr Gabriel Polo: Scrupulously Waiting for Our Lord
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Ave Maria! Let the Inn of our hearts be clean, free from sin in order to receive the Child and His Mother. Christian joy springs from the truth that He is close, he is with us. Ave Maria! +++ |
Joy!
Monday, December 5th, 2011Ave Maria Meditations JOY! Here is a meditation for this joy filled season of Advent: The pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, rest and happiness experienced as a result of the possession of basic human good. Christ is seen as the cause of all authentic Christian joy because He fulfills the Old Testament promises, brings forgiveness, grace, truth and divine love. Joy for the Christian is result of charitable actions, forgiveness for sin and life under the promise of redemption and salvation. (more…) |
Dec 03 – Homily – Fr Dominic: Happiness in Christ
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
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Oct 08 – Homily – Fr Dominic: Cause of Our Joy
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
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Joy in the Lord!
Monday, September 5th, 2011Ave Maria Meditations
JOYFUL IN THE LORD The Lord wants his disciples to be happy. We will find happiness when we fall in love with him. When we don’t seek the Lord, then we will find real happiness to be unattainable. Sadness springs from egoism, from the pursuit of comfort, from careless neglect in the things of God and of our fellow men … In short, it springs from living for ourselves. But the Lord has made us to be happy. He wants us to be even more joyful when we follow his call. Joy is indispensable to a Christian’s life. When a soul is joyful, it has wings to fly towards God. A happy soul is closer to God and is able to undertake works of service for other people. In contrast, sadness paralyses one’s desires for sanctity and apostolate. It is a great evil because it clouds our vision. This is why St Paul repeats his injunction to the early Christians: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Our Christian joy will prove to be a source of strength in time of trial. It will also serve to attract other people to the Faith.
We should bring this joy and peace to those whom God has placed by our side. Our homes should be bright and cheerful, like that of the Holy Family. When people say that a home seems like hell, we immediately think of a home without love, without joy, without Christ. A Christian home should be cheerful because Christ is at its head. (more…) |
Audio – Fr Ignatius #89: Peace and Joy in the Heart
Saturday, September 18th, 2010Mary Vitamin – Scourging at the Pillar
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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May 03 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Life in Christ
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Homily #100503 ( How do we abide in Christ? By keeping His commandments, the one who commits a mortal sin cuts himself off from Christ. Living the life of Christ, keeping His commandments should not be burden-some, but fill us with spiritual joy. +++ |
Mar 14 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Joy of the Prodigal Son
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
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I Say It Again: Rejoice!
Monday, January 25th, 2010Ave Maria Meditations
“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in Heaven.” (Mt. 5:12) Reflection of Fr. Alfred Delp while in prison in the Advent of 1944, after months of torture, shackles, and confinement: he reflected on joy. He would be martyred by the Nazis two months later, on February 2, 1945. The Conditions for True Joy Well now, what is joy, true joy? The philosophers say it is satisfaction and emotional uplift in response to the goods at one’s disposal. That may be true of some phenomena of joy, but it is not joy itself. Otherwise, how could I attain to true joy in these times and in this situation? Is there any point in bothering about joy? Is joy not among those luxury items of life that have no place in the meager private area tolerated in wartime conversations? Certainly it has no place in a prison cell where someone is pacing back and forth, his hands in irons, his heart swelled by all the winds of longing, his head filled with worries and questions. Someone must experience such a situation, must have it happen time and again, that suddenly the heart no longer can grasp the abundance of inflowing life and happiness, that suddenly, and without knowing why or how, the flags are in place once again over existence, and promises are valid again. One time or another, it might be the self-defense mechanism of existence fighting against crushing abuse and violation but not every time. It was so often a presentiment of good news on the way-such things do happen in our Monastery of the Hard Life. And often, soon afterward, resourceful love found a way to us with a gift of kindness at a time when this was not customary. However, that was not all. There have been, and continue to be, times where one is comforted and spiritually uplifted: times where one sees the facts of the case exactly as real and hopeless as ever and yet is not grieved by it, but truly manages to turn the whole thing over to the Lord. Joy in human life has to do with God. (more…) |
Dec 31 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Suffering in Joy
Friday, January 1st, 2010
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]Dec 13 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Rejoice in the Lord Always
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
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“I fell in love with the Blessed Sacrament from the Beginning…”
Sunday, July 19th, 2009” But I fell in love with the Blessed Sacrament from the beginning – and by the Mercy of God have never fallen out again… “ J.R.R. Tolkein
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Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Ave Maria Meditations
+ The Ascension of Jesus gives rise to manifold sentiments in the faithful soul that contemplates it. If Christ no longer merits, His Ascension has, however, the virtue of efficaciously producing the graces that it signifies or symbolizes.
It strengthens our faith in the Divinity of Jesus; it increases our hope by the vision of the glory of our Head by stirring us up to the observance of His commandments on which our merits rest, and that are themselves the principle of our future beatitude, it still further enkindles our love. It engenders in us wonder at so marvelous a triumph, and gratitude for the share in it that Christ gives to us. Lifting up our souls towards heavenly realities, it quickens in us detachment from passing things: Seek the things that are above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, not the things upon the earth. (Col.3:.1-2) It gives us patience in adversity for, says St. Paul, if we suffer with Christ, we shall also share in His glory: so if we suffer with Him, we may be also be glorified with Him. (Rom.8:17)
There are two dispositions upon which I would dwell with you a few instants because, springing with special abundance from the contemplation of this mystery, they are singularly profitable for our souls: they are joy and confidence. |
This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11)