Homily #120514 (06min) Play - As Our Lord exhorts us in today’s Gospel, St. Matthias, at the end of his apostolic ministry, laid down his life for his friends.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form - St. Matthias the Apostle – Feast Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26
Responsorial Psalm: 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
Gospel: John 15:9-17
Homily #111213k (04min) Play – Although we may not experience martyrdom and having our eyes gouged out as was done to St Lucy, we can offer our eyes to God by not gazing at what is immodest.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr – Form: EF, Dilexisti
Readings:
Homily #111213 (05min) Play – On this feast of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr, Fr. Dominic exhorts us to follow her example of following the Gospel by always choosing what is good and casting out all that is bad.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr – 3rd Cl – Form: EF, Dilexisti
Readings:
1st: 2co 10:17-18, 11:1-2
Gsp: mat 13:44-52
Homily #111202k (05min) Play – For the joy of the company Jesus Christ we are willing to sacrifice everything.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr – Form: EF, Me Exspectaverunt
Readings:
1st: sir 51:13-17
Gsp: mat 13:44-52
As soon as I believed there was a God, I understood I could do nothing else but live for him, my religious vocation dates from the same moment as my faith: God is so great. There is such a difference between God and everything that is not.
Blessed Charles prayed to be a martyr: To prepare oneself constantly for martyrdom, and accept it without a shadow of reluctance, like the Divine Lamb-in Jesus, through Jesus, for Jesus- I must try and live as if I were to die a martyr today. Every minute I must imagine I am going to be martyred this very evening. (more…)
Homily #110814 (26min) Play – On this Solemnity of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, patron and protector of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the life and martyrdom of this “Apostle of the End Times” who was totally conformed to Jesus Crucified because he was totally consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Maximilian Kolbe, priest and martyr – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: wis 3:1 9
Resp: psa 116:1017
2nd: 1jo 3:13 18
Gsp: joh 15:12 17
Homily #110723 (04min) Play – On this feast of St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr, Father Dominic preaches on the humility and great service of this holy shepherd.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr – 3rd Cl – Form: EF, Sacerdotes Dei Readings:
1st: 1pe 5:1-11
Gsp: luk 22:24-30
Homily #110706 (11min) Play – Today Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the life of St. Maria Goretti, how she heroically preserved her virginity, paying the price of her life. He mentions the role of pornography in the depraved actions of Alessandro, her attacker, and finally how both Maria and her mother Assunta forgave him.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Maria Goretti – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1co 6:13c-15a, 17-20
Resp: psa 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17
Gsp: joh 12:24-26
Homily #110205 (11min) Play – The virtue of chastity goes along with the virtue of Temperance. In our culture today there is no such thing as an unchaste person, because the media promotes satisfying your every bodily desire since the body is good. The body is good but it does have a fallen nature with an inclination toward evil behavior
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr – – Form: EF, Gaudeamus
Readings:
Homily #110201 (10min) Play – Today Fr Angelo preaches on the life of St Ignatius of Antioch who not only a Father of the Church but an Apostolic Father who lived very close to the age of the apostles. Father points out that St Ignatius was a direct disciple of St John the Evangelist and that his writings show that the early Christians were Catholic and how they were very zealous and faithful in the face of persecution.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Ignatius, Bishop and Martyr – Third Class – Form: EF, Mihi Autem
Readings:
1st: rom 8:35-39
Gsp: joh 12:24-26
Homily #101028 (10min) Play – Today is the feast of Sts Simon and Jude and Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the foundation that Our Lord builds from the foundation stones of the Apostles. He covers what is know about these more obscure apostles, how they worked together and won the martyr’s crown in Persia and how St Jude is the patron saint of difficult cases, then on the apostolic nature of the true Church as one of its chief marks of authenticity and how the apostles were given the impossible mission and carried it out with miraculous results.
Ave Maria! Sts Simon and Jude – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 2:19-22
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: luk 6:12-16
Homily #100928 (04min) Play – Father Ignatius preaches on how much it can cost to follow the Gospel. It cost St. Wenceslaus peace in in his family and ultimately his life.
Ave Maria! St. Wenceslaus, Martyr – Mass: EF, In Virtute - Readings:
1st: wis 10:10-14
Gsp: mat 10:34-42
Homily #100810 (04min) Play – Fr Ignatius preaches on the life and example of St Lawrence Martyr who out of love for God was willing to be detached from every thing we naturally hold dear including friends and even life itself.
Ave Maria! St. Lawrence, Martyr – Mass: EF, Confessio Et Pulchritudo – Readings:
1st: 2co 9:6-10
Gsp: joh 12:24-26
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