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
Homily #101027 (08min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord talks about the number of the elect, of those who will be saved. Fr. Bonaventure explains that we have much to worry about in this regard since he says the number will be few. This is confirmed by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. He stresses the need to have recourse to the mercy of God through the sacraments of the Church and lead others to Holy Mother Church to devotion to Christ and His Mother.
Ave Maria! Wednesday in the 30th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 6:1-9
Resp: psa 145:10-11, 12-13, 13-14
Gsp: luk 13:22-30
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
Homily #100725 (11min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel where Our Lord weeps over Jerusalem whom he wanted to embrace with divine mercy but they would not have a part of it. He points out that Our Lord is very concerned about us and our salvation, extending His mercy despite our sinfulness. But the time for mercy is only during this life. Let us make haste and open our hearts to His grace and mercy before we enter final judgment and eternal life.
Ave Maria! Ninth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Ecce Deus Adiuvat – Readings:
1st: 1co 10:6-13
Gsp: luk 19:41-47
Homily #100528 (04min) Play – God is infinitely merciful to the repentant sinner and the one who is not truly sorry is not able to receive the blessing of God. Each day is one day closer to our death, and when that moment comes, how fast it comes.
Ave Maria! Ember Friday – Mass: EF, Repleatur Os Meum – Readings: 1st: joe 2:23-24, 26-27 – Gsp: luk 5:17-26
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In ieiunio et fletu orabant sacerdotes: parce Domine populo tuo, et ne des hereditatem tuam in perditionem. Inter vestibulum et altare plorabant sacerdotes dicentes: Parce populo tuo.
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Fasting and weeping, the priests shall pray: Spare thy people, Lord, and give not thy heritage over to destruction. Between the porch and altar, the priests shall pray: Spare thy people. Hear my prayer, O Lord
and let my crying come unto thee.
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Derelinquit impius viam suam, et vir iniquus cogitationes suas, et reveratur ad Dominum, et miserebitur eius: quia benignus at misericors est, et praestabilis super malitia, Dominus Deus noster.
The wicked man forsakes his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him: for the Lord our God is gracious and merciful, and ever ready to relent when he threatens disaster.
Homily #100309 (04min) Play – We cannot place limits on the mercy that we show others. If we do then Our Father will place limits on the mercy He shows us.
Ave Maria! Tuesday of the Third Week in Lent – Mass: EF, Ego Clamavi – Readings: 1st: 2ki 4:1-7 – Gsp: mat 18:15-22
Marycast Specials #64 (10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle stresses the need to keep hope in the pro-life cause in the current pro-abortion environment, even in the prospect of abortion funding in our national health care. Our Lady will crush the head of this beast. Dr. Mark covers the ethical grounds for saying abortion is immoral and how all those involved in it need to have recourse to God’s loving Mercy.
Homily #091030 (07min) Play – There are those who lose their souls out of malice, and there are those who lose their souls out of weakness. Here you see our Lord reaching out to both.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
Homily #090812 (009min) Play – When a fellow Christian sins then in a spirit of charity use fraternal correction to bring about his conversion.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
PRESENCE OF GOD: Teach me, 0 Lord, the secrets of Your mercy that I may fully profit by them.
MEDITATION 1. God’s love for us assumes a very special claim, one that is adapted to our nature as frail, weak creatures: the character of mercy. Mercy is love bending over to relieve it, to redeem it, to raise it up to itself. It almost seems that God, in loving us, is attracted by our weakness, not because it is lovable, but because, being infinite goodness, His compassion stoops to compensate for it by His mercy.
He wants to heal our imperfection by His infinite perfection, our impurity by His purity, our ignorance by His Wisdom, our selfishness by His goodness, our weakness by His strength: God, the supreme, eternal good, wants to be the remedy for all our ills, “for He knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust” (Ps. 102:14).
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