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Homily #111107 ( 06min) Play – Our Lord’s words tell us to avoid giving scandal to his little ones and Fr. Bonaventure explains that practically speaking this means we should strive to give a good example with our lives, always trying to please the Lord and edify our neighbors.

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Mass: St. Didacus of Alcala – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 32nd Week of Ordinary Time
1st: wis 1:1-7
Resp: psa 139:1-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-10
Gsp: luk 17:1-6

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Homily #111031 ( 05min) Play – Our Lord tells the Pharisees to go out and invite the poor to their banquets. Fr. Dominic relates this to the need to seek our neighbor in need in our own time, pointing out the example of Mother Theresa of Calcutta and the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Mass: Monday 31st Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: rom 11:29-36
Resp: psa 69:30-31, 33-34, 36-37
Gsp: luk 14:12-14

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Homily #111023t ( 08min) Play – She loved God to Virginity. To love God alone is to not love Him at all, because love of neighbor is needed in order to love God.
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Mass: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: exo 22:20-26
Resp: psa 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51
2nd: 1th 1:5-10
Gsp: mat 22:34-40

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Homily #111023 ( 11min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need for seeking the truth and to love Him who is Truth.  He bases this on the gospel where Our Lord tells the sincere Pharisee that the greatest commandment is:

“You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
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Homily #111018 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the Gospel of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, and the importance of peace with our neighbor, which begins with peace within ourselves.
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Mass: St. Luke the Evangelist – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 2ti 4:9-17
R: psa 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
Gsp: luk 10:1-9

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Homily #110904t ( 09min) Play – We are watchmen and we are called not only to watch ourselves, but to watch out for the good of our neighbor as well. This is an act of mercy.
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Mass: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eze 33:7-9
Resp: psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: rom 13:8-10
Gsp: mat 18:15-20

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Homily #110401 ( 08min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord links the love of God and the love of neighbor where the best sacrifice in the eyes of God is to love one’s neighbor.

Ave Maria!
Mass: Friday 3rd Week of Lent – – Form:
Readings:
1st: hos 14:2-10
Resp: psa 81:6-8, 8-9, 10-11, 14, 17
Gsp: mar 12:28-34

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Homily #110314 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the need to help our neighbor because of their dignity as people but also because we minister to God when we take care of he poor because they are made in His image. This is beautifully conveyed in the Gospel today in the parable of the sheep and the goats.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Monday of the First Week in Lent – Form: EF, Sicut Oculi

Readings:

1st: eze 34:11-16

Gsp: mat 25:31-46

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Homily #100704t ( 06min) Play – The graces that we receive from God are not meant just for us,  what we receive we is also for the good of others.
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Homily #100627 ( 15min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord gives us a higher standard than is enjoined on us in the ten commandments that represent the natural law.

For He says:

…it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother: Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say: Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Fr. Angelo thus preaches on the need to love our neighbor as Jesus has loved us, that is, selflessly even to giving our lives.

Ave Maria! Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Exaudi Domine – Readings: 1st: 1pe 3:8-15 – Gsp: mat 5:20-24

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Homily #100603 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need to love God first and then we will truly be able to love our neighbor. As Our Lord put it in today’s Gospel when asked what is the greatest commandment:

“The first is this:
Hear, O Israel!
The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your mind,
and with all your strength.
The second is this:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 2 Tim 2:8-15
R: Ps 25:4-5,8-10,14
G: Mk 12:28-34

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Homily #100110 ( 09min) Play – Today we celebrate, according to the Old Calendar, the feast of the Holy Family in honor of Jesus, Joseph and Mary.  (Baptism of Our Lord according to the New Calendar.) Fr Ignatius preaches on the importance of the family and how far we have slid in regard to marriage statistics. He stresses that this loss of family life is related to lack of love, first to love God and then to love our neighbor and then he stresses the connection between love and sacrifice.
Ave Maria! Sunday after Epiphany – Feast of the Holy Family – Mass: EF, Exsultat Gaudio – Readings: 1st: col 3:12-17 – Gsp: luk 2:42-52

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Homily #081026 ( 24min) Play – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel’s message that the key to the Law of God is to love one’s neighbor out of a profound love of God. So, we must do the extraordinary like love our enemies, but also show common courtesy, not getting too wrapped up in ourselves, even in our piety.
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THE MANTLE OF CHARITY

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PRESENCE OF GOD – 0 Lord, teach me to cover the defects and faults of others with the mantle of charity. ??

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MEDITATION

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1.?Do not speak against one another, my brethren. He that speaks against a brother … speaks against the law” (Jas.4:11), that is, he contradicts the evangelical law of fraternal charity. To speak evil of our neighbor does not necessarily mean that we spread unjust suspicions about him or accuse him of faults and wrong deeds which he has not committed. It is sufficient to mention needlessly the faults of others, even though they be real and known to all. To do this is to act contrary to charity, because it fixes our own attention and that of others, on the imperfections of the neighbor rather than on his good qualities. As a result, we lessen in ?the mind of the listener the esteem due to our neighbor.

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Homily #081006 ( 12min) Play – Twenty-seventh Monday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the Good Samaritan and the need to show charity and mercy to our fellow man in order to gain eternal life.
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