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Leticia Velazquez is interviewed by Friar Roderic at the March for Life Exhibit Hall at the Hyatt Regency in DC. She explains her book “A Special Mother is Born” that has 33 inspirational stories by parents who have special needs children, including her own story about her daughter Christina who has Down Syndrome and another by Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum.

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Homily #100620 ( 18min) Play – In the Gospel Our Lord asks His disciples who they think He is. To know ourselves we must know God and it is Jesus who reveals God to us. Fr. Angelo preaches on the greatness of God and in comparison, our lowliness. On this Father’s Day he reminds us that despite our unworthiness, God wants our participation in His work of Salvation and in His Fatherhood by calling many men to be fathers in various ways.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Zech 12:10-11; 13:1
R: Ps 63:2-6,8-9
2: Gal 3:26-29
G: Lk 9:18-24
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Homily #100314 ( 17min) Play – Today is Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, which is like Gaudete Sunday in Advent, a day of joy in the midst of a season of penance.  Common to both these days are the joyful rose vestments and Fr. Bonaventure relates this to the Gospel of the day which is the parable of of the Prodigal Son and how the son is robed in festive vestments due to the father’s joy in the return of his wayward son. Fr. Bonaventure highlights the importance of repentance if we fall and how all penance leads to joy if we persevere to the end.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Josh 5:9,10-12
R: Ps 34:2-7
2: 2 Cor 5:17-21
G: Lk 15:1-3,11-32

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Homily #100101 ( 16min) Play – Solemnity of the Mother of God. Mary’s Divine Maternity is key to the beauty and wonder of this holy season of Christmas because it highlights the fact that Jesus is true God and true man, two natures united, yet remaining distinct, in one Divine Person. As such Mary is truely the Mother of God. Father explains how this central truth of the Incarnation has fought ancient paganism and pantheism and how it will be the main means to fight the modern forms of these errors, which Father calls Techno-Pantheism.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Num 6:22-27
R: Ps 67:2-3,5-6,8
2: Gal 4:4-7
G: Lk 2:16-21

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Homily #091122 ( 27min) Play – Today is the Feast of Christ the King and Fr. Bonaventure outlines how we need this kingship in this age so resistant to Christ’s teaching where we seem bent on rejecting all Christian influence on public life.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Dan 7:13-14
R: Ps 93:1-2,5
2: Rev 1:5-8
G: Jn 18:33-37

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