Sunday, October 31st, 2010
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Recording Failed - In today’s Gospel Our Lord brings salvation to Zacheus of Jericho. Fr. Bonaventure preaches on how Jericho is a symbol of sinfulness that has been conquered by Christ’s presence. This place was one of the most ancient cities in the world and was the lowest place below sea level that is inhabited by man and so is a symbol of Hell. The citizens were devotees of the lunar deities and practiced the associated vices, ones that would cause people to loose their mind, becoming literally lunatics. He connects this with the culture of modern decadent cities using Chapter 2 of the Book of Wisdom and how Christ is needed just as before for bringing the Kingdom of God to these bastions of Satan.
Ave Maria! 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 11:22-12:1
Resp: psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13, 14
2nd: 2th 1:11-2:2
Gsp: luk 19:1-10
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
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Homily #100916 ( 12min) Play – Preaching on the account of Mary Magdalen’s washing of Christ’s feet in the house of the Pharisees where Our Lord responds to the indignant hosts by giving a parable of the two debtors, Fr Dominic explains the need to have depth to our love of God. He gives fourteen things we can ask ourselves taken from the City of God by Mary Agreda to determine if we have this depth:
- Do I think about God a lot?
- Am I inclined to do God’s commandments?
- Am I afraid to offend God?
- Am I Grieved by sin?
- Do I rejoice at the good?
- Do I love to speak of God?
- Do I delight in the presence of God?
- Does not thinking of God displease me?
- Do I love what God likes and hate what he hates?
- Do I strive to bring everyone to God?
- Do I pray with confidence?
- Are we grateful to God?
- Do I use God’s gifts to good use?
- Do I strive to control the passions?
Ave Maria! Sts Cornelius and Cyprian – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1: 1 Cor 15:1-11
R: Ps 118:1-2,16-17,28
G: Lk 7:36-50
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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Homily #100826 ( 07min) Play – On this feast day of the Seven Joys of Our Lady, celebrated by the Franciscans, commemorating the Franciscan Crown of the Seven Joys of Lady. Fr Angelo Geiger preaches on the Gospel account of the Annunciation where Our Lady finds joy in the message of the angel that she was to conceive by the Holy Spirit and have the presence of God within her. He ralates this to St. Francis who, after his conversion, was liberated from all that held him back from following Christ and was able to find joy in the ever-present Lord despite the fact that he had no earthly possessions.
Ave Maria! Readings: 1st: Song 2:1-14
Gspl: Luk 1:26-38
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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Homily #100228 ( 16min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on today’s Gospel of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor in front of Peter, James and John. Jesus does this in order to strengthen the faith of his disciples so that they could survive the scandal of the Crucifixion. We need to take note that only one of these three disciples remained with Jesus at the foot of the Cross. So we need to make sure that we fully apprehend all the revelations that we are given through our Holy Faith, especially Our Lord’s presence in the Eucharist.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Gen 15:5-12,17-18
R: Ps 27:1,7-9,13-14
2: Phil 3:17-4:1
G: Lk 9:28-36
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Homily #100208 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Angelo points out that the miracles of healing still exist in our present age. We still have the challenge of believing in His presence just as people who saw Jesus had to believe that he was also God, but then he will give us his healing grace just as he did then.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13
R: Ps 132:6-10
G: Mk 6:53-56
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
With each passing year the unfolding of the Resurrection Gospel of Emmaus becomes more luminous, more transparent like the favorite page in an old book, the page that with each reading delights one anew. The repetition and ritual recurrence of the Word shapes and reshapes the Church, making her ever more perfectly Christ’s beloved Bride, the Companion of the New Adam, born from His pierced side. You recall that it was this very page of the Gospel that was given us by the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II as the heart of his message for the Year of the Eucharist. He presented the mystery of Emmaus as a kind of Eucharistic icon.
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Ave Maria Meditations
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a meditation on THE FIRST GLORIOUS MYSTERY:
THE RESURRECTION
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive honor, glory and praise!” (Rev 5:12)
Meditation:
The Glory of Faith: “Faith is the confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and conviction about things we do not see.” (Heb 11: 1)
The glorious resurrection of Our Lord continues in the glory of this most Blessed Sacrament BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE OUR RISEN SAVIOR DWELLS, pouring out His life, His light, and His love to all who come into His presence. If our faith in the Eucharist is weak, then we simply pray “Lord, I do believe, help my unbelief.”
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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Ave Maria Meditations
The Grace of Christmas
Jesus speaks: I was born, born for you in a cave in December, in the cold, homeless, in the middle of a winter’s night, in the unheard-of poverty of the extremely poor, in solitude, in an abandonment unique in this world. What, my children, do I want you to learn from my birth? To believe in My love, to believe that I have loved you until now. To hope in Me, who have loved you so dearly. I want to teach you to despise the world, which was so unimportant to Me. I want to teach you poverty, lowliness, solitude, humility, penance. I want to teach you to love me, for I was not content with giving Myself to the world in the Incarnation, sanctifying it invisibly in the visitation; no, that did not satisfy My love. From the moment of My birth onward, I showed myself to you, giving myself wholly to you, putting myself in your hands. From then on, you could touch Me, hear Me, possess Me, serve Me, console Me.
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
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Ave Maria Meditations
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Jesus is very near to us: in Christian countries where there are so many tabernacles we are hardly ever more than a few miles from Him. How difficult it is not to see the walls or at least the spire of some church whether we are in the middle of a crowded city or traveling by road or by train. Christ is there! It is the Lord! ?our faith and our love exclaim. We can say it because Our Lord is present there really and substantially: He is the same one who appeared to the disciples and who has always shown such interest in everybody.
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Jesus has remained in the Blessed Sacrament. In this memorial Sacrament He is really, truly and substantially present, his Body and Blood together with his Soul and Divinity and, consequently, the whole Christ. The presence of Christ in the Blessed Eucharist is real and permanent, because once Mass is over, Our Lord remains in each one of the consecrated hosts that has not, been consumed. He who is present is He who was born, died and rose again in Palestine, the one who is at the right hand of God the Father. ?We meet with Him in the tabernacle and He sees us and knows us. We can speak to Him as the Apostles did and tell Him what things we are enthusiastic about and what things are causing us concern. There we always find true peace, of the kind that endures in spite of all sorrow and every obstacle.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Ave Maria Meditations
A Short Visit to the Blessed Sacrament
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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I place myself in the presence of Him, in whose Incarnate Presence I am
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Before I place myself there, I adore Thee, 0 my Savior, present here as God and man, in soul and body, in true flesh and blood.? I acknowledge and confess that I kneel before that Sacred Humanity which was conceived in Mary’s womb and lay in Mary’s bosom; which grew up to man’s estate, and by the Sea of Galilee called the Twelve, wrought miracles, and spoke words of wisdom and peace; which in due season hung on the cross, lay in the tomb, rose from the dead, and now reigns in heaven.
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I praise, and bless, and give myself wholly to Him, Who is the true Bread of my soul, and my everlasting joy.
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Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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Homily #080525 ( 21min) Play – On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the need to give thanks to Christ for having made the sacrifice of His body for our Redemption and for His real presence in the true Bread from Heaven. Father outlines the place this Eucharistic feast holds in the History of the Church and in the Liturgical Calander of each year, which he then relates to the life-long, spiritual development of each individual Christian and finally in the the context of each an every Mass and so places the Eucharist at the very heart of human experience.
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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Homily #080517 ( 12min) Play – The whole life of St Paschal Baylon was rooted in the True Presence of Our Lord in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Many today ignore Our Lord’s Eucharistic Presence and chase after visions and revelations – seeking their own consolations instead of the consolations we receive from being in His presence in the Blessed Sacrament..
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