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Homily #120403 ( 05min) Play – When Our Lord tells Judas to depart and carry out his deed, he is still working for his salvation. The Lord does all that he can so that He would draw us to himself – so that He would save us. We must discern what Our Lord is calling us to do.
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Mass: Ordinary Form – Tuesday Holy Week
Readings:
1st Reading: Isaiah 49:1-6
Responsorial Psalm: 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15, 17
Gospel: John 13:21-33, 36-38

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Homily #101205 ( 20min) Play – On this Second Sunday in Advent Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the judgment of God when he comes again. This judgment will be based on how well we regard the first coming either by anticipating it if we lived before the incarnation or cherish it after. This desire of God to become united to man in the Incarnation is central to understand our purpose in the created order and the key to world peace and happiness in this life and eternal bliss in the after-life.
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Mass: 2nd Sunday of Advent – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 11:1-10
Resp: psa 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17
2nd: rom 15:4-9
Gsp: mat 3:1-12

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Homily #100727 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the parable of the wheat and the tares where Our Lord sows good seed but His enemy sows bad seed by night. Father points out that this is primarily referring to heretical teaching, and those who do not repent of their errors will end in eternal fire on the final judgment.
Ave Maria! Bl. Mary Magdalene of Martinengo – Tuesday in the 17th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: jer 14:17-22
Resp: psa 79:8, 9, 11, 13
Gsp: mat 13:35-43

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Homily #100322 ( 03min) Play – We see here the chosen people not repenting of their sins but the gentiles do.
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Homily #100226 ( 08min) Play – One sin is enough to send us Hell, but if we repent and ask God’s forgiveness then we will join the blessed in Heaven and enjoy the Beatific Vision for all eternity.
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1: Ezek 18:21-28
R: Ps 130:1-8
G: Mt 5:20-26

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In this day and age we find many sorts of sins and evils not just being done openly with impunity but that they are promoted and legalized and even being forced upon society with penalties looming for those not accepting them.  So far it is called ‘tolerance’ and so many, even good people, are just told ‘do not judge’ as if judging and being intolerant of evil are themselves the sin. Not so!  We are called to judge what is sin, what is right and what is evil. We are to use our conscience to discern these things. So many want the ‘right’ to persist in sin!  They are blinded to the eternal consequences.  Let us pray for the Light of Christ to shine everywhere with ever greater intensity.

THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT

Being open to divine mercy.

There is a passage in the Gospel of  St Luke  (12:9-11) that brings to our attention some remarkably strong words of Our Lord: “And every one who speaks against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven”.  St Mark, too, reports the Lord as saying that this blasphemy never has forgiveness and that one who offends in this way is guilty of an eternal sin.

St Matthew in his turn quotes these solemn words of Christ in a context that allows for a better understanding of their import.  He relates that the people were astonished at Christ’s miracles, so much so that they wondered: “Can this be the Son of David?”  Yet the Pharisees would not submit to the evidence of the many miracles performed before their very eyes. Their only explanation was to attribute Christ’s amazing signs, his divine works, to the agency of the devil. Such was the hardness of their hearts that they would not accept the obvious. It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, they said, that this man casts out demons. Precisely here do we find the unpardonable nature of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. They exclude the sources of pardon itself. All sins can be forgiven, no matter how grave they might be. This is because God’s mercy is infinite. What is required that they be forgiven, of course, is that the sinner recog­nize his sin as sin and believe in the mercy of the Lord The hardness of the Pharisee’s hearts would certainly impede the powerful effect of divine grace.

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Homily #090927 ( 17min) Play – Starting from today’s Gospel message of avoiding the occasion of sin, Fr. Angelo explains that making a good confession is the most important spiritual act and the key to this is sincerity of heart, to truly want to repent, to turn from our past ways of sin.
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Homily #090105 ( 13min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to repent and to be thankful for the Kingdom of Christ which He has made manifest to us through scripture and the living Magisterium.
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