Apr 18 – Homily – Fr Tito: Returning To Darkness
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
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Audio (MP3)Regina Caeli, laetare!
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Ave Maria Meditations
Christ’s Resurrection Was A Concrete Event by Pope John Paul II Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. In the liturgical season running from Easter to Pentecost, the Church is recollected in contemplation of the risen Christ. Thus she relives the primordial experience that lies at the basis of her existence. She feels imbued with the same wonder as Mary Magdalen and the other women who went to Christ’s tomb on Easter morning and found it empty. That tomb became the womb of life. Whoever had condemned Jesus, deceived himself that he had buried His cause under an ice-cold tombstone. The disciples themselves gave in to the feeling of irreparable failure. We understand their surprise, then, and even their distrust in the news of the empty tomb. But the Risen One did not delay in making himself seen and they yielded to reality. They saw and believed! Two thousand years later, we still sense the unspeakable emotion that overcame them when they heard the Master’s greeting: “Peace be with you.’”. 2. The Church is based on their extraordinary experience. The first proclamation of the Gospel was nothing other than the testimony of this event: “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses!” (Acts 2:32). The Christian faith is so linked with this truth that Paul did not hesitate to declare: “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (1 Cor 15:14). Along these lines the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community, handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 638). Christ’s Resurrection is the strength, the secret of Christianity. It is not a question of mythology or of mere symbolism, but of a concrete event. It is confirmed by sure and convincing proofs. The acceptance of this truth, although the fruit of the Holy Spirit’s grace, rests at the same time on a solid historical base. On the threshold of the third millennium, the new effort of evangelization can begin only from a renewed experience of this Mystery, accepted in faith and witnessed to in life. 3. Regina caeli, laetare! Rejoice, Holy Virgin, because He whom you bore in your womb is risen! Dear brothers and sisters, let us try to relive the joy of the Resurrection with Mary’s heart. Even in the darkness of Good Friday she prepared herself to receive the light of Easter morning. Let us ask her to obtain for us a deep faith in this extraordinary event, which is salvation and hope for the world. From an address given by Pope John Paul II before reciting the Regina Caeli on Sunday, 21 April 1996.
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He is Risen: He is not here!
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Ave Maria Meditations
Pope Benedict XVI -homily Vatican Basilica 15 April 2006 ”You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here” (Mk 16:6). With these words, God’s messenger, robed in light, spoke to the women who were looking for the body of Jesus in the tomb. But the Evangelist says the same thing to us on this holy night: Jesus is not a character from the past. He lives, and he walks before us as one who is alive, he calls us to follow him, the living one, and in this way to discover for ourselves too the path of life. “He has risen, he is not here.” When Jesus spoke for the first time to the disciples about the Cross and the Resurrection, as they were coming down from the Mount of the Transfiguration, they questioned what “rising from the dead” meant (Mk 9:10). At Easter we rejoice because Christ did not remain in the tomb, his body did not see corruption; he belongs to the world of the living, not to the world of the dead; we rejoice because he is the Alpha and also the Omega, as we proclaim in the rite of the Paschal Candle; he lives not only yesterday, but today and for eternity (cf. Heb 13:8). |
Apr 04 – Homily – Fr Tito: The Path To Glory
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Homily #100404t ( Ave Maria! Mass readings +++ |
Apr 04 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Resurrection Overcoming Obstacles
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
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Video – Apostles Creed: Art 11 – The Resurrection of the Body
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the eleventh article of the Creed: “I believe in the resurrection of the body.” Ave Maria! |
Video – Apostles Creed: Art 7 – Judge of the Living & the Dead
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the seventh article of the Creed: “From thence He shall come to judge the living & the dead.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Jul 17 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Baptized into Death
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Homily #090717 ( Ave Maria! Mass readings +++ |
Video – Apostles Creed: Art 6 – He Ascended into Heaven
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the sixth article of the Creed: “He ascended into Heaven & sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Video – Apostles Creed: Art 5 – He Descended & Rose From the Dead
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the fifth article of the Creed: “He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Apr 26 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Life Through the Cross
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Homily #090426 ( Ave Maria! Mass readings |
Mane Nobiscum Domine
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Ave Maria Meditations
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. |
First Glorious Mystery
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Ave 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.” |
I Am the Resurrection and the Life. (John 11:25)
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
ALLELUIA! HE IS RISEN !
And behold I Am with you all days until the consummation of the world. (Mt. 28:20)
If we have at length interpreted the connection between Supper and Cross, we have in fact all the time been speaking also of the Resurrection. Not only are Supper and Cross inseparable: Supper, Cross and Resurrection form the one indivisible Paschal Mystery. The theology of the Cross is the Resurrection; therefore the Resurrection is the divine response and the divine interpretation of the Cross. The theology of the Cross is a paschal theology, a theology of joyous victory even in this valley of tears.
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Mar 26 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: The Weeping Widow
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Homily #090326 ( Ave Maria! |