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Ave Maria!

Master Sargent Mike Cutone gives his conference on Catholic Leadership going through the acronym L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P. as he has outlined in his book. In this segment he is on “S” for “Sacrifice”. Prepare yourself to sacrifice as a leader by being obedience to God’s will and His commandments, going to Holy Mass, going to Confession, and by spending time in prayer. Jesus gives us an example of sacrifice by offering His life on the cross for the salvation of men.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #111202k ( 05min) Play – For the joy of the company Jesus Christ we are willing to sacrifice everything.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr – Form: EF, Me Exspectaverunt
Readings:
1st: sir 51:13-17
Gsp: mat 13:44-52

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Homily #110523 ( 06min) Play – Today Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the first reading where Paul and Barnabus must convince the people of Lystria from offering sacrifice to them after Paul miraculously cures a crippled man. He uses this to underline the need for the one true faith in the living God.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Monday 5th Week of Easter – – Form:
Readings:
1st: act 14:5-18
Resp: psa 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16
Gsp: joh 14:21-26

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Homily #110501 ( 20min) Play – On this Divine Mercy Sunday Fr. Bonaventure makes the connection between the Mercy of God and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross which is re-presented in the Holy Sacrifice of Mass.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Form:

Readings:

1st: act 2:42-47

Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24

2nd: 1pe 1:3-9

Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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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 #110116t ( 08min) Play – Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of all the symbolic sacrifices in the Old Testament. This is the only sacrifice that take away our sins. Christ is the One who offers and the One who is offered, He the Lion and the Lamb.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 49:3, 5-6
Resp: psa 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10
2nd: 1co 1:1-3
Gsp: joh 1:29-34

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Homily #101029 ( 08min) Play – Our Lord uses the example of the Ox and the Ass in today’s Gospel in reference to whether he should heal a man with dropsy on the Sabbath. He asks, who among you has an ox or ass which if stuck in a cistern would not try to rescue it? Fr. Bonaventure associates the Ox with the Jews who were burdened with the Law of Moses and the Ass to the Gentiles who were rendered unintelligent through sin. Jesus is the saving Sabbath who through the sacrifice of his own Body and Blood saves us from the cistern of sin.
Ave Maria! Friday in the 30th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: phi 1:1-11
Resp: psa 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 14:1-6

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Homily #100908s ( 14min) Play – today on the feast of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary we have our annual professions where our novices make first profession and those in temporary vows renew theirs. Fr. Angelo relates this generous sacrifice of their lives (to the service of God) to the calling mentioned by Paul in the first reading and the calling of Mary and Joseph to the exulted role of heading the Holy Family that is related in the Gospel. He also relates this to the sacrifices of St Maximilian (one of the patrons of our order) who pursued heroic efforts to spread the faith and how difficulties when conformed to Christ becomes effective to the conversion of others.

Ave Maria! – Mass: – Readings:
1: Rom 8:28-30
R: Ps 13:6
G: Mt 1:1-16,18-23

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Mary Vitamin July 30th

Topic: Fourth Sorrowful Mystery – Carrying of the Cross
In honor of the Month of the Precious Blood

Quote:
Then therefore [Pontius Pilate] delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him forth. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
John 19:16-17

Meditation:
Father Frederick Faber
It was a dreadful thing for a mother to walk the streets over her own son’s blood. No one cared for it. No heart was touched. None suspected the heavenly mystery, at which angels were gazing in silent stupor. Mary too must tread upon it. It was sorrow almost literally trampling its own heart under foot. She must tread on that which she was worshipping. That which colored the street-mud, which blotched the paving-stones, which clung, half wet and half dry, to the garments of the multitude, was hypostatically united to the Godhead. It merited the plenitude of divine worship. Mary was adoring it at every step.
Father Faber, The Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books), 220.

Resolution:
Today, when about my ordinary activities, I will try to remember the steps taken by Our Lady following Our Lord and Her Worship of the Precious Blood. When I walk up the stairs today, in particular I will remember the Precious Blood and I will make a Spiritual Communion.

Marian Vow:
Let the tertiaries, if possible, participate everyday in the holy sacrifice of the altar, standing at the foot of the cross of Calvary, in union with the Immaculate Coredemptrix, to offer themselves as victims united with the Divine Victim, Jesus Crucified, receiving in their own hearts Holy Communion (or at least spiritual Communion, if it is not possible to receive the Sacrament). Nourished with the Eucharistic Jesus, united to the Immaculate Mediatrix, let the tertiaries each day live faithfully the daily obligations of their state.
Marian Seraphic Pathways, Constitutions #25

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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