Friday, November 11th, 2011
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Homily #111028m ( 20min) Play -
This is the first of three homilies from when Fr. Peter was at Mt. St. Francis for a visit in late October. On the Feast of Sts Simon and Jude, he reflects on how Jesus called 12 men to be his co-workers in the New Covenant. He is giving us a mission us to be His co-workers, but we must understand that any true mission comes from God and depends on Him.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sts Simon and Jude – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eph 2:19-22
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: luk 6:12-16
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Padre Pio died September 23, 1968, that’s 43 years ago. He looks better than some of us who are still alive.
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
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Homily #110923 ( 07min) Play – Today is the Feast of St. Pio, affectionately known as Padre Pio, a modern miracle worker who had the stigmata of Our Lord’s wounds imprinted visibly on his flesh. He was spiritual director of Fr. Stefano Manelli, our founder, and his entire family.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Pio of Pietrelcina – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: exo 32:7-14
2nd: gal 6:14-18
Gsp: joh 19:25-37
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
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Homily #110921 ( 13min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on how quickly Matthew converted from being a sinner to a saint and, therefore, we should not judge others.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Matthew the Evangelist – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eph 4:1-7, 11-13
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: mat 9:9-13
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
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Homily #110801l ( 12min) Play – On the feast of St. Alphonsus de Ligouri, a Doctor of the Church, Fr. Peter preaches on how even in the worst of times that prevail in the Church prior to major persecutions there are always great saints and doctors. This is the case in the 1700′s, just prior to the bloody French Revolution when St Alphonsus lived.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 18th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: num 11:4-15
Resp: psa 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
Gsp: mat 14:13-21
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
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Homily #110629 ( 06min) Play – On the Solemnity of the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul Fr. Dominic focuses on how the Apostles are the human foundations of the Church and how Jesus established them as such and strengthened them to make them worthy.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sts. Peter and Paul – 1st Cl – Form: EF, Nunc Scio Vere
Readings:
1st: act 12:1-11
Gsp: mat 16:13-19
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
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Homily #110317 ( 05min) Play – Fr Dominic preaches on the missionary activities of St Patrick in Ireland and how they are a great example for all aspiring missionaries.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Patrick – Optnl Memorial – Form:
Readings:
First Peter 5:1-4
Luke 5:1-11
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
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Homily #101028 ( 10min) Play – Today is the feast of Sts Simon and Jude and Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the foundation that Our Lord builds from the foundation stones of the Apostles. He covers what is know about these more obscure apostles, how they worked together and won the martyr’s crown in Persia and how St Jude is the patron saint of difficult cases, then on the apostolic nature of the true Church as one of its chief marks of authenticity and how the apostles were given the impossible mission and carried it out with miraculous results.
Ave Maria! Sts Simon and Jude – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 2:19-22
Resp: psa 19:2-3, 4-5
Gsp: luk 6:12-16
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
 Mission Down Under #10 – Australia’s First Saint ( 15 min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
Join the friars in Perth, Australia as they take part in celebrating the canonization of Australia’s First Saint – St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Filmed on location at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Perth and Notre Dame Campus, Fremantle.
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
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Homily #101001 ( 07min) Play – Today is the feast day of St Therese of Lisieux of the Child Jesus. Fr. Ignatius celebrates this in the Extraordinary Form as a votive Mass since her feast day is on the 3rd of October in the old calender. He preaches on St. Therese’s life who through the help of her very devout parents was given a very good start on the road to sanctity. He describes how even though she was an almost entirely unknown nun who died at the young age of 24 in a cloistered convent, her great sanctity was discovered by the outside world and she was Canonized as a saint, made a patron of missionaries throughout the world, declared a doctor of the Church and virtually every Catholic Church has set-up a statue of her.
Ave Maria! Votive for St. Theresa of the Child Jesus – Mass: EF, Veni De Libano – Readings:
1st: isa 66:12-14
Gsp: mat 18:1-4
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
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Homily #100923 ( 07min) Play – Sorry, the first half of the homily did not get recorded. Today Fr Bonaventure preaches on the life of St Pio of Pietrelcina more commonly known as St. Padre Pio a Capuchin priest who is a modern example of a miracle worker who died in 1968. Father enumerates some of the miraculous events and gifts that Padre Pio had and describes his life as one great miracle since he lived almost a supernatural life. The Franciscans of the Immaculate celebrate this Mass as a Solemnity since he is one of our patron saints. Fr Stefano, our founder, is a spiritual directee of Padre Pio.
Ave Maria! St. Pio of Pietrelcina – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: deu 10:8-9
2nd: gal 6:15-17
Gsp: joh 19:25-37
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010
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Homily #100918 ( 06min) Play – On this Feast of St. Joseph Cupertino Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the firm basis on which this saint flew to the heights of sanctity. He did not have much to offer society in regard to worldly, natural ability but he would never be discouraged but continue on in humility and this lowliness lead to his sanctity that was so extraordinarily manifested in the gift of physical flight. Father also exhorts us to reject the modern eugenics movement in the form of abortion and infanticide of babies that are not deemed perfectly formed, useful or convenient like St. Joseph.
Ave Maria! St. Joseph of Cupertino – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 1co 12:31, 13:1-10, 13
Resp: psa 25:1-3, 4-5, 8-9, 10
Gsp: mat 11:25-30
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
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Ave Maria Meditations encore
St. Leopoldo Mandic is known as an Apostle of the Confessional and also as an Apostle of Unity. Feast Day is July 30th.
SAINT OF THE CONFESSIONAL
To be a good confessor one must first of all gain the confidence of the penitent. In this Fr. Leopoldo succeeded wonderfully. His very person, so small as to be scarcely visible in the semi-darkness of cell, his features calm and radiating kindness, his eyes full of serenity, his measured and paternal gestures, all combined to awake confidence from all who approached. Often he would get up and go to meet the penitent as if he were greeting an old and expected friend.
Nothing he did or said could in any way humiliate the visitor and cause him to close his heart. He paid attention to everything, knowing that confidence is built on a variety of imponderables which may often appear insignificant. So much skill and so much virtue naturally disposed the penitent to listen with a receptive mind to the instruction and exhortations which followed. What he said was not just a routine affair, the same for everyone; he said what was needed by each individual soul in a manner easily understood by the person in question, using dialect and popular phrases if they would help. This was a point he considered very important. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
One Minute Meditations
St. Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619) Feast Day is July 21st
“God is love, and all his operations proceed from love. Once he wills to manifest that goodness by sharing his love outside himself, then the Incarnation becomes the supreme manifestation of his goodness and love and glory. So, Christ was intended before all other creatures and for his own sake. For him all things were created and to him all things must be subject, and God loves all creatures in and because of Christ. Christ is the first-born of every creature, and the whole of humanity as well as the created world finds its foundation and meaning in him. Moreover, this would have been the case even if Adam had not sinned”
(St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Doctor of the Universal Church, Capuchin Educational Conference, Washington, D.C.).
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