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Homily #111211k ( 11min) Play – People everywhere are searching for happiness, but some are already experiencing the happiness of their salvation. The color of rose in the vestment today is a symbol of that happiness, and in this color we find meditation on the Virgin Mary.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Third Sunday in Advent – Form: EF, Gaudete
Readings:
1st: phi 4:4-7
Gsp: joh 1:19-28

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Homily #111120 ( 45min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the Christ the King explaining how He is King of kings and Lord of lords. If we are truly seeking salvation we must comply to our King and be a member of his Kingdom, the Catholic Church. He relates this to the modern forms of rejecting the kingdom in the form of rejecting the Creed, the similar problem with the Traditionalists, the materialism and sensuality of today and how all these rejections of Christ the King is a rejection of reality.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Christ the King – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: eze 34:11-12, 15-17
Resp: psa 23:1-2, 2-3, 5, 6
2nd: 1co 15:20-26, 28
Gsp: mat 25:31-46

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Homily #110918 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the parable of The Workers in the Vineyard where the workers who came last receive the same reward, eternal salvation, as those who came first.

Ave Maria!
Mass: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 55:6-9
Resp: psa 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18
2nd: phi 1:20-24, 27
Gsp: mat 20:1-16

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Homily #110907 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the 4 cardinal virtues:

• Prudence – able to judge between actions with regard to appropriate actions at a given time
• Justice – proper moderation between self-interest and the rights and needs of others
• Restraint or Temperance – practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation
• Courage or Fortitude – forbearance, endurance, and ability to confront fear and uncertainty, or intimidation

and how they will reap great rewards in eternal life, the great blessings mentioned in today’s Gospel.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 23rd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: col 3:1-11
Resp: psa 145:2-3, 10-11, 12-13
Gsp: luk 6:20-26

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Homily #110413 ( 05min) Play – God is Truth and we must abide in Him. In today’s Gospel Our Lord emphasizes that He is Truth and upon our accepting and living this Truth our salvation depends.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 5th Week of Lent – – Form:
Readings:
1st: dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95
Resp: dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56
Gsp: joh 8:31-42

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Homily #110107 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the miracle of the curing of the leper in today’s Gospel. He explains that Our Lord performs miracles in order to enable people to have confidence in Him. This confidence builds on the prerequisite confidence in God, a trust that the Creator can recreate by physical healing and by saving souls. By such miracles God shows his mastery over the physical and moral order and leads us closer to Him.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Raymond of Pennafort – Optnl Memorial – Form: OF
Readings: Fri post Epiphany or Jan 11
1st: 1jo 5:5-13
Resp: psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
Gsp: luk 5:12-16

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Homily #101116 ( 08min) Play – Just as Zacheus accepted the Lord’s salvation as soon as he realized that He was seeking to give His salvation to him in today’s Gospel, so too He seeks all souls to offer them the same gift. Let us respond like Zacheus and this starts now by first being on the lookout for him, again, like Zacheus.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St Gertrude the Great – Optional Memorial – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday in the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: rev 3:1-6, 14-22
Resp: psa 15:2-3, 3-4, 5
Gsp: luk 19:1-10

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Homily #101104 (13min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord gives us the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin where if one is lost many are left behind and great effort is exerted to find the one. We should realize then the personal concern that Jesus has for each one of us and we should also have this concern then for our neighbors. Father further points out the great evil of sin which leads souls astray and how preaching and praying for others is so important to the salvation of souls, to lead them to the sacraments.
Ave Maria! St. Charles Borromeo – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: phi 3:3-8
Resp: psa 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Gsp: luk 15:1-10

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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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Homily #101019 ( 09min) Play – Today we celebrate the North American Martyrs, the Jesuits Sts Jean de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and Companions who were martyred in Canada and in upstate New York. Fr. Dominic outlines the heroic lives of these evangelists who braved incredible suffering for the love of Christ and the salvation of souls .

Ave Maria! Sts Jean de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and Comp. – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 2:12-22
Resp: psa 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14
Gsp: luk 12:35-38

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Conferences #89 – Fr. Peter wraps-up the Coredemption Conference ( 09min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

For the conclusion to our symposium “Mother of the Church” on Marian Coredemption in the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, La Crosse, Wisconsin on August 21, 2010, Fr. Peter Fehlner, rector of the shrine, expounds on three practical points in summary:

1. Make Mary the Center of your life,  because this is the way that Jesus wants to give us happiness.
2. Work for the salvation of everyone through the good example of consecrating ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
3. Push the Solemn Definition of the Fifth Marian Dogma.

A short but profound to-do list to enable all of us to accomplish great things in the Church for the glory of God.

Drew Mariani of Relevant Radio was MC of the symposium.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #101002 ( 08min) Play – On this the Feast of the Guardian Angels Fr. Ignatius preaches on the nature of these heavenly helpers. He mentions how they are superior to us and so we can not name them but they are given to us by God as helpers toward our salvation and sanctification which is a great grace.
Ave Maria! The Holy Guardian Angels – Mass: EF, Benedicite Dominum – Readings:
1st: exo 23:20-23
Gsp: mat 18:1-10

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Homily #100831 ( 09min) Play – How many will be saved? Our Lord tells us that few will be saved. St. Thomas in his clarity and brevity says, “Those who are saved are in the minority.” Why did Our Lord give us this knowledge? He told us that we might never become presumptuous, that we always might be striving to enter the narrow gate. This is a widespread error in our day and age – everyone goes to Heaven. Let us not be fooled by the lukewarmness and religious indifference prevalent today. Let us work out our salvation in fear and trembling.
Ave Maria! St. Raymund Nonnatus, Confessor – Mass: EF, Os Iusti – Readings:
1st: sir 31:8-11
Gsp: luk 12:35-40

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Conferences #43 – Raymond De Souza talks at La Crosse Shrine on the Five offenses Against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Coredemption ( 44min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

In 2009 Raymond De Souza of St Gabriel Communications and Human Life International, an EWTN personality and a speaker of international renown gave a talk at our Coredemption Conference. He expounds on the Five Offenses against the Immaculate Heart as listed in the Apparition of Our Lady to the children of Fatima for which she asked reparation. He relates this to the general call to participate in the sufferings of Christ, our Redeemer, and so participate in the work of salvation in a way similar to Our Lady the Coredemptrix.

This Saturday we will have a Live Broadcast of our 2010 Coredemption Conference again at La Crosse it will start at 9:45 AM and end at 6:30 PM

Ave Maria!

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Homily #100630 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the need to make a full confession in order to have a valid absolution and to avoid getting into the situation where we neglect to mention a serious sin for many years, risking our eternal salvation.
Ave Maria! Commemoration of St. Paul – Mass: EF, Scio Cui – Readings: 1st: gal 1:11-20 – Gsp: mat 10:16-22

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