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Homily #100620 ( 18min) Play – In the Gospel Our Lord asks His disciples who they think He is. To know ourselves we must know God and it is Jesus who reveals God to us. Fr. Angelo preaches on the greatness of God and in comparison, our lowliness. On this Father’s Day he reminds us that despite our unworthiness, God wants our participation in His work of Salvation and in His Fatherhood by calling many men to be fathers in various ways.
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1: Zech 12:10-11; 13:1
R: Ps 63:2-6,8-9
2: Gal 3:26-29
G: Lk 9:18-24
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Homily #100531 ( 10min) Play – On the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth, Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the central role that Mary plays in the salvation of the world. As the Holy Spirit filled the heart of St Elizabeth at the voice of Mary and the babe leaped for joy in her womb so we should except Mary into our homes and hearts and the Holy Trinity will fill our souls.
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1: Zeph 3:14-18
R: Isa 12:2-6
G: Lk 1:39-56

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Homily #100530 ( 26min) Play – For Holy Trinity Sunday and the closing Mass for the Knights of Lepanto Father-Son Encampment, Fr Angelo preaches on how the Trinity is three Persons and yet united as if it where and Army, working as one for the salvation of all men. He stresses the need to acknowledge that the Second Person of the Trinity became man to win our salvation and so enable the Holy Trinity to dwell within us. Our hearts then become the divine fortress of the Trinity and this forms the base to sally forth and practice the virtues, especially charity.
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1: Prov 8:22-31
R: Ps 8:4-9
2: Rom 5:1-5
G: Jn 16:12-15

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AND AFTER THIS OUR EXILE SHOW UNTO US THE BLESSED FRUIT OF THY WOMB, JESUS

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In the year 1604, in a city of Belgium, there were two young men, students, but who, instead of attending to their studies, gave themselves up to a life of debauchery.  One night they were both in the house with an evil companion, when one of them, named Richard, returned home, leaving his companion there.  After he had reached home, and had begun to undress, he remembered he had not that day said some “Hail Marys,” that he was in the habit of reciting.  Feeling very sleepy he was loath to say them; he did himself violence, and repeated them, though without devotion, and half asleep.  He then lay down, and had fallen into a sound slumber, when he was suddenly roused by a violent knocking at the door, (more…)

Homily #100318 ( 07min) Play – Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.
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Homily #100124 ( 14min) Play – From today’s Gospel Fr Bonaventure preaches on the fact that Jesus is God and our Salvation. He contrasts this to the ancient heresy of Gnosticism that placed the hope of salvation in human knowledge. Listen as he explains that this was an early form of Modernism, containing a very dangerous, prideful intellectualism which has become an almost universal mindset today and how only Christ can guide us away from shipwreck.

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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
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1: Neh 8:2-4,5-6,8-10
R: Ps 19:8-10,15
2: 1 Cor 12:12-30
G: Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21

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No Apologies #109 – There can be self-deception and false assurance: Matt 7:21 ( 04min) >>> Play

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Protestants presume salvation is never lost. Catholics make the Scriptural distinction between “infallible certitude” and “confident assurance.”

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No Apologies #108 – “…he who endures to the end will be saved.”( 04min) >>> Play

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Many protestant groups hold that once a person accepts Christ as Saviour, he is at that moment saved and there is nothing the person can do to lose that salvation. But the Bible is clear that like Adam and Eve we are able to fall from grace.

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Homily #090410 ( 08min) Play – Today is Good Friday the greatest day ever because it is the day that Christ won our salvation through such great suffering that flowed from his great love. Let us let us make an act of great thanksgiving.

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Homily #090104 ( 08min) Play – On this Epiphany Sunday Fr. Ignatius explains that the Our Lord manifests himself on this day as he does on the Feast of Cana and at His Baptism by John in the Jordan. And so all naturalistic ways to salvation now cease as is symbolized by the Magi, the gentile astrologers, coming to seek Christ under a new star at Bethlehem.
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Homily #081217 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the genealogy of Christ explaining how it is a condensed history of salvation where God’s fidelity to us overcomes our infidelity to Him.
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Homily #081212s ( 30min) Play – On the Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel of Luke, the Annunciation. Mary goes out afterward to help Elizabeth and so too, Mary’s entire mission as Mother of God is a charitable mission to help mankind which is in need of salvation. Mary continues this mission in her appearance to Juan Diego in Mexico City in 1531, bringing about the conversion of Mexico.
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