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Homily #120202 ( 08min) Play – The feast of the Presentation is the last event in the liturgical calender directly relating to Christmas. Fr. Angelo gives the historical context for this events and explains the words of the prophet Simeon and the prophetess Anna.
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Mass: Presentation of the Lord – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: mal 3:1-4
Resp: psa 24:7, 8, 9, 10
2nd: heb 2:14-18
Gsp: luk 2:22-40

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Homily #111229 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the divinity of Christ as a child in the arms of His Mother as He is brought into the temple in Jerusalem where the Holy Family meets Simeon who gives witness to how the Child is the fulfillment of the promises of the Lord.
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Mass: 5th Day in Octave of Christmas – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1jo 2:3-11
Resp: psa 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6
Gsp: luk 2:22-35

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Homily #100915 ( 11min) Play – Our Lady was most acquainted with sorrows, all centering on seeing her son suffer for our sins.  Today on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows Fr. Dominic preaches on how this suffering with Our Lord makes her Coredemptrix and our spiritual mother, giving birth to us in her pain at the foot of the cross as the sword prophesied by Simeon pierced her heart.
Ave Maria! Our Lady of Sorrows – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1: Heb 5:7-9
R: Ps 31:2-6,15-16,20
G: Jn 19:25-27

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Mary, Co-redemptrix with Christ. The meaning of pain.  

Old Simeon, having blessed the young couple, turned to Mary and, inspired by the Holy Spirit, opened her eyes to the sufferings her Son would have to undergo and to the sword of sorrow that would pierce her soul. Pointing to Jesus, he said: Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. (Lk. 2:35)

Commenting on this, St Bernard says: The time will come when Jesus will not be offered in the temple nor in the arms of Simeon, but outside the city walls on the arms of a cross. The time will come when he will not be ransomed with money but will himself redeem others with his own blood, for God the Father has sent him as a ransom for his people.  The suffering of his Mother, the sword that will pierce her soul, will have as their only cause the agony of her Son, his persecution and death, the uncertainty about when these things will happen, and the resistance to the grace of the Redemption, which will be the ruin of many. Mary’s destiny is bound up with that of Jesus, in its operation, and without any other possible reason. (more…)

Homily #091229 ( 10min) Play – In today’s Gospel Simeon prophecies that the Child Jesus would cause the rise and fall of many but also that a sword will pierce Mary’s heart and this too would be part of the redeeming work.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 1 Jn 2:3-11
R: Ps 96:1-6
G: Lk 2:22-35

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