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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 #100926 ( 32min) Play – In today’s Gospel we have the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Fr. Bonaventure uses this to emphasize the impossibility of compromising the culture of Christ with that of death. He mentions that many Fathers of the Church call this a factual story and so we should take it very seriously. The rich man’s sin was not so much the indulging in extravagant pleasure but doing so when Lazarus was literally dying from poverty. On the contrary Lazarus went to heaven not so much because he suffered but in his misery did not condemn the rich man but prayed for him. The rich man did not have regard for the unique dignity of his fellow man while Lazarus did. The rich man thus followed the culture of death that lead to eternal death while Lazarus followed the culture of life and entered eternal life. Father relates this to modern forms of this same culture of death.
Ave Maria! 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: amo 6:1, 4-7
Resp: psa 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
2nd: 1ti 6:11-16
Gsp: luk 16:19-31

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Homily #100627t ( 07min) Play – Our day of “Independence” is Good Friday, do not again submit to sin. A train is most free when it’s on it’s tracks, off it’s tracks it’s a wreck.
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Homily #100628 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Ignatius uses the recent publication of Fr. Thomas Euteneuer’s new book on exorcism to remind us of the existence of evil spirits and the need to fortify ourselves against them by the partaking of the sacraments, avoiding sin and strengthening the virtues.
Ave Maria! Vigil of the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul – Mass: EF, Dicit Dominus – Readings: 1st: act 3:1-10 – Gsp: joh 21:15-19
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Homily #100328t ( 01min) Play -Through the Cross Christ opened the gates to the Kingdom of God.
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Homily #100201 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains that today’s Gospel account of the man possessed by the legion and the other accounts of possession shows us the terrible state we can end up in, both in this world and the next, by falling into mortal sin.

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1: 2 Sam 15:13-14,30; 16:5-13
R: Ps 3:2-7
G: Mk 5:1-20

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Homily #091128 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need to avoid vice and give true worship of God. This is especially important as we approach Advent.  Today is the feast day of St. James of the March Franciscan preacher.
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1: Dan 7:15-27
R: Dan 3:82-87
G: Lk 21:34-36

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Homily #091105 ( 05min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord is approached by the multitudes for healing, but Fr. Ignatius points out that by touching Our Lord, virtue is what comes from him which, first and foremost, heals us of sin.
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In this day and age we find many sorts of sins and evils not just being done openly with impunity but that they are promoted and legalized and even being forced upon society with penalties looming for those not accepting them.  So far it is called ‘tolerance’ and so many, even good people, are just told ‘do not judge’ as if judging and being intolerant of evil are themselves the sin. Not so!  We are called to judge what is sin, what is right and what is evil. We are to use our conscience to discern these things. So many want the ‘right’ to persist in sin!  They are blinded to the eternal consequences.  Let us pray for the Light of Christ to shine everywhere with ever greater intensity.

THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT

Being open to divine mercy.

There is a passage in the Gospel of  St Luke  (12:9-11) that brings to our attention some remarkably strong words of Our Lord: “And every one who speaks against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven”.  St Mark, too, reports the Lord as saying that this blasphemy never has forgiveness and that one who offends in this way is guilty of an eternal sin.

St Matthew in his turn quotes these solemn words of Christ in a context that allows for a better understanding of their import.  He relates that the people were astonished at Christ’s miracles, so much so that they wondered: “Can this be the Son of David?”  Yet the Pharisees would not submit to the evidence of the many miracles performed before their very eyes. Their only explanation was to attribute Christ’s amazing signs, his divine works, to the agency of the devil. Such was the hardness of their hearts that they would not accept the obvious. It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, they said, that this man casts out demons. Precisely here do we find the unpardonable nature of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. They exclude the sources of pardon itself. All sins can be forgiven, no matter how grave they might be. This is because God’s mercy is infinite. What is required that they be forgiven, of course, is that the sinner recog­nize his sin as sin and believe in the mercy of the Lord The hardness of the Pharisee’s hearts would certainly impede the powerful effect of divine grace.

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Homily #090927 ( 17min) Play – Starting from today’s Gospel message of avoiding the occasion of sin, Fr. Angelo explains that making a good confession is the most important spiritual act and the key to this is sincerity of heart, to truly want to repent, to turn from our past ways of sin.
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Homily #090828 ( 05min) Play – St Augustine was restless in his heart until he found his rest in God and became a great pastor and defender of the faith.
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Homily #090524 ( 22min) Play -  On this Seventh Sunday of Easter, which is the final Mass of the Knights of Lepanto Encampment, Fr. Angelo preaches on how the Apostles are not of this world and so too we should be in the world but not of it and we should be patient with those who sin and even those who sin against us just as Jesus was with Judas.

We celebrated the Ascension of Our Lord at its traditional time last Thursday.

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Homily #090126 ( 07min) Play – To blaspheme against the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable sin because it hardens the heart of the sinner to such an extent that it takes a very extraordinary moral miracle to overcome. Listen to Father Angelo as he relates this to our modern times.
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