Homily #110630 (04min) Play – Today Fr. Dominic preaches on the life of St Paul and his many journey and labors that he undertook to spread the Gospel and build the early Church. Father emphasizes that he did all this through the grace of God. St Paul himself would only boast in his weakness.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Commemoration of St. Paul – 3rd Cl – Form: EF, Scio Cui
Readings:
1st: gal 1:11-20
Gsp: mat 10:16-22
Homily #110628 (05min) Play – Fr Dominic preaches on how the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul are representatives of truth given to us by Christ and so represent the gift of infallibility given to the Magesterium of the Church in the Bishops, the successors of the Apostles.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Vigil of the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul – 2nd Cl – Form: EF, Dicit Dominus
Readings:
1st: act 3:1-10
Gsp: joh 21:15-19
Homily #110222 (05min) Play – “O God, the Shepherd and Ruler of all Your faithful people, mercifully look upon Your servant Pope Benedict XVI, whom You have chosen as the chief Shepherd to preside over Your Church. We beg You to help him edify, both by word and example, those over whom he has charge, that he may reach everlasting life together with the flock entrusted to him. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: Chair of St. Peter, Commemoration of St. Paul – Second Class – Form: EF, Statuit Ei Dominus
Readings:
1st: 1pe 1:1-7
Gsp: mat 16:13-19
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
Homily #100427 (10min) Play – St. Peter Canisius lived in the 1500s in a time that fulfilled the prophecy of St. Paul in today’s first reading:
For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.
Listen how St. Peter tactfully and lovingly deals with these errors.
The Papal Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura), commonly known as St Paul-without-the-Walls, is one of four churches that are the great ancient major basilicas. The basilica was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine I over the burial place of Saint Paul, where it was said that, after the Apostle’s execution, his followers erected a memorial, called a cella memoriae. This first edifice was expanded under Valentinian I, in the 370s. In 386, Emperor Theodosius I began the erection of a much larger and more beautiful basilica with a nave and four aisles with a transept; the work including the mosaics was not completed till the pontificate of Leo I (440-461). In the 5th century it was even larger than the Old St. Peter’s Basilica.
Homily #100307 (06min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the first reading where St. Paul exhorts us to be children of God and so enter into the light that is faith and the love which is the fruit it bears.
Ave Maria! Third Sunday in Lent – Mass: EF, Oculi Mei – Readings: 1st: eph 5:1-9 – Gsp: luk 11:14-28
Homily #100125 (06min) Play – Saul the persecutor of the Church was given the grace of conversion to become Paul the Apostle of Christ. Father Ignatius explains that grace comes from God, but only after the prayers of the faithful.
Ave Maria! Conversion of St. Paul – Mass: EF, Scio Cui Credidi – Readings: 1st: act 9:1-22 – Gsp: mat 19:27-29
Homily #100115 (05min) Play – Fr. Ignatius explains how St Paul the Hermit (229-342) showed extraordinary zeal and devotion by spending almost one hundred years of his very long life in the deserts of Egypt, alone with God. Then he asks why should this be so extraordinary.
Ave Maria! St. Paul the First Hermit, Confessor – Mass: EF, Iustus Ut Palma – Readings: 1st: phi 3:7-12 – Gsp: mat 11:25-30
Standing Fast #32 – Guarding the Heart (6 min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
Father Angelo speaks again about Dom Chautard’s The Soul of the Apostolate and his concept of “custody of the heart,” and connects this idea with St. Paul’s comments on the “Armor of God,” in Ephesians 6. As knights we need to guard our own hearts before we can guard and protect others. Father Angelo writes in a similar vein on MaryVictrix.
Homily #090629 (13min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, explaining how Peter, despite his failings, has the the gift of infallibility in teaching, has primacy over the Church and led the Church with a firm and fatherly hand through the persecution where he and St Paul suffered Martyrdom.
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Homily #080528 (06min) Play – St Paul refers to Christ as the New Adam. The Church Fathers, specifically St Ireneus, made the connection that if Christ is the New Adam, Mary must be the New Eve, the Mother of all the living and the Coredemptrix. Ave Maria! +++
Homily #080510 (10min) Play – The belief in the existence of God is not a matter of faith – its a matter of reason. Therefore, we live in a world where people are not losing their faith – they are losing their minds, because in our world, the number of people who don’t believe in God in on the increase. Ave Maria! Mass readings +++
Homily #080509 (08min) Play – As we reflect on Paul’s apostolic journey, we can take courage in Paul’s example of keeping up the evangelical fight despite the problems caused by the Devil, the world, and the flesh. For, Paul had two advantages: men want God, and God wants the salvation of men. We have these same advantages.
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