Homily #120213 ( 08min) Play – When we constantly seek signs, we show that we lack faith. God is always here in the midst of our darkness, though unseen He is always protecting His Holy Church.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Monday 6th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jam 1:1-11
Resp: psa 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76
Gsp: mar 8:11-13

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Homily #120118 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the need to trust God and pray to Him in the small things as well as big things in our life.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1sa 17:32-33, 37, 40-51
Resp: psa 144:1, 2, 9-10
Gsp: mar 3:1-6

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Homily #110304 ( 10min) Play – God will protect us in good times and in bad as long as we pray.  Pray that we do not  imitate the Chosen People of old, in that they have lost their trust in God and have become materialistic.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Casimir – Optional Memorial – Form:
Readings: Friday 8th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: sir 44:1, 9-13
Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9
Gsp: mar 11:11-26

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Homily #110215 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the Gospel today where Our Lord admonishes the disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Father explains that He is referring to their errors which is worldly utilitarian wisdom and how we should rather put our trust in God.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 6th Week of Ordinary Time – – Form:
Readings:
1st: gen 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 10
Resp: psa 29:1-2, 3-4, 8, 9-10
Gsp: mar 8:14-21

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Homily #101112 ( 09min) Play – We need to put our trust in the providence of God and not look back to our comfort zone to the things we are familiar with and know.

Ave Maria!

Mass: OF – Memorial, St. Josaphat, Martyr

Readings: Friday in the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: 2jo 1:4-9
Resp: psa 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
Gsp: luk 17:26-37

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Homily #100905 ( 35 min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us that we must love Him above all things and be well prepared in our engagement with the world. He tells us this in the form of two parables, the building of the tower and the king who contemplates going into battle. Fr. Bonaventure explains this in the context of Catholic action, where our preparation consists in building up our love of, and trust in, God who has forces vastly stronger than the enemy and that action starts with prayer and contemplation and only secondarily with physical action. Father also outlines the many ways that we are in true, open and explicit battle with the modern culture and philosophy, always relating it back to its spiritual nature.
Ave Maria! 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 9:13-18
Resp: psa 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17
2nd: phm 1:9-10, 12-17
Gsp: luk 14:25-33

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Homily #100817 ( 08min) Play – It is difficult for a rich man to enter Heaven because of the trust that he has in his wealth.
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 20th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eze 28:1-10
Resp: deu 32:26-27, 27-28, 30, 35-36
Gsp: mat 19:23-30

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Homily #100407 ( 03min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord appears to the apostles for the third time and suddenly they catch a big load of fish. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to trust in the Lord that He will provide for our needs, despite our deficiencies, especially He will give us the true Bread from Heaven in the Eucharist.
Ave Maria! Easter Wednesday – Mass: EF, Venite – Readings: 1st: act 3:13-15, 17-19 – Gsp: joh 21:1-14

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Mary is the Peace-maker between Sinners and God.

STORY
In Braganza there was a young man, who, after giving up the confraternity, abandoned himself to so many crimes that one day, in despair, he went to drown himself in a river; but before doing so, he addressed our Blessed Lady, saying: “O Mary, I once served you in the confraternity; help me.”  The most Blessed Virgin appeared to him and said:  “Yes, and now what are you going to do?  Do you wish to lose yourself both in soul and body?  Go, confess your sins, and rejoin the confraternity.”  The young man, encouraged hereby, thanked the Blessed Virgin, and changed his life.

PRAYER
O my most sweet Lady, since your office is, as William of Paris says, that of a mediatress between God and sinners, I will address you in the words of St Thomas of Villanova; “Fulfil your office in my behalf, O tender advocate; do your work.  Say not that my cause is too difficult to gain; for I know, and all tell me so, that every cause, no matter how desperate, if undertaken by you, is never, and never will be, lost.  And will mine be lost?  Ah no, this I cannot fear.  The only thing that I might fear is, that, on seeing the multitude of my sins, you might not undertake my defence.  But, on seeing your immense mercy, and the very great desire of your most sweet heart to help the most abandoned sinners, even this I cannot fear.  And who was ever lost that had recourse to you?  Therefore I invoke your aid, O my great advocate, my refuge, my hope, my mother Mary.  To your hands do I entrust the cause of my eternal salvation.  To you do I commit my soul; it was lost, but you have to save it.  I will always thank our Lord for having given me this great confidence in you; and which, notwithstanding my unworthiness, I feel is an assurance of salvation.  I have but one fear to afflict me, O beloved Queen, and that is, that I may one day, by my own negligence, lose this confidence in you.  And therefore I implore you, O Mary, by the love you bear to Jesus, yourself to preserve and increase in me more and more this sweet confidence in your intercession, by which I hope most certainly to recover the divine friendship, that I have up to now so madly despised and lost; and having recovered it, I hope, through you, to preserve it; and preserving it by the same means, I hope at length to thank you for it in heaven, and there to sing God’s mercies and yours for all eternity.  Amen.  This is my hope; thus may it be, thus will it be.