Jul 15 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Love of God and Man
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Homily #120715 (
33min) Play - Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the integrated Catholic view of creation where God creates with a plan for sanctifying the world. This is the mission that Jesus sends His apostles out to accomplish in today's Gospel reading. They go out two by two in order to highlight the need to love of our fellow man as well as to love God. This balance of loving both God and man is key to avoiding the liberal, modernist extreme of the secular mentality where we think man can do all things by himself, forgetting about God and also to avoid the opposite conservative, traditionalist extreme where God does all things for us and we forget about all human considerations. These extremes are two forms of Gnosticism that places reliance of some sort of knowledge that reinterprets the Gospel in some way other than the timeless interpretation of the Magisterium. We must, in other words, place Christ's teaching (as guaranteed by the pope) above our own half-baked ideas.Ave Maria!
Mass: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday - Form: OF
Readings:
1st: amo 7:12-15
Resp: psa 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14
2nd: eph 1:3-14
Gsp: mar 6:7-13
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Once again, I thank God for this website, and the Franciscans of the Immaculate. And thank Him again for the true teachings of the Church that come from AirMaria.
I live in an area where gnostic pride far too often prevails here in the Church, and stunning it truly is, to hear them expediently swing from liberal to conservative, at times working together to leave no millstone, if you will, untied.
Well then, to make an analogy using one of my all-time favourite sports, one that is affectionately known in your country as “America’s Pastime” — Fr. Dominic loaded the bases, and Fr. Bonaventure has just hit yet another grand slam home run. “The Iron Horse” of Homilies! 🙂
Excuse me, Fathers. Sometimes it’s difficult to remember, when surrounded by so much dark and deceptive gnosticism, that the “home team” just can’t lose. 🙂 Yet not because we have the strongest and most naturally gifted players, but rather because our home team will always have the most heart — the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts, to be sure! And the Pure Unadulterated Good News. Now that’s what brings true joy. 🙂
Thank you, Franciscans of the Immaculate. Viva il Papa!!!
Ave Maria!