January 16, 2017
Jan 16 – Homily – Fr Matthias: True Friars Minor – St. Berard & Companion Protomartyrs
St. Francis called St. Berard and his fellow martyrs true Friars Minor - they humbled themselves to the point of imitating Christ's ultimate sacrifice on the Cross, and thus perfectly fulfilled their…
January 17, 2017
Jan 17 – Homily – Fr Alan: Radical Choice – Follow Jesus to Life or Perish with the World
St. Anthony Abbot gave up all to follow Christ. This is the perennial option placed before Christians, the choice: Christ or the world. One can answer the call in many ways, but…
January 23, 2017
Jan 23 – Homily – Fr Matthias: The Family Formed By God Himself
Mary and Joseph were united together by true, though virginal, marriage. God Himself wanted it that way, to be born in a family based on holy matrimony. Ave Maria! Mass: Espousal of…
January 30, 2017
Jan 30 – Homily – Fr Matthias: Fraternal Correction
St. Hyacinth's conversion was owed to her courageous confessor who was able to reproach her for her unedifying way of living her Franciscan vocation. Had this saintly priest hesitated in his duty…
February 7, 2017
Feb 07 – Homily – Fr Alan: The Fruitful Virginity of St. Colette
The virgin St. Colette stands as an example of womanly purity for the sake of the Kingdom of God, especially in our age of immodesty. With her renunciation of self and of the…
February 13, 2017
Feb 13 – Homily – Fr Matthias: Generosity Makes the Sacrifice Acceptable
What made Abel's sacrifice preferable in the eyes of God was most of all the spirit of generosity with which it was offered. The lack of this spirit was what made the…
February 14, 2017
Feb 14 – Homily – Fr Alan: True Love – Conversion to God
On the day our neo-pagan culture goes ga-ga for romantic love to the point of immorality (once a religious feast dedicated to St. Valentine, bishop & martyr), three months from the Centennial…
February 20, 2017
Feb 20 – Homily – Fr Matthias: Casting Out Modern-Day Devils with Bls. Jacinta & Francisco
Our Lady's repeated call to penance and prayer makes us think that today's devils cannot be cast out in any other way. Blesseds Francisco and Jacinta, child seers of Fatima, are examples…
February 21, 2017
Feb 21 – Homily – Fr Alan: St. Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah & Today’s Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal
Roughly 1,000 years have passed since St. Peter Damian graced the Church with his fiery wisdom. The Church today can and should profit from his Liber Gomorrhianus, a fearless treatise on the…
February 27, 2017
Feb 27 – Homily – Fr Matthias: God Wants Our Love, Without Measure
The loving gaze of Jesus filled the rich young man with sadness, because he was not willing to love back and give everything. May the loving gaze of Jesus free us from…