Homily #090711ms ( 15 min) Play – St. Veronica “consecrated herself to Our Lady and she sought to become a living image of Our Lady…so close was the similarity between St. Veronica and Our Blessed Lady that they were almost interchangeable…”
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Homily #090714m ( 05min) Play – Sorry, this is so late.  Fr. John Joseph explains that great spiritual gifts come with great spiritual responsibility as it did for St. Francis of Solano.
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Homily #090719m ( 14 min) Play – Father speaks of the necessity of rest and recreation.  As St. Gregory of Nazianzen says, “a cord connot endure constant tension, and an archer needs to loosen the ends of a bow if he wants to be able to draw it again later on.”  Father also comments that we must not become forgetful of God during this rest and recreation as many often do.

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Homily #090720m ( 7 min) Play – Father John Joseph speaks about how we can’t tell God what He should do for us, but rather we should ask God for our needs as we would ask a father, knowing that He loves us.

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Homily #090720ms ( 13min) Play – Our sanctity is always through the intervention of Our Lady and Father explains how this was the case with Jerome Emiliani.  As Saint Bonaventure said, “I’ve never heard of a saint who did not have devotion to Our Lady, and I’ve never heard of a great saint that did not have a great devotion to Our Lady.”

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Homily #090722m ( 13min) Play – She washed Our Lord’s feet with her tears and wiped His feet with her hair. What a privileged and  beautiful Saint is our Saint Mary Magdalen!
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Homily #090725m ( 10min) Play – In today’s Gospel, the mother of St. James and St. John ambitiously sought for her sons the glory of sitting at Christ’s left and right in His Kingdom.  However, Our Lord teaches that true glory consists in being like God in self-sacrificing Love and Humility.  We need to imitate Him Who gave His very last drop of Blood for us, Who humbly hid himself as a child in Bethlehem, and hides himself in the Eucharist.
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Homily #090729m ( 08min) Play – Father gives some very helpful counsels on hospitality, explaining that the most important part of hospitality is the dialogue with the person visiting.  

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Homily #090731m ( 14min) Play – Father gives a short description of the life and conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola.  His can be a comforting story for many of us who used to live lives contrary to the Gospel.
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Homily #090806m ( 10min) Play – We need to unite our sufferings with Christ.  When we are suffering, it is helpful to consider how are our sufferings like Christ’s or like Our Lady’s.
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