Homily #131120n ( 07min) Play – Father Maximilian explains for us the historical background of the parable of the Stewards and the Talents, and then reminds us that we too have received much from God, and He expects return on His investment.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 33rd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 2ma 7:1, 20-31
Resp: psa 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15
Gsp: luk 19:11-28

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Homily #131212n ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo gives us the historical context Our Lady appeared in, and contrasts Her, who called herself Tender Mother, with the demonic mother deity of the Aztecs, Coatlicue. This miraculous intervention of Our Lady brought peace into Mexico and the bloody Aztecs to Christ in stupendous numbers. Finally, Father points out that the continuing miracle of the Tilma shows the continuing intervention Our Lady is making for the Americas’ and that She, the “Star of the New Evangelization” is the solution to the darkness that is again falling over the New World. May we look to Her as our model and beg Her to crush the head of the dragon again in our own age.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: zec 2:14-17
Resp: jth 13:22-23
2nd: rev 11:19, 12:1-6a,10
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Conferences #245 – ( 41min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Fr. Elias gives the first talk in our 2014 Family Retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN. This series of talks is called “The Joy of the Gospel” based on Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter. Here he talks on the importance for all to participate in evangelization and how we are to do it.

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Conferences #246 – ( 42min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Fr. Elias gives the second talk for our 2014 Family Retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN. This series of talks is called “The Joy of the Gospel” based on Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter. Here he talks on how we all have a right to receive the joy that the Gospel can give. We should present the faith in this way, as something joyful that the one who is being evangelized has a right to have and live our lives to show how our devotion brings us joy.

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Conferences #247 – ( 49min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Fr. Elias gives the third talk for our 2014 Family Retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN. This series of talks is called “The Joy of the Gospel” based on Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter. Here he talks on the need to have Christian joy at mass, both the priests and the laity, and how we should prepare for Mass. This is necessary because we have so many distractions in our modern, electronic world that can very much steal all our attention. As we prepare for the homily better (again, both priests and laity) we will get more from them.

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Homily #140227n ( 06min) Play – Our Lord asks, “Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor?” Likewise, Christians are good, but only if they maintain their “flavor.” This means the universal Christian apostolate of seeking our salvation as well as our neighbors’, which means we must beware of the corrupting force of the world and actively fighting against it. The Second Vatican Council tells us, “… the member who fails to make his proper contribution to the development of the Church must be said to be useful neither to the Church nor to himself.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: Thursday 7th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jam 5:1-6
Resp: psa 49:14-15, 15-16, 17-18, 19-20
Gsp: mar 9:41-50

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Conferences #248 – ( 57min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

The fourth talk for our 2014 Family Retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN is given by Fr. Elias. This series of talks is called “The Joy of the Gospel” based on Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter. Here he talks on the social teaching of the Church as it reflects on the family and then on how Mary plays a role in how the family should spread the Gospel.

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Homily #140426n ( 05min) Play – In today’s Gospel, Father comments that all the Apostles were witnesses of the Resurrection of the Lord, and they witnessed to the Resurrection by their lives and preaching. We too, have the received the news of the Resurrection, and, we too, must witness to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by our lives.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday of Easter Week – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 4:13-21
Resp: psa 118:1, 14-15, 16-18, 19-21
Gsp: mar 16:9-15

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Homily #140629n ( 17min) Play – On the Solemnity of St. Peter and Paul, Father Louis Maximilian recounts the trials, efforts and dangers they endured to fulfill Our Lord’s command to “preach the Gospel to all people.” As a modern example, he presents the successor of St. Peter, Pope St. John Paul II, and reminds us that the Holy Father is the guaranty that the faith we profess is the same St. Peter confessed. Finally, Father reminds us that we all, clergy, religious, and laity, are also missionaries and have been sent. We have wasted time till now, let us start anew, striving so that we may say with St. Paul, “poured out like a libation … I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sts. Peter and Paul – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 12:1-11
Resp: psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: 2ti 4:6-8, 17-18
Gsp: mat 16:13-19

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Homily #140810n ( 18min) Play – Father reminds us today of two fundamental dogmas of the Faith we must implant deep in our hearts. Firstly, outside of Christ, there is no salvation, and, secondly, the Church is the body of Christ, therefore, without the Church, there is no salvation. While making necessary distinctions about the invincibly ignorant, Father asks whether most people will go to heaven, he quotes the exegete Cornelius a Lapide who gives the examples of Sodom, the Flood, and the Entry into the Promised Land. Out of Sodom, only Lot and his two daughters survived. Out of the flood, only eight people survived. And out of the 600,000 Isrealites who left Egypt, only two entered the Promised Land. In our age awash with impurity and sin, let us strive to keep ourselves unsoiled and wake up to the need and our duty to evangelize and bring as many people as possible into the Catholic Church, which is the mystical Body of Christ.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Lawrence – Patronal Solemnity (of parish) – Form: OF
Readings: 
First Reading: Second Corinthians 9:6-10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9
Gospel: John 12:24-26

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