Homily #080603 ( 10min) Play – Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s. In this segment Fr. Bonaventure gives a homily on the meaning of Our Lord’s counsel to give to authority: “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” but, then give your all to God.
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Homily #080629 ( 22min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger, FI preaches the homily on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul focusing on the primacy of Peter and how he and his successors are the authoritative head of the Church and how Paul as the main preacher to the Gentiles represents the missionary spirit of the Church. Both Peter and Paul were martyred on this day as a sign to us of the need for unity of both authority and evangelical spirit in order to bring conversion to the true faith.

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Homily #080725 ( 14min) Play – Today we celebrate the Feast of St. James the Apostle, and the 40th anniversary of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae. In today’s homily Father Ignatius speaks about our disordered desire for independence from authority, and the nature of the Married State in relation to the Church’s teaching against contraception.
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Homily #081003s ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the importance of miracles in establishing the authority of the apostles in order to spread faith in Christ.
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This whole matter of making our lives a ‘Mass’ can be simplified (with anything but an oversimplification”) by the one word: obedience.

Jesus Christ did not redeem mankind by suffering. Jesus Christ did not repair the shattered fabric of creation by dying. Jesus Christ did not reconcile sinful man with the all-holy God by thorns, scourge, nails, or lance. Jesus Christ re-created the universe by obedience; or, better still, by love – for what is obedience in root, stem, and flower but love for the one commanding?

“The Father loves me,” said Christ, “because I lay down my life, and he wills that I should take it back again. No one can rob me of it. No, I lay it down of my own will. I have the power to lay it down, and power to take it back again. Such is the charge I have received from my Father” (Jn.10:18). Love, then, expressed in obedience, is fullest explanation of Christ’s-Mass – and of yours.

You obey God best when you per­form every duty of your state in life simply because it is God’s will for you. So the mother at the washing machine or at the ironing board; the wife at the sink over the dishes or at the stove over the meat for the table; the husband and father at his desk, bench, or wherever he works; the single person tidying his or her room: all are obeying God; for each is performing some duty of his or her state in life. Each, then, has all that is required to make their lives Mass – and thus bring themselves to holiness. For as Lacordaire said: “Duty done spells sanctity.”

Who could doubt it when he realizes that obedience is love; love a union of wills; and sanctity a share in the life of God which Christ won for us by so loving the Father as to do His Will? Hence, love is shown best by “doing always the things that please Him” – the duties of one’s state in life. This simplification not only clarifies Christ’s Mass for you, but shows you your position in life most clearly.

(For a priest) this simplification not only clarifies Christ’s Mass for you, but shows you your position in life most clearly: you are mediator Dei et hominum (1 Tim 2: 5) – a priest, a mediator between God and men – at every hour of the day and night so long as you live on earth. “Every priest is chosen from among men and ap­pointed to serve men in what concerns the worship of God. He is to offer gifts and sacrifices in expiation of sins” (Heb 5: 1). That is St. Paul’s description of the high-priestly office. It can be, and should be, applied by you to your office as participator in the priesthood of Christ.

The “gifts and sacrifices” you are to offer are the duties of your state in life. Once you come to understand just what the word “sacrifice” means, you will come to see that anything and everything that comprises your life and its duties is matter for Sacrifice.

Fr. Raymond O.C.S.O. from This is Love (on making Mass our life and our lives lived as a Mass)

So often people will say that they do not have to follow ‘rules’ to be spiritual because they love God and they know He loves them and that He will not condemn them.  They maintain that they are ‘spiritual’ but on their own terms.  Yet proof of love is shown in obedience:  obedience to God’s laws and to the laws of the Holy Catholic Church and to the responsibilities and duties of our state in life.  In the Gospel Jesus Himself tells us that if we do truly love Him, we will keep His commands. And He left His authority on earth in His Church through His Vicar, the Pope.  The ‘keys’ He granted to St Peter, the first Pope, are a sign of that authority. And throughout these many centuries, the lives of saints have shown us that holiness is only lived in obedience.

What our Holy Father has to say now is for our most serious consideration and for our obedience.

Hebrews 5:8-9 : And whereas indeed He was the Son of God, He learned obedience by the things which He suffered…

And being consummated, He became, to all that obey Him, the cause of eternal salvation.

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Homily #100114 ( 06min) Play – St. Hilary of Poitiers fought the heresy of Arianism in his time. He did this by being true to the Magisterium. As the Catechism says:

Par 85 “The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone. Its authority in this matter is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ.” This means that the task of interpretation has been entrusted to the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome.

This simple policy guarantees that we won’t fall into error of personal interpretation whether of scripture as the Protestants do or of Tradition as the ultra Traditionalists do.

Ave Maria! St. Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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The Catekids #3 – The Catekids pray with their parents for all those in authority ( 11min) >>> Play

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The Catekids are back with the Fourth Commandment, Honor Your Father and Your Mother. They cover all the various aspects of this important commandment of God, including obeying our parents, our government and our Church and praying for those who are placed over us. Baltimore Catechism 4th Commandment. Cf. CCC 4th Commandment. To contact the Catekids: catekids1@gmail.com

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Homily #100620t ( 06min) Play – As we grow up we learn to appreciate authority. Obedience is love.
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Homily #100704 ( 22min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord sends Seventy-two of His disciples out to preach and heal. Fr. Bonaventure explains that 72 has symbolic meaning referring to hierarchy around Moses and the Sanhedrin who have authority over the people of God. When Jesus sends out the disciples it is to extend the kingdom of God to push back the kingdom of Satan. Today we are all called to do the same at a time when the kingdom of Satan is on the march.
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Homily #100801 ( 14min) Play – Fr Angelo preaches on the Gospel which today is the parable of the publican and the pharisee who pray in the Synagogue. Father gives the context of the parable which is the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who accused Jesus of breaking the sabbath but then broke it themselves by plotting His death on the the Sabbath. He compares this to  the failures of people in authority today both in the Church and in society as a whole and how this causes cynicism against all authority especially in regard to fatherhood that is increasingly put down in today’s society. But cynicism is not the answer for we will be judged on our own merits and focusing on others’ faults as the Pharisee did in the parable will bring a similar judgment upon us.
Ave Maria! Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Cum Clamarem – Readings:
1st: 1co 12:2-11
Gsp: luk 18:9-14

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