Homily #081103s ( 24min) Play – On this eve of the Presidential Election Fr. Angelo preaches for the opening Mass of the All Night Prayer Vigil at the Griswold friary for a Pro-Life victory against all odds. But he also calls us to hope, be at peace, free of anxiety regardless of the outcome and this is true faith. He outlines the moral issues and how the gravity of abortion completely overrides the issues of the war in Iraq, capital punishment and certainly overrides the economic issues. Catholics have the power and moral responsibility to stop abortion this election. It is most doable, but do we want to???? In these most important and ominous times let us pray for America and the world. Let us pray to Our Lord. Let us pray to Our Lady of America.
Ave Maria!
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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Nov 11, 2020, on how Christians should obey the authorities in their land in all things that are not contrary to God’s law.

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Mass: St. Martin of Tours – Mem
Readings: Wednesday in the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/111120.cfm
1st: tit 3:1-7
Resp: psa 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6 0
Gsp: luk 17:11-19

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The fortitude and conviction of the first Christians is what our Lord is also asking from His followers today, when, in certain environments, there breathes a climate of indifference or even direct attack, more or less veiled, on true human and Christian values. A well formed conscience will lead a Christian to be as law-abiding as the best of his fellow citizens, at the same time as he is ready to take a stand against anything contrary to the natural law. The state is not juridically omnipotent; it is not the source of good and evil.

It is an obligation for Catholics who are present in political institutions to exercise a critical role within their respective institutions so that their programs and activities correspond every day more to the aspirations and criteria of Christian morality. In some cases it would even be obligatory to object in conscience to activities or decisions that go directly contrary to some precept of Christian morality.

The effective protection of fundamental individual rights, the right to life from the very first moment of conception, the protection of marriage and the family…  All form part of the common good for which Christians should be prepared to fight. Passivity in the face of such important affairs would really be a lamentable error and omission. They would form part of the sins of omission… The Christian should not leave his faith aside in any circumstance.

Fr. Francis Fernandez

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