June 18, 2008
Jun 18 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Pray in Quiet
Homily #080618 ( 09min) Play - Do not pray, fast or do good works to get attention or you will be doing nothing pleasing to God. Rather go to a quiet room to…
April 1, 2009
Prayer Knocks, Fasting Obtains, Mercy Receives
Ave Maria Mediations Prayer, Fasting and Mercy by St. Peter Chrysologus There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and…
July 4, 2009
Jul 04 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: New Wine
Homily #090704 ( 07min) Play - Fr. Bonaventure explains today's Gospel that the fasting of the new testament will be done in the name of Christ and in conjunction with the sacraments and…
August 30, 2009
Aug 30 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Sin of Lip Service
Homily #090830 ( 20min) Play - In order to have faith we must do more than just lip service but do His will. Even the Pharisees who did many of the things that…
February 18, 2010
Feb 17 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Our Time Is Limited
Homily #100217 ( 08min) Play - How time flies, even in Lent. This time of penance comes and goes before we know it. Let us participate in the grace of Easter by participating…
February 22, 2010
On the Importance of Fasting
For nearly two thousand years, Catholics have read, re-read and reflected upon the great passage in the sixth chapter of the gospel of Matthew in which Jesus lays out the three essential practices…
March 10, 2010
Hymns 4 Lent
From Catholiques1 please view in 480p mode.~ In ieiunio et fletu orabant sacerdotes: parce Domine populo tuo, et ne des hereditatem tuam in perditionem. Inter vestibulum et altare plorabant sacerdotes dicentes: Parce populo…
February 20, 2012
Feb 20 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Prayer and Fasting
Homily #120220 ( 04min) Play - "This kind can only come out by prayer and fasting" - only by supernatural means can our conversion be achieved - therefore our own cooperation in that…
February 24, 2012
Feb 24 – Homily – Fr Angelo: The Spiritual Discipline of Fasting
Homily #120224 ( 10min) Play- Our motive of fasting is to do penance but we have to make room in our hearts for God. It is only God who can satisfy us - as we…
March 18, 2012
Mar 18 – Homily – Fr Tito: Conversion Another Chance
Homily #120318t ( 15min) Play - Grace is more powerful than human weakness, though we may start off wrong, God offers us another chance. Ave Maria! Mass: Sunday 4th Week of Lent -…
February 12, 2013
Feb 12 – Homily – Fr George: Lent – A Tradition of God
Homily #130212 ( 12min) Play - Fr. George reminds us today that if we do not keep the commandments of God, our worship is in vain. Lent, which starts tomorrow, is a time…
February 15, 2013
Feb 15 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Fasting
Homily #130215b ( 07min) Play - Fr. Joachim on the importance of fasting in the season of lent. Fasting is for doing penance for sins and to mortify the flesh. But he says…
February 15, 2013
Feb 15 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: That Fasting Which is in Vain
Homily #130215 ( 05min) Play - Fr. Ignatius preaches over today's lesson and points out that if we approach Lenten penance without interior conversion and in a self-willed manner then our fasting is…