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Anti-Catholicism Fr. Jacinto Griswold, CT Homily Persecution Saints

January 21, 2017

Jan 21 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Crazy, Excessive Love

Jesus' relatives did not understand His crazy, excessive love, and thought he was "out of his mind". He is still not understood and neither are his followers, like the martyr St. Agnes…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia Homily

January 21, 2017

Jan 21 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St. Agnes, Holy Example

Fr. Ignatius for the retreat titled "Universal Call to Holiness" gives the second homily where he presents St Agnes, virgin and martyr, as a great example for her willingness to go out and give everything…

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Fr. Angelo Geiger Griswold, CT Homily

May 21, 2017

May 21 – Homily – Fr Angelo: We are Not Orphans, But Witnesses

Today's Gospel links love and obedience, and this is fingernails on chalkboard, Fr. Angelo tells us, to the modern world enamoured with rights without obligations and love without commitment. The words of…

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Fr. Alan Wharton Homily New Bedford, MA

June 5, 2017

Jun 05 – Homily – Fr Alan: No Comparing Terrorists to Martyrs

Christian martyrs suffer violence for the sake of truth and charity, in witness to faith and love. Misappropriating the word from its Christian origin, secular media sometimes attribute the title of "martyr"…

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Fr. Alan Wharton Homily New Bedford, MA

July 3, 2017

Jul 03 – Homily – Fr Alan: From Doubting to Daring, St. Thomas Apostle

It wasn't only St. Thomas who initially doubted, but in particular, his refusal to believe and subsequent confession of faith serves for us as an especially emphatic affirmation of the invisible truth…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Josemaria Barbin Homily

July 6, 2017

Jul 06 – Homily – Fra Josemaria: St. Maria Goretti & the Paralytic

Fra Jose Maria on the life of St. Maria Goretti and the strength that she received from her faith in Christ and love of Him and how she overcame evil. Jesus alone is…

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Fr. Alan Wharton Homily New Bedford, MA

July 25, 2017

Jul 25 – Homily – Fr Alan: Martyrs Live the Passion of the Church

St. James the Apostle, special friend of Christ Jesus and companion even in the Garden of Gethsemane, was the first of the Apostles to die for the faith. The Church, through the…

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Fr. Maximilian Warnisher Homily New Bedford, MA

August 9, 2017

Aug 09 – Homily – Fr Maximilian W: St. Teresa Benedicta & the Woman’s Great Faith

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, aka Edith Stein, was a woman of great faith, like the woman in today's Gospel. The question is: do we have such faith, to put all…

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Fr. Alan Wharton Homily New Bedford, MA

August 14, 2017

Aug 14 – Homily – Fr Alan: St. Maximilian, Antidote to Culture of Death

Marty of charity and "fool of love for the Immaculate," St. Maximilian exemplified priestly imitation of Christ, and in the midst of the Auschwitz death camp, shone with the light of Christ…

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Fr. Maximilian Warnisher Homily New Bedford, MA

August 29, 2017

Aug 29 – Homily: Be Not Afraid to Proclaim the Truth

St. John the Baptist, whose martyrdom we celebrate today, lived and died as a witness to the Savior. We, too, are called to live so faithfully that the example of our life…

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Fr. Matthias Sasko Homily New Bedford, MA

September 19, 2017

Sep 19 – Homily – Scripture and Clerical Celibacy

In the New Testament, we know that bishops, priests, and deacons were allowed to marry. But we also know that married clergy had the obligation to live with their wives as if…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia Homily

November 22, 2017

Nov 22 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Pray for Intimacy with God

Fr. Ignatius on the need to pray to God in order to grow closer to Him as God Himself wants. He uses today's saint, St. Cecilia, as an example of such unifying…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Josemaria Barbin Homily

November 24, 2017

Nov 24 – Homily – Fr Josemaria: Called to Daily Cross

Fr. Josemaria peaches on the martyrdom of St. Andre Dung Lac and his companions. He focuses on the essence of martyrdom which is the willingness to take up our cross daily in the…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Josemaria Barbin Homily

November 30, 2017

Nov 30 – Homily – Fr Josemaria: St. Andrew – Love of the Cross

Fr. Josemaria on the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle outlines what is know of his life from the Gospels and from tradition. He went to evangelize the Greeks and was martyred…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia Homily

December 13, 2017

Dec 13 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St. Lucy, Light of Love

Fr. Ignatius on St. Lucy's great love for God despite facing persecution and the ultimate sacrifice of a martyr. This shows that no power on earth that can stop us from loving…

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