Homily #080619 ( 24min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord gives us the Lord’s Prayer. Fr. Explains that the essence of the prayer is to ask God to help change us, where as the ‘babbling’ of the Pagans in their pantheism tries to teach God. He also covers the nature of forgiveness when heinous crimes are committed and there is a need to protect possible future victims. Ave Maria!? Mass readings
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Homily #081008 ( 13min) Play – Twenty-seventh Wednesday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo preaches on the request in the Gospel today, “Lord, teach us how to pray.” Father highlights the importance of prayer in our difficult times and the dispositions needed for prayer.
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Homily #090303 ( 06min) Play – True prayer is none other than a conversation with God Our Father. We give him the dispositions and affections of our heart and thank him for the wonderful things He has done for us.

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Homily #090618 ( 12min) Play – Fr. Angelo explains the Gospel reading of the right way to pray, whats wrong with the Pagan way of praying and what is the right with the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father.
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St. Dominic: Feast Day is August 8th

Tradition associates the origin of the Rosary with St. Dominic as you can see depicted in this painting but it was not exactly the Rosary as we know it today.

Dominic Guzman (1170-1221 AD) was a Spanish priest who in southern France encountered the Albegensian heresy. He was having great difficulty and not very successful in touching hard hearts. But when he began to preach the rosary, he had great success.  It was Our Lady’s special devotion and her intercession was strong with its praying.

Tradition tells us that in a vision Mary told him that he should pray the Marian Psalter along with his preaching. The Marian Psalter in the 12th century consisted only of 150 Hail Maries follows:

“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is

with thee, blessed art thou among

women and blessed is the fruit of

thy womb.”

It does not appear that the Our Father was part of the Marian Psalter but the Paternoster or the practice of praying 150 Our Fathers was the earliest way to pray the Psalter for the average person. So, Dominic along with preaching the mysteries of faith lead the people in praying a decade of the Marian Psalter. In this way the grace of God opened their hearts and he brought about many conversions.

The Rosary we have today was not directly given to St. Dominic by Mary. St. Dominic used the Marian Psalter along with his preaching. It was left to the Confraternity of the Rosary promoted by Blessed Alan de la Roche in about 1475 to think over the selection and order of Mysteries in association with the Aves and Paternosters. Since St. Dominic began this process, it is fitting to consider him as the originator of the Rosary.

Directions on how to pray the rosary can be found at http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm

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Homily #100515 ( 08min) Play – We must pray to the Father in Christ, and our prayers will be granted when in-accord with the Will of the Father and for the good of the Church; the Mystical Body of Christ.
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Homily #100725t ( 10min) Play – Today Fr. Tito goes trough the Lord’s prayer, the “Our Father” and breaks it down into seven parts, beginning with “…deliver us from evil.” We find in the “Our Father” different stages of the “Interior Castle”.
Ave Maria! 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gen 18:20-32
Resp: psa 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8
2nd: col 2:12-14
Gsp: luk 11:1-13

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Homily #120228 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the importance of the Our Father and how it takes the focus off ourselves and directs toward Our Lord and His will and the need to show mercy to others.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 1st Week of Lent – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 55:10-11
Resp: psa 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19
Gsp: mat 6:7-15

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Homily #120621 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the Our Father, the prayer given to us by Our Lord in today’s Gospel. We must praise God’s holiness and then we must ask him to make us holy.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Aloysius Gonzaga – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Thursday 11th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: sir 48:1-14
Resp: psa 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7
Gsp: mat 6:7-15

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Homily #121010 ( 05min) Play– Fr. Bonaventure explains the first prayer that addresses God as Our Father, the greatest of all prayers taught by Our Lord Himself.

Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Daniel and companions – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Wednesday in the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: gal 2:1-2, 7-14
Resp: psa 117:1, 2
Gsp: luk 11:1-4

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