Homily #120613 ( 05min) Play – Fr. John Lawrence preaches on the feast of St. Anthony, describing him as a great miracle worker and preacher, but his greatest miracle is his ongoing humility.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: wis 7:7-14
Resp: psa 40:3-4, 10-11, 17
2nd: eph 4:7, 11-15
Gsp: mar 16:15-20

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Homily #120905b ( 06min) Play – Fr. John Lawrence on how we need to see by faith that ministers are working for God and we should be seeking God and not aligning ourselves with a particular minister.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday in the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1co 3:1-9
Resp: psa 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21
Gsp: luk 4:38-44

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Homily #120907 ( 00min) Play– “Why aren’t your disciples fasting?” They already have the bridegroom so they don’t need to fast. They are already united to Jesus so they need the new wine poured into them which is the wine of the Holy Spirit – a spiritual wine.  Let us by means of fasting unite ourselves more closely to the Lord and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Ordinary Form – Friday in the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Readings:
1st Reading: 1Corinthians 4:1-5
Responsorial Psalm: 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40
Gospel: Luke 5:33-39

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A Day With Mary #73 – ( 09min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

“May the sepulchre mark a beginning, not an end”: Homily by Fr J Lawrence. A Day With Mary Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.
Saturday 20 April 2013. http://www.adaywithmary.org

Ave Maria!

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Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on Jan 21, 2023, on how many people see the logic of faith as complete madness. He uses the example of the family of Jesus, related in today’s gospel, and of St. Francis and of St. Agnes, the saint of the day who seemed to have thrown away her life for the love of God and … eternal life.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Agnes – Mem
Readings: Saturday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/012123.cfm
1st: heb 9:2-3, 11-14
Resp: psa 47:2-3, 6-9
Gsp: mar 3:20-21

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Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jan 23, 2023, the feast of the Espousal of Mary to St. Joseph. He covers the history of the feast, the biblical record of the marriage, and the reasons for marriage despite her perpetual virginity given by theologians and saints.

Notes:
The fact that she was married to Joseph
Why she got married.
Bl. Bartolo Longo Joseph was prepared in absolute purity for this virginal marriage to protect Mary.
Three reasons of St Jerome:
1 – Geneology can come through Joseph
2 – Protect her reputation and life from being stoned
3 – Flight to Egypt, she would have solace and protection.
St Ignatius – that his birth will be hidden from the devil, hide the fact that she was still a virgin, thus hiding his identity.
Devil’s attempt to discern who Jesus was.
God’s plan to undo the knot of disobedience of Eve, a married virgin, was to undo it in a reverse way by the obedience of another virgin.

Ave Maria!

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Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jan 26, 2023, memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, gives an account of the lives of these two early bishops of the Church and the key features that made them such great pastors, and finally, how they ended their lives in martyrdom.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Sts. Timothy and Titus – Mem
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/012623.cfm
1st: 2ti 1:1-8
Resp: psa 96:1-3, 7-8, 10
Gsp: luk 10:1-9

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Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Feb 01, 2023, on how the rejection of Jesus in his own home town of Nazareth is actually a sign of his being a prophet and that sometimes God uses failures to raise us up to greater holiness, and that misfortune or seeming lack of blessing is God’s way of disciplining his beloved sons to grow to greater fulfilment in holiness. By turning to Mary, especially through consecration, these chastisements are much sweeter, and more fruitful.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Wednesday 4th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/02012023.cfm
1st: heb 12:4-7, 11-15
Resp: psa 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18
Gsp: mar 6:1-6

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Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Feb 04, 2023, on how Jesus is the Good Shepherd who gives his sheep rest in green pastures so that there is nothing we should want. He then covers the life of St. Joseph of Leonessa a Franciscan preacher.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Joseph of Leonessa – Opt Mem
Readings: Saturday 4th Week of Ordinary Time – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/020423.cfm
1st: heb 13:15-17, 20-21
Resp: psa 23:1-6
Gsp: mar 6:30-34

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Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Feb 07, 2023, on how following the ten commandments is what is important in the Old Testament as opposed to the ritual law. He relates this to the extraordinary life of St Colette of Corbie, who led a reform of the Poor Clares.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Colette of Corbie – Opt Mem
Readings: Tuesday 5th Week of Ordinary Time – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/020723.cfm
1st: gen 1:20-2:4
Resp: psa 8:4-9
Gsp: mar 7:1-13

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