Homily #121123b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the life of Bl. Miguel Pro and how he was martyred in Mexico during the great persecution that lead to the Cristeros War (1926-1929).
Ave Maria!
Mass: Bl. Miguel Agustin Pro – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Friday in the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: rev 10:8-11
Resp: psa 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131
Gsp: luk 19:45-48

Audio (MP3)

+++

The post Nov 23 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Bl. Miguel Pro Mexican Martyr first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Nov 23, 2019, on how Bl. Miguel Pro witnessed to Christ the King by offering up his life and thus living up to his Jesuit motto, “for the Greater Glory of God,” to the maximum.

Ave Maria!

Mass:  – Opt Mem
Readings:

1st: 1ma 6:1-13
Resp: psa 9:2-3, 4, 6, 16, 19 0
Gsp: luk 20:27-40

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1558

Also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/90378558559/videos/951295071919916
and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89T_ju8XdEg

The post For the Greater Glory of God – Nov 23 – Homily – Fr Ignatius first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Jesuit priest and martyr Blessed Miguel Pro Juarez is pictured just before his execution by firing squad Nov. 23, 1927, in Mexico.

From a letter written by Blessed Miguel Pro, priest and martyr:

We carry on like slaves. Jesus help me! There isn’t time to breathe, and I am up to my eyebrows in this business of feeding those who have nothing. And they are many—those with nothing. I assure you that I spin like a top from here to there with such luck as is the exclusive privilege of petty thieves. It doesn’t even faze me to receive such messages as: “The X Family reports that they are twelve members and their pantry is empty. Their clothing is falling off them in pieces, three are sick in bed and there isn’t even water.” As a rule my purse is as dry as Calles’s soul, but it isn’t worth worrying since the Procurator of Heaven is generous.

People give me valuable objects to raffle off, something worth ten pesos that I can sell for forty. Once I was walking along with a woman’s purse that was quite cute (the purse not the woman) when I met a wealthy woman all dolled up.

“What do you have there?”

“A lady’s purse worth twenty-five pesos. You can have it for fifty pesos which I beg you to send to such-and-such a family.”

I see God’s hand so palpably in everything that almost—almost I fear they won’t kill me in these adventures. That will be a fiasco for me who sighs to go to heaven and start tossing off arpeggios on the guitar with my guardian angel.

(Blessed Miguel Pro’s Feast Day is November 23rd)

The post Viva Cristo Rey! first appeared on AirMaria.com.