Homily #100916 ( 12min) Play – Preaching on the account of Mary Magdalen’s washing of Christ’s feet in the house of the Pharisees where Our Lord responds to the indignant hosts by giving a parable of the two debtors, Fr Dominic explains the need to have depth to our love of God. He gives fourteen things we can ask ourselves taken from the City of God by Mary Agreda to determine if we have this depth:

1. Do I think about God a lot?
2. Am I inclined to do God’s commandments?
3. Am I afraid to offend God?
4. Am I Grieved by sin?
5. Do I rejoice at the good?
6. Do I love to speak of God?
7. Do I delight in the presence of God?
8. Does not thinking of God displease me?
9. Do I love what God likes and hate what he hates?
10. Do I strive to bring everyone to God?
11. Do I pray with confidence?
12. Are we grateful to God?
13. Do I use God’s gifts to good use?
14. Do I strive to control the passions?

Ave Maria! Sts Cornelius and Cyprian – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1: 1 Cor 15:1-11
R: Ps 118:1-2,16-17,28
G: Lk 7:36-50

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Ave Maria! Merry Christmas

1. Once in royal David’s city

Stood a lowly cattle shed,

Where a mother laid her Baby

In a manger for His bed:

Mary was that mother mild,

Jesus Christ her little Child.

2. He came down to earth from heaven,

Who is God and Lord of all,

And His shelter was a stable,

And His cradle was a stall;

With the poor, and mean, and lowly,

Lived on earth our Savior holy.

3. And through all His wondrous childhood

He would honor and obey,

Love and watch the lowly maiden,

In whose gentle arms He lay:

Christian children all must be

Mild, obedient, good as He.

4. For he is our childhood’s pattern;1

Day by day, like us He grew;

He was little, weak and helpless,

Tears and smiles like us He knew;

And He feeleth for our sadness,

And He shareth in our gladness.

5. And our eyes at last shall see Him,

Through His own redeeming love;

For that Child so dear and gentle

Is our Lord in heaven above,

And He leads His children on

To the place where He is gone.

6. Not in that poor lowly stable,

With the oxen standing by,

We shall see Him; but in heaven,

Set at God’s right hand on high;

Where like stars His children crowned

All in white shall wait around.

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