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Aug 10 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Jesus Walks on Water

apostolate — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:52:16 +0000

Homily #080810 ( 28min) Play – On this 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Fr. Angelo preaches on the miracle of Our Lord walking on the water. Listen as Father explains how Peter’s faltering when he tries to join Our Lord points to the need for us to work on our own faith and sanctity.
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Fi News – Live Broadcasts Coming-Up

apostolate — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:20:35 +0000

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We are busily working out the bugs for doing live streaming on a more routine basis for events here at the friary and in the field. We hope to be doing daily broadcasts of the morning Mass. For this reason we have not given much advanced notice of our upcoming live broadcasts since we are still in the experimental stage. This effort will require some purchasing of equipment so please be generous in this Lenten Season by pressing the donate button in the top of the right hand sidebar, Thank you.

Upcoming events:

Wednesday, March 25, 7pm, Missa Cantata Latin Mass:

We will be having a live broadcast tonight at 7pm Eastern for the Missa Cantata at our friary here in celebration of the Feast of The Annunciation, which the FIs are celebrating as a Solemnity.

Friday, March 27, Fr. Paul Check of Courage:

St. Patrick’s Church in Providence, RI. Link to map: Click Here. Fr. Paul N. Check, nationally known speaker and incoming Executive Director of Courage, International for Mass, followed by a discussion about: “Courage, the Cross, and Same Sex Attraction: What Does the Catholic Church Really Teach About Homosexuality?” Broadcast depends on internet availability at the site.

Saturday, March 28, 3-8pm, Prolife Youth Conferernce:

Prolife Youth Conference at the St. Micheal’s Gym at the Holy Family Academy in Baltic, CT. Many dynamic speakers from the area covering a wide number of subjects on how to be a pro-life evangelist. Broadcast depends on internet availability at the event.

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Video – Roving Reporter #71: Courage with Fr. Paul Check

apostolate — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:48:32 +0000

Roving Reporter #71 – Friar Roderick and Fr. Paul Check ( 08min) >>> Play

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In this episode, Friar Roderick interviews Fr. Paul Check, priest from the Diocese of Bridgeport, CT, and Executive Director of Courage International, on his apostolate which works with those who struggle with same-sex attraction. Fr. Paul focuses on the positive aspects of living a Catholic life in the midst of a decaying culture, and how to avoid getting caught in the tangled web of same-sex relationships.

We recorded Fr. Paul’s talk with the teens and we hope to get it posted sometime in the near future.

For more info on the Courage apostolate, visit their website: http://couragerc.net/

Ave Maria!

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Dec 27 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: The Holy Family of Love and Life

apostolate — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:56:59 +0000

Homily #091227 ( 24min) Play – Today is the Feast of the The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and Fr. Bonaventure explains that the family is the core to a culture of life and saving the family from the attacks of the author of death, the Devil, is the central battle of our day. Jesus, Mary and Joseph are the exemplars of family life both in their exulted charity to which we should strive and in regard to the assaults that they survived in the form of Herod’s attempt to destroy them. Let us encourage the entire human family to embrace this ideal of love and courage.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Sir 3:2-7,12-14
R: Ps 128:1-5
2: Col 3:12-21
G: Lk 2:22-40

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Jan 31 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Kingdom vs Kingdom

apostolate — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:44:17 +0000

Homily #100131 ( 15min) Play – Why is there so much outrage against Christ? To understand this you must recognize the existence of the Kingdom of Satan and those who are apart of it. Christ, by coming to set people free from sin, has declared war on that kingdom. In his time Jesus prepared His disciples for this battle and so he does today. We must take courage that He is with us especially in times of peril.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Jer 1:4-5,17-19
R: Ps 71:1-6,15-17
2: 1 Cor 12:31-13:13
G: Lk 4:21-30

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May 22 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Waiting for Pentecost

apostolate — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:56:49 +0000

Homily #100522 ( 06min) Play – Today in the extraordinary form of the Mass we celebrate the Vigil of Pentecost. Fr. Angelo preaches on the readings which focus on the expectation of the coming of the Holy Spirit to give us inspiration, courage and fidelity. Let us ask Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, to give us this gift.
Ave Maria! Vigil Mass of Pentecost – Mass: EF, Cum Sanctificatus – Readings: 1st: act 19:1-8 – Gsp: joh 14:15-21

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Speaking out when Necessary

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:00:18 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

Speaking out when necessary, with charity and fortitude and avoiding the silence of consent.Jesus does not always remain silent. For there is a silence which can collaborate with lying, a silence which can cooperate with cowardice, a silence which springs from the love of comfort and the fear of complicating one’s life. You can close your eyes to what is disagreeable. You can put off making a fraternal correction that ought to be made at home or at work. These are forms of silence too.

The word of Jesus is full of authority as He faces injustice and abuse: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses and for a pretence you make long prayers …

Saint John the Baptist was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He teaches us to say everything that must be said, even though it may seem as if we too are crying in the wilderness. Our Lord will not allow our words to be wasted. It is important that we say what has to be said, without worrying ourselves about the immediate consequences. If each Christian were to speak in conformity with the Faith, we would surely change the world. We cannot sit by silently in the face of such crimes as abortion and the degradation of marriage and the family. Nor can we surrender to those forces that would seek to remove God from the formation of the young. We cannot be silent at attacks upon the Pope and Our Lady, or upon institutions of the Church. To be silent when we should be speaking out can be a way of collaborating with evil, because others may think that our silence implies consent. If Catholics were to speak out when there is need, if they were to boycott anti-Catholic publications or literature, it would be more difficult for these enterprises to prosper.

We should speak out when necessary. At times, the occasion will be when we are with a little group of our friends, coming or going to school or work. In letters to the editor, we can write in praise of a good article or to criticize a bad one. We should always act with charity. It is worthwhile to remember that true charity goes hand in hand with fortitude. We need to exercize good manners, always working with the intention of bringing souls to Jesus Christ. Yet we should act at the same time with the fortitude of the Lord.

Fr. Francis Fernandez (In Conversation with God)

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Courage and Strength in Ordinary Life

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:00:08 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

Courage and strength in ordinary life.

Living up to the full the demands of the Faith and of our vocation.

If, upon realizing that his life was in danger, the Baptist had remained silent or retired to the sidelines of public affairs, he would not have been beheaded by Herod. But John was not that kind of man. He was not like a reed shaken by the wind. He was true to his vocation and his principles to the end. If he had remained silent, he could have lived a few more years, but his disciples would not have been the first to follow Our Lord. He would not have prepared and made straight the way of the Lord, as prophesied by Isaiah. He would not have lived up to his vocation. His life would have been bereft of meaning.

Jesus is probably not asking us to suffer a martyr’s death for him. But He is asking us for courage and fortitude in facing up to the demands of ordinary life – to stop watching a bad television show, to cease putting off an apostolic conversation … We cannot allow ourselves to hide behind excuses when there is so much apostolic work to be done. We have to act with optimism, loving the world and the good that is in it while seeking to increase that goodness. We can do this with the example of a joyful family and of the youthful love that is born of holy purity.

There are other kinds of cowardly silence which we have to struggle against. There is the silence we maintain with the person next to us. God has put him there so that we might be a beacon of light for him or her. In addition, it is hard to imagine that we can be courageous at all in this life if we are not first courageous with ourselves, especially when talking with our spiritual director.

Many of our friends, on seeing that we truly practice what we preach, will be attracted to the Faith. Centuries ago, many people converted after witnessing the martyrdom of the first Christians. We dedicate this day to Our Lady. We ask her to teach us when to be silent and when to speak out.

Fr. Francis Fernandez (In Conversation with God)

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Video – Conferences #145: Cardinal Burke – Fr. Harvey and Courage

apostolate — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:03:30 +0000

Conferences #145 – “The Memory of Fr. John Harvey, OSFS and the Future of Courage and Encourage” ( 65min) >>> Play

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His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke gives the opening keynote address titled “The Memory of Fr. John Harvey, OSFS and the Future of Courage and Encourage”, at the Annual National Courage Conference which ministers to people suffering from same sex attraction. After an introduction by Fr. Paul Check, Executive Director of Courage, Cardinal Burke gives a tribute to the late Father John Harvey the co-founder of Courage and EnCourage who was his personal friend. He focuses on the many pastoral innovations that Fr. Harvey developed from his deep respect of the personhood of people with homosexual attraction leading them to accept and embrace the virtues advocated by the Church. He covers his deep devotion to his own parents and family and then his religious family the religious order of the Oblates of St Francis de Sales and the influence that these had on his great pastoral heart, what Courage has done and what it will accomplish in the future, especially the participation in the sacraments.

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Video – Conferences #146: Card. Burke, Courage, Questions and Answers

apostolate — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:09:17 +0000

Conferences #146 – Questions and Answers with Card. Burke after his talk on Fr. Harvey and Courage ( 19min) >>> Play

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His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke gives answers to questions fielded by the audience after the his opening keynote address titled “The Memory of Fr. John Harvey, OSFS and the Future of Courage and Encourage”, at the Annual National Courage Conference which ministers to people suffering from same sex attraction.

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