Homily #080318 ( 13min) Play – “It was night.” Judas went out into the darkness to do his deed of darkness. He did this after receiving communion sacrilegiously, the darkest deed of them all, and Satan entered his heart. Today, in the face of so many sacrilegious Communions, we must do many acts of reparation to dispel the growing darkness.
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Homily #091231 ( 06min) Play – The Father’s Love caused Him to send His Only-Begotten Son as a Light to illumine our darkness. Let us welcome this Light!
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 1 Jn 2:18-21
R: Ps 96:1-2,11-13
G: Jn 1:1-18

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Homily #100812 ( 06min) Play – Light carries God’s imprint and darkness symbolizes the absence of God. Can anyone think of a building that does not let in the light, how about your local windowless Masonic Temple.
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Homily #130316 ( 03min) Play – Fr. Dominic explains how the world is in such darkness today because Jesus, who is the Light, is not accepted.

Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday of the Fourth Week in Lent – Ferial – Form: EF, Sitientes Venite
Readings:
1st: isa 49:8-15
Gsp: joh 8:12-20
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Homily #130323 ( 03min) Play – Fr. Ignatius explains how the darkness of the Jews in accepting Jesus is similar to Christians today who imagine they do believe, but only in their own way which is not taught by the Catholic Church.

Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday in Passion Week – Ferial – Form: EF, Miserere Mihi
Readings: 
1st: jer 18:18-23
Gsp: joh 12:10-36

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2 Pillars #28 ( 05min) Play – On this seventh day of the novena in preparation for Pentecost we ask the Holy Spirit to help us dispel the darkness of error and doubt and during the our visit to Mary we renounce the Devil who is the author of all darkness.

Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary.

Ave Maria!

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 “A Month with Mary” by Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo

Day #16: Renouncing the Demon

THE SOUL: I know that in holy Baptism I renounced the demon and I’m happy with that renunciation. The demon is so repulsive that I really would not want to make friends with him! …

Yet so many times I’ve been overcome by his suggestions and by sinning I’ve preferred him to God himself. How awful is my ingratitude and how revolting is my foolishness!

The demon is a degraded being, … he is a monster, without order, without happiness, without life! In his fall he didn’t lose his natural qualities, but what are they worth? They are also the greatest torment for him.

An angel is a spirit who lives by truth and admirable activities; now the demon lives by lies because he is forever far from the eternal and essential Truth; he lives without real activity, but in toilsome agitation.

No, I will not go near his promptings, never more, and I beg your solid support, O Mary, to overcome him. You are the conqueror of the demon; you crush his head. You have been lifted up as the morning star of the world and your Immaculate Conception represented the most splendid triumph over the demon. Widen your mantle, O Mary, receive me, defend me from the snares of the demon! You are the all-pure, the all-beautiful, the all-gentle, … you are my mother!

Unfortunately so many times, I have made myself the slave of the demon and for this reason I now fear my weakness.

Queen of the angels, protect me, remove far from me the specter of evil, the delusions of my senses, the attractions of pride, the impulses of my corrupt nature.

Go far away from me, Satan, pasture of death, go far away from me. I enjoin this on you in the name of Mary Immaculate, who triumphantly crushed your momentary and disastrous power! Go far away from me because I already belong to my God and I have been purified by his mercy. Go far away from me; I command this of you in the name of Jesus who conquered you with his Blood! In this divine Blood I have found life again and you will no longer have dominion over me!

ASPIRATION: You are all-beautiful, O Mary, and there is no stain in you; you are my Mother.

LITTLE WORK: When you are tempted, make the sign of the Cross and call on the names of Jesus and Mary.

About the Meditations

The daily School of Mary meditations come from the book, A Month with Mary, written by a holy Italian priest Father Dolindo Ruotolo (1882-1970). Originally written as spiritual thoughts to his spiritual daughter, the work is comprised of thirty-one meditations for the month of May.

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“Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, his response is that of an accompanying presence…” – Pope Francis, LUMEN FIDEI, Paragraph 57 page 78

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Homily #131206 ( 04min) Play – We are so often spiritually blind and in darkness, but the closer we are to Jesus, the more we see things clearly.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Nicholas – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Friday in the 1st Week in Advent
1st: isa 29:17-24
Resp: psa 27:1, 4, 13-14
Gsp: mat 9:27-31

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Homily #140126t ( 08min) Play – The deepest experience of God comes out of failure, loss, and suffering.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 8:23-9:3
Resp: psa 27:1, 4, 13-14
2nd: 1co 1:10-13, 17
Gsp: mat 4:12-23

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Homily #140419n ( 12min) Play – Father Maximilian preaches on the passing from the darkness of death and sin to the light of Christ. Let us turn away from the filth of sin, place ourselves under Mary’s care, and turn to Jesus.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil) – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: gen 1:1-2:2
2nd: gen 22:1-18
Gsp: mat 28:1-10

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