Homily #120115t ( 10min) Play – Christ teaches us how to live and how to die, how to suffer and how to love.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1sa 3:3-10, 19
Resp: psa 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10
2nd: 1co 6:13-15, 17-20
Gsp: joh 1:35-42

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Homily #120325 ( 11min) Play – How can we expect to enter into eternal rest if we never deny ourselves in this life, if we do not work for it here and now.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sunday 5th Week of Lent – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jer 31:31-34
Resp: psa 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15
2nd: heb 5:7-9
Gsp: joh 12:20-33

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Did the Virgin Mary die?

There are many Catholics that deny that the Immaculate Mary died. They claim that when Pope Pius XII dogmatically declared the Assumption of Mary, he left the question open. They cite the following from Munificentissimus Deus:

by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

The Falling Asleep of the Virgin

Note the mitered Christ holding Mary’s soul apart from her body

Here, it is claimed, that the Holy Father left the question open by declaring only “having completed the course of her earthly life,” and not “having died.” Did Mary die? They say the text is ambiguous.

Read more at:  Did the Virgin Mary Die? The Answer May Surprise You – Taylor Marshall.

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