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Jul 15 – Homily – Fr Angelo: St. Bonaventure

apostolate — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:01:26 +0000

Homily #080715 ( 12min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the feastday of St. Bonaventure. He outlines the life and teaching of this saint and doctor, focusing on how he was a great mystic as well as a scholar and even a wise and prudent leader as Minister general of the Franciscans, refocusing them after the death of St. Francis and as Cardinal of the Church working for the unity between the East and West Church. Ave Maria!
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Sep 30 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Suffering is Conquered

apostolate — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:46:54 +0000

Homily #080930 ( 03min) Play – On this Memorial of St. Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church, Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia, FI preaches on the mystery of suffering and how it is conquered by the sacrifice of Christ.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
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Oct 18 – Homily – Fr McIsaac: Saint Luke, Evangelist

apostolate — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:02:28 +0000

Homily #081018 ( 09min) Play – On the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, our guest homilist Fr. McIsaac preaches on the fact that St. Luke was a medical doctor who preached the truth and contrasts this to modern doctors who are silent on the evil of abortion.
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Feb 23 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St Peter Damian

apostolate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:32:54 +0000

Homily #090223 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the life of St. Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, and how important it is to do all things only for the glory of God, including study.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
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The Giving of One’s Life so Another Might Live

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:00:51 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

St. Gianna Molla

Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962)

Gianna Beretta was born in Magenta (Milan) October 4, 1922. Already as a youth she willingly accepted the gift of faith and the clearly Christian education that she received from her excellent parents. As a result, she experienced life as a marvellous gift from God, had a strong faith in Providence and was convinced of the necessity and effectiveness of prayer.

She diligently dedicated herself to studies during the years of her secondary and university education, while, at the same time, applying her faith through generous apostolic service among the youth of Catholic Action and charitable work among the elderly and needy as a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. After earning degrees in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pavia in 1949, she opened a medical clinic in Mesero (near Magenta) in 1950. She specialized in Pediatrics at the University of Milan in 1952 and there after gave special attention to mothers, babies, the elderly and poor.

While working in the field of medicine-which she considered a “mission” and practiced as such-she increased her generous service to Catholic Action, especially among the “very young” and, at the same time, expressed her joie de vivre and love of creation through skiing and mountaineering. Through her prayers and those of others, she reflected upon her vocation, which she also considered a gift from God. Having chosen the vocation of marriage, she embraced it with complete enthusiasm and wholly dedicated herself “to forming a truly Christian family”.

She became engaged to Pietro Molla and was radiant with joy and happiness during the time of their engagement, for which she thanked and praised the Lord. They were married on September 24, 1955, in the Basilica of St. Martin in Magenta, and she became a happy wife. In November 1956, to her great joy, she became the mother of Pierluigi, in December 1957 of Mariolina; in July 1959 of Laura. With simplicity and equilibrium she harmonized the demands of mother, wife, doctor and her passion for life.

In September 1961 towards the end of the second month of pregnancy, she was touched by suffering and the mystery of pain; she had developed a fibroma in her uterus. Before the required surgical operation, and conscious of the risk that her continued pregnancy brought, she pleaded with the surgeon to save the life of the child she was carrying, and entrusted herself to prayer and Providence. The life was saved, for which she thanked the Lord. She spent the seven months remaining until the birth of the child in incomparable strength of spirit and unrelenting dedication to her tasks as mother and doctor. She worried that the baby in her womb might be born in pain, and she asked God to prevent that.

A few days before the child was due, although trusting as always in Providence, she was ready to give her life in order to save that of her child: “If you must decided between me and the child, do not hesitate: choose the child – I insist on it. Save him”. On the morning of April 21, 1962, Gianna Emanuela was born. Despite all efforts and treatments to save both of them, on the morning of April 28, amid unspeakable pain and after repeated exclamations of “Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you”, the mother died. She was 39 years old. Her funeral was an occasion of profound grief, faith and prayer.

“Conscious immolation”, was the phrase used by Pope Paul VI to define the act of Blessed Gianna, remembering her at the Sunday Angelus of September 23, 1973, as: “A young mother from the diocese of Milan, who, to give life to her daughter, sacrificed her own, with conscious immolation”. The Holy Father in these words clearly refers to Christ on Calvary and in the Eucharist.

Gianna was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1994, during the international Year of the Family.

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Jan 14 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St. Hilary vs Arianism

apostolate — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:07:51 +0000

Homily #100114 ( 06min) Play – St. Hilary of Poitiers fought the heresy of Arianism in his time. He did this by being true to the Magisterium. As the Catechism says:

Par 85 “The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone. Its authority in this matter is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ.” This means that the task of interpretation has been entrusted to the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome.

This simple policy guarantees that we won’t fall into error of personal interpretation whether of scripture as the Protestants do or of Tradition as the ultra Traditionalists do.

Ave Maria! St. Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Jan 27 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: St. Bernard Facing Failure

apostolate — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:59:02 +0000

Homily #100127 ( 09min) Play – St Bernard of Clairvaux preached the second crusade. But, despite the fact that he was able to perform many miracles to confirm that this was the will of God, the crusade failed resulting in the loss of many Christian soldiers and a setback for Christian control of the Holy Land. Fr. Ignatius points out that it is sometimes God’s will that we be humbled in order to bring about greater virtue.
Ave Maria! St. John Chrysostom, Confessor and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Jan 29 – Homily – Fr Angelo: St. Francis de Sales against Itchy Ears

apostolate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:02:32 +0000

Homily #100129 ( 13min) Play – St. Francis de Sales was Bishop of Geneva where through acts of charity and preaching of the truth he brought many Protestants back to the faith whose itchy ears were turning to novel doctrines.
Ave Maria! St. Francis of Sales, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Apr 27 – Homily – Fr Angelo: St. Peter Canisius Doctor

apostolate — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:56:46 +0000

Homily #100427 ( 10min) Play – St. Peter Canisius lived in the 1500s in a time that fulfilled the prophecy of St. Paul in today’s first reading:

For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

Listen how St. Peter tactfully and lovingly deals with these errors.

Ave Maria! St. Peter Canisius, Confessor and Doctor of the Church – Mass: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae – Readings: 1st: 2ti 4:1-8 – Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Jul 15 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Bonaventure Seraphic Doctor

apostolate — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:11:23 +0000

Homily #100715 ( 11min) Play – Today is the Feast day of St. Bonaventure and Fr. Angelo preaches on how St Bonaventure combined true sanctity and high education and so he became the Seraphic Doctor in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St. Francis, the seraphic saint. St Bonaventure focused on the importance of the will in theology as opposed to St Thomas who focused on the intellect. He also worked to ‘refound’ the order when it was in danger of splitting.
Ave Maria! St. Bonaventure – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 8:2-7, 16-18
Resp: psa 16:5-5, 7-8, 9, 11
2nd: 1co 2:6-13
Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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