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In this continuation to Neil Babcox’s previous video he describes how after being a Protestant Pastor for over 30 years, he leaves all to receive the pearl of great price, the Most Blessed Sacrament. Neil entered the Catholic Church and received his first Holy Communion with great joy on the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2006. Now he radiates faith in the Real Presence and love for His eucharistic Lord. For his first Easter in the Catholic Church, Neil made a retreat at Mount St. Francis Hermitage run by the Franciscans of the Immaculate and shared his love for the Blessed Sacrament with AirMaria.com. Don’t miss Neil’s upcoming appearance on EWTN, Marcus Grodi’s The Journey Home on May 21st at 8pm.

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EWTN, Marcus Grodi, The Journey Home??upcoming guest Neil Babcox

Conversion story of Neil Babcox

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Homily #080319 ( 06min) Play – Today, Spy Wednesday,?is the last day of Lent. Let us reflect on what Our Lord has done for us and to accompany Him and rejoice as we enter these great mysteries of the Easter Triduum.
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Homily #080322 ( 14min) Play – Darkness has been replaced with light, death with life. Christ has risen and conquered our death and sin.?Listen as Fr. Angelo relates our joy on Easter to that?of Mary Magdalene’s enlightenment at the realization of Christ’s resurrection.

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Homily #080323 ( 05min) Play – Christ is risen but there are others who were resurrected from the dead both by old Testament Patriarchs and New Testament Apostles. So what is unique about the rising of Christ even above these other amazing miracles. Come listen and learn from Fr. Igantius.
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Queen of Heaven Rejoice!
O Queen of heaven rejoice! alleluia:
For He whom thou didst merit to bear, alleluia,
Hath arisen as he said, alleluia.
Pray for us to God, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
Because the Lord is truly risen, alleluia.

This is the Regina Caeli, the great Marian antiphon for Easter, and, More…

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Homily #080330 ( 21min) Play – The image of the Divine Mercy can be considered an artistic rendering of today’s Gospel. Jesus I trust in You.
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Homily Specials? #080330s  (11min) Play – Let the House of Israel say, “His Mercy endures forever”. The Divine Mercy Devotion is a “Private Revelation”. Listen to Fr Ignatius’ explanation of the difference between a private revelation and a public revelation.
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Homily #090411 ( 11min) Play – Tonight we pass from the darkness of doubt to the Light of Faith, just as the disciples of the Lord went from doubt when they witnessed His death and then to belief as they beheld His Resurrected Body. But, better yet, let us see this Light even if we can’t see Him with our fleshly eyes, as Our Lady did while all the other disciples were still in darkness.

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Ave Maria Meditations

If we have at length interpreted the connection between Supper and Cross, we have in fact all the time been speaking also of the Resurrection. Not only are Supper and Cross inseparable: Supper, Cross and Resurrec­tion form the one indivisible Paschal Mystery. The theology of the Cross is the Resurrection; therefore the Resurrection is the divine response and the divine interpretation of the Cross. The theology of the Cross is a paschal theology, a theology of joyous victory even in this valley of tears.

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We have shown that the Last Supper was the anticipation of the violent death of Jesus, and that the Cross without the Supper, the Supper without the reality of the Cross, would remain void. Now we have to add that the Last Supper also antic­ipates the Resurrection, the certainty that love is stronger than death. This act of love to the last is the transubstanti­ation of death, its radical transformation, the power of the Resurrection already present in the shadow of death.

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The Supper without the Cross, the Cross without the Sup­per, would be void, but the two without the Resurrection would be the wreck of hope. The image of the pierced side, fount of water and blood, is also the image of the Resurrec­tion, of love stronger than death. In the Eucharist we receive this love – we receive the medicine of immortality. The Eu­charist guides us to the fount of true life, of invincible life, and shows us where and how true life is to be found – not in riches and possessions, not in having. Only if we follow Jesus on the way of his Cross, do we find ourselves on the road to life.

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The Resurrection of Jesus says that this victory is in effect possible, that death does not belong principally and irrevo­cably to the structure of the creature, to matter. Certainly it also says that to overcome the confines of death is not pos­sible, definitively, by sophisticated clinical methods, through technology. This comes about through the creative power of the word and of love. Only these powers are sufficiently strong to modify so fundamentally the structure of matter, to make it possible to overcome the barrier of death.

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Hence in the extraordinary promise of this event there is also found an extraordinary call, a vocation, a whole interpretation of human existence and the existence of the world. But es­pecially, it becomes manifest in this way that faith in the Resurrection of Jesus is a profession of the real existence of God and a profession of his creation, of the unconditional “Yes” with which God stands before creation, before mat­ter. The word of God truly penetrates to the heart of the body. His power does not end at the confines of matter. It embraces everything. And therefore also responsibility be­fore this word certainly permeates matter and the body, and is there affirmed.

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Quite definitely, this is what faith in the Resurrection is concerned with: the real power of God, and the importance of human responsibility. That the power of God is hope and joy: this is the liberation revealed at Easter. In the Pasch, God reveals himself, his power – superior to the power of death – the power of the love of the Trinity. So the paschal revelation gives us the right to sing “Alleluia” in a world overcast with the cloud of death.

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