Homily #090902 ( 09min) Play – Today’s Gospel reading describes a typical day in the life of Christ, which included a busy schedule of miraculous cures, but he still found time to pray.

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Homily #100628 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Ignatius uses the recent publication of Fr. Thomas Euteneuer’s new book on exorcism to remind us of the existence of evil spirits and the need to fortify ourselves against them by the partaking of the sacraments, avoiding sin and strengthening the virtues.
Ave Maria! Vigil of the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul – Mass: EF, Dicit Dominus – Readings: 1st: act 3:1-10 – Gsp: joh 21:15-19
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Homily #120129 ( 21min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel account of the exorcism of the demoniac at Capernaum where Jesus demonstrates His authority that was far greater than the scribes. Father explains how the source and nature of this higher authority rests on the divinity of Jesus and how this same authority is manifest today through the Magisterium that Christ established.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: deu 18:15-20
Resp: psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9
2nd: 1co 7:32-35
Gsp: mar 1:21-28

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Homily #140203b ( 10min) Play – Fr. Elias on the life of the martyr St. Blase explains how he was associated with the curing of throat ailments and how this relates to spiritual health, referring to the Gospel reading of the man cured of a legion of devils in Gerasenes.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Blase – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 4th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 2sa 15:13-14, 30, 16:5-13
Resp: psa 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Gsp: mar 5:1-20

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Homily #140224b ( 09min) Play – Fr. Elias on the means used to cast out demons from the possessed, based on today’s Gospel where Our Lord casts out a demon which the disciples could not.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Monday 7th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jam 3:13-18
Resp: psa 19:8, 9, 10, 15
Gsp: mar 9:14-29

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Tour of the Catechism #56 ( 12min) –

Paragraphs 1667 – 1690

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c4a1.htm

– Part Two. The Celebration Of The Christian Mystery
– – Section One. The Sacramental Economy
– – – Chapter Four. Other Liturgical Celebrations
– – – – Article 1. Sacramentals
– – – – – In Brief
– – – – Article 2. Christian Funerals
– – – – – I. The Christian’s Last Passover
– – – – – II. The Celebration of Funerals

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“Tour of the Catechism of the Catholic Church” is given by Fr. Daniel J. Mahan, S.T.L., pastor of St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomington, Indiana, and St. Jude the Apostle in Spencer. He will cover the entire Catechism in about 80 videos, giving an outline of the content along with clear easy to follow explanations. It will be based on the 2nd Edition of the Catechism.

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Christian souls are both the battlefield where the struggle between the devil and the Son of Man is decided, as well as protagonists in the playing out of this meta-historical struggle in the world. Our day is not unlike the first days of the Church, when the undeniable authority of Christ went unheeded by many, even though demons were manifestly obliged to obey Him. Now in the de-Christianized West, as then in Palestine, we are called to give witness to salvation in Jesus Christ and to follow Him, regardless of the attitude of the world toward Him and the Church.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday 1st Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: Heb 2:5-12
Resp: Ps 8:2, 5, 6-7, 8-9 0
Gsp: Mk 1:21-28

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Knowing that Jesus Christ is the Messiah is not the problem; accepting Him is what separates the good from the wicked. As we hear in today’s Gospel, men and demons alike recognize Jesus’ authority, but some still choose to rebel, risking eternal misery.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings:
1st: 1 Sm 1:9-20
Resp: 1 Sm 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd
Gsp: Mk 1:21-28

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Ave Maria!  An Italian exorcist has spoken up, linking recent worldwide attacks on the Virgin Mary to the devil’s particular hatred for her.  See also these two articles if you wish; they discuss additional recent attacks.

Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 8, 2018 / 03:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Italian priest Sante Babolin said that Satan is behind attacks in various parts of the world against the Virgin Mary, noting that she is a powerful advocate for him during exorcisms.

“In my experience – so far I have performed 2,300 rites of exorcism – I can say that the invocation of the Most Holy Virgin Mary often provokes significant reactions in the person being exorcized,” he told Mexican weekly Desde la Fe.

Fr. Babolin, who also taught at the Gregorian University in Rome, said that “in face of the failure of the onslaught by non-believers, now, in order to offend and confound the Catholic people, the Virgin Mary, whom the devil hates, is being attacked.”

Desde la Fe noted the 2017 events of the Spanish drag queen Borja Casillas, who masqueraded as the Virgin Mary and mocked her in a performance, as well as a woman who dressed up as the Virgin Mary and simulated an abortion during a protest in Argentina.

The Italian exorcist said that “as proof of this hatred” of the devil toward the Mother of God, “while I was insistently invoking the Most Holy Virgin Mary, the devil answered me: ‘I can’t stand That One (Mary) any more and neither can I stand you any more.’”

Source: Why the devil hates Mary – especially during exorcisms

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In today’s homily (Feb 04, Monday of the 4th Week of Ordinary Time), Fr. Alan talks about how the Gerasenes failed to appreciate the priceless benefit of Jesus’ presence and activity among them, more attentive to the destruction of their swine than to the liberation and restoration to dignity of their fellow man. In our materialistic age, we can be susceptible to similar temptations and blindness to the spiritual good.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Joseph of Leonessa – Opt Mem

Readings: Monday 4th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: Heb 11:32-40
Resp: Ps 31:20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Gsp: Mk 5:1-20

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Source consulted: “The Gerasenes and Their Swine” by Kevin Smyth, in The Irish Monthly, Vol. 79, No. 937, Jul., 1951 (pp. 303-307), online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/20516394

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