Roving Reporter #49 – Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of CT at the State Capitol, Hartford ( 9min) >>> Play

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The Roving Reporter caught up with Peter Wolfgang, president of the Family Institute of Connecticut, at the Rally for Marriage on Sunday Sept 28, at the Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford. Listen as he describes this most successful event with over 3,000 attendees in a true grass roots movement pitted against numerous, well-moneyed special interest groups, and how they sent a clear message to the State Legislature and Supreme Court to uphold traditional marriage.

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Roving Reporter #80 – Christopher Plante of National Organization for Marriage, Rhodes Island ( 06min) >>> Play

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At the recent Celebrate Marriage Day in Warwick, RI Chris Plante of National Organization for Marriage, Rhodes Island gives his thoughts on the importance of marriage and the need to keep the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.

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Conferences #226 – ( 27min) >>> Play

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Warning: Adult Themes Discussed

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For the second part of the eighth talk at the 2013 International Courage Conference in Mundelein, IL, Robin gives her witty, joyful testimony of her journey from a gay lifestyle, that was not so gay, back to the Church. It all started when she unsuspectingly went into a Catholic Church to receive ashes.

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Homily #131212 ( 19min) Play – Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of pro-life who assists us in the war against the culture of death: abortion, contraception, pornography, and homosexual unions. We also make reparation for a principle cause – sacrilegious communions.
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Mass: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: zec 2:14-17
Resp: jth 13:22-23
2nd: rev 11:19, 12:1-6a,10
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Homily #140318n ( 13min) Play – Father Matthias undertakes the task of explaining the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and homosexual acts by pulling from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and recent statements by Pope Francis. Finally, he emphasizes that those with homosexual attractions have the same call we all do–be holy.
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Mass: Tuesday 2nd Week of Lent – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 1:10, 16-20
Resp: psa 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Gsp: mat 23:1-12

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Homily #140603n ( 12min) Play – Father Matthias relates the lives, sufferings, and deaths of today’s Ugandan saints, who choose to die rather than give into the homosexual desires of the king. May their example encourage us, their prayers give us strength, and their sacrifice pour out many graces upon this world.
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Mass: Sts. Charles Lwanga and Companions – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday 7th Week of Easter
1st: act 20:17-27
Resp: psa 68:10-11, 20-21
Gsp: joh 17:1-11

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Homily #141228n ( 20min) Play – Father Matthias quotes and comments on statements from Pope Francis and other pontiffs about the right ordering of the family, emphasizing that love, sacrifice, and obedience are fundamental to the nature of the family, and that if we disrupt this proper order, which we see exemplified in the Holy Family, the family and society will collapse. Fidelity to the truths about the family is essential, and Father warns us that any ideas which contradict the nature and dignity of marriage (as the life-long, faithful, and fruitful union between one man and one woman) and the family are not from God.
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Mass: Holy Family – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: sir 3:2-6, 12-14
Resp: psa 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
2nd: col 3:12-21
Gsp: luk 2:22-40

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Homily #150511n ( 06min) Play – Father comments on the word of Our Lord to the Apostles in today’s Gospel, and tell us that these words were for us as well. We need to be as convinced of the Truth as the Apostles were, because we too will be persecuted for holding it.
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Mass: St. Ignatius of Laconi – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 6th Week of Easter
1st: act 16:11-15
Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9
Gsp: joh 15:26-16:4

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Homily #150627n ( 04min) Play – Father speaks of the faith of the centurion in today’s Gospel, and encourages us to hold on to this faith as the western world is abandoning it (particularly clear in yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on gay “marriage”). We must pray and sacrifice for the Church as she prepares for the Synod on the Family this fall, and remember that in the end, God wins, or, as Mary said at Fatima, “My Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
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Mass: St. Cyril of Alexandria – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Saturday 12th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: gen 18:1-15
Resp: luk 1:46-47, 48-49, 50, 53, 54-55
Gsp: mat 8:5-17

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Today’s Gospel links love and obedience, and this is fingernails on chalkboard, Fr. Angelo tells us, to the modern world enamoured with rights without obligations and love without commitment. The words of Jesus in the Gospel: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
We live in the days of the triumph of the autonomous self. It is our freedom, choice, identification, perspectives, ideologies, etc. that matter, and anyone that dissents must be shouted down and silenced, leading to a perpetual state of outrage and activism. But at the same time, the world is now trying to tell us what we much say, such as the proliferation of pronouns. This progression from “non-binary” gender to gender “fluidity” is rendering langauge useless and leading to social chaos.
And, as Father points out, people cannot tolerate chaos, and if society is not ordered by rational people acting in a rational way, it will be imposed by irrational people by violence. We are seeing the start of this reaction.
But be of good cheer, as Jesus says, for He has already overcome the world. We do not need to overcome it, but only testify to His victory as witnesses, i.e., martyrs. It is one thing to be angry at evil in the world, but do not be angry when you pay the price for belonging to Christ. We are in a real war between good and evil, and the most powerful weapon is the Word of God. But this does not mean we escape suffering, just as it did not for Jesus. He comes to us through the cross when we are on the cross. We fight as exiles in a strange land, but we do not fight alone in the “long defeat” which is this world.
Let us fight as Christians, loving and not depersonalizing those who put themselves against Christ. God loves them too, and they are to be the objects of our love as we are of their hate.
Father tells us that the truth will set us free, but it first will make us miserable by exposing our own ideologies and conceits. This will, in the end, make us free to follow what is real and true, and remind us that there is one we must and will answer to in the end. And He has not left us orphans, so let us be His martyrs.
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Mass: Sunday 6th Week of Easter – Solemnity
Readings: 
1st: act 8:5-8, 14-17
Resp: psa 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20
2nd: 1pe 3:15-18
Gsp: joh 14:15-21

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