Homily #080525 ( 21min) Play – On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the need to give thanks to Christ for having made the sacrifice of His body for our Redemption and for His real presence in the true Bread from Heaven. Father outlines the place this Eucharistic feast holds in the History of the Church and in the Liturgical Calander of each year, which he then relates to the life-long, spiritual development of each individual Christian and finally in the the context of each an every Mass and so places the Eucharist at the very heart of human experience.
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Homily #081217 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the genealogy of Christ explaining how it is a condensed history of salvation where God’s fidelity to us overcomes our infidelity to Him.
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For a clear and concise overview of the state of Catholicism in the light of the 2008 elections and the history of moral relativism in the US the Mindszenty Report for December 2008 is a must read, all in just three pages! Oh, and Happy 50th anniversary to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation!

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Homily #091209 ( 06min) Play – Today is the feastday of St. Juan Diego who cooperated with Our Lady in the conversion of the Aztec people and so overcame one of the most depraved cultures in the history of man. As our own culture slides to new depths, let us ask St Juan Diego to pray for us that we can cooperate as he did.

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1: Isa 40:25-31
R: Ps 103:1-4,8,10
G: Mt 11:28-30

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Homily #091220 ( 12min) Play – Fr. Ignatius, taking his queue from the Gospel of Luke, stresses the historicity of the Gospel accounts, and that we should be most concerned about what God thinks on all matters and not what the prevailing, changeable mindset of men of our time.
Ave Maria! Fourth Sunday in Advent – Mass: EF, Rorate Coeli – Readings: 1st: 1co 4:1-5 – Gsp: luk 3:1-6

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Trailer from a three hour movie showing a true history of Lourdes, the apparitions and about St Bernadette.

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Homily #100416 ( 05min) Play – Fr Ignatius preaches on the blessings that we have in Pope Benedict, how he has been acclaimed as perhaps the greatest theologian pope in the history of the Church. His encyclical Caritas et Veritate is so sensible as a world plan for peace, social justice and prosperity that one wonders why he is being targeted by the global mass media. Father relates this to today’s Gospel:

14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Ave Maria! Votive Mass of St Francis of Assisi – Mass: EF, – Readings: 1st: sir 50:1-, 3-7 – Gsp: mat 10:7–15

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Homily #110213 ( 26min) Play – Today Fr. Bonaventure preaches on how Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament law as Christ himself teaches in today’s Gospel. This is not only the fulfillment of all the aspirations of the Jewish tradition but he is the fulfillment of the natural law and so fulfills the highest aspirations of all men. He is, then, the foundation of any true and sustainable morality and so too of a lasting civilization. We should, therefore,  resist the most recent attempts to put aside this teaching  (even among Catholics) by dividing Christ into the Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith. This is used to suggest that somehow the accounts in the Bible are not historical but are rather the writings of Christians much later and so we can discount any accounts that portray Jesus as being divine or something special since this is just later additions and this is used to ignore His challenging moral teachings.
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Mass: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: sir 15:15-20
Resp: psa 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34
2nd: 1co 2:6-10
Gsp: mat 5:17-37

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MaryCast Specials #136 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains the power of the Rosary and how it has even changed the course of history. As such it is very much needed today and all Catholics need to take up this powerful prayer.

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MaryCast Specials #137 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains the history of the establishment of the Rosary by the Dominican Order with its combination of the Hail Mary’s and the meditation on the truths of Christ in the mysteries of each decade to fight the Albigensian heresy. He also discusses how it should prayed to be effective.

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