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Our “built in” sense of moral obligation and of justice are two roads that lead to the conclusion that man will continue to live even after his body has died.

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The virtue of religion is an act of justice towards our Creator. The two main obligations of man to fufill this duty is prayer and obedience.

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Homily #090615 ( 09min) Play – Our Lord replaces the rule “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” with forgiveness, but this does not mean that we should have a society without justice.
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Homily #090906 ( 08min) Play – Today Fr. Ignatius preaches on the Gospel which tells us “You cannot serve God and mammon.” “Therefore be not solicitous for your life . . . nor for your body . . . For your father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice.” This is telling us to walk in the spirit instead of the flesh.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: gal 5:16-24 – Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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Homily #100321t ( 06min) Play – When dwelling on God’s mercy remember His justice, and when dwelling on His justice remember His mercy. Lent is a time of joy; a time to root-out our sins.
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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 #100530 ( 26min) Play – For Holy Trinity Sunday and the closing Mass for the Knights of Lepanto Father-Son Encampment, Fr Angelo preaches on how the Trinity is three Persons and yet united as if it where and Army, working as one for the salvation of all men. He stresses the need to acknowledge that the Second Person of the Trinity became man to win our salvation and so enable the Holy Trinity to dwell within us. Our hearts then become the divine fortress of the Trinity and this forms the base to sally forth and practice the virtues, especially charity.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Prov 8:22-31
R: Ps 8:4-9
2: Rom 5:1-5
G: Jn 16:12-15

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Mary Vitamin for July 29th

Topic: Martha and Mary
Luke 10:38-42

Quote:
St.  Francis de Sales
The two women represent our Lady.
The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Our Lady, (Tan Books) 62.
Tan Books

Meditation:
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 11:5

Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J.:
And the name of Martha comes first. He could not blame her zeal; He could not find fault with her self-sacrificing charity. Nevertheless there was something else which, for the sake of all mankind, He must seize this occasion to defend. To work for Him was good, but to love Him was better; to serve Him was a glory, but to live with Him was a greater glory still. It was noble to be His handmaiden, but to be blessed among women was nobler. To seek the means to please Him was holy, but to seek first the  Kingdom  of  God  and His justice was to secure that all the rest would come. Martha stood for much that was best in the world, but Mary represented something more that transcended all the rest; indeed without it all the rest would be of little worth.
The Public Life of Jesus Christ (Burns, Oates & Wasbourne: London,  1930)

Resolution:
Today I will work on “service with love” in order to imitate the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady was able to live an exemplary life which combined the best aspects of the service of St. Martha and the contemplative prayer of St.  Mary.

Marian Vow:
The members of M.I.M., if they live faithfully their consecration, become, in this way, “little mediators”, as St. Maximilian says, at the unconditional service of the universal Mediatrix, ready, as “docile instruments”, to work as missionaries and with the missionary spirit in the Church and in the family, in society and in each field of labor; ready also, according to possibilities and obedience, to go themselves even to the missions “Ad gentes” (To the Nations) to save the souls of brothers who are still living “in the shadow of death” (Lk 1, 79).

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Mary Vitamin is a daily Email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

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Homily #100912t ( 07min) Play – The logic of grace the logic of mercy does not calculate as does justice. God is extravagant in His love towards us.
Ave Maria! 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Shortened) – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: exo 32:7-11, 13-14
Resp: psa 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19
2nd: 1ti 1:12-17
Gsp: luk 15:1-10

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Homily #101017 ( 19min) Play – Our Lord gives us the parable in today’s Gospel of the unjust judge who cares nothing about God nor man, but after being pestered enough by the woman seeking justice he gives her request. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to follow this woman’s example to pester God who is, instead, a just Judge, and so will all the more give us all that is good. Not only is it good to keep pestering good but Jesus give us a command to do so. He know all that we need ahead of time but we need to show him our trust in his goodness by continuing to beseech him even when we get tired of praying.
Ave Maria! 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: exo 17:8-13
Resp: psa 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
2nd: 2ti 3:14-4:2
Gsp: luk 18:1-8

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