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Homily #081026 ( 24min) Play – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel’s message that the key to the Law of God is to love one’s neighbor out of a profound love of God. So, we must do the extraordinary like love our enemies, but also show common courtesy, not getting too wrapped up in ourselves, even in our piety.
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Homily #081027 ( 08min) Play – 30th Mon Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo preaches for this votive Mass to St Maximilian Kolbe who died as a martyr of charity. He relates this to the Gospel that says charity summarizes the entire law of God.
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Face of Pro-Life #97 –  Susan Boyce with hostess Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce discusses Sustinet, a new Connecticut State Health care Plan, an apparently good-looking  plan which is in fact very problematic, being a means of control, an expansion of bureaucracy. Due to the signing of the National Health Care Bill the vote on this will be accelerated to the end of May, 2010, this law will be pushed to a vote at the state legislature. But nobody knows about it and therefore it would be a mere ceremony in making it the law. Susan shows how Sustinet goes beyond the National Health Care plan.

The Yankee Institute of Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank at Trinity College. They have published the only professional rebuttal of SustiNet’s claims. Here is a link:

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2010/03/obamacare-for-ct-to-bust-budget/

and

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/docs/20100302.pdf

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The Yankee Institute of Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank at Trinity College.  They have published the only professional rebuttal of SustiNet's claims. Here is a link:

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2010/03/obamacare-for-ct-to-bust-budget/

and

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/docs/20100302.pdf

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Face of Pro-Life #90 – Bill O’Brien of CT Right to life with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Bill O’Brien, President of Connecticut Right to Life talks about the very busy upcoming legislative session in Hartford. Mentions some pro-life legislation that they are trying to start. This includes a parental notification law for abortion for minors which CT is only one of six states that do not have one. It is easier to get an abortion in CT Schools without parental consent than it is to get Tylenol. This is very important even for the safety of the child in regard to prompt response to medical and emotional complications due to the abortion. And also important in regard to child sexual abuse being exposed. Ironically, this all points out that the Pro-abortion movement ends up being oppressive to women rather than Pro-choice.

On the defensive side he hopes to stop an education standards bill that will require all students to have comprehensive sex education (under the cover of “Health Education”) with no ability to opt out. He points out the very high rate of teen pregnancy and this after many years of sex education.

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Homily #100525 ( 05min) Play – Continuing the subject of Pentecost from Sunday, Fr. Ignatius preaches on the coming of the new law of grace that Pentecost opens to us. He relates Pentecost the Sacrament of Confirmation.

Ave Maria! Pentecost Tuesday – Mass: EF, Accipite Iucunditatem – Readings: 1st: act 8:14-17 – Gsp: joh 10:1-10

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Face of Pro-Life #100 – Eileen Bianchini   ( 30min) >>> Play

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Eileen Bianchini of the Gospel of Life ministry discusses with hostess Corinn Dahm the insidious issue of Assisted Suicide, how it is being promoted and how a loophole that could make it a national law overnight. It is being sold to physicians through the living will and to the public as a way to choose when we die. She mentions that we do not have a right to choose to die.

• An imposed death in not a good death.
• Suicidal tendencies, depression, are not healthy
• Fear of death, loss of dignity, incontinence, being a burden
• Cost reduction measures being remarketed.
• Rationing of healthcare
• “Choice” to die with “dignity” becomes a duty
• Sustinet in Connecticut already has rationing included
• Courts need “consensus” of just a few states to reopen a court case.
• Need more than a Living Will, Advanced Directive and a Durable Power of Attorney.
• International Task Force 1-800-958-5678.
• Priests for Life on the Right to Life.

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Homily #110117 ( 07min) Play – Our Lord calls for a renewal in the law, the old law is now fulfilled in the new.
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Mass: St. Anthony of Egypt – Memorial – Form:
Readings: Monday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time
1st: heb 5:1-10
Resp: psa 110:1, 2, 3, 4
Gsp: mar 2:18-22

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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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Homily #121016b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim on justification by faith in Christ and how this is the true way of justification as compared with following the ritual law of Moses. Yet, we must follow the 10 Commandments, the moral law, in order to exercise our love and faith.
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Mass: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday in the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: gal 5:1-6
Resp: psa 119:41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48
Gsp: luk 11:37-41

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