Homily #080309 ( 00min) Play – In one of the most important miracles in the public ministry of Our Savior, Fr Bonaventure comments on the bluntness of the rising of Lazarus from the dead.
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Homily #090327 ( 05min) Play – It is not enough simply to believe – even the devils believe. Belief must translate itself into love, and our love is expressed by keeping Our Lord’s Commandments.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #090329 ( 18min) Play – With the raising of Lazarus  from the dead we enter, in a sense, into the passion of Christ. It was His last and greatest public miracle which caused many to believe and be prepared to witness His death, but those who refused to believe became hardened in their coldness of heart and caused Jesus to weep.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #100304 ( 07min) Play – In the parable of Lazarus and Dives, Dives asks Abraham even for a drop of water to relieve his sufferings in Hell, but the time for mercy had passed. He had many opportunities during his life to give mercy to Lazarus and so gain mercy from God, but he did not. Let us take heed.
Ave Maria! Thursday of the Second Week in Lent – Mass: EF, Deus In Adiutorium – Readings: 1st: jer 17:5-10 – Gsp: luk 16:19-31

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Homily #100729 ( 09min) Play – In Gospel for the memorial of St Martha Our Lord arrives at the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus after Lazarus dies. Here Martha runs out to greet Our Lord and expresses her great faith in Him to raise up her brother. This shows how much progress she has made since the last visit of Our Lord when He reprimanded her for being too concerned with many things. Let us pray for the grace to progress like Martha.
Ave Maria! Memorial of St Martha – Thursday in the 17th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: jer 18:1-6
Resp: psa 146:1-2, 2-4, 5-6
Gsp: joh 11:19-27

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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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Homily #100926 ( 32min) Play – In today’s Gospel we have the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Fr. Bonaventure uses this to emphasize the impossibility of compromising the culture of Christ with that of death. He mentions that many Fathers of the Church call this a factual story and so we should take it very seriously. The rich man’s sin was not so much the indulging in extravagant pleasure but doing so when Lazarus was literally dying from poverty. On the contrary Lazarus went to heaven not so much because he suffered but in his misery did not condemn the rich man but prayed for him. The rich man did not have regard for the unique dignity of his fellow man while Lazarus did. The rich man thus followed the culture of death that lead to eternal death while Lazarus followed the culture of life and entered eternal life. Father relates this to modern forms of this same culture of death.
Ave Maria! 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: amo 6:1, 4-7
Resp: psa 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
2nd: 1ti 6:11-16
Gsp: luk 16:19-31

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Homily #110410t ( 06min) Play – Never despair, even though all stinks and seems to have no life, God can raise you up and set you on top.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sunday 5th Week of Lent – Form:
Readings:
1st: eze 37:12-14
Resp: psa 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
2nd: rom 8:8-11
Gsp: joh 11:1-45

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Homily #110729 ( 06min) Play – On this memorial of St. Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, Fr. Bonaventure preaches on her deep and profound faith, especially when proclaiming the same confession of St. Peter.
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Mass: St. Martha – Mem – Form: OF
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Homily #130228b ( 12min) Play – Fr. Elias on the parable of the rich man and the poor man, Lazarus. Father explains how the Lazarus kept his sights on heaven and this is why he got to heaven and the rich man lived for this world and received his reward here but paid for all his uncharitable neglect of others in the next life. He also links this to the miracle of the resurrection of the other man named Lazarus and how great miracles often do not move those hardened in sin.
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Mass: Thursday 2nd Week of Lent – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jer 17:5-10
Resp: psa 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6
Gsp: luk 16:19-31

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