Homily #080401 ( 06min) Play – “The Son of Man must be lifted up” (Jn 3:14) for eternal life tells us of the love of God the Father and the key for living life in this world.
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Homily #100816 ( 08min) Play – We must  love God above all things in order to be perfect. There is nothing created that can satisfy the human heart, it is made for God and only in God is the heart fulfilled.
Ave Maria! Monday in the 20th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eze 24:15-24
Resp: deu 32:18-19, 20, 21
Gsp: mat 19:16-22

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Here are fourteen things we can ask ourselves taken from the City of God by Ven. Mary Agreda to determine if we have a great depth in our love of God:

1. Do I think about God a lot?
2. Am I inclined to do God’s commandments?
3. Am I afraid to offend God?
4. Am I grieved by sin?
5. Do I rejoice at the good?
6. Do I love to speak of God?
7. Do I delight in the presence of God?
8. Does not thinking of God displease me?
9. Do I love what God likes and hate what He hates?
10. Do I strive to bring everyone to God?
11. Do I pray with confidence?
12. Am I grateful to God?
13. Do I use God’s gifts to good use?
14. Do I strive to control the passions?

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Homily #110220 ( 13min) Play – “Be therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.” Fr. Dominic explains how to be perfect by being charitable.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: lev 19:1-2, 17-18
Resp: psa 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13
2nd: 1co 3:16-23
Gsp: mat 5:38-48

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Homily #110429 ( 06min) Play – We need to put God first in our lives – that’s whats wrong with the world.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Extraordinary Form: Feria VI infra octavam Paschae – Eduxit Eos Dominus
Readings:
Lesson: 1Peter 3:18-22
Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20

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Homily #120107k ( 09min) Play – Even now we are overcoming the Evil One by living in God by means of the Virgin Mary. Remove what hinders you from complete love of God.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wkdays before Epiphany – Jan 7 – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1jo 5:14-21
Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5 and 6a and9b
Gsp: joh 2:1-11

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Homily #120316 ( 05min) Play – Our Lord reminds us that we should love the Lord Our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourself. All of this we have to do. Is He exaggerating? Do we really have to love God that much? The Saints have done this. All who are baptized are called to love God in this way.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form – Friday 3rd Week of Lent
Readings:
1st Reading: Hosea 14:2-10
Responsorial Psalm: 81:6-8, 8-9, 10-11, 14, 17
Gospel: Mark 12:28-34

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Homily #120918 ( 07min) Play – On the feast day of St. Joseph of Cupertino Father speaks about his love for God and how God chose to reward him in this life with many ecstasies and levitations.  He was always occupied with the Lord in constant prayer and fasting.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Joseph of Cupertino – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1co 12:31, 13:1-10, 13
Resp: psa 25:1-3, 4-5, 8-9, 10
Gsp: mat 11:25-30

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Homily #130613 ( 10min) Play – One of the greatest saints in the history of the Church, St. Anthony of Padua was gifted with many extraordinary miracles and supernatural abilities, but Father explains that what made St. Anthony a great saint was his profound love of God. As Franciscans we look to St. Anthony for the desire to love God even to the point of shedding our blood with martyrdom.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – 2nd Cl – Form: EF, In Medio Ecclesiae
Readings: 
1st: wis 7:7- 14
Gsp: mat 5:13-19

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Homily #131024 ( 14min) Play – A true son of Mary is on fire with the love of God and wants to spread this fire everywhere. St. Anthony Mary Claret, archbishop of Cuba, founder, and patron of the Catholic press, exemplified this with great missionary zeal, preaching and administering the Sacraments to a great multitude.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Anthony Mary Claret – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Thursday 29th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: rom 6:19-23
Resp: psa 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6
Gsp: luk 12:49-53

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