Homily #131120b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim reflects on the Gospel reading of today which is the Parable of the Ten Gold Coins where a King goes away giving one coin each to ten servants who are instructed to trade with it to make a profit for him. Listen how he relates this to the gifts that God gives us and how we have a responsibility to use these gifts wisely.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 33rd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 2ma 7:1, 20-31
Resp: psa 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15
Gsp: luk 19:11-28

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Homily #140220b ( 07min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the life of Bl. Jacinta Marto one of the seers of Fatima and who was poor in this world’s gods but rich spiritually.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Bl. Jacinta Marto – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Thursday 6th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: jam 2:1-9
Resp: psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Gsp: mar 8:27-33

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Homily #140515 ( 06:31 min) Play The Catechism of the Catholic Church #2010 and the Council of Trent (Can. 32 of the Canons on Justification) affirm that we can merit eternal life.  Let us strive to do so, through the Immaculate!
Ave Maria!
Mass: Thursday 4th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 13:13-25
Resp: psa 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27
Gsp: joh 13:16-20

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Homily #141116n ( 22min) Play – Fr. Matthias comments on today’s gospel, telling us that while we don’t all receive the same amount of grace, we all do have the obligation to use what we have. Father gives us the three conditions to merit: 1) we have to do a good work while in the state of grace, 2) we need to do the works appropriate to our state in life, and 3) it needs to be done out of a supernatural motive, that is, out of love for God. And he gives us one final exhortation: We are responsible for our actions, we were given our free will to use it, and Our Lord will ask us “What good have you done?”
Ave Maria!
Mass: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: pro 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31
Resp: psa 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
2nd: 1th 5:1-6
Gsp: mat 25:14-30

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Merit is the right to a reward because of the works we do, and literally all of our works can be meritorious, enabling us to turn our whole life into a time of merit. Theology teaches us that merit in the proper sense is that by which a recompense is owed in justice, or at least by virtue of a promise. Thus in the natural order, the worker merits his salary…

In the supernatural order we seek merit, a recompense which far exceeds all the honor and glory which the world can offer. By fulfilling his duties in his ordinary life the Christian in the state of grace gains more grace in his soul and merits eternal life. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us and eternal wait of glory beyond all comparison.(cf Lk 6: 20-26)

The works we do each day are meritorious if we do them well and with an upright intention, if we offer them to God at the beginning of the day and in the holy mass, when we with the right intention start some task as well as when we finish it. Our works will be especially meritorious if we unite them to the merits of Christ and to those of our Lady. In this way we gain possession of those graces infinite value which our Lord won for us, principally on the cross, and which our Lady also won for us, co-redeeming with her Son in an exceptional manner. God our Father then sees our works invested with a new and infinite character, for we have become shares in the merits of Christ.

Conscious of the supernatural reality, should we not ask ourselves whether we are trying to offer everything to our Lord, the ordinary things of each day and the exceptional or difficult ones too, such as sickness, persecution, or slander? It is especially in these most difficult times that we should remember the words of the gospel; and to rejoice in that day, and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven.(Pet 3:17).

There is yet another thing that can help us carry out our tasks more perfectly. This is the realization that through them we can merit, relying on our friendship with our Lord, the conversion of a son, a brother or a friend, so long as we ourselves are in the state of grace and seek perfectly to carry out our work for God’s glory alone. This is the way of the Saints.

Let us therefore take full advantage of every opportunity to help others along the path to heaven. And let us act in this way with even greater fervor and tenacity in the cause of those whom God has placed near to us and of those who are seem to be in the greatest need of spiritual help.

Fr. Francis Fernandez

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Paragraphs 2006-2029

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c3a2.htm#2006

PART THREE – LIFE IN CHRIST
– SECTION ONE: MAN’S VOCATION: LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
– – CHAPTER THREE: GOD’S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
– – – ARTICLE 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
– – – – III. Merit
– – – – IV. Christian Holiness
– – – – IN BRIEF

Ave Maria!
“Tour of the Catechism of the Catholic Church” is given by Fr. Daniel J. Mahan, S.T.L., pastor of St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomington, Indiana, and St. Jude the Apostle in Spencer. He will cover the entire Catechism in about 80 videos, giving an outline of the content along with clear easy to follow explanations. It will be based on the 2nd Edition of the Catechism.

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Fr. Ignatius on the need for grace and how, on one extreme, the Pelagians and the secularists say they can be saved without it and, on the other extreme, the Calvinists believe even with grace we are not rendered holy. Father relates this to Mary and growing in grace by cooperating with it.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Friday in the 3rd Week in Advent – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: son 2:8-14
Resp: psa 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21 0
Gsp: luk 1:39-45

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Dr. Mark Miravalle on the Immaculate Conception and the related doctrine of Mary as Coredemptrix.

For more information and resources:

• Phone: 740-937-2277
• Site: http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/
• Email: mary@motherofallpeoples.com

Ave Maria!

– MNOW 63

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Oct 27 on how charity must reign in our efforts to spread the truth both in regard to making the truth appealing to those who need to receive it, but also to be able to work together with our fellow Christians and in this way practice what we preach and become saints.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Saturday in the 29th Week in Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: eph 4:7-16
Resp: psa 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 0
Gsp: luk 13:1-9

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