Your eyes at the midnight Mass will gaze upon the elevated Host and your lips will utter, “My Lord and my God.” A few minutes more and the little Infant will have come to you. His Immaculate Mother did not hold him more truly in her arms that first Christmas midnight than you will have him, heart to heart. Then all the love of that Infant Redeemer will be poured out upon you. It is a thirst of the heart of every creature that desires to be loved, and the love which can alone satisfy that craving is the Divine Love.

Let your heart delight in the love your God has for you, personally, individually. No soul ever in ardent fervor desires to unite herself to our Lord in Holy Communion, as our Lord desires to unite him­self to her. So Holy Communion is a delight to your Infant Savior, because he loves you, oh, how immea­surably! He tells you in his heart to heart interview that he has become a little Infant so that you may love him with a human love without fear. He wants you to confide in him, approach to him with a con­viction that his Great Majesty is annihilated that you may no longer see in him but a little Child, with a body and soul just as you have.

And the mystery of love is this: that he unites his Body to your body and your soul to his Soul, so that yours may be a member of his very own. This Christmas Holy Communion will unite you to our Lord, it is my prayer, more intimately than ever before in all your lives so that even the smallest of your actions may by this union be animated with divine Life – and all for the honor of the Father and the salvation of souls. May you participate in his life of charity, and may a divine light illumine you to see the depths and heights of the charity of a God made Man to redeem that which was lost. You participate in the spirit and the immense charity of Christ so as to be born this Christmas to a new life of charity – for “he that abides in charity, abides in God.”

St. Katherine Drexel

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Homily #121224 ( 08min) Play – At this Christmas midnight Mass, Fr. Ignatius explains our great joy, for the Child born on this night frees us from the slavery of sin, gives us everlasting joy, peace, and freedom, Jesus Christ Our Lord. Ave Maria!

Mass: Nativity of the Lord (Midnight) – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 9:1-6
Resp: psa 96:1-2, 2-3, 11-12, 13
2nd: tit 2:11-14
Gsp: luk 2:1-14

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Homily #121225 ( 18min) Play – On this Christmas day, Fr. George explains how the three Christmas Masses at midnight, dawn, and during the day symbolize three “births” of Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Merry Christmas! Ave Maria!

Mass: Nativity of the Lord (Day) – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 52:7-10
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6
2nd: heb 1:1-6
Gsp: joh 1:1-18

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Homily #131224bs ( 10min) Play – Fr. Joachim for the Christmas Midnight Mass preaches on the great mystery of the coming of Our Savior as a little babe in swaddling clothes and how he is the image of love, the love of God in a human form.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Nativity of the Lord (Midnight) – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 9:1-6
Resp: psa 96:1-2, 2-3, 11-12, 13
2nd: tit 2:11-14
Gsp: luk 2:1-14

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Homily #131224n ( 09min) Play – Fr. Angelo reflects on the two silences of Christmas night. The first is the silence of adoration, the only response fitting for the great mystery, and the silence of sleep, a sign of sin and death. Father exhorts us to make our silence that of adoration, and to always hold onto hope, for Jesus is God-With-Us.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Nativity of the Lord (Midnight) – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 9:1-6
Resp: psa 96:1-2, 2-3, 11-12, 13
2nd: tit 2:11-14
Gsp: luk 2:1-14

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Homily #151225a ( 05min) Play – This is a reflection given by Fr. Andre M. Feain on the readings for the Christmas Midnight Mass, December 25th 2015.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Nativity of the Lord (Midnight) – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 9:1-6
Resp: psa 96:1-2, 2-3, 11-12, 13
2nd: tit 2:11-14
Gsp: luk 2:1-14

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Is there any reason to think Christ was really born on December 25th? Here are three reasons.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Weekdays of Advent – Dec 20

Readings: 
1st: Is 7:10-14
Resp: Ps 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: Lk 1:26-38

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on For the Christmas Midnight Mass 2021, on how Christ the Lord is coming in the night and we must keep watch and be prepared by renouncing sin and all godless ways, and worldly desires. We should instead seek heavenly things. Jesus exemplifies this by being born poor in a manger in Bethlehem.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Nativity of the Lord (Midnight) – Solemnity
Readings:  – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122521-night.cfm
1st: isa 9:1-6
Resp: psa 96:1-2, 2-3, 11-12, 13
2nd: tit 2:11-14
Gsp: luk 2:1-14

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