Homily #090610m ( 10min) Play – Ave Maria!

So here’s our first homily from Mt. St. Francis Hermitage, Maine NY, and the celebrant is Fr. Johannes Michael Mary Smith.

One of our AirMaria.com crew members is on a temporary assignment at the friary in Maine and so he’s going to start posting 3 homilies a week from there. This homily is a good great start.

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Homily #090614m ( 18min) Play – The Feast of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I always liked this story about St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas – I would also have liked to have seen the text composed by St. Bonaventure!
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The post Jun 14 – Homily – Fr Johannes: Corpus Christi first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090619m ( 14min) Play – Sweet Heart of Jesus make me know and love Thee.
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The post Jun 19 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: Sacred Heart of Jesus first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090622m ( 09min) Play – It may not be long before we may be forced to choose between our lives and our faith – Sts John Fisher and Thomas More both gave their lives defending the indissolubility of marriage and the Primacy of St Peter.  Sts John Fisher and Thomas More… Pray for us.
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Homily #090703m ( 10min) Play – St. Irenaeus was the student of a disciple of St. John the Apostle.  Father quotes St. Irenaeus concerning Our Lady, calling her the New Eve who “through her obedience untied the knot that had been bound by Eve.”  St. Irenaeus also calls Her the “Cause of Salvation for Herself and for all the children of Eve.”
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The post Jul 03 – Homily – Fr Johannes: St Irenaeus – Father of the Church first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090706m ( 10min) Play – St. Maria Goretti was martyred by being stabbed fourteen times while defending her chastity.  Before Maria died she forgave her assailant and prayed that he would be in Heaven with her someday.  Later when the murderer was in solitary confinement, she appeared to him in a vision giving him one flower for each of the stab wounds he inflicted…  View the video to hear more of this beautiful story.
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The post Jul 06 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: St. Maria Goretti first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090708m ( 13min) Play – “Blessed are the peacemakers,  for they shall be called children of  God.”  Real peace begins with making peace with God.  Father Johannes relates a few stories of St. Elizabeth and how she lived out this beatitude heroically.

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The post Jul 08 – Homily – Fr Johannes: Blessed are the Peacemakers – St. Elizabeth first appeared on AirMaria.com.

Homily #090711ms ( 15 min) Play – St. Veronica “consecrated herself to Our Lady and she sought to become a living image of Our Lady…so close was the similarity between St. Veronica and Our Blessed Lady that they were almost interchangeable…”
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Homily #090714m ( 05min) Play – Sorry, this is so late.  Fr. John Joseph explains that great spiritual gifts come with great spiritual responsibility as it did for St. Francis of Solano.
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Homily #090719m ( 14 min) Play – Father speaks of the necessity of rest and recreation.  As St. Gregory of Nazianzen says, “a cord connot endure constant tension, and an archer needs to loosen the ends of a bow if he wants to be able to draw it again later on.”  Father also comments that we must not become forgetful of God during this rest and recreation as many often do.

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