Homily #080615 ( 00min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure highlights how deep the mercy of Christ is for His sheep in the account presented in the Gospel today. He points out that this mercy and compassion which leads Our Lord to die for His sheep is the key mark that distinguishes a good pastor from bad and motivates the good ones to feed their sheep with the true, unchanging doctrine entrusted to the apostles and their successors. From this basis he launches into a critique of modern culture and politics that fall far short of the mark.
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In his 1986 Holy Thursday Letter to Priests, Pope John Paul II wrote:

The Mass was for John Mary Vianney the great joy and comfort of his priestly life. He took great care, despite the crowds of penitents, to spend more than a quarter of an hour in silent preparation. He celebrated with recollection, clearly expressing his adoration at the consecration and communion. He accurately remarked: “The cause of priestly laxity is not paying attention to the Mass!”

The Curé of Ars was particularly mindful of the permanence of Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist. It was generally before the tabernacle that he spent long hours in adoration, before daybreak or in the evening; it was towards the tabernacle that he often turned during his homilies, saying with emotion: “He is there!”

It was also for this reason that he, so poor in his presbytery, did not hesitate to spend large sums on embellishing his church. The appreciable result was that his parishioners quickly took up the habit of coming to pray before the Blessed Sacrament, discovering, through the attitude of their pastor, the grandeur of the mystery of faith.

Dear brother priests, the example of the Curé of Ars invites us to a serious examination of conscience: what place do we give to the Mass in our daily lives? Is it, as on the day of our Ordination — it was our first act as priests! — the principle of our apostolic work and personal sanctification? What care do we take in preparing for it? And in celebrating it? In prayng before the Blessed Sacrament? In encouraging our faithful people to do the same? In making our churches the House of God to which the divine presence attracts the people of our time who too often have the impression of a a world empty of God.

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Homily #120131 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on how St. John Bosco, like Jesus, worked with people around him to help them in their everyday needs an so bring them closer to God. He mentions the three principles of his Preventative Education which this saint used to bring young people to conversion, Reason, Religion and Kindness.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. John Bosco – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday 4th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 2sa 18:9-10, 14, 24-25, 30-19:3
Resp: psa 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: mar 5:21-43

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Homily #120923b ( 10min) Play – Fr. Elias preaches on the feast of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Fr. Elias preaches on the pastoral spirit of Padre Pio and how he won so many graces for the conversion of souls through the extraordiary sufferings that he endured in union with Christ’s. (Normally this feast falls on the 23rd of September which was a Sunday this year but he is one of the patron saints for the FIs so we celebrate his feast the following day.)
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Mass: St. Pio of Pietrelcina 2 – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jer 7:22-23
Resp: psa 15:1-2, 5, 7-8, 11
Gsp: mat 11:25-30

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Homily #121207b ( 13min) Play–

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the homily for the fifth and final Mass for the retreat for priest at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center. St. Ambrose took the bishopric of Milan on the insistence of the people to combat the errors of the time in an environment of established paganism and the growing heresy of Arianism. He himself being unbaptized first had to be baptized and then ordained a bishop. He then humbly began to be catechized by St. Simplician, adding sound Church teaching to his profound secular learning. By his thorough learning of the faith he became a great evangelizer, Christianizing the pagan city of Milan and cleansing it of Arianism, even when the emperor tried to reinstate it by force. He was instrumental in converting St Augustine and teaching him the faith. Let us pray to St. Ambrose and follow his example in order to combat the errors and paganism of our day.
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Mass: St. Ambrose – Mem – Form: OF

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Homily #140512b ( 09min) Play – Fr. Elias on the life of St. Leopold Mandic especially his many hours spent in the confessional and his good pastorship of souls. Father  also asks for reparation for the Black Mass scheduled at Harvard today.
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Mass: St. Leopold Mandic – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 4th Week of Easter
1st: act 11:1-18
Resp: psa 42:2-3, 43:3, 4
Gsp: joh 10:11-18

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Homily #140903b ( 09min) Play – Fr. Elias preaches on the life of St Gregory the Great and how he was the shepherd of shepherds, providing much guidance for all future shepherds to be good leaders of their flocks.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Gregory the Great – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Wednesday in the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: 1co 3:1-9
Resp: psa 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21
Gsp: luk 4:38-44

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Aug 04 on how our Lord points out how few are the laborers given the size of the harvest and asks us to pray for more. Fr. Ignatius links this to the holy ministry of St. John Vianney patron saint of parish priests.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Jean Vianney (the Cure of Ars) – Mem
Readings: Saturday in the 17th Week in Ordinary Time (Alt Reading)
1st: 1co 10:31-11:1
Resp: psa 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34 0
Gsp: mat 9:35-10:1

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On the memorial of St. Gregory the Great (Pope & Doctor of the Church, Sept. 3), Fr. Alan explains how the current crisis of sexual abuse within the Church conspicuously points to the need for reform, beginning by restoring the principle of truth in matters of faith and morals, especially with regard to sexual behavior.

St. Gregory reformed the Church in his day, addressing lost discipline in the clergy and in the liturgy by restoring the sense of sin and of the sense of the sacred. These fundamental issues are today undermined by the loss of the principle of truth, through relativism. A sense of truth must be restored in order to resolve the crisis at the root.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Gregory the Great – Mem

Readings: 
1st: 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7
Resp: Ps 96:1-3, 7-8, 10
Gsp: Lk 22:24-30

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on May 29, 2020, on how we must show our love by practicing it, leading souls to eternal life, and this is especially true of pastors, including popes like St. Paul VI whose feast it is today.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Friday 7th Week of Easter – Wkdy
Readings: http://usccb.org/bible/readings/052920.cfm
1st: act 25:13-21
Resp: psa 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20 0
Gsp: joh 21:15-19

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