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Jun 16 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Patience not Pacifism

apostolate — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:53:25 +0000

Homily #080616 ( 08min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us to turn the other cheek when we are struck. Fr. Bonaventure explains that this does not mean that we should be pacifists, doormats, that should compromise everything, even truth, rather than defend ourselves but rather that we should put away the old natural law of vengeance and replace it with patience out of love of neighbor.
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Feb 18 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Why Jesus Heals

apostolate — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:49:49 +0000

Homily #090218 ( 08min) Play – Sometimes Our Lord heals right away sometimes he wants us to wait and exercise the virtue of patience and faith to bring us closer to Him.
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Feb 13 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Seeking Our Lord

apostolate — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:31:27 +0000

Homily #100213 ( 08min) Play – Fr Angelo preaches on the Gospel for the Memorial of Our Lady on a Saturday. Our Lady and St Joseph seek our Lord for three days before finding him in the Temple, but all the while they new the questions that they had in their hearts would be answered. We too need patience in this regard.
Ave Maria! Mass readings Luk 2:43-52

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On Patient Endurance

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:22 +0000

One Minute Meditation

Patient Endurance

We experience daily just how difficult it is to promote the kingdom of God in our personal lives by fulfilling his will in every respect. No one who has tried seriously to live each day in this way will say it is an easy task. It can only be done with the help of God’s grace. That grace is always given to us, but we must learn to recognize it in the people and circumstances presented to us by God’s providence, in the thoughts and inspirations that tug at our minds and our hearts.

We know that we do not always respond to God’s grace, for his grace always demands of us sacrifice, renunciation of self-will, effort, and an untiring spirit of dedication – and the practice of these things does not come easily to the young, or the tired adult, or the old. Yet that is what the kingdom of God is all about.

Knowing how little of grace is accepted and realized in our own personal lives, we can imagine how much of his grace is spurned or rejected by those around us. In this way we come to understand, too, why there yet exists so much evil, sin, violence, wars, hatred, immorality, persecution of religion, and denial even of God himself in the world today. These things must follow, so long as men refuse to accept God’s grace and do his will. The kingdom of God, reintroduced among men by the Incarnation of Christ who came to set us a most perfect example of a man totally dedicated in all things and at all times to the will of the Father – cannot and will not be established until all men live each day of their lives according to his example.

FATHER WALTER J. CISZEK, S.J.

“I wish, oh Jesus, that my voice could reach to the ends of the world, to call all sinners and tell them to enter into Thy Heart….Oh, if only all sinners would come to Thy Heart! Come! Come sinners, do not be afraid! The sword of Justice cannot reach you Here!” ~St Gemma Galgani

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Sep 19 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Called to One Faith One Church

apostolate — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:40:19 +0000

Homily #100919 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the first reading and the need to recognize the one true faith and the need to be a member of the one Church founded by Christ.

Ephesians 4:1-6:

1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called: 2 With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. 3 Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

Ave Maria! Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Iustus Es Domine – Readings:
1st: eph 4:1-6
Gsp: mat 22:34-36

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therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called: 2 With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. 3 Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

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Video – Face of Pro-Life #107: Eileen Haupt, Raising a Down Syndrome Child

apostolate — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:04:26 +0000

Face of Pro-Life #107 – Hostess Leticia Velasquez with Eileen Haupt ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez and Eileen Haupt, co-founders of Keep Infants with Down Syndrome discuss what it is like to raise a child with Down Syndrome and what it has added to their lives and to their families. The benefits they received include greater patience, close bonds with their special family members and a new appreciation of the common gifts of life like walking and talking and the many other hings that take a longer time for Downs children to learn. They also learn how much children with disabilities can overcome difficulties and become productive, functioning members of society and even bring special talents. Both mothers relate how much religious devotion their Down children have.

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Nov 17 – Homily – Fr Dominic: St Elizabeth the Poor Queen

apostolate — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:51:39 +0000

Homily #101117 ( 10min) Play – Today is the feast of St Elizabeth of Hungary patron saint of the Franciscan Third Order. Fr. Dominic preaches on her short life focusing on her acts of charity and her heroic patience when her husband died and her royal in-laws kicked her out of the palace where she had to live in poverty. Even after being reinstated in the palace she decided to live a poor life in a convent doing good works.
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Mass: St. Elizabeth of Hungary – Franciscan Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: sir 26:1-3, 15-18, 24
Resp: psa 31:8-5, 8-9, 20, 24-25
2nd: 1ti 5:3-10
Gsp: mat 25:31-40

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Jun 24 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: An Ancient Birth to Baptize Our Times

apostolate — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:43:11 +0000

Homily #120624 ( 34min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on how the Birth of John the Baptist, which happened so long ago, is most relevant to our times and to the New Evangelization proclaimed by John Paul II and the true pastoral spirit of Vatican II. As John is the precursor to the Lord, so are we, as we go out into the world giving good example and good news, we are saving souls from despair, bringing them to repentance and to Baptism and so receive Jesus into their hearts. Father exhorts us to be both loving and accurate in our presentation of the Gospel, always showing concern and patient consideration of the needs of the souls we are evangelizing. This is the true Catholic pastoral spirit which is the true way to follow Christ’s example and is the only way to truly build up the body of Christ.
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Mass: Birth of St. John the Baptist – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 49:1-6
Resp: psa 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15
2nd: act 13:22-26
Gsp: luk 1:57-66, 80

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Oct 26 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Bear With One Another

apostolate — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:41:40 +0000

Homily #121026 ( 05min) Play– Fr. Ignatius encourages unity by the practice of gentleness by superiors and patience by subordinates, whether in religious life, or between prelates and the faithful in the Church, or parents and children in the family.

Ave Maria!
Mass: Bl. Bonaventure of Potenza – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Friday in the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: eph 4:1-6
Resp: psa 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 12:54-59

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Feb 01 – Homily – Fr Dominic: Progress in Holiness and Acquiring Virtues

Griswold Friars — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:54:42 +0000

Homily #130201 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Dominic encourages us to be patient but to continually strive in our progress in holiness and acquiring virtues, for God makes us holy at His pace.

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Mass: Friday 3rd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: heb 10:32-39
Resp: psa 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40
Gsp: mar 4:26-34

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