Homily #130815b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim preaches on the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He starts with the Papal Encyclical titled Munificentissimus Deus (The most bountiful God) of Pope Pius XII which defined the the doctrine as a dogma in 1950.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: rev 11:19, 12 1-6, 10
Resp: psa 45:10, 11, 12, 16
2nd: 1co 15:20-26
Gsp: luk 1:39-56

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A special grace comes from recognizing Our Lady as Queen: the grace of Peace.

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Mass: Queenship of Mary – Mem

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On the Feast of St. Joseph Worker (May 01), Fr. Matthias focuses in the homily on how St. Joseph’s life is an eloquent example of Catholic manhood and fatherhood.

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Mass: St. Joseph the Worker – Opt Mem

Readings: Tuesday 5th Week of Easter
1st: Act 14:19-28
Resp: Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 21
Gsp: Jn 14:27-31

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On the Feast of St. Dominic (Priest, Confessor, Founder, Order of Preachers, Aug 8,2019), Fr. Matthias expounds on the power of the Rosary to help those who use it to perfect their approach to prayer. Explaining a common but erroneous attitude toward prayer, and citing the teaching of Pope (Ven.) Pius XII, Father shows how the Rosary helps us to dispose ourselves to receive the graces God wants to give us.

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Mass: Holy Father Dominic

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39. We must remember especially that, since the second century, the Virgin Mary has been designated by the holy Fathers as the new Eve, who, although subject to the new Adam, is most intimately associated with him in that struggle against the infernal foe which, as foretold in the protoevangelium, would finally result in that most complete victory over the sin and death which are always mentioned together in the writings of the Apostle of the Gentiles.

Consequently, just as the glorious resurrection of Christ was an essential part and the final sign of this victory, so that struggle which was common to the Blessed Virgin and her divine Son should be brought to a close by the glorification of her virginal body, for the same Apostle says: “When this mortal thing hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.”

40. Hence the revered Mother of God, from all eternity joined in a hidden way with Jesus Christ in one and the same decree of predestination, immaculate in her conception, a most perfect virgin in her divine motherhood, the noble associate of the divine Redeemer who has won a complete triumph over sin and its consequences, finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages…

45. Hence if anyone, which God forbid, should dare willfully to deny or to call into doubt that which we have defined, let him know that he has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith.

Excerpts from: APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION OF POPE PIUS XII 

MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS: DEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION

November 1, 1950

http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19501101_munificentissimus-deus.html

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In the homily for a votive mass of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, Jan 15, 2020),  Fr. Matthias explains the need for having the right attitude in prayer so that we can receive the graces God wants to give us. Through the Rosary, Our Blessed Lady helps us in a particular way to develop the proper dispositions of gratitude and expectation that please God and prepare us to receive the gifts we ask for and that He wants to give us.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Votive Mass in Honor of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Wednesday 1st Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: 1 Sam 3:1-10, 19-20
Resp: Ps 40:2-5, 7-8, 8-9, 10
Gsp: Mk 1:29-39

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Mary’s love for mankind was so great that Venerable Pope Pius XII did not hesitate to link her love in as intimate a manner as possible with that of the Son of God. “By the will of God,” he wrote, “the most blessed Virgin Mary was inseparably joined with Christ in accomplishing the work of man’s redemption, so that salvation flows from the love of Jesus Christ and His sufferings, intimately united with the love and sorrows of His Mother.”

Mary’s love is the most perfect reflection of the love of the God-Man possible in a human being. So perfect is the union of these two hearts that we now use the expression, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. If one is deeply moved by the love of the Son, one cannot fail also to be moved by that of the Mother. One must respond with gratitude to the one as to the other.

This is why the same Pontiff wrote: “It is, then, highly fitting that after due homage has been paid to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Christian people who have obtained divine life from Christ through Mary manifest similar piety and the love of their grateful souls for the most loving Heart of our heavenly Mother.”

+ Fr. Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

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