Homily #080322 ( 14min) Play – Darkness has been replaced with light, death with life. Christ has risen and conquered our death and sin.?Listen as Fr. Angelo relates our joy on Easter to that?of Mary Magdalene’s enlightenment at the realization of Christ’s resurrection.

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Homily #080323 ( 05min) Play – Christ is risen but there are others who were resurrected from the dead both by old Testament Patriarchs and New Testament Apostles. So what is unique about the rising of Christ even above these other amazing miracles. Come listen and learn from Fr. Igantius.
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Homily #080324 ( 04min) Play – The Resurrection is an historical fact! contrary to what the Modernist Heretic says. So we, by our words and our actions, must prove this fact in our lives.
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Homily #080325 ( 06min) Play – St Mary Magdalene is rewarded in an extraordinary way for her love of Our Lord by His appearance to her at the tomb after His Resurrection. Let us follow her example and continually seek after Our Lord day after day.
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Homily #080329 ( 07min) Play – Tradition holds, and the Church teaches, that Our Lord first appeared to His Mother after His Resurrection. So when the Gospel writers say that our Lord first appeared to Mary Magdalen, this does not exclude the possibility that he appeared to His Mother before this.
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No Apologies #42 – Even His enimies couldn’t deny the facts! ( 07min) >>> Play

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Christ truly died and truly rose from the dead. This miracle is absolute proof of His claim to be Divine.

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No Apologies #43 -?The resurrection still stands as an absolute proof of Christ’s Divinity.?( 07min) >>> Play

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Some say Christ never died. Some say the Apostles Hallucinated. Neither of these objections hold water.

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Homily #080705 ( 11min) Play – At this funeral Mass for Thom and Marc Girard at St. Mary’s Church in Baltic we learn of the power of faith in the resurrection to give hope in the face of such loss. Thom was faithful to God and family, truly living his vocation as Father, husband and Knight of Lepanto and imbued this faith to his family. Marc, Thom’s eldest son, received from this faith the desire to give himself to God as a Knight of Lepanto and as a friar here in the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, planning on entering this August. Through this faith he had the strength to try to save his Father and his family had the strength to endure this tragedy with calm and hopeful joy. Fr. Angelo reads part of the Knights of Lepanto induction ceremony which Thom wrote (really a first draft) knowing that his son Marc will be the first to go through the new ceremony last May at the Knight’s Encampment. Farewell, good knights. Farewell, good friends.
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Homily #090326 ( 06min) Play – The widow who’s son had died wept like only a mother can. Listen to see how she reflects Mary’s sorrow and her joy at the resurrection.

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Ave Maria Meditations

If we have at length interpreted the connection between Supper and Cross, we have in fact all the time been speaking also of the Resurrection. Not only are Supper and Cross inseparable: Supper, Cross and Resurrec­tion form the one indivisible Paschal Mystery. The theology of the Cross is the Resurrection; therefore the Resurrection is the divine response and the divine interpretation of the Cross. The theology of the Cross is a paschal theology, a theology of joyous victory even in this valley of tears.

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We have shown that the Last Supper was the anticipation of the violent death of Jesus, and that the Cross without the Supper, the Supper without the reality of the Cross, would remain void. Now we have to add that the Last Supper also antic­ipates the Resurrection, the certainty that love is stronger than death. This act of love to the last is the transubstanti­ation of death, its radical transformation, the power of the Resurrection already present in the shadow of death.

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The Supper without the Cross, the Cross without the Sup­per, would be void, but the two without the Resurrection would be the wreck of hope. The image of the pierced side, fount of water and blood, is also the image of the Resurrec­tion, of love stronger than death. In the Eucharist we receive this love – we receive the medicine of immortality. The Eu­charist guides us to the fount of true life, of invincible life, and shows us where and how true life is to be found – not in riches and possessions, not in having. Only if we follow Jesus on the way of his Cross, do we find ourselves on the road to life.

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The Resurrection of Jesus says that this victory is in effect possible, that death does not belong principally and irrevo­cably to the structure of the creature, to matter. Certainly it also says that to overcome the confines of death is not pos­sible, definitively, by sophisticated clinical methods, through technology. This comes about through the creative power of the word and of love. Only these powers are sufficiently strong to modify so fundamentally the structure of matter, to make it possible to overcome the barrier of death.

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Hence in the extraordinary promise of this event there is also found an extraordinary call, a vocation, a whole interpretation of human existence and the existence of the world. But es­pecially, it becomes manifest in this way that faith in the Resurrection of Jesus is a profession of the real existence of God and a profession of his creation, of the unconditional “Yes” with which God stands before creation, before mat­ter. The word of God truly penetrates to the heart of the body. His power does not end at the confines of matter. It embraces everything. And therefore also responsibility be­fore this word certainly permeates matter and the body, and is there affirmed.

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Quite definitely, this is what faith in the Resurrection is concerned with: the real power of God, and the importance of human responsibility. That the power of God is hope and joy: this is the liberation revealed at Easter. In the Pasch, God reveals himself, his power – superior to the power of death – the power of the love of the Trinity. So the paschal revelation gives us the right to sing “Alleluia” in a world overcast with the cloud of death.

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