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May 03 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: A Little While Longer

apostolate — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:51:15 +0000

Homily #090503 ( 05min) Play – “A little while and you will no longer see me,” says Our Lord, “and again a little while later and you will see me,” referring to His Ascension and Second Coming. As we wait for His coming let us not get discouraged but realize that the kingdoms of this world will not last.

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Video – No Apologies #110 – Apocalypse 1000 Year Reign

apostolate — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:52 +0000

No Apologies #110 – ( 07min) >>> Play

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All Christians profess their belief that Christ will (or already has ) returned. But what that exactly means and how that will (or already has) come about can vary greatly. One of those differences is in the understanding of the “1000 years” reign of Christ spoken of in the book of revelation. How can we rightly interpret this in light of other Scripture passages?

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Video – No Apologies #111 – The Ruptured Rapture

apostolate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:29 +0000

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Most fundamentalist teach their belief in the rapture, where those who are to be saved are taken silently up to the heavens to be with Christ before the great tribulation. This teaching is based on a bad interpretation of St. Paul.

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Video – No Apologies #112 – Ruptured Rapture 2

apostolate — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:00:16 +0000

No Apologies #112 – ( 03min) >>> Play

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“Two men will be in the field, one will b e taken and the other left.” ‘Rapturists’ believe that this text from Matthew’s Gospel teaches the rapture. A closer look shows that you can only find this doctrine here when you isolate the verses and read the rapture into the text.

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Video – No Apologies #113 – More Ruptered Rapture

apostolate — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:00:48 +0000

No Apologies #113 -The Apostles and the martrys were not spared their pains. ( 04min) >>> Play

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The rapture also contradicts Scripture in that it is to take place before the tribulation and that it doesn’t recognize the value of trials and suffering.

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Nov 24 – No Homily

apostolate — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:48:27 +0000

Sorry, No Homily Today

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Fr. Bonaventure explains in today’s Gospel that we should not worry about the time and place of the tribulations that will come before the Second Coming of Christ.

Today we celebrate the feast of St. Andrew Dun-Lac and Companions who were martyred in Vietnam for their faith.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Dan 2:31-45
R: Dan 3:57-61
G: Lk 21:5-11

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Divine Mercy, preparation for the Second Coming

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:00:08 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

The Divine Mercy: PREPARING FOR THE SECOND COMING

Our Lord makes it very clear to Saint Faustina that this need to proclaim His message of mercy is urgent, because the world needs it as a preparation for His corning again: Speak to the world about My mercy…It is a sign for the end times. After it will come the Day of Justice (848) …You will prepare the world for My final coming (429) … Tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice, is near (965).

Repeatedly the Lord tells Saint Faustina that He is offering sinners the “last hope of salvation.” No matter how great our sins, He wants us to come back to Him, but we must respond now, while it is still the time of mercy: Before the Day of Justice, I am sending the Day of Mercy (1588)… I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation (1160)…While there is still time, let them have recourse to the fountain of My mercy (848) … He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice (1146).

Our Lady, too, speaks to Saint Faustina about the urgency of the message of mercy: You have to speak to the world about His great mercy and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as q merciful Savior, but as a just Judge. Oh how terrible is that day! Determined is the day of justice, the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for granting mercy (635).

Pope John Paul II seems to have a strong sense of this urgency. In 1981, at the Shrine of Merciful Love in Collevalenza, Italy, he stated that from the very beginning of his ministry he has considered the message of mercy as his “special task,” assigned to him by God “in the present situation of man, the Church and the world.” In four of his encyclicals he speaks repeatedly of the year 2000 as the “new Advent” and stresses that we are now living in a special time of preparation for the new coming of the Lord. He urges us “to implore God’s mercy for humanity in this hour of history … to beg for it at this difficult, critical phase of the history of the Church and of the world as we approach the end of the second millennium” (Rich in Mercy, 15).

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Nov 25 – Homily – Fr Elias: King of Kings, Lord of Lords

apostolate — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:15:31 +0000

Homily #121125b ( 19min) Play – Fr. Elias on the Kingship of Christ and how focusing on the kingship and final victory of Christ of his second coming is fitting prelude to the Advent Season that focuses on his first coming. Fr. Elias outlines the history of the revelation of His Kinship starting with Dan and ending with the Book of Revelation, how the kinship is not just over people but also over all of creation and will extend in the future even to the everlasting kingdom of heaven.

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Mass: Christ the King – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: dan 7:13-14
Resp: psa 93:1, 1-2, 5
2nd: rev 1:5-8
Gsp: joh 18:33-37

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Dec 02 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Coming of Advent

apostolate — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:03:34 +0000

Homily #121202b ( 10min) Play – Fr. Joachim on beginning of the season of Advent. Advent means Coming so he is preaching on the coming of the season of coming of Our Lord. He points out how the readings focus on the second coming of Christ and how this season which prepares us for the first coming should also prepare us for the Second.
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Mass: 1st Sunday of Advent – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: jer 33:14-16
Resp: psa 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14
2nd: 1th 3:12-4:2
Gsp: luk 21:25-28, 34-36

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Dec 16 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Thankful Rejoicing

apostolate — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:21:33 +0000

Homily #121216b ( 13min) Play – Fr. Joachim on Gaudete Sunday (Rejoice Sunday) exhorts us to rejoice for the Lord is near as we approach the great celebration of Christmas. Fr. Joachim relates this to to the many ways that Christ is present to us in all the various points in history and in or own lives, including the Old Testament as he was present in the Tabernacle of Israel and to those who lived in the time of Christ in the New testament, and finally in the Second Coming when he comes in Glory. Father focuses on how we should not only rejoice in this presence, but give thanks. This is the best way to prepare for His coming including at Mass when we receive Him in the Eucharist, which means thanks giving.
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Mass: 3rd Sunday of Advent – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: zep 3:14-18
Resp: isa 12:2-3, 4, 5-6
2nd: phi 4:4-7
Gsp: luk 3:10-18

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