Homily #100608 ( 09min) Play – “Actions speak loader than words.” We see this saying fulfilled in St.Anthony.
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Homily #140613b ( 12min) Play – Fr. Elias on the life of St.Anthony of Padua and how he lived a pure and humble life and yet was a very learned man who became a great preacher as well as a great miracle worker.
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Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 61:1-3
Resp: psa 89:2-3, 4-5, 21-22, 23, 27
Gsp: luk 10:1-9

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Homily #150613b ( 13min) Play – Fr. Joseph on the meaning of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, that it consists of her perfect love of God and a complete conformity with God’s will. We need to imitate her love and ask her for the grace to do so, especially in our tempestuous times. Father relates the example of Lucia one of the children seers of in the prophetic apparitions of Fatima, who asked Our Lady for help in the years to come. Father also notes that this is the Feast of St. Anthony, invokes his intercession and blesses the lilies.
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Mass: Immaculate Heart of Mary – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 61:9-11
Resp: 1sa 2:1, 4-8
Gsp: luk 2:41-51

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Holy Saint Anthony, gentlest of saints, your love for God and charity for his creatures made you worthy to possess miraculous powers on earth. Miracles waited on your word, which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged by this thought, I implore of you to obtain for me ( your request). The answer to my prayer may require a miracle, even so, you are the saint of miracles. O gentle and loving Saint Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ear of the sweet infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms, and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen.

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Father talks about St. Anthony of Padua/Lisbon.

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Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – Mem

Readings: 

1st: Isa 61:1-3
Resp: Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 21-22, 23, 27 0
Gsp: Lk 10:1-9

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On the Feast of St. Anthony (Jun 13), Fr Maximilian gives the homily on St. Anthony’s response to Our Lord’s mandate to “go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature” (Mk 16:15).

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Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – Feast

Readings: 
1st: Wis 7:7-14
Resp: Ps 40:3-4, 10-11, 17
2nd: Eph 4:7, 11-15
Gsp: Mk 16:15-20

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On the memorial of St. Monica (mother of St. Augustine, Aug. 27), Fr. Andre explains the Gospel reading, relating it to parents’ responsibility to counteract a grave moral problem of our day: the uncritical acceptance of immodesty and sexual impurity.

Father shows how Jesus’ critique of the Jewish religious authorities compares to a current exploitation of moral authority today: the temptation to impose false values and priorities, rather than convey the values desired by God. Offering concrete guidelines, Father cites Ven. Pius XII’s authoritative teaching on the grave responsibility to observe modesty in dress*, a teaching that today is not being passed on to youth.

*  From a speech given to the Catholic Young Women’s Group in Italy 17 July 1954, cited in the article “An Open Letter to Catholic Women” (http://catholicismhastheanswer.com/an-open-letter-to-catholic-women/)

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Mass: St. Monica – Mem

Readings: Tuesday 21st Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 1 Th 2:1-8
Resp: Ps 139:1-3, 4-5
Gsp: Mt 23:23-26

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Father Andre explains the meaning of today’s Scripture readings as they relate to the world and to the Church today (homily for Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent, Mar 10, 2020). Father concludes with the observation that we have an obligation to pray for our prelates and civic leaders, and notes the timely opportunity to pray for Pope Francis on the upcoming 7th anniversary of his election to the papacy (Mar 13).

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Mass: Tuesday 2nd Week of Lent – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: Is 1:10, 16-20
Resp: Ps 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Gsp: Mt 23:1-12

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jun 13, 2020, the feast of St. Anthony, on how wisdom is both a virtue that develops and a grace given by God. Wisdom is the highest gift, or grace, of the Holy Spirit that feeds the intellect and the heart or soul, enabling us to see truth and to take great joy in it. It is also a virtue in that we need to cooperate with the grace and grow in it, transforming our lives and the world rather than conforming to the world.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – Feast
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061320.cfm
1st: wis 7:7-14
Resp: psa 40:3-4, 10-11, 17
2nd: eph 4:7, 11-15
Gsp: mar 16:15-20

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Our Mediatrix, the most holy Virgin Mary, has brought about peace between God and the sinners. As the rainbow in the clouds after the flood was the sign of the covenant between God and the earth, so Mary is truly the sign of the covenant and peace between God and the sinner…

A thing of wonder, says the wise man, is the sun, the work of the Most High (Sir 43:2). The Virgin Mary is an even greater work of wonder, or she was the bridal chamber wherein the Son of God took flesh, the sanctuary of the spirit, the dwelling of the most Blessed Trinity. O work indeed of wonder, for the Son of God made her more beautiful than all the other creatures and holier than all the saints and then in her took on human form and became one of us.

Saint Anthony of Padua

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