Homily #080624 ( 15min) Play – The Holy Family is the basis for all true family life. Listen to Fr Bonaventure’s masterful explanation of the St John the Baptist’s defense of matrimony.
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Homily #080829 ( 19min) Play – St. John the Baptist gave up his life in defense of the indissolubility of marriage. A lustful society is a violent society. Lust leads to death – just take a look at our present day society.
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Homily #090624 ( 05min) Play – The only births the Church celebrates in the Her liturgy are our Lord’s, our Lady’s, and St John the Baptist’s. We see in St John, one sanctified by our Lord through the intercession of our Lady, so sanctified that his own people thought he might be the Messiah.

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Homily #091218 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Angelo relates the Visitation of Mary to St Elizabeth in the Gospel today to the call to be stirred up by the might of God in the collect just as St John the Baptist was stirred up in his mother’s womb.
Ave Maria! Friday of Ember Week in Advent – Mass: EF, Prope es Tu – Readings: 1st: isa 11:1-5 – Gsp: luk 1:39-47

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Homily #100624 ( 09min) Play – Today is an unusual feast in the Church; it’s the only birth celebrated besides that of Jesus and Mary. By St. John’s leap in his mother’s womb, he points out the messiah. Pray to St. Johm the Baptist for the grace to know the intercession of the Blessed Virgin.
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Homily #111211 ( 10min) Play – On this Gaudete Sunday, Fr. Dominic encourages us to rejoice and give proper reverence to the Lamb of God as did St. John the Baptist, and yet also with a holy familiarity, in preparation for the coming of Christ Our Lord.
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Mass: Third Sunday in Advent – Form: EF, Gaudete
Readings:
1st: phi 4:4-7
Gsp: joh 1:19-28

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Homily #120829 ( 10min) Play – “It is not right for you to have your brother’s wife”.  We must be apostles of the truth.  Telling those we know that they are living contrary to the Truth, with love and understanding.  We must imitate John the Baptist, and die for the Truth.
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Mass: The Beheading of St. John the Baptist – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jer 1:17-19
Resp: psa 71:1-6, 15, 16
Gsp: mar 6:17-29

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Homily #121219b ( 08min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the parallel between Sampson and John the Baptist. Both were raised up at a time when salvation was desired, both were consecrated to God from their womb, both fasted from their youth. If God calls us to something then he will give the help needed to carry it out and we should not relent in our resolve to cooperate with His plan nor despair in our lack of worthiness.
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Mass: Weekdays of Advent – Dec 19 – Not Celbrtd – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: jdg 13:2-7, 24-25
Resp: psa 71:3-4, 5-6, 16-17
Gsp: luk 1:5-25

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Homily #121221b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the Visitation of Mary to St. Elizabeth and how this is a partial fulfillment of the great joyful anticipation of which Advent consists, in that St. John the Baptist leaps for joy in the womb of his mother.
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Mass: Weekdays of Advent – Dec 21 – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: son 2:8-14
Resp: psa 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21
Gsp: luk 1:39-45

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Homily #130111b ( 04min) Play – Fr. Joachim preaches on the Gospel of Luke where John the Baptist says to his disciples who are complaining that his disciples are leaving to go follow Jesus says, “I must decrease and He must increase,” acknowledging that he is not the Messiah but rather Jesus, who is the bridegroom in the great wedding feast of the Lamb. John is, instead,the best man.
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Mass: Fri post Epiphany or Jan 11 – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1jo 5:5-13
Resp: psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
Gsp: luk 5:12-16

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