Homily #080620 ( 08min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains the Gospel passage “if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.” And in this world of little faith we see how dark our society can be.
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Homily #080621 ( 10min) Play – Following the Gospel’s message to not worry about material things, Fr. Bonaventure preaches about the inordinate reliance we put on material wealth and comfort and how this is the chief distraction separating us form the true treasure, God .
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Homily #090310 ( 05min) Play – Lent is a time of sacrifice. Even in this economic crisis we must give alms (time, talent, treasure) to the poor, and have trust in God our Father.

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Homily #090810 ( 07min) Play – St Lawrence the Martyr points to the true treasures of the Catholic Church who are weak and suffering Christians and then adds to this treasury his own sufferings, being grilled alive for his faith by the Romans.
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Homily #100128 ( 04min) Play – St. Peter Nolasco was founder of the Mercedarians who worked to gather alms to free the Christian captives of Muslims. He even went so far as to offer his very self as a substitute so that others could be set free. As such he fully lived the message in today’s Gospel :

Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Ave Maria! St. Peter Nolasco, Confessor – Mass: EF, Iustus Ut Palma – Readings: 1st: 1co 4:9-14 – Gsp: luk 12:32-34

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Homily #100517 ( 09min) Play – Today is the Memorial of St. Paschal Baylon who was a humble friar who had an extraordinary focus on God as being the greatest treasure, above and before all else. He especially was know for adoring God in the Eucharist. Fr. Angelo compares this to the useless and even harmful distractions that our high-tech, sensual world submerges us in.
Ave Maria! St. Paschal Baylon – Mass: EF, In Omnia Opera – Readings: 1st: 1co 1:26-31 – Gsp: mat 11:25-30

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Homily #100605 ( 07min) Play – Today is the memorial day of  St Boniface the Martyr and Fr. Bonaventure relates this to the Widow’s Mite in today’s Gospel where a poor widow gives all that she has in this life and so puts her treasure in heaven.

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1: 2 Tim 4:1-8
R: Ps 71:8-9,14-17,22
G: Mk 12:38-44

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Homily #100618 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on Our Lord’s admonition to not put our hopes in things of this world but to put our treasure in Heaven for we will not find happiness in things of this world and we wil have to give up our earthly treasures anyways.
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1: 2 Kings 11:1-4,9-18,20
R: Ps 132:11-14,17-18
G: Mt 6:19-23

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Homily #100619 ( 06min) Play – Our Lord tells us in today’s Gospel that we should not worry about material things but rather trust that He will provide. Fr. Bonaventure puts this in a modern context that we should not put our hopes in various materialistic ideologies like capitalism or communism which are merely different forms of greed. We should instead strive to gain the treasure of virtue.
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1: 2 Chr 24:17-25
R: Ps 89:4-5,29-34
G: Mt 6:24-34

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Homily #100728 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the parables of the Kingdom of God, the treasure found in the field and the Pearl of Great Price. To enter the kingdom we must put aside all other concerns and things of lesser value in exchange the one great gift.
Ave Maria! Wednesday in the 17th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: jer 15:10, 16-21
Resp: psa 59:2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18
Gsp: mat 13:44-46

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