In the homily for the Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle (Jul 03, 2019), Fr. Matthias explains how St. Thomas saw and touched Jesus, discovering the deepest, most consoling meaning of Jesus’ astonishing Resurrection: the same Jesus who laid down His life took it back up again. If we ever doubt, let us be moved with St. Thomas to faith and confess it with the declaration: “My Lord and my God.”

Jesus Christ, the Author of Life, possesses life absolutely–it cannot be taken away from Him–and He shares it with all those who believe and live in Him.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Thomas the Apostle – Feast

Readings:
1st: Eph 2:19-22
Resp: Ps 117:1, 2
Gsp: Jn 20:24-29

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Fr Matthias gives the homily on Sep 10, 2019 (Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week of Ordinary Time) regarding the “hypostatic union,” a term that few Catholic have ever heard of, and still fewer know the meaning of. What is it? It’s the central mystery of our Redemption, the key to Jesus’ status as the one and only mediator between God and man.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday 23rd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: Col 2:6-15
Resp: Ps 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11
Gsp: Lk 6:12-19

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jan 18, 2021, on how Jesus is the High Priest who is God the Son, literally from on high, yet is one of us and can understand and relate to our needs.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Monday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/011821.cfm
1st: heb 5:1-10
Resp: psa 110:1, 2, 3, 4
Gsp: mar 2:18-22

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The Son of God who was in the beginning with God, through whom all things were made, without Him nothing was made, became man to free man from eternal death.

He stooped down to take up our lowliness without loss to His own glory. He remained what He was; He took up what he was not. He wanted to join the very nature of a servant to that nature in which He is equal to God the Father. He wanted to unite both natures in an alliance so wonderful that the glory of the greater would not annihilate the lesser, nor the taking up of a lower diminish the greatness of the higher.

What belongs to each nature is preserved intact and meets the other in one person: lowliness is taken up by greatness, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our human condition, a nature incapable of suffering is united to a nature capable of suffering, and true God and true Man are forged into the unity that is the Lord. This was done to make possible the kind of remedy that fitted our human need: one and the same Mediator between God and man able to die because of one nature, able to rise again because of the other.

Pope St. Leo the Great

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