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Jan 06 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Multiplication of the Loaves

apostolate — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:02:26 +0000

Homily #090106 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves stressing the need to trust in the Lord and to be concerned with our brothers’ needs. He upholds Bl. Andre Bessette as a good example of such trust and concern.

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Trusting in the Providence of God

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:00:24 +0000

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Following Jesus

Our primary responsibility, the main object of all our efforts, must be the transformation of ourselves, of our hearts and our lives. Insofar as we succeed at this, we promote the spreading of God’s kingdom for by doing this, we are at the same time disposing ourselves to help others and contribute even further to the spreading of the kingdom. What this means in the concrete is that each of us must faithfully fulfill the duties of our daily life.

The circumstances and people that God each day presents to us through his providence offer us the opportunity to perform action after action in proof of our dedication to the kingdom. Whether we are married and taking care of home and family, or studying in school, or working in an office or a factory or on a farm, whether we are dedicated to the priestly or religious life, matters little. In whatever we do, we must always seek first the kingdom of God. That is, all of our actions of every day must be accepted as from God and referred back to him, must be done in a way that fulfills his will, for in this way alone is the kingdom of God promoted and spread upon earth.

Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.

Father Walter Ciszek authored the books : He Leadeth Me and With God in Russia. He survived the Siberian Gulag. This holy Jesuit was born in 1904 and died in 1984 on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. He was ordained in 1937 and granted his great desire to go as a priest to Russia. Later he would be captured and convicted as a ‘spy’ and sent to Siberia. There in that place of suffering, he was a priest to those sent there. He would finally be released in 1955 and was able to get word to his family with whom he had not been able to contact since 1939. He would not be able to return to the United States until 1963. Through all his years of suffering, he learned to trust totally in the Providence of God in every situation; it was a lesson learned the hard way.

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Nov 08 – Homily – Fr Tito: Why You Get No Satisfaction

apostolate — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:07:11 +0000

Homily #091108t ( 06min) Play – Consecration is a 100% or none at all. Put all your “chips” in and you will not lose with God. Mary gave God a blank check to spend her all.

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Continuing our Journey with Mary

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:00:05 +0000

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Pope Benedict XVI writes that “precisely because Mary is with God and in God, she is very close to each one of us. While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is actually ‘within’ all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God.” Our Lady “knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness. She always listens to us and, being Mother of the Son, participates in the power of the Son and in His goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother.”

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Feb 07 – Homily – Fr Tito: Leave The Shallow Waters

apostolate — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:38:04 +0000

Homily #100207t ( 07min) Play – Live away from the comfort of the shore and pull out into the deep, where dependence on God and forgetfulness of self are required.
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The Glories of Mary #16: Mary Our Advocate

apostolate — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:00:49 +0000

Mary is the Peace-maker between Sinners and God.

STORY
In Braganza there was a young man, who, after giving up the confraternity, abandoned himself to so many crimes that one day, in despair, he went to drown himself in a river; but before doing so, he addressed our Blessed Lady, saying: “O Mary, I once served you in the confraternity; help me.” The most Blessed Virgin appeared to him and said: “Yes, and now what are you going to do? Do you wish to lose yourself both in soul and body? Go, confess your sins, and rejoin the confraternity.” The young man, encouraged hereby, thanked the Blessed Virgin, and changed his life.

PRAYER
O my most sweet Lady, since your office is, as William of Paris says, that of a mediatress between God and sinners, I will address you in the words of St Thomas of Villanova; “Fulfil your office in my behalf, O tender advocate; do your work. Say not that my cause is too difficult to gain; for I know, and all tell me so, that every cause, no matter how desperate, if undertaken by you, is never, and never will be, lost. And will mine be lost? Ah no, this I cannot fear. The only thing that I might fear is, that, on seeing the multitude of my sins, you might not undertake my defence. But, on seeing your immense mercy, and the very great desire of your most sweet heart to help the most abandoned sinners, even this I cannot fear. And who was ever lost that had recourse to you? Therefore I invoke your aid, O my great advocate, my refuge, my hope, my mother Mary. To your hands do I entrust the cause of my eternal salvation. To you do I commit my soul; it was lost, but you have to save it. I will always thank our Lord for having given me this great confidence in you; and which, notwithstanding my unworthiness, I feel is an assurance of salvation. I have but one fear to afflict me, O beloved Queen, and that is, that I may one day, by my own negligence, lose this confidence in you. And therefore I implore you, O Mary, by the love you bear to Jesus, yourself to preserve and increase in me more and more this sweet confidence in your intercession, by which I hope most certainly to recover the divine friendship, that I have up to now so madly despised and lost; and having recovered it, I hope, through you, to preserve it; and preserving it by the same means, I hope at length to thank you for it in heaven, and there to sing God’s mercies and yours for all eternity. Amen. This is my hope; thus may it be, thus will it be.

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Apr 07 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Trust in the Lord

apostolate — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:50:51 +0000

Homily #100407 ( 03min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord appears to the apostles for the third time and suddenly they catch a big load of fish. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to trust in the Lord that He will provide for our needs, despite our deficiencies, especially He will give us the true Bread from Heaven in the Eucharist.
Ave Maria! Easter Wednesday – Mass: EF, Venite – Readings: 1st: act 3:13-15, 17-19 – Gsp: joh 21:1-14

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Aug 17 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: In Money He Trust

apostolate — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:36:27 +0000

Homily #100817 ( 08min) Play – It is difficult for a rich man to enter Heaven because of the trust that he has in his wealth.
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 20th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eze 28:1-10
Resp: deu 32:26-27, 27-28, 30, 35-36
Gsp: mat 19:23-30

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Sep 05 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Preparing for Battle

apostolate — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:17:37 +0000

Homily #100905 ( 35 min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us that we must love Him above all things and be well prepared in our engagement with the world. He tells us this in the form of two parables, the building of the tower and the king who contemplates going into battle. Fr. Bonaventure explains this in the context of Catholic action, where our preparation consists in building up our love of, and trust in, God who has forces vastly stronger than the enemy and that action starts with prayer and contemplation and only secondarily with physical action. Father also outlines the many ways that we are in true, open and explicit battle with the modern culture and philosophy, always relating it back to its spiritual nature.
Ave Maria! 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: wis 9:13-18
Resp: psa 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17
2nd: phm 1:9-10, 12-17
Gsp: luk 14:25-33

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Nov 12 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Don’t Look Back

apostolate — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:55:42 +0000

Homily #101112 ( 09min) Play – We need to put our trust in the providence of God and not look back to our comfort zone to the things we are familiar with and know.

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Mass: OF – Memorial, St. Josaphat, Martyr

Readings: Friday in the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: 2jo 1:4-9
Resp: psa 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
Gsp: luk 17:26-37

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