Homily #080518 ( 15min) Play – The Father who sent the Word of Truth and the Spirit of Holiness into the world in order to reveal the life giving and glorious doctrine of Trinity and Unity, revealing God Himself. This Trinity Sunday Fr Angelo contrasts this Trinitarian doctrine to the old Paganism that it displaced.
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Homily #080920 ( 8min) Play – Today Fr. Angelo preaches on the parable of the Seed and the Sower and the need to open our hearts to the Word of God and relates this to today’s Saints, Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang and companion martyrs as perfect examples of this openness.
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Homily #081225 ( 08min) Play – “… and dwelt amongst us.” This is the most beautiful and greatest event that ever took place. This is our joy and our hope for happiness now and forever. Keep the Christ Child, the greatest gift possible, as the source of our generosity to others in this season of Christmas. Glory to God in the highest!
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Homily #100509 ( 23min) Play –

In today’s Gospel Jesus said to his disciples:

“Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him…”

Fr Bonaventure covers how limited scientific knowledge is and how important the acts of virtue are to the Christian life.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Acts 15:1-2,22-29
R: Ps 67:2-3,5-6,8
2: Rev 21:10-14,22-23
G: Jn 14:23-29

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Homily #101013 ( 08min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches today on the Lord’s use of the word ‘Woe’. When he says this we should listen and make amendment so that we can leave our sins behind and be mindful of God to gain eternal life.
Ave Maria! Wednesday in the 28th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gal 5:18-25
Resp: psa 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6
Gsp: luk 11:42-46

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Pope Benedict has issued the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.

via Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Pope Benedict issues major document on Sacred Scripture (link to full text).

Full text is over 200 pages. The ending is included here on AirMaria since it relates to Mary, Mother of God and so Mother of Joy:

“ Mater Verbi et Mater laetitiae ”

124. This close relationship between God’s
word and joy is evident in the Mother of God.
Let us recall the words of Saint Elizabeth: “ Blessed
is she who believed that there would be a fulfi
lment of what was spoken to her by the Lord ”
(Lk 1:45). Mary is blessed because she has faith,
because she believed, and in this faith she received
the Word of God into her womb in order
to give him to the world. The joy born of the
Word can now expand to all those who, by faith,
let themselves be changed by God’s word. The
Gospel of Luke presents this mystery of hearing
and joy in two texts. Jesus says: “ My mother and
my brothers are those who hear the word of God
and do it ” (8:21). And in reply to a woman from
the crowd who blesses the womb that bore him
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and the breasts that nursed him, Jesus reveals the
secret of true joy: “ Blessed rather are those who
hear the word of God and obey it! ” (11:28). Jesus
points out Mary’s true grandeur, making it possible
for each of us to attain that blessedness which
is born of the word received and put into practice.
I remind all Christians that our personal and
communal relationship with God depends on our
growing familiarity with the word of God. Finally,
I turn to every man and woman, including those
who have fallen away from the Church, who have
left the faith or who have never heard the proclamation
of salvation. To everyone the Lord says:
“ Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone
hears my voice and opens the door, I will
come in to him and eat with him, and he with me ”
(Rev 3:20).
May every day of our lives thus be shaped
by a renewed encounter with Christ, the Word
of the Father made fl esh: he stands at the beginning
and the end, and “ in him all things hold
together ” (Col 1:17). Let us be silent in order to
hear the Lord’s word and to meditate upon it, so
that by the working of the Holy Spirit it may remain
in our hearts and speak to us all the days of
our lives. In this way the Church will always be
renewed and rejuvenated, thanks to the word of
the Lord which remains for ever (cf. 1 Pet 1:25;
Is 40:8). Thus we too will enter into the great
nuptial dialogue which concludes sacred Scripture:
“ The Spirit and the bride say: ‘Come’.
And let everyone who hears say: ‘Come!’ ” The
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one who testifi es to these things, says: ‘Surely I
am coming soon!’. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! ”.
(Rev 22:17, 20).
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 30 September,
the Memorial of Saint Jerome, in the year
2010, the sixth of my Pontificate.

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Homily #120812 ( 23min) Play– Fr. Bonaventure explains how each and every word Our Lord spoke, how each and every action He made, was for our edification and conversion to God, to be strived for always and everywhere with the virtue of charity.
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Mass: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF

Readings: 
1st: 1ki 19:4-8
Resp: psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: eph 4:30-5:2
Gsp: joh 6:41-51

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Homily #121227b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim on  the life of St. John the Evangelist and how the resurrection gave John insight into who Jesus was and was the inspiration to love and serve and spread the word of God.
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Mass: St. John – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1jo 1:1-4
Resp: psa 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12
Gsp: joh 20:2-8

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Homily #121229b ( 07min) Play – Fr. Joachim on how we need to keep the word of God, following the Lord’s commandments. This is how we know that He lives in us. Father explains why we often do not follow in the way of Christ due to the high cost but how it most definitely worth it.

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Mass: 5th Day in Octave of Christmas – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1jo 2:3-11
Resp: psa 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6
Gsp: luk 2:22-35

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Homily #130119b ( 08min) Play – Fr. Elias on how the Word of God is “sharper than a two edged sword” as it is referred to in the first reading of today. Father points out that this is because of the content which comes from God and so exposes us to God and brings about the restoration of man when it is heard.
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Mass: Saturday 1st Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: heb 4:12-16
Resp: psa 19:8, 9, 10, 15
Gsp: mar 2:13-17

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