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Homily #080718s ( 15min) Play - Fr. Angelo preaches on the opening of the Knights of Lepanto encampment. He focuses on the message of today’s Gospel Reading “I desire mercy, not sacrifice,” that we should be generous toward our neighbor in order to be virtuous and, so, make pleasing sacrifice to God. He then ties this to the virtues of Chivalry and to the example of Thom and Marc Girard, our beloved fellow knights who have passed into eternity.

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Homily #080607s ( 10min) Play - Fr. Ignatius preaches on this first Saturday of June on the Immaculate Heart of Mary during this special Votive Mass. He focuses on what John Paul II wrote on the Beatification of Blessed Francesco and Jacinta of Fatima, that they were great candles in these anxious hours of moral darkness. He mentions Francesco was drawn to love of God and Jacinta to love of neighbor to save them from Hell.
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Homily #080530s ( 06min) Play - Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, Evening Mass. All things are centered toward Christ and the center of Christ is his Sacred Heart. And, since God is love, the Sacred Heart is the symbol of Love itself. St. Margret Mary Alacoque saw this love in the form of flames surging from the Lord’s wounded Heart that demand a loving response from us.

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Homily #080502s ( 10min) Play - Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a summary of all which one should do to respond to the love of God. Listen as Fr. outlines the practical steps to this devotion, stressing that it is an act of the will that should spill over into other interior actions (thinking about His sufferings and having heart to heart conversations with Him) and exterior actions (home enthronements, partaking in First Friday devotions)
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Homily #080501 ( 15min) Play - The Apostles watched Jesus Ascend into Heaven in Glory. But He promised the Holy Spirit who will strengthen them for their Mission of Baptizing all nations, which he commends to them at this time. Listen as Fr. explains the great consolation of this promise of the Spirit Consoler and how this should give us hope to carry on against all difficulties.
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Homily #080426 ( 12min) Play - Our Lady of Good Counsel is best known from the Litany of Loretto added by Pope Leo XIII in 1903 but for the Franciscan of the Immaculate it has special meaning because our Mother House in Frigento, Italy has this Marian title. Listen to Fr. as he explains the meaning of the Gift of Counsel as the perfector of prudence. He also explains how Our Lady is always under the influence of this Gift since She is always guided by the Holy Spirit, who is Her Spouse. Ave Maria!
Readings from Ecclus. 24 and Luke 2 The Annunciation
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Homily #080406 ( 10min) Play - In this special Traditional Latin Mass the reading for the day is Jesus the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sake of his sheep. We, the sheep, are in great need of a shepherd to be gathered into one fold, and to be fed with the truth, who is Jesus himself, the bread of life. Fr compares this with the order of the Mass and to the work of the Holy Father, Christ’s Vicar.
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Homily #080404 ( 05min) Play - On First Friday we have the devotion of the Sacred Heart when every month the local homeschoolers gather at the friary. In this homily, Fr Ignatius connects the devotion to the Sacred Heart with homeschooling as a means to establish the Kingdom of Christ in the world.

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Homily #080331 ( 04min) Play - Fr Ignatius explains how the Annunciation is a paradigm for everyone’s spiritual life. Ave Maria! Mass readings

Homily Specials  #S080330 (11min) Play - Let the House of Israel say, “His Mercy endures forever”. The Divine Mercy Devotion is a “Private Revelation”. Listen to Fr Ignatius’ explanation of the difference between a private revelation and a public revelation.
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Homily Specials #080322 ( 09min) Play - For the first time at Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, the Holy Saturday noontime hour was spent in devotion to our Lady, in the keeping of “The Hour of the Mother”. Fr Bonaventure explains the importance of this devotion as we continue to wait with the Coredemptrix for the victorious triumph of her Son over death. Ave Maria! +++

Homily Specials #080301 ( 13min) Play - On this First Saturday Devotion, Fr Ignatius brings to attention the fact that Mary is the Mother of all Christians, and as Mother, she desires our salvation from the fires of Hell
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