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Ave Maria! Fr. Joachim preaches on today’s Gospel telling us about Our lord’s great patience with children, His desire to bless them and the need to be like children ourselves in order for us to get blessings as well. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! This homily is a day late. We are extra busy getting ready for our Queenship of Mary celebration here in Griswold this Saturday. Fr. Joachim preaches on St. Stephen of Hungary who converted to Christianity on Christmas of 1000 AD. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Fr. Joachim preaches the homily for the feast of the Assumption of Mary and explains its origin and significance. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Fr. Joachim gives the homily for the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe one of our spiritual patrons here at the FI. Father outlines the life of this saint, his calling to the Franciscans, his incredible printing apostolate, and his glorious martyrdom, laying down his life for the love of one of his brethren. Come listen and learn about this great saint. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Fr. Joachim preaches on Saints Pontian and Hippolytus Martyrs for the Faith and the importance of being thankful for being Catholic. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Fr. Joachim preaches the homily on the feast of St. James, explaining his life as recorded in the Bible and Tradition. Come listen to this account of the first Apostle to be martyred. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Today Fr. Joachim preaches on the Franciscan Blessed Louise of Savoy who’s feast day is today. She was a noble woman who’s holiness exceeded her nobility as she clothed herself in the finery of virtue. She is a great example of how one person can convert the worldly ways of her peers even of those who wield great worldly power. Come learn about this extraordinary blessed… Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Fr. Joachim preaches on the virtues of St. Bridgette of Sweden who is a great example of how rulers of the world can be holy. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Below is a profile of today’s saint, Blessed Kateri, Lily of the Mohawks: Daughter of a Christian Algonquin woman captured by Iroquois and married to a non-Christian Mohawk chief. Orphaned during a smallpox epidemic, which left her with a scarred face and impaired eyesight. Converted and baptized in 1676 by Father Jacques de Lamberville, a Jesuit missionary. Shunned and abused by relatives for her faith. Escaped through 200 miles of wilderness to the Christian Native American village of Sault-Sainte-Marie. Took a vow of chastity in 1679. Known for spirituality and austere lifestyle. Miracle worker. Her grave became a pilgrimage site and place of miracles for Christian Native Americans and French colonists. First Native American proposed for canonization, her cause was started in 1884 under Pope Leo XIII. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Listen now to Father’s homily on St. Henry II (972-1024), Duke of Bavaria and a model leader. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! In the words of St. Benedict (480-547): Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration if Divine grace. Listen now to Father’s brief homily on this great founder of Western monasticism. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Today the Franciscans celebrate the memorial of St. Veronica Guiliani (1660-1727). Before dying, her mother assigned one of the five wounds to each of her five children, and to Veronica, the youngest, was given the wound in the Sacred Heart. Listen now to Father’s homily on the life of this daughter of Christ. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Today the Church celebrates the memorial of the martyrs of Gorkum, where in 1572, 19 martyrs - 11 of them Franciscans - were hanged by Calvinist dissenters in Holland for their two-fold belief in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist and the primacy of the Bishop of Rome. Dying for the sake of the truth is a foreign concept to modern man, and to many modern Catholics. Today people willing sacrifice their bodies and their souls for the sake of pleasure, but how few and how blessed are those who are still willing to die for the sake of truth! It’s always better in God’s eyes to renounce your head and save your faith rather than renounce your faith to save your head. (I borrow that aphorism from Fr. Rutler and his observations on the Reign of Terror in late 18th-century France, where priests and bishops were given the choice by the State to either preach Enlightenment doctrines and remain in the pulpit or to preach the doctrines of Christ and head off - literally - to the guillotine on their way to Heaven.) Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Listen to Fr. Joachim’s Sunday homily on God’s saving plan for mankind and our cooperation in His work: “My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts,” says the Lord. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, €œWhy do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?€? What was the reason for the feasting of Jesus’ disciples while He walked the earth? Some scribes held that Christ’s association with sinners was a means of self-indulgence rather than evangelization. Were they right? Come and listen to Father Joachim clarify the misunderstanding in today’s homily. Ave Maria! |
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