- June 13, 2012
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Jun 13 – Homily: St Anthony Miracles of Humility
Fr. John Lawrence preaches on the feast of St. Anthony, describing him as a great miracle worker and preacher, but his greatest miracle is his ongoing humility.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Anthony of Padua – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: wis 7:7-14
Resp: psa 40:3-4, 10-11, 17
2nd: eph 4:7, 11-15
Gsp: mar 16:15-20
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- April 26, 2012
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Apr 26 – Homily: Do Whatever He Tells You
Homily #120426s ( 12min) Play -�Our Lady’s Good Counsel is Jesus Himself Who speeks His word to us and sets us free by this Truth. Do whatever He tells you – was Her counsel to the waiters and when we do what He tells us miracles happen.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form -�Our Lady of Good Counsel – Feast,
Readings:
1st Reading: Isaiah 9:1-3, 5-6
Responsorial: Sirach 14:20,21-22,23-25,26-27
G0spel: John 2:1-11
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- January 11, 2012
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Jan 11 – Homily: Physical Miracles for Spiritual Transformation
Fr. Bonaventure preaches on how the miracles that the Lord performed, such as the healings recounted in today’s Gospel, where done to bring about the moral conversion of those who witness it.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 1st Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1sa 3:1-10, 19-20
Resp: psa 40:2-5, 7-8, 8-9, 10
Gsp: mar 1:29-39
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- September 23, 2011
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Sep 23 – Homily – Fr Dominic: Padre Pio Saint of Modern Miracles
Today is the Feast of St. Pio, affectionately known as Padre Pio, a modern miracle worker who had the stigmata of Our Lord’s wounds imprinted visibly on his flesh. He was spiritual director Fr. Stefano Manelli, our founder, and his entire family. Ave Maria! Mass: St. Pio of Pietrelcina – Feast – Form: OF Readings: 1st: exo 32:7-14 2nd: gal 6:14-18 Gsp: joh 19:25-37
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- May 23, 2011
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Does The Unforgivable Sin Remind You Of Anything?
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In Matthew 12:31-32, Jesus speaks of a sin against the Holy Spirit that will not be forgiven in this age or in the age to come. What could Jesus possibly be talking about here? Are not all sins forgivable?
Well, if you back up a few verses and start reading from Matthew 12:22, you will see that Jesus heals a blind and mute demoniac that was brought to him. And while the people were astounded, the Pharisees were still not convinced that Jesus was the son of God. They attribute his miracles to the power of Satan. Jesus then goes on to say in verse 28 that it is by the Spirit of God that he casts out demons. And then we get to verse 31 and 32 where Jesus says that blasphemy against the Spirit and speaking against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either is this age or the age to come. So he is saying that attributing the power of the Holy Spirit to the power of Satan cannot be forgiven.
So why would Jesus say something like this? Isn’t the mercy of God endless? Well, it has long been believed by the Catholic Church (CCC 1864) that Jesus is saying that the Pharisees, whose heart is so hardened that even witnessing a miracle from the Holy Spirit does not cause them to believe in Jesus, would never repent for their sins and seek the mercy of God. You see, it really is not sin that sends anyone to hell, but the failure to repent for your sins. Bishop Fulton Sheen once said that “The worse thing in the world is not sin, but the denial of sin by false conscience, for that attitude makes forgiveness impossible.” This is the only sin that God could never forgive you for. It is the sin of final impenitence, dying with an unwillingness to repent and be reconciled with God. If you have ever worried that you might have committed this sin, you can rest assured that as long as you are still alive, then you have time to repent and therefore could not be guilty of final impenitence.
The thing that this Bible passage (Matthew 12:22-32) really reminds me of is the people today who attribute the miracles of the Catholic Church to the devil. Their hearts are so hardened because they hate the Catholic Church so much, that even miracles from God do not get them to change their mind. God has continually revealed himself in his Catholic Church throughout history. For instance, the Catholic Church has a long history of Eucharistic miracles. One of many examples took place in the 8th century in Lanciano, Italy. A priest, who doubted that Jesus became fully present in the Eucharist, was saying mass one day. When he got to the words of consecration, the bread visibly turned into human flesh and the wine visibly turned into blood. In the 1970s, technology advanced enough to where scrupulous testing could be done on the substance to verify the miracle was authentic. They came to the conclusion that the flesh was striated myocardium, which is the heart wall tissue. The blood, which had hardened into five balls, was real human blood with the AB blood type. The fact that the blood maintained its properties for over a thousand years is a miracle in itself. This is just one of several documented Eucharistic miracles throughout history that have eluded scientific explanation.
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- May 15, 2011
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What Is The Unforgivable Sin?
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In Matthew 12:31-32, Jesus speaks of a sin against the Holy Spirit that will not be forgiven in this age or in the age to come. What could Jesus possibly be talking about here? Are not all sins forgivable?
Well, if you back up a few verses and start reading from Matthew 12:22, you will see that Jesus heals a blind and mute demoniac that was brought to him. And while the people were astounded, the Pharisees were still not convinced that Jesus was the son of God. They attribute his miracles to the power of Satan. Jesus then goes on to say in verse 28 that it is by the Spirit of God that he casts out demons. And then we get to verse 31 and 32 where Jesus says that blasphemy against the Spirit and speaking against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either is this age or the age to come. So he is saying that attributing the power of the Holy Spirit to the power of Satan cannot be forgiven.
So why would Jesus say something like this? Isn’t the mercy of God endless? Well, it has long been believed by the Catholic Church (CCC 1864) that Jesus is saying that the Pharisees, whose heart is so hardened that even witnessing a miracle from the Holy Spirit does not cause them to believe in Jesus, would never repent for their sins and seek the mercy of God. You see, it really is not sin that sends anyone to hell, but the failure to repent for your sins. Bishop Fulton Sheen once said that “The worse thing in the world is not sin, but the denial of sin by false conscience, for that attitude makes forgiveness impossible.” This is the only sin that God could never forgive you for. It is the sin of final impenitence, dying with an unwillingness to repent and be reconciled with God. If you have ever worried that you might have committed this sin, you can rest assured that as long as you are still alive, then you have time to repent and therefore could not be guilty of final impenitence.
The thing that this Bible passage (Matthew 12:22-32) really reminds me of is the people today who attribute the miracles of the Catholic Church to the devil. Their hearts are so hardened because they hate the Catholic Church so much, that even miracles from God do not get them to change their mind. God has continually revealed himself in his Catholic Church throughout history. For instance, the Catholic Church has a long history of Eucharistic miracles. One of many examples took place in the 8th century in Lanciano, Italy. A priest, who doubted that Jesus became fully present in the Eucharist, was saying mass one day. When he got to the words of consecration, the bread visibly turned into human flesh and the wine visibly turned into blood. In the 1970s, technology advanced enough to where scrupulous testing could be done on the substance to verify the miracle was authentic. They came to the conclusion that the flesh was striated myocardium, which is the heart wall tissue. The blood, which had hardened into five balls, was real human blood with the AB blood type. The fact that the blood maintained its properties for over a thousand years is a miracle in itself. This is just one of several documented Eucharistic miracles throughout history that have eluded scientific explanation.
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