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\nthat you are one God in three divine Persons,
\nFather, Son, and Holy Spirit.
\nI believe that your divine Son became man
\nand died for our sins and that he will come
\nto judge the living and the dead.
\nI believe these and all the truths
\nwhich the Holy Catholic Church teaches
\nbecause you have revealed them
\nwho are eternal truth and wisdom,
\nwho can neither deceive nor be deceived.
\nIn this faith I intend to live and die.
\nAmen.
Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. (Mt 25:34)
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Death would have no great terrors for you if you had a quiet conscience.… Then why not keep clear of sin instead of running away from death? If you aren’t fit to face death today, it’s very unlikely you will be tomorrow”.… Imitation of Christ 1.23.1\r\n","date_published":"2023-11-12T09:30:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/9b8e8a67-5d31-4245-90f2-73dcb9a9b28a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":20482509,"duration_in_seconds":853}]},{"id":"78d25a6c-abe1-41fa-9e58-105b68715f4e","title":"Death | Homily for the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time | Dcn. 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As I mentioned last week, having consulted, and heard from many of you about this as I have gotten to know you, I believe God is leading us to have a particular emphasis on developing a mission to youth in our community and within our parish. The dream for this Mission is to provide an inviting home for youth to be disciples of Jesus Christ through the Church. \n\nPeople are hungry for Jesus. As a 20th century evangelist said, “Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find food.” As good watchmen, we are called to point the way to the food, the only food which will truly satisfy every human heart. \n\n Learn more and how you can help here.","content_html":"We live in a society where many people are hungry for love **and **hurting for the lack of relationship with God. This is true of people of all ages. In a particular way, though, it’s true of our young people. Especially the ones we do not see here in Mass. Many young people suffer from a lack of hope. They do not know the Good News of Jesus Christ. As I mentioned last week, having consulted, and heard from many of you about this as I have gotten to know you, I believe God is leading us to have a particular emphasis on developing a mission to youth in our community and within our parish. The dream for this Mission is to provide an inviting home for youth to be disciples of Jesus Christ through the Church.
\n\nPeople are hungry for Jesus. As a 20th century evangelist said, “Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find food.” As good watchmen, we are called to point the way to the food, the only food which will truly satisfy every human heart.
\n\nReadings
\n\nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040623.cfm
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\nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020523.cfm
Through the entirety of history since his coming, people have shared this message of Good News. In every generation, in every age, this message has been proclaimed. In castles to Kings, and in the simplest of dwellings, in Churches and hospital rooms, among families and friends. In ease and in difficulty. In every age this good News has been repeated. In dramatic and non-dramatic circumstances. To rich and poor. To men and women, and to young and old this message has been proclaimed. And at some point, at some moment like Paul, you encountered this Good News. Whether you can remember the moment or not, someone shared this Good News with you. If this is your first time hearing it, I’m telling you this good news – Jesus, Emmanuel is come, he has conquered death. He is with us. My life is different – better – because I know Jesus. And if you know him, yours is also. But that only happened because someone shared Jesus with me, because someone, indeed many people, told me about Jesus and how much he loves me. The question is for us – will we do the same for others? Will we share Jesus with others?
","summary":"Friends, Jesus Christ has come, and humanity in the person of Mary comes to know it first through the message of the messenger (angel) Gabriel. The question is for us – will we do the same for others? Will we share Jesus with others? 4.\tSharing Jesus means inviting people to encounter Christ through authentic personal testimony involving actions and words.","date_published":"2022-12-18T18:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/e2515113-3ec8-4739-bf74-915a1bd99d56.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25158120,"duration_in_seconds":1047}]},{"id":"01609354-4126-42f3-93b7-354b8b74904e","title":"Live Jesus - Third Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Will Rooney)","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2022-12-11-fr-will","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"Will you live for Jesus? Will you let him live in you! Joy awaits, even in suffering. ","date_published":"2022-12-11T15:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/01609354-4126-42f3-93b7-354b8b74904e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":18971362,"duration_in_seconds":790}]},{"id":"df403243-6213-4ace-aa1a-ac76b109f4f6","title":"Live Jesus - Third Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Brian Eilers)","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2022-12-11-fr-brian","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"","date_published":"2022-12-11T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/df403243-6213-4ace-aa1a-ac76b109f4f6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":19552296,"duration_in_seconds":814}]},{"id":"5e74c5ea-2bec-4571-afba-177ac55aa9e1","title":"Know Jesus - Second Sunday of Advent 2022 ","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2022-12-04","content_text":"The question used to be about getting information, but now it is much more a question of how to get the true information. Because we have so many sources of information being thrown at us, we are often overloaded and we cannot distinguish signal from noise, truth from fiction. Signal is information that matters, that helps you achieve the goals, and that allows you flourish because it allows the mind’s conformity with reality. It bears good fruit in your life. Noise is at best just trash, and at worst something that does the opposite. It leads you away from the goal. It does not bear good fruit.\n\nBut though the noise is on an unprecedented scale; this is not a new problem. For as long as human history discerning which voices to listen to, which things to pay attention to has been a challenge. John like all the prophets before him helps those around him to see reality as it really is. To distinguish the noise from the signal. But he is the greatest of all the prophets because he himself will literally point out the light from light. The one who is truth himself.\n\nJohn helps us realize that we not only have to meet Jesus, but we need to know him. To meet him and to know him are linked. As people who have meet this man Jesus we want to grow in knowledge of him. We want to know who he is (God), what he did (his life, death, and resurrection), how he continues to act today (the Church), and what our response (prayer, love, and following him).\n\nJohn goes to the wilderness. He eats the same food over and over again, and wears simple clothing. Why? Because he knows that in order to encounter and learn about God he must cut the noise from his life. Friends do you have silence in your life? It is difficult to find it. But how can you find some silence? How can you develop a habit of silence? Study is the opposite of vain curiosity – it seeks to gain knowledge and wisdom not just information. It asks big questions and goes deep into topic or person at hand. It uses the best resources. So here’s the challenge – set aside time this week to read one of the Gospels. And ask questions: in the silence ask Jesus to teach you to know who he is so you can love him more and see reality as it really is.","content_html":"The question used to be about getting information, but now it is much more a question of how to get the true information. Because we have so many sources of information being thrown at us, we are often overloaded and we cannot distinguish signal from noise, truth from fiction. Signal is information that matters, that helps you achieve the goals, and that allows you flourish because it allows the mind’s conformity with reality. It bears good fruit in your life. Noise is at best just trash, and at worst something that does the opposite. It leads you away from the goal. It does not bear good fruit.
\n\nBut though the noise is on an unprecedented scale; this is not a new problem. For as long as human history discerning which voices to listen to, which things to pay attention to has been a challenge. John like all the prophets before him helps those around him to see reality as it really is. To distinguish the noise from the signal. But he is the greatest of all the prophets because he himself will literally point out the light from light. The one who is truth himself.
\n\nJohn helps us realize that we not only have to meet Jesus, but we need to know him. To meet him and to know him are linked. As people who have meet this man Jesus we want to grow in knowledge of him. We want to know who he is (God), what he did (his life, death, and resurrection), how he continues to act today (the Church), and what our response (prayer, love, and following him).
\n\nJohn goes to the wilderness. He eats the same food over and over again, and wears simple clothing. Why? Because he knows that in order to encounter and learn about God he must cut the noise from his life. Friends do you have silence in your life? It is difficult to find it. But how can you find some silence? How can you develop a habit of silence? Study is the opposite of vain curiosity – it seeks to gain knowledge and wisdom not just information. It asks big questions and goes deep into topic or person at hand. It uses the best resources. So here’s the challenge – set aside time this week to read one of the Gospels. And ask questions: in the silence ask Jesus to teach you to know who he is so you can love him more and see reality as it really is.
","summary":"John helps us realize that we not only have to meet Jesus, but we need to know him. Its natural to ask questions about people when we meet them. The disciples and apostles do just this in the gospels – they ask questions. Where are you from? Who are you? What are you doing? To meet him and to know him are linked. As people who have meet this man Jesus we want to grow in knowledge of him. We want to know who he is (God), what he did (his life, death, and resurrection), how he continues to act today (the Church), and what our response (prayer, love, and following him). So here’s the challenge – set aside time this week to read one of the Gospels. And ask questions: in the silence ask Jesus to teach you to know who he is so you can love him more and see reality as it really is. ","date_published":"2022-12-04T12:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/5e74c5ea-2bec-4571-afba-177ac55aa9e1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24569846,"duration_in_seconds":1023}]},{"id":"ac8ba125-f3f8-461d-843c-ab2424619cd6","title":"Meet Jesus - First Sunday of Advent 2022 ","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2022-11-28","content_text":"When you were a little kid someone had to teach you how to meet people. We don’t think about it a lot, but meeting people is a skill and like every skill we can be better or worse at it and we can improve or get worse. Two factors influence our practice for anything: the probability of the event occurring and the importance of that event. The greater the probability or the importance of an event the more preparation for action we are willing to undertake. The Lord tells us in the Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent of a meeting between him and us which will happen and which will be life altering. He will come again and his coming will change everything. Given the probability (100%) and the importance of this meeting (infinite), we each need to ask ourselves a question: Does my entire way of acting in the world reflect the fact that the King is coming and I will meet him? \n\nBut how? How do you get ready to meet Jesus at the end of time or at the end of your life? The same way you get ready for any other thing: you practice, and you learn from others who have practiced. You learn how to meet Jesus by meeting him and learning from others who have met him. \n\nWhat kind of meeting do we need now to practice? The meeting we desire to have now with the Lord is one that leads us to discover (or rediscover) who Jesus is, why he matters, and which leads to a desire to follow him as a disciple. It is only that type of resolve that will make the meeting we experience at the end of time not be like that of strangers but rather that of friends. A disciple is one who has resolved to run to meet the Lord in every aspect of his life his life has been changed because he knows Jesus. He is a friend of the king who is coming. \n\nHow can you set aside 5 minutes each day to meet Jesus? ","content_html":"When you were a little kid someone had to teach you how to meet people. We don’t think about it a lot, but meeting people is a skill and like every skill we can be better or worse at it and we can improve or get worse. Two factors influence our practice for anything: the probability of the event occurring and the importance of that event. The greater the probability or the importance of an event the more preparation for action we are willing to undertake. The Lord tells us in the Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent of a meeting between him and us which will happen and which will be life altering. He will come again and his coming will change everything. Given the probability (100%) and the importance of this meeting (infinite), we each need to ask ourselves a question: Does my entire way of acting in the world reflect the fact that the King is coming and I will meet him?
\n\nBut how? How do you get ready to meet Jesus at the end of time or at the end of your life? The same way you get ready for any other thing: you practice, and you learn from others who have practiced. You learn how to meet Jesus by meeting him and learning from others who have met him.
\n\nWhat kind of meeting do we need now to practice? The meeting we desire to have now with the Lord is one that leads us to discover (or rediscover) who Jesus is, why he matters, and which leads to a desire to follow him as a disciple. It is only that type of resolve that will make the meeting we experience at the end of time not be like that of strangers but rather that of friends. A disciple is one who has resolved to run to meet the Lord in every aspect of his life his life has been changed because he knows Jesus. He is a friend of the king who is coming.
\n\nHow can you set aside 5 minutes each day to meet Jesus?
","summary":"How do we meet Jesus? The meeting we desire to have now with the Lord is one that leads us to discover (or rediscover) who Jesus is, why he matters, and which leads to a desire to follow him as a disciple. It is only that type of resolve that will make the meeting we experience at the end of time not be like that of strangers but rather that of friends. A disciple is one who has resolved to run to meet the Lord in every aspect of his life his life has been changed because he knows Jesus. He is a friend of the king who is coming. How can you resolve to run to meet the Lord? 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answered her,\n“You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’\nFor you have had five husbands,\nand the one you have now is not your husband.\nWhat you have said is true.”\nThe woman said to him,\n“Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.\nOur ancestors worshiped on this mountain;\nbut you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”\nJesus said to her,\n“Believe me, woman, the hour is coming\nwhen you will worship the Father\nneither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.\nYou people worship what you do not understand;\nwe worship what we understand,\nbecause salvation is from the Jews.\nBut the hour is coming, and is now here,\nwhen true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth;\nand indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him.\nGod is Spirit, and those who worship him\nmust worship in Spirit and truth.”\nThe woman said to him,\n“I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ;\nwhen he comes, he will tell us everything.”\nJesus said to 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together.\nFor here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’\nI sent you to reap what you have not worked for;\nothers have done the work,\nand you are sharing the fruits of their work.”\n\nMany of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him\nbecause of the word of the woman who testified,\n“He told me everything I have done.”\nWhen the Samaritans came to him,\nthey invited him to stay with them;\nand he stayed there two days.\nMany more began to believe in him because of his word,\nand they said to the woman,\n“We no longer believe because of your word;\nfor we have heard for ourselves,\nand we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”","content_html":"John 4:5-42
\n\nJesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,
\nnear the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
\nJacob’s well was there.
\nJesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well.
\nIt was about noon.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
\nJesus said to her,
\n“Give me a drink.”
\nHis disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
\nThe Samaritan woman said to him,
\n“How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”
\n—For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.—
\nJesus answered and said to her,
\n“If you knew the gift of God
\nand who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘
\nyou would have asked him
\nand he would have given you living water.”
\nThe woman said to him,
\n“Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep;
\nwhere then can you get this living water?
\nAre you greater than our father Jacob,
\nwho gave us this cistern and drank from it himself
\nwith his children and his flocks?”
\nJesus answered and said to her,
\n“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;
\nbut whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst;
\nthe water I shall give will become in him
\na spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
\nThe woman said to him,
\n“Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty
\nor have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her,
\n“Go call your husband and come back.”
\nThe woman answered and said to him,
\n“I do not have a husband.”
\nJesus answered her,
\n“You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’
\nFor you have had five husbands,
\nand the one you have now is not your husband.
\nWhat you have said is true.”
\nThe woman said to him,
\n“Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.
\nOur ancestors worshiped on this mountain;
\nbut you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”
\nJesus said to her,
\n“Believe me, woman, the hour is coming
\nwhen you will worship the Father
\nneither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
\nYou people worship what you do not understand;
\nwe worship what we understand,
\nbecause salvation is from the Jews.
\nBut the hour is coming, and is now here,
\nwhen true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth;
\nand indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him.
\nGod is Spirit, and those who worship him
\nmust worship in Spirit and truth.”
\nThe woman said to him,
\n“I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ;
\nwhen he comes, he will tell us everything.”
\nJesus said to her,
\n“I am he, the one speaking with you.”
At that moment his disciples returned,
\nand were amazed that he was talking with a woman,
\nbut still no one said, “What are you looking for?”
\nor “Why are you talking with her?”
\nThe woman left her water jar
\nand went into the town and said to the people,
\n“Come see a man who told me everything I have done.
\nCould he possibly be the Christ?”
\nThey went out of the town and came to him.
\nMeanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.”
\nBut he said to them,
\n“I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
\nSo the disciples said to one another,
\n“Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
\nJesus said to them,
\n“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me
\nand to finish his work.
\nDo you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’?
\nI tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest.
\nThe reaper is already receiving payment
\nand gathering crops for eternal life,
\nso that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.
\nFor here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’
\nI sent you to reap what you have not worked for;
\nothers have done the work,
\nand you are sharing the fruits of their work.”
Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him
\nbecause of the word of the woman who testified,
\n“He told me everything I have done.”
\nWhen the Samaritans came to him,
\nthey invited him to stay with them;
\nand he stayed there two days.
\nMany more began to believe in him because of his word,
\nand they said to the woman,
\n“We no longer believe because of your word;
\nfor we have heard for ourselves,
\nand we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”
Lk 6:17, 20-26
\n\nJesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said:
\n\n “Blessed are you who are poor,\n for the kingdom of God is yours.\n Blessed are you who are now hungry,\n for you will be satisfied.\n Blessed are you who are now weeping,\n for you will laugh.\n Blessed are you when people hate you,\n and when they exclude and insult you,\n and denounce your name as evil\n on account of the Son of Man.\nRejoice and leap for joy on that day!
\nBehold, your reward will be great in heaven.
\nFor their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
\n But woe to you who are rich,
\n for you have received your consolation.
\n Woe to you who are filled now,
\n for you will be hungry.
\n Woe to you who laugh now,
\n for you will grieve and weep.
\n Woe to you when all speak well of you,
\n for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”
RCIA class with Fr. Jonathan Raia
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\n\nBeloved:
\nThe grace of God has appeared, saving all
\nand training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires
\nand to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age,
\nas we await the blessed hope,
\nthe appearance of the glory of our great God
\nand savior Jesus Christ,
\nwho gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness
\nand to cleanse for himself a people as his own,
\neager to do what is good.
When the kindness and generous love\n of God our savior appeared,\n not because of any righteous deeds we had done\n but because of his mercy,\n He saved us through the bath of rebirth\n and renewal by the Holy Spirit,\n whom he richly poured out on us\n through Jesus Christ our savior,\n so that we might be justified by his grace\n and become heirs in hope of eternal life.\nLk 1:39-45
\n\nMary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
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","summary":"Cathedral and Diocese of Austin Seminarian Mike Keathley shares from a Thomistic perspective what discernment of vocation means. Desire, prudence, and the philosophy of the human person are discussed. ","date_published":"2021-01-11T18:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/faefc79a-0fc9-40e9-89c9-6973bc0f2464.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":60321802,"duration_in_seconds":5603}]},{"id":"fe76d0f5-b441-4408-885a-a9802d743296","title":"Generations - Who, What, and Why?","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-12-24","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"The genealogy and the that we just heard tells us something about the one whose birth we celebrate in splendor tonight. The one whom we celebrate today is long awaited. The genealogy also includes a wide mixture of great saints and great sinners and people in between. B.\tThe radical claim of Christianity is that the Word who spoke creation into being became a Baby who could not speak a word. God becomes incarnate. He takes on flesh and blood. He takes on a human mind and a human will. He assumes humanity to himself. He became like us in all things but sin.","date_published":"2021-01-10T18:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/fe76d0f5-b441-4408-885a-a9802d743296.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12433248,"duration_in_seconds":776}]},{"id":"b87ea8d4-ec73-4896-a783-944ffe0e0e55","title":"How do we wait? We wait with faith.","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-12-20","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"Are you ready? Are you prepared? Essentially, when we say we are prepared, we are saying that we are equal to the challenge which will come. But the thing is that we often do not know what the challenges will be before we face them. Mary teaches us that though we may not be able to be completely prepared, we can say yes. As a child trusts that his parents are there for him and will provide what he needs, so also, we must recognize that God is always working for the good of those who love him – even when we do not know how. This is called faith and it is an essential aspect, perhaps the most fundamental aspect of our waiting as Christians. Together moved by our faith we joyfully wait together with eyes fixed on heaven because we need a heavenly savior. Come quickly, Lord Jesus!","date_published":"2020-12-21T19:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/b87ea8d4-ec73-4896-a783-944ffe0e0e55.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13260631,"duration_in_seconds":828}]},{"id":"aa70dc70-0f05-415d-a5cf-41ca932a7cf8","title":"How do we wait? We wait with joy because the Lord is near","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-12-13","content_text":"Brothers and sisters, how can we rejoice like Saint Paul? The first step, I believe is to admit that we are prisoners. Our prisons can be sins, addictions, bad habits, weakness. But also, we frequently suffer the effects of original sin such as physical illness and mental anxieties. So, we also suffer the effects of the sins of others in our society; sins cause a lot of trouble. They imprison us. We need as savior. \nBut still with Saint Paul we have to rejoice. Why? Because, although the situation is so difficult, the Lord is already very close. He's already with us, he's come. At the same time, it will come. Rose is the color of the dawn that comes after a long cold winter night.\nFor a Christian still on his journey in the world, joy and happiness come from hope. The Christian does not wait on a particular thing in the world, but the Dawn who has already dawned.\nHope is the firm determination to go back and face the east to greet the son of man who is coming. Therefore, hope changes us now while at the same time directing us to the future that is not yet fulfilled.","content_html":"Brothers and sisters, how can we rejoice like Saint Paul? The first step, I believe is to admit that we are prisoners. Our prisons can be sins, addictions, bad habits, weakness. But also, we frequently suffer the effects of original sin such as physical illness and mental anxieties. So, we also suffer the effects of the sins of others in our society; sins cause a lot of trouble. They imprison us. We need as savior.
\nBut still with Saint Paul we have to rejoice. Why? Because, although the situation is so difficult, the Lord is already very close. He's already with us, he's come. At the same time, it will come. Rose is the color of the dawn that comes after a long cold winter night.
\nFor a Christian still on his journey in the world, joy and happiness come from hope. The Christian does not wait on a particular thing in the world, but the Dawn who has already dawned.
\nHope is the firm determination to go back and face the east to greet the son of man who is coming. Therefore, hope changes us now while at the same time directing us to the future that is not yet fulfilled.
-
","summary":"We do not get to choose whether or even how long we wait, but we do get to choose how we wait. We wait because we are human; but how we wait determines whether we flourish or fail as human persons. How do we wait? We wait together. We wait for salvation, not so much as individuals, but in communion with one another.","date_published":"2020-12-07T18:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/7b9fb997-dc45-4426-b824-4cdd08b0adb5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15437527,"duration_in_seconds":964}]},{"id":"427df88d-991e-458e-8796-e0e86b78afb6","title":"Prudent Generosity","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-11-08","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"Everyone wants to be generous, but many times we fail to act generously. How do we decide how to be generous? We need prudence to be able to make decisions about the best way to be generous. Prudence is the virtue directed towards choosing the means towards happiness. But here’s the thing: for us as Christians, prudence must consider an eternal perspective. We are not made for merely natural flourishing, but eternity with heaven. In the end, all the material things will fall away. The material has a place, but it is not everything. In the end, the material things, even honor, prestige, and all the things we fear losing in this world will evaporate. The things will not matter in themselves but only how we used them or failed to use them in service to their more excellent end – charity towards God and our neighbor. In the twilight of our lives, says St. John of the Cross, we will be judged by our love","date_published":"2020-11-09T21:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/427df88d-991e-458e-8796-e0e86b78afb6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14831192,"duration_in_seconds":926}]},{"id":"275d2aad-0f80-40b1-b3d4-d19e70dd9719","title":"Non-Anxious Rendering","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-10-18","content_text":"Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God (Mt 22:21)\n\nWe Christians are not indifferent to the political realm – far from it we care deeply about working to protect human life, promote peace, and provide for the general welfare. We cannot accept Christ’s love while despising or being indifferent to our fellow human beings. Because of this, we also like many people of good will may have experienced a sense of anxiety or a lack of peace. Our Christianity informs our actions in everything we do and that includes our choices in the voting booth. In all of this, nevertheless, there is a danger of becoming too consumed with the things of the world. The Bible is replete with stories of God intervening in love for his people. Despite this evidence, we often we let ourselves become so afraid and anxious, and this leads to a whole host of personal sins which impact our salvation much more directly than the outcome of a political race. No matter who wins the election, we can be sure that God will provide everything we need to be with him forever.\n\nQuestions for us to ponder: \n\n\n Have I let politics become a God for me? How has this anxiety contributed to sins in my personal life? Do I trust that God is sovereign? \n How can I inform myself politically? What are resources which can help me to form a Catholic conscience with regard to the important issues? \n How do I react when people disagree with me politically? How can I reflect the love of God to them? \n\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/101820.cfm\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God (Mt 22:21)
\n\nWe Christians are not indifferent to the political realm – far from it we care deeply about working to protect human life, promote peace, and provide for the general welfare. We cannot accept Christ’s love while despising or being indifferent to our fellow human beings. Because of this, we also like many people of good will may have experienced a sense of anxiety or a lack of peace. Our Christianity informs our actions in everything we do and that includes our choices in the voting booth. In all of this, nevertheless, there is a danger of becoming too consumed with the things of the world. The Bible is replete with stories of God intervening in love for his people. Despite this evidence, we often we let ourselves become so afraid and anxious, and this leads to a whole host of personal sins which impact our salvation much more directly than the outcome of a political race. No matter who wins the election, we can be sure that God will provide everything we need to be with him forever.
\n\nQuestions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/101820.cfm
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God (Mt 22:21)","date_published":"2020-10-19T08:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/275d2aad-0f80-40b1-b3d4-d19e70dd9719.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15360800,"duration_in_seconds":960}]},{"id":"a33abe00-c048-4886-a667-2959513cadad","title":"Will you go to the feast? ","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-10-11","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"To be disregarded or despised is a painful experience for us human beings. Have you considered that God, in creating free persons, opened himself to being despised and disregarded? From the beginning, he opened himself to the possibility of being despised and disregarded. The Cross is God’s answer to this. It comes down to this: will let him love us? Will we accept his gift or spurn it? He loves you. Will you disregard him, despise him, or will you receive him and be saved?","date_published":"2020-10-11T22:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/a33abe00-c048-4886-a667-2959513cadad.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14632330,"duration_in_seconds":866}]},{"id":"d4002aef-f775-47c7-a52a-b2d2509e15d2","title":"Hurting and Healing","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-09-13","content_text":"Questions for us to ponder: \n\n\n When am I most defensive? When defnsivness occurs what need am I seeking to fufill? How can I relate it to God?\n How do I view God? In what areas of my life to forget that he is our Father and treat him more like a tyrant? What lies do I believe about myself and about him? What is the truth opposed to these lies? Have I allowed any false images to influence my behavior? \n Do I go to God, Our Father, each day in prayer? How do I approach him in prayer? Do I ask him for holy indifference flowing from my trust in him?\n\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/091320.cfm\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"Questions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/091320.cfm
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"Our false image of God can get in the way of completely receiving his mercy. When that happens often desperately grasp after other things in order to try and earn our way to heaven. This grasping, which is sin, harms us and harms others. It will cause us to lose the joy that we should have as Christians.","date_published":"2020-09-15T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/d4002aef-f775-47c7-a52a-b2d2509e15d2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":17768023,"duration_in_seconds":740}]},{"id":"c376d2ea-b5c1-4862-9d19-b247dfb75563","title":"Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-09-06-espanol","content_text":"Lecturas son disponibles aqui","content_html":"","summary":"¿Porque un discípulo tiene que amar a su prójimo? Esta homilía fue dada en la ocasión del Bautismo, Confirmación, y Primer Comunión de dos niños de nuestra comunidad.","date_published":"2020-09-10T08:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/c376d2ea-b5c1-4862-9d19-b247dfb75563.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14288983,"duration_in_seconds":595}]},{"id":"c519065b-d5f3-4bc4-a7c6-3294b531e665","title":"Hobos for Heaven","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-09-06-ef","content_text":"Questions to Ponder: \n\n\nDo you long for heaven? How do you actively seek the kingdom of heaven?\nWhat are the sources of aniexty in your life? How do you these things take away your peace?\nWhat can you do to remind yourself each day that you are made for heaven?\n\n\nhttps://www.missalemeum.com/en/2020-09-06","content_html":"Questions to Ponder:
\n\nhttps://www.missalemeum.com/en/2020-09-06
","summary":"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. (Matt 6:33) ","date_published":"2020-09-09T18:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/c519065b-d5f3-4bc4-a7c6-3294b531e665.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":17738647,"duration_in_seconds":738}]},{"id":"2fc1a92a-a681-4c1b-aec8-db8c70742657","title":"Correcting with Love","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-09-06-of-english","content_text":"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone Matthew 18:15\n\n\n“Reckon him no more amongst the number of thy brethren. But yet neither is his salvation on that account to be neglected. For the very heathen, that is, the Gentiles and Pagans, we do not reckon among the number of brethren; but yet are we ever seeking their salvation” – St. Augustine\n\nQuestions for us to ponder: \n\n\n Have I given into the relativism of our cultural situation? \n When it is necessary to correct another how well does my approach align with Jesus’s call to charitable fraternal correction?\n Do I shy away too much from conflict when I should speak to a brother or sister? Or do I, on the other hand, concern myself with things that are not my business to correct? What am I doing to work to foster charity? \n Do I engage in gossip, either in person or online? If so what am I doing to overcome this sin in my life?\n\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/090620.cfm\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(23th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone Matthew 18:15\n“Reckon him no more amongst the number of thy brethren. But yet neither is his salvation on that account to be neglected. For the very heathen, that is, the Gentiles and Pagans, we do not reckon among the number of brethren; but yet are we ever seeking their salvation” – St. Augustine
\n\nQuestions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/090620.cfm
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(23th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone Matthew 18:15\r\n\r\n“Reckon him no more amongst the number of thy brethren. But yet neither is his salvation on that account to be neglected. For the very heathen, that is, the Gentiles and Pagans, we do not reckon among the number of brethren; but yet are we ever seeking their salvation” – St. Augustine","date_published":"2020-09-07T20:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/2fc1a92a-a681-4c1b-aec8-db8c70742657.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26114251,"duration_in_seconds":1087}]},{"id":"ce4e4bf5-7887-4bf9-8814-08a73d7e6785","title":"Grátias agámus Dómino Deo nostro","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-08-30-ef","content_text":"He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. (Lk 17:16)\n\nThe thanksgiving we offer during Mass must be extended. Our lives are meant to take on the character of the thanksgiving of the liturgy. God wants us to give thanks ultimately for our good, because he knows it will help us become what we are meant to be. Only in thanksgiving are we made whole are we wholly saved. Leo the Great: “For not to give Him thanks in all things, what else is it but to blame Him in some degree. Man’s folly too often dares to murmur against his Creator, not only in time of want, but also in time of plenty, so that, when something is not supplied, he complains, and when certain things are in abundance he is ungrateful ","content_html":"He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. (Lk 17:16)
\n\nThe thanksgiving we offer during Mass must be extended. Our lives are meant to take on the character of the thanksgiving of the liturgy. God wants us to give thanks ultimately for our good, because he knows it will help us become what we are meant to be. Only in thanksgiving are we made whole are we wholly saved. Leo the Great: “For not to give Him thanks in all things, what else is it but to blame Him in some degree. Man’s folly too often dares to murmur against his Creator, not only in time of want, but also in time of plenty, so that, when something is not supplied, he complains, and when certain things are in abundance he is ungrateful
","summary":"He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. (Lk 17:16)","date_published":"2020-09-01T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/ce4e4bf5-7887-4bf9-8814-08a73d7e6785.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11002327,"duration_in_seconds":687}]},{"id":"624f7730-3d22-44c7-9d6e-67d93b44a298","title":"Prophetic Anguish","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-08-30-of","content_text":"If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (Mt 16:24)\n\nThe Prophet Jeremiah is in anguish because the words of the Lord, which could be instruments of salvation if heeded, fall on deaf ears and hardened hearts. Peter echoes Jeremiah’s anguish today. He rejects the Cross. He does not want the anguish of witnessing his friend fail. We should remember that this is often our human reaction as well. But this is not the end of Peter’s journey; Peter learns to think according to the will of God and literally takes up his cross dying in imitation of him. Brothers and Sisters, the cost of discipleship is high; in fact, to follow Jesus means to imitate him: where the Master goes, the disciple follows. This means we must be willing to accept the Cross in our lives; we must accept the anguish of failing in integrity. But it is precisely from this anguish of having failed in every human sense of the word, that testimony is given. The folly of the Cross becomes the salvation of all. Brothers and sisters, to share in his anguished heart which beats for every human soul. What greater joy could be found?\n\nQuestions for us to ponder: \n\n\n What/where have I encountered the Cross in my life? Where do I encounter failure from a human perspective? How has God used that failure to bear witness to the hope we should have in him?\n Where or to whom am I called to be a prophet of hope today? \n What sinful habits or tendencies do I tend to use to avoid the Cross in my life? \n\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/083020.cfm\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (Mt 16:24)
\n\nThe Prophet Jeremiah is in anguish because the words of the Lord, which could be instruments of salvation if heeded, fall on deaf ears and hardened hearts. Peter echoes Jeremiah’s anguish today. He rejects the Cross. He does not want the anguish of witnessing his friend fail. We should remember that this is often our human reaction as well. But this is not the end of Peter’s journey; Peter learns to think according to the will of God and literally takes up his cross dying in imitation of him. Brothers and Sisters, the cost of discipleship is high; in fact, to follow Jesus means to imitate him: where the Master goes, the disciple follows. This means we must be willing to accept the Cross in our lives; we must accept the anguish of failing in integrity. But it is precisely from this anguish of having failed in every human sense of the word, that testimony is given. The folly of the Cross becomes the salvation of all. Brothers and sisters, to share in his anguished heart which beats for every human soul. What greater joy could be found?
\n\nQuestions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/083020.cfm
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"The folly of the Cross becomes the salvation of all. Brothers and sisters, to share in his anguished heart which beats for every human soul. What greater joy could be found?","date_published":"2020-08-31T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/624f7730-3d22-44c7-9d6e-67d93b44a298.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14993239,"duration_in_seconds":936}]},{"id":"d9bb6c17-6726-4c75-8d44-7134db8f610a","title":"Making friends by being friends","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-08-23-ef","content_text":"Wishing to justify himself, the man asked, \"and who is my neighbor ?\" (Luke 10:29)\n\nChrist himself is the Good Samaritan who finds you and me wounded and naked on the side of the road and heals us and raises us up. He makes us his neighbors and friends. We are called to invite others to become our neighbors by being their neighbors as Christ did for us. Then we must invite them to meet our best Friend, the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever and ever\n\nQuestions for us to ponder: \n\n\n Do I recognize Christ as the Good Samaritan who comes to me? What wounds do I need to let him heal and bind? Have I left the inn of the Church – if not physically, spiritually – by willfully commiting grave sin?\n Do I recognize that Jesus is both my Lord and my friend? (How) Am I spending time with my Friend through prayer and regular reception of the sacraments? How can I actively work to grow in the virtues so I can be a better friend? \n When am I most tempted to act like the priest and the Levite and refuse to treat someone as my neighbor? How can I act differently in the future? \n\n\nToday's readings can be found here: https://www.missalemeum.com/en/2020-08-23\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(12th Sunday after Pentecost, Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"Wishing to justify himself, the man asked, "and who is my neighbor ?" (Luke 10:29)
\n\nChrist himself is the Good Samaritan who finds you and me wounded and naked on the side of the road and heals us and raises us up. He makes us his neighbors and friends. We are called to invite others to become our neighbors by being their neighbors as Christ did for us. Then we must invite them to meet our best Friend, the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever and ever
\n\nQuestions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday's readings can be found here: https://www.missalemeum.com/en/2020-08-23
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(12th Sunday after Pentecost, Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"Christ himself is the Good Samaritan who finds you and me wounded and naked on the side of the road and heals us and raises us up. He makes us his neighbors and friends. We are called to invite others to become our neighbors by being their neighbors as Christ did for us. Then we must invite them to meet our best Friend, the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever and ever.","date_published":"2020-08-26T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/d9bb6c17-6726-4c75-8d44-7134db8f610a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11670103,"duration_in_seconds":728}]},{"id":"cf952a31-6ec4-4839-b0e5-5d7debd9d6c4","title":"Harsh Healing Words from the Word","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-08-16","content_text":"Summary\n\nFor her benefit and for our benefit, the Lord draws faith out of the Canaanite woman. She becomes a remarkable example of what trusting prayer in faith looks like: Faith which is prompted by God coming to meet us first; Faith which does not deny our own needs while at the same time being compassionate towards others; faith that is persistent in asking for what we need and what others need; faith that asks for intercession from others; faith that is, above all else, humble, which recognizes with gratitude the gift God gives us. For when we desire in prayer, nothing other than the will of God, then it will be done in our lives.\n\nQuestions to Ponder\n\n\n When have you experienced silence from God? How have you reacted to God's seeming silence? \n How might God be working in your life to greater faith right now? \n What are areas of your life in which it is difficult to trust the Lord? What \"harsh words\" might the Lord use to rouse your faith? \n Who can you ask to pray for your intercessions today? Who can you pray for? (go do it, now!) \n","content_html":"For her benefit and for our benefit, the Lord draws faith out of the Canaanite woman. She becomes a remarkable example of what trusting prayer in faith looks like: Faith which is prompted by God coming to meet us first; Faith which does not deny our own needs while at the same time being compassionate towards others; faith that is persistent in asking for what we need and what others need; faith that asks for intercession from others; faith that is, above all else, humble, which recognizes with gratitude the gift God gives us. For when we desire in prayer, nothing other than the will of God, then it will be done in our lives.
\n\nWe should never try to hide our needs from the Lord. Sometimes we are afraid to let Jesus know our weakness or needs for fear that he will reject us because of them. We have the mistaken illusion that we need to be perfect before we go to God. But this fear and shame before the Lord, though truly felt, is not in accord with who God has shown us that he is. In fact, it is precisely in our weaknesses that he comes to find us.
\n\nToday's readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/080920.cfm
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"If we admit our need before God, our weaknesses are not the end of the story but only its beginning","date_published":"2020-08-09T23:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/fe70c5f0-dc3b-401d-9993-34cd96698ea1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":9662935,"duration_in_seconds":603}]},{"id":"b28ee40f-bb5b-4f4a-ae7d-291f82cf7304","title":"Fighting Relationally","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-08-02-ef","content_text":"“God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength” (1 Cor 10:13)\n\nSimply bask in the fact that God loves you. Your sin, your past temptations, your present struggles, none of them can change the fact that God loves you. He’s loved you from the beginning, and he will always love you. You are his son or daughter. Christ compassionately weeps when he sees us in sin because he loves us. He is always present and desires to enter the temple of our hearts and cleanse it of the robbers who wish to cause us harm. \n\nQuestions for us to ponder: \n\n\n Am I honest with myself about my temptations and the vices in my life? How am doing at truthfully acknowledging my thoughts, feelings, and desires (even if they are not all holy)?\n Do I honestly relate my struggles and temptations to the Lord? Are there areas of temptation that I struggle to be honest about? \n How do I feel loved by God? What are signs of his love for me? \n What prevents me from responding to his love?\n\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: https://ususantiquior.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/propers-for-ninth-sunday-after-pentecost.pdf\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(9th Sunday after Pentecost, Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"“God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength” (1 Cor 10:13)
\n\nSimply bask in the fact that God loves you. Your sin, your past temptations, your present struggles, none of them can change the fact that God loves you. He’s loved you from the beginning, and he will always love you. You are his son or daughter. Christ compassionately weeps when he sees us in sin because he loves us. He is always present and desires to enter the temple of our hearts and cleanse it of the robbers who wish to cause us harm.
\n\nQuestions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: https://ususantiquior.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/propers-for-ninth-sunday-after-pentecost.pdf
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(9th Sunday after Pentecost, Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"Simply bask in the fact that God loves you. Your sin, your past temptations, your present struggles, none of them can change the fact that God loves you. He’s loved you from the beginning, and he will always love you. You are his son or daughter. Christ compassionately weeps when he sees us in sin because he loves us. He is always present and desires to enter the temple of our hearts and cleanse it of the robbers who wish to cause us harm. ","date_published":"2020-08-04T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/b28ee40f-bb5b-4f4a-ae7d-291f82cf7304.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11366359,"duration_in_seconds":709}]},{"id":"10d42e5a-9fa4-457f-bc73-c4aad8747617","title":"Give them something yourself","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-08-02-english-of","content_text":"“There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves.” (Matt 14:16) \nPerhaps in encountering an impoverished person, we fear recognizing our own poverty and need: the truth that human beings exist fundamentally in relation. This fact is made perfectly clear in the incarnation, the enfleshment of Our Lord Jesus, who is God, needed his Mother. As we pass through our daily lives in the City of Austin, we encounter a vast multitude of people who do not know Jesus and who have never received the bread which will satisfy. The Lord’s words should resound in our ears: “there is no need for them to go away, give them some food yourselves.”\n\nQuestions for us to ponder: \n\n\n How do I react when I encounter poverty and the impoverished? \n Do I recognize my own poverty? Can I name and honestly acknowledge to God the areas where I need help? \n How have I bought into the lie of the self-made man or woman? \n How can I reflect Christ’s compassion to those I encounter? Do I take responsibility for my own actions towards the poor? \n\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/080220.cfm\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/\n\n(18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite) ","content_html":"“There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves.” (Matt 14:16)
\nPerhaps in encountering an impoverished person, we fear recognizing our own poverty and need: the truth that human beings exist fundamentally in relation. This fact is made perfectly clear in the incarnation, the enfleshment of Our Lord Jesus, who is God, needed his Mother. As we pass through our daily lives in the City of Austin, we encounter a vast multitude of people who do not know Jesus and who have never received the bread which will satisfy. The Lord’s words should resound in our ears: “there is no need for them to go away, give them some food yourselves.”
Questions for us to ponder:
\n\nToday’s readings can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/080220.cfm
\n\nYou can subscribe to future audio versions of homilies here: https://frwill.fireside.fm/
\n\n(18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite)
","summary":"Perhaps in encountering an impoverished person, we fear recognizing our own poverty and need: the truth that human beings exist fundamentally in relation. This fact is made perfectly clear in the incarnation, the enfleshment of Our Lord Jesus, who is God, needed his Mother. As we pass through our daily lives in the City of Austin, we encounter a vast multitude of people who do not know Jesus and who have never received the bread which will satisfy. The Lord’s words should resound in our ears: “there is no need for them to go away, give them some food yourselves.”","date_published":"2020-08-03T16:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/10d42e5a-9fa4-457f-bc73-c4aad8747617.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":9041623,"duration_in_seconds":564}]},{"id":"52d3d513-a8ed-4aa4-97ad-75d3ad0d38db","title":"Homilia Tesoros vanos (en espanol)","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-26-spanish","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"Saber lo que es correcto es esencial, pero no es suficiente. Debemos elegir hacerlo. Debemos decidir cada día vivir de acuerdo con lo que sabemos que es correcto. Debemos desear a Dios por encima de cualquier otra cosa o persona buena. Dios es supremamente generoso contigo y conmigo.","date_published":"2020-07-29T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/52d3d513-a8ed-4aa4-97ad-75d3ad0d38db.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":7576663,"duration_in_seconds":473}]},{"id":"9cf92271-a989-4d12-b51f-df2eabd18f06","title":"Vain Treasures (Homily for 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time)","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-26-english","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"Knowing what right is essential, but it is not enough. We must choose to do it. We must decide each day to live according to what we know is right. We must desire God above every other good thing or person. God is supremely generous with you and me. ","date_published":"2020-07-27T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/9cf92271-a989-4d12-b51f-df2eabd18f06.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":5960791,"duration_in_seconds":372}]},{"id":"6afd5fcd-9d33-4617-98e9-791a964cffaf","title":"Sons nor Servants: Living without fear (Homily for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost)","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-26-ef","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"As the bread and wine are made Christ, who always cries out to the Father, so also our lives must be made into Christ through the work of the Spirit so that in union with him, we too cry out Father through that same Spirit.","date_published":"2020-07-26T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/6afd5fcd-9d33-4617-98e9-791a964cffaf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":7744087,"duration_in_seconds":483}]},{"id":"fb410812-7737-4c57-a2bd-d2c26208160f","title":"What fruit should we expect?","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-19-ef","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"We are the trees, in the garden of the Lord. We are perhaps a variety of different trees, but we are all meant to bear good fruit, which means receiving a new nature from him, living in charity, and letting ourself be pruned. “The tree is the soul, that is, the man himself; the fruit is the man’s works.” AUGUSTINE","date_published":"2020-07-21T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/fb410812-7737-4c57-a2bd-d2c26208160f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":10529198,"duration_in_seconds":657}]},{"id":"887b7259-c6f0-42e7-9440-bf253d78c44a","title":"Bearing Fruit Among the Weeds","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-19","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"IV.\tLikewise, anytime we suffer evil in union with Christ, we show the world how much God loves them. The Kingdom of Heaven already triumphs because Christ, who is its embodiment, has already triumphed through his Cross and Resurrection. ","date_published":"2020-07-20T18:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/887b7259-c6f0-42e7-9440-bf253d78c44a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11391840,"duration_in_seconds":711}]},{"id":"48776421-13bf-4057-b465-9215c3aa13c8","title":"Groaning Good Soil","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-12-homily","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"God calls us to bear great fruit in as Christ himself did! To the extent that we repent, run to the Lord, and offer him the sacrifice of our lives, the soil of our soul will bear fruit. May we imitate his example and bear much fruit. 30x, 60x, 100x. ","date_published":"2020-07-12T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/09db9c06-67a2-487e-8b3e-5d92808c3f74/48776421-13bf-4057-b465-9215c3aa13c8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":17980465,"duration_in_seconds":748}]},{"id":"aee066eb-9ccc-4ed4-954a-8db7c5b033e3","title":"2020-06-07 Reading Reflection","url":"https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-06-07-reflection","content_text":"If our perception of who God is incorrect, we will not live correctly. Nothing matters more than our knowledge of Christ. In light of recent events, this has very practical consequences for the way we treat others and ourselves. The disunity – the lack of communion in our country and world, made clear by recent events – has many causes. But taken from the highest point of view, it is the result of our living as if God did not exist or as if he was a God uninterested in our world - the exact opposite of what we hear in the Gospel (God so loved the world... Jn 3:16) Communion in our human family, if it is to be lasting, must begin with our communion with God. This comes about by entrusting ourselves to Him. Going to him in love and realizing that he loves you and me and every other person he has ever created with a love beyond all our imagining. We will only do so if we believe God to be love.\n\n\"Nothing could be more untrue than the often-repeated statement that we all worship the same God; or that other, that whatever we worship is the same. Nothing matters more than having a true knowledge of Christ. We become what our conception of Christ is: God made us in His own likeness, but we have an extraordinary power of changing ourselves into the likeness of the idols we make, of those caricatures of God which we set up on the altars of egoism and worship. In the degree of falseness of our conception of God, we restrict and narrow our interests and sympathies; we grow in intolerance and hardness or in a flabbiness which turns to a rot of sweetness like a diabetes of the soul. In the degree of the truth of our conception of Him, our minds grow broader, deeper, and warmer; our hearts grow wiser and kinder; our humour deeper and more tender; we become more aware of the wonder of life; our senses become more sensitive; our sympathies stronger; our capacity for giving and receiving greater; our minds are more radiant with a burning light, and the light is Christ.\" C. Houselander (1944). The Reed of God. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press. 130\n\nUnity #peace #love #communion #justice","content_html":"If our perception of who God is incorrect, we will not live correctly. Nothing matters more than our knowledge of Christ. In light of recent events, this has very practical consequences for the way we treat others and ourselves. The disunity – the lack of communion in our country and world, made clear by recent events – has many causes. But taken from the highest point of view, it is the result of our living as if God did not exist or as if he was a God uninterested in our world - the exact opposite of what we hear in the Gospel (God so loved the world... Jn 3:16) Communion in our human family, if it is to be lasting, must begin with our communion with God. This comes about by entrusting ourselves to Him. Going to him in love and realizing that he loves you and me and every other person he has ever created with a love beyond all our imagining. We will only do so if we believe God to be love.
\n\n"Nothing could be more untrue than the often-repeated statement that we all worship the same God; or that other, that whatever we worship is the same. Nothing matters more than having a true knowledge of Christ. We become what our conception of Christ is: God made us in His own likeness, but we have an extraordinary power of changing ourselves into the likeness of the idols we make, of those caricatures of God which we set up on the altars of egoism and worship. In the degree of falseness of our conception of God, we restrict and narrow our interests and sympathies; we grow in intolerance and hardness or in a flabbiness which turns to a rot of sweetness like a diabetes of the soul. In the degree of the truth of our conception of Him, our minds grow broader, deeper, and warmer; our hearts grow wiser and kinder; our humour deeper and more tender; we become more aware of the wonder of life; our senses become more sensitive; our sympathies stronger; our capacity for giving and receiving greater; our minds are more radiant with a burning light, and the light is Christ." C. Houselander (1944). The Reed of God. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press. 130
\n\nOur thirst for God expresses God’s thirst for us, which He fulfills through the gift of himself in the person of the Holy Spirit.
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