St. Bernard of Clairvaux
I'll be posting some daily Mass sermons like this one since I'm [surprisingly] back in a parish.
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08, 2018
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08, 2018
Confession and the 10 Lepers
The four parts of a good confession.
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07, 2018
Holy Faith is Your Triumph Over Enemies
In this sermon for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, I reference a 1995 death experience of Gloria Polo and an ancient prophesy of St. Francis of Assisi.
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07, 2018
A Formation Commensurate to Baptism
Any species of animal must have a formation commensurate to its nature. We are humans with a human nature, but we are called to participate in the Divine Nature through baptism. How can our formation equal the grace already transmitted in the sacraments? Two ways: 1)To live according to the spirit, not the flesh (Romans 8) and 2) To go to the mother who singularly formed the human nature of the God-man.
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05, 2018
On Exiting the Gay Lifestyle 2 of 2
I interviewed Joseph Sciambra about his exit from work in gay pornography to a chaste life in the Catholic Church. This is part 2 of 2, live from the Castro, San Francisco. You can find a lot more about Joseph's life and apostolate at www.josephsciambra.com. You can watch both of these coffee-shop interviews with Joseph and myself on Sensus Fidelium.
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05, 2018
On Exiting the Gay Lifestyle 1 of 2
I interviewed Joseph Sciambra about his exit from work in gay pornography to a chaste life in the Catholic Church. This is part 1 of 2 of my interview in the Castro, San Francisco. You can find a lot more about Joseph at www.josephsciambra.com
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04, 2018
Heresy Podcast: 4th century Arians vs. St. Athanasius
This podcast considers the heresy of Arius and how St. Athanasius (featured image on blog, feast day 2 May) promoted the faith that is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. That Christ is homoousian (of one substance or one in being) with the Father is the true and orthodox view. Heterodox or heretical views include homoiousian (that the Son is of a similar substance to the Father but not the same) and homoian (that the Son is similar to the Father, in all things, without speaking of substance) and heteroousian (that the Son is of a different substance from the Father, that is, created, as Arius wrongly taught.) But again, the orthodox teaching [...]
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04, 2018
Who Did the Saints Listen to in a Church Crisis?
This podcast is about the difference Divine Law, Ecclesial Law and Particular Law. This is the necessary interlude for forthcoming heresy podcasts from the fourth century onward.
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04, 2018
Easter Sermon
Why does suffering on earth continue after the Resurrection? The power of the Resurrection is also mentioned in this scientific study linked here.
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03, 2018
Heresy Podcast 3: The Third Century
This podclass tackles the heresies of the third century including Sabellius (founder of Modalism), Paul of Samosata (forerunner of the Adoptionist heresy), Manes (founder of Manichaeism that temporarily ensnared St. Augustine early on in his conversion) and finally we consider two semi-heretics, Tertullian and Origin. On the blog that has photos, you can see Tertullian above. Below is Man-E-Faces, a good symbol of the Sabellian or Modalist heresy. The third century heresies as outline by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the 18th century can be found on this link.