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Sermon titled "Advent Recollection, Part 3: Spiritual Life" given on Saturday December 17, 2011. Size: 12.6 MB; duration: 54:53.

Sermon titled "Advent Recollection, Part 2: Prayer" given on Saturday December 17, 2011. Size: 8.4 MB; duration: 36:51.

Sermon titled "Advent Recollection, Part 1: Silence" given on Saturday December 17, 2011. Size: 7 MB; duration: 30:41.

Sermon titled "The Gift of Mental Prayer" given on Sunday December 11, 2011. Size: 5.7 MB; duration: 24:51. We are here to establish a friendship with God. He reveals Himself through Divine Revelation. Individually, He wants to reveal Himself intimately to build this friendship. We must be in the true Faith (Church) so that we may know what to believe. Mental prayer takes us deeper where we are alone with God. Six points of Mental Prayer.

Sermon titled "Becoming a Saint Through Our Daily Duty" given on Sunday December 4, 2011. Size: 3.3 MB; duration: 14:31. Holiness is found in fulfilling our duty of state. What about all the prayers and devotions? Where ever we find ourselves at any moment in life is also a vocation. Bad things are the result of sin not God, but God draws good from them. The perfections and goodness of God. Prayer, obedience, love. Penance.

Sermon titled "To Receive the Praise of Christ Like John the Baptist" given on Sunday December 4, 2011. Size: 2.2 MB; duration: 09:33. St. John desired that those who followed him would follow Christ. His disciples were not convinced Christ was the Messias. The symbol of the "reed shaken by the wind." St. John was fearless in proclaiming the Truth. He received Christ's praise for this fortitude.

Sermon titled "End Times: What Signs to Look For (Part 2)" given on Sunday November 27, 2011. Size: 6.3 MB; duration: 27:26. Review from Previous Sermon: What is a "type?" A person, thing, or action that actually exists but is intended by God to prefigure or foreshadow a future person, thing, or action. St Paul: "Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition..." (2 Thessalonians 2:3) (I.E. Apostasy, falling away of Faith, Anti-Christ revealed.) A type of the Apostasy: Study 170 BC in Jerusalem (Maccabees).Dramatic rise in immodesty and perverse behaviorsThe Faithful turning to false religions and paganismPriests neglecting the SacramentsPriests engaging in worldly entertainments and hanging out with those with loose moralsWomen invading sanctuariesBehavior in the temple/sacred space disruptive and irreverent. For the last 100 years or so, our Popes have been warning us of the Great Apostasy. What do we look for?In this sermon: Examination of the ruler at the time of the Maccabees that prefigures the Anti-Christ: Antiochus Epiphanes. Iconoclasm: the destruction of religious symbols and artwork. (Haydock: "God has often suffered sacred places to be profaned when piety is disregarded. All religious rites are designed for God's glory and man's welfare. Hence, when they cease to serve God the holy things are destroyed or taken away.") Our Liturgy and our Faith will be lost if we're not pious, reverent, and training up our children to be pious and reverent -- God will take it all away. He's done it before and He'll do it again. He means what He says and He won't be mocked or trifled with for long. Uniformity in Faith and Religion: so that all are united in the same superstitions and idolatry and kingdom. Idols: Antiochus set up idols of desolation upon the Altar of God, burned the books of God, and put to death all who observed the Laws of God. Signs to be on the lookout for:Dramatic rise in immodest dress, behavior and perversities among laity and priestsCatholics abandoning the True Faith and Traditions of the Fathers, turning to false religions and paganismCatholic Priests neglecting their priestly duties (especially the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and Confession)Priests engaging in worldly entertainments and hanging out with those with loose moralsWomen invading sanctuariesSigns in the skies (sun will be darkened -- hard not to think of Fatima)Occupation of Jerusalem (martyrdom and slaughter of Catholics -- more have been martyred in the past 100 years than the total of all the previous 19 Centuries.Moral corruption and degradation of our youthPunishment and persecution for keeping the Laws of GodRise in the worship of Bacchus (drinking, dancing, sins of the flesh)Push toward a united One World Religion (United Religious Initiative)False idolatrous worship in Catholic churches. "For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils." Psalm 95:5)Stripping of the beauty and sacred vessels of Catholic churches. "Morally, the abomination of desolation is sacrilege and heresy -- especially iconoclasm. For heresy is an idol abominable to God, which brings about the destruction of kingdoms and peoples and the yoke of the Turk. For when heretics, especially iconoclasts, violate consecrated churches and break the images of the saints and profane the holy places, then it is certain that the desolation and devastation of the people is imminent. God avenges sacrilege, and the violation of His Divine Majesty, worship and religion."Behavior in Catholic Churches disruptive and irreverent. What to do: Do your duty in your state of life. Get serious about the Commandments. Get serious about our Faith. Get serious about personal holiness. Say your Rosary and your three Hail Mary's every day. Wear your Brown Scapular. Stop sinning. Go to confession every two weeks. Make fervent communions. Spend time before our Lord in the most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Put God first and

Sermon titled "Sanctity is for Everybody" given on Sunday November 27, 2011. Size: 3.6 MB; duration: 15:39. The Advent Liturgy is the preparation for the personal reception of Christ with prayer and penance (a miniature Lent). Confession is a good preparation; good time for general confession or weekly. Spiritual reading. Focus on our final end. The end times are presented to us in the Liturgy to prepare us for Christ's coming as the Judge. Our Lord did not come into the world only to save us but also to make us holy; to sanctify us.

Sermon titled "End Times: What Signs to Look For (Part 1)" given on Sunday November 20, 2011. Size: 5.3 MB; duration: 22:59. Notes for this sermon: End of the World Heresies:There is no such thing as The RaptureNo such thing as Millennium (1,000 year reign of Christ our Lord)Lord COMMANDS us to read the signs of the times. BUT, we know not the day or the hour, so anyone setting dates are to be ignored.Exciting topic: but don't have a "chicken little" tizzy fit. St John Berchmans example. Just do your duty. Other points:What is a "type?" Person, thing, or action that actually exists but is intended by God to prefigure or foreshadow a future person, thing, or action. Israel prefigures the Catholic Church. Judith prefigures Mary. Holofernes prefigures Satan.Judgment can't come before a great apostasy. Study of the 170BC apostasy in Jerusalem.Dramatic rise in immodesty and perverse behaviorsThe Faithful turning to false religions and paganismPriests neglecting the SacramentsPriests engaging in worldly entertainments and hanging out with those with loose moralsWomen invading sanctuariesBehavior in the temple/sacred space disruptive and irreverent.List of Papal quotes over the past 100 years warning us that things are drawing to a close and that "this may be the beginning of the end".

Sermon titled "The General Judgment: All Will Be Made Clear" given on Sunday November 20, 2011. Size: 2.7 MB; duration: 11:56. Despite all the teaching of Christ, the Pharisees are still determined to destroy Christ because they wanted an earthly king. The Church explains the two meaning of Christ's statement regarding the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. The particular and general judgements.

Sermon titled "Behold the Heart Which Has Loved Man So Much" given on Sunday November 13, 2011. Size: 4.7 MB; duration: 20:25. Notes for this sermon:Sermon synopsis: The activity and power of Satanists is greater now than at any time in history. The "great ceremony" of the Satanists is the Black Mass at which consecrated hosts -- the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ -- are ritualistically desecrated. In 1675, Our Lord Jesus appeared to Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque and said: "Behold this heart which has loved man so much, that has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself in order to testify it's love! And in return, I receive, from the greater part, only ingratitude by their irreverence, their sacriledge, by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in the Sacrament of Love. But what I feel most keenly is that the hearts which are consecrated to Me treat me thus." Christ asked for a feast honoring His Sacred Heart and that solemn acts of reparation be made for the indignities and insults offered to Our Lord. Will you join in consoling the Sacred Heart of Jesus which has loved you without measure?Prayer Given by the Angel at Fatima Oh Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners. Amen. Miserentissimus Redemptor Encyclical of Pope Pius XI On Reparation to the Sacred Heart http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_08051928_miserentissimus-redemptor_en.html

Sermon titled "Honesty, Simplicity, and Supernatural Prudence" given on Sunday November 13, 2011. Size: 5.5 MB; duration: 13:41. Actions of the Pharisees are sins contrary to prudence. The exercise of proper judgement and action. If something is a good act the means and the ends are good. Truth, honesty, and simplicity: let your yes be yes, and your no be no. We must have circumspection to know what is justly ours. We must be docile. Moderate our speech and not to fear correction.

Sermon titled "Mercy is Only Shown to the Merciful" given on Sunday November 6, 2011. Size: 1.9 MB; duration: 08:10. How are we to act to our neighbor? How serious is sin, even venial? We are all sinners. We must forgive even the most enormous offenses in order to be forgiven our sins against the infinite God. We make our own judgement with God. Our model and example is the Sacred Heart.

Sermon titled "Viva Cristo Rey: Live Like Christ is Your King" given on Sunday October 30, 2011. Size: 3.7 MB; duration: 16:20. Persecution of the Catholics in Mexico (the Cristeros). The Mexican government wanted the hearts of every person. These Catholics belonged to Christ the King. To be free to do this is true liberty/freedom. We must first give ourselves entirely to God before God will give Himself to us. We are all created for an end, the highest good of all: God. We must look interiorly for God; His kingdom is within us. Quotes are made from "Quas Primas" by Pope Pius XI. Why Our Lord deserves to be loved. Only by Faith can we recognize Christ as King and God.

Sermon titled "Where is Your Wedding Garment?" given on Sunday October 23, 2011. Size: 2.2 MB; duration: 09:44. Christ's warning regarding the rejection of Him, His grace and His Church. What the Church Fathers teach about this parable. Although the graces are rejected but not wasted. Significance of the wedding garment.