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On Christmas Night

My dear friends, tonight, lets us go back with our minds to that night, a little over two thousand years ago, when The Virgin Mary, and her Husband the chaste Joseph, where looking for shelter. Imagine this little town, in the middle of Palestine, crowded with people, where most of them lived perhaps, in what we would consider poverty. A young maiden, whose Hebrew name was Miriam, which we pronounce Mary, and her husband Joseph, are going around asking people for a place to stay. If you were to see them, they would appear to you to be people without importance. They seem to be poor, and uninteresting. Only while speaking to them you would realize, the very special way of their words, their actions, their manner of talking and walking. You would see in them a certain majesty, gravity and holiness. Both of them, were totally immersed in God,

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4th Sunday of Advent -The Presence of Jesus and My soul as the manger.

My dear friends: Suppose that you are at your work, or daily chores, and suddenly, you feel a certain tremor go up your spine. A sense of something supernatural takes place, and your souls naturally fears the unknown, and as you look back, you see a presence from heaven, an Angel, that tells you that Christ himself has come, and is present in a certain place, a couple of miles away. And then, suddenly the angel leaves, and you are left in your normal day, with your normal chores. You would think that you would immediately run, to wherever Christ is… wouldn’t you? But believe it or not: wouldn’t you might get a thought such as: “I’m super busy right now? Why now? I have to finish this… I can’t let this undone… maybe I’ll go later”. We are only too familiar, with this kind of reasoning. Everyone is, because

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3rd Sunday of Advent – The Priest as a Prophet

Epistle from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the PhilippiansPhil 4:4-7Brethren: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety, but in every prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your petitions be made known to God. And may the peace of God which surpasses all understanding guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Gospel Continuation ✠ of the Holy Gospel according to St. JohnJohn 1:19-28At that time, the Jews sent to John from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, Who are you? And he acknowledged and did not deny; and he acknowledged, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Are you Elias? And he said, I am not. Are you the Prophet? And he answered, No. They therefore said to him, Who are you? that we

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Sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent.

Epistle Taken from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the RomansRom 15:4-13Brethren: Whatever things have been written have been written for our instruction, that through the patience and the consolation afforded by the Scriptures we may have hope. May then the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind towards one another according to Jesus Christ; that, one in spirit, you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive one another, even as Christ has received you to the honor of God. For I say that Christ Jesus has been a minister of the circumcision in order to show God’s fidelity in confirming the promises made to our fathers, but that the Gentiles glorify God because of His mercy, as it is written, Therefore will I praise You among the Gentiles, and will sing to

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Repentant Sinner

Sermon for the Last Sunday after Pentecost.

On the temptation to not be a Saint. My dear friends, today we celebrate the Last Sunday of the Season after Pentecost, and with this, we put an end to the liturgical year. The next Sunday we will be beginning the Holy Season of Advent, which will lead us to prepare for the coming of our Lord. And as we finish this liturgical year, we are bound once again to look into our lives for reformation and improvement, as the Church guides us through these different stages of spiritual preparation. I have been talking about this a lot, and I will continue to do so, perhaps, because the Priest, as a good coach, is bound not only to give the right doctrine, and to provide correction when needed, but also to encourage and as it were, to push and continuously compel us to improve our lives. And on those lines,

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Daniel in the Lions Den

On the 6th Sunday After Epiphany

Homily By fr. Carlos Zepeda. today I would like to talk about our daily prayers. But I would like to begin by telling you of the Prophet Daniel. But before I begin, I would like to bring back to our minds, that this story is not just a tale, it is a historical fact. In the last sermon we mentioned the first destruction of Jerusalem. When the Jews, about 3000 years ago, committed idolatry and apostatized from the true faith, God as a punishment allowed the pagan peoples, particularly the Babylonians, to come and destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. Many Jews were killed, and the ones remaining were deported, that is, they were brought to Babylon, or to other pagan nations. Among these Jews were four young men, who were of good manners, pius and exemplary. One of these was Daniel. Now, it was a custom among the Babylonians, to

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