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Fr. Christopher Mahar offers Catholic homilies that focus on the Gospel, the teachings of Sacred Scripture and the Catholic Church. How do I grow in my Catholic faith? How do I learn more about Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God? the Bible and the Sacred Liturgy provide answers to our questions about God, faith, life, death, heaven and hell. Why do we suffer? Where is God in our lives? How do I grow in prayer? God has answers to the questions that matter most!
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This free worship music CD is written and composed by brothers from the fellowship. Words to “Let Me See Thy Face And Die” are based from Wesley hymn No. 284. You are welcome to make additional copies of these messages for free distribution to others. The copies must be in their entirety and their meanings may not be changed. All other forms of distribution and reproduction are prohibited. May God bless you and His word as you listen with an honest and humble heart.
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When we place Christ as King of our hearts and King of the nations, He gives us His peace and newness of life.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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St. John Paul II teaches that women are first in the order of love. Women teach all of humanity what it means to receive the gift of love from God and to express that love in the world around us.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The Scriptures for this weekend's reading help us to meditate on the four "last things": Death, judgment, heaven and hell. How is Christ, who calls us to eternal life with Him, asking us to be more mindful of that final end?โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to seek Him in humble prayer to ask for good shepherds and good leaders in the Church. How are we called, during this Vocations Awareness Week, to ask for an increase of vocations to the priesthood and religious life?โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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We are completely dependent upon God for mercy, grace and forgiveness. Starting from there, we are able to love God and our neighbor freely and generously.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to give ourselves entirely to Him. In letting Christ completely into our lives we are set free and become the men and women we have always been created to be.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus pours out His life for us on the cross and in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. How are we receiving that awesome gift and letting it change us?โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Christ calls us to become His precious vineyard and to bear the fruit of the Kingdom of God.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God manifests His power in a most significant way by pardoning and showing mercy. That power is able to effect change in our lives and transform in Christ.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God's mercy and generosity surprises us and transforms our lives, helping us to offer the sacrifice of praise.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The supreme law of the Church, states Canon Law, is the salvation of souls (Can. 1752). The readings this weekend challenge us to confront sin because nothing is as important as that salvation. God desires the triumph of mercy over sin and draws us home to eternal life with Him.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The Paschal Mystery of the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ is the central mystery of our redemption. Christ calls us to unite ourselves to His sacrifice and to become "a living sacrifice" to God.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God grants authority to human persons according to our dignity. He confers the "Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven" on St. Peter in this Sunday's Gospel, granting him the power to absolve sins, to teach doctrine and to discipline. This authority is given to draw souls into the Kingdom of Heaven and the gates of the netherworld will not prevail against i…
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God calls all of us to salvation, to be fully alive in a relationship of love with Him. That reality begins with the Jewish people and, through the Messiah, is offered to all the nations of the world. Are we living the abundant life that God calls us to in salvation?โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Although we often experience drama in our everyday lives, God is often at work in the silence and in the solitude. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the drama of prayer is most fully revealed in the Word, who became flesh and dwells among us (CCC, #2598). How is God calling us to become more entrenched in that drama as we follow Chr…
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Jesus manifests His glory on the mountain to Peter, James and John in order to strengthen them for the changes, trials and tribulations that they will face. God is calling us to eternal glory, something wonderful and amazing. That truth can carry us through the challenges we face and bring us home to God.…
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Our freedom is what makes us most like God. In freely choosing the good that God reveals and ultimately the good which is God as our final end, we can grow in joy and peace. God offers us the greatest of choices, a true treasure buried in the field and the pearl of greta price!โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God, who loves us and creates us for good, gives us the entire Christian faith and message as an answer to the Question of evil. Only the Christian faith in its entirety is sufficient to help us navigate the complexities and challenges of daily life and the struggle against evil.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God is constantly revealing Himself in our lives, through the created world, in Sacred Scripture and in daily life. Are we listening? God want us to bear tremendous fruit in Christ. What is He saying to you?โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God comes to us in our suffering. When we are struggling with the challenges and difficulties of life, God enters into our lives and gives us hope. He helps to carry our burdens and invites us to participate in His amazing work of redemption.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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In our baptism we have died to sin and Christ now lives in us. When God looks at us He sees in us another Christ, even Christ Himself.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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In the Christian life we are on a pilgrimage home to heaven. Christ comes to us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist to strengthen us on the way and lead us to eternal life with God.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Sometimes our love for God can grow cold and we need to reignite the fire of faith. Jesus promises the Holy Spirit to His disciples, the Advocate who remains with us and and is in us! The Holy Spirit is the Gift of God to us when we want to draw close to Jesus and follow Him more closely in our daily loves. Come Holy Spirit!…
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Christ, the Good Shepherd, calls us each by name. We are called to tune in to that voice in our vocation, in Sacred Scripture and in our daily prayer. He is leading us to new and eternal life. Are we listening?!โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God's mercy comes to us to transform our lives and to bring us forgiveness and grace. Open the door! Allow God's mercy to flood your life and become an instrument of God's mercy for those around you.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Death is a finality that we will all face. We cry out to God "de profundis", from the depths, and He answers us not simply with the promise of the resurrection but with the amazing gift of Himself.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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We are created with the desire for something . . . Someone . . . greater than ourselves, greater than we can even imagine. In the Christian faith, that One we are searching for has found us!โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to live the moral life by the decisions and choices that we make. We become who we are by the way we cooperate with grace and follow Christ.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The most authentic portrait that we have of Jesus Christ is found in the Beatitudes. We are called to live the Beatitudes and so become a portrait of Christ in this world. God calls us to the blessed life right here, right now.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.โดย Fr. Christopher Mahar
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John 1) Those who worship the Lord Worship in Spirit and Truth Those who say that they know Him Must walk as He walked (2X) Chorus: He is the way and the truth And in Him is the life If we obey His word Then we walk in the light (2X) 2) If we say that we know Him But we don’t keep His word Then we walk in the darkness And the Truth’s not in us If w…
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Living Sacrifice I take my cross and follow you Forsake my life in this world Through the cross, the world is dead to me and I am dead to the world chorus: Bind me to the horns of Your alter, oh Lord I’ll be a living sacrifice I lay down everything that hinders And cry out for a brand new heart I put my hand to the plow I never will look back Remov…
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Fire of God Father cleanse these filthy hands I long for brokeness for all my sin and shame The tears You’ve wept outnumber the sands With every sin I know I break Your heart again Chorus Help me to understand Your pain When I conform to this world, And blaspheme Your holy name Help me to understand Your Word If I’m a friend of this world It’s hatr…
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Man of Sorrows 1) Jesus a man of sorrows He is acquainted with grief Wounded for our transgressions And by His stripes we are healed 2) No beauty that we should desire Him Despised and rejected by man He came to His own they forsook Him Led to the cross as a lamb Chorus: Now there’s no other name By which men can be saved So Lord I come, bowing by …
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Prophets Call Who will go and tell this people To keep on hearing but don’t understand? Who will be a watchman in Zion? Who will keep the blood from his hands? © 2006 – www.ChristOurLife.caโดย Christ Our Life
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Cry Aloud Comfort My people Call out to her The voice of one crying “Prepare ye the way of the Lord” Chorus: Cry aloud, don’t hold back Lift your voice like a trumpet Tell My people, their transgression And the house of Jacob their sins © 2006 – www.ChristOurLife.caโดย Christ Our Life
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I come to the Light Lord I humble myself and pray Lord I humble myself and pray I will seek Your face, and turn from my ways I will seek Your face, and turn from my wicked ways Chorus: Lord bring the breaking Please hear my cry Shake all that can be shaken And heal the land that’s dry Lord I come to the light, confess that I need You Lord I come to…
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Now Is the Time Today, if you hear His voice Harden not your hearts As in the rebellion (2x) Chorus: Now is the time, now is the day of salvation Now is the time, for these are the last days We have not received, the grace of our Lord in vain Whoever calls upon, the name of the Lord shall be saved Come out, be separate says the Lord Touch no unclea…
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You Love Righteousness I’ll give a pleasing sacrifice for my God I’ll give a pleasing sacrifice for my God Chorus: A contrite spirit, a broken heart You’ll not despise You resist the proud, but grace is given to the humble You love righteousness my Lord You love righteousness my Lord I will hope in things that I do not yet see I will hope in things…
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Let Me See Thy Face and Die 1) To Thee, great God of love! I bow, And prostrate in Thy sight adore; By faith I see Thee passing now; I have, but still I ask for more, A glimpse of love cannot suffice, My soul for all Thy presence cries. I cannot see Thy face, and live, Then let me see Thy face, and die! 2) Moses Thy backward parts might view, But n…
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Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures He leadeth me beside the waters of rest He restoreth my soul Chorus: Though I walk through the valley Thou art with me Thou preparest me a table, before my enemies Though I walk through the valley I will not fear Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me Thy ro…
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Love Never Fails 1) Just as Jesus died, laying down His life So husbands love your wives As Jesus loves His bride Love is patient, love is kind It does not envy, does not boast It is not rude, nor seeks its own But rejoices in the truth Chorus: Love never fails, love never fails When faith, hope and love Are all that remain The greatest of these is…
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From Death to Life Baptized with Christ, into His death, That we might walk in newness of life. Set free from sin, now slaves of righteousness. Raised from the dead by the glory of the Lord. Chorus: You are the resurrection and the life, He who believes in You will never die. You are the resurrection and the life, He who believes in You has passed …
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Beatitudes 1) Blessed are the poor in Spirit For theirs is the kingdom of God Blessed are the mourners, they’re comforted And the meek shall inherit the earth And the meek shall inherit the earth 2) Blessed are the thirsty for righteousness And the hungry for they shall be filled Those that show much mercy are shown mercy And the pure for they shal…
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Psalm 103 All that is in me will bless Your Name Bless the Lord, O my soul I will not forget all Your benefits You forgive all my sins, and You heal my diseases Chorus: As the heavens are above the earth So great is His mercy on those who fear Him As the east is sitting from the west So far He removes our transgressions from us Mercies of the Lord …
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