Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

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Weekly Sunday homilies by Father Marcus Holden and Father Andrew Pinsent, Catholic priests from Evangelium. Music by Edwin Fawcett. For much more, visit Totus2us.com - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's apostolic motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

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  • 3rd Sunday of Advent - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden - Confession - Totus2us

    11/12/2011 Duración: 09min

    Fr Marcus: "There's one thing that can separate us from the joy that has been offered - one thing and one thing only. We often think it’s a situation that takes it away or a person or some suffering or something we don't have, but none of those things really matter, in fact they can be turned to benefits. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in that regard: there's one thing and it's personal sin. The Holy Father said recently that the only evil in the Church is sin; all the other problems can be traced back to this. And while the other things have a certain importance, they only have a relative importance. Sin is the thing that really separates us, freely chosen sin, but it has a remedy. However big that sin is, however blinding, however blocking it can be for the love of God, for the joy of our souls, that sin can be eradicated. and its remedy - confession. At this time, preparing for Christmas, we're called to return to that sacrament of reconciliation. There's nothing more important." Music by Ed

  • 1st Sunday of Advent - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us

    27/11/2011 Duración: 07min

    Fr Marcus: "We get to Christmas and when we've eaten all the food and opened all the presents and all the guests have gone home, we could easily say 'What was the point of all that?' As Shakespeare has written: 'Life is but a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.' Without Christ, without eternal life, without heaven, everything can seem as nothing and would be as nothing. The very dissatisfaction at the core of our being with everything, which makes us so different from all other creatures on earth, may be teaching us something. It may not be pointless after all. Is God teaching us that we're made for a love that lasts, for a truth that holds firm, for everlasting life - we're made for God. Advent is the season to put our waiting, our hopes, our desires in order." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lad

  • Solemnity of Christ the King - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us

    20/11/2011 Duración: 06min

    Fr Andrew: "A first lesson from this parable is that it is not only what we believe but also what we do that matters for our salvation. Now there has been some confusion over this point for the last 5 centuries, partly because of the teachings of Martin Luther, who started the Protestant movement. In his new doctrine, Luther claims that we are saved by our faith alone, regardless of our deeds, whether good or evil. Luther also accused the Catholic Church of teaching that we can merit our salvation by good works, like earning our way to heaven. Now what Luther taught was wrong, or at least incomplete, as today's Gospel shows. Neither the Bible or the Church has ever taught that we earn our salvation through good works; salvation is an unmerited grace. This grace is however like a divine seed that should generate the fruits of divine love, these fruits being actions in which we love in union with God. Without such things we have merely a dead faith. St Thomas Aquinas, for example, describes benignity, a fruit o

  • 33rd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Pinsent on Totus2us - on Heaven and Hell

    13/11/2011 Duración: 10min

    Fr Marcus: "In the end, it is a matter of free will. If free will did not exist, hell would not exist. If free will did not exist, there would not be a heaven of those who choose to love God and serve Him and follow Him. Hell is the flip side of that coin of right choice. Love demands that we are free, but it also demands that we can choose the opposite. I remember the story of Padre Pio, one of the great saints of the 20th century, when a man came to him for confession and said 'I don't believe in hell', Padre Pio said 'You will believe it when you get there.' And also the fact that, when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the children at Fatima, she showed them a vision of hell, nothing like we would do in talking about God; but she did. That's because she cares, because this is a reality, and God wishes, desires no-one to be lost but all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth because He loves us, but He allows us the freedom to choose to be separated from Him." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit

  • 33rd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us

    13/11/2011 Duración: 05min

    Fr Andrew: "What does it mean to be productive with the Lord's wealth? How do we avoid the fate of the wicked and lazy servant and indeed how do we store up spiritual treasure in heaven? All saints are saved and perfectly happy but some have been made capable of even greater happiness than others. In a society accustomed to high levels of material production, it might appear that we have to have productive spiritual lives as well, perhaps generating a certain number of prayers or good deeds. But such an interpretation cannot be correct. There are many saints who seem accomplish very little during their life times. The thief on the cross beside Jesus did nothing except beg for mercy: "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom", for which action Jesus promised him paradise that very day. St Aloysius Gonzage died as a Jesuit novice at the age 23 without even reaching ordination; St Therese of Lisieux died at age of 24 and only wrote 1 short book, which became the Story of a Soul. Many other saints die

  • 32nd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Death and Judgement

    06/11/2011 Duración: 09min

    Fr Marcus: "Death, while remaining momentous and awefilled, is also a grand entrance into the great eternal wedding feast to the nuptials with God, for whom we're made. We're not here to live with a depressive knowledge and acceptance of impending doom. No, 'for me to live is Christ and death is gain'. If only we had the faith to see this and to hold it as a reality, then everything would change for us. Wisdom in this area is like walking a tightrope, between that paralysing fear and glib optimism, presumption. Our Lord in his preaching constantly holds these two messages together. He always warns and speaks of urgency but so many, many times he also says 'Do not be afraid.'". Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

  • 32nd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us

    06/11/2011 Duración: 07min

    Fr Andrew: "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Bridesmaids .. St Augustine says that this is a difficult parable to understand but he offers an interpretation in his 43rd sermon on the New Testament Readings; it is essentially his interpretation that I offer you today.... in In summary, this parable is a warning that is directed particularly to Christians about some of the more subtle temptations of the Christian life. It is not enough to abstain from evil, to follow Christ and have good works, unless it is genuine charity or divine love that forms our actions. This love is not something we can buy or borrow from others but arises uniquely from a communion with God through prayer and the sacraments, in which we come to know God, not just know about God, and to love with God the things that God loves. So let us ask the Lord to strengthen the virtue of charity in us so that we may be among the wise who are ready to meet Him when He comes in glory." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about

  • 31st Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Chair of St Peter and the Teaching Authority of the Church

    30/10/2011 Duración: 11min

    Fr Marcus: "One of the great minds of the 19th century, Blessed John Henry Newman, converted to Catholicism precisely because of its teaching authority. For Newman it became a straight choice between Catholicism or no revelation from God at all; there was no middle ground for him. Christianity would not be credible if God had not given clarity and direction, a living voice of teaching authority, a guaranteed and reliable continuation of Jesus's teaching on earth. If this faith, this Christianity, is so vital for all human beings, as Jesus and his followers claimed, then it must have an infallible and consistent expositor, an expounder for all times and all places. Only the Pope and the bishops around the world claimed and exercised the authority throughout history. Only they, concluded Newman, are worthy of belief because only they fit the job description and have the qualifications. And this is the Church - a moral miracle, an ever present phenomena. As the historian traverses the anals of history, he sees t

  • 30th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Love

    23/10/2011 Duración: 11min

    Fr Andrew: "Against this background, what is so unique about Christianity, also prefigured in Judaism, can perhaps be seen more clearly. St John proclaims that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. God, in other words, loved us first while we were yet sinners. Notice also the characteristics of the love God has for us. In today's first reading, God does not think of the evil done to strangers, to widows and orphans merely as contravening some rational system of justice. God's justice is personal arising from God's love, so that harm done to other persons is like harm done to the sons and daughters of God Himself. 'If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear they cry.' God is not therefore cold, distant and uninvolved. God is like a consuming fire. Indeed the great Christian symbol of the love of God is that of the Sacred Heart: the heart of Jesus Christ exposed encircled with thorns and aflame with divine l

  • 29th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us

    16/10/2011 Duración: 05min

    Fr Andrew: "Jesus's answer does not imply that the things of Caesar and the things of God are two separate worlds, as if Christians should remain totally detached from politics. On the contrary, when Caesar (whoever he is) acts unjustly towards his people and interferes with the work of salvation, then Christians have a right and a duty to protest. In the late 4th century, for example, St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, wrote a respectful but forceful letter to the Emperor Theodosius, after the Emperor had ordered the massacre of several thousand citizens of the town of Thessalonica. Bishop Ambrose told the Emperor that, in the sight of God, he dared not offer Mass if the Emperor intended to be present. Referring to the Emperor's presence at Mass, Bishop Ambrose wrote: "Is that which is not allowed after shedding the blood of one innocent person allowed after shedding the blood of many? I do not think so." Fortunately St Ambrose succeeded in shaming the Emperor into repentance for his crime and the Church, in turn,

  • 28th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us

    09/10/2011 Duración: 10min

    Fr Marcus: "What is curious about our Gospel today and what baffles me when I look around the world is that people are not interested in receiving the 'golden ticket'. You can't even give it away! People aren't even bothered enough to investigate whether it's real or counterfeit. This is the inscrutable mystery of human apathy. Our Gospel highlights it today: people simply won't come to the marriage feast. The other curious insight in our Gospel is connected with the man who is without his wedding outfit, the man who doesn't have the garment. This has perplexed the minds of writers and theologians for centuries: What is that garment? The Fathers of the early Church teach us that that wedding garment which is needed to enter the feast is the garment of grace. .. This grace which is first given to us in baptism is a capacity and a new power put within us, which makes us children of God, not metaphorically speaking but really. By grace we begin to share here and now, amazingly, the life of God Himself." Music by

  • 27th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us

    02/10/2011 Duración: 07min

    Fr Andrew: "The clearest interpretation of the parable of the vineyard in today's Gospel is provided in today's first reading and responsorial psalm. The vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel. In other words, the narrative of a landowner preparing a vineyard and leasing it to tenants can be interpreted as God forming the People of Israel and blessing them with extraordinary gifts. The vine representing the prefigurements of Christ himself." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

  • 26th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us

    25/09/2011 Duración: 11min

    Fr Marcus: "Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has been in Germany and one of the important things he did there was to meet with the Lutheran community. Germany is divided almost 50-50 between Catholics and Lutherans. This unfortunate divide in Christianity in Germany stems from the Augustinian friar Martin Luther who, at the beginning of the 16th century, rebelled against the Catholic Church and began a new Protestant religion. Luther is a major figure in the history of the world, in the history of the West in particular. If we are to understand our own history in the Anglo-Saxon world, we need also to understand Luther, because his ideas, his theology, were the background for the Reformation here as well as in Germany. Pope Benedict surprised people on his visit by praising certain aspects of Luther as a theologian but also, at the same time, surprised others by saying ecumenism cannot be true to itself if it simply sweeps under the carpet the real doctrinal differences that remain. There can be no trade-o

  • 25th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

    18/09/2011 Duración: 09min

    Fr Andrew: "Why then in today's parable of the vineyard did those who had laboured all day, presumably doing more good work than the others, receive the same reward as those who arrive right at the end of the day. I suggest that the key to understanding this problem lies in what is really meant by the 'Lord's work'. What, after all, is the real work of God to which we are called? A moment's thought shows that the value of our work for God cannot be measured by productive output for as long a period as possible. Although our society is accustomed to measusre the worth of persons by their production, God who created a universe with at least one hundred billion galaxies scarcely needs us to produce things. So what does God want from us? In John's Gospel, Jesus says that eternal life, the eternal life God wishes us to have, is to know the true God. Now to know someone with the knowledge of friendship requires some sort of harmony between the friends, between the person who knows and the one who is known. Followin

  • 24th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holen on Totus2us - Fasting

    11/09/2011 Duración: 08min

    Fr Marcus: "We fast to realise and discover our hunger for God – Scripture is shot through with this theme – ‘like the deer that yearns for running streams so my soul is thirsting for you my God’, ‘O God, you are my God, for you I long, my body pines for you like a dry weary land without water’. Fasting allows us to realise this truth that ‘he has made us for himself and our hearts are restless until they rest in him’. St Augustine speaks of the Lord wooing the soul by delight, by desire, 'delectatio'. But he draws us not when we are emerged in sensual pleasures but when we are bereft, when our souls are in the desert place. The Lord is committed to a process of luring our souls from the cheap pleasures of this passing world to the real and substantial joys of eternity in union with Him, who is all love." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady i

  • 23rd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Fraternal Correction

    04/09/2011 Duración: 08min

    Fr Andrew: "Today's readings are an important reminder to us that fraternal correction is an obligation of the Christian life, one of the spiritual works of mercy. When Jesus says 'Do not judge' he cannot be saying 'Do not judge actions' because in the Gospel Jesus also says 'If your brother sins against you.' Now to judge that someone has sinned against us means we have to be able to judge that an action is sinful. Furthermore when Jesus says do not judge, he cannot be saying 'Never correct anyone' because Jesus also says "Go and tell him (your brother) his fault." So we have both to judge actions and to confront sinners. .. What we cannot do however is to pass sentence on a person's soul... We cannot know the internal state of a person's soul, except by some miracle. And we cannot judge another in this sense, in the sense of passing sentence on that person. We can and we must however judge certain actions as being evil and, at times, confront sinners." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for mor

  • 16th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - The Word of God

    17/07/2011 Duración: 07min

    Fr Andrew: "There is a great difference between manufacturing and cultivation. Our civilization has produced much remarkable technology, such as space craft and the internet, but there are many things that we simply cannot do. We can build a spacecraft but cannot build an apple tree or an ear of corn, we can only grow these things. In his use of agricultural images, Jesus is therefore telling us something important about holiness. We cannot manufacture holiness, there is no magic formula by which we can create saints on a production line. We can only cultivate holiness and we need some of the patience and other virtues of the farmer. So how then do we cultivate holiness? I think there is no substitute for developing simple, daily and weekly disciplines, making use of the tools God has given us." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also eve

  • 15th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - The Word of God

    10/07/2011 Duración: 13min

    Fr Marcus: "When Jesus spoke these words he knew of the reactions of different people to his message. He knows our reactions – what kind of soil we are for his words. What kind of soil do I present to the seed of the Word of God? Does the seed really take root in me? Jesus gives us an explanation to this parable – it is quite unique in this way – he speaks of three dangers to the precious seed of the Word and its development in our souls." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

  • 14th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Humility

    03/07/2011 Duración: 16min

    Fr Marcus: "Humility is truth. St Teresa of Avila tells us this. Humility acknowledges that the source of all our gifts and achievements is God and His grace. Humility doesn't gloat over those achievements, it doesn't show off, it doesn't enjoy any superiority from the gifts given by God. and it doesn't despise the weakness of others. Humility leads us to offer those gifts for the sake of the other. That's the kind of humility that Our Lord shows us: "Though His state was divine he humbled himself to assume even the condition of a slave". .. So humility is the foundation of the whole spiritual life, as all the writers of our tradition tell us. If we don't have this foundation then everything else is unstable. It's humility that opens the way to real greatness, because it is only by the truthful recognition of what we are that we can aspire to what is greater than ourselves. The proud person is preoccupied with the contemplation a very small object, namely himself, but the humble person can look up to the star

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