Didde Center Homily Podcasts

Credit to Father Robert Sokolowski for the summary formulation: God plus the world is no greater than God alone. Delivered at Christ the King Catholic Church --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."    --Lin Yutang --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Cuando hombres pequeños hacen sombras largas, se acerca el atardecer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true." --Dorothy Day --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

To learn more about the prisoner whose writings were read in the homily, visit: nguyenvanthuan.com Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Church  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”  --The Cynic Epistles --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

De cada cien hombres, diez ni siquiera deberían estar allí, ochenta son sólo carne de cañón, nueve son los verdaderos luchadores y somos afortunados de tenerlos, pues ellos darán batalla; ah, pero uno, uno es un guerrero; y él traerá de vuelta a los demás. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

It’s said that words instruct, but examples inspire us to follow.  Do we not want to see Christians who, in the midst of all the darkness, are still able to stand above it all in clarity, calmness, and confidence, who, in the midst of all the lack of peace and joy, the egoism and hate, still stand there in the purest peace and cheerfulness?  ----Franz Jägerstätter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"All the way [to the guillotine] the Carmelite sisters sang: the 'Miserere,' 'Salve Regina,' and 'Te Deum.' Beholding them, a total silence fell on the racous, brutal crowd, most of them cheapened and hardened by day after day of the spectacle of public slaughter. At the foot of the towering killing machine, their eyes raised to Heaven, the sisters sang 'Veni Creator Spiritus.' Sister Teresa, their prioress, requested and obtained permission to go last under the knife. The youngest, Sister Constance, went first. She climbed the steps of the guillotine 'with the air of a queen going to receive her crown,' singing Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, 'all peoples praise the Lord.' She placed her head in the position for death without allowing the executioner to touch her. Each sister followed her example, those remaining singing likewise with each, until only the prioress was left, holding in her hand a small figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The killing of each marter required about two minutes. It was about eight o

eu·ca·​tas·​tro·​phe ˌyü-kə-ˈta-strə-(ˌ)fē  A sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur, a fleeting glimpse of joy, joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. Delivered at Our Lady of Most Holy Trinity Chapel on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

As fire transforms into itself everything it touches, so the Holy Spirit transforms into the divine life whatever is subjected to his power. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1127 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

There is a much greater distance between the nature of man, or even between the nature of the highest of the angels, and grace, than there is between grace itself and glory. No created nature, however perfect, is the germ of grace, whereas grace is indeed the germ or the seed of eternal life, semen gloriae. Hence when the sinner is absolved in the confessional, an event occurs which is proportionately of greater importance than the entrance of a just soul into heaven.   --Father Garrigou-Lagrange --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"He loved humankind. And that’s why he died as the bridegroom who has gone off to rescue his bride from the robbers’ hands. And they bind him and torture him to death, but he sees his sweetest friend sitting at the table with his executioners, bantering with them and mocking his pain and his loyal love.  I realized that this mighty love sustains everything in the world—even the fire in Hell. For if God wanted to, He could take our souls by force; then we would be completely powerless in His grasp. But since He loves us the way the bridegroom loves the bride, He will not force her; if she won’t embrace Him willingly, then He must allow her to flee and to shun Him. I have also thought that perhaps no soul is lost for all eternity. For I think every soul must desire this love, but it seems too dearly bought to let go of every other precious possession for the sake of this love alone. When the fire has consumed all other will that is rebellious and hostile to God, than at last the will toward God, even if it

Full text of the homily available at: https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/fr-blahas-homily-baccalaureate-mass-holy-spirit --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value, greater even than that of any other art."   Sacrosanctum Concilium, The Second Vatican Council --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

«La tradición musical de la Iglesia universal constituye un tesoro de valor inestimable que sobresale entre las demás expresiones artísticas, principalmente porque el canto sagrado, unido a las palabras, constituye una parte necesaria o integral de la liturgia solemne.»  --El Concilio Vaticano Segundo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

In the final three paragraphs of the fascinating memoir he wrote while still Prefect of the Congregation, Cardinal Ratzinger explained the significance of the bear:  According to legend, on his way from Germany to Rome in the early 700s, St. Corbinian’s horse was torn to pieces by a bear. Corbinian reprimanded the bear, loaded onto it the pack the horse had been carrying, and made the bear haul that burden all the way to Rome. Only then did Corbinian release the bear.  Then Cardinal Ratzinger quotes Psalm 22 (“When my heart was bewildered, I was stupid and ignorant. I was like a dumb beast before You. I am always with You). He tells us that in those very words, St. Augustine spoke of the burdens he carried once he became bishop:  A draft animal am I before You . . . for You. And this is precisely how I abide with You.  How often, continues Cardinal Ratzinger, writing the last paragraphs of his memoir . . .  did Augustine protest to heaven against all the trifles that continually bloc

For God there are only individuals.   Nicolás Gomez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Para Dios no hay sino individuos.  --Nicolás Gomez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 26. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Delivered at Christ the King Catholic School --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support