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Lord, Strengthen My Faith!

Father Broom speaks the call of our Holy Father Benedict XVI to strengthen our faith in this Year of Faith. We should read the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the documents of Vatican Two.

Father Ed Broom OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and is Associate Pastor at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens California.

To read his blogs in English or Spanish and to listen his other podcasts, please go to www.fatherbroom.com

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Father Ed Broom speaks about one of the most well known passages in the Letters of St. Paul – 1 Corinthians 12:31 to 13:13. What is love is the topic. Love is kind….. love is patient… it does not seek its own interests etc.

The greatest love that St. Paul is speaking of – Agape – is sacrificial love. It is the love that Christ has for each of us…. it is how we are to love one another as He loved us. He loved us even to His Passion and Death, Death on the Holy Cross.

Father Ed Broom OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and is Associate Pastor at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens California.

To read his blogs in English or Spanish and to listen his other podcasts, please go to www.fatherbroom.com

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Father Broom speaks to the parents of the Confirmation students about the Life of Christ. He introduces them to the Paschal Mystery- the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. He focuses in this lesson on the events of Holy Thursday.

He encourages the parents to study along with their students by using the You Cat which is the text for the parish Confirmation classes.

Father Ed Broom OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and is Associate Pastor at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens California.

To read his blogs in English or Spanish and to listen his other podcasts, please go to www.fatherbroom.com

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Father Broom talks about the meaning of the word “love”. C.S. Lewis wrote a famous book entitled The Four Loves about the different kinds of love. There is the love of brothers, there is erotic love, there is love for parent or child and there is sacrificial love that is called agape.

Agape is the love Christ has for us. He gave his life for each of us so that we could have life and life most abundantly.

Father Ed Broom OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and is Associate Pastor at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens California.

To read his blogs in English or Spanish and to listen his other podcasts, please go to www.fatherbroom.com

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Father Broom is preparing the Confirmation boys for Lent by teaching them about the Paschal Mystery of Christ. He describes the Last Supper and the Institution of both the Eucharist and the priesthood. He describes the Agony in the Garden and Christ’s Passion and Death.

He gives them examples of how they can unite their sufferings to the Passion of Christ.

Father Ed Broom OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and is Associate Pastor at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens California.

To read his blogs in English or Spanish and to listen his other podcasts, please go to www.fatherbroom.com