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“Caritas in Veritate” to Cover Social Themes
VATICAN CITY, JULY 1, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, titled “Caritas in Veritate,” will be released Tuesday, the Vatican announced.

The Vatican press office confirmed today that the Pope’s first social encyclical, which is expected to offer an analysis of the current economic crisis, will be presented at a press conference in the late morning July 7. The text will then be released to the public at midday, local time.  More…

Immaculate Music #18 – Fourth Article of the Creed ( o3min) >>> Play

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Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the fourth article of the Creed: “He suffered under Pontius Plate, was crucified, died, and was buried.”

The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina.

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Homily #090702 ( 06min) Play – Jesus displays His divinity by curing the paralytic and forgiving his sins.
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Ave Maria!– July’s Theme: Temptation

“Do not let your heart be frightened when it finds itself in battle with the devil; cast every one of your cares in God alone because He has supreme care of you, and His vigilant grace will always make you triumphant over all the evil arts of the enemy.”

Homily #090701m ( 10min) Play - Martyrdom is ultimately a grace, if we are given the opportunity to give witness to our faith, may we have the courage to embrace martyrdom generously out of love for Jesus and Mary.
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Ave Maria Mediations

Blessed Junipero Serra

Also known as the Apostle of California

Homily #090701 ( 08min) Play – On this feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ Fr. Bonaventure explains how the Blood of Christ is the fulfillment of the Jewish sacrifice of animals and how the Blessed Virgin Mary prepared this ultimate sacrifice.
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Marycast #62 ( 9min) Play – The Holy Rosary is the most powerful prayer after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  Why have the popes, saints, mystics, and even Our Blessed Mother Herself asked and begged us so many times to pray the rosary?  Let’s listen to what Dr. Miravalle has to say.

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Ave Maria!– July’s Theme: Temptation

“ ‘Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith’. Do not let the many snares of this infernal beast frighten you. Jesus, Who is always with you and Who fights with you and for you, will never permit you to be deceived and overcome.”

From MaryVictrix.com by Fr. Angelo Geiger on the anniversary of the passing of Thom and Mark Girard who were the first Knights of Lepanto, and beloved friends of the friars. Pray for them and their courageous family.

I here re-post my entry for July 2, 2008 on this the first anniversary of Thom Girard’s passing.  The accident occurred on June 30, but Marc survived into very early in the morning of July 1.  May our good knights rest in peace. I offered Mass for the repose of their souls this morning. More…

One Minute Meditation

Prayer for Priests

by St. Therese of Lisieux

O Jesus, eternal Priest,

keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart,

where none may touch them.

Keep unstained their anointed hands,

which daily touch Your Sacred Body.

Keep unsullied their lips,

daily purpled with your Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,

sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood.

Let Your holy love surround them and

shield them from the world’s contagion.

Bless their labors with abundant fruit and

may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation

here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“Let us draw near to receive the Bread of angels with a great faith and with a great flame of love, and let us await from this most sweet lover of our souls to be consoled in this life with the kiss of His mouth.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

28- “May our most sweet Lord deign to excommunicate me, separate me from Him, abandon me and leave me in the arms of the shame and sufferings due to my brothers; may He even cancel me from the book of life, provided that my brothers and my friends in this exile are saved, and that He does not deprive me of His charity and of His grace, from which nothing could ever separate me.”

29- “Faith is our guide, and we, behind its light, follow the path that leads to God, to His homeland. May the Lord deign to transform our hearts so that in containing the ardors of His charity, He manifests Himself to the souls of our brothers in order to win them.”

Homily #090630 ( 06min) Play – In today’s Gospel the boat which Jesus and the disciples were in was buffeted by the waves. This is symbolic of the waves of persecution against the Church and how the Martyr’s blood is the remedy to this evil as exemplified by St. Raymond Lull as well as the Roman Martyrs whose feast we celebrate today.
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No Apologies #95 – Nothing unholy can enter the presence of God. ( 04min) >>> Play

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Although the word “purgatory” is not explicitly used, there is no question that the doctrine is taught in Sacred Scripture. Both our Lord and St. Paul speak of it.

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