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Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

Jan 28 – “You would almost like to measure, comprehend, feel and touch the love that you nurture for God; but be certain that the more a soul loves God, the less she feels it.”

Jan 29 – “The more a soul advances in love for this Supreme Good, the more her sentiment of love towards Him, which surpasses her knowledge, lessen/become smaller/diminish, so much as to seem to the poor soul that she does not love Him at all.” (sorry, poor translation)

Jan 30 – “The continual fear of losing God; that holy circumspection that makes you watch where you step so as not to stumble; that courage with which you confront the battles of the enemy; that resignation of all the troubles of this life to the divine Will; that ardent desire to see the Kingdom of God established in you and in the others are the most clear proofs of the love of your souls toward the Supreme Good.”

Jan 31 – “You love the most tender Spouse, but it seems to you such a small thing because you would desire to love with a perfect and consummate love. But to us miserable and unfortunate mortals, this love- at least in its fullness- is not granted to us if not in the next life. Oh, miserable condition of our human nature!”

Marycast #47 ( 10min) Play – So, is Coredemption heresy? Is it fanatical or anti-ecumenical? What did Pope John Paul II, Bl. Mother Teresa, Padre Pio, Sr. Lucia, St. Francis (Mother) Cabrini, and St. Josemaria Escriva have to say in regards to this question?  Listen as Dr. Miravalle explores this thorny topic by first defining the terms: what is redemption and what is coredemption?

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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Homily #090131 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the life of St John Bosco and how he started the Salesian Order that reformed many street children to be good Catholics and citizens and did so with minimal discipline but with religion, reason and maximum kindness.
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Homily #090130 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger explains that the mustard seed is the small act we do of humbly saying yes to God.
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by Shawn Tribe

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2009/01/solemn-requiem-franciscans-of.html

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Rinascimento Sacro shares some very edifying photos from a recent requiem Mass offered on January 24th at the Monastery of Murate in Città di Castello by the Franciscans of the Immaculate for the anniversary of the death of one of their friars.

The Franciscans of the Immaculate — founded by Pontifical Right by Pope John Paul II from what I can see — are not an order I have followed a great deal to date, but they would seem to be a group to keep more of a watch upon.

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Roving Reporter #57 – CAUTION GRAPHIC MATERIAL ( 07min) >>> Play

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Our Roving Reporter caught up with the amazingly successful Pro-Life Activist, Lila Rose, at the Liaison Hotel in Downtown DC last week. In fact, Lila is so successful as a Pro-Life activist she has gained national media coverage, some of her videos exposing malpractices by Planned Parenthood have been withdrawn from YouTube, and her picture is even being displayed in some Planned Parenthood facilities warning staff about her undercover activities – all this and she is only 20 years old – wow! And to top all this off – she is currently part of an RCIA program and will soon be received into the Holy Catholic Church.

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Homily #090129 ( 04min) Play – [The computer missed the middle part of today's homily but what we did get is still worth it]

“Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket
or under a bed,
and not to be placed on a lampstand?”

Fr. Angelo Geiger explains the need to be lights that light up the world to lead others to Christ. He relates this to St. Clare who’s name means bright and who we are honoring with a votive Mass.
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Bishop Raymond Burke focuses attention on US Bishop’s document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” and the Catholic News Service (CNS) for causing voter confusion and soft-pedaling the new president’s radical pro-abort stance and so leading many Catholics to support him.

By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent

ROME, January 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document of the US Catholic Bishops is partly to blame for the abandonment of pro-life teachings by voting Catholics and the election of the “most pro-abortion president” in US history, one of the Vatican’s highest officials said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com.

Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, named a document on the election produced by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that he said “led to confusion” among the faithful and led ultimately to massive support among Catholics for Barack Obama. More at LifeSiteNews.com

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“May the heavenly Spouse dispel the most subtle cloth that separates us from Him, and may He finally grant us a love that is consummated. Otherwise our life is no longer life; our sickness is incurable and our stay here on earth is a most difficult and prolonged agony.”

Homily #090128 ( 08min) Play – From the parable of the Sower of the Seed, Fr. Angelo Geiger explains the need for parables both to illustrate the truth and keep it from the proud. He then presents St. Thomas Aquinas as an example of someone who receives the wisdom of the Word of God and through the rich soil of his humility produces abundant fruit.
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Marycast Specials #35 ( 10min) Play – “Mary is the remedy.”  These are then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s words in his book The Ratzinger Report published in 1985, and in this episode Dr. Miravalle reechoes his call to the faithful to petition the Universal Shepherd for the proclamation of the 5th Marian Dogma: Our Lady as Coredemptrix.  God has given the peace of the world over to the intercession of Our Lady, and as Mary revealed in the approved apparition at Amsterdam (Our Lady of All Nations), we will not have peace in the world until the Church solemnly proclaims her Coredemptirx, Mediatrix, and Advocate.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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O loving Pelican! O Jesu Lord! Unclean I am but cleanse me in Thy Blood of which a single drop, for sinners spilt, can purge the entire world from all its guilt.

(St. Thomas Aquinas, feast day is January 28th)

Homily #090125t ( 07min) Play – God gives second chances, look at Saul; who became St Paul.
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Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“In these days […], I have often been seized by those excesses of divine love that make my poor heart languish so much. I completely understood Jesus’ condescension toward me, and I directed my usual prayer to Him with more confidence: “Oh, Jesus! If only I could love You, if only I could suffer what you would like, and make You content and repair, in a certain way, the ingratitude of men toward You!” But Jesus made me hear His voice much more in my heart: “My son, love is known in suffering; you will feel it acute in your spirit, and you will feel it even more acute in your body.”

“How can it be that a soul who considers Jesus, crucified for her, can love something other than Him, and that after so many acts of fidelity which made us say, write, sing and sigh ‘Long live Jesus’, we want, like the perfidious and iniquitous Jews, to shout: May he be crucified, may he be killed in our hearts?”