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Since the new year I have been instructing our MIM Cenacle in Griswold on the spiritual life, on the basis of Dom Chautard’s The Soul of the Apostolate, a book, I have mentioned here a number of times before.   The book was not really written for laypeople, so I have been adapting it for my class.  Reflecting on this effort, I can see it also needs to be adapted to the needs of Marian Chivalry.

Dom Chautard was a Cistercian abbot, whose service of the Church took him frequently from the monastery and often placed him in circumstances less than conducive to the contemplative life. To a large extent, The Soul of the Apostolate is the fruit of his own soul searching—his effort to make sure that he remained a contemplative when he was forced to live outside of his monastery. (more…)

MaryCast Specials #69 ( 06min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle continues with his synopsis of the Roman Forum sponsored by Inside the Vatican on March 25 in Rome and points out that the dogma does not impose on anyone but rather proposes what is already an accepted doctrine. The forum can be viewed at the Inside the Vatican Web Site.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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MaryCast Specials #68 ( 08min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle gives a synopsis of the events on March 25 in Rome as many theologians and bishops and even Cardinals  gathered for the Roman Forum sponsored by Inside the Vatican to discuss how opportune the time might be for the proclamation of the 5th Marian Dogma. The panel was unanimous in its conviction that now is the opportune time for the declaration especially as an antidote to the current crisis that seems to be a full out attack on the Church. The event can be viewed at the Inside the Vatican Web Site.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Face of Pro-Life #95 – Kristin Bothur tells her story  ( 30min) >>> Play

Kristin Luscia, a mother of 11, shares her story of the excitements and joys of a big family, of how she became a practicing Catholic and how she became a homeschooling mother. Moreover, she explains how she became a single mom and still keeps moving boldly as a mother of 11. She is the blogger for “11onmyown.blogspot.com” and her new book “11 On My Own” will be published soon.

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Homily #100425t ( 07min) Play – God’s voice is true and as St. Augustine say’s, you can taste truth. Without doctrine we are sheep without a Shepard.
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Homily #100425 ( 22min) Play -  Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, the forth Sunday in Easter where the readings refer to Jesus as the Good Shepherd, specifically how he leads His sheep to eternal life. It is also the Church-wide prayer day for vocations to the priesthood. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need for good shepherds, especially in the face of Church scandals and in the face of a society that is in a state of moral decay which is leading so many to eternal death.

Jesus said:
“My sheep hear my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
No one can take them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.
The Father and I are one.”

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Acts 13:14,43-52
R: Ps 100:1-2,3,5
2: Rev 7:9,14-17
G: Jn 10:27-30

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The author is P. Marton Marcell OCD (1887-1966), Hungarian Carmelite priest, his beatification is in the process.

Music: Paganini – Violin Concerto No.5 in A Minor, II., Kiev Philharmonia – Nikolia Sokolov, 2001

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Homily #100424 ( 10min) Play -

Saint Fidelis was born of noble parents at Sigmaringen in what is now Prussia, in 1577. In his youth he frequently approached the Sacraments, visited the sick and the poor, and spent many hours before the altar. For a time he followed the legal profession and (more…)

Poverty, Joy and Love

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Homily #100423m ( 11min) Play – Today we celebrate the feast of Blessed Giles of Assisi, one of the companions of our Blessed Father Francis. Fr. reflects briefly on the virtue which made him so pleasing to God: his humility.

Ave Maria! Mass readings (EF) – Epistle:  1 Cor 4:9-14 –  Gospel: Lk 12:32-34

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Homily #100423 ( 06min) Play – The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?”

Here in the Blessed Sacrament is the same Jesus that live in Nazareth and died on Calvary.

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Assisi, Franciscan Holy Ground.

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With each sacramental communion Jesus writes afresh the new law on our hearts. Here we touch upon an important point for the celebra­tion of the Eucharist…To participate in the Eucharist, to communicate with the body and blood of Christ, demands the liturgy of our life, a sharing in the passion of the Servant of God. In this participation our sufferings become “sacrifice” and so we can complete “in [our] flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Col. 1:24).

It seems to me that this aspect of Eucharistic devotion has been somewhat obscured in the liturgical movement and that we ought to recover it. In the communion of suffering, sacra­mental communion is actualized; we enter into the riches of the Lord’s mercy, and from this compassion springs up anew the capacity to be merciful from which come the vocations which make mercy their aim and which are lacking today in the Church.

One final observation. If we have at length interpreted the connection between Supper and Cross, we have in fact all the time been speaking also of the Resurrection. Not only are Supper and Cross inseparable: Supper, Cross and Resurrec­tion form the one indivisible Paschal Mystery. The theology of the Cross is the Resurrection; therefore the Resurrection is the divine response and the divine interpretation of the Cross. The theology of the Cross is a paschal theology, a theology of joyous victory even in this valley of tears. We have shown that the Last Supper was the anticipation of the violent death of Jesus, and that the Cross without the Supper, the Supper without the reality of the Cross, would remain void. Now we have to add that the Last Supper also antic­ipates the Resurrection, the certainty that love is stronger than death. This act of love to the last is the transubstanti­ation of death, its radical transformation, the power of the Resurrection already present in the shadow of death.

The Supper without the Cross, the Cross without the Sup­per, would be void, but the two without the Resurrection would be the wreck of hope. The image of the pierced side, fount of water and blood, is also the image of the Resurrec­tion, of love stronger than death. In the Eucharist we receive this love – we receive the medicine of immortality. The Eu­charist guides us to the fount of true life, of invincible life, and shows us where and how true life is to be found – not in riches, not in having. Only if we follow Jesus on the way of His Cross do we find ourselves on the road to life.

Pope Benedict XVI: Journey to Easter

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Sorry about that, program froze just before homily.
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