Archive for July, 2011
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

…nothing should frighten or grieve you. Let not your heart be disturbed…Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything…
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Variety #142 – Marty Rotella in La Crosse ( 23min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
Through the prayers (rosary) of his mother, Marty thought twice about signing away his soul.
Ave Maria!
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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Homily #110731 ( 11min) Play – Like the multitudes who sought Our Lord with nothing for themselves, Fr. Angelo encourages us to ask God to provide what we cannot provide for ourselves with perfect trust.
Ave Maria!
Mass: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 55:1-3
Resp: psa 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18
2nd: rom 8:35, 37-39
Gsp: mat 14:13-21
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Variety #141 – Processing Out ( 01min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
The Queen of the Americas Guild is a 2-day conference /retreat examining Our Lady of Guadalupe’s role as Queen of the Americas and Queen of the Rosary. The Annual Conference for the Queen of the Americas Guild is open to all those who wish to enhance their faith and learn more about the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Shrine, and the Queen of the Americas Guild.
Ave Maria!
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011

The Queen of the Americas Guild is a 2-day conference /retreat examining Our Lady of Guadalupe’s role as Queen of the Americas and Queen of the Rosary. The Annual Conference for the Queen of the Americas Guild is open to all those who wish to enhance their faith and learn more about the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Shrine, and the Queen of the Americas Guild.
I apologize; I don’t have photos for every event during the day, I’ll have to improve my skills of going back and forth between stills to video.
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Friday, July 29th, 2011

Fi News #113 – View From Mt. Lafayette ( 07min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
It took me a long time to get back to finishing this clip, but now it’s finished. I was able to get a lot done while waiting at the airport.
Mount Lafayette is a 5,249-foot (1,600 m) mountain at the northern end of the Franconia Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is one of the most popular day-hike destinations in the White Mountain National Forest due to spectacular views at its summit and its location beside Interstate 93. The upper portion of the mountain is located in the alpine zone, an area where only small vegetation exists due to the harsh climate. -Wikipedia
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
Ave Maria Meditations
St. Leopoldo is known as an Apostle of the Confessional and also as an Apostle of Unity. Feast Day is July 30th.

He was born in Dalmatia (Bosnia-Hercogovina) in 1866. He was small and sickly and even when grown to manhood he was only 4’5″ tall and never enjoyed good health. His voice was weak and so it was decided that he would not make for a good preacher which was a terrible blow to him for he longed with all his heart to do all he could for the reunification of the Eastern Church with Rome and desired (more…)
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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Homily #110729 ( 06min) Play – On this memorial of St. Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, Fr. Bonaventure preaches on her deep and profound faith, especially when proclaiming the same confession of St. Peter.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Martha – Mem – Form: OF
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Homily #110728 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure encourages us to strive with all our hearts and souls to respond to the graces God gives us, seeking always, in any way we can, to serve the Lord in this life.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Thursday 17th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: exo 40:16-21, 34-38
Resp: psa 84:3, 4, 5-6, 8, 11
Gsp: mat 13:47-53
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011


This year’s Catholic Encampment for fathers and sons will be conducted at Camp Canonicus, Exeter, Rhode Island, not far from the Griswold friary:
Friday, September 9 – Sunday, September 11
Click image to link to Encampment Page that includes the encamplment flyer, registration information and the registration and release form.
The image in the side bar has the link also and will remain there for the duration.
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Ave Maria Meditations

PRAYER TO ST. JOACHIM AND ST. ANNE:
Great and glorious patriarch, St. Joachim, and good St. Anne, what joy is mine when I consider that you were chosen among all God’s holy ones to assist in the fulfillment of the mysteries of God, and to enrich our earth with the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. By this singular privilege, you have become most powerful with both the Mother and her Son, so as to be able to obtain for us the graces that are needful to us.
With great confidence I have recourse to your mighty protection, and I commend to you all my needs, both spiritual and temporal, and those of my family. Especially do I entrust to your keeping the particular favor that I desire and look for from your intercession.
And since you were a perfect pattern of the interior life, obtain for me the grace to pray earnestly, and never to set m heart on the passing goods of this life. Give me a lively and enduring love for Jesus and Mary. Obtain for me also a sincere devotion and obedience to Holy church and the sovereign pontiff who rules over her, in order that I may live and die in faith and hope and perfect charity. Let me ever invoke the holy Names of Jesus and Mary. And may I thus be saved. Amen.
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Homily #110726 ( 08min) Play – On this memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr. Bonaventure exhorts us to imitate the humility of the parents of the Immaculate Conception and Mother of God, and to ask that they intercede to help us follow the true Christian understanding of the family.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Joachim and Anne – Mem – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: exo 33:7-11, 34:5-9, 28
R: psa 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13
Gsp: mat 13:35-43
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Monday, July 25th, 2011

Fi News #112 - Contemplative Sisters’ Convent in Lanherne ( 05min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
Well it seems the FI Contemplative Sisters in Lanherne, England are sold on their convent and they want to buy it, or we should say, they *have* to buy it because the Carmelites who own it want to sell it. So they made this video to be able to raise about million pounds (£ 1,000,000 or $1,600,000) to buy the convent and St. Joseph’s Hall from them. If anyone can lend some pound sterling or can send a benefactor or two their way, please do. Please contact: – Mother Superior, Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, Convent of St. Joseph and St. Anne, Lanherne-St. Mawgan Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 4ER, United Kingdom Tel. 01637 860423 (fsi.lanherne@talktalk.net)
In the mean time, enjoy the video. If you wish to see it in HD on YouTube click here.
Keep this intention in your prayers. Thank you.
Ave Maria!
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Monday, July 25th, 2011


Considering the fact that I have blogged quite a bit on the Templars in the past, I thought I might be obliged to take time out from my book to write something about the reptile, Anders Behring Breivik, who claims some kind of affiliation with the Templars. That turns out to be more Templar baloney.
I am not going to waste much time on this, as his manifesto is revealed to be what one would expect, mostly a cut and paste of any kind of conservatism he could find to justify his racism and his plans for violent revolution. Not that conservative thought leads to the recent events in Norway any more than liberal thought necessarily leads to the dirty deeds of Bill Ayers. (more…)
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
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Homily #110725 ( 07min) Play – On this feast of St. James the Apostle, Fr. Bonaventure encourages us to imitate the first apostle to shed his blood by persevering in persecution and proclaiming our faith, in season and out of season. May Our Lady help us to accomplish the humanly impossible mission entrusted to us with complete trust in divine providence.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. James – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 2co 4:7-15
Resp: psa 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6
Gsp: mat 20:20-28
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