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Prayer given to Sr. Agnes on July 6th, 1973: 

“Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my body and soul to be entirely one with Your Heart being sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving praise to the Father, pleading for the coming of His Kingdom.”

Please receive this humble offering of myself. Use me as You will for the glory of the Father and the salvation of souls.”

“Most holy Mother of God, never let me be separated from Your Divine Son. Please defend and protect me as Your Special Child. Amen.”

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Homily #120524 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Francis and although St Francis did not build this church he was called by Our Lord from the St. Damiano Cross to rebuild His Church which He said was in great need of repair. Fr. Angelo preaches on this fact and that the chapel building St. Francis was in was, in fact, physically falling down and how he took this at first as meaning to rebuild church buildings. But he soon realized that it was a call to renew the entire Church of Christ and it is this work which he did so successfully that resulted in the construction of the Basilica in his memory.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Dedication of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: rev 21:1-5
Resp: psa 95:1-7
Gsp: joh 10:22-30

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Homily #120523 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the need to avoid the spirit of the world that suggests we would loose ourselves in selfish pleasures, instead we should keep our eyes on God and live for eternal life, looking out for others as Jesus did.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday 7th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 20:28-38
Resp: psa 68:29-30, 33-35, 35-36
Gsp: joh 17:11-19

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Mary’s Maternal Mediation  

God and his Christ make use of Mary in this sense, that they make all the graces which they destine for us pass through her … By using her as intermediary, they temper their action all the more with humanity, without in any way diminishing its divine efficacy. They make Mary live by the life we are to live by. She is first filled to overflowing with it. Grace is pre­formed in her and receives in her the imprint of a special beauty. All grace and all graces come to us thus canalized a1nd distributed by her, impregnated with that special sweetness which she imparts to all she touches and all she does.  

By her action Mary enters therefore into our lives as bearer of the divine. In the whole course of our lives, from the cradle and before it to the grave and beyond it, there is nothing of grace in which she had no part. She shapes us to the likeness of Jesus … She leaves her mark on everything and adds to the perfection of what passes through her hands. I have said that we are sustained by her prayer: we are similarly sustained by her action and, if one may say it, have our spiritual being in her hands. Every Christian is a child of Mary, but a child is not worthy of the name unless it is formed by its mother.

Fr. Pierre Rogatien Bernard, O.P.

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Homily #120522 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the need to keep focused on the finish line in the great race that is our life. As both the first reading and the Gospel mentions, God is our goal and so we need to live by serving Him in holiness and so have the consolation at the end of our life that we will be welcomed by Him.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 7th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 20:17-27
Resp: psa 68:10-11, 20-21
Gsp: joh 17:1-11

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3 Hail Marys #3 ( 2 min) Play – The Hail Mary in Polish, Mandarin and Syriac.

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Homily #120521 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the how Jesus tells His disciples that He has conquered the world. He tells them this in order to give them the strength to endure the upcoming scandal of the crucifixion where they will be scattered, as well as to endure the other problems they will have in this world.
Ave Maria!

Mass: Monday 7th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 19:1-8
Resp: psa 68:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Gsp: joh 16:29-33

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Homily #120520 ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Gospel according to St. John where Jesus prays to His Father that His apostles would be protected and would maintain unity in charity and truth. He does this because He was about to leave them as far as a visible presence in concerned by being crucified for our sins. Then He was Resurrected and Ascended into heaven but promised that He would send the Holy Spirit who will give them the needed graces. So they prayed for the coming of the Comforter in the upper room for nine days completing the first novena of prayer.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Sunday 7th Week of Easter – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 1:15-17, 20-26
Resp: psa 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20
2nd: 1jo 4:11-16
Gsp: joh 17:11-19

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A Day With Mary #32 – Fr. Dominic M. Murphy ( 12min) >>> Play

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Prayer is very powerful and can shake the whole house just as it did at the first Pentecost. Enter prayer through humility.

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Ascension Sunday, 20 May 2012

“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven shall come in the same way as you have seen Him going up to heaven.”

Acts 1:11

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension today as mandated by Bishops Conference for Dioceses England and Wales. Thus we raise our thoughts to heaven where, as we see in today’s Epistle (more…)

Ave Maria Meditations

 Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster, and war.  May the Lady of All Nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our Advocate.  Amen.

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MaryCast Specials #161 ( 00min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle talks on the theme which Mary has been giving to the modern world for that last 200 years, that she is our spiritual mother.

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

Ave Maria!

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Blessed Virgin Mary, who can worthily repay you with praise and thanks for having rescued a fallen world by your generous consent! Receive our gratitude, and by your prayers obtain the pardon of our sins. Take our prayers into the sanctuary of heaven and enable them to make our peace with God.

Holy Mary, help the miserable, strengthen the discouraged, comfort the sorrowful, pray for your people, plead for the clergy, intercede for all women consecrated to God. May all who venerate you feel now your help and protection. Be ready to help us when we pray, and bring back to us the answers to our prayers. Make it your continual concern to pray for the people of God, for you were blessed by God and were made worthy to bear the Redeemer of the world, who lives and reigns forever. Amen.

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Homily #120517 ( 09min) Play – The glory of this day when our Lord ascended into Heaven is beyond our mind. Our Lord ascended only after 40 days after His resurrection in order to correct and strengthen  His disciples.

Ave Maria!
Mass: Ascension of the Lord Thursday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 1:1-11
Resp: psa 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: eph 1:17-23
Gsp: mar 16:15-20

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Homily #120516 ( 08min) Play - In today’s Gospel Our Lord teaches us many truths about the Holy Spirit. “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form -  St. Margaret of Cortona - Memorial
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1
Responsorial Psalm: 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
Gospel: John 16:12-15

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