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You can now follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Whenever a post is made on AirMaria is will be posted to our Facebook page and to our Twitter stream. Let us know what you think.

I recently looked at the visitors stats for AirMaria and saw this chart of the last 100 visitors. It shows the far reach of AirMaria and its power to bring Our Lady to the world. Please help us continue this work with your spiritual and financial support.

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We will be broadcasting live from DC for the March for Life on Friday January, 22nd from 11am to 5pm. More details to follow.

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The AirMaria crew would love to venture into the world of HD – hopefully to make our videos better and more enjoyable to watch. We also have a few other items we need for backing up our data and ensuring we don’t lose any data during power failures. If you would like to help us take the leap into HD, or to help us prevent data loss, please browse our Christmas list below. If you intend to purchase an item for us please let us know and we’ll remove it from the list. ADDRESS: AIRMARIA.COM, 199 Colonel Brown Rd., Griswold, CT. 06351  (860) 376-6840

Thank you to all our supporters and benefactors over the past year in particular. Our benefactors hold a very special place in the hearts and prayers of the friars.

AirMaria’s Christmas List:

Quantity: 1 Canon VIXIA HF S11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/645110-REG/Canon_4063B001_VIXIA_HF_S11_Dual.html

CLICK “MORE” TO VIEW THE WHOLE LIST (more…)

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Wow! Yes, you’re eyes are not playing tricks on you. AirMaria has a much anticipated change of theme, thanks to Michael Banate. Deo Gratias!

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We are happy to announce that due to the generosity of our viewers we have raised enough money to buy the new computer for the homilies and it has been ordered. Deo Gratias!  This is not a moment too soon because we lost today’s homily due to the computer failing again. (Yes, we lost yesterday’s homily, as well, but that was due to operator error. Names are being withheld to protect the guilty!

This should serve Our Lord and Lady for years to come. May God reward our benefactors. Thanks again. Ave Maria!

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Well we have not posted homilies from Griswold for the past two days because we had a major computer failure and it probably needs to be replaced. We will probably be able to scrounge an alternative method to get homilies up by tomorrow or so but it will only be  a temporary fix. The bottom line is that our computers are getting old and need updating. We are still looking at details but the replacement cost could be around $1000. Donations for this and the ongoing expenses would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your continued interest and support for Airmaria.

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Sorry, we will not have a Live Broadcast tonight due to technical difficulties. We will record the event on video and put it on AirMaria at a later date. Again, my apologies.

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We will be live broadcasting the Coredemption Conference from the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Sunday, May 31. There will be further announcements right here on AirMaria.com. Stay tuned!

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We are busily working out the bugs for doing live streaming on a more routine basis for events here at the friary and in the field. We hope to be doing daily broadcasts of the morning Mass. For this reason we have not given much advanced notice of our upcoming live broadcasts since we are still in the experimental stage.  This effort will require some purchasing of equipment so please be generous in this Lenten Season by pressing the donate button in the top of the right hand sidebar, Thank you.

Upcoming events:

Wednesday, March 25, 7pm, Missa Cantata Latin Mass:

We will be having a live broadcast tonight at 7pm Eastern for the Missa Cantata at our friary here in celebration of the Feast of The Annunciation, which the FIs are celebrating as a Solemnity.

Friday, March 27, Fr. Paul Check of Courage:

St. Patrick’s Church in Providence, RI. Link to map: Click Here. Fr. Paul N. Check, nationally known speaker and incoming Executive Director of Courage, International for Mass, followed by a discussion about: “Courage, the Cross, and Same Sex Attraction: What Does the Catholic Church Really Teach About Homosexuality?” Broadcast depends on internet availability at the site.

Saturday, March 28,  3-8pm, Prolife Youth Conferernce:

Prolife Youth Conference at the St. Micheal’s Gym at the Holy Family Academy in Baltic, CT. Many dynamic speakers  from the area covering a wide number of subjects on how to be a pro-life evangelist. Broadcast depends on internet availability at the event.

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We will be broadcasting the Mass for the Solemnity of St Joseph on Thursday March 19 at 7pm Eastern from Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel. It will be a Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form (Latin Tridentine). The choir will be the Northern Rhode Island Schola Cantorum Sanctae Ceciliae and here are some samples of their singing. Come join us!

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Well, we’re going to do it. Yes, the Public Hearing has been canceled by the Democratically controlled Judiciary Committee. I guess they got scared. But, there will be an “informational” hearing (less official) held by the Republicans (to save the day) and also a Catholic rally at the Capitol Building itself starting at noon. The Bishops are encouraging everyone to attend. See Details. We will find out more about what this cancellation means when we get there tomorrow. We will be covering some preliminary events at the Legislative Office Building (LOB) at 11am then the rally at noon, then at 1:30 we will go back to the LOB to cover the hearing, from there we will see how our batteries hold up.

We will have a post on AirMaria in the morning that will have the live video embedded. If AirMaria gets too sluggish then you can go directly to our channel on Ustream.tv at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/airmaria-live although watch out for the adverts and such that we don’t have any control over.

Also, because of this event, we will not have a homily tomorrow.

Keep in mind we have not gotten a chance to go to the capitol to measure cellular and wireless strength so it will be hit or miss. 80% chance of rain, so bring your cyber umbrellas. Those going to the Capitol in person will definitely have a chance to do some Lenten penance in reparation for this political atrocity.

Hope to see you tomorrow.

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You may have noticed, in recent days, the following link appearing at the end of some AirMaria posts:

Audio (MP3)

Well, you guessed correctly, AirMaria.com is finally venturing into the Podcasting arena and breathing new life into all of those iPods, Zunes, Blackberries, MP3 Players, and anything else out there that can play MP3 audio files (the link above is just for an example but if you click on it you will hear a sample of the beautiful Gregorian Chant sung by the Garrepy Family Choir at Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, Griswold, CT, on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes during the celebration of the Extraordinary form of the Mass on February 11th 2009)

We’ve got our feed up and running:

http://airmaria.com/feed/?category_name=podcasts

Click on the above link if you would like to subscribe to our feed.

And we’ve even got our listing in iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=307018502

Click on this link to open our page in iTunes and subscribe to us there.

In the next few days you should see our RSS Podcast feed link at the bottom of the page, and also the RSS Podcast feed logo and link on the sidebar.

So…. at long last AirMaria.com is finally in the world of podcasting – you spoke, we listened – stay ituned!

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BTW – Whilst on the sound waves theme: AirMaria has applied for several Non-Commercial Educational FM broadcast licenses and we hope to be on the air very soon with our first radio station in the New Beford, MA, area (the website is under construction but you may have a peek). Unfortunately we still have some outstanding legal fees for the application of these NCE-FM licenses which need to be paid soon. If you are willing and able to help us to repay these debts, and would like to help to advance the cause of Catholic radio in the United States, please consider making a tax deductible donation.

Email friar Augustine at:

friars@figuadalupe.com

Thank you to all our AirMaria.com viewers who have donated to us in the past – we really appreciate the support we have, and still

 

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[Update: Some of the links that were broken in this post have been fixed]

Hello friends! We wanted to take this Thanksgiving Day here in the US to thank everyone for your prayers, support and regular viewership of AirMaria. You are the AirMaria community, and we wanted to thank you for making AirMaria a success in spreading devotion to Our Lady.

Also today marks the 2nd anniversary of the first post on AirMaria back on Thanksgiving Day 2006 (a few months before the official start in March 2007, note the “FITVN” in the thumbnail below which was the first name we were intending to use before coming up with AirMaria.)

The video was Fr. Peter in the first of his series, the Golden Thread. It is an introduction to the theology of John Duns Scotus and interestingly talks about the 700th anniversary of his death that just took place at the beginning of this month. Also, the video file for this episode was lost for about a year and I just found a copy while doing the switch to the new server last week. Sooo …in the spirit of thanksgiving we present Fr. Peter’s Golden Thread, the lost episode. We plan on continuing his series with new episodes in the near future. (more…)

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Well, you’ve probably noticed a reduction in posting recently. This is because we have been busy, switching to a new server. The traffic became too large for the previous server to handle. The switch was made on Monday evening and we have been working out the minor kinks ever since. Some of our earlier videos are still not on line but will be soon.

The new server is compliments of Hyperdo Webdesign. This company has been a great help with general technical help as well, all pro bono for us poor Franciscans. So, if you need some web design work please give your business to Hyperdo. The owner is a devout, pro-life, Catholic with a large family.

They are also working with our friar design team in implementing our new front page layout which should be finshed by the end of December. In the meantime, the new server has made a noticable improvement both in how fast the web site loads pages and the speed at which the videos are streamed to you. Also the pace of posting should pick up again.

Although the site is provided free, the video storage and streaming is on a third server which is not free and will cost us some money. So, please be generous with the donations. As usual we try keep our expenses low. As a case in point, the video server, although not free, is about one third the cost of other servers and we pay only for what we use. So a small amount of donations goes a long, long way and every donation helps. May God reward you.

Deo Gratias!