Conferences #156 – Dr. Miravalle in La Crosse (49min) >>> Play
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Dr. Mark I. Miravalle a professor of mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and President of Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici, gives the first talk at this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. It is titled “Our Lady of All Nations, Queen of the Americas, and Her Remedy for Peace”.
Conferences #155 – Fr. Peter introducing the Conference in La Crosse (13min) >>> Play
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Fr. Peter Fehlner, the rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe gives and introduction for this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. He puts the talks for this conference in a historical context of the history of modern Marian apparitions starting with our lady of Guadalupe.
Conferences #154 – Bp. Ricken giving the Homily at La Crosse (14min) >>> Play
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Bishop David Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay gives the homily at this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. He gives a history of the apparition of Our Lady of Good Help which occurred in Champion, WI in 1859 and was recently approved by Bp. Ricken himself. He relates this to Our Lady of Guadalupe and the doctrine of Mary as Coredemptrix.
O holy Mother, sweet and fair to see,
for us beseech the King, your dearest Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ, to death for us delivered:
that in his pitying clemency, and by virtue of his most holy incarnation
and bitter death, he may pardon our sins.
Holy Virgin Mary, among all the women of the world,
there is none like you. You are the daughter and handmaid of the most high King,
Father of heaven. You are the mother of our most holy Lord Jesus Christ.
You are the bride of the Holy Spirit. Pray for us, with St. Michael the archangel,
and all the powers of heaven and all the saints, to your most holy and beloved Son,
our Lord and Master, Amen.
+St. Francis of Assisi
1. At the cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful mother weeping,
close to Jesus to the last
2. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing,
all his bitter anguish bearing,
now at length the sword had passed.
Eight days after the birth of the Blessed Virgin, her holy parents, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, inspired by God, gave her the name of Mary. The name Mary means Lady, and also Star of the Sea. Just to say her holy name is a prayer. It gives everyone who does so favor with God and power over the devil.
Blessed Pope Innocent XI set up the feast of the Holy Name of Mary in 1683 to thank her for the victory which the Catholic army under John Sobieski, King of Poland gained over the Turks (Mohammedans), who were trying to sack Vienna and move in and conquer all the Catholics of the West. Mary’s name occurs in the first part and in the second part of the Hail Mary. In the middle of the Hail Mary, one speaks the Holy Name of Jesus.
Great apostles of the Holy Name of Mary have been Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux says, “O most holy Virgin Mary, your name is so sweet and admirable that one cannot say it without becoming inflamed with love toward God and toward you.” Others of particular note are St. Louis Marie de Montfort, St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Maximilian Kolbe. The Holy Father, Bl. John Paul II, choose as his motto Totus Tuus which is to say, “I am all yours (Mary).”
Conferences #139 – Dr. Mark Miravalle on Long Island (43min) >>> Play
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At the second talk at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Island in Manorville, Long Island, NY for a Day of Prayer in honor of The Lady of All Nations. Dr. Mark mentions that the fifth Marian dogma is already a doctrine of the Church and the petition drive for this dogma that is so clearly called for at the Amsterdam apparitions of The lady of All Nations starting in the 1940s was already and old idea. In fact, twenty-five years before these apparitions, petitions for this dogma were started by none other than Cardinal Mercier who was joined soon afterwords by St. Maximilian Kolbe. Dr. Mark systematically answers the following questions:
What is a dogma?
If there is a controversy surrounding this then won’t a dogmatic declaration just increase this problem?
What do the titles Coredemptrix, Advocate, Mediatrix mean and are they scriptural?
How many Marian Dogmas are there?
Why is a dogma needed so urgently if it is already a doctrine of the Church?
This is the second talk in a three part series from a conference on Long Island, NY on May 28, 2011:
Talk 1 – Dr. Mark Miravalle – The Lady of All Nations and World Peace
With the Solemnity of the Assumption in the same month as the Feast of St. Peter Julian Eymard (founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers whose feast day was August 2nd), here is a meditation from him on Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament:
Our Lady: Model of Eucharistic Devotion
Our Lady’s offering of the bloody sacrifice of Calvary is the perfect model for your offering Holy Mass. She suffered with her divine Son. Never did a mother love her son as she loved Jesus; and so never did a mother share in her son’s agony so deeply as she shared the Passion. Jesus died because He willed to die. Mary must have willed her Son’s death, because, hard as it was to make this sacrifice, it would have been quite impossible for her will to be the least separated from His. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind so deeply as Mary’s Heart, and therefore she wanted to unite her will to His, offering to Almighty God this Holy Sacrifice out of pure charity for the human race.
Mary is truly your model in offering Holy Mass. Ask Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament to help you to share actively in Holy Mass by sharing in her spirit. Shewill teach you to imitate her by accepting willingly all the suffering which your service of God involves, your struggles against temptation, your difficult acts of virtue, your little penances-in union with the Victim Jesus on the altar out of love for God and mankind. (more…)
MaryCast Specials #117 (10min) Play – With so many natural disasters with damage of multi-billion dollar occurring this year in the US alone and with so many prophecies from Our Lady of All Nations coming true, Dr. Mark Miravalle, stresses the need for praying the prayer of the Lady and to kindly, petition the Pope to do the same and to declare the 5th Marian Dogma.
Mary, Co-redemptrix with Christ: The meaning of pain.
Old Simeon, having blessed the young couple, turned to Mary and, inspired by the Holy Spirit, opened her eyes to the sufferings her Son would have to undergo and to the sword of sorrow that would pierce her soul. Pointing to Jesus, he said: Behold, this child is set for the ~ and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Commenting on this, St Bernard says: The time will come when Jesus will not be offered in the temple nor in the arms of Simeon, but outside the city walls on the arms of a cross. The time will come when he will not be ransomed with money but will himself redeem others, with his own blood, for God the Father has sent him as a ransom for his people.The suffering of his Mother, the sword that will pierce her soul, will have as their only cause the agony of her Son, his persecution and death, the uncertainty about when these things will happen, and the resistance to the grace of the Redemption, which will be the ruin of many. Mary’s destiny is bound up with that of Jesus, in its operation, and without any other possible reason.
The joy of the Redemption and the pain of the Cross are inseparable in the lives of Jesus and Mary, as if God, through his most beloved creatures in the world, wished to show us that happiness is to be found close to the Cross. Right from the start then, the lives of Our Lord and of his Mother are stamped with the sign of the Cross. To the joy of the first Christmas is soon added privation and anxiety. From these first moments Mary already knows the pain that awaits her. And when her hourcomes she will contemplate the Passion and Death of her Son with neither reproach nor complaint: Suffering as no mother could ever suffer, Mary will accept her pain in peace of mind, for she knows its redemptive significance. (more…)
Conferences #125 – The Seven Sorrows of Blessed Virgin Mary (39 min) >>> Play
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This is an excerpt from a Lenten Mission on the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin given by Fr. Johannes M.M. Smith, at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Auburn, NY. The parish mission was from March 14-18, 2011. This talk is on the sixth and seventh sorrows of Our Lady.
(In the midst of) Suffering and renunciation through the burdensomeness, discomforts, and exhaustion of the body, through the darkness or at least the dimness of mind, and through the interior suffering of spiritual isolation and aridity. (I seek a) Pure and solid faith. To ask, as I have been advised, for the grace of “simplicity in suffering.”
Material concerns, sometimes too heavy for my already burdened body, time wasted, relationships that hold no attraction for me, the effort to be pleasant and to smile when all of me longs for recollection and for only close friends – all this constitutes my hidden cross, the best cross, which does not elicit sympathy or admiration as illness or misfortune does.
Well, I will carry it “joyfully” until God changes my obligations. Yes, joyfully in spite of dryness, weariness, the costliness of these efforts, gently united to the heart of Jesus, aided by Mary, my Mother, sticking to my usual rule of devotions, meditation, and so on, always strict with myself, yet more gracious to everyone, attentive to remain open, trusting, and abandoned, without narrowness, self-centeredness, or subtlety. (more…)
It is a certain truth that if God in his providence exterminated every evil deed at once, killed every evil-doer, the final sum of goodness would be less. We have our Lord’s own words for it; there would be diminution. Goodness itself, sanctity itself, is fostered by the proximity of evil. As Saint Augustine puts it so well: it pleased God to (more…)
A majestic ship, representing the Church and commanded by the Pope, was defending itself amid stormy seas from an opposing fleet. Innumerable enemy ships tried to sink the Church using everything in their arsenals, including writings or books or inflammable materials.
Safe Harbor Dream of St John Bosco
In the immense expanse of sea, two mighty columns of great height arise a little distance from each other. On the top of the higher and bigger column stands the Sacred Host of great size and beneath is a placard with the words: Salus Credentium – “Salvation of the faithful.” On the top of the other column was a statue of the Immaculate Virgin with a placard with this inscription: Auxilium Christianorum – “Help of Christians.”
The Pope tries with all his might to steer the ship toward the two columns to anchor to them. Whenever the enemy strikes a formidable blow against the ship, a gentle breeze blows from the two columns repairing the damage to the Church.
Ultimately, the Church finds safe harbor between the two Pillars:
First Pillar: Devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament Second Pillar: Devotion to Our Blessed Mother
This is a video of an event last March in Rome near the Vatican which we live streamed on AirMaria in Conjunction with Inside the Vatican magazine. You can see many FI sisters in the audience.
Clergy from the Philippines, Nigeria, Argentina, Spain, India, and even an Anglican professor from the United States, gathered together under the shadow of St. Peter’s Basilica in March to present papers in support of a solemn declaration of a fifth Marian Dogma. The day-long conference, hosted by Inside the Vatican magazine, explored the titles of “Coredemptrix,” “Mediatrix of All Graces” and “Advocate of the People of God,” and how the Church’s definition of Mary with these titles would affect the faith of both Catholics and non-Catholics alike. More from Gloria.TV – H2ONews.org