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Ave Maria! Fr. Gabriele M. Pellettieri visits Perth, Australia, and speaks with the “MIM” or “Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix”, a group of lay people following the spirituality of the Franciscans of the Immaculate. +++ |
Ave Maria! Our newest radio station, With Our Mother Blest, in Bloomington, IN – WOMB 89.9 FM Ellettsville (the community of license) – is now on the air at full power! In fact, it was cranked up to full power a few weeks ago, but we have been so busy with three AirMaria road trips for conferences and then to World Youth Day in Madrid, that we have not been able to get this post up until now. This is the 3rd radio station on the air belonging to our AirMaria Radio Network, the first being Holy Virgin Mary Radio, 91.9 FM Owego, NY, and the second being CorMariae, WPMW 88.5 FM Bayview, MA. We are still fighting to find a tower location for Holy Name of Mary Radio, WHNM 89.5 FM Pawcatuck, CT. With Our Mother Blest, WOMB 89.9 FM, is a very strategically located radio station because it reaches the 42, 000 college students and 3,000 professors that are at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Simply put, for the first time Catholic radio content will be delivered via this station to one of the major intellectual centers of the United States and of the world. We are currently an EWTN repeater, rebroadcasting the EWTN Radio satellite feed 24/7 with our own top of the hour ID’s chiming in every hour to comply with FCC regulations, but we plan to build our own studio at the new friary in the winter and to begin to add more of our own content as we become more capable. Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! The AirMaria team is in Madrid and will start posting video soon – hopefully. After a long flight, with a long layover, and travel time (36 hours all told) we finally arrived on Monday at the hotel in Madrid late in the afternoon, but there seems to be great confusion reigning here and a few technical mishaps that have delayed getting things on AirMaria. We have, in fact, been quite productive but we are doing multilingual videos for some of the European sites through Fr. Alfonso Bruno, the FI communications director and this has taken most of our time as well as spending a good hour to get anywhere on the Metro Train. We may even be doing some live streaming at some point, again, hopefully. The Pope will have his first Mass this evening and they expect upwards of a million people coming for the final event at the Madrid Aerodrome. So far the trains are already packed full of super energetic Catholic youth from around the world.
I cant imagine how busy and crowded it will be later on and how enthusiastic they will all be now that the Holy Father is in Madrid.
Packed likes Sardines.
Viva Italia!
Go America!
We will be attending the first public showing of the John Duns Scotus film at 5:15pm this evening where we will do an interview. The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate produced this movie in conjunction with TVCO in Italy. It is the official World Youth Day film and won the Vatican’s Silver Fish Award.
A map showing the incidents of persecution against Catholics at the Photographic Presentation of Christian Persecution at St Jerome’s parish in Madrid set up by the . This was narrated for our French site by Cristina Tatu of Aid to the Church in Need. Wait for the Video. |
Ave Maria! Yes, we did win the ‘Silver Fish Award’ at the Vatican’s International Catholic Film Festival in the categories of Best Film, and Best Actor/Actress. This is for the feature length motion picture titled “Duns Scoto” on the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus that the FI’s in Italy produced in conjunction with TVCO. Not bad for our first feature length video. Well done Fr. Alfonso Bruno and team! Deo Gratias!
You can see more on this film Duns Scoto with these AirMaria articles:
Ave Maria! |
Mirabile Dictu – International Catholic Film Festival – Home.
Best Film – Best Director – Best Actor / Actress
Duns Scoto by Fernando Muraca, Italy 2010 – 90 ‘- The story of the medieval philosopher John Duns, also called Scotus because of his nationality (Scotland), who lived between the thirteenth and fourteenth century. The film is produced by the Franciscans of the Immaculate. God’s Mighty Servant by Markus O. Rosenmüller, Germany 2010 – 2 x 90 ‘- The story of Sister Pasqualina, and the special role she had in the life of Pius XII, masterfully played by Remo Girone. Marcelino pan y vino by José Luis Gutierrez, Mexico 2011 – 110 ‘ – Remake of the famous film. The main hero (an orphan in love with Jesus) is played here by a remarkable child actor. The action takes place The film was Co-produced by TVCO, a multimedia production company based in Naples, Italy, which is also the executive producer and the international distributor of the work. You can read more about the film festival at the National Catholic Register You can see more on this film Duns Scoto with these AirMaria articles: Fi News – Our Duns Scotus Film Selected for World Youth Day MadridFiNews – Rome Reports Covers FI Scotus FilmVideo – Fi News #73: First Trailer of Duns Scotus FilmFiNews – FIs Producing John Duns Scotus FilmAve Maria! |
Ave Maria! Listen to Fr. Peter Fehlner and Matt Korger (Editor and Chief of the “Badger Catholic” blog) talk about the upcoming Day With Mary at the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI. If you’re in that area come and spend some time with your Blessed Mother on May 21st, starting at 8:50am. Details can be found at www.guadalupeshrine.org. Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! The picture displayed is of the Grotto of the Nativity of Our Lord. The music on this little video is again from Eric Genuis. Full screen viewing is recommended. Stayed tuned for Part Three which will begin at the Via Dolorosa. Ave Maria! |
This picture is of the grotto of the Annunciation inside the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Part one of pilgrimage to the Holy Land Ave Maria! |
New Bedford-based Catholic radio station to launch March 25 | The Anchor.
By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — After more than two years of planning, preparing and fund-raising, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate based at Our Lady’s Chapel in downtown New Bedford are ready to launch the first-ever 24-hour Catholic radio station in the Fall River Diocese. On Friday WPMW — also known as Radio CorMariae — will make its official debut at the 88.5 frequency on the FM dial. Operated by the Franciscan Friars in collaboration with the congregation’s lay apostolate, the Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix, the new Radio CorMariae has secured the necessary licensing from the Federal Communications Commission for what is known as a “micro-FM” radio station and will broadcast within a limited range from Westport to Fairhaven within the greater New Bedford area. (more…) |
Friar Peter Julian (American) stands in the threshold of the conference room in which the training course is being held. At the moment the small room is not too bad, but as soon as everyone else shows up on Tuesday the 22nd it’ll become a tight squeeze in my opinion. CLICK MORE BELOW TO ENTER |
 by friar John Mary We are pleased to show the looks of the new studio built for Radio CorMariae. After months of day after day work, corresponding to upwards of a thousand man hours, the studio is just about ready for use.
Most of the equipment is new, although the console, one of the most important pieces of equipment, is nearly a couple generations old.We are able to use this older console for now as we are learning to crawl in our radio station adventure. For now we are happy to use this one, not to mention the price is right ($0), but later, when we get into some heavy production work, we will need to buy a more state-of-the-art piece of equipment. Without even looking at digital ones, the still-in-use analog consoles start in the range of $5,000 to $13,000. via Studio Nearly Complete. |
Ave Maria! Yesterday, 16 December 2010, was the unofficial birthday of Radio CorMariae. At around 5:30pm we jerry-rigged the newly installed antenna line, connected it up to the transmitter, and fired up the radio station for the first time. It was an incredibly joyful event as this was the culmination of over 2 years of hard work by a huge team of volunteers to get this radio station up and running – and we, the privileged few, got to enjoy the fruit of all that hard work – if only for a brief period of time. Don’t get excited and tune in your radio to 88.5 FM yet! This was only our first test transmission and there is still a lot of technical and engineering work to be completed before we can go on the air full-time. Our official launch date is set for 25 March 2011. A picture tells a thousand words: All hands on deck to assemble the antenna. |
It is no coincidence that momentous things in our order always seem to occur on the Feasts of Our Blessed Mother, it is after all, Her Order and we are Her possession and property. Today, on the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady’s Radio Station, Radio CorMariae, WPMW, 88.5 FM New Bedford, MASS was granted a minor modification to our Construction Permit which allows us to install a highly directional antenna mounted on a cell phone tower overlooking the city center. It is a relatively small transmitter, with an effective radiated power of only 140W, but the location means that we should get a good strength signal covering most of New Bedford. We will find out very sho We rejoice with Our Blessed Mother on Her Feast day for the projected launch of the second radio station owned and operated by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in the United States and our heartfelt thanks goes out to all our benefactors without whom we can do nothing. Many thanks to the numerous volunteers who have worked tirelessly to fund raise for this project as well as work on the engineering and construction sides of the station. Also many thanks to Steve Gajdosik of the Catholic Radio Association, Matt Wesolowski (engineering), Stu Nolan (legal counsel), and Dennis Kelly (also legal counsel). Dennis also gave us this little snippet so appropriate to today’s Feast and the launch of Radio CorMariae: “In reviewing today’s traditional Roman Martyrology, I found the following reference to the Basilica of the Holy House at Loreto, Italy, one of the more memorable Catholic shrines I’ve visited: Airmen - Hey, that’s us. AirMaria men. Airwaves men. A very Blessed and Merry Christmas to you all. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! As part of our grand finale for our Scotus Month we have a repost of the trailer for the feature length film we recently completed on the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus. It is in Italian but there should be a DVD available in the US with English subtitles early 2011. The FIs in Italy have finished their first trailer for the feature length film Duns Scoto on the life of Blessed John Duns Scotus that we mentioned in an earlier post. It is more of a behind-the-scenes view of the making of the movie. All the actual footage of the movie is raw with the time stamp running. But it powerfully shows the magnitude of the project and how beautiful and dramatic the finished edition will be. Yes, it is in Italian. We hope to get an English subtitled version out soon. Enjoy! Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! During the last few minutes of our weekly “Gate of Heaven Radio” program in Perth, Australia, Father Joseph interviews Anthony Aarts about his involvement with the Legion of Mary. +++ |
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Ave Maria! Yes, we are front runners for the ‘Silver Fish Award’ at the Vatican’s International Catholic Film Festival in the categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress for the feature length motion picture that the FI’s in Italy produced titled “Duns Scoto” on the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus. The other two films that are also finalists, and with which we are competing, are listed below. These finalists were chosen from a total of 746 films. The announcement will be made before the festival ends this Saturday, May 21, probably on Thursday. This is a great opportunity to put a spotlight on Bl. John Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholar, who gave the theological foundation for the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, winning the title ‘The Marian Doctor’. It is also a great boost to our worldwide media efforts. Please keep us in your prayers that we win.
Here is part two of images from the wonderful Day with Mary pilgrimage to the Holy Land. These images basically cover the areas with the events from Jesus’ life from the Nativity to His public life. Also included is the birthplace of St. John the Baptist and a few other areas we visited.
We are continuing to wire the final components in the two rooms: one main studio for the board operator along with interview personnel and another room for the production work on the audio files.
