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  (Above) La Crosse WI: Shrine to Bl Kateri Tekakwitha

VATICAN CITY, 20 DEC 2011 – The Holy Father, yesterday signed decrees acknowledging miracles attributed to the intervention of seven blesseds (three men and four women) who will shortly be canonised. One of the new saints is Kateri Tekakwitha, the first native North American to be raised to the glory of the altars. -Vatican Information Service

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha lived in a society where publicly and literally people ate other men, offered sacrifices to demons, and every human act was done in view of others, I mean EVERYTHING. In the mist of all this she remained a pure virgin, even before she was a Christian, but after baptism in the True Faith under the One True God, she rocketed into great holiness. – A Friar With Great Devotion to her

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Mission Down Under #17 – Receiving the Franciscan habit of a Postulant ( 21 min) >>> Play

Ave Maria !

On December 8th, 2011 at our friary in Toodyay, Western Australia, three young men became postulants and received the habit.

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( left to right )     Fr Gabriel, Fr Agnellus, Fra Solanus and Fra Raphael

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Fi News #122 – Fra. Solanus in Front of Friary ( 08min) >>> Play

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Fra. Solanus (from Dublin) gives a sketch here of where and what the friars in Stoke are up-to.

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Fi News #118 – Flood waters rush behind the Friary ( 9 min) >>> Play

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Footage of the massive flood which recently hit the Southern Tier of New York State.

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Fi News #116 – Bloomington on air ( 05min) >>> Play

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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!

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…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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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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Here are some stills from the HD footage we shot today, we hope to have the short video of this up soon.

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Fi News #109 – Day With Mary ( 11min) >>> Play

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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.

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Fi News #105 – Installing the Cross ( 09min) >>> Play

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See the cross for our new friary in Bloomington, Indiana being blessed and then installed on the top of the bell tower. A great meditation for Passion Sunday as the sign of Our Lords victory over sin and death is raised on high. Deo Gratias!

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Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici
present

Marian Symposium – La Crosse, WI.

Main celebrant for the Mass:

His Excellency

Most Rev. David L. Ricken

Bishop of Green Bay

Talks by:

Dr. Mark I. Miravalle

Franciscan University of Steubenville

President, Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici

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Fr. Angelo M. Geiger

Superior Delegate for the USA and Australia,

Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

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And featuring the music of:

Attending the Symposium

If you’re ready to register, click here. If you’re unsure, you may want to see pictures from last year’s symposium or the one held in 2009. You can also watch some of the presentations from last year’s symposium on video.

Air Maria will be there!

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PLEASE SEND DONATIONS SO THE CONSTRUCTION CAN CONTINUE. We need to raise funds for expensive labor costs from week to week.

Please make a note on your donation that it is for the Bell Tower.

Franciscans of the Immaculate

Attn: Bell Tower

199 Colonel Brown Rd.

Griswold, CT. 06351

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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…)