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I am your Mother of Perpetual Help and I am the Mediatrix of all graces for my dear children. My eyes of mercy are turned toward you. My Heart is open to you. My hands are ever raised in prayer for you, or open over you, to shower abundant graces upon you and upon those for whom you pray.

I am pleased that you want to imitate my son Saint John in making your home with me, in opening to me every part of your life. In this way, you allow me to act upon you, but also you allow me to act with you and through you.

My presence and my action are revealed in gentleness, in sweetness, and in mercy. I want you to resemble me spiritually just as my Jesus resembled me physically. Jesus, looking at me, saw the perfect reflection of all the dispositions and virtues of His Adorable Heart. I, looking at you, want to see my own Immaculate Heart mirrored in yours. I want to communicate to you and to all my priest sons the virtues of my Heart.  By consecrating yourself to me, you have made this possible, and already my transformation of you has begun. (more…)

A Day With Mary #30 – Fr Giles speaks on Our Lady ( 16 min) >>> Play

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Fr. Giles speaks on Our Lady during the “Day With Mary” held at St. Jerome’s Catholic Parish in Munster, Western Australia on 5 May 2012.

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As I was walking along a pathway on the property of a Monastery I came upon a pair of soldier’s boots and other personal belongings. Obviously a fallen soldier (someone’s son).  It made me think of the great sorrow of a mother, especially now in the month of Mary. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord.

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A Day With Mary #29 – Fr Sharbel speaks on the Eucharist ( 14 min) >>> Play

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Fr. Sharbel speaks on the Eucharist during the “Day With Mary” held at St. Jerome’s Catholic Parish in Munster, Western Australia on 5 May 2012.

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Homily #120508 ( 08min) Play – Our Lord points out how things are in the eyes of God and seeks to strengthen His disciples. We as members of the body of Christ must also share in suffering.
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Mass: Tuesday 5th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 14:19-28
Resp: psa 145:10-11, 12-13, 21
Gsp: joh 14:27-31

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How Friar Leo saw a terrible vision in a dream

ONCE, in a dream, Friar Leo beheld a vision of the making ready of the Divine judgment. He beheld the Angels making music with trumpets and divers instruments, and calling together a marvellous great crowd in a meadow. And on one side of the meadow was set a ladder all rosy red, which reached from earth even unto heaven, and on the other side of the meadow was set another ladder all white, which descended from heaven to earth. On the top of the red ladder, Christ appeared a Lord offended and exceeding wrath. And St. Francis was nigh unto Christ but a few steps lower down; and he came farther down the ladder, and with a loud voice and great fervour called and said: “Come ye, my friars, come confidently, fear not, come, draw nigh unto the Lord, for He calleth you”. At the voice of St. Francis and at his bidding, the friars went and climbed up the red ladder with great confidence. And, when they were all thereon, some fell off the third step, and some off the fourth step, others off the fifth and the sixth; and at the last all fell, so that there remained not one upon the ladder. And so great ruin of his friars, St. Francis, as a pitiful father, was moved to compassion, and besought the Judge for his sons, that He would receive them to His mercy. And Christ showed His wounds all bloody, and said unto St. Francis: “This have thy friars done unto Me”.

And St. Francis delayed not, but, even as he interceded, came down certain steps, and cried unto the friars that were fallen from the red ladder and said: “Come ye, rise up, my sons and friars, be of good courage and despair not, but run to the white ladder and climb up it, for by it ye shall be received into the Kingdom of Heaven; run, friars, through paternal admonishment, to the white ladder”. And on the top of the ladder appeared the glorious Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, all pitiful and kind, and welcomed those friars; and without any difficulty they entered into the eternal kingdom. To the praise of Christ. Amen.

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Homily #120507 ( 03min) Play- True love is not sentimental. We return our love to Jesus by being obedient and keeping His Commandments.

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Mass: Ordinary Form – Monday 5th Week of Easter
Readings:
1st Reading: Act 14:5-18
Responsorial Psalm: 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16
Gospel: John 14:21-26

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Homily #120506 ( 08min) Play - Fr. Dominic preaches on today’s Gospel that we need to remain in Jesus by keeping his commandments so that He can remain in us and so bear much fruit that will come to fruition in this world and in eternal life.
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Mass: Sunday 5th Week of Easter – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 9:26-31
Resp: psa 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32
2nd: 1jo 3:18-24
Gsp: joh 15:1-8

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Fourth Sunday After Easter

6 May 2012

“For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.” Jn. 16:7

During this Eastertide, the Church prepares us for the coming of the Holy Spirit. In his book, Divine Intimacy, Fr. Gabriel, OCD. tells us: “Only Jesus’ death could merit this great gift for us, and it was not until after His Ascension into heaven that the Holy Spirit, the Envoy of the Father and the Son, could descend upon the Church.” Fr. Gabriel, p. 503 The Apostles were about to lose (more…)

Variety #200 – SheIsCatholic ( 04min) >>> Play

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To see more videos by SheIsCatholic visit her channel on YouTube.

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“See, My daughter, My heart surrounded by thorns which ungrateful men pierce at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude… Say to all those who, for five months, on the first Saturday, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, in a spirit of reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their souls.”

The confession may be made on the First Saturday itself or some days before or after the First Saturday. This reparatory devotion was requested to atone for the five ways in which people offend the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

1. attacks upon Mary’s Immaculate Conception;
2. attacks against her Perpetual Virginity;
3. attacks upon her Divine Maternity and the refusal to accept Her as the Mother of all mankind;
4. for those who try to publicly implant in children’s hearts indifference, contempt and even hatred of this Immaculate Mother, and
5. for those who insult her directly in her sacred images.

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Homily #120505 ( 03min) Play - The primary focus of our Christian life if to draw closer and closer to God, to come to know Him better. Our religion is a love affair with God.
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Mass: Ordinary Form – Saturday 4th Week of Easter
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 13:44-52
Responsorial Psalm: 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
Gospel: John 14:7-14

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Homily #120504 ( 05min) Play – In early Christian times Christianity was called “The Way” and those who followed it where called disciples or followers, students of The Way, who would be imitators of Christ and His Way. In this way others are able to see Christ in us and so we can lead others to eternal life as we ourselves walk toward that reward which God has prepared for us.
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Mass: Friday 4th Week of Easter – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 13:26-33
Resp: psa 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11
Gsp: joh 14:1-6

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The fairest flower of them all…

We honor the Mother of God and we have put all our hope in her because we know she can do everything. And do you know she can do everything? Her Son does not refuse anything she wishes, because He has not been able to give back to her what He took on loan from her.  He took His flesh from her, and made it divine, but He did not give it back. This is why we feel ourselves so safe in the garden of the Mother of God.

A Greek Orthodox monk to Pope Benedict XVI

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