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Ave Maria Meditations
 Blesseds Francisco and Jacinta Marto, children of Fatima, Feast day is February 20th.
Our Lady appeared to three small children in Fatima in 1917. She told two of them, the brother and sister, that they would soon go to heaven but Francisco would have to pray many rosaries. These little children had seen a vision of hell and did penance in their young lives. (more…)
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First Sorrow of Mary – The prophecy of Simeon
(Luke 2:22-35) When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord. Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. He took Jesus up in his arms and blessed God and said, “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation which Thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples. And His father and His mother marveled at what was said about Him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is set for the fall 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 thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.” (more…) |
O loving Pelican! O Jesu Lord! Unclean I am but cleanse me in Thy Blood of which a single drop, for sinners spilt, can purge the entire world from all its guilt.(St. Thomas Aquinas, feast day is January 28th)
0 loving Pelican! 0 Jesu Lord! In Holy Communion, Our Lord does not offer us only spiritual nourishment, but gives himself to us as Food. The Ancients thought that when the chicks of a pelican died, the pelican opened his breast and with his blood fed his dead young, in this way bringing them back to life. Christ with His own Blood gives us eternal life. When we receive Holy Communion with the right dispositions, it rouses in our soul fervent acts of love, transforms us, and identifies us with Christ. The Master comes to each one of His disciples with His love, which is at one and the same time effective, creative and redemptive. He presents himself to us as the Savior of our lives, offering us His friendship. This Sacrament is the food of· all intimacy with Christ, for which there is no substitute. (more…) |
Ave Maria MeditationsThis incredible holy bishop did so many wonderful things but a favorite story concerns the promotion of the 40 Hours Devotion of Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. St. John’s Feast Day is January 5th.
At the time of his episcopate there was a strong anti-Catholic sentiment in Philadelphia and having had two churches burned and another barely saved, priests were advising the Bishop, John Neumann, not to proceed with introducing the 40 Hours of continual adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, believing it would somehow increase the hostility already directed against the Church. |
Ave Maria Meditations
 Thoughts from Blessed Columba Marmion
The contemplation of the mysteries of Jesus will only produce such great fruit in us as we bring thereto certain dispositions which can be summed up into three: faith, reverence and love. Faith is the primordial disposition for placing us in vital contact with Christ. We celebrate mysteries, that is to say human and visible signs of a divine and hidden reality. To comprehend, to touch this reality, faith is needed. Christ appears as both man and God in each of these mysteries; often even, as in the Nativity and in the passion, the divinity is more than ordinarily hidden; in order to grasp it, to pierce the veil and reach to it, to see God in the child lying in the manger, or in the One who was “made a curse for us”, hanging on the gibbet of Calvary, or again in His Eucharistic appearances, faith is needed: Faith, for all defects supplying, where the feeble senses fail… |
Ave Maria! Here are 3 reasonable arguments for defending the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria!
Fr. Dominic F.I. and Our Lady’s Chapel in New Bedford were featured in the local newspaper the Standard Times today. The 6th Anniversary of their Eucharistic Adoration program was spotlighted. Here is the article from their site SouthCoastToday.com
 A seven-hour Eucharistic Adoration Prayer Vigil will be held Sunday in the sanctuary of Our Lady?s Chapel.
NEW BEDFORD ? Wearing a simple gray robe and sandals, Father Dominic enters the newsroom of the city newspaper. He walks slowly with head bent, and surrounded by cubicles, computers and harsh fluorescent lighting, he is an anachronism, otherworldly ? 13th century meets 21st. He is the bearer of glad tidings, yet he speaks so quietly the listener strains to hear. The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate will celebrate the sixth anniversary of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady’s Chapel with a seven-hour Eucharistic Adoration Prayer Vigil beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday. The prayers will be offered for priests and religious. Everyone is welcome, he whispered. … more on SouthCoastToday.com |
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Ave Maria Mediations
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O Blood and Water,
which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus
as a fount of Mercy for us,
I trust in You!
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O Blessed Host
O Blessed Host, in whom is contained the testament of God’s mercy for us,
and especially for poor sinners.
O Blessed Host, in whom is contained the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus as proof of infinite mercy for us, and especially for poor sinners.
O Blessed Host, in whom is contained life eternal and of infinite mercy, dispensed in abundance to us and especially to poor sinners.
O Blessed Host, in whom is contained the mercy of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit towards us, and especially towards poor sinners.
O Blessed Host, in whom is contained the infinite price of mercy which will compensate for all our debts, and especially those of poor sinners.???
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Ave Maria Meditations
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Jesus is very near to us: in Christian countries where there are so many tabernacles we are hardly ever more than a few miles from Him. How difficult it is not to see the walls or at least the spire of some church whether we are in the middle of a crowded city or traveling by road or by train. Christ is there! It is the Lord! ?our faith and our love exclaim. We can say it because Our Lord is present there really and substantially: He is the same one who appeared to the disciples and who has always shown such interest in everybody. ? Jesus has remained in the Blessed Sacrament. In this memorial Sacrament He is really, truly and substantially present, his Body and Blood together with his Soul and Divinity and, consequently, the whole Christ. The presence of Christ in the Blessed Eucharist is real and permanent, because once Mass is over, Our Lord remains in each one of the consecrated hosts that has not, been consumed. He who is present is He who was born, died and rose again in Palestine, the one who is at the right hand of God the Father. ?We meet with Him in the tabernacle and He sees us and knows us. We can speak to Him as the Apostles did and tell Him what things we are enthusiastic about and what things are causing us concern. There we always find true peace, of the kind that endures in spite of all sorrow and every obstacle. ?
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Ave Maria Meditations A Short Visit to the Blessed Sacrament ? In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. ? I place myself in the presence of Him, in whose Incarnate Presence I am ? Before I place myself there, I adore Thee, 0 my Savior, present here as God and man, in soul and body, in true flesh and blood.? I acknowledge and confess that I kneel before that Sacred Humanity which was conceived in Mary’s womb and lay in Mary’s bosom; which grew up to man’s estate, and by the Sea of Galilee called the Twelve, wrought miracles, and spoke words of wisdom and peace; which in due season hung on the cross, lay in the tomb, rose from the dead, and now reigns in heaven. ? I praise, and bless, and give myself wholly to Him, Who is the true Bread of my soul, and my everlasting joy. ? Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman ? |
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Some thoughts on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass:
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The Holy Mass as renewal of the Covenant. ? ‘Behold, the days are coming?, says the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.? During the Last Supper, Jesus anticipated what shortly thereafter he was to accomplish in his death. He showed his disciples what he was anxious to do, what he was soon to carry out ?the sacrifice of his Body and Blood for everyone. The Last Supper is an anti?cipation of the sacrifice of the Cross. When, twenty-seven years later, Saint Paul would quote these words of Jesus in the First Letter to the Corinthians: ?This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me?.
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Ave Maria Meditations
A week of Eucharistic and Marian Saints
 August 1st: St. Alphonsus Liguori
Bishop and Doctor of the Church
INTRODUCTORY PRAYER (To be said before each Visit to the Most Blessed Sacrament)
My Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you are really here in this sacrament. Night and day you remain here compassionate and loving. You call, you wait for, you welcome everyone who comes to visit you. Unimportant though I am, I adore you. I thank you for all the wonderful graces you have given me. But I thank you especially for having given me yourself in this sacrament, for having asked your own Mother to mother me, for having called me here to talk to you. (more…) |
AVE MARIA MEDITATIONS
July 30th: St. Leopoldo Mandic A Saint of the Confessional and a Saint for the Cause of Unity The august Mother of God is in truth co?redemptress of the human race and source of all grace. In fact on the one hand we have in her the most perfect obedience to God?s laws and, after her Son, the most perfect innocence: He impeccable by His nature, she impeccable by grace. On the other hand we see her as Our Lady of Sorrows, as He was the Man of Sorrows. If, therefore, by eternal decree of God, the Immaculate Virgin was the moral victim of sorrow as her Son was the physical victim, and if God?s avenging justice found no shadow of fault in them, it follows inevit?ably that they were paying the price of the sins of others, that is of mankind. (more…) |
Ave Maria! Today we look at 3 ways in which Christ claimed to be divine: By being “one with the Father”, by being the “Supreme Lawmaker”, and by accepting?the adoration of others. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria Meditations
Dearest Jesus: You loved me from all eternity, therefore you created me. You loved me after You created me, therefore You became Man for me. You loved me after You became man for me, therefore you lived and died for me. You loved me after You had died for me therefore You went to prepare a place for me. You loved me after You had prepared a place for me, therefore You came back to me. You loved me after You came back to me, therefore you desired to enter into me and be united to me. This is the meaning of the most Blessed Sacrament : The Mystery of His Love. (Archbishop Goodier) (more…) |
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