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Homily #111212 ( 13min) Play – On this solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of our friary and of the Americas, Fr. Dominic recounts the event and explains the message of this apparition that is so dear to our nation. It underlines Our Lady’s maternal care for the entire human race and encourages us to turn to Our Lady to overcome all of our anxieties.
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Mass: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: zec 2:14-17
Resp: jth 13:22-23
2nd: rev 11:19, 12:1-6a,10
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Homily #101125 ( 09min) Play – On this national Thanksgiving day in America Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need to give thanks to God and that this is the best means of exercising our citizenship and prepares us for that everlasting citizenship in the kingdom of Heaven.
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Mass: St. Catherine of Alexandria – Optnl Memorial – Form: OF
Readings: Thursday in the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: rev 18:1-2, 21-23;19:1-3,9
Resp: psa 100:2, 3, 4, 5
Gsp: luk 21:20-28

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Variety #98 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 09min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this last part of five they discuss:

• Need for clarification on organ transplants
• Assisted suicide
• Excommunication of pro-abortion politicians,
• Salvific purpose of excommunication
• Two types of excommunication Latae Sententiae and Ferendae Sententiae
• Absolution of excommunication
• Relevance of excommunication for today’s Church

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Variety #97 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 09min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this fourth part of five they discuss:

• Principle that if we should err on the side of safety then we need to be certain that a person is dead, not cut into him when he is still breathing.
• Meaning of the term ex cadavere
• Mad scientists, Scary advances in science, Head transplants
• Scientism, Science has become a religion
• Ability to advance a science is not a justification to do so, regardless of ethical considerations

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Variety #96 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 11min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this third part of five they discuss:

• Ethical issues of  transplant of major organs and whether “brain death” is real and true death.
• Is the brain the only organ that holds our soul.
• Pressure to be donors.
• Pressure to prematurely declare the donor is dead.

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Variety #95 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 11min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this second part of five they discuss:

• Why Catholics vote for pro-abortion politicians.
• Mass Media role in moral malaise.
• Advice for Catholic voters to form conscience and how it this does not mean do whatever you want to do.
• How Voting is a moral act.
• Voting strictly on party lines.
• How high are the “flames of heresy” in the Church today.
• How the fight against heresy has always strengthened the Church.
• How being a Bishop is like being a fireman who does not dialogue with a fire.

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Variety #94 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska ( 14min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America.  We are posting them here in a five part series. In the first part, in answering Fr. Elias questions, the bishop relates his thoughts about:

• His 50 years as a priest and bishop in the Church and all the changes and events in the time.
• His visits to shrines in Europe and Rome.
• His 19 years as Bishop of Lincoln.
• The graces that are ever needed for his office
• His work with John Paul II and Benedict XVI
• What these two papacies have done for the Church especially the continuity that they reaffirmed between the post and pre-Vatican II Church
• The Moto Proprio of Pope Benedict and how it is not at all against Vatican II
• The unlikelihood of a mixture of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the liturgy
• New English translation of the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy
• How well Catechisis has been carried out in the Post Vatican II era
• balance needed between doctrine and pastoral and social concerns

Listening to Bsp. Bruskewitz’s clear  insights and answers is refreshing indeed.

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Marycast #113 ( 12min) Play – Dr Miravalle finishes this miniseries on Our Lady of America by pointing out our Responsibility to respond to the messages given to us over fifty years ago. Mary is pleading for America to lead the world in peace and purity and if not we will experience great tragedy. If we do, we will receive incredible graces.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #112 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle concludes his mini-series on the messages from St Joseph in the apparitions of Our Lady of America. He covers the messages given on March 30,  1958 to Sr. Mary Ephrem. St Joseph asks that his role as Father in the Holy Family and his pure heart be honored by reciting the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary and receiving Communion on each first Wednesday of the month. This will also be a means of honoring fatherhood in general of which he is the human exemplar.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #110 ( 10min) Play – Today Dr Miravalle discusses St Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary’s spouse and our spiritual father, as he is mentioned in the messages of Our Lady of America related to Sr Mary Ephrem Neuzil. He explains how St Joseph is the perfect example of a father in a world that has very little appreciation of this role and how he too suffered knowing the future sufferings of his Son, Our Lord.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #109 ( 11min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle relates the message that Our Lady of America gives to the youth in America in her message to Sister Mildred, asking them to be torchbearers of purity to their fellow youth out of Divine Charity.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #107 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle relates and explains the message of Our Lady of America to Sister Mildred of October 7, 1957 on the need to do penance and say the Rosary. If we do this, she will give us many graces and peace, including the indwelling of the Most Holy Trinity who will enable us to achieve even greater purity of life. If we don’t, we will experience great chastisements.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #91 ( 11min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle discusses the message of Our Lady of America on Oct 13, 1956 which is the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. She asks that the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC become a center for the promotion of purity.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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Marycast #90 ( 10min) Play – In this episode Dr. Mark Miravalle explains the importance of the message of Our Lady of America, the need for purity in America and how this is key to get God’s blessing sand avoid His curse.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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A Lesson from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta on Abortion

“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts — a child — as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters” (more…)