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Ave Maria! Friar Roderic of AirMaria.com talks about the pro-life activity of this apostolate and the general use of the internet and mass media in the pro-life cause. Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! In this interview with Fr. Gabriel M. Pelletieri, Co-Founder of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the basic points on “The Marian Plan of Franciscan Life” are covered. Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! Well, as many of you have noticed, we have been down quite a few times in the last 24 hours with a message something like:
Our generous benefactor who gives us the web space free (he owns a web design business) has told us that AirMaria has maxed-out the current server. The Good NewsThis is good news in that we now have about double the traffic coming to the site. The Bad NewsBut it is also bad news in that we now need to upgrade to a dedicated server! This will be about four times the price. Our benefactor would love to pay for the whole server but with EIGHT kids (truly a pro-life Catholic!) he has some pretty serious budget constraints. The cost will be $200 per month. He is willing to pitch in $50 per month and a lot of his precious time in regard to free consulting and tech support. What we need is three more people to commit to supporting us with a $50 monthly donation. If you are willing, we can even set up an electronic payment feature that will make the entire process as easy as possible in the months to come. With this server we will be able to keep AirMaria going well into the future, even with 20 times the traffic! It is something to seriously pray about. Let me know by sending an email to apostolate@airmaria.com In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Fra Roderic |
Ave Maria! Well we’ve been very busy here at AirMaria. However, we admit that it has not always been directly posting videos as can be seen from a sparse period in our posting when we got behind on many of our video projects. But we have completed many of the side projects that were holding us back and we’re making up for lost time as you can see by by our many videos in the past week. We have also gotten behind on fund raising and our budget is showing the strain. We are currently a few hundred dollars in the red and have several operating expenses coming up and there are several capital expenses that we need to make, including essential things like expanded storage. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
Ave Maria Meditations
MEDITATION: Unless our life is one of intimacy with God and His Son Jesus, we cannot be His collaborators, docile instruments in His hands; unless we have an intense interior life, we cannot have the mind of Christ and be associated with His love and His work for the salvation of souls. By means of prayer and the struggle against sin, by self-renunciation, and the practice of the virtues, the interior life progressively rids the soul of all that is defective, thus favoring in it the growth of grace and love, that is to say it vivifies the soul with divine life, since grace and love are a participation in the very life of God. It follows, therefore, that the more a soul cultivates the interior life, the nearer it will come to God and having become like Him by grace and love, will be able to live in intimacy with Him, enjoy His friendship, penetrate His mysteries and participate in them. Who, then, will be better able to understand the great mystery of the Redemption and contribute his share to it, than one who by means of a fervent interior life, lives in intimate friendship with God? The first degree of friendship with God, which consists in the absence of serious sin, does not suffice to fulfill the purposes of the apostolate. A deeper friendship is required, one which creates such uniformity of will, desire and affection that the apostle is enabled to act according to God’s Heart; he is moved not by his own impulses, but by the impulse of grace, by God’s will, and the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. It is a very significant fact that Jesus made His apostles live for three years in intimacy with Him, treating them like dear friends, before sending them out to convert the world : ” I will not now call you servants … but I have called you friends” (Jn. 15:15) In a single moment, the moment of our justification, God infused charity into us without any cooperation on our part, but He does not preserve this gift, much less increase it, unless we remain united to Him by living an interior life. The purpose of the struggle against our passions, the practice of the virtues, recollection, prayer, the practice of the presence of God, and frequent reception of the Sacraments, is to foster union with God and the growth of charity. The interior life is a secret hearth where a soul in contact with God is inflamed with His love, and precisely because it is inflamed and forged by love, it becomes a docile instrument which God can use to diffuse love into the hearts of others. Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene OCD
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Ave Maria! The AirMaria crew would love to venture into the world of HD – hopefully to make our videos better and more enjoyable to watch. We also have a few other items we need for backing up our data and ensuring we don’t lose any data during power failures. If you would like to help us take the leap into HD, or to help us prevent data loss, please browse our Christmas list below. If you intend to purchase an item for us please let us know and we’ll remove it from the list. ADDRESS: AIRMARIA.COM, 199 Colonel Brown Rd., Griswold, CT. 06351 (860) 376-6840 Thank you to all our supporters and benefactors over the past year in particular. Our benefactors hold a very special place in the hearts and prayers of the friars. AirMaria’s Christmas List: Quantity: 1 Canon VIXIA HF S11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/645110-REG/Canon_4063B001_VIXIA_HF_S11_Dual.html CLICK “MORE” TO VIEW THE WHOLE LIST (more…) |
Ave Maria from the Land Down Under! In this Roving Reporter, Fra Gabriel discusses his unique apostolate – skateboarding, and how this unique apostolate fits into the daily life of a Franciscan of the Immaculate. Ave Maria! +++ |
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