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Homily #120101 ( 09min) Play – The best way to start the new year is to become a true child of Mary.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ordinary Form - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 
Readings:
1st Reading: Numbers 6:22-27
Responsorial Psalm: 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8
2nd Reading: Galations 4:4-7
Gospel: Luke 2:16-21

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Homily #111121 ( 06min) Play – The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is found nowhere in Scripture – it is a Tradition – that’s tradition with a capital T!
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Mass: Ordinary Form – Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast 
Readings:
1st Reading: Zechariah 2:14-17
Responsorial: Luke 1:46-55
Gospel: Matthew 12:46-50

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Homily #111008 ( 10min) Play – Our Lady is the cause of our joy because She brings us Jesus – She brings us joy even in this vale of tears.

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Mass: Ordinary Form – Saturday Memorial to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings: – 1st: Joel 4:12-21 - Responsorial Psalm: 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12 - Gospel: Luke 11:27-28

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Homily #111007 ( 06min) Play – All Christians need to avail themselves of this most powerful prayer. If you have the Rosary in your hand its like holding Our Lady by the hand.
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Mass: Extraordinary Form – The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Gaudeamus, II Class, Commemoration of St. Mark, Pope & Confessor - PDF - Missale
Readings: – Proper – Epistle: Poverbs 8:22-24, 35 - Gospel: Luke 1:26-38

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Homily #110227 ( 25min) Play – In today’s homily Fr Bonaventure exhorts us to put our Faith into practice, otherwise we are just clanging cymbals.
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Mass: 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: Isa 49:14-15
Resp: Psa 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: 1Co 4:1-5
Gsp: Mt 6:24-34

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Homily #110116 ( 22min) Play – In today’s Homily Fr. Bonaventure Maria McGuire explains why St. John the Baptist calls Our Blessed Lord, “The Lamb of God” and why we need to turn to Our Lady in these times.
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Mass: 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 49:3, 5-6
Resp: psa 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10
2nd: 1co 1:1-3
Gsp: joh 1:29-34

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Homily #110109 ( 08min) Play – In today’s homily Fr. Dominic focuses on the Sacrament of Baptism and the role Our Lady plays in keeping us free from sin.
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Mass: Baptism of the Lord – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 42:1-4, 6-7
Resp: psa 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10
2nd: act 10:34-38
Gsp: mat 3:13-17

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Homily #101221 ( 07min) Play – Today the Gospel recounts the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist. Fr. Dominic preaches on how she provides very human assistance to St. Elizabeth in her time of need, bearing the precursor of Christ who will prepare Israel for His coming. Thus, Mary demonstrates her central role in the preparation that we all must do in this season of Advent.
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Mass: Tuesday in the 4th Week in Advent – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: son 2:8-14
Resp: psa 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21
Gsp: luk 1:39-45

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Homily #101220 ( 06min) Play – Today we have the Gospel account of the Incarnation when Our Lord was made flesh when the archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary. Fr. Dominic preaches on how Mary is the means to bring this about, focusing on the role that she places in accepting the message with her fiat, “Let it be done to me according to your word.” From the beginning of creation God choose to come to us through Mary so we must come to Him through her.
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Mass: Monday in the 4th Week in Advent – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 2sa 7:1-5, 8-11, 16
Resp: psa 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29
Gsp: luk 1:67-79

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Homily #101208 ( 14min) Play – Today is the great Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Holy Day of Obligation. Fr. Bonaventure explains the background for the prerogatives of Mary that shine a spotlight on the Divinity of Christ, that He is true God and true Man. These include her Perpetual Virginity, Divine Maternity, Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption.
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Mass: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: gen 3:9-15, 20
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
2nd: eph 1:3-6, 11-12
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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The Cornerstone #33 – Fr. Maximilian Dean on the principle of action and reaction (7min) >>> Play

A repost of past video for the AirMaria Scotus Month Nov 8th-Dec 8th

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St. Therese of the Child Jesus has said, “Love is repaid by love alone.” Elsewhere it is said in simpler form: “Love for love,” meaning God first offers us His love in the hope that we will respond by giving Him ours.

This principle of action and reaction is the heart of Bl. John Duns Scotus’ teaching. God first acts by willing Christ, the God-man, and the God-man responds with His Heart aflame for the love and glory of the Father. We also see God’s principle of action and reaction in the predestination of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Listen now as Father explains this eye-opening principle of “Love for love,” “action and reaction,” and how it plays out in all of creation, and in our lives.

Ave Maria!

Homily #101113 ( 07min) Play – We must turn to the Virgin of perfect faith, asking for the grace to serve God in faith until our last day.
Ave Maria! St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 3jo 1:5-8
Resp: psa 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 18:1-8

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Ave Maria Meditations

THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

PRESENCE OF GOD: 0 Mary, my Mother, teach me to live hidden with you in the shadow of God.

The liturgy enthusiastically celebrates Mary’s Nativity and makes it one of the most appealing feasts of Marian devotion. We sing in today’s Office: “Thy Nativity, O Virgin Mother of God, brings joy to the whole world, because from you came forth the Sun of Justice, Christ, our God.” Mary’s birth is a prelude to the birth of Jesus because it is the initial point of the realization of the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God for the salvation of mankind. How could the birthday of the Mother of the Redeemer pass unnoticed in the hearts of the redeemed? The Mother proclaims the Son, making it known that He is about to come, that the divine promises, made centuries before, are to be fulfilled.

The birth of Mary is the dawn of our redemption; her appearance projects a new light ove­r all the human race: a light of innocence, of purity, of grace, a resplendent presage of the great light which will inundate the world when Christ, ” the Light of the World” appears. Mary, preserved from sin in anticipation of Christ’s merits, not only announces that the Redemption is at hand but she bears the first fruits of it within herself; she is the first one redeemed by her divine Son. (more…)

Fi News #83 – Entering the Novitiate ( 09min) >>> Play

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On the vigil of the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, four postulants  took their next step toward Christ Crucified; now entering into the year of the novitiate. From now on JOHN will be known as – Friar John Mary of Our Lady of Grace, MARK – Friar Francis Arsenius Mary of Our Lady of Victory, BEN – Friar James Ezekiel Mary of the Interior Sufferings of Jesus in His Passion,  DAVID – Friar Camillo Mary of the Passion.

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