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Homily #110908 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the importance of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary on earth.
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Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass: OF
Readings: – Proper
1st: mic 5:1-4
R: psa 13:6, 6
Gsp: mat 1:1-16, 18-23

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Homily #110805 ( 08min) Play – Our Lady is the one more than any other that hears the Word of God and keeps it.
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Mass: EF; 3rd Class, Anniversary of the  Dedication of Our Lady of the Snows
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Homily #110626 ( 13min) Play – On the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Sacrament Fr. Dominic preaches on the central importance that the Eucharist holds in our lives and in the Church. When we see this through the eyes of Faith then we will bring back some of the public celebration of this feast in the form of Eucharistic processions and adoration.
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Mass: Corpus Christi – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: deu 8:2-3, 14-16
Resp: psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
2nd: 1co 10:16-17
Gsp: joh 6:51-58

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Face of Pro-Life #128 – Icon of Our Lady Helper in Childbirth ( 30min) >>> Play

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Corinn Dahm speaks with her guest, Fr. Angelo Geiger, FI on the new Icon at the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe called: “Our Lady, Helper in Childbirth” which is the centerpiece for the pro-life shrine there. Fr. Angelo covers the symbolism and history of this icon and iconography in general.

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MaryCast Specials #99 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle gives an overview of the long list of prophecies including specific prophesies of Cairo, Egypt that were made by Our Lady of All Nations from 1945  to 1959 that came true with great accuracy and detail during this century. He explains the significance of these astonishing facts.

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

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Homily #101114 ( 10min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us to be prepared for the Day of the Lord when he comes the second time to judge the living and the dead. He will come publicly in the end times in full Glory and those alive at that time should indeed be ready for it. But Fr. Dominic focuses on our personal Day of the Lord when we will die and meet our Lord to be judged. This is something that all of us will face and we do not know when it will come. As such, Father exhorts us to organize our lives to be continually prepared for that day, doing prayer and penance so that we can be with Our Blessed Lord for all eternity.

Ave Maria! Mass: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time -  OF
Readings:
1st: mal 3:19-20
Resp: psa 98:5-6, 7-8, 9
2nd: 2th 3:7-12
Gsp: luk 21:5-19

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The pope dedicates one of his General Audiences to Blessed Angela of Foligno 1248-1309 a great Franciscan Blessed. Does this mean she is closer to Canonization?
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bl. Angela of Foligno

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MaryCast Specials #86 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle announces a year long  worldwide Rosary Crusade for the 5th Marian Dogma Starting from August 15th 2010 to August 15th 2011. The broad based initiative has been endorsed by Cardinal Aponte of Puerto Rico, Mother Angelica of EWTN, Archbishop M. Chinnappa of India and Ambassador Howard Dee, Sr. Briege McKenna and Fr. Kevin Scallon, Ambassador Mercedes Tuason and Dr. Judith Gentle. You can read the full Declaration at Mother of All Peoples.

Along with the daily Rosary, we also encourage you to pray daily the Prayer of the Lady of All Nations, given by Our Lady for the proclamation of the fifth Dogma in the ecclesiastically approved apparitions in Amsterdam (local approval, May 31, 2002). You may also add the prayer below for the fifth Marian Dogma.

Lady of All Nations Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now your Spirit over the earth.

Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disasters, and war.

May the Lady of all nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our Advocate.

Amen.

Prayer for the Fifth Marian Dogma

Most holy Mary, Mother of God, we pray,

Come quickly and save us from degeneration, disaster and war.

Come quickly, we pray, Mother of All  Nations.

Come, most holy Mother,

Our Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces and Advocate.

Protect us with your motherly mantle.

Please do not delay.

Protect our world in this hour of need.

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

Ave Maria!

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Mary Vitamin for August 23rd

Topic: Our Lady’s Joy in the Resurrection of Her Son

(The sixth mystery in the Franciscan Crown — Feast August 26)

Quote:

St. Teresa of Avila

One day after receiving Communion, it seemed most clear to me that Our Lord sat beside me; He told me that immediately after His resurrection He went to see our Lady because she then had great need and that the pain she experienced so absorbed and transpierced her soul that she did not return immediately to herself to rejoice in that joy. By this I understood how different was this other transpiercing, the one of my soul. But what must have been that transpiercing of the blessed Virgin’s soul! He also said that He had remained a long time with her because it was necessary in order to console her.

St. Teresa of Avila, Spiritual Testimonies, (ICS Publications: 1985), 390-91.

Quote used in Mary Vitamin #153

Meditation:

Imagine after days of painfully placing herself in God’s presence in prayer, with the agony of the Cross fresh before her mind’s eye, what a joy it was for our Lady to see the Lord in glory, alive and well and to speak with Him with no effort on her part.

I Peter 1:6-9

There is cause for rejoicing here. You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so that your faith, which is more precious than the passing splendor of fire-tried gold, may by its genuineness lead t0 praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ appears.

When Our Lord appeared to Our Lady and “remained a long time with her because it was necessary to console her” did Our Lady ask about her holy spouse and parents? Did she receive “news” from the Lord about the happiness experienced by her beloved family members? Was this a part of Our Lady’s joy in the Resurrection? She saw her Son’s victory over death and the consequences for those she loved.

Resolution:

Today before beginning my usual prayers, I will call to mind the visit of Our Lord to Our Lady after the Resurrection. I will try to enter prayer with the joy of Our Lady and remember that it took her a long time with the Lord before she experienced the joy of the Resurrection.

Marian Vow:

Father Gabriel Allegra, O.F.M.

Precisely here is the essence of consecration: always to look carefully at the Immaculate Mother. Her mere look will indicate her wishes, will help one to put them into practice. And thus we will generously and easily do the will of the Father.

Mary’s Immaculate Heart, A Way to God, (Franciscan Herald Press: 1985), 76.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Mary Vitamin is a daily Email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

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Marian Shrines of the World #3 – Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii  ( 8 min) >>> Play

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Join Fr. Andre as he discusses the life of Blessed Bartolo Longo and the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii.

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Mary Vitamin for August 5th

Topic: The Woman of the Bible and Our Mother

Quote:

[Mary] is the real, physical Mother of the Messiah; she is the real mystical Mother of the Church, the new people of God. This is the thread, that, without a break in continuity, starts with Genesis and reaches to Revelation, passing through Cana and Calvary.

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed, (Academy of the Immaculate: 1989), 356.

Meditation:

Fr. Stefano Manelli, FI

On this subject, a passage interesting and rich in insight, accurate as it is delicate, has been written by I. de La Potterie:

A very important insight of modern exegesis has brought to light how the mystery of Mary in some way forms a synthesis of all of the preceding revelation about the people of God, (more…)

Mary Vitamin July 30th

Topic: Fourth Sorrowful Mystery – Carrying of the Cross
In honor of the Month of the Precious Blood

Quote:
Then therefore [Pontius Pilate] delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him forth. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
John 19:16-17

Meditation:
Father Frederick Faber
It was a dreadful thing for a mother to walk the streets over her own son’s blood. (more…)

Homily #100717 ( 06min) Play – Today Fr. Angelo celebrates a votive Mass to the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday and he preaches on how Saturday is held special for Our Lady where we wait in expectation with her for the glorious Resurrection of her Son on Sunday.
Ave Maria! Saturday, Votive Mass of Our Lady – Mass: EF, Salve Sancta Parens – Readings:
1st: sir 24:14-16
Gsp: luk 11:27-28

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Homily #100702 ( 04min) Play – Today we celebrate the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St Elizabeth in the old calendar. Fr. Preaches on the darkness that the coming of Our Lord dispersed. Today we seem determined to to go back into the same darkness. As St. Padre Pio said of our modern times, “Tutte tenebre!”, all is darkness. Let us ask Our Lady that we have the grace to re-embrace the light of Christ with a new visitation.
Ave Maria! The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass: EF, Salve Sancta Parens – Readings: 1st: son 2:8-15 – Gsp: luk 1:39-47

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Homily #100508 ( 02min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mediatrix of all Graces which was established as a feast in the old calendar by Pope Benedict XV in 1921. He stresses that “Mediatrix” means she is Mother of All Christians in the order of grace.
Ave Maria! Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces – Mass: EF, Adeamus Cum – Readings: 1st: isa 55:1-1,5 – Gsp: joh 19:25-27

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