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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 #101 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle continues with his discourse on the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on Mary. Here he covers Lumen Gentium 66-68 on the two extremes of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, of attributing divinity to Mary or, on the other extreme, not acknowledging her prerogatives, especially in regard to accepting her as our mother.

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Homily #091121 ( 05min) Play – Today we celebrate the presentation of Our Lady as a mere child by her parents Sts. Joachim and Anne to the temple in Jerusalem which was an ancient custom in Judea among the most pious Jews. Thus early in her life Mary is associated with the temple, the dwelling place of God, foreshadowing how she would be the dwelling place of God as she bore him in her womb and in her heart.
Ave Maria! The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass: EF, Common of the Blessed Virgin, Salve Sancta Parens – Readings: 1st: sir 24:14-16 – Gsp: luk 11:27-28

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Homily #091010 ( 06min) Play – Our Lady, Mother of God, is truly blessed because she believed and so was fruitful even as a virgin, giving birth to a Divine Child.
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Homily #090801 ( 08min) Play – Our Lord calls attention to the real merits of Our Lady, her faith and obedience and so opens the door for us to imitate her virtues.
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Blessed Junipero Serra

Also known as the Apostle of California

Ave Maria! Below is an Article from Zenit News. One correction: Cologne is not the place of his birth, but rather of his death.

Faith-Reason Harmony Praised in Duns Scotus

Pope Recalls Franciscan Theologian on 7th Centennial of Death

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 22, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is proposing the Franciscan theologian Blessed John Duns Scotus as a model for believers and nonbelievers alike, due to his search for harmony between faith and reason. (more…)

BLESSED JUNIPERO SERRA

July 1st is the feast day of Blessed Junipero Serra, the Franciscan priest from Mallorca who at the age of 55, with a limp in his gait and afflicted with asthma, walked up and down what is now the State of California evangelizing the indigenous people, teaching them European methods of farming and defending them against those who would have taken advantage of them. He is associated with the establishment of the California Missions, many of which still function as parishes today. The earthly remains of Father Serra are interred in the Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel, California.

At the time of his death, Blessed Serra had baptized 6,000 Indians, a number which comprises approximately 10 per cent of the native population of California at the time. The Serra International website states: Between the years of 1796 and 1784, Father Serra made six voyages by sea totaling 5,400 miles. He traveled by land the distance between Monterey and San Francisco eight times, Monterey and San Antonio 11 times, His longest journey by land was from Monterey to Mexico City. In total, he traveled well over 5,500 miles by land.

His motto was, “Siempre adelante, nunca retredecer,” which in English means, “Always to go forward, never to turn back?.

Blessed Junipero Serra, Apostle of California, pray for usl

What I wish to say first of all is that, thank God, I am in good health, and that the famine which has laid heavily on all this country and been felt by so many poor people has hardly touched any of the Fathers, my companions, or myself…

Those who are the main supporters of our people are the gentiles. Thanks to them, we live because God so wills it; moreover, we must not forget that the milk from the cows and the vegetables from the garden have been very big factors in keeping these foundations going; but these two sources of food are becoming scarce. But, when all is said and done, I do not regret that these missions were founded and your reverence should not regret it either. None of the ministers who live in them have any criticisms on the matter. The complaint has only been with those without missions on account of the difficulty there has been to go ahead with their foundation.

And, above all, in regard to the promise made by God in these modem times to Our Father Saint Francis – as our Seraphic Mother Mary of Jesus declares – that the gentiles, at the mere sight of his sons, will be converted to our Holy Catholic Faith, it is my opinion that we are now seeing it with our eyes and touching it with our hands. Because if, at the present time, they are not as yet all Christians, it is, in my judgment, only for want of a knowledge of their language, a trouble of long standing with me which I have never been granted the grace to overcome, it seems to me, because of my many sins.

Yet, in San Diego, time has overcome the difficulty, and they already have baptized adults and solemnized marriages. And here, too, we are not far from arriving at the same state of improvement, since the children are beginning to express themselves in Castilian … To sum it all up: I put my trust in God that everything will turn out well.

Blessed Junipero SERRA (1713-1784)

Homily #080607s ( 10min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on this first Saturday of June on the Immaculate Heart of Mary during this special Votive Mass. He focuses on what John Paul II wrote on the Beatification of Blessed Francesco and Jacinta of Fatima, that they were great candles in these anxious hours of moral darkness. He mentions Francesco was drawn to love of God and Jacinta to love of neighbor to save them from Hell.
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Homily #080607 ( 00min) Play – Today Fr. Bonaventure gives a homily on the Widow in todays Gospel, who is a figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave all that she had..
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Marycast #10 ( 9min) Play – There are several women in the Old Testament that, in their persons, revealed something about Our Lady. Dr Mark Miravalle uses some of the prominent “strong women” of the Old Testament to manifest how they prefigure “the Woman” of the New Testament: The Blessed Virgin Mary.
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