Face of Pro-Life #167 – ( 30min) >>> Play

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Fra Augustine talks about his efforts to start radio stations inculding the newest one in Bloomington, IN called WOMB -  With Our Mother Blest Radio - 89.9 FM that has a motto: We are 100% Pro-Life, No Contraception, No Abortion, No Euthanasia…NO EXCEPTIONS!!! He mentions the pro-life efforts they do, including broadcasting the prayers in front of the local Planned Parenthood.

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Fi News #116 – Bloomington on air ( 05min) >>> Play

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Our newest radio station, With Our Mother Blest, in Bloomington, IN – WOMB 89.9 FM Ellettsville (the community of license) – is now on the air at full power! In fact, it was cranked up to full power a few weeks ago, but we have been so busy with three AirMaria road trips for conferences and then to World Youth Day in Madrid, that we have not been able to get this post up until now.

This is the 3rd radio station on the air belonging to our AirMaria Radio Network, the first being Holy Virgin Mary Radio, 91.9 FM Owego, NY, and the second being CorMariae, WPMW 88.5 FM Bayview, MA.

We are still fighting to find a tower location for Holy Name of Mary Radio, WHNM 89.5 FM Pawcatuck, CT.

With Our Mother Blest, WOMB 89.9 FM, is a very strategically located radio station because it reaches the 42, 000 college students and 3,000 professors that are at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Simply put, for the first time Catholic radio content will be delivered via this station to one of the major intellectual centers of the United States and of the world.

We are currently an EWTN repeater, rebroadcasting the EWTN Radio satellite feed 24/7 with our own top of the hour ID’s chiming in every hour to comply with FCC regulations, but we plan to build our own studio at the new friary in the winter and to begin to add more of our own content as we become more capable.

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Fi News #105 – Installing the Cross ( 09min) >>> Play

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See the cross for our new friary in Bloomington, Indiana being blessed and then installed on the top of the bell tower. A great meditation for Passion Sunday as the sign of Our Lords victory over sin and death is raised on high. Deo Gratias!

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Fi News #93 – Bell coming in for a landing  ( 06min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias blesses the bells for of our new Bloomington, Indiana friary and then they are installed by crane into the belltower. The video is capped off by the installation of the copper steeple.

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Fi News #90 – Our new friary in Bloomington is making progress ( 04min) >>> Play

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See the progress on the new FI friary in Bloomington, Indiana. Volunteers and pros alike gather local rocks for the facade of the friary. Then you can see materials being lowered onto the roof to put the finishing touches on that. And finally you can see the new bells that will soon be added to the bell tower which you can see rising high above the roof.

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Fi News #82 – Marian Friary in Progress ( 06min) >>> Play

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Here is a video of the construction on the new Marian Friary of Our Lady Coredemptrix which started on March 25th, 2010 on the Feast of the Annunciation and shows the process up through August.The friary will be 22,000 square feet and have room for 28 friars with two floors, a partial basement and a bell tower that will be 86 feet high. The bell tower will have 3 bells from a local church that recently closed and the top 16 ft will be an illuminated cross. The friary is being built adjacent to the existing chapel on the property and will have direct access to the chapel’s main floor from the friary’s 2nd floor and to the chapel’s basement from the friary’s first floor.

The planned opening is spring 2011. Keep this project in your prayers.

Below are some pictures of some more progress since the video was taken. We will keep you posted

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