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Homily #120406 ( 17min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches at the Good Friday communion service on how unbelievable the Gospel message is today, that God could submit himself to death.  But thanks be to God we have the highest authority available to help us believe, Holy Mother Church and Holy Scripture. Listen as Fr. Bonaventure sets forth how this great event is the culmination of all the history of man and the reparation of for every sin committed before and after this pivotal moment.
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Mass: Good Friday – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 52:13-53:12
Resp: psa 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25
2nd: heb 4:14-16, 5:7-9
Gsp: joh 18:1-19:42

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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 #100615 ( 06min) Play – In the Gospel reading Jesus teaches us to love our enemies and gives us the example by going to Calvary to redeem the human race that was at enmity with Him.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 1 Kings 21:17-29
R: Ps 51:3-6,11,16
G: Mt 5:43-48

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This was originally posted on MaryVictrix on Holy Thursday, April 1st and was meant to be the first part of the post just below.

Homily #090926 ( 09min) Play – Jesus tells His disciples, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” The apostles do not understand this. However, Fr. Bonaventure explains how the Blessed Virgin Mary did understand and how important this is to the mystery of salvific suffering.
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Homily #090920 ( 22min) Play – In Mk 9:30-37 the Apostles do not understand when Our Lord says, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” Fr. explains that this habitual attitude in the Apostles is still the natural human attitude prevailing today.  Listen as Father shows how the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men.
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Homily #090909 ( 05min) Play – The Mass is central to the spiritual life where the Sacrifice of Calvary is made present. But, we need to be prepared for receiving these graces.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: gal 5:16-24 – Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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Homily #090614 ( 21min) Play – On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, Fr. Angelo Geiger explains how much we should give thanks to God for the Eucharist which re-presents to us His bodily sacrifice on Calvary. This sacrifice is the greatest thing ever done by God including all His works of creation and His miracles.
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Homily #090523 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches at the 2nd Mass for the Spring Encampment for the Knights and Squires of Lepanto. He calls the Roman Missal the Dangerous Book for Boys (a book he has talked about before) because it is about the Mass, the re-presentation of the Sacrifice on Calvary where Our Lord engages in the most dangerous battle ever fought, the battle against Satan to save mankind who was enslaved to him.

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There at the foot of the Cross…

The Apostle John stands at the foot of the Cross with Our Lady on Calvary. John is the sole witness among the Twelve to Jesus’ crucifixion, and the only evangelist to record his cry of thirst (see Jn 19:28). Yet we can presume that he already had a rela­tionship with Mary, who in turn led him to the Cross on Good Friday. We know that John, too, had run away in fear, just like the others, as Jesus had predicted (see Mt 26:31). But John, recognizing his weakness, at some point along the way found Our Lady amid the crowd on the Via Dolorosa. In her he found a love, a strength, and a serenity that surpassed his own, and a heart to open his own to the words he alone among the Twelve would hear. Our Lady brought John to faithfulness, and to witness the thirst of her Son. This is what she did for Mother Teresa. This is what she offers to do for every disciple.

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The Real Presence: From Advent and Christmas

to Calvary and to the Blessed Sacrament

Neither Advent nor the tomb is Christ’s final rest in the world. He rests in the midst of the world now, in the Host. He is as silent, as secret and hidden, in the Host as He was in Advent or in the tomb. He trusts Himself to His creatures in the Host as He trusted Himself to our Lady in Advent; only then He gave Himself into the keeping of the one human creature who was sinless and in whom He could have His will, and now He gives Himself into the keeping of sinners.

In the Host He is immobile, dependent. He rests in the priest’s hands, on the paten, in the tabernacle. He remains with us, resting in all the cities and all the lonely and unexpected places of the world. Wherever human creatures are, He rests in their midst.

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Marycast #20 ( 10min) Play -Dr Mark Miravalle continues the study of Mary in the New Testament with the climax of Our Lady’s role as Co-redemptrix, her participation in the Redemption at Calvary.

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

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Marycast Specials #1 ( 10min) Play – During the 16th World Day of the Sick on February 11, The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI gives his strongest statement yet on the direct participation of Our Lady in the Redemption of the world at Calvary.“Mary is a model of total self-abandonment to the will of God: she received in her heart the eternal Word and she conceived it in her virginal womb; she trusted in God and, with her soul pierced by a sword (cf. Lk 2:35), she did not hesitate to share the passion of her Son, renewing on Calvary at the foot of the Cross her ‘Yes’ of the Annunciation.”

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