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Fi News #112 -  Contemplative Sisters’ Convent in Lanherne ( 05min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Well it seems the FI Contemplative Sisters in Lanherne, England are sold on their convent and they want to buy it, or we should say, they *have* to buy it because the Carmelites who own it want to sell it. So they made this video to be able to raise about million pounds (£ 1,000,000 or $1,600,000) to buy the convent and St. Joseph’s Hall from them.  If anyone can lend some pound sterling or can send a benefactor or two their way, please do.  Please contact: – Mother Superior, Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, Convent of St. Joseph and St. Anne, Lanherne-St. Mawgan Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 4ER, United Kingdom Tel. 01637 860423  (fsi.lanherne@talktalk.net)

In the mean time, enjoy the video. If you wish to see it in HD on YouTube click here.

Keep this intention in your prayers. Thank you.

Ave Maria!

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A worthy encore:
Ave Maria Meditations
July 17th,Martyrs of Compiegne: “Song from the Scaffold”

Blessed Teresa of Sf. Augustine and Companions (1794)

Blessed Teresa and fifteen other Carmelite nuns were guillotined during the “Reign of Terror” of the French Revolution. Two years earlier they had made an Act of Consecration by which they offered themselves as a holocaust to bring peace to the Church and the country.

When they were arrested Sister Henriette exclaimed, “Let us rejoice in the joy of the Lord, that we shall die for our Holy Religion.” As each Sister ascended the guillotine, her companions sang the Veni Creator Spiritus. The normally noisy crowd was strangely silent, and a witness remarked, “They looked as if they were going to their wedding.” Within ten days of their death, the Reign of Terror ended.

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An Encore:

Ave Maria Meditations

O Most beautiful flower of Mount Carmel,

fruitful vine, splendor of heaven,

Blessed Mother of the Son of God,

Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity…

O, star of the sea,

help me and show me herein you are my mother.

O holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth,

I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart,

to aid me in my need;

there are none that can withstand your power.

O show me herein you are my Mother.

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O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

(and for those who do not have recourse to thee, especially the enemies of the Holy Church)

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Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your hands.

(state your petition)

Amen.

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