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Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the eighth article of the Creed: “I believe in the Holy Ghost.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! St. Cecelia, St. Lucy, St. Agnes – all three of these early Church martyrs were consecrated virgins living in the world. The history of consecrated virginity goes back to Apostolic times, with St. Matthew himself writing part of the original rite, and, unknown to most people, this vocation is still alive and well in the Church today. In this episode, Elizabeth Lee from Massachusetts speaks with Friar Roderick on her vocation as a consecrated virgin & the call to bring Christ to the world and the broken world to Christ in this unique and beautiful fashion. The rite of consecrated virginity was restored in 1970 and now boasts of 200 members in the US and 3,000 members throughout the world. For more information on this wonderful vocation, visit: http://www.consecratedvirgins.org/ Ave Maria! |
The incredible story of a Franciscan friar past the age of 50 and with a bad leg established the California missions:
Miquel Joseph Serra was born and baptized on November 24, 1713 in the small town of Petra on the island of Mallorca, Spain. At the age of fifteen, Serra left home to enter the Franciscan University in nearby Palma to study philosophy. When Serra was seventeen, he decided to join the Franciscan Order.
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Ave Maria Meditations
 + The Mystery of Faith: TRANSUBSTANTIATION +
The words of Our Lord cannot be watered down: the bread which I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world. +
This is the mystery of Faith, we proclaim immediately after the Consecration at Mass. It has been and is the touchstone of the Catholic faith. By transubstantiation, the species of bread and wine are no longer common bread and common drink, but rather the sign of something sacred and the sign of spiritual food. But they take on a new expressiveness and a new purpose for the very reason that they contain a new reality: which we are right to call ’ontological’. For beneath these appearances there is no longer what was there before but something quitedifferent, since on the conversion of the bread and wine’s substance, or nature, into the Body and Blood of Christ, nothing is left of the bread and wine but the appearances alone. Beneath these appearances Christ is present whole and entire, bodily present too, in his physical reality although not in the manner in which bodies are present in a place. +
We look at Jesus present in the Tabernacle, perhaps just a few yards away, and we tell him that we know, through faith, that he is present. |
Homily #090118t ( |
St. Monica (August 27th) and St. Augustine (August 28th) ? The great bishop of Milan, St. Ambrose, knowing of her prayers and tears for her son, told St.Monica that “it is impossible that the son of so many tears should perish.” Bishop Ambrose of Milan, was right. At the age of 35, Monica’s son, Augustine, became a Christian and was baptized, along with his son, Adeodatus, by Ambrose. A few months later, on the way home to Hippo with Augustine and Adeodatus, Monica fell ill and died. Monica could not have known that her prayers and devotion would affect not only the life of her son but also the course of history. Her concern was that her son believe “the truth which is in Jesus.” This devotion to the spiritual welfare of her son is why Monica is regarded as the model for all Christian mothers. When death was approaching and seeing her son?s grief, St. Monica told him, ?Bury my body wherever you will; let not care of it cause you any concern. ONE THING ONLY I ASK OF YOU: THAT YOU REMEMBER ME AT THE ALTAR OF THE LORD WHEREVER YOU MAY BE.? |
Ave Maria! Man has a moral obligation to seek and enter the Catholic Church with the obligation to live by her teachings. This last episode on the “Six Steps to Catholicism” explains the Catholic teaching that “There is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church” and who are those that are inside and outside the Catholic Church. Ave Maria! |
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