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Homily #120202 ( 08min) Play – The feast of the Presentation is the last event in the liturgical calender directly relating to Christmas. Fr. Angelo gives the historical context for this events and explains the words of the prophet Simeon and the prophetess Anna.
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Mass: Presentation of the Lord – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: mal 3:1-4
Resp: psa 24:7, 8, 9, 10
2nd: heb 2:14-18
Gsp: luk 2:22-40

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Roving Reporter #126 – ( 11min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velazquez is interviewed by Friar Roderic at the March for Life Exhibit Hall at the Hyatt Regency in DC. She explains her book “A Special Mother is Born” that has 33 inspirational stories by parents who have special needs children, including her own story about her daughter Christina who has Down Syndrome and another by Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum.

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A Day With Mary #10 – Fr Gabriel Angelo Maria Polo( 09min) >>> Play

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Let the Inn of our hearts be clean, free from sin in order to receive the Child and His Mother. Christian joy springs from the truth that He is close, he is with us.

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Face of Pro-Life #118 – Corinn Dahm and Jill Sackidovitch ( 60min) >>> Play

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This episode was  a live show  on local television with guest Jill Sackidovitch director of the Westbrook, CT branch of Birthright, the premier nation-wide (even international) emergency pregnancy assistance centers for women. She relates to hostess Corinn Dahm how she got involved in Birthright when she wasn’t even looking to do so as well as all the challenges of talking to young mothers in distressed pregnancies. They discuss:

• pro-choice nature of the agency in that it gives women a chance to choose life when, in this pro-abortion world, pregnant women are often heavily pressured to abort their child
• demoralizing and even traumatic nature of abortion that scars many women for life.
• lack of safety for abortion procedure
• lack of education about the emotional and medical dangers of abortion.
• difficulties and joys of adoption for women with unwanted pregnancies
• how they reach out to distressed mothers
• procedure for giving assistance once they come to their facilities
• how friendship is the greatest thing needed for these women even if they do make the wrong decision
• what additional services are needed for mothers in the future
• type of people needed for volunteers
• how people can donate
• how many women are helped

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Face of Pro-Life #105 – Leticia Velasquez with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez describes her book that she is writing on the trials and joys of being the mother of a Down Syndrome child. She covers motivations for the book, i.e. the culture against children with disabilities which she continuously runs into. She has titled the book “A Special Mother is Born” referring to herself that when her special-needs-child was born, she was reborn into a new kind of motherhood. It will consist of 24 stories of her experience both dealing with the needs of her daughter and dealing with this anti life culture. It is due out in the fall and she hopes it will give such mothers what she could not find for herself, good information about how to make the bold step to embrace this beautiful kind of motherhood. She also wants to fight against the Hitlarian eugenics culture that is obsessed with a perfect race.

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Homily #101001 ( 07min) Play – Today is the feast day of St Therese of Lisieux of the Child Jesus. Fr. Ignatius celebrates this in the Extraordinary Form as a votive Mass since her feast day is on the 3rd of October in the old calender. He preaches on St. Therese’s life who through the help of her very devout parents was given a very good start on the road to sanctity. He describes how even though she was an almost entirely unknown nun who died at the young age of 24 in a cloistered convent, her great sanctity was discovered by the outside world and she was Canonized as a saint, made a patron of missionaries throughout the world, declared a doctor of the Church and virtually every Catholic Church has set-up a statue of her.
Ave Maria! Votive for St. Theresa of the Child Jesus – Mass: EF, Veni De Libano – Readings:
1st: isa 66:12-14
Gsp: mat 18:1-4

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Face of Pro-Life #107 – Hostess Leticia Velasquez with Eileen Haupt ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez and Eileen Haupt, co-founders of Keep Infants with Down Syndrome discuss what it is like to raise a child with Down Syndrome and what it has added to their lives and to their families. The benefits they received include greater patience, close bonds with their special family members and a new appreciation of the common gifts of life like walking and talking and the many other hings that take a longer time for Downs children to learn.  They also learn how much children with disabilities can overcome difficulties and become productive, functioning members of society and even bring special talents. Both mothers relate how much religious devotion their Down children have.

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We need to pray for all women so they may avoid what this young girl is going through.  Just watch her face, it tears at your heat.

Face of Pro-Life #94 – Corinn Dahm with guest Leticia Velazquez ( 60min) >>> Play

A staggering ninety percent of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted! Leticia Velasquez, mother of a Down Syndrome child and an active pro-lifer, and hostess Corinn Dahm discuss the upbringing of down syndrome children. Leticia gives valuable advice to mothers, families with down syndrome children and pregnant women and the impact of the new health care bill on this issue is also discussed.

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Face of Pro-Life #90 – Bill O’Brien of CT Right to life with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Bill O’Brien, President of Connecticut Right to Life talks about the very busy upcoming legislative session in Hartford. Mentions some pro-life legislation that they are trying to start. This includes a parental notification law for abortion for minors which CT is only one of six states that do not have one. It is easier to get an abortion in CT Schools without parental consent than it is to get Tylenol. This is very important even for the safety of the child in regard to prompt response to medical and emotional complications due to the abortion. And also important in regard to child sexual abuse being exposed. Ironically, this all points out that the Pro-abortion movement ends up being oppressive to women rather than Pro-choice.

On the defensive side he hopes to stop an education standards bill that will require all students to have comprehensive sex education (under the cover of “Health Education”) with no ability to opt out. He points out the very high rate of teen pregnancy and this after many years of sex education.

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Lyrics–The Shepherd’s Farewell (English):

Thou must leave thy lowly dwelling,
The humble crib, the stable bare.
Babe, all mortal babes excelling,
Content our earthly lot to share.
Loving father, Loving mother,
Shelter thee with tender care!

Blessed Jesus, we implore thee
With humble love and holy fear.
In the land that lies before thee,
Forget not us who linger here!
May the shepherd’s lowly calling,
Ever to thy heart be dear!

Blest are ye beyond all measure,
Thou happy father, mother mild!
Guard ye well your heav’nly treasure,
The Prince of Peace, The Holy Child!
God go with you, God protect you,
Guide you safely through the wild!

Homily #100307 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the first reading where St. Paul exhorts us to be children of God and so enter into the light that is faith and the love which is the fruit it bears.
Ave Maria! Third Sunday in Lent – Mass: EF, Oculi Mei – Readings: 1st: eph 5:1-9 – Gsp: luk 11:14-28

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Miscellanea #50 – Up Capital Hill ( 04min) >>> Play

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Organizer Nellie Gray told the press that the numbers of marchers this year far exceeded last year, which was estimated at well over 300,000.  That sentiment was echoed by many long-time March for Life participants. LifeSiteNews.com

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Homily #100103 ( 13min) Play – Epiphany of Our Lord marks the second part of Christmas which is the manifestation of Christ to the whole world as an introduction to His public ministry as an adult. Fr Angelo explains who the Magi were and why God lead them with the star first to King Herod in Jerusalem and only then to Bethlehem and the Christ Child. He contrasts the response of the Magi to that of Herod when they receive the message of the coming of the Messiah.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Isa 60:1-6
R: Ps 72:1-2,7-8,10-13
2: Eph 3:2-3,5-6
G: Mt 2:1-12

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Homily #091231s ( 04min) Play – According to the Extraordinary Form of the calendar the Feast on January 1st is the Circumcision of The Child Jesus which is what we will celebrate tonight. In the morning we will celebrate the Solemnity of the Mother of God according to the new rite. Tonight Father explains that the circumsision that Our Lord went through was to show us the importance of redemptive suffering even in this Season of Joy. [Note: The first minute of the homily was lost but we managed a smooth edit. ]
Ave Maria! Octave Day of the Nativity – Mass: EF, Puer Natus Est – Readings: 1st: tit 2:11-15 – Gsp: luk 2:21-21

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