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Homily #110814 ( 26min) Play – On this Solemnity of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, patron and protector of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the life and martyrdom of this “Apostle of the End Times” who was totally conformed to Jesus Crucified because he was totally consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin.
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Mass: St. Maximilian Kolbe, priest and martyr  – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: wis 3:1 9
Resp: psa 116:1017
2nd: 1jo 3:13 18
Gsp: joh 15:12 17

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Homily #101128 ( 10min) Play – Fr Dominic preaches on the opening of Advent when we prepare for the coming of Our Lord when He is born at Bethlehem on Christmas Day. Father focuses on the Marian dimension of this season when we should renew our consecration to Mary so that we can prepare all the better, gaining graces, overcoming bad habits.
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Mass: 1st Sunday of Advent – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 2:1-5
Resp: psa 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: rom 13:11-14
Gsp: mat 24:37-44

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MaryCast Specials #89 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle continues his mini series on how to obtain “Peace in a Peacelsss Age”. The last episode he introduced three means to achieve this peace, Our Lady, the Eucharist and the Pope. Today he focuses on Our Lady and in particular on the Rosary, the Scapular and Consecration to Our Lady.

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

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Conferences #84 -Msgr. Author Calkins ( 65min) >>> Play

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After the introduction to our Symposium “Mother of the Church” in the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, La Crosse, Wisconsin on August 21, 2010, Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins gives the first formal talk titled “Coredemption and Marian Consecration in the Magisterium of John Paul II and Benedict XVI”. Msgr. Calkins is the foremost authority on the Marian teachings of these two popes. He explains the meaning of consecration to Mary and how it is based on her role as Coredemptrix and … Mother of the Church.

Drew Mariani of Relevant Radio was MC of the symposium.

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Mary Vitamin for August 23rd

Topic: Our Lady’s Joy in the Resurrection of Her Son

(The sixth mystery in the Franciscan Crown — Feast August 26)

Quote:

St. Teresa of Avila

One day after receiving Communion, it seemed most clear to me that Our Lord sat beside me; He told me that immediately after His resurrection He went to see our Lady because she then had great need and that the pain she experienced so absorbed and transpierced her soul that she did not return immediately to herself to rejoice in that joy. By this I understood how different was this other transpiercing, the one of my soul. But what must have been that transpiercing of the blessed Virgin’s soul! He also said that He had remained a long time with her because it was necessary in order to console her.

St. Teresa of Avila, Spiritual Testimonies, (ICS Publications: 1985), 390-91.

Quote used in Mary Vitamin #153

Meditation:

Imagine after days of painfully placing herself in God’s presence in prayer, with the agony of the Cross fresh before her mind’s eye, what a joy it was for our Lady to see the Lord in glory, alive and well and to speak with Him with no effort on her part.

I Peter 1:6-9

There is cause for rejoicing here. You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so that your faith, which is more precious than the passing splendor of fire-tried gold, may by its genuineness lead t0 praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ appears.

When Our Lord appeared to Our Lady and “remained a long time with her because it was necessary to console her” did Our Lady ask about her holy spouse and parents? Did she receive “news” from the Lord about the happiness experienced by her beloved family members? Was this a part of Our Lady’s joy in the Resurrection? She saw her Son’s victory over death and the consequences for those she loved.

Resolution:

Today before beginning my usual prayers, I will call to mind the visit of Our Lord to Our Lady after the Resurrection. I will try to enter prayer with the joy of Our Lady and remember that it took her a long time with the Lord before she experienced the joy of the Resurrection.

Marian Vow:

Father Gabriel Allegra, O.F.M.

Precisely here is the essence of consecration: always to look carefully at the Immaculate Mother. Her mere look will indicate her wishes, will help one to put them into practice. And thus we will generously and easily do the will of the Father.

Mary’s Immaculate Heart, A Way to God, (Franciscan Herald Press: 1985), 76.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Mary Vitamin is a daily Email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

Mary Vitamin for July 29th

Topic: Martha and Mary
Luke 10:38-42

Quote:
St.  Francis de Sales
The two women represent our Lady.
The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Our Lady, (Tan Books) 62.
Tan Books

Meditation:
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 11:5

Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J.:
And the name of Martha comes first. He could not blame her zeal; He could not find fault with her self-sacrificing charity. Nevertheless (more…)

Roving Reporter #110 – Fr. Jacinto and pilgrims pray to end abortion ( 10min) >>> Play

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On May 13, Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, 2010, a Planned Parenthood facility is consecrated to Our Lady to ask her intercession to bring about the end to abortion at this location and throughout the world. Monica Seifker lead the effort based on a plan laid out by American Life League to Marianize the pro-life movement.  Fr. Jacinto performed the consecration leading the prayers of the faithful.

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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.

Fi News #63 – Team of volunteers set the new altar top in place. ( 05min) >>> Play

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Recently the renovations for the chapel at our friary in Bloomington, IN were completed with a full refurbishment of the Sanctuary.  It now has an altar rail, stained glass, and a new altar and rererdos suitable for the Traditional Latin Mass. Archbishop Daniel Mark Buechlein, O.S.B. performed the consecration ceremony. The ground breaking for the new friary, which occurred the same day, will be posted as a separate video.

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Homily #091211s ( 17min) Play – Fr. Angelo gives the homily for the vigil Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe which is a Solemnity here at Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary. He relates the story of St. Juan Diego and how Our Lady asks him to give a message to the bishop that she wants a chapel built on Tepiac Hill near the Aztec Capitol. He particulary relates how Our Lady wanted Juan Diego to become willing himself to accept the task. This is especially relavant in that today David Houseal will be entering Novitiate here at Our Lady of Guadalupe friary where he will be preparing to make religious vows that includes Consideration to Our Lady in this Missionary order of the FI. So on this joyous day and throughout the year, please keep David in your prayers as he prepares to be another Juan Diego. Oh, and his new religious name is Fra David Maria of St Joseph and and Bl. Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity or just Fra David for short.
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One Minute Meditation

Consecration to the Immaculata by Saint Maximilian Kolbe:

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire
order of mercy to thee. I, N. . . , a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to thyself as thy possession and property.

Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases thee.  If it pleases thee, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of thee: “She will crush your head,”
and, “Thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world.”

Let me be a fit instrument in thine Immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed Kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

For wherever thou enters, one obtains the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through thy hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

V. Allow me to praise thee O Sacred Virgin.
R. Give me strength against thine enemies.

Homily #090814 ( 14min) Play – St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of our difficult times because he had the remedy for the woes of our time, Consecration to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God. With this he conquered the indifferentism of Europe, the Nazi invasion of Poland, Auschwitz concentration camp, and the starvation bunker. Oh, and he is the Patron of our order, the Franciscans of the Immaculate.
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The Mystery of Faith: TRANSUBSTANTIATION

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The words of Our Lord cannot be watered down: the ­bread which I

shall give is my flesh for the life of the world.

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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.

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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.

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Marycast Specials #57 ( 10min) Play – St. Maximilian’s answer to the rise of atheism & Freemasonry in our times was total, universal consecration to the Immaculate.  How do we return the universe to Jesus?  In the same way in which Jesus came to us: through the Immaculate.  In this episode, Dr. Miravalle discusses this observation of St. Kolbe & how grace descends to us from the mediation of the Mother of God.

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

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Marycast Specials #36 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle discusses some of the burning concerns on the hearts of the faithful at the start of 2009, and gives us words of encouragement and of words of hope to refocus our attention on what matters most.

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