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Ave Maria! The message of Our Lady of Fatima is as relevant as it has ever been. It seems we under estimate the power of consecration to our Blessed Mother. God showed us His humility in becoming the Child of Mary. When we take her into our home, we welcome her into our hearts. Ave Maria! +++ |
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MaryCast Specials #89 ( To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! 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. Ave Maria! +++ |
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 +++ 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 Quote: Meditation: Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J.: |
Ave Maria! 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. Ave Maria! +++ |
This was originally posted on MaryVictrix on Holy Thursday, April 1st and was meant to be the first part of the post just below.
The following reflection was written on Holy Thursday, but concerns the whole Easter Triduum and Easter Itself. This evening we have begun the Sacred Paschal Triduum with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, which commemorates the institution of the Sacraments of Holy Orders and of the Eucharist. From here we will pass to the historical enactment of Our Lord’s great sacrfice and then on to His glorious victory over death. This will be my one Easter reflection for this blog and I will not return here until after the Easter Peace has concluded. (more…) |
Ave Maria! 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. Ave Maria! +++ |
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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
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,”
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.
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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. |
Marycast Specials #57 ( To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com Ave Maria! |
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