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“In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control,” the author wrote Wednesday on her Facebook page. “In the name of … Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”

Rice will not be taking up vampires again, but she said she is a big fan of the HBO series “True Blood,” enjoyed the first two “Twilight” movies (she has yet to read any of the Stephenie Meyer novels) and is interested in seeing her most famous character, the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, return to the screen.

In spite of the above story’s emphasis on Rice’s non-return to vampire novels, Rice is, it seems, reverting to the back to the state of the undead.   (more…)

Mary Vitamin for July 28th

Topic: The Second Sorrowful Mystery – Scourging at the Pillar
In honor of the Month of the Precious Blood

Quote:
[Pilate said] “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.” And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.” Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. MT 27:24-26 (more…)

Homily #100714 ( 07min) Play – The Gospel from St Luke tells His apostles to not carry a walking staff or extra clothes but depend on others to provide these things. St Francis of Assisi after reading this passage threw off his good clothes and put on a simple ones and proceeded on the life of evangelical poverty that so marked his life and charism and contrasted to the life style of the clergy of that time. St. Francis of Solanus also followed this and like the first St Francis received miraculous powers to convert hearts throughout the missionary lands of South America, converting many thousands. Let us pray for these graces to be able to bring many new converts to Christ.
Ave Maria! St. Francis Solano – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: rom 10:10-18
Resp: act 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 6-8
Gsp: luk 10:1-9

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Homily #100125 ( 06min) Play – Saul the persecutor of the Church was given the grace of conversion to become Paul the Apostle of Christ. Father Ignatius explains that grace comes from God, but only after the prayers of the faithful.
Ave Maria! Conversion of St. Paul – Mass: EF, Scio Cui Credidi – Readings: 1st: act 9:1-22 – Gsp: mat 19:27-29

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Miscellanea #49 — Type the Caption here ( 04min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

A nice plug for Catholic radio to come to your area of the U.S. The immediate fruit of such a blessing is conversion of souls.

This video was distributed on DVD to some attendees of last year’s Catholic Radio Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Recently, it has been debuted on the FI, New Bedford radio station’s website, RadioCorMariae.com. Always a good place for your charitable gifts.

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Homily #091212 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains how terribly morbid and depraved the Aztec culture was, despite being very organized, in that they sacrificed tens of thousands of humans of humans each year to the Aztec serpent god. Listen as Father explains the astonishing rapidity that this culture ceased these bloody sacrifices and embraced Catholicism, all through the intercession of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Zech 2:14-17
R: Jdt 13:18-19
G: Lk 1:26-38

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Homily #091209 ( 06min) Play – Today is the feastday of St. Juan Diego who cooperated with Our Lady in the conversion of the Aztec people and so overcame one of the most depraved cultures in the history of man. As our own culture slides to new depths, let us ask St Juan Diego to pray for us that we can cooperate as he did.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Isa 40:25-31
R: Ps 103:1-4,8,10
G: Mt 11:28-30

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St. Monica-Feast Day August 27th

her son, St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church-Feast Day August 28th

From “The Confessions” of St. Augustine

The day when she was to leave this life was drawing near – a day known to You, though we were ignorant of it – she and I happened to be alone, through (as I believe) the mysterious workings of Your will.

We stood leaning against a window which looked out on a garden within the house where we were staying, at Ostia on the Tiber; for there, far from the crowds, we were recruiting our strength after the long journey, in order to prepare ourselves for our voyage overseas. We were alone, conferring very intimately. Forgetting what lay in the past, and stretching out to what was ahead, we inquired between ourselves, in the light of present truth, into what You are and what the eternal life of the saints would be like, for eye has not seen nor ear heard nor human heart conceived it.

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Homily #090827 ( 05min) Play – St. Monica prayed and shed many tears for the conversion of her wayward son, St. Augustine.
Ave Maria! Mass readings

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Homily #090812 ( 009min) Play – When a fellow Christian sins then in a spirit of charity use fraternal correction to bring about his conversion.
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Ave Maria Mediations

St. Dominic: Feast Day is August 8th

Tradition associates the origin of the Rosary with St. Dominic as you can see depicted in this painting but it was not exactly the Rosary as we know it today.

Dominic Guzman (1170-1221 AD) was a Spanish priest who in southern France encountered the Albegensian heresy. He was having great difficulty and not very successful in touching hard hearts. But when he began to preach the rosary, he had great success.  It was Our Lady’s special devotion and her intercession was strong with its praying.

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Ave Maria Meditations

Thoughts on Infinite Mercy and St. Mary Magdalene

PRESENCE OF GOD: Teach me, 0 Lord, the secrets of Your mercy that I may fully profit by them.

MEDITATION 1. God’s love for us assumes a very special claim, one that is adapted to our nature as frail, weak creatures: the character of mercy. Mercy is love bending over to relieve it, to redeem it, to raise it up to itself. It almost seems that God, in loving us, is attracted by our weakness, not because it is lovable, but because, being infinite goodness, His compassion stoops to compensate for it by His mercy.

He wants to heal our imperfection by His infinite perfection, our impurity by His purity, our ignorance by His Wisdom, our selfishness by His goodness, our weakness by His strength: God, the supreme, eternal good, wants to be the remedy for all our ills, “for He knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust” (Ps. 102:14).

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Homily #090504 ( 08min) Play – Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine; Fr Ignatius normally celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass and therefore under the Traditional Latin calendar, today the Feast of St. Monica is celebrated – in the Novus Ordo calendar, her Feast has been transferred to Aug 27th.

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