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Video – Face of Pro-Life #101: Healthcare for the Elderly

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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Face of Pro-Life #101 – Dr. Lorraine Hartnett sounds-off ( 06min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Lorraine Hartnett gives a quick passionate run-down of the effects on medicine of legislation like Obamacare, bringing up:

  • Loss of Judeo-Christian principles
  • Starving the Elderly
  • Physician assisted suicide
  • Rationing Healthcare
  • Culture of death
  • Elderly being undervalued
  • Fragility of our good health
  • Youth need to watch out as well
  • Holiness of life
  • Need for action, wake-up
  • Catholic Values

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Apr 25 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Jesus the Good Shepherd

Sunday, April 25th, 2010
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Homily #100425 ( 22min) Play -  Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, the forth Sunday in Easter where the readings refer to Jesus as the Good Shepherd, specifically how he leads His sheep to eternal life. It is also the Church-wide prayer day for vocations to the priesthood. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need for good shepherds, especially in the face of Church scandals and in the face of a society that is in a state of moral decay which is leading so many to eternal death.

Jesus said:
“My sheep hear my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
No one can take them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.
The Father and I are one.”

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Acts 13:14,43-52
R: Ps 100:1-2,3,5
2: Rev 7:9,14-17
G: Jn 10:27-30

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Mar 30 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: We Crucified Him

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
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Homily #100330 ( 04min) Play – As we read the gospel accounts of this week we are saddened because we see our Lord suffering and that it is our own sins which caused this. However, we also have reason to rejoice because by His death we will be made clean and be resurrected to life with Him.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Isa 49:1-6
R: Ps 71:1-6,15,17
G: Jn 13:21-33,36-38

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Mar 28 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Of Palms and Nails

Sunday, March 28th, 2010
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Homily #100328 ( 27min) Play – Today is Palm Sunday where we start Mass with the Procession of Palms to celebrate the victorious entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem but it ends in recounting the Crucifixion, with Our Blessed Lord being nailed to the Cross. Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the need to persevere in the Love for Our Lord even when others condemn and ridicule Him.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Isa 50:4-7
R: Ps 22:8-9,17-20,23-24
2: Phil 2:6-11
G: Lk 22:14—23:56

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Video – Defend Life – Dr. Miravalle: Mcast124

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

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Marycast #124 ( 12min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle underscores the importance of defending life in this culture of death of ours. He points out that covering up mass slaughter of abortion under the veil of our sophisticated, high-tech,  medical system does not make it any less barbaric. In fact, our leadership position in the world only makes us all the more culpable.

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

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Dec 27 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: The Holy Family of Love and Life

Sunday, December 27th, 2009
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Homily #091227 ( 24min) Play – Today is the Feast of the The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and Fr. Bonaventure explains that the family is the core to a culture of life and saving the family from the attacks of the author of death, the Devil, is the central battle of our day. Jesus, Mary and Joseph are the exemplars of family life both in their exulted charity to which we should strive and in regard to the assaults that they survived in the form of Herod’s attempt to destroy them. Let us encourage the entire human family to embrace this ideal of love and courage.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Sir 3:2-7,12-14
R: Ps 128:1-5
2: Col 3:12-21
G: Lk 2:22-40

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Nov 13 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Four Last Things

Friday, November 13th, 2009
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Homily #091113 ( 05min) Play – Fr Bonaventure explains the importance of often considering the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell)
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Wis 13:1-9
R: Ps 19:2-5
G: Lk 17:26-37

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Oct 05 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Being Childlike

Monday, October 5th, 2009
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Homily #091005 ( 06min) Play – We must become like children as Our Lord did toward His Father in obeying Him, becoming humble of heart even if this means accepting death, death on a cross.
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Jul 17 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Baptized into Death

Friday, July 17th, 2009
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Homily #090717 ( 07min) Play – The immersion in water in Baptism is a symbol of our participation in the death and Resurrection of Christ. Let us live keeping in mind that we only live once and so be worthy of eternal life.

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St. Thomas More

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Ave Maria Meditations
St. Thomas More  (1478-1535)
Third Order Franciscan
Feast Day: June 22nd along with St. John Fisher, bishop and martyr
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Apr 26 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Life Through the Cross

Sunday, April 26th, 2009
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Homily #090426 ( 20min) Play – On this 3rd Sunday of Easter Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the hope of the Resurrection which gave so much joy to the Apostles when they saw Jesus resurrected, talking and eating among them. As we memorialize His sacrificial death in the Mass let us see with the eyes of faith His veiled, life-giving presence in the Eucharist.

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Apr 11 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Easter Vigil of Light

Saturday, April 11th, 2009
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Homily #090411 ( 11min) Play – Tonight we pass from the darkness of doubt to the Light of Faith, just as the disciples of the Lord went from doubt when they witnessed His death and then to belief as they beheld His Resurrected Body. But, better yet, let us see this Light even if we can’t see Him with our fleshly eyes, as Our Lady did while all the other disciples were still in darkness.

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“I Will Draw All Men to Myself”

Friday, April 10th, 2009
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Jesus, hatred lifted You up on a cross; hut once on it You said You would lift all lovers up to Your Heart, which is Love, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to Myself”. (John 12: 32)

You are now fulfilling that promise, for You are drawing heaven to Yourself, as You hang on the Cross, to give me the possession of it, and God, to make me His child and friend again. Oh, draw also my poor heart, so cold and ungrateful, to Yourself to inflame it with Your own love and generosity; my sinful soul as well, to cleanse and save it. You are true to me till death.

Then draw me, Lord, and make me true to You forever, both in my inner­most soul by faith in Your doctrine, hope in Your Divine promises and love of Your holy Person, and in my outward behavior by daily imitation of Your crucified life and by an unceasing union of my life with Your Sacrifice on the Cross. (more…)

Look Down upon Me, Good and Gentle Jesus

Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Ave Maria Meditations

Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus (En ego, o bone et dulcissime Iesu)

Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before your face I humbly kneel, and with burning soul pray and beseech you to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment, while I contemplate with great love and tender pity your five wounds, pondering over them within me, calling to mind the words which David, your prophet, said of you, my good Jesus: “They have pierced my hands and my feet; they have numbered all my bones” (Ps 21, 17-18).

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Cardinal Ratzinger’s Meditations on the 13th and 14th Stations

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Ave Maria Meditations

THIRTEENTH STATION:

Jesus is taken down from the Cross and given to his Mother

V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.

R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.

From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:54-55: When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” There were also many women there, looking on from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him.

MEDITATION: Jesus is dead. From his heart, pierced by the lance of the Roman soldier, flow blood and water: a mysterious image of the stream of the sacraments, Baptism and the Eucharist, by which the Church is constantly reborn from the opened heart of the Lord. Jesus’ legs are not broken, like those of the two men crucified with him. He is thus revealed as the true Paschal lamb, not one of whose bones must be broken (cf. Es 12:46). (more…)