Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Ave Maria!
Our Contemplative Sisters in Lanherne, England are featured in an article by Father Joseph M Taylor on New Liturgical Movement complete with a long article and beautiful pictures, a few of which are included below. It focuses on the Sisters use of the complete 1962 Office and Missal. It also mentions the Sisters’ need for donations.

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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Short Series #38 – Mary’s Divine Maternity ( 43min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
In the eleventh and final presentation at our International Centenary Symposium on the Mariology of Bl. John Duns Scotus held in Durham, England, Mother Maria Francesca Perillo, F.I., discusses Mary’s Divine Maternity according to the teachings of Bl. John Duns Scotus.
Ave Maria!
Audio (MP3)
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Ave Maria!
On April 21st 2009 Fr. Angelo gave two talks during the “Day With Mary” in England. Due to our remote mic dying, we have only one talk to offer you.
Ave Maria!
Audio (MP3)
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
The hermeneutic of continuity: Mass yesterday evening
By Fr Tim Finigan
At last night’s Mass of the Annunciation, we welcomed the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate who sang the chants from the Gradual, the Missa cum Iubilo, and motets at the Offertory and Communion. Mulier Fortis has posted some photos …

More photos at Mulieris Fortis
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Roving Reporter #47 – Fra Roderic Interviews Fr. Peter Fehlner in Durham England ( 10min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
Fra Roderic travels to Durham England for the John Duns Scotus Mariological Symposium and meets up with Fr. Peter Fehlner, FI who is Chairman of the event.? Father explains the nature of the symposium and its Goals and goes into some detail of the surrounding countryside and its historical relation to Bl. John Duns Scotus and the English, Catholic intellectual world.
Ave Maria!
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Ave Maria!
Next week will be the Symposium on the Mariology of Bd. John Duns Scotus in Durham, England at Grey College, Tuesday, September 9th through the 12th. The symposium commemorates the 700th Anniversary of the death of Scotus, the Marian Doctor. We have Fra Roderic on location with AirMaria equipment. So we may be live streaming the conference if we can get a sufficient Internet connection. If we do, it will start each day at 9:00am Greenwich Time and go till 7pm [4am - 2pm Eastern USA Time] except Wednesday when we will quit the conference room at 10:30 [5:30 EDT] to go to Duns, Scotland to see the birth place of Scotus. There we will have a Mass celebrated in the Parish Church by His Eminence Keith Patrick Cardinal O?Brien, Archbishop of Edinburgh. We will not know if we can stream until Monday. So stayed tuned. Either way, we will put the recorded conferences on AirMaria in the following weeks.
Ave Maria!
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
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Homily #080903 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Peter stops by on the way from La Crosse, WI to Durham, England for the Scotus Symposium and gives a homily on this Memorial of St Gregory the Great. Listen as Fr. Peter describes the great deeds of this saint who helped build Christian Europe, including England, from the ruins of the Roman Empire.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Ave Maria!
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FRANCISCANS OF THE IMMACULATE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH A DAY WITH MARY
From an article by Charles Balic, OFM, written in 1966 to commemorate the seventh centenary of the birth of blessed John Duns Scotus
A disputed question…
Under the above heading, The Berwickshire News of Tuesday 12 April, 1966, printed a letter to the editor in which it was stated that we are still uncertain about the exact birthplace of the great British philosopher and theologian, John Duns Scotus… (more…)
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Ave Maria!
The Franciscans of the Immaculate are happy to announce in conjunction with the Day With Mary apostolate of England that we will be commemorating the 700th anniversary of the death of Bl. John Duns Scotus (1308) with a symposium entitled:
International Centenary Symposium on the Mariology of Bl. John Duns Scotus.
It will be held at:
Grey College, University of Durham, England
9th – 11th September 2008
Speakers include some of the most famous names in Scotistic Mariology: Fr. Stefano Manelli, Founder of the FI, Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, FI, Fr. Johannes Schneider, OFM, Fr. Alessandro Apollonio, FI, Timothy Noone of CUA, Fr. Timothy Finigan, of The Hermeneutic of Continuity, Fr. Joaquin Ferrer-Arrelano, Co-founder of Navarre University and many more.
Events will include a pilgrimage to Duns with Mass in the Parish Church celebrated by His Eminence Keith Patrick Cardinal O’Brien

Here is a poster that you can view and also print off to advertise at your parish:
Poster of Scotus Symposium
Here are some handy maps:
Locations in England and Scotland
Directions to Grey College
Site Plan of Grey College
Forms for those from the USA:
Booking Form for USA
Travel & Information Sheet USA
For those from England:
Booking Form for UK
Travel & Information Sheet for UK
More details will be forth coming.
Ave Maria!
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Welcome The Cow-Man to the stage of life.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been (Victor Frankenstein).
The sting is coming.
Update:

Scottish Cardinal calls for the rakes and pitchforks (in a manner of speaking). God bless him.
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

FI News #16 – Fr. Elias on the 8th Symposium on Marian Coredemption >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
Fr. Elias presents the 8th International Symposium on Marian Coredemption which is being held at Fatima July 17-19th by the Franciscans of the Immaculate in union with the Day with Mary apostolate in England. This year’s theme is Co-redemption as key to a correct understanding of Redemption. The symposium can be combined with a pilgrimage to Fatima from July 12-20
This symposium is part of one of our primary apostolates, promoting the Dogmatic declaration of Mary as Coredeemer, which this year will be combined with an initiative by Dr. Mark Miravalle at Vox Popoli to gather signatures for a petition to present to Pope Benedict XVI. This initiative was spear headed by over forty Bishops and Cardinals who believe we are in great need of Mary’s help. You can read the letter by Mark Miravalle about how you can submit your petition to the Holy Father and how these Bishops and Cardinals have already done so. And, you can see the book on the acts of a special symposium held on May 3rd to the 7th, 2005 in Fatima, Portugal led by these Cardinals and Bishops that the Franciscans of the Immaculate helped arrange and which led to this new petition initiative.
Ave Maria!
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

FI News #11 – A slide show of the recent ordinations of 10 friars. >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
We are happy to announce that ten Franciscans of the Immaculate were ordained to the priesthood through the imposition of the hands of His Eminence Crescenzio Card. Sepe, Archbishop of Napoli on March 24, 2007 in the Church of St. Theresa of the Discalced, Naples. This is an incredible blessing to the order and the Church. As the saintly Don Donlindo Ruotolo put it, “The priest is a flower that has bloomed in the magnificence of the love of Jesus Christ … that shines in the splendor of his dignity and excels all others … a rose from the Immaculate Heart of Mary”
There were no Americans ordained this year but one of the ordained, Fra Agnelus from England, made his postulancy and novitiate here in America and several American seminarians were in the Church and are anxiously awaiting their ordination in just a few short years, after which they will be able come back and minster to us here.
Fra Bonaventure from Cameroon was ordained as well. Generous benefactors from the US paid for the plane tickets for his family to come and see his ordination. All those who contributed will be glad to see that they were, in fact, able to come. They stand out in their beautiful traditional African clothes, captured here in some of the slides.
The beautiful church is staffed by the FI sisters who also sang magnificently for the ceremony. Thank you, Jesus and Mary!!
Ave Maria!
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
[Update: After having a broken link here for the video for the past year, we finally found the video file to this our very first video on AirMaria. Deo Gratias!]

Fr. Peter gives an introduction to his theological series on the John Duns Scotus in the context of a remedy for the modern crisis of faith, philosophy and culture in the world and in the Church.
Outline of Script
Scotus on Wikipedia, New Advent
Duns Scotus’s Oxford by Gerard M. Hopkin’s
Google of Dunston, England
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