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MaryCast Specials #94 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Miravalle explains how taking time to do adoration of the Eucharist will actually save you time! How?? Listen!

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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

Ave Maria!

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MaryCast Specials #87 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle addresses the growing amount loss of peace in our lives and how to deal with it when it becomes “too much”. He recommends reexamining the Eucharist, Mary and the Pope as a means of regaining Christ’s peace. He relates this to the dream of St. John Bosco where the Barque of Peter takes refuge between the two pillars of Mary and the Eucharist.

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Homily #100523 ( 12min) Play – Today on Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on Mary and the Apostles. Fr. Angelo focuses on the fact that the Gospel reading for this feast are from the Last Supper where Our Lord institutes the Eucharist and thus the connection between the transformative power of the Holy Spirit and that of the priestly ministry, especially during the consecration of the bread into the Eucharist and, in turn, for the transformation of ourselves into His disciples.
Ave Maria! Pentecost – Mass: EF, Spiritus Domini – Readings: 1st: act 2:1-11 – Gsp: joh 14:23-31

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Homily #100517 ( 09min) Play – Today is the Memorial of St. Paschal Baylon who was a humble friar who had an extraordinary focus on God as being the greatest treasure, above and before all else. He especially was know for adoring God in the Eucharist. Fr. Angelo compares this to the useless and even harmful distractions that our high-tech, sensual world submerges us in.
Ave Maria! St. Paschal Baylon – Mass: EF, In Omnia Opera – Readings: 1st: 1co 1:26-31 – Gsp: mat 11:25-30

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In my last post I promised more on the Holy Sepulcher and the Holy Grail and their relation to an Easter catechesis and the tradition of chivalry. There is much there to reflect on, much to be researched and assimilated, so it will take at bit more time.

Meanwhile, however, I thought I would point out that in the Office of Readings this week we have been reading from the the Jerusalem Catechesis, or otherwise known as the Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem (+386).  The Catechesis consists in twenty-three lectures, the first eighteen of which were delivered to the candidates for baptism during Lent and the last five to the newly baptized during Easter, and is an excellent example of the mystogogia. In fact, at the end of the prologue for Lectures St. Cyril makes sure his readers understand that his instructions are only for those whose Baptism is imminent, and is to be seen neither by the other catechumens nor heathens. (more…)

Homily #100407 ( 03min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord appears to the apostles for the third time and suddenly they catch a big load of fish. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to trust in the Lord that He will provide for our needs, despite our deficiencies, especially He will give us the true Bread from Heaven in the Eucharist.
Ave Maria! Easter Wednesday – Mass: EF, Venite – Readings: 1st: act 3:13-15, 17-19 – Gsp: joh 21:1-14

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Homily #100401 ( 22min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to keep in mind that by remembering the events of the Last Supper which we celebrate today and the events of the next three days we make them present to us. This is true at every Mass when Our Lord is made present to us in the Eucharist when Our Lord said,
‘This is my body that is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.’
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Ex 12:1-8,11-14
R: Ps 116:12-13,15-18
2: 1 Cor 11:23-26
G: Jn 13:1-15

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Homily #100228 ( 16min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on today’s Gospel of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor in front of Peter, James and John. Jesus does this in order to strengthen the faith of his disciples so that they could survive the scandal of the Crucifixion. We need to take note that only one of these three disciples remained with Jesus at the foot of the Cross. So we need to make sure that we fully apprehend all the revelations that we are given through our Holy Faith, especially Our Lord’s presence in the Eucharist.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Gen 15:5-12,17-18
R: Ps 27:1,7-9,13-14
2: Phil 3:17-4:1
G: Lk 9:28-36

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The priesthood in the Catholic Church is identified with many things. The priest can be pastor, teacher, counselor, writer, admin­istrator, or social worker; but the main reason he has been ordained is because of the Eucharist. So true is this that if we would specify the heart of the priesthood we would have to say it is the Eucharist: the Eucharist as Presence and the Eucharist as Sacrifice. A priest makes the Real Presence possible and no one, no king, no ge­nius, not even the will of a thousand people, nor the combined efforts of a whole nation, can substitute for the power of a priest’s consecrated words: “This is My Body. .. This is the chalice of My Blood.” (more…)

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The Lord has shown His great mercy. Enkindle in your hearts ardent desires and burning wishes for Our Lord to come to you in the virtue of His charity, love of the Father, and of every human being. Say with the Royal Prophet, “I opened my mouth and panted.” And your Savior will respond, “Surely I come quickly; you shall see Me very soon.”

Your eyes at the midnight Mass will gaze upon the elevated Host and your lips will utter, “My Lord and my God.” A few minutes more and the little Infant will have come to you. His Immaculate Mother did not hold Him more truly in her arms that first Christmas midnight than you will have Him, Heart to heart. Then all the love of that Infant Redeemer will be poured out upon you. It’s a thirst of the heart of every creature that desires to be loved, and the love which can alone satisfy that craving is the Divine Love.

Let your heart delight in the love your God has for you, personally, individually. No soul ever in ardent fervor desires to unite herself to our Lord in Holy Communion, as our Lord desires to unite Him­self to her. So Holy Communion is a delight to your Infant Savior; because He loves you, oh, how immea­surably! He tells you in His Heart to heart interview that He has become a little Infant so that you may love Him with a human love without fear. He wants you to confide in Him, approach to Him with a con­viction that His Great Majesty is annihilated that you may no longer see in Him but a little Child, with a body and soul just as you have. And the mystery of love is this: that He unites His Body to your body and your soul to His Soul, so that yours may be a member of His very own.

This Christmas Holy Communion will unite you to our Lord, it is my prayer, more intimately than ever before in all your lives so that even the smallest of your actions may by this union be animated with divine Life – and all for the honor of the Father and the salvation of souls. May you participate in His life of charity, and may a divine light illumine you to see the depths and heights of the charity of a God made Man to redeem that which was lost. You participate in the spirit and the immense charity of Christ so as to be born this Christmas to a new life of charity – for “he that abides in charity, abides in God.”

+St. Katherine Drexel

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Blessed Charles de Foucauld, priest and martyr

(1858-1916)  Feast Day is December 1st

PRAYERS OF CHARLES DE FOUCAULD  AT THE TABERNACLE:

Lord Jesus, You are in the Holy Eucharist. You are there a yard away in the tabernacle. Your Body, your Soul, your human nature, your divinity, your whole Being is there in its twofold nature. How close you are, my God, my Savior, my Spouse, my Beloved! You were not nearer to the Blessed Virgin during the nine months that she carried you than you are to me when you rest on my tongue in Holy Communion. You were no closer to the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph in the caves at Bethlehem or in the flight into Egypt or at any moment of that divine family life than you are to me at this moment – and so many others- in the tabernacle. Mary Magdalene was no closer to you when she sat at your feet at Bethany than I am here at the foot of this altar. You were no nearer to your apostles when you were sitting in the midst of them than you are to me now, my God. How blessed I am I!

Bl. Charles’ thoughts ON MARTYRDOM: To prepare oneself constantly for martyrdom, and accept it without a shadow of reluctance, like the Divine Lamb-in Jesus, through Jesus, for Jesus- I must try and live as if I were to die a martyr today.  Every minute I must imagine I am going to be martyred this very evening.

OUR LORD’S RESPONSE ON HIS WISH TO BE A MARTYR: “This life will be followed by death.  You wish for a mar­tyr’s death. You know how cowardly you are, but you know too that you can do all things in Him who gives you strength, that I am all powerful in My creatures. Ask day and night for it but always with this condition, that it be My will, and for My glory and My pleasure which I know you desire and pray for above all things. And have confidence; I will grant what you ask, that which is for My greater glory.  It is good to ask for this, for  ’there is no greater love than to give your life for the beloved,’” and it is right to wish to give Me this ‘greatest love of all’ “’

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“My answer is prayer. What we need is for every Parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Hours of prayer. ” “The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament … will help bring about an everlasting peace on earth” (Mother Teresa of Calcutta).

Nobel Peace Prize winner and foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa brought the homeless, sick, destitute and dying home to “die like angels.” She attributed her many charitable works to her daily Holy Hours of prayer before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Mother Teresa said, “I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”

Reflections on Eucharistc Adoration from Mother Teresa of Calcutta :

“On the Cross Jesus said: ‘I thirst.’ From the Blessed Sacrament Jesus continues to say to each of us: ‘I thirst.’ He thirsts for our personal love, our intimacy, our union with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. His longing for us to be with Him in the Blessed Sacrament is infinitely greater than our longing to be with Him.”

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Homily #090823 ( 14min) Play – The Eucharist is a great mystery and the best response given to this teaching of Jesus is that of Peter, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
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