Well, as many of you have noticed, we have been down quite a few times in the last 24 hours with a message something like:
Our generous benefactor who gives us the web space free (he owns a web design business) has told us that AirMaria has maxed-out the current server.
The Good News
This is good news in that we now have about double the traffic coming to the site.
The Bad News
But it is also bad news in that we now need to upgrade to a dedicated server! This will be about four times the price. Our benefactor would love to pay for the whole server but with EIGHT kids (truly a pro-life Catholic!) he has some pretty serious budget constraints. The cost will be $200 per month.
He is willing to pitch in $50 per month and a lot of his precious time in regard to free consulting and tech support. What we need is three more people to commit to supporting us with a $50 monthly donation. If you are willing, we can even set up an electronic payment feature that will make the entire process as easy as possible in the months to come.
With this server we will be able to keep AirMaria going well into the future, even with 20 times the traffic! It is something to seriously pray about. Let me know by sending an email to apostolate@airmaria.com
We are on our way to La Crosse, Wisconsin, to set up for the live stream of our Marian Coredemption Symposium scheduled to arrive late tonight. We will be posting Homilies from Wisconsin as we can. Live stream will start at 8:30 AM Central, 9:30 Eastern and end at 5:30 Central, 6:30 Eastern. Right here at AirMaria.com
Br. Anthony Josemaria a member of our Third Order has published an article in Homiletic and Pastoral Review on the tragic Catholic holocaust that occurred in Nagasaki when the Bomb dropped. Great article Br. Anthony!
The witness of the Catholics
of Nagasaki shows
God’s providence in the darkest of times.
By Brother Anthony Josemaria
On August 9, 1945, God’s inscrutable providence allowed an atomic bomb named “Fat Man” to be dropped from a B-29 into the heavily populated city of Nagasaki. The epicenter of the blast was the Urakami district, the heart and soul of Catholicism in Japan since the sixteenth century. My purpose in this article is to share an insight into God’s purpose in allowing this horrible event, a discovery made from reading (the recent Ignatius Press reprint of) Fr. Paul Glynn’s marvelous book A Song for Nagasaki. The book is subtitled, The Story of Takashi Nagai: Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb.1
FI News #59 – First ever Eucharistic Procession around the Indiana University campus (04min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
The FIs worked with St Paul the Apostle parish, and the Student Life Team of the Newman Center in Bloomington, IN to conduct the first Eucharistic Procession around the Indiana University campus, ever. Watch this historic event.
FI News #58 – FIs leading the faithful in procession around a Bloomington abortion clinic (03min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
On Oct 22 the Franciscans of the Immaculate conducted a procession around the abortion clinic at Bloomington, IN where the main campus of the University of Indiana is located, 40,000 students in residence. It was a peaceful and prayerful event to honor Our Lady and remember the unborn. The large crowd of the faithful went around the abortion clinic seven times.
As a grand finale to the symposium on the Motu Proprio a Traditional Mass was celebrated last Sunday by Archbishop Raymond Burke at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. The Mass was the first celebrated at St. Peters according to the pre-Vatican II rubrics in over forty years and had an overflow crowd for the congregation. The three day symposium was held October 16-18 entitled The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum by Benedict XVI: A Great Gift for the Whole Church, organized by Fr. Vincenzo Nuara, O.P. founder of Giovani e Tradizione (Youth and Tradition) hundreds of clergy and religious attended and the speakers were leaders in the various groups associated with Traditional Mass, including our founder Fr. Stefano Manelli. Below are several pictures: From New Liturgical Movement and Rinascimento Sacro from their list of official images.
Entrance Procession. Fra Anthony from America (with a beard) is visible a little right from the center.
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Abp Raymond Burke makes his entrance:
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Our Sisters and Friars Provided the Gregorian Chant. In the front row in the choir are two Americans: Fra Ephraim and Fra Pio Maximilian as well as Fra Bernard from South Africa who spent his Postulancy and Novitiate in the US:
On the birthday of Our Lady, four young friars made their first profession of vows, after completing their one-year novitiate. The professions took place at the motherhouse of the American mission, in Griswold, CT.
FI News #55 – Marian Devotions on the Assumption at Bloomington (06min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, August 15th, the friars and folks at Bloomington, IN celebrated in grand and reverent style with solemn vespers, procession, benediction and a spectacular fireworks display of professional caliber.
FI News #49 – Friary in La Crosse, WI (04min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
Fra Joseph gives us a tour of the new friary in La Crosse, WI attached to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Grand Finale is the new AirMaria studio on a floor of its own. Well, … sort of … you’ll see.
BTW this friary is a little nicer than any of ours. We’re just using it as we staff the shrine.
FI News #42 – Bell tower Foundation at Griswold (02min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
The foundation for the bell tower at Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary in Griswold CT is finally complete. This short film is in thanksgiving to Our Lord and Lady and to our generous benefactors and volunteers that got us to this milestone. Its all upward from here. Deo Gratias!
To volunteer or donate funds or material call 1-860-376-6840 or write: Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary, Bell Tower, 199 Colonel Brown Rd., Griswold, CT 06351
Seven sisters of the Franciscans of the Immaculate made their profession at The Basilica of San Maurizio the Martyr in Imperia, Italy on Oct 26 during an historic High Pontifical Mass celebrated by His Excellency Mario Oliveri bishop of Albenga-Imperia.
FI News #41 – The Siege of the Tower? (04min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
Well, you saw the preparations on the last video, here is the video of the event. Starting with Mass, then the saints contests under the big top and then the Siege of the Tower with water balloon battle and bonfire. No, we did not use the catapult ( the water balloons kept breaking and mini pumpkins were a bit too hard ) But every one had a good time nonetheless.
FI News #40 – Preparing the siege engine (01min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
Here is a short video of the preparation for the All Hallows Eve Celebration at the Friary where we have the Great Siege of the Tower at Griswold, CT with water balloon launchers of all sorts.
04min) >>> 
Ave Maira!
) But every one had a good time nonetheless.