Variety #169 – Perth Archbishop Hickey Speaks on Our Lady at “Day With Mary” ( 26 min) >>> Play

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Archbishop Barry James Hickey speaks on Our Lady at the “Day With Mary” held at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, East Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia on September 3, 2011.

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Variety #168 – Perth Archbishop Hickey Speaks on the Blessed Eucharist at “Day With Mary” ( 28 min) >>> Play

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Archbishop Barry James Hickey speaks on the Blessed Eucharist at the “Day With Mary” held at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, East Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia on September 3, 2011.

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Correction - Originally this was titled “Our Founder’s Parents will Be Beatified”, following the post of Fr. Z’s blog. However it seems this is a miss translation and, in fact, their cause will merely be officially accepted. This simply means the process is not as far along but is nevertheless very promising. We will keep you posted on any further clarifications and progress in their cause.

Settimo Manelli (1886-1978) and Licia Gualandris (1907-2004).

The parents of Fr. Stefano Manelli, founder and Minister General of the Franciscans of the Immaculate will be beatified. Truly great news.

From Fr. Zuhlsdorf:

In the Italian daily La repubblica there is an article about an upcoming beatification.

Vatican City – In spite of the fact that only his salary was coming in, they had 21 children: an example of Christian “faithfulness” and “acceptance” which the Church points to also for every family today with the beatification of the couple. ….

I don’t have time to translate the whole thing, but with the beatification Holy Church will hold up Settimo Manelli (1886-1978) and Licia Gualandris (1907-2004) as “exemplary spouses and parents”.

In a time when families are being called upon to tighten the belt, in a time when the decline of the number of children being brought into families with a loving father and mother in the home, in a time when more and more children are being exposed less and less to a life of Christian faith well-lived, this beatification takes on its own importance, much as did the beatifications of Bl. Luigi Quattrocchi and Maria Corsini, or that of St. Gianna Beretta Molla.

via An upcoming beatification | Fr. Z’s Blog – What Does The Prayer Really Say?.

Did you catch the age of Licia Manelli? She was about 97 (1907-2004)!! This is after having 21 children! I guess this beatification proves Paul right in 1 Tim 2:15, “Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.” Deo Gratias!

Roving Reporter #111 – Fr. Jerome Pica and Friar Terrance speak on John Duns Scotus ( 23min) >>> Play

A repost of past video for Scotus Month (Nov 8 to Dec 8).

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Recently Friar Terrance had the opportunity to chat with Fr. Jerome Pica, F.I., and to talk with him about Bl. John Duns Scotus, a famous Franciscan scholastic philosopher/theologian who is still unknown to most of the world. The Franciscans of the Immaculate in Italy have recently finished a full-length movie on the life of Duns Scotus. We hope you enjoy the interview which we’ve titled “Who is John Duns Scotus…and why is he important?”, and we send our apologies for the setting of the interview…but it’s the best we could do!

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First Solemn Pontifical Mass by a ruling Filipino bishop in his diocese since 1970

Paix Liturgique, in its newest Italian newsletter, has an interview with Fr Alessandro M. Apollonio, rector of the theological seminary of the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FFI), which brings splendid news from this young order which now has more than 700 members. Here is a translation of the part concerning the liturgy:

The vocation of a seminary is to give priests to Holy Church. This year eight of your friars will be ordained in Florence, on the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March. Last year, the ceremony took place at Tarquinia and, for the first time in the history of your institute, the sacrament of orders had been conferred on five of your friars according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Monsignor Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, officiated. This year Cardinal Rodé, another prelate of the Curia, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, will be the celebrant. Again, the Pontifical Mass will be accordiing to the older form: can we conclude that the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite now becomes the ordinary manner of your ordinations to the priesthood?

Yes, as long as the Pope allows it, in the sense of being the preferred form, not the exclusive.

for the rest of the story please see: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2010/03/extraordinary-form-conquers-more-and.html

Also see http://orbiscatholicus.blogspot.com/search?q=franciscans+of+the+immaculate

for more photos on the ordinations.

And for a very short video see http://romancatholicvocations.blogspot.com/2009/03/franciscans-of-immaculate-ordinations.html

(some of the pictures and video are from last year)

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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.

The Skull of English Martyr, St. Cuthbert Mayne

Thank you Fr. Taylor and NLM