Friday, July 17th, 2009
A worthy encore:
Ave Maria Meditations
July 17th,Martyrs of Compiegne: “Song from the Scaffold”
Blessed Teresa of Sf. Augustine and Companions (1794)
Blessed Teresa and fifteen other Carmelite nuns were guillotined during the “Reign of Terror” of the French Revolution. Two years earlier they had made an Act of Consecration by which they offered themselves as a holocaust to bring peace to the Church and the country.
When they were arrested Sister Henriette exclaimed, “Let us rejoice in the joy of the Lord, that we shall die for our Holy Religion.” As each Sister ascended the guillotine, her companions sang the Veni Creator Spiritus. The normally noisy crowd was strangely silent, and a witness remarked, “They looked as if they were going to their wedding.” Within ten days of their death, the Reign of Terror ended.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
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Homily #080902 ( 8min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the this feast day of the four Franciscan Martyrs of the French Revolution, Blessed John Francis Burte, Apollinaris Morel, and Severin Girault. He focuses on the need to practice our faith and maintain the Christian Culture or it will be lost exactly as it was France.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
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Homily #080421 ( 07min) Play – St. Conrad of Parzham served as a porter at a Capuchin friary for 41 years at a Marian Shrine in Bavaria, strengthening the faith of the faithful who came to the friary to pray.
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