Fi News #65 – Construction begins on a new Friary for Our Lady in Bloomington, IN ( 04min) >>> Play

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Just when you thought no more exciting news could come from Bloomington we have here the video of the Ground Breaking Ceremony for our new friary which is to hold 35 friars. Thank you to all our benefactors and please keep this project in your prayers.

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Fi News #66 – Rare Abominable Snow Friar spotted and video taped at Bloomington, IN ( 03min) >>> Play

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Yes, I know another video of sledding friars. Apparently, I was supposed to post this one first and the one I posted first was simply to give the “friar-cam” views that weren’t included in this one. Well, I guess I lost track. Its hard to keep up with these sledding friars from Bloomington, IN! Anyways, this one is done to some rather humerus music and features some classic friar wipe outs and beards full of snow. Enjoy!

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Fi News #64 – Fr. Elias with sled on the precipice. ( 03min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias and the other friars and local youth sled down the l-o-o-o-o-ng steep hill at our Bloomington, IN Friary. He even carried a friar cam with him so you can get an on-sled view of the action.  So click play and hang on tight!!

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FI News #60 -Friars begging door to door online December 2009 ( 03min) >>> Play

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The AirMaria crew would love to venture into the world of HD – hopefully to make our videos better and more enjoyable to watch. We also have a few other items we need for backing up our data and ensuring we don’t lose any data during power failures. If you would like to help us take the leap into HD, or to help us prevent data loss, please browse our Christmas list below. If you intend to purchase an item for us please let us know and we’ll remove it from the list. ADDRESS: AIRMARIA.COM, 199 Colonel Brown Rd., Griswold, CT. 06351  (860) 376-6840

Thank you to all our supporters and benefactors over the past year in particular. Our benefactors hold a very special place in the hearts and prayers of the friars.

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Ave Maria! Found this on Gloria.tv from our Mass in the Lateran Basilica on April 16, 2009, 800th anniversary of the approbation of the Rule of St Francis which took place at … this very basilica. Enjoy!

Highlights from the Solemn High Mass according to the Extraordinary Form, celebrated in Saint John Lateran Basilica, by the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Immaculate. All sacred music sung by the Friars and Sisters (Polyphony and Gregorian Chant) This is the first time that the traditional Mass has been celebrated in the pope’s chair since Vatican II. Quite a magnificent sight to behold! Video from Gloria TV

Homily #091016 ( 07min) Play – Here was a Duchess of Poland that would make it to Mass in any weather. She would walk barefooted carrying her shoes in her hand, and if she saw anyone coming she would hide the sacrifice she was making and put her shoes on.
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Homily #091015 ( 06min) Play – For a time frivolous conversations there (in the convent), too, checked her progress toward perfection, but finally in her thirty-first year, she abandoned herself entirely to God. A vision showed her the very place in hell to which her apparently light faults would have led her, and she was told by Our Lord that all her conversation must be with heaven. -magnificat.ca
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Homily #091014 ( 08min) Play – Here Fr. Angelo gives some thoughts on the authority of the Pope even over our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

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Homily #091013 ( 08min) Play – When he was raised to the throne, the virtues of his earlier years, simplicity, gentleness, humility and a tender charity, but above all his angelic purity, shone with new brightness. By a rare inspiration of God, though he married to content his nobles and people, he preserved perfect chastity in the wedded state. So little did he set his heart on riches, that three times when he saw a servant robbing his treasury, he let him escape, saying the poor man needed the gold more than he. He loved to stand at his palace-gate, speaking kindly to the poor beggars and lepers who crowded about him, and many of whom he healed of their diseases. The people rejoiced in having a Saint for their king.  -www.magnificat.ca

Today also is the anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima.
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Homily #091012 ( 08min) Play – Their moment of grace came and they let it go by. When we sin venally, mortally, or by faults, we let grace go by.
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