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Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the eighth article of the Creed: “I believe in the Holy Ghost.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the seventh article of the Creed: “From thence He shall come to judge the living & the dead.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the sixth article of the Creed: “He ascended into Heaven & sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the fifth article of the Creed: “He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the fourth article of the Creed: “He suffered under Pontius Plate, was crucified, died, and was buried.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the third article of the Creed: “Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary.” The musical piece is “Sicut Cervus” by composer Giovanni Palestrina, spiritual child of St. Philip Neri. Ave Maria! |
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Ave Maria Meditations
Fr. Francis Fernandez writes about the seven gifts and their influence in the Christian life: “But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me.” Our Lord announces this news in the Gospel, and the liturgy of the Church invites us, in various ways, to get our souls ready for the action of the Holy Spirit. A resolute battle against every deliberate venial sin prepares us to receive the light and the protection of the Parac1ete, by means of his gifts. The light which is bestowed on our intellect makes us know and understand the things of God; the assistance to our will permits us to use successfully the opportunities for doing good which we encounter every day, and to reject the temptations of everything that would separate us from God. |
One Minute Meditation
O Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, make me docile to His divine motions. MEDITATION from Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene OCD: “The Blessed, Virgin Mary,” says St. Augustine, “was the only one who merited to be called the Mother and Spouse” of God. She became the Mother of God because she was the Spouse of the Holy Spirit: “the Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee” (Lk 1:35), said the Angel, explaining the mysterious, divine manner in which she would become a mother, the Mother of the Son of God. At that moment the Holy Spirit, who had already possessed Mary’s soul from the first moment of her Immaculate Conception, came upon her with such exceptional plenitude that He formed within her the sacred Body of Jesus. Justly, therefore, does Mary deserve the name of Spouse of the Holy Spirit: she is His possession, His sanctuary, His temple. The divine Paraclete may well say to her in the words of the Canticle: “My sister, my spouse, is a garden end a fountain sealed up” (4:12). Mary is a garden enclosed:” because she was never defiled-even for an instant by the shadow of sin, was never subject to the winds of unruly passions, never taken up with any affection for creatures. Filled with grace from her conception, Mary is always the faithful Spouse of the Holy Spirit, attentive docile to all His impulses and inspirations. If Mary’s sublime privileges are reserved for her at we can, nevertheless, imitate her interior dispositions: keeping our heart, in imitation of hers, always attentive and docile to the action of the Holy Spirit. |
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