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Homily #100225 ( 04min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on today’s Gospel that tells us of the need to love God above all else because he knows what we need and we can love all others through Him.
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1: Esth C:12,14-16,23-25
R: Ps 138:1-3,7-8
G: Mt 7:7-12

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Homily #100131t ( 09min) Play – Faith is not practiced in mind only but with your whole self. Hope is Faith in action, and Charity must precede all virtues.

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Homily #100124 ( 14min) Play – From today’s Gospel Fr Bonaventure preaches on the fact that Jesus is God and our Salvation. He contrasts this to the ancient heresy of Gnosticism that placed the hope of salvation in human knowledge. Listen as he explains that this was an early form of Modernism, containing a very dangerous, prideful intellectualism which has become an almost universal mindset today and how only Christ can guide us away from shipwreck.

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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass readings
1: Neh 8:2-4,5-6,8-10
R: Ps 19:8-10,15
2: 1 Cor 12:12-30
G: Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21

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Marycast #108 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle discusses how Our Lady of America tells us that suffering is very fruitful in a spiritual, redemptive sense and that it is, in fact, unavoidable. Listen to this startling but hopeful message that Our Lady has given to Americans.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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The Greatness of the Power of Mary to defend those who invoke her when tempted by the Devil.

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In Reichersperg, in Bavaria, there was a canon regular of the name of Arnold, surnamed the Pious on account of the sanctity of his life, and who had the most tender devotion to our Blessed Lady.  When at the point of death, and having received the last sacraments, he summoned his religious brethren, and begged that they would not abandon him in his last passage.  Scarcely had he uttered these words, when, in the presence of all, he began to tremble, to roll his eyes, and bathed in a cold sweat, with a faltering voice said, “Ah, do you not see the devils who are endeavouring to drag me to hell?” (more…)

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Faith, Hope, and Charity

“And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.” (1 Cor. 13: 13).

For St. Paul life was Christ, a life of faith in the Son of God. Death was gain, a passing in joyful hope from this earthly habitation to the blessedness of Heaven. Both in life and death he belonged to God and was motivated solely by love of God and neighbor. Faith, hope and charity were the source of his unparalleled zeal for souls. These theological virtues, poured into the soul by the Holy Spirit, practiced heroically by ones generous response, and ordered to union with God, are the foundation for any authentic and fruitful missionary zeal.

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The Promptitude of Mary in assisting those who invoke her.

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We read in the life of St Francis de Sales that he experienced the efficacy of this prayer.  When he was about seventeen years of age he was living in Paris, where he was pursuing his studies. At the same time he devoted himself to exercises of piety and to the holy love of God, in which he found the joys of paradise.  Our Lord, in order to try him, and to strengthen the bands which united him to himself, allowed the evil spirit to persuade him that all that he did was in vain, as he was already condemned in the eternal decrees of God. (more…)

Mary is the Hope of Sinners

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St Antonine relates that there was a sinner who was at enmity with God, and who had a vision in which he found himself before the dread tribunal; the devil accused him, (more…)

Mary, our Hope.

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St Gregory relates that there was a young woman named Musa, who was very devout to the Mother of God; to whom, when she was in great danger of losing her innocence by the bad example of her companions, Mary appeared one day with many saints, and said:  “Musa, do you also wish to be one of these?”  On her answering “Yes,” she added, “Well, withdraw from your companions, and prepare yourself, for in a month you shall come.”  Musa did so, and related the vision.  On the thirteenth day she was at the point of death, when the most Blessed Virgin again appeared, and invited her to come.  She replied, “Behold, I come, O Lady,”  and sweetly expired. (more…)

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This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11)

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The Ascension of Jesus gives rise to manifold sentiments in the faithful soul that contemplates it. If Christ no longer merits, His Ascension has, however, the virtue of efficaciously producing the graces that it signifies or symbolizes.

It strengthens our faith in the Divinity of Jesus; it increases our hope by the vision of the glory of our Head by stirring us up to the observance of His commandments on which our merits rest, and that are themselves the principle of our future beatitude, it still further enkindles our love.  It engenders in us wonder at so marvelous a triumph, and gratitude for the share in it that Christ gives to us. Lifting up our souls towards heavenly realities, it quickens in us detachment from passing things: Seek the things that are above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, not the things upon the earth. (Col.3:.1-2) It gives us patience in adversity for, says St. Paul, if we suffer with Christ, we shall also share in His glory: so if we suffer with Him, we may be also be glorified with Him. (Rom.8:17)

There are two dispositions upon which I would dwell with you a few instants because, springing with special abundance from the contemplation of this mystery, they are singularly profitable for our souls: they are joy and confidence.

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Face of Pro-Life #58 – Dawn Cousineau’s Story of Hope ( 30min) >>> Play

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In this episode, hostess Corinn Dahm speaks with Dawn Cousineau on the healing process for women who have had abortions.  Dawn shares her own personal testimony of the family and life trama she experienced in her college years after having had an abortion, and how, later on, she found a new life through Our Lady, the Sacraments, and the Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats.

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Marycast Specials #36 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle discusses some of the burning concerns on the hearts of the faithful at the start of 2009, and gives us words of encouragement and of words of hope to refocus our attention on what matters most.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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Homily #090109 ( 07min) Play -

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“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.”
Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said,
“I do will it. Be made clean.”
And the leprosy left him immediately.

Fr. Angelo Geiger relates this miracle account to the three Theological Virtues of faith, hope and charity.

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