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Marycast #121 ( 10min) Play – When St. Bernadette asked Our Lady who she was, Our Lady responded by saying that she is the Immaculate Conception.  St. Maximilian Kolbe commenting on this name says that there is something about Mary’s very nature to be full of grace…

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

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Homily #100211 ( 10min) Play – On this feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Fr. Angelo makes the connection between the Annunciation where an angel appeared to Mary and the Apparition at Lourdes when Our Lady appears to St. Bernadette. Our Lady tells  Bernadette she is the Immaculate Conception which is just another way of saying what St Gabriel said to Mary, “Hail, Full of Grace”
Ave Maria! Apparition of Mary at Lourdes – Mass: EF, Vidi Civitatem Sanctam – Readings: 1st: rev 11:19-12:1, 10 – Gsp: luk 1:26-31

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Homily #091215 ( 08min) Play – Today is the feast of Our Lady Queen of the Seraphic Order where we Franciscan celebrate Mary as Queen of our order. Fr. Angelo recalls the role that Franciscans played in defending the titles of Our Lady in the Church, including the Immaculate Conception and many other ways that Franciscans honor Our Lady.
Ave Maria! Our Lady Queen of the Seraphic Order – Mass: EF, Egredimini Et – Readings: 1st: sir 24:11–13, 15-19 – Gsp: luk 1:26–33

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AUDIO ONLY Homily #091208 ( 12min) – Moses, who spoke to God face to face, sinned, the great patriarch Abraham sinned, the king, warrior, musician and poet David committed adultery, and murder, only one is without sin…
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On this day, so dear to every Catholic heart, we celebrate first of all the moment when Almighty God, in a vision telescoping the ages, showed Mary both to our first parents and to the demon, as the Virgin Mother of the future divine Redeemer, the Woman destined to crush the proud head of the serpent. This episode is narrated in the first book of Scripture, Genesis chapter 3. We find Her again in the last canonical prophecy of the Bible, the Apocalypse or Revelation of Saint John the Apostle, as the Woman clothed with the sun, having on Her head a crown of twelve stars. In this beautiful vision She is also identified with the persecuted Apostolic Church, obliged to flee into the “desert”, and as the Mother of a great Head of that Church, destined to govern the flock of the latter times in the final combat, who like that flock is Her own Child. (chapter 12) Mary, like Her Son, is at the beginning and the end of all God’s intentions, an integral part of His designs for the Redemption of the human race.

Since by eternal decree She was exempted from all stain of original sin from the first moment of Her Creation, and was endowed with the richest treasures of grace and sanctity, it is fitting that we honor Her glorious prerogatives by this special feast of the Immaculate Conception. We should join in spirit with the Blessed in heaven and rejoice with our dear Mother, not only for Her own sake, but for ours, Her children, for we are partakers of Her glory and happiness. “The treasures of the mother are the heritage of the children,” said Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus.

We celebrate at the same time the ever-memorable day, the 8^th of December of 1854, which raised the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Lady from a pious belief to the dignity of a dogma of the infallible Church, causing a great and universal joy among the faithful. The Holy See had already permitted the feast day from the time of Sixtus IV, by his papal bull Cum Praecelsa (1477), formally allowing its celebration for all dioceses desiring it. In 1854, the ancient faith of the people in their Mother exulted. -magnificat.ca

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Ave Maria Meditations

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: These words fell from the lips of the Immaculata herself. Hence, they must tell us, in the most precise and essential manner, who she really is. Since human words are incapable of expressing Divine realities, it follows that these words, “Immaculate” and “Conception”, must be understood in a much more profound, much more beautiful and sublime meaning than usual: a meaning beyond that which human reason at its most penetrating commonly gives to them…

Who then are you, O Immaculate Conception?

Not God, of course, because He has no beginning. Not an angel, created directly out of nothing. Not Adam, formed out of the dust of the earth. Not Eve, molded from Adam’s rib. Not the Incarnate Word, Who exists before all ages, and of Whom we should use the word “conceived” rather than “conception.”

Humans do not exist before their conception, so we might call them created “conceptions.” But you, O Mary, are different from all other children of Eve. They are conceptions stained by Original Sin; whereas you are the unique, Immaculate, Conception.

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Marycast #91 ( 11min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle discusses the message of Our Lady of America on Oct 13, 1956 which is the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. She asks that the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC become a center for the promotion of purity.

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

St. Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619) Doctor of the Church

God is love, and all his operations proceed from love. Once he wills to manifest that goodness by sharing his love outside himself, then the Incarnation becomes the supreme manifestation of his goodness and love and glory. So, Christ was intended before all other creatures and for his own sake. For him all things were created and to him all things must be subject, and God loves all creatures in and because of Christ. Christ is the first-born of every creature, and the whole of humanity as well as the created world finds its foundation and meaning in him. Moreover, this would have been the case even if Adam had not sinned.

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi

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Short Series #27 – Duns Scotus & the Immaculate Conception ( 32min) >>> Play

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In the third presentation at our International Centenary Symposium on the Mariology of Bl. John Duns Scotus held in Durham, England, Fr. Alessandro Apollonio, FI, discusses the decisive contribution of Bl. John Duns Scotus to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.  Fr. Alessando’s presentation is read by Trevor Dalles.

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Marycast Specials #39 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle concludes this three-part series discussing the message, meaning, and spirituality of the apparitions of Our Lady to then 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, 1858.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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Marycast Specials #38 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle continues this three-part series discussing the message, meaning, and spirituality of the apparitions of Our Lady to then 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, 1858.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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Marycast Specials #37 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle begins a three-part series discussing the message, meaning, and spirituality of the apparitions of Our Lady to then 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, 1858.

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

A little history of the apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes

“ I cannot promise you happiness in this life; only in the next”, said Our Lady to the little girl named Bernadette. The young girl lives out her life quietly, going to a convent and never seeking attention for herself. She gave all of herself to God and became a great saint. Her body is incorrupt and it looks so beautiful as if she is only sleeping. It is a marvel!

FI News #46 – With Fr. Paul ( 04min) >>> Play

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Fr. Paul Weinberger at St. Williams Catholic Church in Greenville, Texas, prepares for the the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with a Novena of Rosary Processions.

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