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Fi News #116 – Bloomington on air ( 05min) >>> Play

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Our newest radio station, With Our Mother Blest, in Bloomington, IN – WOMB 89.9 FM Ellettsville (the community of license) – is now on the air at full power! In fact, it was cranked up to full power a few weeks ago, but we have been so busy with three AirMaria road trips for conferences and then to World Youth Day in Madrid, that we have not been able to get this post up until now.

This is the 3rd radio station on the air belonging to our AirMaria Radio Network, the first being Holy Virgin Mary Radio, 91.9 FM Owego, NY, and the second being CorMariae, WPMW 88.5 FM Bayview, MA.

We are still fighting to find a tower location for Holy Name of Mary Radio, WHNM 89.5 FM Pawcatuck, CT.

With Our Mother Blest, WOMB 89.9 FM, is a very strategically located radio station because it reaches the 42, 000 college students and 3,000 professors that are at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Simply put, for the first time Catholic radio content will be delivered via this station to one of the major intellectual centers of the United States and of the world.

We are currently an EWTN repeater, rebroadcasting the EWTN Radio satellite feed 24/7 with our own top of the hour ID’s chiming in every hour to comply with FCC regulations, but we plan to build our own studio at the new friary in the winter and to begin to add more of our own content as we become more capable.

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Fi News #90 – Our new friary in Bloomington is making progress ( 04min) >>> Play

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See the progress on the new FI friary in Bloomington, Indiana. Volunteers and pros alike gather local rocks for the facade of the friary. Then you can see materials being lowered onto the roof to put the finishing touches on that. And finally you can see the new bells that will soon be added to the bell tower which you can see rising high above the roof.

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Variety #98 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 09min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this last part of five they discuss:

• Need for clarification on organ transplants
• Assisted suicide
• Excommunication of pro-abortion politicians,
• Salvific purpose of excommunication
• Two types of excommunication Latae Sententiae and Ferendae Sententiae
• Absolution of excommunication
• Relevance of excommunication for today’s Church

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Variety #97 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 09min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this fourth part of five they discuss:

• Principle that if we should err on the side of safety then we need to be certain that a person is dead, not cut into him when he is still breathing.
• Meaning of the term ex cadavere
• Mad scientists, Scary advances in science, Head transplants
• Scientism, Science has become a religion
• Ability to advance a science is not a justification to do so, regardless of ethical considerations

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Variety #96 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 11min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this third part of five they discuss:

• Ethical issues of  transplant of major organs and whether “brain death” is real and true death.
• Is the brain the only organ that holds our soul.
• Pressure to be donors.
• Pressure to prematurely declare the donor is dead.

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Variety #95 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln Nebraska ( 11min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America. In this second part of five they discuss:

• Why Catholics vote for pro-abortion politicians.
• Mass Media role in moral malaise.
• Advice for Catholic voters to form conscience and how it this does not mean do whatever you want to do.
• How Voting is a moral act.
• Voting strictly on party lines.
• How high are the “flames of heresy” in the Church today.
• How the fight against heresy has always strengthened the Church.
• How being a Bishop is like being a fireman who does not dialogue with a fire.

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Variety #94 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska ( 14min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America.  We are posting them here in a five part series. In the first part, in answering Fr. Elias questions, the bishop relates his thoughts about:

• His 50 years as a priest and bishop in the Church and all the changes and events in the time.
• His visits to shrines in Europe and Rome.
• His 19 years as Bishop of Lincoln.
• The graces that are ever needed for his office
• His work with John Paul II and Benedict XVI
• What these two papacies have done for the Church especially the continuity that they reaffirmed between the post and pre-Vatican II Church
• The Moto Proprio of Pope Benedict and how it is not at all against Vatican II
• The unlikelihood of a mixture of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the liturgy
• New English translation of the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy
• How well Catechisis has been carried out in the Post Vatican II era
• balance needed between doctrine and pastoral and social concerns

Listening to Bsp. Bruskewitz’s clear  insights and answers is refreshing indeed.

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Fi News #82 – Marian Friary in Progress ( 06min) >>> Play

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Here is a video of the construction on the new Marian Friary of Our Lady Coredemptrix which started on March 25th, 2010 on the Feast of the Annunciation and shows the process up through August.The friary will be 22,000 square feet and have room for 28 friars with two floors, a partial basement and a bell tower that will be 86 feet high. The bell tower will have 3 bells from a local church that recently closed and the top 16 ft will be an illuminated cross. The friary is being built adjacent to the existing chapel on the property and will have direct access to the chapel’s main floor from the friary’s 2nd floor and to the chapel’s basement from the friary’s first floor.

The planned opening is spring 2011. Keep this project in your prayers.

Below are some pictures of some more progress since the video was taken. We will keep you posted

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Variety #87 – Those Bloom’n Butterflies of Bloomington ( 01min) >>> Play

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At our Bloomington, Indiana friary the butterflies discovered our blooming flowers in front of the statue of Mary at the foot of the cross making an impromptu and very apropos display of the beauty of God’s creatures. Enjoy!

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Variety #78 – Fr. Bill Casey at Bloomington, IN ( 24min) >>> Play

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Yes, I know, this is a homily. So, what is it doing in the Variety section? Well, it is a very good homily, but I needed to get it up in a hurry before Father’s Day ended and I did not have a category for Bloomington Homilies, so here it is. Listen to Fr. Bill Casey as he gives a homily for the Sunday Mass at our Bloomington, Indiana friary to finish a retreat that he gave there at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center. He is a great speaker.

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Roving Reporter #110 – Fr. Jacinto and pilgrims pray to end abortion ( 10min) >>> Play

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On May 13, Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, 2010, a Planned Parenthood facility is consecrated to Our Lady to ask her intercession to bring about the end to abortion at this location and throughout the world. Monica Seifker lead the effort based on a plan laid out by American Life League to Marianize the pro-life movement.  Fr. Jacinto performed the consecration leading the prayers of the faithful.

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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 #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 #59 – First ever Eucharistic Procession around the Indiana University campus ( 04min) >>> Play

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The FIs worked with  St Paul the Apostle parish, and the Student Life Team of the Newman Center in Bloomington, IN to conduct the first Eucharistic Procession around the Indiana University campus, ever. Watch this historic event.

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FI News #55 – Marian Devotions on the Assumption at Bloomington ( 06min) >>> Play

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On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, August 15th, the friars and folks at Bloomington, IN celebrated in grand and reverent style with solemn vespers, procession, benediction and a spectacular fireworks display of professional caliber.

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