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Face of Pro-Life #119 – Corinn Dahm and Jill Sackidovitch on the youth ( 30min) >>> Play

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Jill Sackidovitch director of the Westbrook, CT branch of Birthright offers her insight of how to reach out to youth with a Pro-life message in this modern, changing, materialistic world, making use of her ample experience working with young teenage mothers coming to her local Birthright facility. She also set up a booth at a local fair and had much more contact with youth in general. She believes that the joy of life message has been received very well by youth. She believes that youth are increasingly pro-life and describes the free materials that she offered to the youth. She also mentions how ultrasound images of their little babies is very powerful for young mothers and how the youth and even young children understand the sanctity of human life very well. The youth are also very quick to notice a lack of sincerity and are quite skeptical in general so it is important not to talk down to them. They want to hear the other side of the story as opposed to the line they get from TV etc. We must provide them with this other side, the culture of life that raises the dignity of humanity and leads to eternal life.

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Conferences #106 – Deacon Jack – miracles from Newman (44min) >>> Play

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Witness Lecture for the Newman-Scotus Symposium is given by Deacon Jack Sullivan: A Personal Account of the Experience of a Miracle

He talks about Redemptive Suffering of Newman. There is much suffering in life but if we accept with trust in God, that he has our best interest in mind, then we will grow in grace. This is the “kindly light” of truth that Newman always followed in the “gathering gloom”. He relates this to his own suffering that led him to pray for the intercession of venerable Newman. One day he woke with excruciating pain in his legs which turned out to be a sever restriction in his spinal cord by the physical deformation of his vertebra and disks. His Doctor said it was the worst case he had seen in seventeen years as a back specialist. Listen to Jack as he describes how one simple prayer to John Newman was able to cure him first temporarily and then permanently as he prayed a second time. He also relates other miracles that have occurred with Newman’s intercession.

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Face of Pro-Life #118 – Corinn Dahm and Jill Sackidovitch ( 60min) >>> Play

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This episode was  a live show  on local television with guest Jill Sackidovitch director of the Westbrook, CT branch of Birthright, the premier nation-wide (even international) emergency pregnancy assistance centers for women. She relates to hostess Corinn Dahm how she got involved in Birthright when she wasn’t even looking to do so as well as all the challenges of talking to young mothers in distressed pregnancies. They discuss:

• pro-choice nature of the agency in that it gives women a chance to choose life when, in this pro-abortion world, pregnant women are often heavily pressured to abort their child
• demoralizing and even traumatic nature of abortion that scars many women for life.
• lack of safety for abortion procedure
• lack of education about the emotional and medical dangers of abortion.
• difficulties and joys of adoption for women with unwanted pregnancies
• how they reach out to distressed mothers
• procedure for giving assistance once they come to their facilities
• how friendship is the greatest thing needed for these women even if they do make the wrong decision
• what additional services are needed for mothers in the future
• type of people needed for volunteers
• how people can donate
• how many women are helped

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Face of Pro-Life #121 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes continues his story from last episode where he related his conversion story. Now he covers his ministry work in the land down under, Australia. He first fills in the details of his conversion and then relates his experience of being in Toodyay and Perth, Australia for ten years. He covers his ministry with the youth where he uses his skill at skateboarding to break the ice. He has been able to start many conversations with the youth and even win the friendship of whole neighborhoods of kids. His passing out of Miraculous Medals, his trip to World Youth Day in Sidney, his trips to skate parks and many, many encounters with people of all ages.

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Homily #101107 ( 13min) Play – In today’s Gospel the Sadducees try to trip up Jesus with a question on marriage and in regard to life after death. He answers that there is life after death, but that marriage is not for the after life. Fr. Bonaventure takes these basic statements about marriage (where life begins) and death (where life ends) and preaches on the meaning and sanctity of human life. He mentions the reasons why God Created us, the relationship between God and man, and how Jesus and Mary is key to both of these and to attaining life everlasting.

Ave Maria! 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 2ma 7:1-2, 9-14
Resp: psa 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15
2nd: 2th 2:16-3:5
Gsp: luk 20:27-38

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Homily #101105 ( 08min) Play – In today’s Gospel we have the parable of the unjust steward where Our Lord points out how wise worldly people are in the pursuit of selfish goals and making friends in this life to the neglect of higher goals and eternal life. Fr. Dominic relates this to the modern world that is so focused on greed. He mentions that we must be focused instead on eternal life and organize our spiritual endeavors in order to make progress, growing in our friendship with God and so store up treasure for our final end.
Ave Maria! Friday in the 31st Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: phi 3:17-4:1
Resp: psa 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5
Gsp: luk 16:1-8

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Face of Pro-Life #120 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes of the Franciscans of the Immaculate relates his journey in faith that led to his ministry with youth in Australia. He first talks about his early life, how he started to get serious about his faith and his calling to the Franciscans. He mentions the devotion of his parents, the rosary and Eucharistic adoration as factors in his conversion.

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Homily #101031 ( 08min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the importance of honoring the saints who lived heroic lives in their following in the footsteps of Christ. The saints have very different lives that speak of very different aspects of Christ’s life. We must live our lives well, do our daily duty and offer up our sufferings that our station of life tends to bring.
Ave Maria! – Mass: -Readings:
1st: rev 7:2-4, 9-14
Resp: psa 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
2nd: 1jo 3:1-3
Gsp: mat 5:1-12

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Conferences #90 – Therese Bonapartis on post abortion trauma  ( 48min) >>> Play

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Theresa Bonapartis (bio) uncovers the true nature of the “Choice” of abortion and the trauma it induces. She explains how this led to the complete destruction of her own life and how she could not find help for getting over this hidden pain. Listen to her very moving account of how the healing action of her rediscovered Catholic faith and becoming a leader in helping others find healing has turned her life around where she is now a major public speaker and was a leader in developing many groups to help women including her group Lumina.

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Homily #101018 ( 00min) Play – Fr. Dominic Preaches on the Gospel of Luke on the occasion of St Luke’s feast day, outlining the many parables and accounts of Christ’s life that shine forth so well in these writings.
Ave Maria! St. Luke the Evangelist – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 2ti 4:9-17
Resp: psa 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
Gsp: luk 10:1-9

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Face of Pro-Life #105 – Leticia Velasquez with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez describes her book that she is writing on the trials and joys of being the mother of a Down Syndrome child. She covers motivations for the book, i.e. the culture against children with disabilities which she continuously runs into. She has titled the book “A Special Mother is Born” referring to herself that when her special-needs-child was born, she was reborn into a new kind of motherhood. It will consist of 24 stories of her experience both dealing with the needs of her daughter and dealing with this anti life culture. It is due out in the fall and she hopes it will give such mothers what she could not find for herself, good information about how to make the bold step to embrace this beautiful kind of motherhood. She also wants to fight against the Hitlarian eugenics culture that is obsessed with a perfect race.

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Face of Pro-Life #112 – Hostess Leticia Velasquez and Fr Angelo Geiger on the spiritual aspects of abortion  ( 30min) >>> Play

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Fr Angelo Geiger discusses with hostess Leticia Velasquez the spiritual aspects of abortion, covering a wide range of aspects including the occult, human sacrifice culture of death, Aztecs and how Our Lady of Guadalupe brought an end to much of this, Reike and yoga, occult themes in books and movies, Harry Potter, Twilight, normalization of evil. and attempts by abortion providers to normalize abortion by presenting it as a cultural and even spiritual event.

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Homily #101005 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on the Gospel story of the two sisters Martha and Mary where Mary sits at the feet of our Lord listening while Martha complains that she is left with all the work. He relates these two sisters the two forms of life, the contemplative by Mary and the active by Martha. He points out that both are needed but the contemplative is more important as Our Lord says, “Mary has chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 27th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gal 1:13-24
Resp: psa 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15
Gsp: luk 10:38-42

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Homily #101001 ( 07min) Play – Today is the feast day of St Therese of Lisieux of the Child Jesus. Fr. Ignatius celebrates this in the Extraordinary Form as a votive Mass since her feast day is on the 3rd of October in the old calender. He preaches on St. Therese’s life who through the help of her very devout parents was given a very good start on the road to sanctity. He describes how even though she was an almost entirely unknown nun who died at the young age of 24 in a cloistered convent, her great sanctity was discovered by the outside world and she was Canonized as a saint, made a patron of missionaries throughout the world, declared a doctor of the Church and virtually every Catholic Church has set-up a statue of her.
Ave Maria! Votive for St. Theresa of the Child Jesus – Mass: EF, Veni De Libano – Readings:
1st: isa 66:12-14
Gsp: mat 18:1-4

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Face of Pro-Life #107 – Hostess Leticia Velasquez with Eileen Haupt ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez and Eileen Haupt, co-founders of Keep Infants with Down Syndrome discuss what it is like to raise a child with Down Syndrome and what it has added to their lives and to their families. The benefits they received include greater patience, close bonds with their special family members and a new appreciation of the common gifts of life like walking and talking and the many other hings that take a longer time for Downs children to learn.  They also learn how much children with disabilities can overcome difficulties and become productive, functioning members of society and even bring special talents. Both mothers relate how much religious devotion their Down children have.

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