Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Mother of the Redeemer Events #8 – Fr. Bill Casey ( 21min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
In June, 2010, Fr. Bill Casey of the Fathers of Mercy preached a retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center on “Confidence in God”. This is the second homily of three in this retreat. In this talk, Fr. Casey discusses the Priesthood.
Ave Maria!
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Ave Maria Meditations
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After having called the Twelve to follow him, Jesus kept them at his side and lived with them, imparting his teaching of salvation to them through word and example, and finally he sent them out to all mankind … Priests are called to prolong the presence of Christ, embodying his way of life and making him visible in the midst of the flock entrusted to their care … The priest is a servant of the Church as communion because he builds up the unity of the Church community in the harmony of diverse vocations, charisms, and services … Priests are there to serve the faith, hope, and charity of the laity. (more…) |
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
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Homily #100425 ( 22min) Play - Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, the forth Sunday in Easter where the readings refer to Jesus as the Good Shepherd, specifically how he leads His sheep to eternal life. It is also the Church-wide prayer day for vocations to the priesthood. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need for good shepherds, especially in the face of Church scandals and in the face of a society that is in a state of moral decay which is leading so many to eternal death.
Jesus said:
“My sheep hear my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
No one can take them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.
The Father and I are one.”
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Acts 13:14,43-52
R: Ps 100:1-2,3,5
2: Rev 7:9,14-17
G: Jn 10:27-30
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
Ave Maria Meditations
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| It is possible for a priest to penetrate His Heart (The Sacred Heart of Jesus) even more deeply if he also enters the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. From the moment of her Immaculate Conception, her response to God, who gave her existence in this pure state, was the total gift of herself to the Creator for whatever He should ask of her. At the moment of the Incarnation, this gift became priestly. She knew the doleful mission of the Messiah from having read of the Prophet Isaiah. She understood that in becoming the Mother of the Man of Sorrows, she would become the Mother of Sorrow. Her response was simply, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your word (Lk 1: 38). From then on, her life was one of indescribable suffering because of her union with the Christ-Priest. Apart from Jesus, she might enjoy a serene existence, but she would have no existence apart from Jesus.
The sufferings occasioned by her maternity included the refusal of the citizens of Bethlehem to receive her at the time of Jesus’ birth, the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the disappearance of Jesus. Then there was the news she received that the Pharisees and the priests threatened Him by their lies and their determination to be rid of Him. Most of all, there was the sight of the tortures inflicted on the Body of her Son and the indescribable agony in Jesus’ soul, an agony she felt within her own soul. Jesus was the cause of them all.
She suffered to the extent that she loved because these sufferings were caused by· her love. The depth of her love was more than we can imagine, and so is the intensity of her martyrdom. She embraced all these sufferings with her whole heart, and in no way would she seek to lessen them because she suffered for Jesus, with Jesus, and for the same intentions of Jesus-for the glory of the Father and the salvation of all men and women, her children.
O Christ, You loved me and You offered Yourself for me! O Mary, you loved me and offered yourself for me! Help me to love you and to offer myself for you and with you, for the Father and for souls!
O thou Mother, fount of love! Touch my spirit from above. Make my heart with thine accord. Make me feel as thou hast felt; Make my soul to glow and melt with love of Christ our Lord
Fr. Emile Neubert, SM
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Paix Liturgique, in its newest Italian newsletter, has an interview with Fr Alessandro M. Apollonio, rector of the theological seminary of the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FFI), which brings splendid news from this young order which now has more than 700 members. Here is a translation of the part concerning the liturgy:
The vocation of a seminary is to give priests to Holy Church. This year eight of your friars will be ordained in Florence, on the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March. Last year, the ceremony took place at Tarquinia and, for the first time in the history of your institute, the sacrament of orders had been conferred on five of your friars according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Monsignor Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, officiated. This year Cardinal Rodé, another prelate of the Curia, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, will be the celebrant. Again, the Pontifical Mass will be accordiing to the older form: can we conclude that the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite now becomes the ordinary manner of your ordinations to the priesthood?
Yes, as long as the Pope allows it, in the sense of being the preferred form, not the exclusive.
for the rest of the story please see: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2010/03/extraordinary-form-conquers-more-and.html
Also see http://orbiscatholicus.blogspot.com/search?q=franciscans+of+the+immaculate
for more photos on the ordinations.
And for a very short video see http://romancatholicvocations.blogspot.com/2009/03/franciscans-of-immaculate-ordinations.html
(some of the pictures and video are from last year)
Ave Maria!
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Announcements
Rinascimento Sacro has announced that, at 10:00 A.M. on March 25, 2010, H.E. Franc Cardinal Rode will offer Solemn Pontifical Mass and ordain 8 new priests for the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, in the Chiesa di Ognissanti in Florence.
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More information will be forthcoming, stay tuned!
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A blessed Solemnity to one and all! Ave Maria!
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Ave Maria Meditations
The priesthood in the Catholic Church is identified with many things. The priest can be pastor, teacher, counselor, writer, administrator, or social worker; but the main reason he has been ordained is because of the Eucharist. So true is this that if we would specify the heart of the priesthood we would have to say it is the Eucharist: the Eucharist as Presence and the Eucharist as Sacrifice. A priest makes the Real Presence possible and no one, no king, no genius, not even the will of a thousand people, nor the combined efforts of a whole nation, can substitute for the power of a priest’s consecrated words: “This is My Body. .. This is the chalice of My Blood.” (more…)
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Ave Maria Meditations
The priest’s mission seems hopelessly difficult. Has the world ever been as depraved as it is today? Have Satan’s cohorts ever been as numerous, as fierce, as cunning? Has the army of Christ ever been weaker compared to these powerful forces? A priest will lose confidence if he thinks about the enemy in comparison to himself. But it is Christ he should think about; Christ has given him his mission as the Father gave Christ His mission. (Jn. 20:21)
He is an ambassador of Christ (2 Cor 5:20) and Christ has declared, and He cannot be wrong: “I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself (Jn 12:32). Now shall the ruler of this world be cast out (Jn 12:31). Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world ” (Jn 16:33). Acting in the name of the Son of God, the priest is all powerful with the power of God. Acting in his own name, he is as weak as the weakest of men. He is feeble when depending on himself alone; he is unbeatable when he acts with Jesus. When he acts in the Name of Jesus, his very weakness is an encouragement. (more…)
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Ave Maria Meditations
The Eucharistic sacrifice and the ordinary life of the Christian.
The Second Vatican Council reminds us that the sacrifice of the Cross and its sacramental renewal in the Mass are, apart from the difference in the manner of offering, one and the same sacrifice of praise, of thanksgiving, of propitiation and of satisfaction. The ends which Our Savior gave to His sacrifice on the Cross are usually summed up in these four.
The four ends of the Mass are achieved in different ways and to a different extent. The ends that refer directly to God, namely, adoration, praise and thanksgiving, are always produced infallibly and with all their infinite value, independently of our collaboration. This is true even when the Mass is celebrated without the presence of a single member of the faithful, or, if there is one, if he assists in a distracted way. God, our Lord is praised infinitely every time the Eucharistic Sacrifice is celebrated, and thanksgiving is offered up which satisfies God fully. This oblation, says Saint Thomas, pleases God more than all the sins of the world offend him, since Christ himself is the actual Priest who offers, as well as being the actual victim who is offered in every Mass.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
One Minute Meditation
THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER
To live in the midst of the world without desiring its pleasures;
To be a member of each family, yet belong to none.
To share all sufferings;
To penetrate all secrets;
To heal all wounds;
To go from men to God
to bring pardon, peace, and hope;
To have a heart of fire for charity
and a heart of bronze for chastity;
To teach and to pardon,
to console and bless always.
My God, what a life!
And it is yours, O priest of God!
-Lacordaire
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
No Apologies #106 ( 05min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
What is to be said about St. Paul’s letter to Timothy which reads that “a bishop must be married only once?” And what about the objection that celibacy brings with it immorality?
Ave Maria!
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
One Minute Meditation
ROSARY FOR PRIESTS
John Cardinal Carberry
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN.
Dear Jesus, how can we ever properly thank You for our priests? They have given up everything for us, forsaking the world to nourish our souls with the Eucharist and to heal our wounds through holy confession
End forth Your Holy Spirit right now, in a flood-nay-a supernatural torrent of grace in swift and sure answer to this plea, bringing consolations and courage and purity and joy to our beloved priests. As only You can do, whisper into their hearts that we love them so. As only You can do, enwrap each man wearing a cassock and collar (and habit) in the loving maternal arms of Your Mother who wept with You and stayed with You during Your hours of suffering during Your crucifixion.
We ask this in Your Holy Name, the Name above all names: Jesus! Amen.
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Prayer for Priests to be said after every decade of the rosary , after the Fatima prayer:
God, our Father, please send us holy priests, all for the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, all for the sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, all in union with Saint Joseph.
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
No Apologies #105 – ( 6min) >>> Play |
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Ave Maria!
Celibacy is both praised and practiced by our Lord and St. Paul. There are no grounds for claiming that it contradicts Sacred Scripture.
Ave Maria!
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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Homily #090819 ( 07min) Play – What has not been given to the angels, but has been given to the priest.
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