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Homily #110425 ( 07min) Play – It is only in the Name of Jesus you will be healed and find salvation.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Monday of Easter Week – Ordinary Form
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 2:14, 22-33
Responsorial Psalm: 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11
Gospel: Matthew 28:8-15

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Homily #110424 ( 17min) Play – Jesus Christ is Risen – Alleluia!
Ave Maria!
Mass: Easter Sunday (Option 1) – Ordinary Form
Readings:
1st Reading: Acts 10:34, 37-43
Responsorial Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23
2nd Reading: Colossians 3:1-4
Gospel: John 20:1-9

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Homily #110306 ( 09min) Play – Quinquagesima Sunday is the last Sunday before Lent and is a preparation for it. In today’s Gospel Our Lord tries to prepare His disciples for the scandal of the crucifixion by warning them before hand that it is coming as well as to give them the hope of the following resurrection.  Father likens this hope to an enlightenment as exemplified in the receiving of sight of the blind man later in the same Gospel.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Quinquagesima Sunday – Form: EF, Esto Mihi
Readings:
1st: 1co 13:1-13
Gsp: luk 18:31-43

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Homily #101124 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure relates today’s Gospel to the Martyrdom of  St. Andre Dung Lac and his companions where “And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake. ” They suffered these persecutions but also the hope of resurrection “But a hair of your head shall not perish.”
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Andre Dung Lac and his companions – Memorial – Form: OF
Readings: Wednesday in the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: rev 15:1-4
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 7-8, 9
Gsp: luk 21:12-19

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Homily #101011 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains the sign of Jonah that Jesus refers to in today’s Gospel to foretell his death and resurrection which is a sign of his divinity that all nations will accept.
Ave Maria! Bl. John XXIII – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1
Resp: psa 113:1-2, 3-4, 5, 6-7
Gsp: luk 11:29-32

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Mary Vitamin for August 23rd

Topic: Our Lady’s Joy in the Resurrection of Her Son

(The sixth mystery in the Franciscan Crown — Feast August 26)

Quote:

St. Teresa of Avila

One day after receiving Communion, it seemed most clear to me that Our Lord sat beside me; He told me that immediately after His resurrection He went to see our Lady because she then had great need and that the pain she experienced so absorbed and transpierced her soul that she did not return immediately to herself to rejoice in that joy. By this I understood how different was this other transpiercing, the one of my soul. But what must have been that transpiercing of the blessed Virgin’s soul! He also said that He had remained a long time with her because it was necessary in order to console her.

St. Teresa of Avila, Spiritual Testimonies, (ICS Publications: 1985), 390-91.

Quote used in Mary Vitamin #153

Meditation:

Imagine after days of painfully placing herself in God’s presence in prayer, with the agony of the Cross fresh before her mind’s eye, what a joy it was for our Lady to see the Lord in glory, alive and well and to speak with Him with no effort on her part.

I Peter 1:6-9

There is cause for rejoicing here. You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so that your faith, which is more precious than the passing splendor of fire-tried gold, may by its genuineness lead t0 praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ appears.

When Our Lord appeared to Our Lady and “remained a long time with her because it was necessary to console her” did Our Lady ask about her holy spouse and parents? Did she receive “news” from the Lord about the happiness experienced by her beloved family members? Was this a part of Our Lady’s joy in the Resurrection? She saw her Son’s victory over death and the consequences for those she loved.

Resolution:

Today before beginning my usual prayers, I will call to mind the visit of Our Lord to Our Lady after the Resurrection. I will try to enter prayer with the joy of Our Lady and remember that it took her a long time with the Lord before she experienced the joy of the Resurrection.

Marian Vow:

Father Gabriel Allegra, O.F.M.

Precisely here is the essence of consecration: always to look carefully at the Immaculate Mother. Her mere look will indicate her wishes, will help one to put them into practice. And thus we will generously and easily do the will of the Father.

Mary’s Immaculate Heart, A Way to God, (Franciscan Herald Press: 1985), 76.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Mary Vitamin is a daily Email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

Mary Vitamin for July 22nd
Feast of St. Mary Magdalen

Topic: Gaining the affection of Mary by practicing courtesy

Quote:
St. Alphonsus di Liguori
Saint Gregory Nazianzen assures us that there is nothing by which we can with
greater certainty gain the affection of Mary then by charity towards our
neighbor.
St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books), 479.

Meditation:
The charity and courtesy of St. Mary Magdalen

Why was St. Mary Magdalene unable to recognize the risen Christ? Why did she not
recognize the Messiah after the Resurrection if she was one of the few that
recognized the Messiah when “there was no beauty”? Was the Lord testing St. Mary
Magdalene’s charity? Did He want to leave a testimony of her great love? She
treated someone to whom she thought stole the body of her Lord with great
respect. After she spoke, Jesus revealed His identity to her.

But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into
the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at
the feet where the body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have
taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.”
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know
it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you
looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you
carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”
which means Teacher.
John 20:11-17

Resolution:
Today, I will work to win the affection of the Blessed Virgin Mary by speaking
with courtesy.

Marian Vow:
St. Claude de la Colombiere
We have no reason to despise anyone. A humble man sees only his own faults. It
is a sign of little virtue to notice the imperfections of others. A person may
be imperfect today who in a little while, recognizing this, may rise to great
sanctity.
Mother M. Philip, I.B.V.M., arr. & ed. The Spiritual Direction of Saint Claude
de la Colombiere,(

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Mary Vitamin is a daily Email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

Homily #100717 ( 06min) Play – Today Fr. Angelo celebrates a votive Mass to the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday and he preaches on how Saturday is held special for Our Lady where we wait in expectation with her for the glorious Resurrection of her Son on Sunday.
Ave Maria! Saturday, Votive Mass of Our Lady – Mass: EF, Salve Sancta Parens – Readings:
1st: sir 24:14-16
Gsp: luk 11:27-28

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Homily #100705 ( 04min) Play – Sorry, only half of this homily got captured. Nobody had ever known of anyone being raised from the dead until the time of our Lord. He brings hope to us in the life that is to come in the resurrection of the dead.
Ave Maria! Mass readings

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Homily #100418t ( 07min) Play – Peter and the others went back to doing as they did before they met the Christ, and when suddenly our Lord appears in their presence, Peter being uncovered quickly clothes himself and jumps into the water after Christ.
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Ave Maria Meditations

Christ’s Resurrection Was A Concrete Event

by Pope John Paul II

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

1. In the liturgical season running from Easter to Pentecost, the Church is recollected in contemplation of the risen Christ. Thus she relives the primordial experience that lies at the basis of her existence. She feels imbued with the same wonder as Mary Magdalen and the other women who went to Christ’s tomb on Easter morning and found it empty. That tomb became the womb of life.

Whoever had condemned Jesus, deceived himself that he had buried His cause under an ice-cold tombstone. The disciples themselves gave in to the feeling of irreparable failure. We understand their surprise, then, and even their distrust in the news of the empty tomb. But the Risen One did not delay in making himself seen and they yielded to reality. They saw and believed! Two thousand years later, we still sense the unspeakable emotion that overcame them when they heard the Master’s greeting: “Peace be with you.’”.

2. The Church is based on their extraordinary experience. The first proclamation of the Gospel was nothing other than the testimony of this event: “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses!” (Acts 2:32). The Christian faith is so linked with this truth that Paul did not hesitate to declare: “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (1 Cor 15:14). Along these lines the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community, handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 638).

Christ’s Resurrection is the strength, the secret of Christianity. It is not a question of mythology or of mere symbolism, but of a concrete event. It is confirmed by sure and convincing proofs. The acceptance of this truth, although the fruit of the Holy Spirit’s grace, rests at the same time on a solid historical base. On the threshold of the third millennium, the new effort of evangelization can begin only from a renewed experience of this Mystery, accepted in faith and witnessed to in life.

3. Regina caeli, laetare! Rejoice, Holy Virgin, because He whom you bore in your womb is risen! Dear brothers and sisters, let us try to relive the joy of the Resurrection with Mary’s heart. Even in the darkness of Good Friday she prepared herself to receive the light of Easter morning.

Let us ask her to obtain for us a deep faith in this extraordinary event, which is salvation and hope for the world.

From an address given by Pope John Paul II before reciting the Regina Caeli on Sunday, 21 April 1996.

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Pope Benedict XVI -homily    Vatican Basilica   15 April 2006

 ”You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.

He has risen, he is not here” (Mk 16:6).

With these words, God’s messenger, robed in light, spoke to the women who were looking for the body of Jesus in the tomb. But the Evangelist says the same thing to us on this holy night: Jesus is not a character from the past. He lives, and he walks before us as one who is alive, he calls us to follow him, the living one, and in this way to discover for ourselves too the path of life.

“He has risen, he is not here.” When Jesus spoke for the first time to the disciples about the Cross and the Resurrection, as they were coming down from the Mount of the Transfiguration, they questioned what “rising from the dead” meant (Mk 9:10). At Easter we rejoice because Christ did not remain in the tomb, his body did not see corruption; he belongs to the world of the living, not to the world of the dead; we rejoice because he is the Alpha and also the Omega, as we proclaim in the rite of the Paschal Candle; he lives not only yesterday, but today and for eternity (cf. Heb 13:8).

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Homily #100404t ( 06min) Play – The cross is the means to glory. God permits evil to have it’s hour, it’s fifteen minutes.

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Homily #100404 ( 11min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the Resurrection and how it removes what separates us from God, that is,  sin, guilt, disbelief and death. As Jesus escapes from the sealed tomb, which is a symbolic barrier to rising, so too the fact that the angels then rolled back the stone and revealed the empty tomb is a removal of the barrier to our belief and trust in Christ and so removes the obstacles to eternal light and life for us all.
Ave Maria! Easter Sunday – Mass: EF, Resurrexi – Readings: 1st: 1co 5:7-8 – Gsp: mar 16:1-7

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Immaculate Music #26 – 11th Article of the Creed ( 04min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Continuing our series of music videos of the Apostles Creed from the Roman Catechism set to beautiful polyphonic music from the Franciscans of the Immaculate and classic religious art, we now proceed to the eleventh article of the Creed: “I believe in the resurrection of the body.”

Ave Maria!

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