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Day #16: Renouncing the Demon

THE SOUL: I know that in holy Baptism I renounced the demon and I?m happy with that renunciation. (more…)

Day #15: The Spirit of Jesus Christ

MARY: Opposed to the spirit of the world, which is a mass of duplicity, resentment, struggles, presumption and degradation, is the spirit of Jesus Christ, (more…)

Day #14: The Spirit of the World

MARY: You live in the world and you cannot withdraw yourself from it materially, but you must be there
without living in its spirit. (more…)

Day #13: Holy Baptism

MARY: The grace of God has enriched you from your birth. (more…)

Day #12: The Channels of Grace

MARY: In his mercy God did not want to make the flow of his grace to you difficult and he gave you a channel through which you can enrich yourself with it in the holy sacraments. (more…)

Day #11: Mary’s Grace

THE SOUL: Hail, O Mary, full of grace! … From the wretched earth where I am, I raise up my glance to you to admire you (more…)

Ave Maria! Here is the second one for today. From this point forward their will be on each day for the month of May.

Day #2: My Heart and the Heart of Mary

MARY: My little daughter, your mother is calling you and showing you what distinguishes her as Mother: the Heart! Draw near to my Heart, kiss it, and experience how burning is its love for you! God has submerged his mercies in it and wants it to be the center of regeneration for those children whom he has entrusted to me. You are my daughter and so entrust yourself to the Heart of your Mother who loves you so much.

THE SOUL: If you show me your Heart, Mary, I will also show you mine! How much smallness there is in my little heart! You are immaculate and pure, the delight of God and I am full of imperfections and faults! You love God immensely and I am so cold toward Him! You are so full of gifts and graces and I am your little poor one! … O my Mother, I place my heart in yours; work on it; lift it up into the holy love of God … reform it! It?s so ugly … even if I don?t really know it yet because I?m so blinded by pride … Tear the secrets from this heart; curtail its self-deceptions with your light; adorn it with virtues by the help of your grace so that I can truly call myself your child.

MARY: If you want to know your heart, measure it against mine. Don?t believe that all is evil within you nor
that all is good. Don?t be discouraged or presumptuous, but recognize your weaknesses with filial simplicity without hiding them from your sight and without getting irritated … Always remain in peace and I will help you to reform yourself.

ASPIRATION: O Heart of Mary, be my model and the refuge of my poor heart.

LITTLE WORK: Deprive yourself of something superfluous to which you feel attached.

About the Meditations

The daily School of Mary meditations come from the book, A Month with Mary, written by a holy Italian priest Father Dolindo Ruotolo (1882-1970). Originally written as spiritual thoughts to his spiritual daughter, the work is comprised of thirty-one meditations for the month of May.

Father Dolindo wrote A Month with Mary on pocket-sized pages joined into small fascicles of 8 to 12 pages. He sent them to Laura de Rosis every two to three days and later transcribed them with some modifications in volume III of his autobiography: The Story of My Life in the Plan of the Great Mercy of God, pp. 1140ff (cf. Epistolario 1:212n, 218n). This work is from 1912: one of those years which passed in the life of Father Dolindo with the cadence of a “Way of the Cross” … But he, serene as ever, loved Christ the more, loved Our Lady the more and reflected on this love in these few pages to which he wished to give the significant title: A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary. These meditations are written in the style of the Imitation of Christ. (90pp. laminated gloss, saddle stitch)

To obtain a copy of A Month with Mary or other books published by the Academy of the Immaculate, visit our on-line bookstore at http://www.marymediatrix.com/bookstore/academy

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Homily #100829 ( 13min) Play – Will we follow Him? Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on today’s Gospel where Our Lord admonishes us to live a sacrificial, spiritual life and not be worried about things of this world. For as the Gospel states, the Lilies of the field which work not nor spin not are clothed by God more gloriously than Solomon. He points out that to not follow this basic spiritual discipline is to live inconsistently when so many follow harder discipline in the secular corporate world.

Ave Maria! Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Protector Noster – Readings:
1st: gal 5:16-24
Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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MaryCast Specials #71 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains what Marian Consecration is and why it is so good for our spiritual life and for the world.

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

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Homily #100209 ( 07min) Play – For the Jews the Temple in Jerusalem was the dwelling place of God and so was central to their spiritual life. Listen as Fr. Angelo relates this to the Blessed Sacrament to which we should make frequent visits to give true worship.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 1 Kings 8:22-23,27-30
R: Ps 84:3-5,10-11
G: Mk 7:1-13

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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…)

Ave Maria Meditations

“CHARITY is a much more important virtue, and more agreeable to God, than Austerity.”

“LITURGY is the ritual and language which the Church employs to help us RE-LIVE the Mysteries of Christ.”

“It is not our PERFECTION (i.e. Good Deeds) which DAZZLE God, since He is surrounded by shining Angels.  No!  It is our MISERY, our POVERTY, our avowed UNWORTHINESS, which draws down his Mercy upon us, and brings us his ATTENTION.”

“MERCY is love in the face of misery; if there were no misery there would be no mercy.  The Angels declare God’s holiness; but as for us, we shall be in heaven the lilving witnesses of Divine Mercy; in crowning our works, God crowns the gift of His mercy.”

“No one can say: Holiness is not for me.  God wills us to be saints for His glory and our joy.  God does not mock us.  When God says to us, “Be perfect”, He knows all that He is asking of us, yet at the same time He requires nothing beyond our power, when we rely on His grace”
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Ave Maria!– September’s Theme: The Cross

“To arrive at our last end we need to follow the Divine Head, Who does not lead the elect souls by any other path than the one He trod; that is to say, [by way] of abnegations and of the cross: ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me’. And should you not consider yourself fortunate to see yourself treated thus by Jesus? He is stupid who knows not how to penetrate the secret of the cross.”

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Ave Maria!– September’s Theme: The Cross

“Beware of entering into the banquet of the cross, which is a thousand times more delicious than the worldly weddings, without the white, candid and clean garment, which is of a completely different intention than that of giving pleasure to the Divine Lamb.”

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