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Homily #100502t ( 14min) Play – Padre Pio was struck that others may be saved; he took upon himself the punishment that was due to the sins of others. St. Pio was truly an “Alter Christus” another Christ, bearing the painful wounds of Christ.
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Ave Maria Meditations

December 15th: Feast of Our Lady, Queen of the Seraphic Order

Saint Francis’ Greetings to the Blessed Virgin:

Hail, Lady and Queen, holy Mary, Mother of God,
Virgin who became the Church,
chosen by the Father in heaven,
consecrated by His beloved Son
and His Spirit, the Comforter:
in you was and remains,
the whole fullness of grace
and everything that is good.

Hail, His palace,
Hail, His tabernacle,
Hail, His dwelling,
Hail, His robe,
Hail, His handmaid,
Hail, His mother!

O holy Mother,
sweet and fair to see,
for us beseech the King,
your dearest Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
to death for us delivered:
that in His pitying clemency,
and by virtue of His most holy incarnation
and bitter death,
He may pardon our sins.

Holy Virgin Mary,
among all the women of the world,
there is none like you.
You are the daughter and handmaid of the most high King,
Father of heaven.
You are the Mother of our most holy Lord Jesus Christ.
You are the bride of the Holy Spirit.
Pray for us, with St. Michael the archangel,
and all the powers of heaven
and all the saints,
to your most holy and beloved Son, our Lord and Master, Amen.

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Ave Maria Meditations encore

St. Padre Pio: PRAY, HOPE, AND DON’T WORRY!

Padre Pio’s Prayer After Holy Communion

Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You;

You know how easily I abandon You.

Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength,

that I may not fall so often.

Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.

Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.

Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.

Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.

Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and alway be in Your company.

Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.

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Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“Let us draw near to receive the Bread of angels with a great faith and with a great flame of love, and let us await from this most sweet lover of our souls to be consoled in this life with the kiss of His mouth.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

28- “May our most sweet Lord deign to excommunicate me, separate me from Him, abandon me and leave me in the arms of the shame and sufferings due to my brothers; may He even cancel me from the book of life, provided that my brothers and my friends in this exile are saved, and that He does not deprive me of His charity and of His grace, from which nothing could ever separate me.”

29- “Faith is our guide, and we, behind its light, follow the path that leads to God, to His homeland. May the Lord deign to transform our hearts so that in containing the ardors of His charity, He manifests Himself to the souls of our brothers in order to win them.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“But we will not acquire […] perfect sweetness and charity, if it is not exercised amidst repugnance, aversion and disgust. True peace consists not in fighting but in conquering. Those who have been beaten do not fight anymore, and nonetheless they do not have true peace.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

25- “Let us show ourselves mutually loving and let us remember that all are called to form one sole body, and that if we conserve charity, the beautiful peace of Jesus will always exultantly triumph in our hearts.”

26- “Be good to you neighbor and do not have fits of anger; utter very often in circumstances these words of the Master: ‘I love these my neighbors, eternal Father, because you love them’, and you have given them to me as brothers, and You want that as You love them, so also I love them.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“Let us highly esteem the virtue of charity if we want to find mercy before the Heavenly Father. Let us love charity and practice it; she is that virtue, which makes us children of one same Father, Who is in Heaven. Let us love and practice charity, being that it is the precept of the Divine Master: from this we are distinguished from the people, if we love and practice charity. Let us love charity and flee even from a shadow, which in any moment could cloud it.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“ ‘But above all these things’ says St. Paul ‘have charity, which is the bond of perfection’. See: he is not content with recommending to us patience, mutually bearing with one another, even though these, too, are noble virtues. But no, he wants charity, and for a good reason – because it could very well be that one patiently supports another’s defects, and even forgives the offences he has received; but it could all be without merit, when it is done without charity.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“The virtue of charity is so extremely beautiful that the Son of God, precisely to light it in our hearts, wanted to come down Himself from the womb of the eternal Father and make Himself similar to us so as to teach it to us and, by the means that He left us, make it easier for us to acquire this most illustrious virtue.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“Keep charity very dear to you, even more than the pupil of your eye because it is precisely the dearest to the Divine Master, Who with a wholly divine expression called it ‘my precept’. Oh, yes! Let us highly esteem this precept of the Divine Master, and all difficulties will be overcome.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

19- “Everyone should take to heart the beautiful virtue of charity, but even more should those who make the profession of holiness. […]. And even if you have embarked upon charity, I still do not cease to insist that you advance in it always more.”

20- “Your only thought should be that of loving God and of always growing and never tiring of advancing in that queen of all virtues: Christian charity. Consider that you can never grow too much in this virtue.”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“You must be careful not to place your own profit before others because to place your own profit before others always and necessarily tends to break that beautiful bond which is charity; it is a bond that must always unite Christian souls, being that charity, as St. Paul says, is the ‘bond of perfection’”.

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

“Joy is the bud of charity; but in order for this joy to be perfect and true, it is necessary that it has as its indispensable companion peace, which is then produced in us when the good we have in us is a supreme and sure good. Now, isn’t God perhaps the greatest good that the soul loves, and in loving Him possesses Him?”

Ave Maria!– June’s Theme: Faith, Hope, and Charity

15- “The first virtue that the soul tending toward perfection has need of is charity. In all natural things, the first motion, the first inclination, the first impetus is that of holding (or keeping), of going to the center: it is a law of physics. The same likewise happens with spiritual things: the first motion of our heart is that of going towards God, which is none other than loving his true and own good. Rightly so, charity has been called by Sacred Scripture, the bond of perfection.”

16- “Charity has as sisters-german (?) joy and peace. Joy is born from the delight of possessing that which one loves. Now, from the moment that the soul knows God it is naturally impelled to love Him; if the soul follows this natural impulse, which is excited by the Holy Spirit, it already loves its Supreme Good. Behold, this fortunate soul already possesses that beautiful virtue of charity.”