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Homily #120415t ( 08min) Play – We will be judged on love, on the mercy we have shown. The river’s name is suffering and love is the boat that will get us across.
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Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 4:32-35
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1jo 5:1-6
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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MaryCast Specials #155 ( 06min) Play – Mark Miravalle reflects on the beginning of Lent and how we can give it a Marian dimension to be able to offer up our sufferings to make up for what is lacking in Christ’s suffering. Col 1:24

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

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Conferences #164 – St. Joseph’s Friary ( 43min) >>> Play

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“Suffering is always a grace.” – Canon Francis Joseph Ripley

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MaryCast Specials #153 ( 11min) Play – Mark Miravalle talks about the Presentation of the Lord that is celebrated on February 2 but is meditated on every time we pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. He focuses on the words of Simeon where he tells Mary that a sword will pierce your heart, referring to her suffering in union with Christ and so she is the Coredemptrix.

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

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Homily #111228 ( 08min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on the martyrdom of the Holy Innocents, the babes that died in place of Jesus in Bethlehem at the hands of Herod. He points out that they are martyrs in spite of the fact that they did not formally profess faith in Christ but God sees the value of their suffering and places a salvific value on it and this speaks volumes of the value of suffering in many situations.
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Mass: Holy Innocents – Feast – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1jo 1:5-22
Resp: psa 124:2-3, 4-5, 7-8
Gsp: mat 2:13-18

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Homily #111123 ( 05min) Play – Let us suffer for Christ in this life so that we and all our loved ones may enjoy His company forever in the next life.
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Mass: Ordinary Form - St. Clement I – Optional Memorial
Readings: Wednesday 34th Week of Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28
Responsorial: Daniel 3:62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
Gospel: Luke 21:12-19

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Ave Maria Meditations

(In the midst of) Suffering and renunciation through the burden­someness, discomforts, and exhaustion of the body, through the darkness or at least the dimness of mind, and through the interior suffering of spiritual isolation and aridity. (I seek a) Pure and solid faith. To ask, as I have been advised, for the grace of “simplicity in suffering.”

Material concerns, sometimes too heavy for my already burdened body, time wasted, relationships that hold no attraction for me, the effort to be pleas­ant and to smile when all of me longs for recollection and for only close friends – all this constitutes my hid­den cross, the best cross, which does not elicit sym­pathy or admiration as illness or misfortune does.

Well, I will carry it “joyfully” until God changes my obligations. Yes, joyfully in spite of dryness, weari­ness, the costliness of these efforts, gently united to the heart of Jesus, aided by Mary, my Mother, stick­ing to my usual rule of devotions, meditation, and so on, always strict with myself, yet more gracious to everyone, attentive to remain open, trusting, and abandoned, without narrowness, self-centeredness, or subtlety. (more…)

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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Homily #101019 ( 09min) Play – Today we celebrate the North American Martyrs, the Jesuits Sts Jean de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and Companions who were martyred in Canada and in upstate New York. Fr. Dominic outlines the heroic lives of these evangelists who braved incredible suffering for the love of Christ and the salvation of souls .

Ave Maria! Sts Jean de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and Comp. – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: eph 2:12-22
Resp: psa 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14
Gsp: luk 12:35-38

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MaryCast Specials #85 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Miravalle reflects on how devotion to Mary helps so much for the tremendous difficulties of our current times whether they be social, economic or health issues and how these sufferings then become a means to participate in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

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

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Mary Vitamin for July 23rd

Topic: The First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary
(In honor of the month of the Precious Blood)

Quote:
And there appeared to him an angel from heaven strengthening him. And being in
an agony, he prayed the longer. And his sweat became as drops of blood,
trickling down upon the ground.
Luke 22:43-4

Meditation:
Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich explains that Our Lord in the garden of
Gethsemane “understood not only the consequence of every species of
concupiscence, but also its own peculiar expiatory chastisement, the
significance of all the instruments of torture connected with it; so that not
only the thought of the instrument made Him shudder, but also the sinful rage of
him that invented it, the fury and wickedness of all that had ever used it, and
the impatience of all, whether innocent or guilty, who had been tortured with
it. All these tortures and afflictions Jesus perceived in an interior
contemplation, and the sight filled Him with such horror that a bloody sweat
started from the pores of His sacred Body.”
The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Volume 4, (Tan Books), 89

Does a mother suffer only when she witnesses the suffering of her child? Or does
she suffer over and over again in her heart, anticipating the suffering of her
child? Is Our Lady not aware of the avarice of Judas and the hatred of the
leaders in the Temple towards her Son? A mother in her compassion cannot help
but anticipate the pain and suffering of her child. It is not recorded in Holy
Scripture that Our Lady was present in the Garden, but her heart was always
unwaveringly united with God, and she would share in his agony on the eve of the
great manifestation of God’s passionate love for mankind. She would share, the
way a Mother shares in the suffering of her son: silently, meekly, heart
breaking, full of love, yet accepting.

Resolution:
I will meditate in the Rosary what it cost Our Lady to accept the Will of God in
the Redemption of humanity. Our Lady does not need to be present in
the Garden of Gethsemane to share in the suffering of Her Son.

Marian Vow:
The Immaculate was the universal Mediatrix of redemption, to wit, was the only
Coredemptrix who has shared in person with the Redeemer –”under Him and with
Him” (LG 56) — the work of universal redemption, cooperating actively with her
tears, mixed in the Blood of Her Crucified Son, to rescue sinful mankind, from
Adam to the last man who lives on the earth.
Marian Seraphic Pathways, Statutes #51

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.

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MaryCast Specials #75 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains how the message of the Fatima apparition is the ‘Grandmother’ of Marian messages since all earlier apparitions look forward to Fatima and all subsequent ones look back to it.  He focuses on the quintessential message of Fatima that was given to Lucia on July 13th where Our Lady asks for prayers and reparation to save souls from Hell. The apparition continues with a vision of Hell and the suffering of souls there and then a prophecy of the end of World War I, then the Russian Revolution, the spread of Communism, World War II and the annihilation of whole nations. The apparition ends with her request to consecrate Russia to her Heart, do the 1st Saturday devotions and to say the Fatima Prayer at the end of each decade of the Rosary:

O my Jesus,
Forgive us ours sins,
save us from the fires of Hell,
lead all souls to Heaven,
especially those most in need of thy mercy.

Dr. Mark stresses that not all of these prophecies have come to past yet, especially the annihilation of nations. The best way to prevent this is to encourage more people to head her requests and to ask for the declaration of the 5th Marian Dogma.

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

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Homily #100507 ( 04min) Play – “…my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he will take away: and every one that bears fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” -John 15; 1,2
Ave Maria! St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr – Mass: EF, Protexisti – Readings: 1st: wis 5:1-5 – Gsp: joh 15:1-7

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This was originally posted on MaryVictrix on Holy Thursday, April 1st and was meant to be the first part of the post just below.

Homily #100330 ( 04min) Play – As we read the gospel accounts of this week we are saddened because we see our Lord suffering and that it is our own sins which caused this. However, we also have reason to rejoice because by His death we will be made clean and be resurrected to life with Him.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Isa 49:1-6
R: Ps 71:1-6,15,17
G: Jn 13:21-33,36-38

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