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Homily #100702 ( 04min) Play – Today we celebrate the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St Elizabeth in the old calendar. Fr. Preaches on the darkness that the coming of Our Lord dispersed. Today we seem determined to to go back into the same darkness. As St. Padre Pio said of our modern times, “Tutte tenebre!”, all is darkness. Let us ask Our Lady that we have the grace to re-embrace the light of Christ with a new visitation.
Ave Maria! The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass: EF, Salve Sancta Parens – Readings: 1st: son 2:8-15 – Gsp: luk 1:39-47

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Homily #100531 ( 10min) Play – On the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth, Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the central role that Mary plays in the salvation of the world. As the Holy Spirit filled the heart of St Elizabeth at the voice of Mary and the babe leaped for joy in her womb so we should except Mary into our homes and hearts and the Holy Trinity will fill our souls.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: Zeph 3:14-18
R: Isa 12:2-6
G: Lk 1:39-56

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Homily #100508 ( 02min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mediatrix of all Graces which was established as a feast in the old calendar by Pope Benedict XV in 1921. He stresses that “Mediatrix” means she is Mother of All Christians in the order of grace.
Ave Maria! Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces – Mass: EF, Adeamus Cum – Readings: 1st: isa 55:1-1,5 – Gsp: joh 19:25-27

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from the CD titled RIVER OF GRACE (World Library Publications). This beautiful prayer video is sure to bring peace to a hurting heart.

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The biblical basis for Immaculate Conception of Our Lady and Church Fathers on the Immaculate Conception.

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Kibeho is a small town in South Rwanda, in the current administrative district of Nyaruguru, 162 km from the country’s capital city, Kigali. Kibeho is also the name given to one of the parishes in the diocese of Gikongoro, founded in 1934 and dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. Today, Kibeho is best known as a place of pilgrimages and Marian apparitions, which have been recognized by the Church.

The apparitions of Kibeho began on November 28th, 1981, and came to an end on November 28th, 1989. Our Lady first appeared to Alphonsine Mumureke, a 16-year-old girl, while she was still in high school. Teachers and students found it difficult to believe her and many mocked her. However, some time later other young students also claimed to have had visions: Natalie Mukamazimpaka, a 17-year-old girl who saw the Our Lady for almost two years, beginning in January 1982; and 21-year-old Marie-Claire Mukamgango, to whom the Mary appeared from March to September 1982, giving her the mission of spreading the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary throughout the Church. Four other people claim to have witnessed the apparitions; however, they have not been officially recognized by the Church.
In 1983, the apparitions were interrupted, and only Alphonsine continued to see the Our Lady each year on the 28th of November, until the year 1989.
To all these visionaries, Mary presented herself as the “Mother of the Word” (In the local language: “Nyina Wa Jambo”).

The message that Mary delivered in Kibeho is an urgent appeal to the world, a call for repentance and the conversion of hearts, for sincere prayer, a call to love and to live the faith intensely. But it is above all a call for reconciliation: Mary requests that sin be renounced; she deplores all forms of idolatry, lack of respect, materialism, hypocrisy and sexual immorality.

Mary calls on the world to change while there is still time, advising it against the serious consequences of its current moral state. On October 15th, 1982, the visions were frightful: flowing blood, people killing each other, abandoned dead bodies with no one to attend to the burial. These visions proved to be prophetic in view of the human dramas that took place in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region between 1994 and 1995 during the civil and ethnic wars between the Hutus and Tutsis. Within only a few months, the genocide claimed 800,000 lives in Rwanda, among whom were 3 bishops and more than 400 priests and religious. Marie-Claire, one the visionaries, was also killed during the massacre.

On August 15th, 1988, Bishop Jean Baptiste Gahamanyi of the Diocese of Butare allowed public worship at the Marian Shrine of Kibeho, and named it “Our Lady of Sorrows”. On June 21st, 2001, the Holy See gave its approval.
Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows

Holy Mary, Mother of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the Cross in our lives, so that we may complete in our bodies that which is lacking in the Passion of Christ, in benefit of His Mystical Body, …

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from the CD titled RIVER OF GRACE (World Library Publications). This beautiful prayer video is sure to bring peace to a hurting heart.

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Mary is not only the Mother of Jesus, but our Mother too, being the Mother of the mystical Body of Christ, the Church.

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Marycast #119 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle outlines the evils of abortion and how it relates to devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He points out that Abortion is the greatest evil that cries out for the just judgment of God and that the only sure remedy is to honor Our Lord’s most pure Mother especially with.

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

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Marycast #110 ( 10min) Play – Today Dr Miravalle discusses St Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary’s spouse and our spiritual father, as he is mentioned in the messages of Our Lady of America related to Sr Mary Ephrem Neuzil. He explains how St Joseph is the perfect example of a father in a world that has very little appreciation of this role and how he too suffered knowing the future sufferings of his Son, Our Lord.

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

Ave Maria!

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Marycast #101 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle continues with his discourse on the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on Mary. Here he covers Lumen Gentium 66-68 on the two extremes of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, of attributing divinity to Mary or, on the other extreme, not acknowledging her prerogatives, especially in regard to accepting her as our mother.

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

Ave Maria!

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Homily #091121 ( 05min) Play – Today we celebrate the presentation of Our Lady as a mere child by her parents Sts. Joachim and Anne to the temple in Jerusalem which was an ancient custom in Judea among the most pious Jews. Thus early in her life Mary is associated with the temple, the dwelling place of God, foreshadowing how she would be the dwelling place of God as she bore him in her womb and in her heart.
Ave Maria! The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass: EF, Common of the Blessed Virgin, Salve Sancta Parens – Readings: 1st: sir 24:14-16 – Gsp: luk 11:27-28

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My love lifts up his voice, he says to me, ‘Come then, my beloved, my lovely one, come’. (Song of Songs 2:10)

Ave Maria Meditations

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

Body and Soul into Heaven. August 15th
APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION OF POPE PIUS XII

MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS

DEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION

November 1, 1950

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19501101_munificentissimus-deus_en.html

40. Hence the revered Mother of God, from all eternity joined in a hidden way with Jesus Christ in one and the same decree of predestination, immaculate in her conception, a most perfect virgin in her divine motherhood, the noble associate of the divine Redeemer who has won a complete triumph over sin and its consequences, finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages.

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