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Homily #110411 ( 07min) Play – The woman caught in adultery is accused by those who are themselves guilty. There refusal to give mercy and to believe in the Messiah is contrasted to the accused woman who humbles herself and receives mercy from Him.
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Mass: Monday 5th Week of Lent – – Form:
Readings:
1st: dan 13:41-62
Resp: psa 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6
Gsp: joh 8:1-11

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Homily #110327 ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo preaches on today’s Gospel where Our Lord comes to the well in Samaria and converses with a women about the living water that he has and how anyone who drinks this water will not thirst again.  Father highlights the fact that the spiritual water he is offering is different from the physical water in the well and infinitely more satisfying but uses His own physical thirst to lift up the woman from the physical to the spiritual realm. She, in turn, goes and gathers her own townspeople to Christ. This all sheds light on the wonder of the incarnation where the true God becomes true man in order for man to truly share in His divinity and to share in the work of spreading this truth.
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Mass: Sunday 3rd Week of Lent – Form:
Readings:
1st: exo 17:3-7
Resp: psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: rom 5:1-2, 5-8
Gsp: joh 4:5-42

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Homily #101017 ( 19min) Play – Our Lord gives us the parable in today’s Gospel of the unjust judge who cares nothing about God nor man, but after being pestered enough by the woman seeking justice he gives her request. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to follow this woman’s example to pester God who is, instead, a just Judge, and so will all the more give us all that is good. Not only is it good to keep pestering good but Jesus give us a command to do so. He know all that we need ahead of time but we need to show him our trust in his goodness by continuing to beseech him even when we get tired of praying.
Ave Maria! 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: exo 17:8-13
Resp: psa 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
2nd: 2ti 3:14-4:2
Gsp: luk 18:1-8

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Roving Reporter #115 – The Fruit of Love ( 04min) >>> Play

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Marriage Day at the Aldrich Mansion – Sunday, August 16

The Marriage Day Celebration included live worship music, guest speakers, plenty of food, and activities for children. Tickets were sold for a cook-out style meal but attendees could also bring a picnic lunch. The highlight of the Sunday afternoon event was for married couples to renew their vows together at a beautiful waterfront setting.

This was a great opportunity to take a stand for marriage as it was created: between a man and a woman. Our goal is to esteem marriage to its proper place in society and make a statement that Rhode Islanders believe strongly in this cherished institution.

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Homily #100804 ( 14min) Play – “…the woman came and did him homage, saying, “Lord, help me.” He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.”

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Canaan was a land that consumed it’s youth by cannibalism and this is why in the past God commanded His chosen people to wipe out the Canaanites and it is from this people that the woman in the Gospel today comes from.
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Homily #100312 ( 03min) Play – Fr. Ignatius preaches on the Gospel story of the Christ’s discourse with the woman at the well. Here Jesus talks about the well of living water which is Himself, true drink and true food.
Ave Maria! Friday of the Third Week in Lent – Mass: EF, Fac Mecum – Readings: 1st: num 20:1,3,6-18 – Gsp: joh 4:5-42

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From the Wake Up Call CD, Angelina actually recorded this version when she was 12 years old. The Music Video was shot, very early in the morning, in Italy on the Meditteranean approximately 3 years

Miscellanea #50 – Up Capital Hill ( 04min) >>> Play

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Organizer Nellie Gray told the press that the numbers of marchers this year far exceeded last year, which was estimated at well over 300,000.  That sentiment was echoed by many long-time March for Life participants. LifeSiteNews.com

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Homily #091026 ( 06min) Play – The woman in today’s Gospel was cured of a crippling decease from an evil spirit. This is symbolic of mankind’s spiritual healing.
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Three months after the Angel’s message-at the end of June,

The Woman who is bright as the sun and fair as the moon

Feels the Heart of her Infant throb beneath hers.

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In the womb of the Virgin Immaculate a new world begins,

The Child who is older than time enters time for our sins,

And with human breathing the First Mover stirs.

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Mary, heavy with child conceived by the Holy Ghost,

Is far fiom the sight of men with her heavenly Host,

Like the dove of the Canticle in the crannied wall.

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She moves not, she speaks not a word, she adores-no more;

Her life is within, her God is within to adore,

Her work and her son, her child, her all.

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The world is at peace, the temple of Janus is shut,

The scepter of David is gone and the prophets are mute,

Lo! darker than Hades, a dawn without light.

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For Satan holds sway and the world gives him incense and gold,

But into his kingdom God comes like a thief, and behold

A daughter of Eve puts the serpent to flight.

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The promised Messiah is come, for whom the world prays,

Men know not the good tidings yet, but, far from their gaze,

The Mother is circled by Cherubim bright.

Paul Claudel

DEDICATED TO THE WOMAN I LOVE:

The Woman whom even God dreamed of

Before the world was made;

The Woman of whom I was born

At a cost of pain and labor at a Cross;

The Woman who, though no priest,

Could yet on Calvary’s Hill breathe,

“This is my Body; This is my Blood”

For none save her gave Him human life.

The Woman who guides my pen,

Which falters so with words

In telling of the Word.

The Woman who, in a world of Reds,

Shows forth the blue of hope.

Accept these dried grapes of thoughts

From this poor author, who has no wine;

And with Cana’s magic and thy Son’s Power

Work a miracle and save a soul

Forgetting not my own.

The Servant of God: Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Fr. Philip Neri Powell from Domine da mihi hanc aquam! has posted a very enlightened defense of Marian coredemption. In particular I would like to make note of his replies to the objections against the fifth Marian dogma. He says there are basically two objections: 1) “a declaration of the proposed dogma is unnecessary since Catholic theology already recognizes Mary’s unique role in God’s plan for human salvation”; 2) “the dogma is ecumenically dangerous in that it threatens good relations with other Christian ecclesial communities by seeming to elevate Mary to a level equal to that of Christ as sole Redeemer.” For a thorough response to these objections I send you directly to his post. What I am most interested in is his response to objection 2 which I think is brilliant:

Father Powell puts his finger on the fear of many Catholics to speak the truth in the face of Protestant objections: “That we would flinch from speaking the truth because some might misunderstand simply means that we fear a negative response from our ecumenical partners.” I find this very true, for example, when discussing the meaning of the term “coredemption.” Many of the Catholic objectors to the dogma say that “coredemption” is an inherently confusing term because of the various ways in which “co-” can be used as a prefix. In English it means generally, as Father Powell points out, “with” and “equal to,” which is not the case in Latin. The point is that, yes, the term needs to be explained, but so what? Why don’t we just explain it? (more…)

Short Series #21 – Msgr. Calkins on Our Lady of All Nations, the Bible and Marian Coredemption ( 53min) >>> Play

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Msgr. Arthur Burton Calkins (bio) an internationally renowned Marian Theologian and an official of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei gave a talk titled “Our Lady of All Nations, the Woman of Genesis and the Apocalypse” at our Amsterdam Coredemption Conference on May 31, 2008. In this excellent, scholarly talk Msgr. Calkins connects the Marian apparition on Our Lady of All Nations and many other approved apparitions with that of the woman of the proto-evangelicum in Genesis and of the Apocalypse and so connects a wide spread of Marian private revelation with the entirety of Biblical Revelation all in support of the Coredemption.

For more information on the Amsterdam Coredemption Conference: http://airmaria.com/events/Amsterdam/Amsterdam.htm

The sound is a little poor at first but it improves after the first few minutes so please bear with us.

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