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Video – Variety #159: World Youth Day Moments: Vigil Among the Youth

apostolate — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:08:57 +0000

Variety #159 – 2 Million Youth Camping Out ( 09min) >>> Play

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The exact estimates on how many came to Cuatro Vientos were prohibited by the Spanish government, but depending on which media sources, there where between 1.4 Million to 2 Million youth gathered to be with the Pope (an estimated 200,000 people were refused entry when the gates were closed at 5pm Saturday).

Don’t be surprised that the Spanish Government was not very cooperative, just over 70 years ago between July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 the government killed 1/3 of the Catholic Priests in Spain.

While we were in Spain we visited Alcala, a town 33 miles east of Madrid. We stopped by a Poor Clare Convent and they told us that one of their nuns was killed during the persecution.

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FiNews – Lightning, Thunder and Rain at WYD Vigil

apostolate — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:19:42 +0000

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Lightning bolts come down at the vigil at WYD. No one got hurt. But many got wet.

Below is a photo by Fra Didacus. Nice!!

Below is a professional photo by Madrid11.com. Nice! Which do you like best?

Video – Roving Reporter #121: Welcoming Celebration Plaza De Cibeles Madrid

apostolate — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:52:05 +0000

Roving Reporter #121 – Friar Roderic on the Pope’s welcoming ( 04min) >>> Play

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Friar Roderic gives a rundown of the grand Welcoming Celebration for Pope Benedict last night at the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid.

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FiNews – AirMaria In Madrid

apostolate — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:53:58 +0000

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The AirMaria team is in Madrid and will start posting video soon – hopefully. After a long flight, with a long layover, and travel time (36 hours all told) we finally arrived on Monday at the hotel in Madrid late in the afternoon, but there seems to be great confusion reigning here and a few technical mishaps that have delayed getting things on AirMaria.

We have, in fact, been quite productive but we are doing multilingual videos for some of the European sites through Fr. Alfonso Bruno, the FI communications director and this has taken most of our time as well as spending a good hour to get anywhere on the Metro Train. We may even be doing some live streaming at some point, again, hopefully.

The Pope will have his first Mass this evening and they expect upwards of a million people coming for the final event at the Madrid Aerodrome. So far the trains are already packed full of super energetic Catholic youth from around the world.

I cant imagine how busy and crowded it will be later on and how enthusiastic they will all be now that the Holy Father is in Madrid.

Packed likes Sardines.

Viva Italia!

Go America!

We will be attending the first public showing of the John Duns Scotus film at 5:15pm this evening where we will do an interview. The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate produced this movie in conjunction with TVCO in Italy. It is the official World Youth Day film and won the Vatican’s Silver Fish Award.

A map showing the incidents of persecution against Catholics at the Photographic Presentation of Christian Persecution at St Jerome’s parish in Madrid set up by the . This was narrated for our French site by Cristina Tatu of Aid to the Church in Need. Wait for the Video.

Jan 31 – Homily – Fr Angelo: St. John Bosco’s “Preventive Method” of Education

apostolate — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:22:22 +0000

Homily #110131 ( 16min) Play – Fr. Angelo explains St. John Bosco’s “Preventive Method” of Education – Reason, Religion, and Kindness.
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Mass: St. John Bosco, Confessor – Third Class – Form: EF, Dedit Illi Deus
Readings:
1st: phi 4:4-9
Gsp: mat 18:1-5

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Video – Face of Pro-Life #119: Jill Sackidovitch – Reaching out to Youth

apostolate — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:36:17 +0000

Face of Pro-Life #119 – Corinn Dahm and Jill Sackidovitch on the youth ( 30min) >>> Play

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Jill Sackidovitch director of the Westbrook, CT branch of Birthright offers her insight of how to reach out to youth with a Pro-life message in this modern, changing, materialistic world, making use of her ample experience working with young teenage mothers coming to her local Birthright facility. She also set up a booth at a local fair and had much more contact with youth in general. She believes that the joy of life message has been received very well by youth. She believes that youth are increasingly pro-life and describes the free materials that she offered to the youth. She also mentions how ultrasound images of their little babies is very powerful for young mothers and how the youth and even young children understand the sanctity of human life very well. The youth are also very quick to notice a lack of sincerity and are quite skeptical in general so it is important not to talk down to them. They want to hear the other side of the story as opposed to the line they get from TV etc. We must provide them with this other side, the culture of life that raises the dignity of humanity and leads to eternal life.

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Video – Face of Pro-Life #121: Friar Gabriel Cortes – Pro-life Down Under

apostolate — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:39 +0000

Face of Pro-Life #121 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes continues his story from last episode where he related his conversion story. Now he covers his ministry work in the land down under, Australia. He first fills in the details of his conversion and then relates his experience of being in Toodyay and Perth, Australia for ten years. He covers his ministry with the youth where he uses his skill at skateboarding to break the ice. He has been able to start many conversations with the youth and even win the friendship of whole neighborhoods of kids. His passing out of Miraculous Medals, his trip to World Youth Day in Sidney, his trips to skate parks and many, many encounters with people of all ages.

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Mission Down Under #8 – SCENE 2010 in Sydney

Aussie Friars — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:49:51 +0000

Mission Down Under #8 – SCENE 2010 in Sydney ( 5 min)>>> Play

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This week-long event was organized by SCENE (Sydney Congress Embracing the New Evangelisation) and was designed to keep the fire of the Faith, kindled at WYD 2008, burning brightly in the hearts of the youth.

Events included talks by bishops and visiting priests, seminars and actual street evangelization, Holy Mass, adoration, vocations expo, and entertainment nights. Footage taken at SCENE 2009 can be seen here.

This video shows the location of the vocation expo as well as some footage of St. Mary’s Cathedral and centers around a train ride into the city center one day while a young fellow-participant plays the guitar.

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Video – Face of Pro-Life #101: Healthcare for the Elderly

apostolate — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:11:53 +0000

Face of Pro-Life #101 – Dr. Lorraine Hartnett sounds-off ( 06min) >>> Play

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Lorraine Hartnett gives a quick passionate run-down of the effects on medicine of legislation like Obamacare, bringing up:

Loss of Judeo-Christian principles
Starving the Elderly
Physician assisted suicide
Rationing Healthcare
Culture of death
Elderly being undervalued
Fragility of our good health
Youth need to watch out as well
Holiness of life
Need for action, wake-up
Catholic Values

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Video – Face of Pro-Life #92: Youth from Holy Family Academy

apostolate — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:58:53 +0000

Face of Pro-Life #92 – Gabriella Velazquez and Sarah Cloutier with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Gabriella Velazquez and Sarah Cloutier from the Catholic Club at the Holy Family Academy in Baltic, CT. They relate all their pro-life activities which include Pro-Life Coffee Houses which fund Bill Boards, Youth for Life Conferences, 40 Days for Life and their Chastity Club. Most of all, though, they talk about their group trip to the March for Life in DC, all the activities they took part in and the experiences they had there, including the overwhelming size of the crowd that was mostly their age.

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