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December 11, 2013

TIME’s Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis, The People’s Pope | TIME.com

On the edge of Buenos Aires is a nothing little street called Pasaje C, a shot of dried mud leading into a slum from what passes for a main road, the garbage-strewn Mariano Acosta.…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Joachim Homily

December 12, 2013

Dec 12 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Mary’s Motherly Motivation in Mexico

Homily #131212b ( 12min) Play - Fr. Joachim gives the great story of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego and the miracle of the imprinting of her image…

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Fr. Benedict Grant Griswold, CT Homily

December 12, 2013

Dec 12 – Homily – Fr Benedict: Patroness of Life Against Culture of Death

Homily #131212 ( 19min) Play - Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of pro-life who assists us in the war against the culture of death: abortion, contraception, pornography, and homosexual unions. We…

Griswold Friars

Fr. Angelo Geiger Homily Marian Things New Bedford, MA New Evangelization

December 12, 2013

Dec 12 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Our Tender Mother and the New Evangelization

Homily #131212n ( 15min) Play - Fr. Angelo gives us the historical context Our Lady appeared in, and contrasts Her, who called herself Tender Mother, with the demonic mother deity of the Aztecs, Coatlicue.…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Marian Things Spiritual Life

December 12, 2013

Am I Not Here Who Am Your Mother?

Ave Maria Meditations Some of the words of Our Lady to St. Juan Diego: Know for certain, littlest of my sons, that I am the perfect and perpetual Virgin Mary, Mother of the…

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Bloomington, IN Guest Homilist Homily

December 12, 2013

Dec 12 – Homily – Mons Shaedel: Miraculous Image of Guadalupe

Homily #131212b ( 08min) Play - Mons. Joseph Schaedel gives the homily for the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center for our December Day of Reflection titled Advent Through the Eyes of Joseph and Mary on the feast…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Elias Mills Homily

December 13, 2013

Dec 13 – Homily – Fr Elias: St. Lucy, Light for the Eyes of Faith

Homily #131213b ( 08min) Play - Fr. Elias on the life of St Lucy the virgin martyr and how she became the patron saint of eyes. Ave Maria! Mass: St. Lucy of Syracuse…

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Fr. Benedict Grant Griswold, CT Homily

December 13, 2013

Dec 13 – Homily – Fr Benedict: Protect Your Eyes From Impurity

Homily #131213 ( 11min) Play - St. Lucy is often depicted with her eyes plucked out for preserving her virginity. Imitating her virtue - like the seraphim whose eyes are covered by their…

Griswold Friars

Fr. Tito Homily St. Mary's, Baltic, CT

December 13, 2013

Dec 01 – Homily – Fr Tito: Advent a Time of Longing

Homily #131201t ( 07min) Play - Advent is the longing and Christmas is the arrival. There's an eternal kingdom that awaits us. God may allow evil to triumph for a time but not…

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Fi News Photos Vocations

December 13, 2013

Fi News: Australian Postulant Invested as Novice

Ave Maria! On December 7th, 2013, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel in Griswold, CT, our postulant from Australia joined the current class of novices by officially becoming a Franciscan Friar of the…

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Bloomington, IN Fr. Joachim Homily

December 14, 2013

Dec 14 – Homily – Fr Joachim: The Crosses of St. John

Homily #131214b ( 09min) Play - Fr. Joachim on the life of St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, how he had early mystical and miraculous experiences, entered religious life, started…

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Fr. Benedict Grant Griswold, CT Homily

December 14, 2013

Dec 14 – Homily – Fr Benedict: The Mystical Doctor

Homily #131214 ( 13min) Play - St. John of the Cross teaches us to find delight in spiritual things and to wean ourselves from the delights of the world. The depths of his…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Franciscan Things Marian Things Saints

December 14, 2013

Queen of the Seraphic Order

Ave Maria Meditations encore Our Lady is Queen of the Seraphic (Franciscan) Order Feast Day is December 15th Saint Francis' Greetings to the Blessed Virgin: Hail, Lady and Queen, holy Mary, Mother…

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Fr. Maximilian Warnisher Homily New Bedford, MA Penance

December 14, 2013

Dec 14 – Homily – Fr Maximilian: Union with God-Much Prayer, Much Sacrifice, Much Mortification

Homily #131214n ( 05min) Play - Today's gospel shows that Elijah was supposed to return before the Messiah, and Our Lord tells us that this prophesy was fulfilled by John the Baptist. This…

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Conferences

December 14, 2013

Video – Meaning of Advent Through the Eyes of Joseph and Mary P1of3 – CONF 242

Conferences #242 - ( 00min) >>> Play Ave Maria! Mons. Joseph Schaedel gives the first of three talks at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center for our December Day of Reflection titled Advent Through…

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December 2013