Entering into the Week of the Passion
March 24, 2013
Entering into the Week of the Passion
Ave Maria Meditations O Jesus, help me to enter into the mystery of Your Passion; deign to associate me with it, so that I may participate in Your Resurrection. Meditation Today Passiontide begins,…
Celebrating Pope Francis’ Arrival
March 24, 2013
Celebrating Pope Francis’ Arrival
Ave Maria! For Palm Sunday here is a video commemorating the election of Pope Francis, Christ's newly chosen Vicar, ending with his appearance on the loggia to a cheering crowd waving, not palm branches, but flags from…
March 24, 2013
Mar 24 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Conforming to the Will of God
Homily #130324b ( 08min) Play - On Palm Sunday Fr. Joachim preaches on how Jesus sacrificed himself for the Church and that we are to follow His example, going forward, trusting in God, bending our…
Pope Francis visits Benedict XVI
March 23, 2013
Pope Francis visits Benedict XVI
Ave Maria! - Pope Francis meets with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI today, a truly historic event. Benedict's frailty was quite evident. This meeting continues many gestures of respect that Pope Francis has made to the retired pontiff starting…
March 23, 2013
Mar 23 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: Darkness of Christians
Homily #130323 ( 03min) Play - Fr. Ignatius explains how the darkness of the Jews in accepting Jesus is similar to Christians today who imagine they do believe, but only in their own way…
March 23, 2013
Mar 23 – Homily – Fr Joachim: Nearing the Crucifixion
Homily #130323b ( 05min) Play - On the day before Palm Sunday, Fr. Joachim preaches on the events and plots that lead up to Jesus being crucified as a criminal. Yet, even here…
March 23, 2013
Video – Variety #229: Useless Projects?
Variety #229 - Stacking Rocks( 02min) >>> Play Ave Maria! It may seem that what we are assigned to do is useless, and maybe it is, maybe this pile of rocks is now…
Patriarch Bartholomew invites Pope to Jerusalem to celebrate historic…
Ave Maria! Pope Francis is busy spreading peace and goodwill (Pax et Bonum, as St. Francis would say) with our separated brethren, a theme dear to many of his predecessors, especially Benedict. http://en.romereports.com The main leader…
Giving Christian Witness in a Hostile Society
March 22, 2013
Giving Christian Witness in a Hostile Society
Ave Maria Meditations "To serve God is to seek a way to human hearts, to serve God is to speak out about evil as a sickness which should be brought to light so…