Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia

February's Theme: Religious Life Ave Maria! "Divine graces and the protection of the Immaculate are available for every religious in the place where he finds himself by obedience, meanwhile the flight from such…

February's Theme: Religious Life Ave Maria! "Uniformity is certainly necessary in the friary, even in the cutting of one's hair and, although not something essential, it is in conformity with the spirit of…

February's Theme: Religious Life Ave Maria! "However much each one of us faithfully serves the Immaculate, that much less will we seek ourselves and our own satisfaction, instead we will strive ever more…

February's Theme: Religious Life Ave Maria! "Dear sons, don't ever be afflicted over seeing your own defects, but entrust them completely to the Immaculate, so that She Herself may transform them into a…

February's Theme: Religious Life Ave Maria! "For a good life in common one must always seek to please the other members of the community and to do well one's own duties, without getting…

February's Theme: Religious Life Ave Maria! "Reciprocal love is the principal thing and is above everything else. This is the characteristic of every Christian and even more so of the religious: we must…

Ave Maria!-- February's Theme: Religious Life "Perfect joy consists in suffering for our Lord Jesus Christ: in community life, in fulfilling the duties which have been entrusted to us and which are not…

Ave Maria!-- February's Theme: Religious Life "The same way that you are and act with respect to your brothers, God will permit them to be and act with respect to you. Do not…

Ave Maria!-- February's Theme: Religious Life "In the hands of the Immaculate you can do everything. Entrust to Her all that you do not know or are not capable of doing, and then…

Ave Maria!-- February's Theme: Religious Life "When you feel that you have less light and strength, increase your trust all the more, because it is precisely in those moments that one demonstrates that…

Ave Maria!-- March's Theme: Suffering "True friendship experiences happiness in suffering for the person loved. There is nothing strange about the Saints, then, in having found heaven here on earth not in pleasures,…

Ave Maria!-- March's Theme: Suffering "When contradictions come, don't worry, but hand everything over to the Immaculate without limits, calmly doing what you can and trusting unlimitedly in Her. I know that contradictions…