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Homily for Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Download: 20131031-065543.mp3  Filed under: Catholicism, Church, homilies, Literature, Religion, Spirituality Tagged: Darkness, Halloween, Light From MaryVictrix.com

Margaret Vander Heiden was the pillar of Lanherne. She had worked with both the Carmelite Sisters for many years and then after their departure with the contemplative community of Franciscan Sisters of the…

The former prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy has told a traditionalist group that Pope Francis has no intention of restricting access to the Extraordinary Form of the Latin liturgy. “I met…

Several weeks ago I gave a conference to our Third Order in New Bedford on St. Francis and his charism entitled “St. Francis through the Eyes of St. Bonaventure, through the Eyes of…

Several weeks ago I gave a conference to our Third Order in New Bedford on St. Francis and his charism entitled “St. Francis through the Eyes of St. Bonaventure, through the Eyes of…

Last week I was in Bloomington Indiana where I gave a retreat on the Apocalypse.  The retreat conferences should be up on AirMaria at some point in the near future, at which time…

“Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”…

Homily for the Feast of the Miraculous Medal Download: 20131127-122307.mp3 Filed under: homilies, Liturgy, Religion Tagged: Immaculate Conception, Miraculous Medal, St. Catherine Laboure From MaryVictrix.com

Homily for the Feast of St. Andrew Download: 20131130-122424.mp3 Filed under: Catholicism, homilies, Liturgy, Religion, Spirituality Tagged: Apostolicity, Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, St. Andrew From MaryVictrix.com

In the above photograph Fr. Fidenzio Volpi, Apostolic Commissioner of the Franciscans of the Immaculate greets the Holy Father at the latter’s arrival at St. Mary Major on December 8th.  The Friars of…

Fr. Z. and the Neo-Orthodoxy More traditional than the Pope and letting him know it.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Evangelii Gaudium, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Pope Francis From MaryVictrix.com

Inconvenient Facts If Rorate Caeli calls it “nakedly biased,” you can be sure it contains facts they would rather you completely disregard.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Michael Miller, Pat…

Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him Who freed me From the self that I have been. Make…

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.…