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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Faith Spiritual Life

July 7, 2014

For the Love of Christ

Ave Maria Meditations "Christ says: “If you love me ... ” Faith does not just mean accepting a certain number of abstract truths about the mysteries of God, of man, of life and…

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Sep 29 – Homily – Fr Matthias: St. Michael and the Popes

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September 29, 2014

Sep 29 – Homily – Fr Matthias: St. Michael and the Popes

Homily #140929n ( 11min) Play - Father Matthias shows us the importance of having recourse to St. Michael by pulling from the words and actions of the modern Popes. Let us call upon…

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Preparing for the Coming of the Holy One of God

Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Spiritual Life

December 16, 2014

Preparing for the Coming of the Holy One of God

Ave Maria Meditations "Mary wrapped the child in swaddling cloths. Without yielding to sentimentality, we may imagine with what great love Mary approached her hour and prepared for the birth of her child.…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional

April 5, 2015

Light and Christmas and Easter

Ave Maria Meditations During the two great holy nights of the church year, Christmas and Easter, the symbolism of light fuses with the symbolism of night. On both locations the church uses the…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Spiritual Life

April 16, 2015

Happy Birthday, Pope Emeritus!

Ave Maria Meditations Birthdate of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: April 16, 1927 And only where God is seen does life truly begin. Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we…

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May 01 – Homily – Fr Matthias: An Ecology of Man

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May 1, 2015

May 01 – Homily – Fr Matthias: An Ecology of Man

Homily #150501n ( 09min) Play - Father Matthias comments on the purpose of the created world, and why we should take care of it. As Pope Benedict XVI said, we need an "Ecology…

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Mary Immaculate, Our Mother and Advocate

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May 16, 2015

Mary Immaculate, Our Mother and Advocate

Ave Maria Meditations Mary's look is God's look on each one of us. She looks at us with the very love of the Father and blesses us. She behaves as our "advocate" --…

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Jul 03 – Homily – Fr Matthias: Believe, Understand, and Practice

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July 3, 2015

Jul 03 – Homily – Fr Matthias: Believe, Understand, and Practice

Homily #150703n ( 06min) Play - Father gives us some insights from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI about St. Thomas, who moved from doubting Thomas to believing Thomas. Let us listen to these…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Spiritual Life

July 28, 2015

Keeping the Commandments

Ave Maria Meditations Keeping the Commandments The Decalogue, the "Ten Words" or Ten Commandments, which comes from the Torah of Moses, is a shining star of faith and morals for the people of God,…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotion to Mary Devotional Immaculate Conception Marian Things Spiritual Life

December 8, 2015

I am the Immaculate Conception

Ave Maria Meditations encore O Mary, Immaculate Virgin, again this year, with filial love, we meet at the foot of your image to renew to you the homage of the Christian community and…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Prayer Pro-Life

January 22, 2016

Prayer for the Unborn

Ave Maria Meditations Pope Benedict’s Prayer for the Unborn: Lord Jesus, You who faithfully visit and fulfill with your Presence the Church and the history of men; You who in the miraculous Sacrament of…

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Commemoration of the Birth of Our Immaculate Mother Mary

Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotion to Mary Devotional Immaculate Conception Marian Things Spiritual Life

September 8, 2016

Commemoration of the Birth of Our Immaculate Mother Mary

Ave Maria Meditations What does Mary being "Immaculate" mean? And what does this title tell us?... After the Original Sin, God addresses the serpent, which represents Satan, curses it and adds a promise:…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Spiritual Life

October 25, 2016

The Desire for Peace

Ave Maria Meditations In every person the desire for peace is an essential aspiration which coincides in a certain way with the desire for a full, happy, and successful human life. In other…

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Feb 11 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Her Personal Presence

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February 11, 2017

Feb 11 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Her Personal Presence

Mary's apparition at Lourdes is one of a cluster of her interventions surrounding the Proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Father Angelo says these show her power and personal solicitude…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Eucharistic Adoration Sacraments Spiritual Life

June 10, 2017

On Eucharistic Adoration

Ave Maria Meditations Pope Benedict XVI wrote, "Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a…

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