 Variety #151 – Assumption Novena (  08min) >>> Play |
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Please join Fr. Peter in a Novena in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Each day, from the 6th up to the 14th, he gives a short reflection on Our Lady followed by a prayer. Perhaps you can suggest some intentions (for family, for loved ones, for World Youth Day, end to abortion, contraception, etc.).
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With the Solemnity of the Assumption in the same month as the Feast of St. Peter Julian Eymard (founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers whose feast day was August 2nd), here is a meditation from him on Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament:
Our Lady: Model of Eucharistic Devotion
Our Lady’s offering of the bloody sacrifice of Calvary is the perfect model for your offering Holy Mass. She suffered with her divine Son. Never did a mother love her son as she loved Jesus; and so never did a mother share in her son’s agony so deeply as she shared the Passion. Jesus died because He willed to die. Mary must have willed her Son’s death, because, hard as it was to make this sacrifice, it would have been quite impossible for her will to be the least separated from His. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind so deeply as Mary’s Heart, and therefore she wanted to unite her will to His, offering to Almighty God this Holy Sacrifice out of pure charity for the human race.
Mary is truly your model in offering Holy Mass. Ask Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament to help you to share actively in Holy Mass by sharing in her spirit. She will teach you to imitate her by accepting willingly all the suffering which your service of God involves, your struggles against temptation, your difficult acts of virtue, your little penances-in union with the Victim Jesus on the altar out of love for God and mankind. (more…)
Marian Shrines of the World #10 – Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho ( |
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In this episode of Marian Shrines of the World, Fr. Andre takes us to Kibeho, Rwanda where we take a look at the apparitions and shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho.
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The Graces of Mary’s Immaculate Heart
We can say in truth that Jesus is the fruit of Mary’s heart as well as of her womb, and that the faithful are the fruits of the same heart, because the very virtues of faith, humility, purity, love, and charity, which rendered her worthy to become the Mother of God, made her also the Mother of all God’s children.
As the Eternal Father gave her the power to conceive his Son in her heart and in her virginal womb, by clothing her with the divine virtue whereby he generates his divine Son from all eternity in his own adorable bosom, so also did God grant her the power to form Christ and give birth to him in the hearts of the children of Adam, who thus became members of Jesus Christ and sons of God. Even as Mary conceived and will eternally bear her Son Jesus Christ in her heart, she also conceives and holds forever in the same heart all the holy members of our divine Head. They are her beloved children, the fruits of her maternal heart, and she offers them to the divine majesty as a perpetual sacrifice.
 Conferences #139 – Dr. Mark Miravalle on Long Island ( 43min) >>> Play |
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At the second talk at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Island in Manorville, Long Island, NY for a Day of Prayer in honor of The Lady of All Nations. Dr. Mark mentions that the fifth Marian dogma is already a doctrine of the Church and the petition drive for this dogma that is so clearly called for at the Amsterdam apparitions of The lady of All Nations starting in the 1940s was already and old idea. In fact, twenty-five years before these apparitions, petitions for this dogma were started by none other than Cardinal Mercier who was joined soon afterwords by St. Maximilian Kolbe. Dr. Mark systematically answers the following questions:
This is the second talk in a three part series from a conference on Long Island, NY on May 28, 2011:
Talk 1 – Dr. Mark Miravalle – The Lady of All Nations and World Peace
http://airmaria.com/2011/06/03/video-conferences-138-olo-all-nations-li-ny-miravalle-1/
Talk 2 – Dr. Mark Miravalle gives a Primer on the Fifth Marian Dogma
Talk 3 – Fr. Angelo Geiger – Coredemptrix and Spiritual Warfare
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Ave Maria Meditations! The Feast of the Nativity of Mary, September 8th
Whenever I say Hail Mary, the court of heaven rejoices and the earth is lost in wonderment…
And I despise the world; my heart is brim full of the love of God.
When I say Hail Mary: All my fears wilt and die and my passions are quelled.
If I say Hail Mary: Devotion grows within me and sorrow for sin awakens.
When I say Hail Mary, hope is made strong in my breast and the dew of consolation falls on my soul more and more…
Because I say Hail Mary. and my spirit rejoices and sorrow fades away…when I say Hail Mary.
by Blessed Alan de la Roche
September 12: Most Holy Name of Mary
Eight days after the birth of the Blessed Virgin, her holy parents, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, inspired by God, gave her the name of Mary. The name Mary means Lady, and also Star of the Sea. Just to say her holy name is a prayer. It gives everyone who does so favor with God and power over the devil.
Blessed Pope Innocent XI set up the feast of the Holy Name of Mary in 1683 to thank her for the victory which the Catholic army under John Sobieski, King of Poland gained over the Turks (Mohammedans), who were trying to sack Vienna and move in and conquer all the Catholics of the West. Mary’s name occurs in the first part and in the second part of the Hail Mary. In the middle of the Hail Mary, one speaks the Holy Name of Jesus.
Great apostles of the Holy Name of Mary have been Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux says, “O most holy Virgin Mary, your name is so sweet and admirable that one cannot say it without becoming inflamed with love toward God and toward you.” Others of particular note are St. Louis Marie de Montfort, St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Maximilian Kolbe. The Holy Father, Bl. John Paul II, choose as his motto Totus Tuus which is to say, “I am all yours (Mary).”
Ave Maria Meditations
O holy Mother, sweet and fair to see,
for us beseech the King, your dearest Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ, to death for us delivered:
that in his pitying clemency, and by virtue of his most holy incarnation
and bitter death, he may pardon our sins.
Holy Virgin Mary, among all the women of the world,
there is none like you. You are the daughter and handmaid of the most high King,
Father of heaven. You are the mother of our most holy Lord Jesus Christ.
You are the bride of the Holy Spirit. Pray for us, with St. Michael the archangel,
and all the powers of heaven and all the saints, to your most holy and beloved Son,
our Lord and Master, Amen.
+St. Francis of Assisi
1. At the cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful mother weeping,
close to Jesus to the last
2. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing,
all his bitter anguish bearing,
now at length the sword had passed.
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Pope St. Pius V established this feast in 1573. The purpose was to thank God for the victory of Christians over the Turks at Lepanto—a victory attributed to the praying of the rosary. Clement XI extended the feast to the universal Church in 1716.
The development of the rosary has a long history. First, a practice developed of praying 150 Our Fathers in imitation of the 150 Psalms. Then there was a parallel practice of praying 150 Hail Marys. Soon a mystery of Jesus’ life was attached to each Hail Mary. Though Mary’s giving the rosary to St. Dominic is recognized as a legend, the development of this prayer form owes much to the followers of St. Dominic. One of them, Alan de la Roche, was known as “the apostle of the rosary.” He founded the first Confraternity of the Rosary in the 15th century. In the 16th century the rosary was developed to its present form—with the 15 mysteries (joyful, sorrowful and glorious). In 2002, Pope John Paul II added the Mysteries of Light to this devotion.
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“The rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at a heart a Christ-centered prayer. It has all the depth of the gospel message in its entirety. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb…It can be said that the rosary is, in some sense, a prayer-commentary on the final chapter of the Vatican II Constitution Lumen Gentium, a chapter that discusses the wondrous presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church” (Pope John Paul II, apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary).
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MaryCast Specials #136 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains the power of the Rosary and how it has even changed the course of history. As such it is very much needed today and all Catholics need to take up this powerful prayer.
To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
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 Conferences #154 – Bp. Ricken giving the Homily at La Crosse ( 14min) >>> Play |
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Bishop David Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay gives the homily at this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. He gives a history of the apparition of Our Lady of Good Help which occurred in Champion, WI in 1859 and was recently approved by Bp. Ricken himself. He relates this to Our Lady of Guadalupe and the doctrine of Mary as Coredemptrix.
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 Marian Shrines of the World #11 – Our Lady of Knock ( 8 min) >>> Play |
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Join Fr. Andre in this episode of Marian Shrines of the World, as he looks at the apparition and Shrine of Our Lady of Knock in Ireland.
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 Conferences #155 – Fr. Peter introducing the Conference in La Crosse ( 13min) >>> Play |
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Fr. Peter Fehlner, the rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe gives and introduction for this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. He puts the talks for this conference in a historical context of the history of modern Marian apparitions starting with our lady of Guadalupe.
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 Conferences #156 – Dr. Miravalle in La Crosse ( 49min) >>> Play |
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Dr. Mark I. Miravalle a professor of mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and President of Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici, gives the first talk at this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. It is titled “Our Lady of All Nations, Queen of the Americas, and Her Remedy for Peace”.
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 Conferences #157 – Fr. Angelo speaking at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe ( 52min) >>> Play |
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Fr Angelo gives the second talk at this year’s Coredemption Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI on Oct 15. It is titled Bright as the Sun, Fair as the Moon: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Way of Beauty and uses the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe to show the relationship between prudence and art, i.e. moral and physical beauty. Then he shows the role of memory in our spiritual life through a way of beauty and how the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe replaced the despairing, dark memories of Aztec religion with beautiful, hopeful ones, and finally makes an analogy between the events at Tepeyac and our current predicament.
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