April 9, 2008
Apr 9 – Homily – Fr Angelo: Unless You Eat My Body and Drink My Blood You Will Have No Life In You.
Homily #080409 ( 09min) Play - Was Our Lord speaking figuratively when He said in the sixth chapter of St John that He was the Bread of Life?. Our Protestant brethren believe so.…
We Adore Thee, O Christ, and We Praise Thee
September 4, 2008
We Adore Thee, O Christ, and We Praise Thee
? Ave Maria Meditations ? ? ? Jesus is very near to us: in Christian countries where there are so many tabernacles we are hardly ever more than a few miles from Him.…
My God, if You exist, make Your existance known to me!
November 30, 2008
My God, if You exist, make Your existance known to me!
Ave Maria Meditations A cry from the heart: My God, if You exist, make Your existance known to me! from Bl. Charles de Foucauld before his conversion As soon as I believed…
May 13th: Our Lady of Fatima; Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament
Ave Maria Meditations MAY 13TH: OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT/ OUR LADY OF FATIMA OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT This title was given to our Blessed Mother in May 1868 by…
One Minute Meditation: St. Paschal Baylon
May 16, 2009
One Minute Meditation: St. Paschal Baylon
May 17th: St. Paschal Baylon (1540-1592) Patron of Eucharistic Congresses This Franciscan lay brother had an extraordinary love for Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament. This humble brother, devoted to prayer, would gather…
Mysterium Fidei
June 13, 2009
Mysterium Fidei
Ave Maria Meditations + The Mystery of Faith: TRANSUBSTANTIATION + The words of Our Lord cannot be watered down: the bread which I shall give is my flesh for the life of the…
St. Alphonus Liguori
August 1, 2009
St. Alphonus Liguori
Ave Maria Meditations August 1st: St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist Order SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1696-1787) An Act of Spiritual Communion My Jesus, I believe that…
An Apostle of Eucharistic Adoration
August 2, 2009
An Apostle of Eucharistic Adoration
Ave Maria Meditations August 2nd: St. Peter Julian Eymard, Apostle of Eucharistic Adoration St. Peter Julian Eymard was born in France in 1811. He was ordained in 1834 for the Society of Mary.…
In this Year of the Priest: The Necessity of Eucharistic Spirituality
September 1, 2009
In this Year of the Priest: The Necessity of Eucharistic Spirituality
Ave Maria Meditations excerpts from ECCLESIA DE EUCHARISTIA: On the Eucharist in its relationship to the Church Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II, April 2003 The Church draws her life from the…
October 3rd: Blessed Columba Marmion
October 3, 2009
October 3rd: Blessed Columba Marmion
Ave Maria Meditations Link to Bl. Columba Marmion "CHARITY is a much more important virtue, and more agreeable to God, than Austerity." "LITURGY is the ritual and language which the Church employs to…
O Blessed Host
October 5, 2009
O Blessed Host
Ave Maria Meditations With all the many things that could be said about the Apostle of Divine Mercy, St. Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament, let us look at this beautiful litany of…
Thoughts on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
November 5, 2009
Thoughts on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Ave Maria Meditations The Eucharistic sacrifice and the ordinary life of the Christian. The Second Vatican Council reminds us that the sacrifice of the Cross and its sacramental renewal in the Mass are,…
March 15, 2010
Mar 15 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: The Word Has Spoken
Homily #100315 ( 07min) Play - We are called to have faith in the words our Lord has spoken, words that do not return empty. This is My Body...this is My Blood... Ave…
The Holy Eucharist: the Presence of Divine Mercy
April 15, 2010
The Holy Eucharist: the Presence of Divine Mercy
Ave Maria Meditations The Eucharist: THE PRESENCE OF MERCY In His great love for us, the Lord Jesus gave us a great miracle of mercy: the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist Christ's…