Homily #090908 ( 04min) Play – On Our Lady’s Birthday Fr. Ignatius focuses on this evenings prefession of first vows for our four Novices and relates this to our Baptismal vows.

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Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: pro 8:22-35 – Gsp: mat 1:1-16

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Homily #100908s ( 14min) Play – today on the feast of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary we have our annual professions where our novices make first profession and those in temporary vows renew theirs. Fr. Angelo relates this generous sacrifice of their lives (to the service of God) to the calling mentioned by Paul in the first reading and the calling of Mary and Joseph to the exulted role of heading the Holy Family that is related in the Gospel. He also relates this to the sacrifices of St Maximilian (one of the patrons of our order) who pursued heroic efforts to spread the faith and how difficulties when conformed to Christ becomes effective to the conversion of others.

Ave Maria! – Mass: – Readings:
1: Rom 8:28-30
R: Ps 13:6
G: Mt 1:1-16,18-23

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Fi News #84 – Newly Professed ( 04min) >>> Play

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Three young men–Friar Isaac Joseph Mary, Friar Joseph Paul Mary, and Friar Gabriel Marc Mary– make their first vows, giving their lives in total Consecration to Our Lady, in poverty, chastity, and obedience; a gift for God and for the Church — a gift from Mary, a gift for Mary.

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Homily #110908 ( 10min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the importance of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary on earth.
Ave Maria!
Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass: OF
Readings: – Proper
1st: mic 5:1-4
R: psa 13:6, 6
Gsp: mat 1:1-16, 18-23

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Mary’s Nativity draws tens of thousands to Indian basilica

By Antonio Anup Gonsalves

Basilica of St Mary in Bangalore (L) and a statue of the Virgin Mary inside the basilica traditionally dressed in an Indian Sari. Credit: St Mary’s Basilica Bangalore.

Bangalore, India, Sep 4, 2013 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Huge crowds started gathering in Bangalore, India, last week, as the city’s novena leading up to the Nativity of Mary began with the city’s archbishop raising a Marian flag in prayer.

“The Virgin Mary is the Mother of God and also our heavenly mother, and thus people tend to venerate her motherly affection and dress her in local culture as their mother,” said Father J. Sandhayagu, administrator of St. Mary’s Basilica in the capital of the south-western Indian state of Karnataka.

The statue of Mary found in the basilica is daily dressed in an elaborate sari, often laced with gold thread and jewelry, offered as a fulfillment of vows.

“The Nativity of Mary is an important feast for the Archdiocese of Bangalore,” Fr. Sandhayagu continued. He told CNA on Aug. 30 that millions of people, irrespective of culture and religion, flock to participate at the city’s Marian novena.

Archbishop Bernard Moras hoisted a Marian flag on Aug. 29 in the presence of some 15,000 devotees to initiate the novena, or nine-day period of prayer. In his homily, he reflected on the Year of Faith as an opportune time for renewal and spiritual richness.

The novena continues through Sept. 7, the vigil of the Feast of Mary’s Nativity – or birth – and is crowned by a procession and a festive Mass celebrated on the feast day itself.

During the novena, around 30,000 people participate in Mass, Adoration, Anointing of the Sick, Confession, and other events each day, said Fr. Sandhayagu.

“Over the years the numbers of devotees have tremendously increased their participation in the liturgies and in Confession.”

St. Mary’s Basilica, he said, “has been witnessing numerous miracles and healings. People receive grace, hence people of all faith, including Hindus, Muslims, and other religions, rush every day to seek blessings.”

During the novena, Mass is said every half hour in the basilica from 5:30 in the morning until 9:00 at night, with up to 5,000 people attending each Mass.

The government of Karnataka provides security during the novena, and ministers, bureaucrats and leaders – even those who aren’t Catholic – participate in the festival and seek blessings.

The vast presence of devotees flocking to Bangalore is “evidence of faith, and prayerful and spiritual graces,” Fr. Sandhayagu said, with pilgrims bringing offerings of flowers, candles, clothes, jewelry and food to the basilica.

The basilica is the oldest church in the Bangalore archdiocese, having been consecrated in 1882 on Mary’s Nativity. It was named a minor basilica by Paul VI in 1973.

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Homily #140608b ( 17min) Play – Fr. Elias no how Pentecost with the coming of the promised Holy Spirit is the fulfillment of the Paschal Mystery. He explains how this is the birthday of the Church since the Holy Spirit breathes life into the infant Church to enable it to preach and Baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Mass: Pentecost Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 2:1-11
Resp: psa 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
2nd: 1co 12:3-7, 12-13
Gsp: joh 20:19-23

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Homily #140908b ( 12min) Play – Fr. Angelo sheds light on the joy and beauty of the birth of Mary who became the Mother of God. Like all births it is a start of new life and new hope of a soul that can choose to do the will of God, to participate in bringing His plans to fruition. So much more so with Mary’s birth who will bring to us our Redeemer.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: mic 5:1-4
Resp: psa 13:6, 6
Gsp: mat 1:1-16, 18-23

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Homily #150624n ( 07min) Play – Father Maximilian comments on the reading and themes of today’s liturgy, telling us that only in the case of St. John the Baptist, Our Lady, and Our Lord do we celebrate their birthday into this world. St. John has a unique place of being the last prophet of the Old Testament and the first herald of the New.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Birth of St. John the Baptist – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 49:1-6
Resp: psa 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15
2nd: act 13:22-26
Gsp: luk 1:57-66, 80

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Dr. Mark Miravalle on how to celebrate Mary’s Birthday

For more information and resources:

• Phone: 740-937-2277
• Site: http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/
• Email: mary@motherofallpeoples.com

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Fr. Ignatius on the Birthday of Mary explains the need to honor her. This is what we should do on our mother’s birthday, give her honor. And, the best way is to pray the Rosary.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast
Readings: 
1st: rom 8:28-30
Resp: psa 13:6, 6 0
Gsp: mat 1:1-16, 18-23

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