Homily #090427 ( 08min) Play – Today is the feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel which is very dear to us here at the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate because it was in the shrine to Our Lady of Good Counsel in Frigento, Italy that our order was started by Fr. Stefano Manelli and Fr. Gabriele Pellettieri. Listen as Fr. Angelo explains how this happened under the wise council of Our Lady.

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Homily #090912 ( 08min) Play – This feast of the Holy Name of Mary was instituted to commemorate the victory of Christian forces led by King John Sobieski against the Muslims who were attacking Vienna, Austria. Father relates this to our interior spiritual battle and how we should invoke the name of Mary to win extraordinary victories.
Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: ecc 24:23-31 – Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Homily #090920 ( 22min) Play – In Mk 9:30-37 the Apostles do not understand when Our Lord says, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” Fr. explains that this habitual attitude in the Apostles is still the natural human attitude prevailing today.  Listen as Father shows how the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men.
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Homily #091004 ( 23min) Play – Today is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi (New Advent), the Poverello, who is the founder of the Franciscan Orders and so his feast supersedes Sunday’s liturgy at our Franciscan friary. Fr. Bonaventure explains the importance of the love of poverty that was so central to St. Francis’ spirituality and how this relates to devotion to Christ and Mary and the importance of the incarnation and the bodily death of Christ and to the renewal of the Church in our materialistic times.
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Dear Lady of Fatima sung by the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate “the Seven Joys of the Immaculate” Choir. from Hail Mary Volume 2. Images from Our Lady of Fatima Procession from St. Pius X Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas. 2009.

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Marycast #98 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark introduces us to the glorious Nine Choirs of the Angels (Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels)  and how Mary is their Queen by virtue of her Son.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Short Series #48 – Fulton Sheen’s love for Our Lady ( 10 min) >>> Play

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This is a presentation by Martin and Daniel Tobin of the Fulton J. Sheen Society, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, highlighting the Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s love for Our Lady.

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Ave Maria! Looks like things are starting to move on the 5th Marian Dogma front. On March 25th, Feast of the Annunciation the 5th Marian Dogma, (Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate) will be the discussion at the Vatican Forum in Rome sponsored by Inside the Vatican Magazine and St. Thomas More College. Robert Moynihan of Inside the Vatican wrote the article that is linked above which announces the event along with an excellent write up the status and timeliness of proclaiming the Dogma. Excerpt:

Panelists for the March 25 Day of Dialogue will include Archbishop Ramon Arguelles of Lipa, Philippines, president of the Marian-Mariological Society of the Philippines, Carmelite Father Enrique Llamas, president of the Mariological Society of Spain. Also presenting will be Dr. Judith Gentle, Anglican theologian, author, and member of Our Lady of Walsingham Mariological Society from the United Kingdom.

The morning session will constitute brief presentations by panelists discussing the issue of appropriateness of a fifth Marian dogma at this time, while the afternoon session will consist of a dialogue by panelists, press, and audience concerning the topic.

The Pontifical Marian Academy was invited to participate in the dialogue, but later notified Inside the Vatican magazine that members of the Academy would not be participating. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 10:00 a.m. at the Via Borgo Pio, #141.

Deo gratias!

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Short Series #33 – Fr. Agnellus takes on a tour of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham ( 04min) >>> Play

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Walsingham, in north Norfolk, England (United Kingdom) has been a place of pilgrimage since medieval times, when travel to Rome and Compostella was virtually impossible. The original Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, founded in 1061, was destroyed at the Reformation. Many barren years passed until the Slipper Chapel, a 14th century wayside pilgrim chapel, was restored and pilgrimage to Walsingham began once more. In 1934, the English Bishops named the Slipper Chapel the Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady. -walsingham.org.uk

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Homily #100520 ( 08min) Play – Today is the feast of St. Bernadine of Siena, a Franciscan preacher who worked for the reform of the Franciscan Order when it was becoming lax and then did the same for Christianity throughout Italy. He also spread devotion to  the Holy Name of Jesus in the abbreviation IHS, Iesus Hominum Salvator (“Jesus, Savior of men” in Latin) and to the Virgin Mary.
Ave Maria! St. Bernadine of Siena – Mass: EF, Laudationem Domini – Readings: 1st: 2co 4:5-11 – Gsp: mat 19:27-29

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