Fr. Pablo: Vote Pro-Life #3 ( 02min) Play – Will American babies that survive abortion attempts be put to death here as they are in China? One of the candidates supports killing those poor children.
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P. Pablo: Vota Pro-Vida #3 ( 02min) Play

?Los beb?s americanos a que sobreviven los atentos del aborto ser?n matados aqu? como est?n en China? Una de los? candidatos?apruebe?que maten a esos ni?os pobres.

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Homily #100112 ( 05min) Play – Today we celebrate the feast of Bl. Oderic of Portunaone who was a Franciscan priest who traveled all the way to China to preach the Gospel in the early 1300’s. Thus he lived the message in the Catechism on Paragraph 74 which teaches that God wants all men to be saved. This underscores today’s Gospel where Our Lord says:

The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.  Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

Let us remember to pray for more missionary priests to reap this great harvest.

Ave Maria! Bl. Oderic of Portunaone – Mass: EF, – Readings: 1st: 1th 2:2-9 – Gsp: mat 9:35-38

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via Vatican denounces the “intransigent religious intolerance” of the Chinese Government.

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Face of Pro-Life #144 – Michael Smith on Adoption ( 30min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Michael Smith relates his experience with adopting two children, one from Korea and one from China. He explains the reasons for deciding to adopt and then the process for actually doing it. He also explains how the adopted kids interact with their two older biological children and the rest of the family. He also works to help his adopted children to learn more about their respective native cultures. He highly recommends adoption and if someone is a parent they are already able to adopt. It is a very pro-life action and a great way to spread the faith to new lives. The obstacles are mostly the high cost and red tape that has to be slogged through.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #130114b ( 11min) Play – Fr. Elias on the life of Bl. Odoric of Pordenone who was an early Franciscan missionary taking the faith to China.
Today the faith is still growing in that great land despite oppression from the government.
Ave Maria!

Mass: Bl. Odoric of Pordenone – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 1st Week of Ordinary Time
1st: heb 1:1-6
Resp: psa 97:1-2, 6-7, 9
Gsp: mar 1:14-20

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The faith is strong in China and so is Devotion to Mary. Go Chinese Catholics!

Over 2500 Catholic pilgrims came together in prayer to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan. The Pope sent his first public message to the Church of China since his election

At least 2500 faithful took part in the Sheshan pilgrimage in the outskirts of Shanghai, in celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan, China’s patron saint.

In 2008 Pope Benedict XVI wrote a prayer to Our Lady of Sheshan  – venerated in the Shrine of Sheshan under the title “Help of Christians” – placing the fate of the Church of China in her hands. The former Pope entrusted the Chinese Church to her once before, on 27 May 2007, when he wrote the famous “Letter of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China,” asking that “the date 24 May could in the future become an occasion for the Catholics of the whole world to be united in prayer with the Church which is in China.” This year, the new Pope sent a tweet to join China’s Catholics in prayer as they celebrate the feast.

Not far from the Minor Basilica that houses the statue of Our Lady of Zose (the Shanghainese pronunciation of Sheshan), is the seminary where the former Auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai, Taddheus Ma Daqin, has been spending his so-called “spiritual retreat”. Bishop Ma Daqin was consecrated on 7 July 2012, with papal approval, but announced he was resigning from his position within the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association on the very day he was ordained in order to concentrate more on his ministry. He has been at the seminary ever since and has had no contact with the outside world, which is tantamount to being held under arrest. In December he was stripped of his title as Auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai.

via Chinese Catholics go on pilgrimage of hope to Sheshan shrine – Vatican Insider.

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Police surrounded a Chinese village on Sunday to prevent pilgrims from joining a Catholic parade to honour the Virgin Mary, who locals say appeared in the village a century ago.

Authorities placed roadblocks on main roads leading to the small village of Donglu, just a few hours drive from Beijing, where locals – about 90 per cent of whom are Catholic – are fiercely devoted to Mary.

“Police don’t let any outsiders into the village during May… it’s been like that for years,” a local believer who identified herself as Maria said, standing by the towering spires of a church which dominates the village’s skyline.

Donglu’s Catholics believe that the Virgin Mary appeared in the sky above the village in 1900, terrifying attackers from the anti-foreign Boxer uprising, which also targeted Catholics, into an awestruck retreat.

“More than 100 years ago, everyone felt the power of Mary to protect the village, and each generation has passed on the story,” Maria said.

A police lock-down lasting the entire month of May, when celebrations dedicated to Mary reach their peak, was established in the 1990s, after tens of thousands of pilgrims from China and abroad gathered in the village, locals say.

via Catholic pilgrims blocked from Chinese village Donglu for Virgin Mary parade | South China Morning Post.

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Homily #130708b ( 06min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the loves of Bl. Gregory Grassi and companions who were martyred during the Boxers Revolution in China which had a strong anti-Catholic spirit. Most of these martyrs were members of the Franciscan order. We are all called to this level of faith even if we are not called to shed our blood. It is this kind of faith that works miracles.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Bl. Gregory Grassi and companions – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 14th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: gen 28:10-22
Resp: psa 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15
Gsp: mat 9:18-26

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Homily #140114b ( 07min) Play – Fr Joachim on the life of Bl. Oderic of Perderone who went to China to bring the faith there at great personal cost for the salvation of souls. Father exhorts us to have similar zeal for souls in our own walk of life.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Bl. Odoric of Pordenone – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday 1st Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 1sa 1:9-20
Resp: 1sa 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8
Gsp: mar 1:21-28

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