Homily #080519 ( 10min) Play – Wordly wisdom comes from experiencing the world but supernatural wisdom comes from experiencing God. Listen as Fr Angelo explains how through following the commandments of God, maintaining a prayer life and especially taking up our cross daily, we can experience God, and so gain wisdom and joy in this world and the next.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
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Three months after the Angel’s message-at the end of June,

The Woman who is bright as the sun and fair as the moon

Feels the Heart of her Infant throb beneath hers.

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In the womb of the Virgin Immaculate a new world begins,

The Child who is older than time enters time for our sins,

And with human breathing the First Mover stirs.

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Mary, heavy with child conceived by the Holy Ghost,

Is far fiom the sight of men with her heavenly Host,

Like the dove of the Canticle in the crannied wall.

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She moves not, she speaks not a word, she adores-no more;

Her life is within, her God is within to adore,

Her work and her son, her child, her all.

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The world is at peace, the temple of Janus is shut,

The scepter of David is gone and the prophets are mute,

Lo! darker than Hades, a dawn without light.

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For Satan holds sway and the world gives him incense and gold,

But into his kingdom God comes like a thief, and behold

A daughter of Eve puts the serpent to flight.

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The promised Messiah is come, for whom the world prays,

Men know not the good tidings yet, but, far from their gaze,

The Mother is circled by Cherubim bright.

Paul Claudel

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Homily #100618 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on Our Lord’s admonition to not put our hopes in things of this world but to put our treasure in Heaven for we will not find happiness in things of this world and we wil have to give up our earthly treasures anyways.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 2 Kings 11:1-4,9-18,20
R: Ps 132:11-14,17-18
G: Mt 6:19-23

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Mary Vitamin for August 5th

Topic: The Woman of the Bible and Our Mother

Quote:

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed, (Academy of the Immaculate: 1989), 356.

Meditation:

Fr. Stefano Manelli, FI

On this subject, a passage interesting and rich in insight, accurate as it is delicate, has been written by I. de La Potterie:

A very important insight of modern exegesis has brought to light how the mystery of Mary in some way forms a synthesis of all of the preceding revelation about the people of God, about all that which God, through his salvific action, wishes to realize for his people. In Mary are accomplished all of the important aspects of the promises of the Old Testament to the Daughter of Sion, and in her concrete person is anticipated that which will be realized for the new people of God, which is the Church. Now, the history of revelation regarding the theme of the Woman Sion concretized in the person of Mary, and extended to the Church, constitutes a doctrinal bastion, an unshakeable, well-structured ensemble for understanding the history of salvation, from its origins to the last times.

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed, (Academy of the Immaculate: 1989), 361.

Resolution:

The simple devotion to the Mother of God opens the mysteries of the Old Testament, is a symbol of the church, encourages appreciation of the True God/True Man reality of the Messiah, sheds light on the profound mystery of the Blessed Trinity and finally provides one with a greater and more profound desire to worship the Blessed Sacrament, the Son of God who is also the Son of Mary.

I will try to cultivate a deeper love for my Heavenly Mother, the Queen of Heaven. The more childlike I become in her presence the more the mysteries of heaven and God will be revealed.

Today I will call upon the Queen of Heaven with the word "mother" and realize so much is contained in this one simple word.

Marian Vow:

St. Maximilian Kolbe

She is queen also of earth because she is the Mother of God himself, but she both desires and has a right to be freely acknowledged by every heart, be loved as the Queen of every heart, so that through her that heart might become immaculate, similar to her heart and more worthy of union with God, with the love of God, with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Will to Love, (Marytown Press: 1998), 138.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Mary Vitamin is a daily Email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

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Homily #100825 ( 10min) Play – Fr Angelo, on the occasion of the Anniversary of the Dedication of our Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe here in Griswold, preaches on how we are on a journey, a pilgrimage, here on earth where we are searching for our final resting place, the Heavenly Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is the subject of the first reading taken from the Book of Revelation for the dedication of a church and Father points out how the physical churches that we build are little way stations along this journey a small piece of heaven for rest along the journey.

Ave Maria! Readings:
1st: Rev 21:1-5
Gspl: Luk 19:1-10

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Homily #101002 ( 08min) Play – On this the Feast of the Guardian Angels Fr. Ignatius preaches on the nature of these heavenly helpers. He mentions how they are superior to us and so we can not name them but they are given to us by God as helpers toward our salvation and sanctification which is a great grace.
Ave Maria! The Holy Guardian Angels – Mass: EF, Benedicite Dominum – Readings:
1st: exo 23:20-23
Gsp: mat 18:1-10

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Homily #101006 ( 11min) Play – In today’s Gospel Our Lord gives us the Our Father prayer. Fr. Dominic preaches on this prayer, explaining each line and exhorts us to put it in practice.
Ave Maria! St. Bruno – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gal 2:1-2, 7-14
Resp: psa 117:1, 2
Gsp: luk 11:1-4

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Homily #110617 ( 05min) Play – We have many treasures in this world but they can not give happiness. Therefore strive after the heavenly treasure that will give happiness in this world and in the next.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Friday 11th Week of Ordinary Time – – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 2co 11:18, 21-30
Resp: psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Gsp: mat 6:19-23

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Homily #120108 ( 20min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the Epiphany of the Lord pointing out that this manifestation of the divinity of the Child Jesus is in fact very miraculous and both the star in heaven that guides the Magi and the interior inspiration that motivated them to travel so far has no natural explanation because it is God who brought this about. Father also explains the role of Our Lady in this manifestation and this all points to our divinely given mission to make these same mysteries manifest to our modern world.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Epiphany of the Lord – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 60:1-6
Resp: psa 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13
2nd: eph 3:2-3, 5-6
Gsp: mat 2:1-12

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Homily #120606 ( 07min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure on the Sadducees’ attempt to trip up Our Lord with a question on a woman with many legitimate husbands and who’s will she be in heaven. Father explains that it is eternal wisdom that overcomes earthly wisdom and this should be used to bring the worldly to their senses. He relates the question to how the earthly institution of marriage reflects the covenant relation of the faithful to God where we will praise our good God for all eternity.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Norbert – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Wednesday 9th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 2ti 1:1-3, 6-12
Resp: psa 123:1-2, 2
Gsp: mar 12:18-27

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