Homily #091210 ( 12min) – Each of our homes can become a holy house…
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Roving Reporter #108 – An Italian family goes to visit the home of their Mother ( 11min) >>> Play

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Would you like to see to house in which Our Lady lived?  One of our friars in Italy had the opportunity to take a pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto, and this is the first of 2 videos which recount the journey and tell the story of this extraordinary shrine.  (Note: A view of the house is yet to come!  Say a prayer that the Capuchins let me into the Basilica with a video camera!)

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Papal decree states that the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto will be celebrated on Dec. 10.

Source: Pope Francis Adds New Marian Feast to Roman Calendar

VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis has decreed that the feast of Our Lady of Loreto be included in the Roman Calendar as an optional memorial to be celebrated on Dec. 10.

“This celebration will help all people, especially families, youth and religious, to imitate the virtues of that perfect disciple of the Gospel, the Virgin Mother, who, in conceiving the Head of the Church also accepted us as her own,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, stated in the decree published Oct. 31.

With the decree, the optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto must appear in all calendars and liturgical books for the celebration of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.

Catholic pilgrims travel to the small Italian town of Loreto to stand inside the Holy House of Mary, preserved in a basilica, in which Tradition holds that the Virgin Mary was born, raised and greeted by the Gabriel the Archangel at the Annunciation.

“This shrine recalls the mystery of the Incarnation, leading all … Pope Francis Adds New Marian Feast to Roman Calendar

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On the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto (Dec 10, 2019), Fr. Andre explains the history and significance of the Holy House of Loreto. The displaced house is believed to be the home of Mary, from Nazareth, where she was praying when the Annunciation of Archangel Gabriel and subsequent Incarnation of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, took place. It was the home occupied by the Holy Family during the time prior to Jesus’ public ministry.

The simple stone structure which appeared mysteriously in Loreto in the 14th Century has ever since been a site of pilgrimage and devotion. It is a place of particular significance for Franciscans because St. Francis visited the Holy House in Nazareth less than 100 years before it was transported to Loreto. Even before it arrived, St. Francis, demonstrating apparent foreknowledge, prophesied that Loreto would be known as “the holiest place on earth.”

Reference: “The Miraculous Holy House of Loreto” by Bob and Penny Lord (https://bobandpennylord.store/blogs/news/the-holy-house-of-loreto)

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Mass: Our Lady of Loreto – Feast

Readings: 
1st: 1 Ch 15:3-4, 15-16, 16:1-2
Resp: Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6, 8, 11
Gsp: Lk 1:26-38

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Dec 10, 2021, on how the Holy House of Loreto is the perfect home and how this perfection is based on placing importance on the relationships between the members of the home.

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Mass: Our Lady of Loreto (Isa) – Feast
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/121021.cfm
1st: isa 7:10-14; 8:10
Resp: luk 1:46-55
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on Dec 10, 2022, the feast of Our Lady of Loreto, on how the Respect for Marriage Act redefines the notion of family that is based on the Holy Family that lived in the Holy House of Loreto. This part of the idea that freedom should also be freedom from religion as opposed to freedom of religion, which is a founding principle of freedom of our nation.

Distorts not only family but also God, on which the family is an image.

He distinguishes between the disorder of same-sex attraction, which is not a sin, and acting on that, which is a sin.

Yet all things work for our good, even such distortions and redefinitions of such central human things as marriage. By continuing to share the truth, we will become the shining light in dark times.

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Mass: Our Lady of Loreto (Isa) – Feast
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/121022.cfm
1st: isa 7:10-14; 8:10
Resp: luk 1:46-55
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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