India’s Supreme Court orders the local government in the state of Orissa where the recent persecution of Christians has occurred to put an end to the violence. The court addressed a state official, “If your government is unable to protect Christians, you better resign”

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Roving Reporter #58 – F.I.’s in India ( 07min) >>> Play

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In 2006 Fr Vincent Maria Amores opened a friary in the state of Kerala, India. This interview was done in the United states during father’s two months stay before heading back to India.

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Homily #091203 ( 06min) Play – Today we commemorate St Xavier and Fr. Ignatius gives a biography of this great saint who through zeal, learning and miracles spread the faith far and wide through Asia, including Mozambique, India, New Guinea, and Japan.
Ave Maria! St. Francis Xavier, Confessor – Mass: EF, Loquebar – Readings: 1st: rom 10:10-18 – Gsp: mar 16:15-18

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MaryCast Specials #86 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle announces a year long  worldwide Rosary Crusade for the 5th Marian Dogma Starting from August 15th 2010 to August 15th 2011. The broad based initiative has been endorsed by Cardinal Aponte of Puerto Rico, Mother Angelica of EWTN, Archbishop M. Chinnappa of India and Ambassador Howard Dee, Sr. Briege McKenna and Fr. Kevin Scallon, Ambassador Mercedes Tuason and Dr. Judith Gentle. You can read the full Declaration at Mother of All Peoples.

Along with the daily Rosary, we also encourage you to pray daily the Prayer of the Lady of All Nations, given by Our Lady for the proclamation of the fifth Dogma in the ecclesiastically approved apparitions in Amsterdam (local approval, May 31, 2002). You may also add the prayer below for the fifth Marian Dogma.

Lady of All Nations Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now your Spirit over the earth.

Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disasters, and war.

May the Lady of all nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our Advocate.

Amen.

Prayer for the Fifth Marian Dogma

Most holy Mary, Mother of God, we pray,

Come quickly and save us from degeneration, disaster and war.

Come quickly, we pray, Mother of All  Nations.

Come, most holy Mother,

Our Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces and Advocate.

Protect us with your motherly mantle.

Please do not delay.

Protect our world in this hour of need.

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

Ave Maria!

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Face of Pro-Life #151 – Alex Joseph on Population ( 30min) >>> Play

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Alex Joseph from India gives his unique perspective of the population problem as he witnessed it in one of the most densely populated counties in the world. Listens as he explains how India is currently undergoing many of the changes we experienced 40 years ago, including a massive decrease in the birth rate due to the adoption of the contraceptive mentality. Although India is still above the replacement level it has decreased along with virtually every other country throughout the world, including the Muslim countries which are so often cited as growing out of control.  Only a small part of Africa still has close to historical birthrates. The result is that instead of a population explosion, we are mathematically guaranteed to have a population implosion. But, before that we will have the problem of taking care of our aging population with a rapidly shrinking numbers of youth. This problem is so large that it will impoverish even the richest countries in the world.

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Homily #121203b ( 10min) Play –  Fr. Elias on the life of St. Francis Xavier, Jesuit, one of the Churches greatest missionaries. He was called the Apostle of the Indies, evangelizing India, Japan and the Philippines, working for the salvation of souls.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Francis Xavier – Mem [Celebrated as Feast in Ardc. of  Indianapolis]- Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1co 9:16-19, 22-23
Resp: psa 117:1, 2
Gsp: mar 16:15-20

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by Nirmala Carvalho

Sister Gemma, prioress of the Carmelite Monastery in Mumbai, underlines the importance of the feast of the Visitation for the poor and for people who suffer. With her visit to Elizabeth, Mary brought to the world the love of Jesus, exemplified nowadays by charity and love of neighbour. This Sunday’s Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration with Pope Francis provides an opportunity to bring Christ’s face and love to the world through Mary.

Mumbai (AsiaNews) – “Thousands of people of all caste and creed, who call India home, pray to the Virgin Mary and have faith in her powerful intercession. Our Lady rushes to help those who suffer and live in poverty, becoming their refuge and hope. Today, feast day of the Visitation, Mary visits the heart of each of us,” said Sister Gemma, prioress of the Carmelite cloister in Mumbai, as she talked about the importance of bringing the Virgin’s message to one’s heart, in preparation for Pope Francis’ Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration next Sunday.

“The world today lacks love, solidarity and communion. With the great feast of the Visitation, Mary proclaims to the world the love of Jesus, witnessed through concern for others, in solidarity and communion with people in need of assistance. Man’s greatest need is the thirst for love and belonging. Mary rushed to help Elizabeth, and her very presence brought support and comfort.”

INDIA For Indian Contemplative, Mary is a refuge for thousands of poor people of every caste and creed – Asia News.

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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.

via Mary’s Nativity draws tens of thousands to Indian basilica :: Catholic News Agency (CNA).

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One more post on Mary’s Birthday which was on the 9th of September. This is from Bangalore, India where Catholics are a small minority but they sure get the world prize for celebrating the Birthday of Mary at their Cathedral.

via Bangalore: CM, K J George among lacs of devotees at St Marys Fest.

Bangalore, Sep 9: The St Mary’s birthday festival, which is popular among Konkani Catholics from the coastal region as Monthi Fest, was celebrated with devotion and even pomp with lacs of devotees thronging the St Mary’s Basilica at Shivajinagar. The nine-day novena of prayers and devotion in honour of Mother Mary, which is being celebrated in all parishes with those having substantial number of Konkani Catholics from the coastal region having special services in their mother tongue, culminated at the St Mary’s Basilica with a traditional car festival which was flagged off by Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah after a special blessing of the chariot by Bangalore Archbishop Bernard Moras.

here is an Indian news video from the one in 2011:

Here are pictures form the 2013 event:

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On the anniversary of the dies natalis of St. “Mother” Teresa of Calcutta (Virgin, Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity (MC), Sept. 5), Fr. Alan comments in the homily on her call from Christ to “be my light,” to which she faithfully responded and persevered through half a lifetime of interior darkness. In a world immersed in spiritual darkness, Mother Teresa’s life of service to the Gospel is a shining example for us of trust and fidelity in Christ, and the principle that all members of the Church militant are called to be “missionaries of charity” in order to be “the light of the world” (Mt 5:14).

Ave Maria!

Mass: Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata)

Readings: 
1st: 1 Cor 3:1-9
Resp: Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21
Gsp: Lk 4:38-44

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=932

On the Marian dimension of Mother Teresa’s spirituality, see: Mother Teresa: In the Shadow of Our Lady, by Joseph Langford, MC (https://www.osv.com/Shop/Product?ProductCode=T1810)

Image credit, Mother Teresa: https://holymassimages.blogspot.com/2014/09/blessed-teresa-of-calcutta-mother-teresa.html

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