Ave Maria!

AirMaria has reached 500,000 visitors on our Site Meter. Deo Gratias and thanks to our loyal viewers.

A few weeks ago we also reached a Google ranking of 5 after being at 4 for a long time. This will drive more traffic to AirMaria when people do Google searches. This was brought about by many people linking to us from their websites. So, thank you, and please give us a link if you have not already.

New Camera

Last week we bought a new HD camera, Sony HXR-NX5U NXCAM Professional Camcorder.

Here is a sample of its output. You can also see it on Youtube where an extra-high quality version is available (click on the button at the bottom of the YouTube viewing window that says “360p” and choose “720p”, and then click full screen, could be slow on a DSL). It is amazing the quality not only from the camera but the fact that you can deliver such quality on the internet, truly a new era in internet video. After we finish some back projects we hope to make extensive use of it.

Urgent Need for Small Donations

Although we received a generous donation for the camera the unforeseen accessories set us back enough that we will need some extra donations for bills this month and buy some hard drives for our ever expanding collection of video. Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you for your continued generous support. Keep us in your prayers as we keep you in ours.

Ave Maria!

Fra Roderic

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Homily #100528s ( 17min) Play – On the start of the Father-Son Encampment for the Knights of Lepanto during the Octave of Pentecost, Fr. Angelo preaches in the importance of grace in fulfilling the duty in the Christian life as we struggle against our fallen nature. This is chiefly given by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us when we were Baptized and who’s presence is increased during Confirmation. Father also talks about spending to much time on social sites on the internet.
Ave Maria! Ember Friday – Mass: EF, Repleatur Os Meum – Readings: 1st: joe 2:23-24, 26-27 – Gsp: luk 5:17-26

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Ave Maria!

Well we’ve been very busy here at AirMaria. However, we admit that it has not always been directly posting videos as can be seen from a sparse period in our posting when we got behind on many of our video projects. But we have completed many of the side projects that were holding us back and we’re making up for lost time as you can see by by our many videos in the past week.

We have also gotten behind on fund raising and our budget is showing the strain. We are currently a few hundred dollars in the red and have several operating expenses coming up and there are several capital expenses that we need to make, including essential things like expanded storage. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Administration System

One big side project was our new administration system which is entirely behind the scenes of AirMaria but was essential to handle the growing number of videos which was getting too large to handle on Google Docs. It allows people to contribute from anywhere on the globe and provides many automation features that simplifies the production and publishing of videos especially the homilies. The system is currently online and operational and will be undergoing much fine tuning and many more features will be added.

Liturgical Section

We added a liturgical section to AirMaria which is still in its infancy and is an out growth of some of our automation endeavors just mentioned. There are a few goals in mind, help our priests prepare their homilies, make the readings easier to add to the homily posts and finally provide more information about the Mass to you, the viewer. All of this centers around a liturgical database that we created and linked to the AirMaria software that first enables the priests to read the readings and get access to related information including liturgical music, then once the priest selects which form of the Mass he wants to use, a post will automatically generated that has the readings displayed and all the same information linked to it so you too can access it via our Liturgical Explorer.

By having resources for both the Novus Order and the Extraordinary Form we hope to serve as a bridge, emphasizing the continuity between the two forms of the Mass which is the essence of Pope Benedict’s Moto Proprio letter Summorum Pontificum, allowing the general use of the old form of the Latin Rite.

We still do not have the system working in all aspects, especially for the saint’s feast days and memorials and for the music but we hope to have it soon and we hope to add more features in the future. Eventually we will also link doctrinal information from several catechisms together along with Fathers of the Church and then provide links back from any particular doctrine to all our homilies that cover it. This should make AirMaria a premier site for priests to prepare for their homilies and enable us to offer a distinct FI Marian bent to a wide swath of homilists.

SQPN Catholic New Media Celebration, Boston, Aug 6-7

We will be going to the Catholic New Media Celebration held by SQPN this Friday and Saturday in Boston. We are looking forward to meeting many zealous Catholics involved in Internet, Radio, and TV and we hope this includes some of you.

Coredemption Conference, Lacrosse WI, August 21st.

We are heading to Wisconsin toward the end of the month to film the Marian Conference at the National Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse which will be on Saturday, August 21st. We hope to broadcast live as we did last year and we will have a great line up of speakers. If you are in the general area I hope you can attend and we will be able to say hello in person. It promises to be a monumental event with solid spiritual and intellectual nourishment. You can register here.

On Location DVDs

We are also configuring a system to burn DVDs on location at La Crosse so that we can offer them to people within 20 minutes of the completion of each talk. Not only should this be very popular and will provide yet another way to deliver our message, but we hope to use it for future events to offset some of the costs of these trips. Another advantage is that when the event is finished all the work is finished and so it will save us many hours of editing afterward, enabling us to add more events to our schedule and more content to AirMaria. So if there are any Marian conferences that you need filmed in the Northeast let us know. We can do other events as well but we want to focus on Mary since this is our main charism. We can travel further depending on the circumstances and donations.

2000 Subscribers on YouTube

Our YouTube channel is continuing to be very popular. We recently surpassed 2000 subscribers so whenever we post a video there, over 2000 people get notified. And we get many comments every day. Not all of them are on our side but even this is positive in that it shows we are engaging a broad audience.

Radio Update

Our station in Owego, NY is still operating with a 24 hour a day 7 days a week broadcast of EWTN and we have had many favorable comments and are pleasantly surprised with the range of our minimal transmitter. You can see our recent posts here and here. Our next phase is to increase the power of the station and to build a higher tower, four times higher! We have already submitted the license modification to the FCC. This would increase our audience from 20,000 to 125,000.

In New Bedford, MA we are currently drafting a tower lease. Once this is signed we could be on the air within three months. So our goal is December 8th. Keep us in your prayers. We need it! The sound studio there is also making great progress and should be fully functional on the day of the first broadcast.

Our station in Stockbridge, MA is also making progress. Also, many of our other close partners in the radio apostolate have had their licenses approved and we hope to announce how we intend to work with them in coming months.

Other news is that we received a very large donation of equipment for our sound studios from a professional sound studio of a close friend of ours in New York City who is moving to a new location. We made several trips to New York City carrying back loads of useful furnishings, acoustical panels and sound proof doors.  This will reduce the cost of setting up our other sound studios and has already helped with our video apostolate. Deo Gratias!

Again we are making so much progress with such few people and very little income. Be assured that you probably cannot find any place where your donation will go farther to advance the Gospel message and to promote devotion to Mary to a new generation than right here on AirMaria. Please be generous this month.

In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,

Fra Roderic

Summorum Pontificum

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Face of Pro-Life #127 –  ( 30min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Friar Roderic of AirMaria.com talks about the pro-life activity of this apostolate and the general use of the internet and mass media in the pro-life cause.

Ave Maria!

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Conferences #221 – ( 55min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Warning: Adult Themes Discussed

The fourth speaker for the 2013 International Courage Conference in Mundelein, IL, was Sr. Marysia Weber of the Srs. of Mercy of Alma, Michigan who gave a talk titled, “Internet Pornography Addiction: Medium and Content Collide with the Human Brain” She covers the sociological and neurological effects of the internet as a means to distribute pornography especially in regard to forming addictions and how these addictions can be overcome.

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Homily #140404 ( 03min) Play – St. Isidore, Doctor of the Church and the last father of the western Church, compiled the first Christian encyclopedia and so is regarded as the patron of the internet. Father warns us about how easy it is to endulge our curiosity and waste time on the internet. St. Isidore explained how prayer is more important than reading. St. Isidore, pray for us!
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Isidore – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Friday 4th Week of Lent
1st: wis 2:1, 12-22
Resp: psa 34:17-18, 19-20, 21, 23
Gsp: joh 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

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Fr Andre gives the homily for Tuesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time (Jun 18, 2019), pointing out the danger of the Internet which separates many children of God from their Father. Although the internet offers potential for good usage,it has become also a tool of the Luciferian conspiracy: for many, it has become a habitual, near occasion of sin.

What is needed is a firm conviction of eternal life, offered to all on condition of repentance, sincere confession, and the breaking of bad habits. For many this may imply disconnecting from the internet and social media, or at least drastically reducing usage, combined with an increasing the spiritual life and spiritual discipline. Devotion to the Eucharist, to Our Lady and the Holy Rosary are key.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday 11th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: 2 Cor 8:1-9
Resp: Ps 146:2, 5-6, 7, 8-9
Gsp: Mt 5:43-48

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1420, and http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/061819.cfm

See also: “From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer” by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr; Second reading from the Office of Readings for Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time.

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On the memorial of St. Romuald (Abbot, Jun 19, 2019), Fr. Matthias gives the homily on the hidden life that St. Romuald led, a life that went unnoticed by the world but not unnoticed by God. His example reminds us of the need we all have of the solitude and silence of hidden, interior life, in order to pursue the Divine Presence in our soul.

Such hidden interior life leads us to discover and learn to nurture God’s presence within us—or we may discern an absence of God within us, indicating that we must repent of sin and be reconciled through the sacrament of confession to recover His presence in our soul.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Romuald – Opt Mem

Readings: Wednesday 11th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 2 Cor 9:6-11
Resp: Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 9
Gsp: Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

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On the Memorial of Saints Pontian, Pope, and Hippolytus, Priest, Martyrs (Martyrs, Aug 13,2019), Fr. Andre exhorts believers to boycott those powers who seek to corrupt the faith and morals of children and the “little ones” to whom Jesus refers in today’s Gospel (Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14).

Our Lord tells us that only those who are “like children” will enter the Kingdom of heaven. Christians therefore have a responsibility to oppose the destroyers of morality—not only through prayer but also by means of economic sanction, boycotting worldly enterprises that seek to destroy the innocence of “little ones.” Christians need to put their money where their faith is, and stop feeding the Beast!

Ave Maria!

Mass: Pontian and Hippolytus – Opt Mem

Readings: Tuesday 19th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: Dt 31:1-8
Resp: Dt 32:3-4, 7, 8, 9, 12
Gsp: Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14

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On New Year’s Eve (Dec 31, 2019, Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas ), Fr. Andre offers a New Year’s spiritual orientation based on the readings of today’s liturgy. Contrasting the first reading with its end-times, antichrist commentary to the Christocentric message of the Gospel, Father recommends meditating on the Good News of Jesus Christ, “God-with-us,” born of the Virgin Mary, while avoiding the satanically-inspired flood of bad news propagated through mainstream and social media.

Participating in the Life that came into the world (cf Jn 1), Father recommends we begin the New Year seeking to align ourselves with the Divine Will, praying for those who will begin the new year by reveling in sin. In particular, we should become intercessors and co-redeemers with Mary, through Rosary prayer and Eucharistic Adoration.

Ave Maria!

Mass: 7th Day in Octave of Christmas – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: 1 Jn 2:18-21
Resp: Ps 96:1-2, 11-12, 13
Gsp: Jn 1:1-18

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