Homily #130608b ( 17min) Play – On the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, that follows the day after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Fr. Elias preaches on the unity of these two devotions and how they represent the unity of two hearts, united in will. He relates this to the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, to her title as Queen of Peace in the Litany, to Our Lady of Fatima, to her role as Coredemptrix, to Pope Benedict XV, and to World War I and and to the Belgian mystic Berthe Petit … and more!
Ave Maria!
Mass: Immaculate Heart of Mary – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 61:9-11
Resp: 1sa 2:1, 4-8
Gsp: luk 2:41-51

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Homily #141210b ( 12min) Play – Fr. Alan on how the Litany of Loreto should remind of the joy (laetitia) of Christmas which this season of Advent looks toward.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Our Lady of Loreto – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1ch 15:3-4, 15-16, 16:1-2
Resp: psa 84:3, 4, 5-6, 8, 11
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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A Day With Mary #141 – Mary as Ark of the Covenant and Queen ( 21min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Archbishop Barry James Hickey, Emeritus Archbishop of Perth, speaks on Our Lady during the “Day With Mary” held at Sacred Heart Church in Thornlie, Western Australia on 5 September 2015.

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Holy Mary, Mother of God: pray for us!

God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.    St. Bonaventure

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Most holy Virgin, give us affection for prayer and retirement, that, detaching ourselves from the love of creatures, we may aspire only after God and heaven, where we hope one day to see you, to praise you, and to love you, together with Jesus, your Son, for ever and ever.        St. Alphonsus de Liguori

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Hail, Lady and Queen, holy Mary, Mother of God, Virgin who became the Church, chosen by the Father in heaven, consecrated by his beloved Son and his Spirit, the Comforter: in you was and remains, the whole fullness of grace and everything that is good. Hail, his palace, hail, his tabernacle, hail, his dwelling, hail, his robe, hail, his handmaid, hail, his mother!

O holy Mother, sweet and fair to see, for us beseech the King, your dearest Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to death for us delivered: that in his pitying clemency, and by virtue of his most holy incarnation and bitter death, he may pardon our sins.

St. Francis of Assisi

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It is because she is Mother of the Church that the Virgin is also the Mother of each one of us, members of the Mystical Body of Christ. From the Cross, Jesus entrusted his Mother to all his disciples and at the same time entrusted all his disciples to the love of his Mother.   Pope Benedict XVI

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Mother of Divine Grace, Pray for us!

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.       St. Pius X

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Tota Pulchra: You are completely pure, Mary, and the stain of original sin is not within you. Your clothing is white like snow, and your face is like the sun. You are completely pure, Mary, and the stain of original sin is not within you. You are the glory of Jerusalem, you are the joy of Israel, you are the honored of our people. You are completely pure, Mary.

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Tota pulchra es, Maria et macula originalis non est in te. Vestimentum tuum candidum quasi nix, et facies tua sicut sol. Tota pulchra es, Maria, et macula originalis non est in te. Tu gloria Jerusalem, tu laetitia Israel, tu honorificentia populi nostri. Tota pulchra es, Maria.

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