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Man’s natural tendency and desire for everlasting happiness is another argument for life after death. It’s not fulfilled by earthly or temporal goods and so must be fulfilled by our Creator in the next life.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #080706 (43min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains today’s Gospel reading, focusing on how it is contained in the Apostle’s Creed and then explains the importance and content of this Creed. It highlights the stupendous fact that God has become man and so gives praise to Mary his Mother while giving praise to his Father. To be able to see the importance of this creed we must be truly humble like children and like Our Lady, the Handmaid of the Lord.
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Homily #090510 ( 16min) Play – Jesus is the Vine of Truth because He is True Man and True God. Now, how are we, mere men, to be united to the True Vine, the Man-God?

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Homily #100201 ( 05min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure explains that today’s Gospel account of the man possessed by the legion and the other accounts of possession shows us the terrible state we can end up in, both in this world and the next, by falling into mortal sin.

Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 2 Sam 15:13-14,30; 16:5-13
R: Ps 3:2-7
G: Mk 5:1-20

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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.

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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 #100828 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches on the Feast Day of St Augustine. He connects the Parable of the Talents in today’s Gospel to the many natural talents that Our Lord had given our saint, all of which were augmented with the power of miracles showing how God gives more to those who do well with the free gifts given to them.
Ave Maria! – Mass Ordinary Form: – Readings:
1: 1 Cor 1:26-31
R: Ps 33:12-13,18-21
G: Mt 25:14-30

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Homily #100829 ( 13min) Play – Will we follow Him? Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on today’s Gospel where Our Lord admonishes us to live a sacrificial, spiritual life and not be worried about things of this world. For as the Gospel states, the Lilies of the field which work not nor spin not are clothed by God more gloriously than Solomon. He points out that to not follow this basic spiritual discipline is to live inconsistently when so many follow harder discipline in the secular corporate world.

Ave Maria! Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Mass: EF, Protector Noster – Readings:
1st: gal 5:16-24
Gsp: mat 6:24-33

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Homily #100926 ( 32min) Play – In today’s Gospel we have the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Fr. Bonaventure uses this to emphasize the impossibility of compromising the culture of Christ with that of death. He mentions that many Fathers of the Church call this a factual story and so we should take it very seriously. The rich man’s sin was not so much the indulging in extravagant pleasure but doing so when Lazarus was literally dying from poverty. On the contrary Lazarus went to heaven not so much because he suffered but in his misery did not condemn the rich man but prayed for him. The rich man did not have regard for the unique dignity of his fellow man while Lazarus did. The rich man thus followed the culture of death that lead to eternal death while Lazarus followed the culture of life and entered eternal life. Father relates this to modern forms of this same culture of death.
Ave Maria! 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: amo 6:1, 4-7
Resp: psa 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
2nd: 1ti 6:11-16
Gsp: luk 16:19-31

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Homily #101017 ( 19min) Play – Our Lord gives us the parable in today’s Gospel of the unjust judge who cares nothing about God nor man, but after being pestered enough by the woman seeking justice he gives her request. Fr. Angelo preaches on the need to follow this woman’s example to pester God who is, instead, a just Judge, and so will all the more give us all that is good. Not only is it good to keep pestering good but Jesus give us a command to do so. He know all that we need ahead of time but we need to show him our trust in his goodness by continuing to beseech him even when we get tired of praying.
Ave Maria! 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: exo 17:8-13
Resp: psa 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
2nd: 2ti 3:14-4:2
Gsp: luk 18:1-8

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