Roving Reporter #42 – Fr Sharbel & The Australian Mission ( 07min) >>> Play

The Roving Reporter caught up with Fr Sharbel M Hayward, who is joining the FI Australian Mission and returns home after 10 years away. Fr Sharbel talks about his return back home as a missionary and his hopes for evangelization in a more secularized and pagan Australia.

FI Australian Website: www.marygateofheaven.com

Ave Maria!

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Homily #081010 ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo Geiger preaches on the discernment of God’s will in relation to the missionary spirit of St. Daniel and Companion Martyrs who died walking in the footsteps of Christ Crucified.
Ave Maria!
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A soul united with Jesus can do anything…
Mother Cabrini

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (feast day is November 13th)

Inspired by the grace of God, we join the saints in honoring the holy virgin Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was a humble woman who became outstanding not because she was famous or rich or powerful, but because she lived a virtuous life. From the tender years of her youth, she kept her innocence as white as a lily and preserved it carefully with the thorns of penitence; as the years progressed, she was moved by a certain instinct and supernatural zeal to dedicate her whole life to the service and greater glory of God.  It must also be mentioned that Mother Cabrini was a Third Order Franciscan.

She welcomed delinquent youths into safe homes, and taught them to live upright and holy lives. She consoled those who were in prison, and recalled to them the hope of eternal life. She encouraged prisoners to reform themselves, and to live honest lives. She comforted the sick and the infirm in the hospitals, and diligently cared for them. She extended a friendly and helping hand especially to immigrants, and offered them necessary shelter and relief, for having left their homeland behind, they were wandering about in a foreign land with no place to turn for help. Because of their condition, she saw that they were in danger of deserting the practice of Christian virtues and their Catholic faith. Undoubtedly she accomplished all this through the faith which was always so vibrant and alive in her heart; through the divine love which burned within her; and finally, through constant prayer by which she was so closely united with God from whom she humbly asked and obtained whatever her human weakness could not obtain. Although her constitution was very frail, her spirit was endowed with such singular strength that, knowing the will of God in her regard, she permitted nothing to impede her from accomplishing what seemed beyond her strength.

– from a homily at the Canonization of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini by Ven. Pope Pius XII

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (Feast day November 13) St. Frances was born in Lombardi, Italy in 1850, one of thirteen children. At eighteen, she desired to become a Nun, but poor health stood in her way. She helped her parents until their death, and then worked on a farm with her brothers and sisters.

One day a priest asked her to teach in a girls’ school and she stayed for six years. At the request of her Bishop, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals. Then at the urging of Pope Leo XIII she came to the United States with six nuns in 1889 to work among the Italian immigrants.

Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, this remarkable woman soon founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages in this strange land and saw them flourish in the aid of Italian immigrants and children. At the time of her death, at Chicago, Illinois on December 22, 1917, her institute numbered houses in England, France, Spain, the United States, and South America, about 70 institutions altogether. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized when she was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII. St. Frances is the patroness of immigrants.

(A longer version of her life story can be found at http://www.mothercabrini.com/legacy/life1.asp)

Almighty and Eternal Father,

Giver of all Gifts,

show us Thy mercy,

and grant, we beseech Thee,

through the merits of Thy faithful Servant,

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini,

that all who invoke her intercession

may obtain what they desire

according to the good pleasure of Thy Holy Will.

(here name your request)

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini,

beloved spouse of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,

intercede for us that the favor we now ask may be granted.

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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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Homily #110317 ( 05min) Play – Fr Dominic preaches on the missionary activities of St Patrick in Ireland and how they are a great example for all aspiring missionaries.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Patrick – Optnl Memorial – Form:
Readings:

First Peter 5:1-4
Luke 5:1-11

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Homily #120317 ( 09min) Play – Fr. Dominic on the life of St Patrick and how God miraculously converted Ireland through his hands. He exhorts us to embrace the same spirit of self sacrifice and charity that is exemplified in St Patrick’s missionary zeal.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Patrick – Form: OF
Readings:
1st – Isaiah 52:7-10
Gospel Luke 5:1-11

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Homily #121024b ( 07min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the life of St. Anthony Mary Claret who was a missionary and bishop to Cuba where he reformed parish life that was very much in needed.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Anthony Mary Claret – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Wednesday in the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: eph 3:2-12
Resp: isa 12:2-3, 4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 12:39-48

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Homily #121113b ( 07min) Play – Fr. Joachim on the life of St. Francis Xavier Cabrini who worked with the immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries excelling in charity for those most in need.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday in the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: tit 2:1-8, 11-14
Resp: psa 37:3-4, 18, 23, 27, 29
Gsp: luk 17:7-10

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Homily #121128b ( 11min) Play – Fr. Elias on the life of St James of the March who was a great Franciscan preacher, traveling throughout Europe renewing the Church with zealous preaching. We too should be on the missionary march for God.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. James of the March – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Wednesday in the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: rev 15:1-4
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 7-8, 9
Gsp: luk 21:12-19

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