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Fra Solanus reviews our new book A Month with Mary by Don Dolindo (a friend of Padre Pio) just in time for the month of Mary … May. He shows how this pocket-sized book written in the style of the Imitation of Christ can help us grow closer to Mary. Come listen to this first episode of our new series.

A Month With Mary Author: Don Dolindo Ruotolo; Translator: Msgr. Arthur Calkins

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This is a reposting of an old post but its for a book especially suited for the month of May which is Mary’s Month:

Fra Solanus reviews our new book A Month with Mary by Don Dolindo (a friend of Padre Pio) just in time for the month of Mary … May. He shows how this pocket-sized book written in the style of the Imitation of Christ can help us grow closer to Mary. Come listen to this first episode of our new series.

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A Month With Mary Author: Don Dolindo Ruotolo; Translator: Msgr. Arthur Calkins

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NOVENA TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD

By the Voice of your Blood, O Jesus, I would press you, solicit you, importune you. Though you seem to reject my supplications I will not leave your bleeding feet until you hear me. Too many graces, too many mercies flow from your Blood for me not to hope in its efficacy. Then, O Jesus, by the Precious Blood seven times shed for the welfare of all, by each drop of that sacred price of our redemption, by the tears of your immaculate mother, I imploe you, hear my earnest prayer. (here specify your request) O Jesus, during all the days of your mortal life you consoled so many sufferers, healed so many infirmities, raised so often a sinking courage, you will not fail to have pity on one who cries to you from the depths of anguish. Oh! No, it is impossible. Another profound sigh from my heart, and from the wound in your own there will flow to me upon a wave of your merciful Blood the grace so ardently desired. O Jesus, Jesus, hasten the moment when you will change my tears into joy, my sighs into thanksgiving. Holy Mary, source of the divine Blood, I implore you not to lose this occasion of glorifying the Blood which made you immaculate. Amen.

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Marycast #112 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Miravalle concludes his mini-series on the messages from St Joseph in the apparitions of Our Lady of America. He covers the messages given on March 30,  1958 to Sr. Mary Ephrem. St Joseph asks that his role as Father in the Holy Family and his pure heart be honored by reciting the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary and receiving Communion on each first Wednesday of the month. This will also be a means of honoring fatherhood in general of which he is the human exemplar.

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Day #4: Imagination

MARY: Why do so many hearts that desire perfection rarely attain their objective? How many persons close themselves in silence, abandon the world, seek to free themselves from all that binds the impulses of their heart … and yet they?re always the same!

Look at a shrub covered with ivy. How beautiful it seems! The woody part is completely hidden, its leaves seem to be like a head of hair on a green trunk. … That plant doesn?t bear fruit, however; it doesn?t grow; it always remains sterile … why?

The leaves which adorn its trunk are only a parasite. The ivy beautifies the shrub externally, but it also sucks its vital forces and impedes its life. It is necessary that the trunk appears as what it is, namely a trunk, and that the leaves not be the sterile appearance of a plant, but that they be full of flowers and fruit.

How many times you also would like to appear beautiful to your own glance … Your imagination deceives you and you cover your trunk with parasites which seemingly adorn you, but in fact take away your life.

A forced and oppressive silence is nothing other than ivy … You are externally silent, but speak all the more internally with your imagination, with outbursts of temper, with so many castles in the air … Get rid of this ivy! If you must converse, do it with great simplicity and preserve your heart recollected in God. Don?t dream of doing harsh penances when your heart isn?t yet penitent. Don?t be negligent and sloppy about your clothing, but be modest and simple. Don?t disguise your egotism with the tinsel of piety, but be charitable and good to all.

I want from you a gentle, sincere, profound, simple virtue, without ostentation, without vanity, without exaggeration … So many times you dream of martyrdom when you are not capable of benefiting from the daily contrariness which you find in your family!

THE SOUL: O my good Mother, how many miseries do you not make me discover in my heart? It?s true, I?m so fanciful that I believe myself to be immediately a saint, when I?m so poor in virtues … Give me a little humility so that the parasites don?t attach themselves to the humble and hidden little plants, but to the high trunks … Make my poor heart simple so that I may live only for God.

ASPIRATION: O Mary, free my heart from false virtue. O Jesus, forgive the sins that I don?t see in myself!

LITTLE WORK: If you want to do an act of virtue and realize that it would make you pleasant in the eyes of others, put off doing it to another time, if possible, when no one will see you and praise you.

About the Meditations

The daily School of Mary meditations come from the book, A Month with Mary. To obtain a copy of this or other books published by the Academy of the Immaculate, visit our on-line bookstore at http://www.marymediatrix.com/bookstore/academy

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Two Pillars #7 ( 07min) Play – Month of the Eucharist and then Mary and the need for true friendship.

Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: “Real Presence” by St Peter Julian Eymard and “Imitation of Mary” by Alexander
de Rouville

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Two Pillars #8 ( 06min) Play – Month of the Eucharist, continued, and then Mary and the need for true friendship, continued.

Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: “Real Presence” by St Peter Julian Eymard and “Imitation of Mary” by Alexander de Rouville

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Two Pillars #9 ( 05min) Play – Month of the Eucharist, continued, and then Mary and the need for true friendship, continued.

Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: “Real Presence” by St Peter Julian Eymard and “Imitation of Mary” by Alexander de Rouville

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Two Pillars #10 ( 04min) Play – Month of the Eucharist, continued, and then Mary and the need for true friendship, continued.

Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: “Real Presence” by St Peter Julian Eymard and “Imitation of Mary” by Alexander de Rouville

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Month of Mary #1 – ( 11min) >>> Play

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Father Matthias introduces the Month of Mary at Our Lady’s Chapel in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and advises us, “Honor Her, and all else will follow.”

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