Ave Maria!

Part 1 of 2

Corinn Dahm is host for her guest Lisa Martin who courageously talks about the abortion she had after she was raped as a teenager. Lisa later became active in the pro-choice movement and Paganism, but eventually became attracted to the Catholic Faith, converted and became pro-life. Listen to this incredible story of the pain of abortion and how the grace of God can touch and heal one’s soul.

Part 2 will focus more on the healing. Stay tuned.

Ave Maria!

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Mary Vitamin for July 28th

Topic: The Second Sorrowful Mystery – Scourging at the Pillar
In honor of the Month of the Precious Blood

Quote:
[Pilate said] “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.” And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.” Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. MT 27:24-26

Meditation:
Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity
“The Virgin kept all these things in her heart”: her whole history can be summed up in these few words! It was within her heart that she lived, and at such a depth, that no human eye can follow her….This Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs; but again it was in her heart that the sword pierced, for with her everything took place within! Oh! How beautiful she is to contemplate during her long martyrdom, so serene, enveloped in a kind of majesty that radiates both strength and gentleness… She learned from the Word Himself how those must suffer whom the Father has chosen as victims, those whom He has decided to associate with Himself in the great work of redemption, those whom He “has foreknown and predestined to be conformed to His Christ,” crucified by love.
The Complete Works, Volume I (ICS Publications) “Last Retreat” #40.

Resolution:
Today, I will embrace one pain in order to imitate Our Lady’s interior dispositions during the scourging at the Pillar. I will say Our Lady of Fatima’s prayer, “For the love of God, the conversion of sinners, and sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
(St. Therese says, “For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.”)

Marian Vow:
St. Francis
Brothers, kissing your feet, and with all the charity of which I am capable, I beg all to use daily all possible reverence and honor toward the most Holy Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Letter To The General Chapter).

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Homily #100915 ( 11min) Play – Our Lady was most acquainted with sorrows, all centering on seeing her son suffer for our sins.  Today on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows Fr. Dominic preaches on how this suffering with Our Lord makes her Coredemptrix and our spiritual mother, giving birth to us in her pain at the foot of the cross as the sword prophesied by Simeon pierced her heart.
Ave Maria! Our Lady of Sorrows – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1: Heb 5:7-9
R: Ps 31:2-6,15-16,20
G: Jn 19:25-27

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Conferences #90 – Therese Bonapartis on post abortion trauma  ( 48min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Theresa Bonapartis (bio) uncovers the true nature of the “Choice” of abortion and the trauma it induces. She explains how this led to the complete destruction of her own life and how she could not find help for getting over this hidden pain. Listen to her very moving account of how the healing action of her rediscovered Catholic faith and becoming a leader in helping others find healing has turned her life around where she is now a major public speaker and was a leader in developing many groups to help women including her group Lumina.

Ave Maria!

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Conferences #106 – Deacon Jack – miracles from Newman (44min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Witness Lecture for the Newman-Scotus Symposium is given by Deacon Jack Sullivan: A Personal Account of the Experience of a Miracle

He talks about Redemptive Suffering of Newman. There is much suffering in life but if we accept with trust in God, that he has our best interest in mind, then we will grow in grace. This is the “kindly light” of truth that Newman always followed in the “gathering gloom”. He relates this to his own suffering that led him to pray for the intercession of venerable Newman. One day he woke with excruciating pain in his legs which turned out to be a sever restriction in his spinal cord by the physical deformation of his vertebra and disks. His Doctor said it was the worst case he had seen in seventeen years as a back specialist. Listen to Jack as he describes how one simple prayer to John Newman was able to cure him first temporarily and then permanently as he prayed a second time. He also relates other miracles that have occurred with Newman’s intercession.

Ave Maria!

For more of this Symposium http://dev.airmaria.com/category/air-maria-shows/conferences/newman-scotus-symp-2010/

For the book that is the final fruit of this Symposium: https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/the-newman-scotus-reader-contexts-and-commonalities

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Homily #140401 ( 13min) Play – Vice and sin are diseases of the soul, and God can punish the body for the offenses of the soul. This is a great mercy which can help its conversion and give greater glory to God.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Tuesday 4th Week of Lent – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: eze 47:1-9, 12
Resp: psa 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
Gsp: joh 5:1-3, 5-16

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Saint Francis had a great love for the Holy Cross, so great that God imprinted the marks of the cross in to the very flesh of Saint Francis in the Stigmata. Let us also love the cross as it comes to us in our daily life, being always faithful to Him who bore the Cross for us.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Stigmata of St. Francis – Feast
Readings: Saturday in the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
1st: 1co 15:35-37, 42-49
Resp: psa 56:10-12, 13-14 0
Gsp: luk 8:4-15

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Fr. Mahan gives the homily at the Spring Marian Day for 2018, May 5th, that had the theme “Our Lady, and the Three-Fold Mission of Christ & the Church: Prophet, Priest, and King.” He covers the priestly mission that everyone is called to in the Church in virtue of our Baptism in the context of following Christ in his roles as Priest, Prophet and King.

For the other talks of this conference by Fr. Mahan: http://dev.airmaria.com/tag/marian-day-may-2018/

Notes taken during the homily:

We have much to receive from the Gospel and from this day of Mary. Let the Holy Spirit guide us in bringing to fruit what we receive as Mary did.

Laity have active role and this goes back to the time of Old Testament. Rabbi was a lay person. The priest only did the sacrifice.

Christ makes the perfect sacrifice, the unblemished Lamb as well as being the Priest. The Holy Eucharist was instituted at the last minute before His sacrifice on the Cross. The Sacrifice on Calvary is re-presented at the sacrifice of Mass. At the foot of the Cross we find Our Lady.

Daily sacrifice of inconvenience, pain or misfortune when united with Christ is a following of Him in His sacrifice on the Cross, participating in the priestly mission of Christ.

This includes allowing Mary to be our mother and saying, “Do with me what you have said.”

Ask Mary for the strength to build up the Church and keep it unified.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Our Lady of the Cenacle – Opt Mem
Readings: 
1st: act 1:6-14
Resp: psa 87:1-2,3 & 5, 6-7 0
Gsp: luk 8:19-21 – Mother of Jesus and his brothers

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 03, 2020, on how to deal with stress, which is so prominent in our world today with the pandemic.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Friday 5th Week of Lent – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: jer 20:10-13
Resp: psa 18:2-3, 3-4, 5-6, 7 0
Gsp: joh 10:31-42

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2:30 PM Reflection #2 of The Spring Marian Day

Fr. Matthias give the second reflection on our Spring Marian Day of Prayer of a real-life story of a Marian soul, and how pain wasn’t able to take away her joy.

This is for the 2024 Spring Marian Day of Prayer at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center.

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