Homily #081009 ( 11min) Play – Twenty-seventh Thursday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo Geiger explains the passage in the Gospel, “ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” We must persevere in our prayer.
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Marycast #122 ( 10min) Play – “I am the Immaculate Conception.” Dr. Mark Miravalle explains how these words which Our Lady spoke in her apparition at Lourdes, France in 1854 are relevant to our life today especially in dealing with suffering.

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Ave Maria!

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Homily #100310 ( 05min) Play – In the first reading from Exodus we see a great display of God’s power, instilling the fear of God in the Israelites. Listen as Fr. Ignatius explains how fear of God and Love of God work together.

Ave Maria! Wednesday of the Third Week in Lent – Mass: EF, Ego Autem – Readings: 1st: exo 20:12-24 – Gsp: mat 15:1-20

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Homily #100907 ( 09min) Play – The Power that we see in the Apostles and their successors is not their own but is the power of God working through His Church.
Ave Maria! Tuesday in the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: 1co 6:1-11
Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9
Gsp: luk 6:12-19

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Homily #100913 ( 15min) Play – Fr. Dominic preaches on today’s Gospel which has the account of the Centurion who asks Our Lord to cure his servant. Jesus was impressed with his faith and cured him. We must have trusting faith in God’s power, His goodness and His concern for us. With this faith we can do great things, including obey His commands.
Ave Maria! – Mass: – Readings:
1: 1 Cor 11:17-26,33
R: Ps 40:7-10,17
G: Lk 7:1-10

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Homily #101008 ( 03min) Play – In the Gospel reading Our Lord is accused of casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of Demons. Fr. Dominic preaches on Jesus’ rebuttal, the nature of demonic possession and the need to be vigilant.
Ave Maria! Friday in the 27th Week in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gal 3:7-14
Resp: psa 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: luk 11:15-26

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MaryCast Specials #118 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle reminds us that our prayers are powerful for world peace. It is very important therefore that we keep the prayers coming, especially the Prayer to Our Lady of All Nations which Our Lady asks to be prayed by all the faithful to avert future wars and catastrophes.

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We are out of power here at Air Maria after hurricane Irene came through and knocked out power to about half the residents in the state of Connecticut. Our town of Griswold and the surrounding towns have 100% power loss and it could be a full week before it is restored. No definitive estimate has been given.

In the meantime, we are trying to find power whenever we can, using inverters to get power from our cars. We may get tomorrows homily up but there will be none from today and yesterday. All other posting will be reduced as well.

We do have good sized generator and even got it running the night before in a fevered, pitch battle against time, but in the morning when the power went out, the generator started up but the switch gear failed to hook into the generator. So now we are waiting to get an electrician but these, of course, are hard to find when they are so busy restoring power. Our friary only has two days of stored water so hopefully we will back on line soon. Keep us in your prayers.  You will be in ours.

Ave Maria!

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Fi News #117 – Dark Nights ( 01min) >>> Play

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We’re in our 4th day without power here in Griswold Connecticut at the Franciscan Friary of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It’s not that bad; we travel about 3 miles to take showers, collect water for drinking and house hold cleaning, we charge the laptops by car battery and read by candle light and a few flashlights. Our Canon 7D is out of battery juice, so I’ll try to get them charged tomorrow. The power was eventually restored on Friday, September 2nd, five days after it went out.

Ave Maria!

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The power is finally back at our friary here in Griswold. Deo Gratias! Our prayers go out to all who have not gotten their power back or have suffered more tragic losses. Even with our small problems here we now have a much greater appreciation for the wonders of electricity which we normally take for granted.

It was mighty hurricane Irene, one of the biggest hurricanes (if you count size alone) which knocked out our power.

But it was a little tiny mouse which prevented our standby generator from coming on. After working feverishly to get the engine of the generator working properly before the storm hit we didn’t have time do a real test of putting the friary on generator power alone. But we figured it had worked fine a few months ago so we should be all set. Well, as we were praying early Sunday morning with the howling winds of Irene (a tropical storm by then) shaking the chapel, we were not too surprised when the power went out. We confidently waited for the generator to come on and, indeed, we heard the engine fire up automatically just as expected. We looked around the darkened chapel anticipating the lights to surge back on in a flood of lumens, but after a moment’s pause, and after a Hail Mary, we were quite sure the power was not to be restored so easily.

Upon investigation we found that small, fury creatures like the one pictured above had made a nest in the control box of the generator and in the generator itself. For such cute little critters they are actually quite destructive and rendered the generator inoperable, and …. rather smelly.

Fra Augustine made a special trip back form Mt St Francis Hermitage where he was working on the radio station and he and Fra John worked almost continuously for the next four days trying to get it working. Using the internet to get manuals and read the tech blogs, (via a cellular modem on a laptop powered by an inverter plugged into a car) they learned more about Onan generators than they ever cared to. They actually tested every component and even after replacing the few failed components the generator still never worked. The local electrical shops could not help because they where swamped with over seventy other generators that people needed to get working.  I guess the mice were very busy, indeed!

Eventually the many work crews who where cutting up fallen trees and replacing the downed wires along our Connecticut roadways got the main power on for us, beating our intrepid tech friars to the punch. As they say, the best laid plans mice and men often come to naught. Our generator back-up plans were dashed and the mice lost their nest which they had planned to be their permanent home.

The power came on at half voltage last night.  We did manage to get the homily up this morning even with the blinking, half-dimmed lights and the laptop switching back and forth between outlet and battery. Then full power came on at about noontime.

So we survived the biggest storm to hit New England in twenty years and even survived the tiny mice. We found out that we were in the worst hit areas in regard to wind damage and power outages in New England, as we are about ten miles away from North Stonington, which was the very worst hit.

We are now considering what to do with our generator. We definitely need to get it running so we don’t have to break out the candles, inverters and buckets again, especially with hurricane Katia threatening already. We are also trying to figure out what to do with Slink and Barb, our derelict cats, who let the mice play right under their noses! (To be fair they had no way of getting into the shed, but they have definitely lost their hero-hunter status here at the friary)

Thank you for all your prayers and kind words and for lending a helping hand in keeping the friary and the friars going during this difficult time. We are grateful. Stay tuned for more homilies and videos.

Ave Maria!

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