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Video – JPII’s ‘Mother of the Redeemer”, Introduction – Dr Miravalle: MCast 60

apostolate — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:01:56 +0000

Marycast #60 ( 10min) Play – (Intro) In Marian year of 1987, Pope John Paul II gave the Church one of its greatest Marian encyclicals of all-time, “Redemptoris Mater,” or “Mother of the Redeemer”. The gems and pearls present in this work reveal to us the wisdom and sanctity of this great pope who was forever in love with the Mother of God.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com
Ave Maria!

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Video – JPII’s ‘Mother of the Redeemer”, part I – Dr Miravalle: MCast 61

apostolate — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:01:03 +0000

Marycast #61 ( 10min) Play – (Part I) In Marian year of 1987, Pope John Paul II gave the Church one of its greatest Marian encyclicals of all-time, “Redemptoris Mater,” or “Mother of the Redeemer”. The gems and pearls present in this work reveal to us the wisdom and sanctity of this great pope who was forever in love with the Mother of God.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

Ave Maria!

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Mother of the Eucharist

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:00:45 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

AT THE SCHOOL OF MARY,
“WOMAN OF THE EUCHARIST”

In addition to her sharing in the Eucharistic banquet [of the first generation of Christians], an indirect picture of Mary’s relationship with the Eucharist can be had, beginning with her interior disposition. Mary is a “woman of the Eucharist” in her whole life. The church, which looks to Mary as a model, is also called to imitate her in her relationship to this most holy mystery.

Pope John Paul II, On the Eucharist in Its Relationship to the Church

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Her motherhood is particularly noted and experienced by the Christian people at the Sacred Banquet, the liturgical celebration of the mystery of the Redemption-at which Christ, his true body born of the Virgin Mary,, becomes present.

The piety of the Christian people has always very rightly sensed a profound link between devotion to the Blessed Virgin and worship of the Eucharist: this is a fact that can be seen in the liturgy of both the West and the East, in the traditions of the Religious Families, in the modern movements of spirituality, including those for youth, and in the pastoral practice of the Marian Shrines. Mary guides the faithful to the Eucharist.

(Pope John Paul II : Redemptoris Mater)

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament:

(a meditation from St. Peter Julian Eymard, Founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers)

THE MONTH OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT

The Month of Mary is the month of blessings and of grace for as St Bernard, in company with all the Saints, assures us, all grace comes to us through Mary. The month of Mary is a continuous festival in honor of the Mother of God, which prepares us well for the beautiful month of the Blessed Sacrament which follows it.

Because our vocation calls us to give special honor to the Holy Eucharist, we must not for that reason give any the less devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Far from it, he would be guilty of blasphemy who would say, “The Most Blessed Sacrament suffices for me; I have no need of Mary.” Where, then shall we find Jesus on earth if not in Mary’s arms ? Was it not she who gave us the Eucharist? It was her consent to the Incarnation of the Word in her womb that inaugurated the great mystery of repa?ration to God and union with us which Jesus accomplished during His mortal life, and that He continues in the Eucharist.

Without Mary, we shall never find Jesus, for she possesses Him in her heart. There He takes His delight, and those who wish to know His inmost virtues, to experience the privilege of His intimate love, must seek these in Mary. They who love that good Mother find Jesus in her pure heart. We must never separate Jesus from Mary; we can go to Him only through her.

I maintain, moreover, that the more we love the Eucharist, the more we must love Mary. We love all that our friend loves; now, was ever a creature better loved by God, a mother more tenderly cherished by her Son, than was Mary by Jesus? Oh yes, our Lord would be much pained if we, the servants of the Eucharist, did not greatly honor Mary, because she is His Mother, Our Lord owes everything to her in the order of His Incarnation, His human nature. It is by the flesh that she gave Him that He has so glorified His Father, that He has saved us, and that He continues to nourish and save the world by the Blessed Sacrament.

Let us, then, honor the Blessed Virgin by a daily sacrifice. Let us go to our Lord through her; shelter ourselves behind her, take refuge beneath her protecting mantle; clothe ourselves in her virtues. Let us be, in short, but Mary’s shadow. Let us offer all her actions, all her merits, all her virtues to our Lord. We have only to have recourse to Mary and to say to Jesus: “I offer Thee the riches that my good Mother has acquired for me” and our Lord will be very much pleased with us.

Sacramentum Caritatis, Part One, #28

From Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic exhortatation Sacramentum Caritatis, Part One:

The Eucharist and the Virgin Mary

33. From the relationship between the Eucharist and the individual sacraments, and from the eschatological significance of the sacred mysteries, the overall shape of the Christian life emerges, a life called at all times to be an act of spiritual worship, a self-offering pleasing to God. Although we are all still journeying towards the complete fulfilment of our hope, this does not mean that we cannot already gratefully acknowledge that God?s gifts to us have found their perfect fulfilment in the Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother. Mary’s Assumption body and soul into heaven is for us a sign of sure hope, for it shows us, on our pilgrimage through time, the eschatological goal of which the sacrament of the Eucharist enables us even now to have a foretaste.

In Mary most holy, we also see perfectly fulfilled the sacramental way that God comes down to meet his creatures and involves them in his saving work. From the Annunciation to Pentecost, Mary of Nazareth appears as someone whose freedom is completely open to God’s will. Her immaculate conception is revealed precisely in her unconditional docility to God’s word. Obedient faith in response to God’s work shapes her life at every moment. A virgin attentive to God?s word, she lives in complete harmony with his will; she treasures in her heart the words that come to her from God and, piecing them together like a mosaic, she learns to understand them more deeply (cf. Lk 2:19, 51); Mary is the great Believer who places herself confidently in God’s hands, abandoning herself to his will. (102)

This mystery deepens as she becomes completely involved in the redemptive mission of Jesus. In the words of the Second Vatican Council, the blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son until she stood at the Cross, in keeping with the divine plan (cf. Jn 19:25), suffering deeply with her only-begotten Son, associating herself with his sacrifice in her mother?s heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of the victim who was born of her.

Finally, she was given by the same Christ Jesus, dying on the Cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: Woman, behold your Son. (103) From the Annunciation to the Cross, Mary is the one who received the Word, made flesh within her and then silenced in death. It is she, lastly, who took into her arms the lifeless body of the one who truly loved his own to the end (Jn 13:1).

Consequently, every time we approach the Body and Blood of Christ in the eucharistic liturgy, we also turn to her who, by her complete fidelity, received Christ?s sacrifice for the whole Church. The Synod Fathers rightly declared that Mary inaugurates the Church’s participation in the sacrifice of the Redeemer. (104) She is the Immaculata, who receives God’s gift unconditionally and is thus associated with his work of salvation. Mary of Nazareth, icon of the nascent Church, is the model for each of us, called to receive the gift that Jesus makes of himself in the Eucharist.

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Month of Mary 26 – Mary’s Preparation (cont.)

apostolate — Tue, 27 May 2014 00:22:48 +0000

Month of Mary #26 ( 06min) Play – Today we continue reflecting on Our Lord’s preparation of Mary for Her role as spiritual mother and mediatrix. We focus on the Wedding at Cana, examining St. John Paul II’s teaching from paragraphs 21 and 22 from his encyclical Redemptoris Mater (bit.ly/RedemptorisMater). We can take three points away for our meditation, (1) Mary’s role is not by necessity, but by the will of God, (2) Mary needs servants to carry out the will of God under Her direction, and (3) Mary’s mediation is in union with and subordinate to the one mediation of Jesus Christ, Her savior and ours.

Today’s Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit, living in Mary. Remind me to ask for Mary’s powerful intercession in my times of need.

Ave Maria!

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Video – Fr. Peter – Redemptoris Mater – CONF 288

apostolate — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:47:13 +0000

Conferences #288 – ( 54min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

During the First Saturday devotion by the Marian Catechists at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Fr. Peter explains how Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical Redemptoris Mater (Mother of the Redeemer) gives a complete synopsis of mariology and how Our Lady is the only adequate way to be introduced into the reality of the Trinity and the connection between the head, Jesus, and the rest of the mystical body of Christ, the Church. We do not know Christ until we see Mary as the Mother of God (Council of Ephesus). He then relates this to Mary’s spiritual motherhood of all Christians and thus the means for unity in the family of God.

Outline of Redemptoris Mater

Introduction 1-6
I.	Mary in the Mystery of Christ 1. Full of grace 7-11 2. Blessed is she who believed 12-19 3. Behold your mother 20-24
II.	The Mother of God at the Center of the Pilgrim Church 1.The Church, the People of God present in all the nations of the earth 25-28 2. The Church’s journey and the unity of all Christians 29-34 3. The “Magnificat” of the pilgrim Church 35-37
III.	Maternal Mediation 1. Mary, the Handmaid of the Lord 38-41 2. Mary in the life of the Church and of every Christian 42-47 3. The meaning of the Marian Year 48-50
Conclusion 51

Redemptoris Mater Full Text:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031987_redemptoris-mater.html

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Video – 27 – Mariology of St. John Paul II – Mariology for Everyone

apostolate — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 14:13:02 +0000

Mariology for Everyone #27 ( 20min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle discusses the great Marian legacy of St. John Paul II, how he reintegrated the two seeming incompatible outlooks on Mary, Christo-centric or Church-centric, which is usually referred to as Christo-typical and Ecclesio-typical. He then discusses the pope’s encyclical Redemptoris Mater, Mother of the Redeemer.

Redemptoris Mater: http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031987_redemptoris-mater.html

This series is a complete 40 part introductory course on Mary presented by Dr. Miravalle, a theology professor specializing in Mariology, who has been teaching at the Franciscan University of Steubenville for over 25 years. General topics are as follows:

– Mary as revealed in the Sacred Scriptures, taught and explained by the Church Fathers, the Saints, and the Church’s documents
– the proper ways to show childlike love and devotion to the Blessed Mother of Jesus;
– Church’s official teaching on Marian apparitions over the centuries.

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Ave Maria!

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7 Joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Aug 26 – Homily – Fr Alan

apostolate — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:30:19 +0000

On the Franciscan Feast of the Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Aug 26, 2019), Fr. Alan enumerates the Seven Joys of the “Franciscan Crown,” the Rosary given mystically by Our Lady to a Franciscan novice who was one of her faithful devotees. Our Lady’s joys derive from her perfect union with God, and her expectant maternal joy as Mother of the Redeemed, that is, of all souls destined for eternal life.

The Seven Joys of Our Lady as prayed by the Franciscans of the Immaculate in the traditional “Franciscan Crown”:

1. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the immense joy that filled Your heart at the announcement of the Archangel Gabriel.
2. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the consolation You felt in Your visit to Saint Elizabeth.
3. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the ineffable joy You felt at the birth of Jesus.
4. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the profound happiness Your heart experienced at the adoration of the Magi.
5. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the jubilation Your heart felt at finding Jesus in the Temple.
6. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the purest joy that filled Your heart when the risen Jesus appeared to You.
7. We rejoice with You, Mary, for the immense joy You had when You were assumed into heaven and there crowned Queen.*

* In the more recently composed Rosary of the Seven Joys (one of the “Three Crowns” of Our Lady), the final joy is:
“Mary Most Holy, Mother of the Church at Pentecost” (cf. The Three Crowns: The Seven Joys, the Seven Sorrows, and the Seven Glories of Mary, compiled by Jonathan and Clara Fleishmann, published by Academy of the Immaculate Books, 2013. (https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/the-three-crowns?_pos=1&_sid=bb9f6f724&_ss=r)

See also:
– Definition of “joy” from from Fr. John Hardon’s Modern Catholic Dictionary (https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=34391)
– “The Joys of the 7-Decade Seraphic Rosary” by Angelo Stagnaro, National Catholic Register, Sept. 27, 2018 : http://www.ncregister.com/blog/astagnaro/the-joys-of-the-7-decade-seraphic-rosary

Ave Maria!

Mass: Seven Joys of the BVM – Feast

Readings:
1st: Song 2:1-14
Gsp: Lk 1:26-38

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Mary in the New Testament, Part 2 – A Masterclass in Mariology No. 4 – Mariology Without Apology

apostolate — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:30:32 +0000

Ave Maria!

Join Dr. Mark Miravalle and Dr. Robert Fastiggi as they continue to discuss New Testament passages on Our Lady, specifically those found in the infancy narratives of Matthew and the Prologue and Wedding of Cana accounts found in the Gospel of John.

In this masterclass on Mariology, Dr. Mark Miravalle and Dr. Robert Fastiggi explore the profound roles and truths about the Virgin Mary across Scripture, tradition, and private revelation. They delve into Mary’s significance in the New Testament, particularly in the Gospels of Luke, Matthew, and John, highlighting her unique relationship with Jesus and her pivotal role in His salvific mission.

They commence with an analysis of Luke 11:27, where Jesus emphasizes the blessedness of hearing and keeping the word of God over biological kinship, underscoring Mary’s exemplarity in faith and obedience (Luke 11:27 – Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/11?27). St. John Paul II’s commentary on this passage in Redemptoris Mater is discussed, highlighting Mary’s unique role in salvation history as the foremost disciple of Christ.

The conversation shifts to Matthew’s Gospel, focusing on the infancy narratives and Joseph’s just and compassionate response to Mary’s miraculous pregnancy (Matthew 1:18-25 – Joseph’s righteousness and Mary’s virginal conception by the Holy Spirit – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/1?18), emphasizing Joseph’s integral role in the Holy Family and the divine plan.

John’s Gospel provides further insight into Mary’s mediation and intercession at the Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-10 – Jesus performs His first miracle at Mary’s intercession – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/2?1), where her request leads to Jesus’ first public miracle, setting the stage for His public ministry and foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice at Calvary. Mary’s actions at Cana are presented as a model of faith, obedience, and maternal intercession.

Throughout the discussion, Mary is portrayed as the New Eve, intimately united with Christ in His redemptive mission, exemplifying perfect discipleship and motherhood to all believers. The dialogues emphasize the theological significance of Mary’s virginity, her role as Mediatrix, and the spiritual motherhood she extends to the Church, underlining the indissoluble bond between her and Jesus in the work of salvation.

00:00 – Welcome to Mariology Masterclass
01:13 – Mary in Scripture Overview
02:15 – Luke’s Gospel on Mary
09:22 – Matthew’s Infancy Narratives
14:05 – The Role of Saint Joseph
24:21 – Mary in John’s Gospel
34:23 – The Miracle at Cana
41:04 – Mary’s Intercession Explained
47:26 – Mary’s Role in Redemption
51:55 – Marriage Symbolism at Cana
53:10 – Mary’s Suffering for Humanity
55:15 – Closing Thoughts on Mariology

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