Marycast Specials #3 ( 10min) Play – Both Blessed John XXIII and Pope Benedict XVI have prayed for a new Pentecost for the Church. In preparation for Pentecost, Dr Mark Miravalle explains the relationship between the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit, and Pentecost (Part 1 of 3). Ave Maria! +++

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Marycast Specials #4 ( 10min) Play – Dr Mark Miravalle continues, in preparation for Pentecost, to explain the relationship between the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit, and Pentecost (Part 2 of 3). Pray to the Blessed Mother to bring about a new Pentecost and peace for the world. Ave Maria! +++

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Marycast Specials #5 ( 10min) Play – In the final part of this series, in preparation for Pentecost, Dr Mark Miravalle goes into more depth surrounding the relationship between the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit, and Pentecost (Part 3 of 3). Pray to the Blessed Mother to bring about a new Pentecost and peace for the world. Ave Maria! +++

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Homily #110117 ( 07min) Play – Our Lord calls for a renewal in the law, the old law is now fulfilled in the new.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Anthony of Egypt – Memorial – Form:
Readings: Monday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time
1st: heb 5:1-10
Resp: psa 110:1, 2, 3, 4
Gsp: mar 2:18-22

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Fi News #133 –  ( 13min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

We congratulate Friar Ephrem on his renewal of religious vows.

Ave Maria!

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On Saturday, September 8th, 2012, on the birthday of Our Blessed Mother, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel in Griswold, CT, two novices: Friar John Paul Marie and Friar Alphonsus Mary, make their first profession of vows. Giving their lives with the  evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, they profess a fourth public vow: the Marian vow of unlimited consecration to the Immaculate – a first in the history of the Church – a gift for God and for the Church – a gift from Mary, a gift for Mary.

“You have called me Lord, here I am.”

“In your desire to follow Christ perfectly, are you resolved to love the Immaculate unlimitedly, to live in chastity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, to embrace voluntary poverty, and to offer the sacrifice of obedience?”

“I am.“

“In the presence of my brothers, I, Friar John Paul Marie of Our Lady of Grace, desiring to give praise to God, with the firm will to observe more perfectly the Gospel of Christ, and perceiving that the Lord has given me this grace, vow in your hands, Father Ignatius Mary of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts, for one year, to observe the Rule of St. Francis of Assisi confirmed by Pope Honorius, the Traccia, A Marian Plan of Franciscan Life, and the Constitutions of the Institute of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, living in total consecration to the Immaculate, in obedience, without anything of my own, and in chastity…

Therefore, I entrust myself with all my heart to this fraternity, to put into effect my total consecration to the service of God and neighbor, through the enabling action of the Holy Spirit, the intercession of the Blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mary, our Father St. Francis, St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, and all the saints, and with your fraternal help.”

“And I, in the name of the Church and our brotherhood, receive your vows, and on the part of almighty God, if you observe them, I promise you life everlasting.”

(Signing the formula of profession at the altar.)

“Lord God, † bless these capuches as a sign of the protection of the Immaculate. May it enable these your servants to serve you in ardent love, holy purity, and modesty, in imitation of Her who is pure and ever Virgin, through Christ Our Lord.”

“May the Lord place on your head the capuche of salvation to fight and conquer the snares of the devil, with the maternal protection of the Immaculate which you bear in your heart and over your heart.”

“Receive, brother, the Rule of our Order, the book of Life, the marrow of the Gospel, the way of perfection, that by observing it you may attain to perfect charity.”

“Amen.”

(Friar Camillo Mary of the Passion makes his first renewal of vows.)

Friar John Paul Marie of Our Lady of Grace and Friar Alphonsus Mary of Our Lady of Sorrows

Congratulations to our newly professed and renewed brothers! Through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary,  we pray that you daily “fulfill your vows to the LORD before all His people” (Ps.116:14) until your very last breath! Ave Maria!

“O Friars and Sons forever blest,
hear the voice of your father:
Great things we have promised,
greater have been promised us;
let us observe the former,
let us aspire to the latter;
pleasure is short,
punishment, everlasting;
suffering is slight, glory, infinite;
many are called, few are chosen;
retribution to all.
Brethren, while we have time,
let us do good.”

-Holy Father St. Francis

Marian Vow of Unlimited Consecration to the Immaculate

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Ave Maria!

At the Symposium titled “Sursum Actio” at Notre Dame Univ. from Jun 8-9, 2015, in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, F.I., Fr. Angelo Geiger, FI, from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, gives the thirteenth conference which he titles, “In the Counsels of the Immaculate: Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner’s Contribution to the Renewal of Franciscan Immaculatism”. He points out how much Fr. Peter has contributed to renewing the great Marian tradition of the Franciscan Conventuals and how this is the way they will regroup and fulfill their mission of renewing the Church. Fr. Peter did this primarily by bringing to light the great patrimony of St. Maximilian Kolbe in promoting total consecration to Mary in the Church as a way of bringing to fruition the declaration of the Immaculate Conception as a dogma in 1854.

He starts by quoting from a work of Fr. Peter that he read thirty years ago that was instrumental in discerning his vocation with the Franciscans:

It is not so much a question of what place Mary has in our lives as what place we occupy in hers. That is the starting point of any discussion. Only when the correct starting point from which to begin  any study of the distinction relations between Mary and our order has been clearly identified, do we find ourselves in a position to assess the claims and implications of the militia movement within the order.

Fr. Angelo explains how much Fr. Peter has done to answer this question, “Where does the order fit into the plans of the Immaculate?” In the talk he mentions:

The Golden thread of St. Maximilian that divides the History of the Franciscans into two pages, the first page leading op to the declaration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary as a Dogma and the second page is the implementation of the dogma into the life of the Church.

How the stigmatization of St. Francis relates to the martyrdom of St. Maximilian in Auschwitz.

The many articles that Fr. Peter wrote, some as the editor of Miles Immaculata, which St. Maximilian founded.

How Mary Immaculate is the answer to the Franciscan and the Church going back and forth between worldliness and anti-ecclesial, apocalyptic sectarianism and how this resolves the Post-Vatican II crisis.

The Immaculatist roots of St. Francis and how he called her “Spouse of the Holy Spirit” and “Virgin Made Church.”

The observance of religious life at Niepokalanow and how it was both rigorous and yet not elitist

By choosing Mary, Francis and his followers chose the Church as well as being a reform movement of the Church.

Marian ecclesial form of life renews Conventuals by means of total consecration and in line with the tradition of large friaries like Sacro Convento and practicing the perfect common life in the City of the Immaculate, enabling Conventuals to achieve a synthesis between between extremes.

How Fr. Peter by starting the Academy of the Immacualte did so much to fulfill St. Maximilian’s  desire to start an academy for the study of the Immaculate Conception.

The many books and articles and  Fr. Peter wrote and edited as well as the symposiums he organized under the banner of the Academy of the Immaculate.

Some lines of thought in his writing for the Academy:

– Early roots of Franciscan Immaculatism
– St. Maximilian’s sources for his two page Franciscan history.
– A Marian Franciscan geography of faith using insight from John Paul II in Redemptoris Mater, relating the Portiuncula to the first page of Franciscan history and  Niepokalanow, St. Maximilian’s City of the Immaculate, to the second.

Evolution of the thought of Fr. Peter seeking first to achieve the balanced implementation of Vatican II in the Conventuals in order to avoid the fluctuation between extremes and how this was confirmed by Pope Benedict’s thoughts on the Joachimites. The solution being the sanctification of the intellect, the Sentire Cum Ecclesia, thinking with the Church according to the counsels of the Immaculate.

He concludes by pointing out the need for a City of the Immaculate as the most important patrimony given by St. Maximilian and how the role of the Franciscans but especially the City of the Immaculate is to promote total consecration to Mary Immaculate and thus renew the Church. He says:

But in the end it is not that Our lady needs us but that we need her. And the realization of this truth is something for which we will be eternally grateful to Fr. Peter.

The talk is followed by a commentary by Fr. Peter where he points out that Marian devotion is not an either/or, either Marian or Franciscan but both/and, where both complement each other.

Other links

Fr. Peter’s Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fehlner

Academy of the Immaculate: http://academyoftheimmaculate.com/

This symposium, Sursum Actio (“Lift up your Actions” or more loosely “Lift up your Hearts”), was organized in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner after he won the Cardinal John J. Wright Marialogical Award of 2015 from the Mariological Society of America for his outstanding contributions to Mariology.

For a complete list of all fourteen talks from this symposium:

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On the memorial of St. Augustine (Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Aug 28), Fr. Matthias reminds us that at the heart of the sex abuse problem is the issue of lack of chastity. At this moment, when this defect in so many members of the Mystical Body of Christ is being graphically exhibited, we must not forget that we are all called to contribute to resolving the problem: by seeking and practicing, from the heart, our own chastity and self-mastery, in order to re-edify the Body of Christ.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Augustine of Hippo – Mem

Readings: Tuesday in the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
1st: 2 Thes 2:1-3, 14-16
Resp: Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13
Gsp: Mt 23:23-26

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Feb 16 on how Christ, the New Adam, with Mary, the New Eve, makes all things new.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Saturday 5th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: gen 3:9-24
Resp: psa 90:2, 3-4, 5-6, 12-13 0
Gsp: mar 8:1-10

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On the Memorial of St. Pius V (Pope, Apr 30), Fr. Andre talks about the power of the Rosary, gloriously manifest during the Battle of Lepanto. Through Pius V’s leadership, Christians appealed to God through Mary and the Rosary, and with her powerful assistance obtained an upset victory over numerically superior Muslim invaders.

Relating Our Lady’s involvement at Lepanto with today’s Gospel, Father points out that although Nicodemus did not properly understand the concept, he rightly associated the question of being “reborn” with the essential role of Woman. The Christian hope for renewal is connected with fidelity to Our Lady’s Fatima request for the praying of the Rosary.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Pius V – Opt Mem

Readings: Tuesday 2nd Week of Easter
1st: Act 4:32-37
Resp: Ps 93:1, 1-2, 5
Gsp: Jn 3:7-15

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