Homily #140710n ( 10min) Play – Fr. Matthias introduces to a little known saint, but one of the greatest mystics of the Church, St. Veronica Guiliani. First we hear a short biography, and then Father shows how her deep union with Our Lady, becoming a “True Image” of Mary, led her to be a “True Image” of Jesus Christ.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Veronica Giuliani – Form: OF
Readings: Thursday 14th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: hos 11:1, 3-4, 8-9
Resp: psa 80:2, 3, 15-16
Gsp: mat 10:7-15

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Variety #250 – ( 03min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Mary gives 5 reasons for reading Life of Union with Mary by Fr. Emile Neubert. He explains how the book is unique, inspiring, a milestone in Marian Spirituality, and more.

This book has been reprinted by Academy of the Immaculate, and is intended for mass distribution. It sells for $8 each, $6 for 6 or more, $4 for 20 or more, and $3.20 by the box.

This book is available at AcademyOfTheImmaculate.com/life-of-union-with-mary-95.html both as a trade paperback and as an ebook (EPUB/Kindle).

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The love of Marian souls for their heavenly Mother is not the only love that finds a marvelous increase in their union with her; their love for Jesus increases even more! All that we do for the Blessed Virgin brings us closer to Jesus, at least in an indirect way.

Is it not because of Him that we love her, that we revere her, that we pray to her?  More often, however, union with Mary puts us directly in contact with Jesus. But that does not suffice for Mary. She wishes to do more than lead us to her Son without, as it were, our knowing it; she desires a determination on our part that is deliberate, really consented to, and fully conscious.

Mary was created and exists only for her Son. As formerly on earth, so now in heaven, she thinks only of giving Jesus to the world. To help her other children grow more and more in the love of Jesus and spread this love about them is her supreme desire in their regard. And the supreme desire of her earthly children must be to love and to have Jesus loved under the leadership of Mary.

+Fr. Emile Neubert

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St. Rita of Cascia united her love to that of Christ by contemplating his Passion. Christ endured his Passion, and Our Lady suffered with him at the foot of the cross, for the salvation of all men,  even those whose kill God’s people, thinking they’re worshiping Him. We must seek to learn to love our persecutors, by contemplating the Trinitarian love of God, the Passion of Christ, and the Compassion of the Mother.

The President of the United States, recently in Saudi Arabia, had something to say about the twisted understanding of God that leads some to kill Christians: “Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith. Terrorists do not worship God. They worship death.” And yet, many today are of the mind that it is good to kill Christians.

Only in the Passion of Christ can we see the Trinitarian love which saves us, and which will enable us to love our persecutors, as Jesus loves them.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Rita of Cascia – Opt Mem
Readings: Monday 6th Week of Easter
1st: Act 16:11-15
Resp: Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9 0
Gsp: Jn 15:26-16:4

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All deeply religious persons aspire to union with Mary; perhaps they cannot analyze the motives which prompt them to seek this union, but they are convinced that in constant intimacy with the mother of Jesus they will experience a distinct joy and will gain great advantage for their spiritual life. This conviction develops ordinarily by degrees, by reason of experience.

What is the purpose of the union of our will with Mary’s? It is to do the will of Jesus always. Mary does not exist, breathe, or act except for Jesus, and her will in our regard is that we, too, live only for Jesus, that in everything we do His will. Instead of the formula, “to do the will of Jesus,” Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus referred another, “to cause Jesus pleasure.”

Those formulas are practical equivalence, inasmuch as we always please Jesus in doing His will and without it we cannot cause Him pleasure. The formula, “to cause Jesus pleasure,” is perhaps more catchy because it adds to the idea of obedience to Jesus that are bringing Him joy. He showed us so much human affection, He worked and suffered so much for us, that the prospect of giving Him a bit of pleasure in return powerfully stimulates our will to obey.

This perfect practice is at the same time extremely simple. With Mary it is easy to surmise what will procure the most joy to Jesus. Whether there is question of doing something, fulfilling a duty, of rendering a service, of imposing a sacrifice upon oneself, reciting an extra prayer, or a question of avoiding something, a vain word, a petty revenge, certain company: if we demand of Mary what will cause Jesus the greater pleasure, she will make us understand at once.

If I am solely tried, she invites me to unite my suffering to the sufferings of Jesus to console Him. If I am in bad humor, or perfectly listless, or I may even have can committed a fault: “Mother, what am I to do?” Come to Jesus with your mother, with your misery and your confidence, and you will bring Him a threefold joy.

Perhaps these efforts and renunciations will cost for nature plenty. If I ask myself, should I do such an act of virtue, perform such a sacrifice? My good old human nature will find a dozen pretexts to excuse me. But if I ask Mary, what can I refuse her?

Besides, the pleasure that I am sure to be giving to Jesus and to her renders my sacrifice easy. We sense that this preoccupation of always pleasing Jesus in the name of Mary should greatly aid our souls to live continually in joy and generosity, and in intimacy with Jesus and Mary.

+Fr. Emile Neubert

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Fr. Matthias give the first reflection on our Spring Marian Day of Prayer called “Mary, Your Refuge,” feeling and dealing with suffering in union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is for the 2024 Spring Marian Day of Prayer at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center.

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