Ave Maria!

Friar Joseph: I ask that by professing the Rule and Life of the Order of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate I may be able to follow the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and with his holy operation follow in his footsteps all the days of my life.

Ave Maria!

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Homily #080908s ( 23min) Play – Four of our novices made their first Simple Profession of Vows this evening – Friar Faustino, Friar Ephraim, Friar Anthony, and Friar Josemaria. Congratulations and welcome brothers.
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Homily #090908 ( 04min) Play – On Our Lady’s Birthday Fr. Ignatius focuses on this evenings prefession of first vows for our four Novices and relates this to our Baptismal vows.

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Ave Maria! Readings EF – 1st: pro 8:22-35 – Gsp: mat 1:1-16

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Homily #090908s ( 20min) Play – On this Feast of the Birthday of Our Lady the Gospel reading is the Genealogy of Jesus. Fr Angelo preaches on the need to have patience just as all those mentioned in the genealogy had to wait in faith. Yet, we should be joyful in the confidence that Our Lord will make good on His promises and will help us to fulfill them even if they are as serious as religious vows.
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On the birthday of Our Lady, four young friars made their first profession of vows, after completing their one-year novitiate. The professions took place at the motherhouse of the American mission, in Griswold, CT.

Deo Gratias!

Ave Maria!

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Fra. Philomeno:

Fra. Terence:

Fra. Lawerence:

Fra. George:

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Homily #091211s ( 17min) Play – Fr. Angelo gives the homily for the vigil Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe which is a Solemnity here at Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary. He relates the story of St. Juan Diego and how Our Lady asks him to give a message to the bishop that she wants a chapel built on Tepiac Hill near the Aztec Capitol. He particulary relates how Our Lady wanted Juan Diego to become willing himself to accept the task. This is especially relavant in that today David Houseal will be entering Novitiate here at Our Lady of Guadalupe friary where he will be preparing to make religious vows that includes Consideration to Our Lady in this Missionary order of the FI. So on this joyous day and throughout the year, please keep David in your prayers as he prepares to be another Juan Diego. Oh, and his new religious name is Fra David Maria of St Joseph and and Bl. Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity or just Fra David for short.
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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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Homily #140126 ( 09min) Play – The first, second, and third order members of the Franciscans of the Immaculate are called to fulfill their mission in life by faithfully living out the vows they have made to God day by day.
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Mass: 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: isa 8:23-9:3
Resp: psa 27:1, 4, 13-14
2nd: 1co 1:10-13, 17
Gsp: mat 4:12-23

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Homily #140817j ( 13min) Play – There are many young people open to religious life. God doesn’t speak in a big booming voice, but in a whisper. Vocation shortage? Ave Maria! Mass: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday – Form: OF Readings:  1st: isa 56:1, 6-7 Resp: psa 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 2nd: rom 11:13-15, 29-32 Gsp: mat 15:21-28 Audio (MP3) +++

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Homily #141208 ( 15min) Play – Fr. Louis Maximilian, on the occasion of receiving the first profession of vows from fra Charbel, explains how being a son of Mary is first and foremost, laying the foundation for the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: gen 3:9-15, 20
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
2nd: eph 1:3-6, 11-12
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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