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Homily #080331 ( 04min) Play - Fr Ignatius explains how the Annunciation is a paradigm for everyone’s spiritual life. Ave Maria! Mass readings

From Ave Maria Meditations

by JosephMary

You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of compassion; the sentence of condemnation weighs heavily upon us. (more…)

Ave Maria!– March’s Theme: Suffering

“In all things let us never forget to say with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, ‘not my will, but thine be done’. (Lk. 22:42) And if, as happened in the Garden of Gethsemane, God holds it as opportune not to answer our request and sends us a chalice to drink down to the last drop, let us not forget that Jesus not only suffered, but also gloriously arose, and that we tend toward the resurrection also through suffering.” (SK #1264)

Homily #080331 ( 10min) Play - On this Feast of the Annunciation, Fr Bonaventure reminds us that with the decree of the Incarnation of the Son of God along with the full participation and cooperation of Mary Immaculate, salvation was made possible. Ave Maria! Mass readings +++

Face of Pro-Life #27 - Dr Lorraine Hartnett speaks on healing and Divine Mercy ( 30min) >>> Play

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Dr Lorraine Hartnett continues to talk about Divine Mercy and the “Eucharistic Helpers of the Sick”, pro-life for the sick. Eucharistic Helpers of the Sick is an organization for health care workers with its focus to reclaim medicine for God. To contact Eucharistic Helpers, email them at: eucharistichelpers@comcast.net

Ave Maria!– March’s Theme: Suffering

“A soul that loves God always desires to please Him, in every moment, with every thought, word and action, in all its works and with its very existence. When it has the opportunity to sacrifice some affection in order to give joy to God, it considers itself fortunate, because it has the possibility of giving proof of disinterested love. It is precisely for this reason that the Saints desired to make so many sacrifices, to endure so many crosses, because in doing so they demonstrated that their love was pure.” (SK #1303)

Homily Specials  #S080330 (11min) Play - Let the House of Israel say, “His Mercy endures forever”. The Divine Mercy Devotion is a “Private Revelation”. Listen to Fr Ignatius’ explanation of the difference between a private revelation and a public revelation.
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Homily #080330 ( 21min) Play - The image of the Divine Mercy can be considered an artistic rendering of today’s Gospel. Jesus I trust in You.
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Marycast 5th Marian Dogma for Beginners #5 ( 10min) Play - Ave Maria! The Marian titles of Mediatrix of All Graces and Advocate tell us about Mary’s functions in the Order of Grace as our spiritual mother. Dr Miravalle explains Mary’s roles in bringing graces to us and speaking on behalf of the human family for the gift of eternal salvation. Ave Maria! +++To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

Ave Maria!– March’s Theme: Suffering

“One’s health and the obligations of one’s state in life do not permit everyone to practice rigorous penances, although everyone acknowledges that the pathway of life is strewn with little crosses. The acceptance of these little crosses in the spirit of penance: behold a vast array of opportunities to practice penance.” (SK #1303)

Homily #080329 ( 07min) Play - Tradition holds, and the Church teaches, that Our Lord first appeared to His Mother after His Resurrection. So when the Gospel writers say that our Lord first appeared to Mary Magdalen, this does not exclude the possibility that he appeared to His Mother before this.
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Ave Maria!– March’s Theme: Suffering

“Penance is not an exclusive privilege of the saints, neither is it an ‘error’ of medieval times, rather it is a duty, a specific duty for everyone, because no one is without sin. And it isn’t as though people began to go astray only during the medieval period, because, right from the first centuries of the Church, Christians, obedient to the commands of Christ, kept their flesh under restraint.” (SK #1028)

Homily #080328 ( 07min) Play - Grace does not destroy nature - but builds upon it. We see this in how Peter and John react in today’s Gospel and how their respective natures come to the fore.
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Roving Reporter #28 - Joe Scheidler - The Father of Pro-Life Activism ( 10min) >>> Play

Ave Maria! Fra Roderic recently caught up with Joe Scheidler in Chicago, the National Director of the Pro-Life Action League. In this interview, Joe speaks about his heroic fight against Planned Parenthood and the RICO laws. Ave Maria!

From Ave Maria Meditations
by JosephMary

The Mercy of God to the Penitent

from St. Maximus the Confessor

God’s will is to save us, and nothing pleases him more than our coming back to him with true repen­tance. The heralds of truth and the ministers of divine grace have told us this from the beginning, repeating it in every age. Indeed, God’s desire for our salvation is the primary and preeminent sign of his infinite good­ness. It was precisely in order to show that there is nothing closer to God’s heart that the divine Word of God the Father, with untold condescension, lived among us in the flesh, and did, suffered, and said all that was necessary to reconcile us to God the Father, when we were at enmity with him, and to restore us to the life of blessedness from which we had been exiled. (more…)