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Donations Needed
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Donations NeededWith almost all the labor provided by the friars and other volunteers, we have very few expenses here at AirMaria. Nevertheless, we have some regular expenses that need to be covered and the need for more equipment. Here is a list of some of our more immediate needs: Monthly ExpensesElectricity $100 Total Monthly $770 Please take a moment and look at this figure. It is very low. Normally, any production outfit that is producing two videos per day would require huge resources, even many thousands per month. With the low figure you see here, you can be assured that any of your donations will be very well spent, going directly to the cost of delivering good Catholic Programming to the Internet. Equipment and Software ExpensesUpgrading Current Computers $1,500 Total Cost Equipment and Software $7800 Additional Immediate needs: Outstanding Radio License Acquisition Fees $3300 Please Help us with these critical expenses for this burgeoning apostolate. To reed more about what we are plaining on doing with AirMaria see our Recent Update. If you wish to specify whether to donate to Equipment or to Monthly Expenses please specify in the “purpose” field in the PayPal donation page. Otherwise, benefactions will be spent to cover Monthly first and then Equipment. Or if you wish to send a check the address is: Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate Make checks payable to AirMaria.com. Indicate “Air Maria” on the check. Donations are tax deductable. Again, we thank all of you for your continued support. Ave Maria!! |
FiNews - A Year of Air Maria - Update
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Ave Maria! Well, a year has gone by since our official start last March 25th. We passed the 100,000 marker on our visitor counter since we installed it in April last year. Now it reads 130,000. We estimate 150,000 visitors in total (including those before April 2007). In addition, we’ve produced over 600 videos and over 1,100 posts. Deo Gratias! We wanted to celebrate on March 25th but with Easter coming we had to wait until the Annunciation (this year it was on the 31st of March) but then we needed to get the server updated and that proved more difficult than expected. In fact we were down most of that day. But now that we have the new server up and running and with more features on the site than ever before, its time to pop the champagne! (more…) |
FiNews - The Switch is Complete
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Ave Maria! SUCCESS, DEO GRATIAS!!The switch to the new server is complete!! Sorry for the inconvenience of airmaria.com being inoperable. |
Fi News - AirMaria 1000th Post!!!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Ave Maria! Wow! New milestone, 1000 posts on AirMaria.com!! Deo Gratias! Ave Maria! |
0:30) >>> AirMaria Down Under
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
The “friar in the box” is a complete mobile kit for producing video entries on AirMaria. It is an engineering wonder. Effective, light, mobile and quick to set up. Five pounds overweight, I might add, for domestic flights, as I found out. AirMaria Central is working on that. For the past few years I have spent some weeks with our friars in Perth on the West Coast of Australia. This year I am here on a visitation in preparation for our General Chapter coming up at Pentecost. We have two friaries in Australia, one in Perth itself, Munster properly, pictured above, and one about an hour and a half North of Perth in a little town called Toodyay. I am staying right now in Munster. In the picture, from left to right, that’s Fra Cyprian, Father John Joseph, myself, and Father Andre. Here is the Australian friars website. It is said that Perth is the most isolated city in the world. With over two million people it is a large city, but drive outside of the suburbs and you are in the bush and the bush goes on for hundreds of miles before you find another town. In Munster, the brothers organize what we call a Marian Family Cenacle and our MIM. They also do a weekly radio show called Gate of Heaven. I will be on the air tonight. (Live Stream here 7:30 PM Perth; 5:30 AM EST; archived afterward here, click on the link 20:00.) More on the Cenacle in a later post. Hopefully, I will get you some video of that. In Toodyay, the friars are restoring an old school, transforming it, actually, into a retreat house. They are also involved in the Family Cenacles. It is in Toodyay that there is a burgeoning interest in the Knights of Lepanto. I will be there later in the week and giving a men’s retreat from Friday, November 23 to Sunday, November 25. We’ll try to get some video of that as well. I am sure Fra Cyprian will be looking up Apostolate for some technical help. More to come. Ave Maria! |
Fi News - The Day After, Concert in Carmel, IN
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Well the big day is over. We finished the conference at about 9pm right on schedule. In fact, the whole day went according to schedule. We had 1100 attendees. All the speakers arrived on time. Most were able to stay all day. The streaming worked pretty well. Although we had a computer crash in the middle of Scott Hahn’s talk. Of course, these things always happen for our most popular speaker. The speakers held their audience’s attention through-out the conference. It seemed Our Lady was present giving the speakers an extraordinary inspiration and the ears and hearts of the attendees were given extra graces to receive. Many of the speakers who have been to many such conferences said this was one of best run. Many thanks to all who helped. The parish had their vigil mass at 9pm just as we finished and so we had to wait till 10pm to start packing-up. It took two days to set up so it was not till 1am in the morning that we finished and we did not get back to our friary in Bloomington until 2am. We are now traveling to Carmel, Indiana for the last concert of Fr. Maximilian Dean. Tomorrow most of the friars in our traveling road show will go back to Griswold, CT. Two of us, Fra Augustine and Myself will travel to La Crosse, Wisconsin to do an interview at the beautiful Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe being built there which we will staff starting next summer. On the way back we will get a few more interviews. Then we will have to sort out the large amount of equipment that we brought on the road with us and start producing videos and DVDs of the conference. The first thing we will get up is the video of the live stream that we captured as we streamed it. Ah we just arrived at Our Lady of Carmel. No rest for the weary. Glory be to God. Ave Maria! |
FiNews - Live Marian Conference, Greenwood, IN
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Live Stream Links:
Live Video Stream 360kbps Today’s the big day! We will be live streaming the Marian Conference Behold Your Mother, Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate. We are currently streaming now from a DVD of Fr. Maximilian’s Concert. Rosary will be at 8:30am and the conference will start at 9am. We hope you enjoy. And, of course, please leave comments! Ave Maria! +++ |
FiNews - Preparations are Finished
Friday, October 12th, 2007Ave Maria! Well we made it to Greenwood, Indiana. Its a nice big church with a great thriving congregation with Perpetual Adoration. +  Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, Indiana
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 The Old Church is very beautiful but the Parish outgrew it. The Old Church is used for the two daily masses still and is packed each time.
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 The Interior of the Church with the blue background curtain being prepared.
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Fi News - Week in Review: Our Lady of America and More!
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Ave Maria! Well its been quite a week for us here at Air Maria, our busiest week ever! Deo Gratias! Saturday, Sept 8 - Our First Live Broadcast We had our first live broadcast on the occasion of the Solemn Profession of Fra Joseph. We had about 200 viewers and 20 comments for the event. It was a shakedown of our new system that we are developing for the Coredemption Conference in Indiana on Oct 13. Monday, Sept 10 thru Tuesday, Our Lady of America in NY
The big event, of course, was the trip to NY to report on the visitation of Our Lady of America to Ground Zero. It was a whirlwind experience of devotion and exhilaration. Despite the very short notice of this event many crowds appeared. Thanks to Spirit Daily for the publicity. We had over 14,000 visits to our site and over 120 comments from viewers expressing joy and gratitude to Our Lady of America for being at Ground Zero and to those who made it happen. We certainly appreciate this great outpouring of joy over this great event. We then had a mountain of video editing to do and this is still not done. We still have some great interviews of those involved in the finding of the I-Beam Cross from Ground Zero. Stay Tuned. But here is a list of the postings we made here at AirMaria.com on the OLOA to NY trip so far:
Additional information and photos at OurLadyofAmerica.com Wednesday, Sept 12, Connecticut State Capital (more…) |
FI News - Traditional Latin Mass Live Tonight @ 7:00pm EDT
Friday, September 14th, 2007Ave Maria! We celebrated our first ever Traditional Latin Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel in preparation for the Latin Mass tonight, Saturday 15th Sept, on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, which we will broadcast live - see the link on the airmaria.com homepage. We hope to get a video up today of our first Tridentine Mass, but more importantly, stay tuned tonight at 7pm for a live webcast! Ave Maria! |
Fi News - AirMaria’s First Live Broadcast Saturday, September 8
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Ave Maria! We are announcing our first Live Broadcast which will be on the occasion of the Solemn Profession of Fra Joseph Mary on the Feast of the Birth of Our Lady on Saturday, Sept 8 at 7pm. The service will consist of a Mass with the profession right after the homily. It will probably go for one and a half hours but possibly as long as two hours. This is the same Fra Joseph who does No Apologies here on Air Maria so we are all very excited as he makes his final profession of the four vows (Total Consecration to the Immaculate, Poverty, Chastity and Obedience) in the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. So come check it out this Saturday at 7pm, Live. |
Video - F.I. News #19: Dr. Mark Miravalle’s New Series on Airmaria.com
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Ave Maria! The AirMaria crew is on the road (en route to the Indiana friary to deliver our precious cargo of our own Fr. Elias Mary to his new posting) and we will be filming a host of various guests over the next few days. Today we are in Steubenville, Ohio, and we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Mark Miravalle, Professor of Theology and Marialogy at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, for a great new series he will be doing for Airmaria on Mary - Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. We hope to publish the first episode next week and here is a little teaser and promo for the series. Ave Maria! |
More Shows Available: Homilies and Longer Shows
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Don’t forget, there are more shows available than just the short shows you see in the main vlog column! See our Extra Shows section for homilies and longer, half-hour shows like Spirit, Faith and Family and Face of Pro-life. Resent titles include: Ave Maria! |
Video - FiNews #10: Dana gives Air Maria a High Note
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Ave Maria! Dana, shown here in the 1993 World Youth Day in Denver Colorado, gives a heart warming recommendation for Air Maria. Ave Maria! |
