St. John's Adoration Chapel

St. John's Adoration Chapel
"Do Not Fear: I am with you. From here I will cast light Be sorry for sin."

Friday, March 31, 2017

April 1, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione and Father Tom

Saturday, April 1
FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH-QUEEN
OF APOSTLES
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 11: 18-20
Jn 7: 40-53

MONTHLY THOUGHT: Our praising of God on earth will merit heaven, which is complete glorification of God, where we will contemplate the Divine Goodness in one's life, loving the Divine Goodness perfectly, and rejoicing in it. ~Blessed James Alberione

The Cooperators are thought of as persons who understand the Pauline Family and are united in spirit and purpose with it (AD, 341).


PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Carlo Stella SSP (1973)--Bro Enrico Pantaleo SSP (1984)--Fr Michele Leone IJP (2003)--Fr. Elio Baron Toaldo SSP (2015)

Thursday, March 30, 2017

March 31, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, March 31
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Wis 2: 1, 12-22
Jn 7: 1-2, 10, 25-30

Let love be perfect, wherever possible here on earth, through friendship. It includes reciprocity and mutual self-giving. In all eternity, God loves every heart that loves Him; He shares His treasures...he constantly speaks, calls, and comforts while the heart searches, listens and corresponds (BM 1, 252).


PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Giuseppe Zilli SSP (1989)-Fr Giuseppe Morini SSP (1985)--Fr Gennaro Di Nucci IJP (1994)--Luigi GiovanniGiaccio HFI (2006)--Guido Bosio HFI (2007)--Sr M. Margherita Croci PD (2008)

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

March 30, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, March 30
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ex 32: 7-14
Jn 5: 31-47

The liturgy is practiced primarily with knowledge and, secondarily, with making it known. To understand and to make it known. The magazine <> has this purpose (APD 56, 629).


PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M. Bertilla Urbani FSP (1962)--Fr Vincenzo M. Urbani IJP (2000)--Sr Agnese Magarotto SGBP (2001)--Maria do Carmo Gomes Oliveira IAM (2005)--Fr Giueppe Ferrazzano IJP (2006)--Sr M. Leonia Diez FSP (2007)--Sr Costanza Bianciotto FSP (2010)--Fr Antonio Nigro IJP (2011)--Sr M. Teresa Gramaccia SGBP (2012)--Sr. M. Francesca La Perna PD (2015).

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

March 29, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, March 29
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 49: 8-15
Jn 5: 17-30

Form, first of all, the Eucharistic soul. It is necessary for the Pious Disciple to be here. To spend the rest of her day with the Host. Jesus Christ is the solid cornerstone (APD 56, 490)


PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Michele Sarullo IJP (1993)--Sr Teresa Bianco FSP (1995)--Sr Guglielmina Oliboni FSP (1995)--Sr M. Cornelia De Toffoli PD (1996)--Egidio Pitzus HFI (1997)--Fr Felipe Gutierrez SSP (2004)--Sr Mansueta Chiesa FSP (2005)--Sr Luica Migliore FSP (2007)--Giuseppina Sanfilippo IAM (2009)--Giovanni Italiano HFI (2011)Sr Carla (Cleia)Ferrari FSP (2012)--Bro natale Luigi Corso SSP (2014)

March 28, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Tuesday, March 28
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ez 47: 1-9, 12
Jn 5: 1-16

Be of one mind and heart; let there be the same language, same manner of speaking and may there be one manner of doing things. Yes, let love prevail (APD 56, 289).


PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Michele Perillo HFI (1996)--Sr. M. Tarcisia Spadaro PD (2008)--Sr M. Emanuella Santini PD (2011)

Sunday, March 26, 2017

March 27, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, March 27
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 65: 17-21
Jn 9: 43-54

The machines are pulpits, the halls are churches, the workers are preachers; here is the new and unusual way of looking at things (AE, p. 362)


PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Fulgenzia Rapagnani PD (1979)—Fr Gino Grimaldi IJP (1983)—Sr M. Giuseppina Ambrosio PD (1989)—Sr M. Nazarena Andolfi PD (1994)—Sr M. Enrichetta Morabito PD (1998)—Sr GiacintaPescio FSP (1999)—Servo di Dio Fr. Bernardo Antonini IJP (2002)—Assunta Gramaglia HFI (2002)—Bro Giovanni Novarino SSP (2011)—Lillie Cusack (1994)

March 26, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, March 26
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT
1 Sm 16: 1, 6-7, 10-13
Eph 5: 8-14
Jn 9: 1-41

The apostle must learn from his model the art of “becoming all things to all men” and that flexibility of dealing with others, as can be ovserved in the Apostle (AE, 37).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Aurelia Cristino PD (1964)—Bro Giuseppe Zemiti SSP (1975)—Sr M. Paolina Pivetta FSP (1990)—Fr Farraele Tonni SSP (1995)—Fr Adelmo Barbati SSP (1999)—Fr Aldo Ferraboschi IJP (2004)—Angelo Alessi AFI (2008)—Sr M Alicia Tarasek PD (2011)—Joe Carvalho Ferreira HFI (2011)—Sr M. Piera Pedercini FSP (2012)—Sr M. Stefanina Imparato PD (2012)


Friday, March 24, 2017

March 25, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 25
ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Is 7: 10-14; 8: 10
Heb 10:4-10
Lk 1: 26-38

Lord, be more merciful with me always. Keep your holy hand upon me, O Mary. Let your light, grace and blessing be always upon me (BM1, 229).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Guerrino Pelliccia SSP (1991)--Fr Antonio Giovinazzo IJP (1992)--Sr. M. FAustina Audisio PD (2003)--Anna Ferrari IAM (2011)--Sr M. Aurora Catillo FSP (2012)--Sr M. Fiorenza Fukuoka FSP (2012)--Giovanni Sanna HFI (2013)--Don Germano Fantechi GABRIELITE (2015)

Thursday, March 23, 2017

March 24, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, March 24
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Hos 14: 2-10
Mk 12: 28-34

Beautiful is the heart of a religious person! It is no longer one's heart, a heart that is constricted, jealous, selfish, but rather the heart of Jesus! (FSP42, p 404).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Venerable Sr M. Scolastica Rivata, prima Madre delle PD (1987)--Sr Teresinha Michels FSP (1993)--Sr Cesarina Rossi FSP (1995)--Fr Bernardo Zorzetto IJP (1996)--Antonia Farruggio IAM (1996)--Joh Albert Vincenzo HFI (2004)--Sr Gabriella Marcazzan FSP (2005)--Sr Ines Zuccherino FSP (2013)--Mary Kilbane HFI (2015)--Felicismo Quinto (2004)

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

March 23, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, March 23
ST TORBIO OF MOGROVEJO, BISHOP
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 7: 23-28
Lk 11: 14-23

Love of God is to think like God, it is doing His will and to desire it above all things (FSP41, p. 140).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Angelica Dondi FSP (1944)--Fr Lorenzo Bertero SSP (1991)--Fr Antonio Bosticco SSP (2000)--Fr Michele Gargano IJP (2002)--Sr M. Onorina Mussi FSP (2002)--Bro Antonio Piva SSP (2004)--Sr M. Scolastica Aoki PD (2004)--Sr Luigina Ferreri SGBP (2015)

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

March 22, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, March 22
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dt 4: 1, 5-9
Mt 5: 17-19

To progress means to grow in charity, to acquire a way of thinking that progressively conforms to faith (FSP 40, p 83).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Armando Pesaresi IJP (1985)--Sr Elena Ramondetti FSP (1999)--Mons Achille Palmerini IJP (2000_--Giuseppe Izzi HFI (2006)--Sr M. Franca Riba PD (2007)--Sr Maria da Conceicao Azevedo FSP (2008)--Luciano Andreoni HFI (2008)--Antonietta Poddi HFI (2010)--Sr M. Nivea Maestro PD (2012)--Julia Schrader (1975).

Monday, March 20, 2017

March 21, 2017 With Blessed James Alberione

Tuesday, March 21
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dn 3: 25, 34-43
Mt 18: 21-35

Let us stay willingly and joyfully in the community, at table, in the refectory, during recreation: let us talk cordially with everybody, finding ways to perfect each other's personality to make it more pleasing (FSP 35, p. 264).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Felicia Scellato PD (1967)--Sr M. Franca Calo FSP (1991)--Sr M. Caterina Bertolino PD (1992)--Sr Annita Loi FSP (1998)--Bro Francisco Menegon SSP (2004)--Sr Iracema Gattelli FSP (2004)--Elisa Deidda IAM (2010)--Sr M. Silvana Cuscito FSP (2011)--Fr Antonio Pinedo SSP (2013)--Fr Giuseppe Pasini Benvegnu IJP (2015)--Arthur P. Herron Jr. HFI (2015)--Anne Nephew (1991)

Sunday, March 19, 2017

March 20, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, March 20
ST JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE 
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
2 Sm 7: 4-5, 12-16
Rom 4: 13, 16-18, 22
Mt 1: 16-21, 24

St Joseph, obtain fro many young people the desire for a perfect life that is practiced in religious obedience, chastity and poverty (CISP, p 347).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Batista Bettinelli PD (1993)--Sr Rosangela Pasquino AP (1993)--Emilio Tomasssini HFI (1993)--Sr Adele Aimasso FSP (2997)--Sr M. Fortunata Arotta SP (1999)--Fr Amtpmop Diaz SSP (2008)--Sr Paola Perez FSP (2014)--Joyce Sablone (2001)

Saturday, March 18, 2017

March 19, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, March 19
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ex 17: 3-7
Rom 5: 1-2, 5-8
Jn 4: 5-42

Your apostolate is the Gospel,the Catechism has to be printed and distributed:you do not work for various printing presses; not for an industry or commerce, but for the glory of God, for souls, souls, soul! (FSP p 481).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Lilia M. Lavagnini FSP (1964)--Sr M. Bernarda Marinoni FSP (1971)--Fr Pio Rossi IJP (1987)--Sr M. Carola Camo FSP (1987)--Sr M. Sira Baldassari FSP (1994)--Rosa Deplano HI (1995)--Sr Geltrude Botto FSP (1999)--Fr Fredo Brondino SSP (2003)--Sr. M. Bernardina Borghini FSP (2004)--Sr M. Querubina Contreras PD (2005)--Bro Federico FaccioliSSP (2008)--Sr Mary Caroline Tessa FSP (2008)--Sr M. Regina Nota FSP (2009)--Pasquale Festa HFI (2009)--Elena Ciaglia IAM (2010)--Sr M. Leonia Torresan PD (2012)--Olga Bernardoni HFI (2014)--Mary Ellen Donnelly HFI (2002).

Friday, March 17, 2017

March 18, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, March 18
ST CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, BISHOP,
DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Mi 7: 14-15, 18-20
Lk 15: 1-3, 11-32
It is very difficult to truly seek God in everything. Sometimes it is following a path that leads away from Him instead of seeking Him! But there are those who seek Him in everything and spend their whole life for Him (FSP 32, p. 410).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Domenico Sebastianelli HFI (1987)--Sr. M. Immacolatina Simonetto PD (1990)--Sr. M. Gabriella Miresse FSP (1999)--Sr M. Lucia Mana PD (2006)--Sr M. Regina Carducci FSP (2015).

Thursday, March 16, 2017

March 17, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, March 17
ST PATRICK, BISHOP
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Gen 37: 3-4, 12-13, 17-28
Mt 21: 33-43, 45-46
True love is this: to love even those who do not love us, to serve those who despise us, to do good to those who malign us (FSP 32, p. 343).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr. Natalia Colavecchio FSP (1949)--Sr. M. Alba Prest SGBP (1967)--Sr. Romana Migliardi FSP (1988)--J. Rene' Pelletier HFI (1998)--Sr. Raffaella Cappai FSP (2008)--Giovanni Cieri HFI (2008)--Sr. Teresa Migliorini FSP (2010)--Sr. M. Erminia Cattapan PD (2012)--Bro Nicolo Brezza SSP (2015)

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

March 16, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, March 16
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 17: 5-10
Lk 16: 19-31
The Good Shepherd is Him who knows all the sheep and leads them to good pastures. He is the Shepherd who says: "I have other sheep and leads them to good pastures. He is that Shepherd who says: "I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must seek" (PrP VIII, p. 258).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr. Domenico Ravina SSP (1982)--Italo Beretta HFI (2002)--Sr Giuseppa Dell; Aira FSP (2003)--Sr M. Immacolata Tresham PD (2004)--Sr Lorenzina Davico FSP (2005)--Sr M. Agnesina Pinez FSP (2013)--Rev Joesph J. Lappett (1965)

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

March 15, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, March 15
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 18: 18-20
Mt 20: 17-28
Wherever you go, be animated, guided and filled with the spirit of the Good Shepherd. Carry with you Jesus and glorify Him (PrP, VIII, p. 178)
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M. Amabile Lombardi FSP (1952)--Fr Luigi Borio SSP (1970)--Fr Ercole Canavero SSP (1975)--Fr Giovanni Boccaleoni IJP (1982)--Placido Airo HFI (1982)--Fr Giovanni Rossi SSP (1983)--Marianna Zaccaria HFI (2000)--Maria Bacci HFI (2013)

Monday, March 13, 2017

March 14, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Tuesday, March 14
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 1: 10, 16-20
Mt 23: 1-12
Surrender yourself to His love. Jesus has nothing but plans of love and goodness for us, nothing but the desires, united to the desires of the Father's glory! (AP 1960, p. 106).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Adeodata Gallo FSP (1974)--Maria Tommaso HFI (1996)--Sr Pilar Roggero FSP (2005)--Sr Domenica Credico FSP (2005)--Sr Magdala Castellino FSP (2005)--Fr Giovanni Bandini SSP (2009)--Leo Converse (1961)

Sunday, March 12, 2017

March 13, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, March 13
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dn 9: 4-10
Lk 6: 36-38
Let us ask from Jesus gentleness, the grace to understand the importance of charity, and the grace to practice it, first within the House and then to others... Charity must begin with those closest to us (AP 1960, p. 94).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Barberina Sacco FSP (1967)--Domenica Dellerba HFI (1995)--Sr Gaudenzia Sanino FSP (2005)--Sr M. Elisa Mattioli FSP (2011)--Sr M. Eulogia Amato PD (2011)--Raffaele Iavazzi HFI (2011)--Manuel Gricelio Valencia Henao HFI (2011)--Sr Corazon Tariman FSP (2012)--Thomas Daniel Endress (1991)

Saturday, March 11, 2017

March 12, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, March 12
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
Gn 12: 1-4
2 Tm 1: 8-10
Mt 17: 1-9
We will grow much in the love of God when we realize and truly exercise love of neighbor, not with words, but with actions and deeds and in fact (AP 1960, p. 97).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Irene Venturi FSP (1990)--Fr Leonardo Zardi SSP (1991)--Sr Chiara M. Bellinato FSP (1998)--Jjoseph Rene Pelletier HFI (1999)--Bro Isidoro Porello SSP (2000)--Fr Giovanni Battista Mabritto SSP (2001)-Sr Martha M. Morales FSP (2005)--Fr Francesco Manca IJP (2009)--Bro Luke Matthew Addasseril SSP (2011)--Michele Ledda HFI (2012)--Maria Pulli HFI (2012)--Enrico Fiorentini HFI (2013)--Thomas Daniel Endress (1991)

Friday, March 10, 2017

March 11, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, March 11
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dt 26: 16-19
Mt 5: 43-4

The Pauline Family confides to the Cooperators its projects, gives direction for the works to be carried out, and makes them sharers of its pains and joys, indicates to them the means of sanctification (AD, 343).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Matteo Plassa SSP (1965)--Fr GiacomoGiraudo SSP (2003)--Sr M. Melania Ravarotto FSP (2004)--Sr Cecilia Paula Livingston FSP (2011)--John Vincenzo Sr (1980)--Josephine Merlene (2000a0

Thursday, March 9, 2017

March 10 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, March 10
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ez 18: 21-28
Mt 5: 20-26

Never allow ourselves to become lukewarm. Fervor means quickness, generosity, simplicity. It means the desire to be in communion with the Lord (AP 1960, p. 59).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Gisella Gallinaro FSP (1991)--Sr AMalia Zanatta FSP (1994)--Sr M. Daria Riccitelli PD (1994)--Fr Italo Fabbri SSP (2005)--Fr Nazzareno Amantini IJP (2007)--Chiara Greco HFI (2008)--Fr Filippo D'Alessandro IJP (2010)--Marie Howard HFI (2011)--Laura Drouhard (1974)--Maryelle Donnelly (2002)--Cristina Quega Tarlit (2002)

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

March 9, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, March 9
ST FRANCES OF ROME, RELIGIOUS
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Est C: 12, 14-16, 23-25
Mt 7: 7-12

Mary was encouraging and sustaining with her prayers the infant Church, that is, carrying her in her arms (AP 1959, p. 91).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Bro Andrea Degani SSP (1986)--Sr Marcellina Bertero FSP (1990)--Berna Munoz De Zitcari HFI (1996)--Regina Giorgi HFI (1998)--Sr M. Faffaela Astolfi PD (1999)--Giuseppe Di Caro HFI (2001)--Sr M. Candida Knomine FSP (2002)---Sr America Gervasi FSP  (2005)--Sr Ambrosina Baldi FSP(2007)--Sr. M. Agnese Romeo SGBP (2008)--Sr M. Gertrudis Fabbri PD (2009)--Nancy Ann Deren IAM (2011)--Renza Razzolini IAM (2012)--Sr Albina Baruzzi FSP (2013)--Sr M. Immaculata Vaz FSP (2013)--Laurine Buada (2010)

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

March 8, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, March 8
ST JOHN OF GOD, RELIGIOUS
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jon 3: 1-10
Lk 11: 29-32

The Pious Society of Saint Paul is to reflect often on "ad quid venisti?". Let is always find a place in its heart for intellectuals...If you win over intellectuals you are fishing not with a fish-hook, but with a net. (AD, 197).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M. carmine Vitello FSP (1972)--Fr Alvise Soppelsa SSP (1978)--Fr Giuseppe Gregoris IJP (2000)--Sr M. Bendetta Baiguera FSP (2010)--Fr Leo Matthew Vechoor SSP (2011)--Fr Gino Ferrari IJP (2015)--Byron B. Bordellon Jr. (1974).

Monday, March 6, 2017

March 7, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 7
FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH-THE 
SOULS IN PURGATORY
SS PERPETUA AND FELICITY, MARTYRS
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 55: 10-11
Mt 6: 7-15

A constant optimism, founded on Divine Providence, that calls us to holiness, that always provides the means, occasions, trials, consolations: in wisdom and in love (CISP, p. 923).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Domenico Abrosio SSP (1971)--Sr Adelaide Bertolini SGBP (1979)--Michele Piccininni HFI (2003)--Sr M. Enrica Paloschi FSP (2012)--Sr. M. Angelica Ancilotto FSP (2014)--Sr Clotilde Sorentino SGBP (2014).

Sunday, March 5, 2017

March 6, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, March 6
FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH-ST PAUL
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Lv 19: 1-2, 11-18
Mt 25: 31-46

God does not provide bread only for Paulines, but also the means of the apostolate, vocations, place of work, offices for the polishing of one's talents (CISP, p. 919).
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Nazzareno Capozucca IJP (1977)--Rosa Cimino IAM (1997)--Sr Pancrazia Musso (1999)--Sr M. Assunta Lecco FSP (2000)--Sr M. Gemma Dal Masetto PD (2000)--Salvatore Castiglia HFI (2003)--Matteo Dellerba HFI (2014)--Fr Piergiorgio Beretta SSP (2015)--Lucille R. Madeline (2002).

Saturday, March 4, 2017

March 5, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, March 5
FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH-THE DIVINE
MASTER, WAY, TRUTH AND  LIFE
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
ST CASIMIR
Gn 2: 7-9; 3: 1-7
Rom 5: 12-19 or 5: 12, 17-19
Mt 4: 1-11

Our heart must be molded to the Heart of Jesus , our mind molded with that of Jesus; that He truly lives in one's thoughts, feelings, desires and virtues (APD57, 162)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M. Natalia Rivetti PD (1961)--Francesco Luperto HFI (1992)--Fr Giovanni Mana SSP (2007)--Sr. M. Gabriella Mana FSP (2012)--Sr M Fedele Olivero PD (2012)--Sr M Giacomina Monticone FSP (2013)--Sr Emma Garol FSP (2013)--Sr M Giulietta Leguizamon PD (2013)--Leo Helline (1993)

Friday, March 3, 2017

March 4, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, March 4
FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH-MARY,
QUEEN OF APOSTLES
SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY;
ST CASIMIR
Is 58: 9-14
Lk 5: 27-32

Community life, meaning, having common thoughts, sentiments and aspirations; having common actions and activities. It is a community founded on two principles: charity among equal persons, among sisters, and obedience in union with the government (APD 57, 193)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Annina Strano PD (1949)--Sr M. Vincenza Adamo PD (1980)--Fr Amedo La Mattina IJP (1983)--Fr Mario Senettone IJP (1990)--Sr M. Albertina Parma PD (1999)--Sr M. Redenta Alessi PD (2002)--Sr Nazarena Merigo SGBP (2004)--Isabel Marquez IAM (2008)--Luigi Roberti HFI (2011)--Frederick Tarlit (2003).

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Stations of the Cross Rosary

This chaplet of the Way of the Cross was granted to Vincentian Order by Popes Pius IX and X. Later it was withdrawn by the Holy Office (1912), since the indulgences can be gained by using the crucifix alone.

It is somewhat of a misnomer to call this a rosary. To the sick and to others who cannot go to a church to make the Way of the Cross the Holy See has given the privilege of gaining the indulgences attached to the Way of the Cross by holding in their hand a specially indulgenced crucifix and saying the prescribed prayers, the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory be 20 times.  ~http://www.rosaryandchaplets.com/chaplets/stations_of_cross_prayer.html

Are you unable to make the Stations of the Cross at your local parish?  You might want to consider praying the stations on this lovely Stations of the Cross "Rosary".  For those who are unfamiliar with this form of the devotion, as I was,  I will post the prayers below.

Pray the Stations of the Cross Rosary using the method below:

BEGIN ON THE CRUCIFIX

Make the Sign of the Cross and say the Apostles’ Creed

NEXT FIVE BEADS

Say the Act of Contrition, the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. On the last pray the Prayer to Jesus Christ Crucified:
My good and dear Jesus, I kneel before you, asking you most earnestly to engrave upon my heart a deep and lively faith, hope, and charity, with true repentance for my sins, and a firm resolve to make amends. As I reflect upon your five wounds, and dwell upon them with deep compassion and grief, I recall, good Jesus, the words the prophet David spoke long ago concerning yourself: ‘They have pierced my hands and my feet; they have counted all my bones!'
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BEFORE EACH STATION

Pray the prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi:
We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You, because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.
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EACH SET OF 3 BEADS

Meditate on each Station and pray:
Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be
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CLOSING PRAYER 


Lord Jesus Christ, your passion and death is the sacrifice that unites earth and heaven and reconciles all people to you. May we who have faithfully reflected on these mysteries follow in your steps and so come to share your glory in heaven where you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Mother Angelica Speaks...




"Sufferings that come from God purify your soul so that you can rise to higher heights. These sufferings may be intense, but they are the kind that make you grow."



March 3, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 3
FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH-THE SACRED
HEART
FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY;
ST KATHARINE DREXEL, VIRGIN
Is 58: 1-9
Mt 9: 14-15

Brother Andrea Maria Borello deserves to be glorified and be presented as an example to all those who consecrate themselves to the apostolate of social communication media, but especially to the Brother-Disciples who are like the backbone of the Congregation (CISP, p. 441).
FROM FATHER TOM: 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Edvige Vitali FSP (1946)--Bro Salvatore Paglieri SSP (1997)--Bro Arturo Guinea Barredo SSP (2014)--Paul Douglas (2004)--Buna Wecter (2010).

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

March 2, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 2
FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH-THE ANGEL
GUARDIANS
THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Dt 30: 15-20
2 Cor 5: 20-6-2
Lk 9: 22-25

The faith of the first Paulines was simple and secure, leaving everything in God's hands. Their love for God and profound desire for holiness paved the way for many vocations (AD 220).
FROM FATHER TOM: 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Giovanni Tronci IJP (2980)--Fr Francesco Bonfiglio9 sSP (1988) Sr. M. Emilia Demarie PD (1999)--Egidio Gazzola GABRIELITE (2002)--Sr M. Elisa De Paolis FSP (2003)--Angelina Mencarini HFI (2004)--Anna Muneroni IAM (2006)--Fr Giovanni Selle SSP (2010)--SR M. Cecilia Baron Toaldo FSP (2011)--Sr M. Lorenza Binni FSP (2013)--Bro Alex Almeida SSP (2014)--Massimo Bientinesi HFI (2014)--Olandia Bonoarr (1952).

March 1, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 1
ASH WEDNESDAY
FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH-ST JOSEPH
Jl 2: 12-18
2 Cor 5: 20-6-2
Mt 6: 1-6, 16-18
"Jesus is the Truth, therefore, we are to study the doctrine of Jesus Christ-that is, to sanctify our mind, to love the Lord with our whole mind. Jesus Christ is the Life: therefore, we are to imitate the life of Jesus Christ, by sanctifying our will--that is, loving God with our whole will. Jesus Christ is the Life: therefore, we are to carry out the supreme study of divine grace: the Mass, the Visit, Holy Communion, habitual union with God with all our heart." ~Bl. James Alberione

The Pauline Family, from its birth, has been helped in many ways. In fact, many intelligent and generous people contributed to its birth: through prayers, advice, material helps (CISP, p 388)
FROM FATHER TOM: 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Teresa Ragazzini HFI (1987)--Sr Maurilia Curto FSP (1994)--Fr Giovanni Ingravallo IJP (2002)--Sr Paolina Marianelli FSP (2002)--Sr M. Franca Lo Monaco FSP (2009)--Sr M Letizia Trimarchi PD (2011)--Bernard P. Natkus (1965)--Robert Piatt (2002)--Robert Leroy Piatt (2003)--Emily Randa (2008)