Papal Intentions April 2013

APRIL

Liturgy, Source of Life. That the public, prayerful celebration of faith may give life to the faithful.
Mission Churches. That mission churches may be signs and instruments of hope and resurrection.

April is the Month of the Blessed Sacrament

Monday, April 1

WITHIN THE EASTER OCTAVE

First Monday of the month--St. Paul

Acts 2: 14-32

Mt. 28: 8-15

That our new Administration may never forget to respect the religious freedom of all citizens.  This must be the ongoing prayer of all of us.

From Father Tom: And perhaps it is not beside the point to note that Catholics should continue to respect their Catholic faith!  Such is the lukewarm commitment of too many of us that we are not sure what we want respected!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Carlo Stella SSP (1973)-- Bro Enrico Pantaleo SSP (1984)-- Fr. Michele Leone IJP (2003)

March 31, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

CHRIST HAS RISEN! ALLELUIA!

Happy Easter!

Sunday, March 31

EASTER SUNDAY

Acts 10: 37-43

Col 3: 1-4

Lk 24: 1-12

The angel told women to announce to the apostles that Jesus had risen. Jesus Christ entrusted the same mission to Mary Magdalen.  This indicates that women have an important role in society (BM  335).

From Father Tom: Our holy Founder was no Feminist, but--well ahead of his time-he understood the role of women in society and in the Church.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Giuseppe Zilli SSP (1980)--Fr. Giuseppe Morini SSP (1985)-- Fr. Gennaro Di Nucci IJP (1994)-- Luigi Giovanni Giaccio HFI (2006)-- Guido Bosio HFI (2007)-- Sr. M. Margherita Croci PD (2008)

March 30, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 30
HOLY SATURDAY
Readings at choice of Celebrant

During the Vigil the triumph of Jesus Christ is announced.  "I make all things new!"  We must try to do the same: no matter how bad the "old" looks, the Lord always looks great and so can we!

From Father Tom: What can I add to this?  In WORDS, nothing.  In DEEDS... plenty of room for improvement!

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. Giuseppe Ferrazzaano IJP (2006)-- Sr. M. Leonia Diez FSP (2007)-- Sr. Costanza Bianciotto FSP (2010)--Fr. Antonio Nigro IJP (2011)

March 29, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 29
GOOD FRIDAY
Is 52: 13-53
Heb 4: 14-16
Jn 18: 1-19, 42

Let us examine our conscience on the virtues exemplified by Jesus crucified: kindness, mercy, poverty, obedience, mortification (PS 142).

From Father Tom: Only five words but what a list to examine!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. MIchele Sarullo IJP --Sr. Teresa Bianco FSP (1995)-- Sr. Guglielmina Olivoni FSP (1996)-- Egidio Pitzus HFI (1997)-- Isabel Sabugo HFI (2002)-- Fr. Felipe Gutierrex SSP (2004)-- Sr. Mansueta Chiesa FSP (2005)-- Sr. Lucia Migliore FSP (2007)-- Giuseppina Sanfilippo IAM (2009)-- Bro Mario Palmi SSP (2011)-- Giovanni Italiano HFI (2011)

March 28, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 28
HOLY THURSDAY
Is 61: 1-31
Rv 1:5-8
Lk 4: 16-21

Relations among Paulines must find their inspiration in fraternal and sisterly love but in a more perfect degree than in the natural family (UPS 4 218).

From Father Tom: This should not be difficult--after all, we are not waiting for a family inheritance or the departure of a family member to leave more room in the home for us, or in competition with a family member for jobs or otherwise!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Michele Perillo HFI (1996)-- Sr. M. Tarcisia Spadaro PD (2008)-- Sr. M. Emanella Santini PD (2011)

March 27, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 27
WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK
Is 50: 4-9
Mt 26: 14-25

Blindness of the mind and hardness of the heart are the greatest humiliations (BM 280).

From Father Tom: Indeed. What is more embarassing than hanging onto an opinion everyone else sees as false?  What is more lowering than a refusal to pardon even a repentant individual?

Please Pray for Deceased: Sr. M. Fulgenzia Rapagnani PD (1979)-- Fr. Gino Gremaldi IJP (1983)-- Sr. M. Giusepina Ambrosio PD (1989)-- Sr. M. Nazarena Andolfi PD (1994)-- Sr. M. Enrichetta Morabito PD (1998)-- Sr. Giacinta Pescio FSP(1999)-- Msgr Bernardo Antonini IJP (2002)-- Assunta Gramaglia HFI (2002)-- Bro giovanni Novarino SSP (2011)-- Lillie Cusack (1994)

March 26, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 26
TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK
Is 49: 1-6
Jn 13: 22-33-36-38

Sin does not give us peace--Judas was more disturbed than ever when he held on tightly to the purse containing the thirty pieces of silver (RSP p. 127)

From Father Tom: But it is possible to make peace with sin and that is extremely dangerous. How can we determine to abandon sin if we have convinced ourselves that it doesn't exist in our lives?  How many misguided people in our time have made just this gross mistake!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Ausilia Cristino PD (1964)-- Bro Giuseppe Zemiti SSP (1975)-- Sr.M. Paolina Pivetta FSP (1990)-- Fr. Raffaele Tonni SSP (1995)-- Fr. Adelmo Barbati (1999)--Fr Aldo Feraboschi IJP (2004)-- Angelo Alessi HFI (2008)-- Sr. M. Alicja Tarasek PD (2011)

March 25, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 25
MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK
Is 42: 1-7
Jn 12: 1-11

The predominant passion presents sometimes presents itself under an attractive guise--Judas presented himself as a lover of charity (RSP 332).

From Father Tom: Exam: what is My predominant passion.  Do I know it?  Does it sometimes follow this comment and disguise itself as an act of virtue?  Lord, that I may see!

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)

March 24, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 24
PALM SUNDAY
Is 50: 4-7
Phil 2: 6-11
Lk 22: 14-23, 56

To the drama of the Passion, all contributed: Jesus paid the price for our impurity, for the manifest injustice that condemned Him and still exists and for the cruelty so obvious in today's torn world (BM 587).

From Father Tom: Where will it all end?  Will any nation, even the strongest, be able to protect its borders indefinitely? Jesus, Master, grant at least some sanity to our insane world!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Scolastica Rivata, first Mother General of the Sister Disciples (1987)--Sr. Teresina Mchels FSP (1995)-- Antonia Farruggio IAM (1996)--Fr. Bernardo Zorzetto IJP (1996)-- John Albert Vincenzo HFI (2004)-- Sr. Gabriella Marcazzan FSP (2005)-- Felicismo Quinto (2004)

March 23, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 23

LENTEN WEEKDAY

Ez 37: 21-28

Jn 11: 45-56

We lose time when we don't work for heaven, but only for earthly profit (BM 41).

From Father Tom: However this statement must not be taken to refer either to any of us or, indeed to anyone we know.  These days "earthly profits" are scarcely a common motivation--rather earthly survival!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Angelica Dondi FSP (1944)-- Fr. Lorenzo Bertero SSP (1991)-- Fr. Antonio Bosticco SSP (2000)-- Sr. M. Onorina Mussi FSP (2002)-- Sr. M. Scolastica Aki PD (2004)

March 22, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 22
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 20: 10-13
Jn 10:31-42

The most beautiful ornament of a church is that there be good people in it, persons who stay there with great love (R.S.P.).

From Father Tom: Of course this is possible for us only to a certain extent--we've got homes and  family to look after.  The ideal is to leave God in the home and find Him again in the church and to leave God in the church and find Him again in the home.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Armando Pesaresi IJP (1985)-- Sr. Elena Ramondetti FSP (1999)-- Msgr Acille Palmerini IJP (2000)-- Giuseppe Izzi (2006)-- Sr. M. Franca Riba PD (2007)-- Sr. Maria d Conceicao Carnetto Azevedo FSP (2008)-- Luciano Andreoni HFI (2008)-- Luciano Andreoni HFI (2008)-- Antonietta Poddi HFI (2010)

March 21, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 21
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Gn 17: 3-9
Jn 8: 31-59

The more a soul has dispositions of love and humility the more she is used by God for great things and raised to great perfection (BM 668).

From Father Tom: True, but not necessarily visible great things. The drawback to visible greatness is that almost inevitably the soul begins to muse on the part she played--forgetting that the ability to play is God's gift, the possibility of playing is God's gift and the results are mostly God's gift.  "What have you that you have not received?" (St. Paul)

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)-- Francisco Menegon SSP (2004)-- Sr. Iracema Gattelli FSP (2004)-- Elisa Deidda IAM (2010)-- Sr. M. Silvana Cuscito FSP (2011)-- Anne Nephew (1991)--

March 20, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 20
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dn 3: 14-93
Jn 8: 31-42

Let prayer come before everything else and, above all, let it be the life of everything (SP, Aug 20, 1937).

From Father Tom: We must take this rule seriously,k not so much reading from the Prayer Book (thought not neglecting it either), but making our day an on-going recitation of invocations, a frequent brief stop to say "Hi" to Jesus and making sure that prayer get precedence in our schedule. Try this consistently and you'll notice the difference.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Battista Bettinelli PD (1993)-- Sr. Rosangela Pasquino AP (1993)-- Emilio Tomassini HFI (1993)-- Sr. Edele Aimasso FSP (1997)-- Sr. M. Fortunata Arotta FSP (1999)-- Fr. Antonio Diaz SSP (2008)-- Joyce Sablone (2001)

March 19, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 19
ST. JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
2 SM 7: 4-16
ROM 4: 13-22
MT 1: 16-21

St. Joseph is called "righteous" meaning he is endowed with all the virtues (BM 668/0)/

From Father Tom: We way: it was easy for him: he lived with Jesus and Mary.  But..so do we if we really try to remember that the Master lives in us and with us if we do not cast Him out.  And where Jesus is, Mary is not far away.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr Lilia M. Lavagnini FSP (1964)-- Sr. M. Bernarda Marinoni FSP (1971)-- Sr. M. Carola Damo FSP (1987)--Fr. Pio Rossi IJP (1987)-- Sr. M. Sira Baldassari FSP (1994)-- Rosa Deplano HFI (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 Faccioli SSP (2008)-- Sr. Mary Caroline Tessa FSP (2008)-- Sr. M> Regina Ncta FSP (2009)-- Pasquale Festa HFI (2009)-- Elena Ciaglia IAM (2010)

March 18, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 18
LENTEN WEEKDAY
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Doctor
Dn 13: 1-62
Jn 8: 12-20

Judgment will take place.  The Lord will manifest all the good and all the bad of each one (BM 70).

From Father Tom: The general judgment is essential because on earth there are so many injustices apparently tolerated by the Master.  Not so. He is infinite justice and will prove it totally.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Domenico Sebastianelli HFI (1987)-- Sr. M. Immacolatina Simonetto PD (1990)-- Sr. M. Andreina Binello FSP (1994)-- Sr. M. Colombina Di Gr(e)gorio PD (1998)

March 17, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 17
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
Ez 37: 12-14
Rom 8: 8-11
Jn 11: 1-45

Souls are attracted by goodness, patience, persuasion.  This is the way to do them good (BM 279).

From Father Tom: Undoubtedly.  Truly hardened souls are rare.  More common are the cynical type who see religion and morality and the Church as something to be treated with contempt. Perhaps these need a little more firmness...what do you think?

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Sr. Natalia Colavecchio FSP (1949)-- Sr. Alba Prest SGBP (1967)--Sr. Romana Migliardi FSP (1988)-- Reneé Montes HFI (1988)-- Raffaella Cappai FSP (2008)-- Giovanni Cleri HFI (2008)-- Sr. Teresa Migliorini FSP (2010)-- Rev Joseph E Lappett (1965).

March 16, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 16
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 11: 18-20
Jn 7: 40-53

The Christian who is only half a Christian is disgusting to the heart of Jesus (BM 347).

From Father Tom: Strong words even  if Fr. Alberione wrote them.  I would be more inclined to say: "disheartening" or "dismaying" -- words to indicate not the Master's anger, but His infinite sadness.  The Lord is not looking on coldly while we go wrong, but it is anxious to see us get back to Him again and resume our friendship.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Domenico Ravina SSP (1982)-- Italo Beretta HFI (2002)-- Sr. Giuseppe Dell'Aira FSP (2003)-- Sr. M. Immacolata Tresham PD (2003)-- Sr. Lorenzina Davico FSP (2005)

March 15, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 15
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Wis 2: 1-12 22
Jn 7: 1-2 25-30

Jerusalem was dead to the loving invitations of Jesus. Some have ears but do not hear.  Some can talk...but fail to pray (BM 630-31).

From Father Tom: Which is unfortunate because simple prayer is nothing more than a loving conversation with the Master on whatever may be the problem of the moment.  He is always living in us and with us, anxious to strengthen, to clarity or to confirm our views.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Amabile Lombardi FSP (1952)-- Fr.Luigi Borio SSP (1970)-- Fr. Ercole Canavero SSP (1975)-- Fr. Giovanni Boccaleoni IGS (1982)-- LacidoAiro HFI (1982)-- Fr. Giovanni Rossi SSP (1983)-- Marianna Zaccaria HFI (2000)-- Fr. Vincenzo Di Renzo IJP (2007)-- Nunzia Zinni IAM (2008)

Welcome Pope Francis I !

We Have a New Holy Father!

Please join me in praying for our New Holy Father Pope Francis I.

For The Pope 


Let us pray for Francis I, our Pope.May the Lord protect him and grant him length of days.Amen May the Lord be his shield and deliver him from all harm.Amen May the Lord give him happiness and peace all the days of his life. Amen

Welcome Pope Francis I

March 14, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

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

Jesus was a victim of the truth as His followers were and as the martyrs of all times have bee (RSP 115).

From Father Tom: Nothing seems of less value today than truth in human relations. A few months ago we were bombarded with TV advertising containing such contradictory statements that neither of them could have been true!  What happened to "Thou shalt to bear false witness?"

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 (2009)-- Leo Converse (1961).

March 13, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 13
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 49: 8-15
Jn 5: 17-30

The day of true glory will be the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who will say the last infallible word about everyone and everything (BM 68).

From Father Tom:  That is going to be some day!! But can it be a "day" rather than centuries?  We have no idea how the Master will handle such uncounted and uncountable numbers of people but...he will!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Barberina Sacco FSP (1987)-- Domenica Dellerba HFI (1995)-- Sr. Gaudenzia Santino FSP (2005)-- Sr. M. Eliza Mattioli FSP (2011)-- Sr. M. Eulogia Amato PD (2011)-- Raffaele Iavazzi (2011)-- Thomas Endress (1991)

March 12, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 12
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ez 47: 1-12
Jn 5: 1-6

Seeing God means true happiness, the only and perfect joy (BM 86).

From Father Tom: But not just "seeing"-vision.  We shall be IN God, united to Him as much as is humanly possible.  We will, in a sense, BE Him. Very mysterious, but very true.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Irene Venturi FSP (1990)-- Fr. Leonardo Zardi SSP (1991)-- Chiara M. Bellinato FSP (1998)-- Joseph Rene' Pelletier HFI (1999)-- Bro. Isidoro Porello SSP (2000)-- Fr. Giovanni Battista Mabritto SSP (2001)-- Sr. Martha M. Morales FSP (2005)-- Fr. Frnacesco Manca IJP (2009)-- Bro Luke Matthew Addasseril SSP (2011)-- Joseph J. Burnieika (1993)

March 11, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 11
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 65: 17-21
Jn 4: 43-54

Let us prepare ourselves for Easter by holy aspirations and change or our lifestyle so as to be ready also for the last tribunal on which will depend our eternity (BM 528).

From Father Tom: The thought of the final judgment should never leave us, not to  make us depressed--it's the beginning of our real life! -- but to ensure that we are making every effort to make that judgment a favorable one.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Matteo Plassa SSP (1985)-- Fr. Giacomo Giraudo SSP (2003)-- S.r M. Melania Rivarotto FSP (2004)-- Sr. Cecilia Paula Livingston FSP (2011)-- John Vincenzo Sr. (1980)-- Josephine Merlene (2000)

March 10, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 10
4TH SUNDAY OF LENT
Jos 5: 9-12
2 Cor. 5: 17-21
Lk 15: 1-32

The Lord gives with joy. It satisfies a need of His being.  Goodness by its nature spreads out (BM 635).

From Father Tom: It would be great if we could "give with joy". But that's for the Lord and perhaps a few blessed human beings.  The rest of us will learn to give bu an act of the will -- which is actually more meritorious.

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)-- Sr. Paulina M. Tibaldo FSP (2007)-- Chiara Greco HFI (2008)-- Fr. Filippo D'Alessandro IJP (2010)-- Laura Drouhard (1974)-- Maryellen Donnelly (2002)--Cristina Quega Tarlit (2002)

March 10, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 10
LENTEN WEEKDAY
St. Frances of Rome. Rel.
Hos 6: 1-6
Lk 18: 9-14

The welcome that we give the Master when He comes to redeem us will be equal to the one He gives us when he comes to judge us (BM 528).

From Father Tom: And so, to some extent, we can determine what sort of judgment we will encounter. And the time to make that determination is now, today, this moment.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Bro Andrea Degani SSP (1986)-- Sr. Marcellina Bertero FSP (1990)-- Berna Munoz de Zicari HFI (1996)-- Regina Georgi HFI (1998)-- Sr. M. Raffaela Astolfi PD (1999)-- Giuseppe Di Caro HFI (2001)-- Sr. M. Candida Komine 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)

March 8, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 8
LENTEN WEEKDAY
St. John of God, Religious
Hos 14: 2-10
Mk 12: 28-34

Purity and humility: these are the qualities that attract the grace of God (B.M. 285).

From Father Tom: And they are two qualities or virtues conspicuously lacking in today's society and today's Church.  Purity?  What's that?  Humility? No room for humility in the widespread yearning to find the new money-making idea--"widespread yearning"? Shouldn't we say "Mad race"?

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Carmine Vitello FSP (1972)-- Fr. Alvise Soppelsa SSP (1978)-- Fr. Giuseppe Geegoris IJP (2000)-- Sr. M. Benedetta Baiguera FSP (2010)-- Fr. Leo Matthew Vecchoor SSP (2011)-- Byron B. Bordellon Jr. (1974)

March 7, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 7
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ss Perpetua and Felicity
First Thursday of the month--The Guardian Angels
Jer 7: 2-28
Lk 11: 14-23

If a Christian is guilty of wrongdoing, let him not despair: there is still Divine Mercy (BM 619).

From Father Tom: Very true. But what happened to the Christians--Catholics--who are ready to admit wrongdoing...except when the civil law catches up to them?  Are those 20 million ex-Catholics prepared to admit wrongdoing...or rather telling themselves that the Church is at fault?

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Fr. Domenico Ambrosio SSP (1971)-- Sr. Adelaide Betolini SGBP (1979)-- Micele Piccinnini HFI (2003)

March 6, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 6
LENTEN WEEKDAY
First Wednesday of the month--St. Joseph
Dt 4: 1-9
Mt 5: 17-19'

When a soul abounds in prayer, God abounds in grace, making the soul experience that the yoke of God is easy and His burden light (BM 493).

From Father Tom: Well, yes, of course, but... much depends on what the spiritual state of the soul is:  after years of prayer, after years of sin and dissipation, after years of carelessness...the choice is wide.

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Fr. Nazareno Capozucca IGS (1977)-- Rosa Cimino IAM (1997)-- Sr. Pancrazia Musso FSP(1999)-- Sr. Assunta Lecco FSP (2000)-- Sr. M. Gemma Dal Masetto PD (2000)-- Salvatore Castiglia HFI (2003)

March 5, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 5
LENTEN WEEKDAY
First Tuesday of the month--The Souls in Purgatory
Dn 3: 25-43
Mt 18: 21-35

The Redeemer shows His power in freeing us from the works of darkness and strengthening us against the assaults of evil (BM 329).

From Father Tom: Assaults of evil?  Have we really felt these?  Well, perhaps we have but, even if we have not, should we not thank not only the Lord, but also those humble souls who pray constantly fore sinners?  At the Judgment we'll meet them!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Natalina Rivetti PD (1981)--Francesco Luperto HFI (1992)-- Fr. Giovanni Manna SSP (2007)-- Leo Helline (1993)

March 2-4, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

I'm sorry about my absence.  I've been out of town.  God bless and have an wonderful week.

Monday, March 4
LENTEN WEEKDAY
First Monday of the month-- St. Paul the Apostle
2 Kgs: 5: 1-15
Lk 4: 24-30

Love everyone, think of everyone and work with the spirit of the Gospel which is universality and mercy (UPS IV 118).

From Father Tom: THis does not require a loving disposition which is not perhaps so common but most of all a strong conviction and determination to do good to others and help them spiritually.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Edvuge Vitali FSP (1946)-- Bro Salvatore Paglieri (1997)-- Frederick Tarlit (2003)


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Sunday, March 4
THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT

First Sunday of the month-- the Divine Master, Way, Truth and Life
Ex 3: 1-8
1 Cor 10: 1-12
Lk 13: 1-9

The Divine Master will appear at the end of the world in the splendor of His mission and glory--and all of us will be there at the judgment (BM 680).


From Father Tom: How will he appear to ME when I stand before Him after death?  Important thought.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Annina Strano PD (1949)-- Sr. M. Vincenza Adamo PD (1980)-- Fr. Amadeo La Mattina IJP (1983)-- Fr. Mario Senettone IJP (1990)-- Sr. M. Albertina Parama PD (1999)-- Sr. M. Redenta Alessi PD (2004)-- Isabel Marquez IAM (2008)-- Luigi Roberti HFI (2011)-- Paul Douglas (2004)--Buna Wecker (2010)


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Saturday, March 2
LENTEN WEEKDAY
First Saturday of the month-- Mary Queen of Apostles
Mi 7: 14-20
Lk 15: 1-32

I shall often put the goodness of God and my sinfulness face to face and shall ask the Master pardon for the sin that has made Him suffer so much (BM 339).

From Father Tom: I can do that any time--not just in Lent.  On the one hand, avoid pessimism when we look at the past, on the other hand avoid undue optimism about the present:  we are not yet at the end of the road and the occasional robber may get us.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Giovanni Tronci IJP (1980)-- Fr. Francesco Bonfiglio 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)-- Olandia Bonoarr (1952)