June 1, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, June 1

ST. JUSTIN, Martyr
First Saturday of the month--Mary, Queen of Apostles
Sir 51, 12-20
Mk 11: 27-33

MONTHLY INTENTION


For a greater real respect for the Holy Eucharist which we honor specially tomorrow.

From Father Tom: The holy Eucharist has been the object of both the greatest human honors and the greatest human disrespect.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M> Spes Marengo PD (1958)--Sr. Giuditta Pagliana FSP (1995)--Fr. Stefano Lamera SSP (1997)--Fr. Girolamo Sgambettera IJP (1999)--Sr. Rosalia Ciccarello FSP (2002)--Sr. M. Giovanna Grandi FSP (2003)--Sr. M. Fiorentina Cecconi PD (2006)--Sr.M. Alfonsina Anzalone FSP (2006)--Fr. Estanislao Conde SSP (2008)--Sr. M. Celsa Taricco PD (2008)

May 31, 2013 With Blessed James Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, May 31

THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Rom 12: 9-16
Lk 1: 39-56


During my trips and while passing from House to HOuse I meditate frequently on the Second Joyful Mystery (SP Nov/Dec 532).

From Father Tom: Our Lady bears Jesus with Her--she is His first Tabernacle--and remarkable things happen in this great encounter. Is this not true also of us? If we possess the Lord and pray...and then speak and act, we have done all He wants us to do for those we meet.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Margherita Imparato PD (1963)--Sr.M. Luisa Laurenti FSP (1967)--Fr. Giovanni Ev. Robaldo SSP (1977)--Sr. M. Nives FSP (1998)--Sr. Pierina Columbro FSP (1999)--Fr. Angelo Bellanzon SSP (2003)--Raimondo Orru HFI (2003)--Alfred Vance Ducote (1949)

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

Thursday, May 30

OF THE DAY
Sir 42: 15-25
Mk 10: 46-52


We have to pray every day, every week, every month and every year. But always with the proviso: "YOUR will be done, not mine." (BM 503)

From Father Tom: This latter condition becomes clearer when we realize that the will of God is ALWAYS directed to our maximum profit and , if our prayer is not answered as WE want it...that simply means that we don't see straight (but God does!).

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Lorenzina Ligari FSP (1935)--Sr. M. Alessandrina Migliardi FSP (1973)--Fr. Aldo Varaldo SSP (1997)--Sr. Pacis Ferrero PD (2000)--Sr. M. Veritas Grau FSP (2004)--Sr. M. Amalia Bertolusso PD (2007)--Maria Ascanio IAM (2009)--Anna Maria Cocci HFI (2009)--Armida Primavera (1999)--Philip Smelka (1995)

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

Wednesday, May 29

OF THE DAY
Sir 26: 1-17
Mk 10: 32-43


A few loaves of bread on one occasion fed five thousand people.  The Eucharistic Bread nourishes all those who want to receive It (RSP 150).

From Father Tom: Yes, but with qualification. The five thousand men made no preparation apart from a keep appetite. If we wish to receive the Eucharist just habitually and while making no effort to change our lives...rest assured that they will not change.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Gemma Magno FSP (1945)--Fr. Adolfo Lotta IJP (1998)--Sr. Veronica Glassmann FSP (2008)--Elvira Targa IAM (2008)

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

Tuesday, May 28

OF THE DAY
Sir 35: 1-12
Mk 10: 28-31


Jesus gives back a hundredfold the services that we give him as we serve our brothers and sisters (BM 211).

St. Paul was teacher of the Gentiles but the real doctor and teacher was Mary by reason of her unspeakable holiness and motherhood of the Savior (VMC 618).

From Father Tom: True, but how can we understand this? Example: the nuclear power station makes life better for millions while itself having no direct contact with them. The direct contacts come from the men who are actually install power in people's house (that would be the Paulines or other Church ministers).

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Sofia Jimenez FSP (1998)--Sr. M. Beatrice Dante PD (2004)--Rosanna Paoloni HFI (2007)--Sr. M. Ecclesia Gastaldo PD (2009)--Fr. Vincenzo Rossi IJP (2009)

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

Mondar, May 27

OF THE DAY
St. Augustine of Cantebury
Sir 17: 20-24
Mk 10: 17-27
MEMORIAL DAY

The Gospel has intrinsic power.  Every time we read the Gospel we have the guarantee of good fruits (RSP 196).

From Father Tom: Not speaking in tongues? How disappointing! But what good would tongues do if we had no apostolic courage or ardent zeal? We have a tongue in our head already, but could use more courage and zeal--all of us could!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Giovanni Casuccio IJP (1982)--Fr. Felice Carosso SSP (1985)--Sr. M. Flores Marsili FSP (1982)--Sr. Sabina Meneghelli FSP (1998)--Sr. Vincenzina M. La Pio FSP (2001)--Illuminato Dainotto HFI (2001)--Sr. Annunuzata Desognus FSP (2002)--Mary Knefler (1999)

Pope Francis' Prayer to Mary

Posted on 24 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Yesterday the Holy Father lead a profession of Faith for all the Italian bishops as they are meeting in plenary session. He addressed them. At the end of the address, Francis pronounced a prayer to Mary which should move any but the coldest heart.

This isn’t Secretariat of State boilerplate. This is Francis.

Some context: Before this prayer, Francis had mentioned that the first faithful bishops have are their priests.  He spoke about obedience and self-emptying, the gift of self as what distinguishes pastoral ministry.  He mentions the Devil again, of course. He warns about the seduction of a career, money, laziness, being a functionary, worrying about structures more than people.  The whole thing bears reading.

Then, after saying “I place you, and I place myself, too, under the mantle of Mary, Our Mother”, he concluded with this!

Mother of the silence that preserves the mystery of God, deliver us from the idolatry of the present, to which those who forget are condemned. Purify the eyes of pastors with the balm of memory: that we might return to the freshness of the beginning, for a praying and penitent Church.

Mother of the beauty that blossoms from fidelity to daily work, remove us from the torpor of laziness, of pettiness, and defeatism. Cloak Pastors with that compassion that unifies and integrates: that we might discover the joy of a humble and fraternal servant Church.
Mother of the tenderness which enfolds in patience and mercy, help us burn away the sadness, impatience, and rigidity of those who have not known what it means to belong.
Intercede with your Son that our hands, our feet and our hearts may be swift: that we may build the Church with the truth in charity.

Mother, we will be the People of God, on pilgrimage towards the Kingdom. Amen.

Benedict has his voice. Francis has his.

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

Saturday, May 25

THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
Prv 8: 22-31
Rom 5: 1-5
Jn 16: 12-15

In Heaven many things will become clearer...but not the Trinity which surpasses even the human mind elevated by divine grace. But ...why worry?  We'll sing endlessly and exuberantly: "Glory be to the Father..."

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Cleric Artemio Valenti SSP (1935)--Sr. Crocifissa Benvenuti FSP--Sr. M. Agata Rizzo PD (1964)--M. Teresa Alcibar HFI (1989)--Sr. Angela M. Paesi FSP (1990)--Sr. M. Virgilia Romanelli FSP (1991)--Giuseppe Corona HFI (2001)--Fr. Vincenzo Buongiorno SSP (2009)--Sr. M. Teresina Melis FSP (2010)--Br Mario Celestino Rizzo SSP (2011)

May 25, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and with Father Tom

Saturday, May 25

OF THE DAY
St. Bede the Venerable, Priest
Sir 17: 1-15
Mk 10: 13-16

Jesus saves His people through His Passion and shameful death (BM 127).

From Father Tom: So will you and I--not through our "shameful death" (God forbid)--but by courageously bearing the setbacks of life.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Flaminia Di Nezza FSP (1947)--Fr. Joseph Kilencheril SSP (1997)--Fr. Valerio Cascia IJP (1997)--Fr. Giovanni Basigli IJP (1999) Sr. M. Gesualda Aureli FSP (2004)--Salvatore Iannelli HFI(2004)

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

Friday, May 24

OF THE DAY
Sir 6: 5-17
Mk 10: 1-12

Believing is a grace of the spirit which is given to the humble, the righteous and those whose conscience i pure (BM 594).

From Father Tom: Here again I make the distinction: how much do you know and how much do you believe? When you know things...you know them.  When you believe, they change your life.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Bro. Serafino Bertolotti SSP (1979)--Sr. M. Rosa Giardino FSP (1987)--Dr. M. Silia Mangiarotti FSP(1999)--Bro Pietro Pisani SSP (2001)--Maria Caforio HFI (2006)--Sr. M. Cosilia Spedaliere FSP (2009)--Rev Fr. fidel (1976)

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

Thursday, May 23

OF THE DAY
Sir 5: 1-8
Mk 9: 41-50

For the one who prays and keep vigil with holy courage, graces, victory and final reward will not be wanting (BM 167)

From Father Tom: That seems self-evident, no need of commentary, just practice.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Columba Crepaldi FSP (1997)--Lina Minerva AIM (1997)--Sr. M. Angela Sanino PD (2000)--Irene Osorio IAM (2008)--Sr. Pierina Marras FSP (2009)--Sr. Sylvia Geroge FSP (2011)--Dr. James Glosser (2000)

May 21-22, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, May 22

OF THE DAY
St. Bernardine of Siena, Priest
Sir 4: 11-19
Mk 9: 38-40

Nobody must stand aside, observing. If you do this and combine it with judging you are already at fault (RSP 44).

From Father Tom: I like to make the distinction between "observing" that someone is committing a fault (impossible not to see!) and "condemning." (Which we must strenuously resist). Let us correct our faults first.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Giovanna Liverani PD (1974)--Sr. Gesuina Baschirotto PD (1979)-Sr. M. Felcina Belli FSP (1994)--Sr. M. Benedetta Margliano PD (1996)--Pietro Monaldi HFI (1998)--Fr. Alfonso Tsukamoto SSP (2003)--Fr. Attilio Tempra SSP (2003)--Sr. Costanza Castagnolo FSP (2006)--Sr. Elena Marsiglia FSP (2008)--Sr. M. Loredana Vito PD (2009)--Sr. Bernarda Vicario FSP (2010)--Escolastica Garcia (1988)--John Tomaso (2011)

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Tuesday, May 21

OF THE DAY
St. Christopher Magallanes, Priest and companions, martyrs
Sir 1: 1-11
Mk 9: 30-37

Spend your life well.  See things as they really are.  Life is for heaven (RSP 55).

From Father Tom: to repeat: there are not two lives, but two parts of the same life. Possessing the Lord on earth, we automatically possess Him after death, but in a wonderfully different way.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Francisco Villena SSP (1983)--Sr. Nair De Bona FSP FSP (1983)--Teresa Ugenti HFI (1984)--Sr. M. Pia Crosio FSP (1990)--Sr. M. Albina Fasolo FSP (2001)--Sr. M. Pieria Vicari FSP (2007)--Sr. M. Olimpia Tuninetti FSP (2008)--Lt. James A. Ducote Jr. USMC (1995)

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

Monday, May 20

OF THE DAY
St. Bernardine of Siena, Priest
Sir 1: 1-10
Mk 9: 14-29

Good example is like salt that  dissolves and spreads throughout, preserving, giving flavor and making the Christian life easy (BM 3211).

From Father Tom: And like salt in our wounds, good example can also "sting" us... leading us not to imitate, but rather condemn those who give it--"show offs".

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Immacolata Panero PD (1976)--Sr. M. Gisella Mercanti PD (1998)--Fr. Maggiorino Testi sSP (2001)--Mario Bonati, Gabrielite (2003)--Serafin Santiago (1988) Pilar Albano HFI (2000)

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

Sunday, May 19
PENTECOST SUNDAY
Acts 2: 1-11
Rom 8: 8-17
Jn 20: 19-23

The Holy Spirit gives us gifts like those communicated to the apostles on the day of Pentecost: enlightened faith, apostolic courage, ardent zeal and joyful dedication (BM 160).

From Father Tom: And I suppose the only comment here has to be: to what extent are these gifts visible in my life?

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Giovanna Deidda FSP (1987)--Sr. Dionisia--Sr. M. Scolastica Chisari PD (1960)---Sr. M. Ave Garuti FSP (1972)--Sr. Capecci FSP (1998)--Sr. M. Lorenzina Ellena PD (2003)--Sr. M> Rosetta olloni PD (2006)--Sr. Lucia Lestuzzi SGBP (2006)--Sr. M. Elisa Comi FSP (2008)--Franca Portella IAM (2009).

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

Saturday, May 18
EASTER WEEKDAY
St. John, Pope & Martyr
Acts 28: 16-20
Jn 21: 20-25

When one is hard of heart there is no more way to reprimand, no more point to make. (RSP 419)

From Father Tom: In fact external means will accomplish little in these cases s we have ot have recourse to not just praying for them, but shouting, to crying out for the Masgter's special intervention!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Rosita Diez PD (1966)--Sr. Angelina Valsania FSP (1974)--Fr. Marco Grossi SSP (1988)--Fr. Francisco Sierra SSP (1990)--Sr. M. Palma Rigoni D (1999)-- Sr. Franceschina Colavecchio FSP (2008)--Enza Alaimo IAM (2009)--Fr. Rui Prates SSP (2010)--Sr. Marcellina M. Dal Corso FSP (2010)--Minnie Madeline (1965)--Jeannette Downey, HFI (2007)

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

Friday, May 17
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 23: 13-21
Jn 21: 15-19

Go intot he world and spread God's word.  Give it with the very heart that Jesus had in preaching it. Give it with the grace that animated St. Paul in preaching it (CP 1957)

From Father Tom: And support it with prayer. If we forget this condition we may impress, but not convert.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Ann Grub, IAM (2003)-- Giovanni Giove HFI (2004)--Fr. Giuseppe Perna IJP (2009)--Wilfred Waltz (2009)

May 16, 2013 With Blessed Father James Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, May 16
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 22: 30-23: 6-11
Jn 17: 20-26

For the one who prays and keeps vigil with holy courage, victory and final reward will not be wanting. (BM 167)

From Father Tom: And why? Because it is God Himself Who gives strength to pray and keep vigil--who else, we may ask? So the result is guaranteed -- just let's keep at is and at it and at it...

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Loreto Mari HFI (1995)--Fr. Giovanni Carrano IGS (1996)--Bro Angelico Abrate SSP (1999)--Sr. M. Casta Menoncini PD (2007)--Sr. Paola Macalli FSP (2008)--Sr. M. Amabilis Esposito FSP (2011)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, May 15
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 20: 28-38
Jn 17: 11b-19

Those who are truly humble are powerful since their acknowledged weakness makes them very dear to the heart of God. (RSP 419)

From Father Tom: Don't we all love little kids--especially when they are "good" and delightful? We are all little kids before the Lord and He wants us to stay like that--in the Gospel He showed a special preference for people like us.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Marta Altomani PD (1964)--Sr. James Marie Roos FSP (2001)--Sr. M. Redenta Campana FSP (2005)--Sr. Clara Foffi FSP (2007)--Bertha T. Sipos (2004/7 ?)

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

Tuesday, May 14
ST. MATTHIAS, APOSTLE
Acts 1: 15-17, 20-26
Jn 15: 9-17

Jesus shows Himself to be the friend of sinners. He stays with them at table, receives them, comforts them, and even calls one to be an apostle.

From Father Tom: And He did that with me! (Can't speak for you.) Thanks a million, Jesus!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Mary Alfonsa Maliakel FSP (1988)--Sr. M. Addolorata Boffa PD (1985)--Fr. Giovanni Chiesa SSP (1990)--Sr. M. Lucia Osorio FSP (1994)--Sr. M. Fedele Pellizzoni FSP (1997)--Maria Sara Leite IAM (1997)--Giovanni Patera HFI (2000)--Sr. Raffaella Gravina FSP (2008)--Rose Piampiano (1988)

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

Monday, May 13

EASTER WEEKDAY
Our Lady of Fatima
Acts 19: 1-8
Jn 16: 20-33

The message of Fatima includes a call to conversion of heart, repentance for sin and prayer, especially the Rosary.

From Father Tom: It includes even more: the prediction of a worldwide struggle and the disappearance of many nations, plus a vision of Hell which should not be passed over as the fantasy of little kids.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Immacolata Satriani FSP (2002)-- Sr. Tecla Zillianti FSP (2007)--Sr. M. Bianca Sepulveda PD (2011)

Praise God in the Hallway

"Until God opens the next door for you, praise Him the hallway." 

(quote from pinterest, image from the internet)

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

Sunday, May 12
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Acts 7: 55-60
Rv 22: 12-20
Lk 17: 20-26

A frightening situation is the situation of a society where the individuals have lost their consciences (BM 95).

From Father Tom: Fr. Alberione probably had the spiritual situation of such a society in mind but the spiritual and the material are intertwined, like it or not.  too many of today's societies are in precisely this situation.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Tommasina Simonato FSP (1940)--Fr. Giovanni Gramaglia SSP (1984)--Fr. Michele Grillo IJP (1993)--Sr. M. Piera Giarrizzo FSP (2004)--Bro Giuseppe Omodei SSP (2011)--Rev. James F. Redding (1960)--Dale Baldwin (2000)

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

Saturday, May 11
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 18: 23-28
Lk 16: 23b-28

Vocation is an act of love on God's part and requires a voluntary act of love on our part if it is to be followed (RSP 535).

From Father Tom: The reference is to a religious vocation or to ours. The whole Institute is an act of Divine love, totally new, the inspiration of a Saint and so, if we are faithful, will continue after our deaths and spread throughout the world.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Imelda Marianni FSP (1971)--Sr. M. Gesualda Rota FSP (1974)--Sr. M. Brigida Perron FSP (1977)--Aldo Antonelli HFI (1991)--Luis Harnan Luna HFI (1999)--Fr. Lamberto Schiatti SSP (2002)-- Fr. Manfredi Caroli IJP (2004)--Bro Luk Bedard SSP (2006)--Sr. M. Leonzia Manera FSP(2007)--Sr. M. Adalgisa Tozzi PD (2010)--Maria Sciarratta IAM (2010)

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

Friday, May 10
EASTER WEEKDAY
St. Damien de Veuster, priest
Acts 18: 9-18
Lk 16: 20-23

Let our little consolations remind us of eternal joy and let our little pains be offered to merit heaven (BM 600).

From Father Tom: Little pains? Well, maybe, but in the context of our limitations they often appear anything but little.  But..the come to an end. The joys of eternity last forever and (my own view) are constantly changing--otherwise, even in eternity we'd get bored!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Ilario Formento SSP (1934)--Olimpia Colombo IAM (1968)--Bro. Daniele Parisella SSP (1979)--Sr. M. Angela Brigo FSP (1984)--Sr. M. Germana Lazzarotto PD (1997) Fr. Edoardo Molina IJP (2005)

May 9, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, May 9
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
Acts 1: 1-11
Eph 1: 17-23
Lk 24: 46-53

Having to leave the earth, Jesus solved the problem of His absence. He ascended to His Father, but remained, really and truly present, in the Eucharist (BM 438).

From Father Tom: A characteristic of God is that He seems to want to lower Himself not just to our level but beneath it. The excesses of Divine love!

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Domenico Nuccio HFI (1995)--Maria Onesto HFI (1995)--Sr. Alberta Scalet SGBP (2004)--M. Guadalupe G. de Montauriol HFI (2010)--Anna Marciante (2003)

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

Wednesday, May 8
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 17: 15,22-18:1
Jn 16: 12-15

How many people today are teachers! So many different ways of learning, but, Jesus warned us against false prophets (RSP 196).

From Father Tom: Are there false prophets in our time? Wrong question. Are there any authentic ones? Yes, for us the Holy Father and all those who follow his teaching.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Rita Credico FSP (2009)--Prima Juntila IAM (2009)--Sr. M. Elisabetta Ragoso PD (2011)--Margaret Di Fazio (2007).

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

Tuesday, May 7
EASTER WEEKDAY
First Tuesday of the month--the Souls in Purgatory
Acts 16: 22-34
Jn 16: 5-11

First we take care of our souls, first the Kingdom of Tod and holiness.  At the same time, moderate care for our health: neither a sick body, nor a sick soul (if our fault) has any place in the Kingdom (BM 640).

From Father Tom: Ill health, if not our fault, can be very meritorious, combining suffering with the inability to serve the Lord as WE want. Better serve Him as HE wants.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Bro Matteo Cattazzo SSP (2001)--Michel Miraglia HFI (2004)--Sr. M. Chiara Sergi FSP (2005)--Fr. Ivo Pazzaglini SSP (2007)--Francesco Accosso HFI (2007)--Bro arion Santoro SSP (2009)--Assunta Atzori HFI (2010)--Fr. Francesco Dattilo IJP (2011)

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

Monday, May 6
EASTER WEEKDAY
First Monday of the month--St. Paul
Acts 16: 11-15
Jn 15: 26-16:4

Ask for sanctity, the grace to do the will of God. Let this be the central request of every prayer (RSP, 135).

From Father Tom: I mentioned already the close connection in Latin between sanctus and sanus "holy" and "healthy". There have been saints who destroyed their health or almost so, but that was an error. The Lord enjoyed robust health and yet He was Holiness itself. Perhaps the best sign of sanctity is normality.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Innocdenza Bottaro PD (1945)--Sr. M> Monica Battajello PD(1976)--Msgr Luigi Liverzani IJP (1995)--Sr. M. Dominka Gonciarz PD (2008)--Sr. Maria Grazia Mannini FSP (2009)--Bro Paolino Camparno' SSP (2010)--Caroline Guggio, May 6, 2002)

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

Sunday, May 5
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
First Sunday of the month--the Divine Master, Way, Truth and Life
Acts 15: 1-29
Rev 21: 10-23
Jn 14: 22-29

The perfection of the heavenly Father is reflected in Jesus and so He is the Master of perfection. (APPD 73).

From Father Tom: What is this "perfection"? An oft-asked question. Perhaps the best answer is that as soon as you realize you are perfect...you're not! So maybe what is meant is sincerity in doing things as best you can--always.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Paulina Campos FSP (1964)--Sr. Imelda Bianchi FSP (1987)--Bro vfincenzo Tommasino SSP(1994)--Sr. M. Pasqualina Giaccardi PD (1998)-- Fr. Lorenzo Rossno IJP (2004)-- Sr. M. Paola Bergadano FSP (2008)-- Luigia Pendinelli HFI (2008)--Sr. Gisella Codial FSP (2011)-- Delores Bressler (1997)--Ruth Ann Baker (1975)

Saturday, May 4, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, May 4
EASTER WEEKDAY
First Saturday of the month--Mary, Queen of Apostles
Acts 16: 1-10
Jn 15: 18-21

"Mary looks at our hearts, whether it searches for God, is united to God and is detached from everything that displeases the Lord.  It is impossible to continual sin and true devotion of Mary." (BM 406)

From Father Tom: The practice of True Devotion to Mary has always been a typical Pauline characteristic--and the Founder led the way on this as on other practices.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Giacomina Adriano PD (1967)-- Sr. Bertilla Lorenzi FSP (1991)--Franceca Kopcho IAM (1997)-- Sr. M. Emanuela Sauro FSP (1998)--Elisa Baggio PD (2008)--Maria Jose' Raposo IAM (2008)--Sr. Leontina Facchano FSP (2009)--Sr. Letizia Turra SGBP (2011)-Daniel McParland (1997)

May 3, 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, May 3
SS. PHILIP AND JAMES, Apostles
First Friday of the month--the Sacred Heart
1 Cor. 15: 1-8
Jn 14: 6-14

Until the end of the world it will always be the successor of Peter who will declare what is to be believed and what is the faith of the Church (BM 679)

From Father Tom: Did I already quote this famous saying of St. Augustine? "I'd prefer to go to Hell with the Pope than to Heaven without him." One of Augustine's one-liners that--as usual--condense an entire theology.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Giuseppe Ronconi SSP (2006)--Marie Ducote Smelka (1995)--Joseph Mahoney--Winnie Williams--Darrell Locker (no years)

Thursday, May 2 2013 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, May 2
ST. ATHANASIAS, Bishop, Doctor
First Thursday of the month--the Guardian Angels
Acts 15, 7-21
Jn 15: 9-11

Nobody must just stand idly by, observing.  The one who does this--judging others--is already at fault (RSP 42)

From Father Tom: The Founder was famously critical of those who proposed great schemes...for others to implement. DO SOMETHING was his constant refrain.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Silvestrina Rustico PD (1946)-- Sr. Elena Montemezzo FSP (1983)--Columba Pennesi HFI (1997)--Antoni Szulcek, Gabrielite (1999)--Sr. M. Lourdes Rodriguez PD (2000)--Aurelio Bellavista HFI (2004)--Imogene Kozak, (2006)