April 1, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and with Father Tom

Tuesday, April 1
OF THE DAY
First Tuesday of the Month--The Souls in Purgatory
Ez 47: 1-9, 12
Ps 46: 2-3, 5-6, 8-9
Jn 5: 1-16

The new life means to establish our life in Christ--or the life of Christ in us (FSP 55).

From Father Tom: This "life of Christ" is--when we think of it--the only REAL life there is. What we call "human life" is simply deferred death and often welcomed. Risen with Jesus after the Last Judgment we will really enjoy life for the first time--no disease, no death, no end!

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Fr. Carlo Stella SSP (1973)--Bro Enrico Pantaleo SSP (1984)--Fr. Michele Leone IJP (2003)--Ropert Paplow (No date)

March 31, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 31
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 65: 17-21
Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13
Jn 4: 43-54

On the point of leaving His disciples, Jesus entrusted to them the ministry of the Word: "God into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature." (BM 329)

From Father Tom: That's the basic apostolate of every Priest, of every Brother, and of every Sister. If in some way we are doing that, we're part of the Lord's life and work, not necessarily through the media but through whatever God-inspired service.

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

March 30, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 30
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT
1 Sm 16: 1, 6-7, 10-13
Ps 23: 1-6
Eph 5: 8-14
Jn 9: 1-41

Traditionally know as "Laetare" Sunday from the Latin liturgy and the general felling that Lent is coming to an end.

From Father Tom: And as usual, we have to ask ourselves if we notice any difference in our prayer, in our behavior, and in our practice of the Institute recommendations.

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, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 29
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Hos 6: 1-6
Ps 51: 3-4, 18-21
Lk 18: 9-14

Mary assists, enlightens and comforts priests. She makes their apostolate fruitful. She gives them help and consolation (RDA 228).

From Father Tom: Undoubtedly, but we priests have to be aware not just of Mary's attitude toward us but of what should be our attitude toward her: Rosary, perhaps also True Devotion consecration: a longtime Pauline practice beginning with our Founder.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Fr. Michele Sarullo IJP -- Sr. Teresa Bianco FSP (1995)--Sr. Guglielmina Oliboni 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, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 28
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Hos 14: 210
Ps 81: 6-11, 14, 17
Mk 12: 28-34

One who must preach to others, whether by voice or by some instrument, must make himself the Pope's loudspeaker (FSP 176).

From Father Tom: The Founder's comment, given many years ago, underlines our duty and our attitude in this day and age: We stay with the Holy Father who leads the Church as the Lord wishes even though not every Church person entirely agrees with him.

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

March 27, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 27
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 7: 23-28
Ps 95: 1-2, 6-9
Lk 11: 14-23

Jesus entrusts to His apostles the world and everyone in it. They are to be light and salt, fishers and sowers, farmers and harvesters, pastors and witnesses...(BM 309-310)

From Father Tom: Query: How would you describe yourself?As one of these or as an interested onlooker wondering what will come from Canfield this month? But doing nothing to promote the Institute?

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. M. Fulgenzia Rapagnani PD (1979)--Fr. Gino Brimaldi IJP (1983)--Sr. M. Giuseppina 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 Gramglia HFI (2002)--Bro Giovanni Novarino SSP (2011)--Lillie Cusack (1994)

March 26, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 26
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dt 4: 1, 5-9
Ps 147: 12-13, 15-16, 19-20
Mt 5: 17-19

Blessed are you, Jesus, well aware as you are of the many human weaknesses and, for this reason, instituted the sacrament of Penance (FSP 55)

From Father Tom: And blessed are all of us if we take advantage of the Lord's mercy. That is precisely the problem in our time and one more reason why we need to take advantage of it ourselves.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. M. Ausilia Critino 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. AlicjaTarasek PD (2011)

March 25, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 25
ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Is 7: 10-14; 8:10
Ps 40: 7-11
Heb 10: 4-10
Lk 1: 26-38

Let the apostolate be an exercise of charity and a work of mercy (RP 15)

From Father Tom: Perhaps we tend to think of our apostolate as a work of enlightenment of orientation. And it is. Indeed, far more so than material charity which helps the body but does little to help the mind and conscience.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Fr. Guerrino Pelliccia SSP (1991)--Fr. Antonio Giovinazzo IJP (1992)--Sr. M. Faustina Audisio PD (2003)--Ann Ferrari IAM (2011)

March 24, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 24
LENTEN WEEKDAY
2 Kgs 5: 1-15
Ps 42 42: 2-3; 43: 3-4
Lk 4: 24-30

Make reparation for the sins committed through the Press, Radio, Movies and TV--they are the most numerous, the most serious and the most scandalous (NOV 1950)

From Father Tom: This thought hardly needs a commentary but certainly I and all of us must ask if we spend precious time following the latest (unhelpful, unedigying) news and not enough spreading the Good News.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. M. Scolastica Rivata, first Mother General of the Sister Disciples (1987)--Sr. Teresina Mchels FSP (1993)--Sr. Cesarina Rossi FSP (1995)--Antonia Farruggio IAM (1996)--Johna Albert Vincenzo HFI (2004)--Sr. Gabriella Marcazzan FSP (2005)--Felicismo Quinto (2004)

March 23,2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 23
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
Ex 17: 3-7
Ps 95: 1-2, 6-9
Rom 5: 1-2, 5-8
Jn 4: 5-42

"He is risen! He is not here anymore." Very true...but, then where is He? In Church? Yes, but as the Blessed Sacrament. In our homes--would that He were! In our place of work? Perhaps. So...where? a) in my heart and yours and b) thereafter in the hearts of those we meet and inflame.

From Father Tom: Does this thought need a commentary?

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

March 22, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 22
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Mt 7: 14-15, 18-20
Ps 103: 1-4,9-12
Lk 15: 1-3, 11-32

Christ has to rise in our hearts, around His own splendid life within us as He did to so many when He rose from the dead (FSP 55).

From Father Tom: This, however, does not happen automatically. The baptismal grace has to be recognized and stirred into action, first by a good examination of conscience (What more could I do?) and then by action--try finding a new member or at least introducing the concept. We are a group of active apostles, not a prayer group.

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 da Conceicao Carnetto Azevedo FSP (2008)--Luciano Andreoni HFI (2008)--Antonietta Poddi HFI (2010)

March 21, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 21
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Gn 37: 3-4, 12-13, 17-28
s 105: 16-21
Mt 21: 33-43, 45-46

By means of the cross, souls receive the life of grace, the Church receives power and every blessing descends on humanity (BM 385).

From Father Tom: This has to be true also of our individual crosses patiently borne in union with the Crucified One. This is the value of suffering and especially suffering in loneliness. On the Cross, Jesus was quite alone apart from his Mother, some pious women and St. John.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. M. Felicia Scellato PD (1967)--Sr. MFranca Calo' FSP (1991)--Sr. M. Caterina Bertolino PD (1992)--Sr. Annita Loi FSP (1998)--Francisco Menegon SSP (2004)--Slisa Deidda IAM (2010)--Sr. M. Silvana Cuscito FSP (2011)--Anne Nephew (1991)

March 20, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 20
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 17: 5-10
Ps 1: 1-4, 6
Lk 16: 19-31

Jesus made as his faithful followers in His apostolic trips some virtuous women. Among them were the mothers of the apostles, who were themselves apostles (BM 335)

From Father Tom: This is an interesting insight from our holy Founder--he lived in a strictly "men only" apostolic atmosphere but he was from the beginning open to other possibilities.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. M. Battista Bettinelli PD (1993)--Sr. Rosangela Pasquino AP (1993)--Emilio Tomassini HFI (1993)--S.r Edele Aimasso FSP (1997)--Sr. M. Fortunata Arrotta FSP (1999)--Fr. Antonio Diaz SSP (2008)

March 19, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 19
ST JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
2 sm 7: 4-5, 12-14, 16
Ps 89: 2-5, 27, 29
Rom 4: 4: 13, 16-18
Mt 1: 16, 18-21, 24
or
Lk 2: 41-51

St. Joseph teaches us to use work as an instrument of redemption, expiation and sanctification. Work is the body's prayer. It puts our whole self at the service of God (Calendario Paolino, May 1).

From Father Tom: And so the lack of work, such a painful feature of our time, is more harmful than we know. The older saying is still relevant: "The devil always finds work for idle hands to do."

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. Lilia M. Lavagnini FSP (1964)--Sr. M. Bernada Marinoni FSP (1971)--Sr. M. Carola Damo FSP (1987)--Sr. M. Sira Baldassari FSP (1994)--Rosa Deplano HFI (1995)--Sr. Geltrude Botto FSP (1999)--Fr. Fredo Brondino SSP (2003)--Sr. M. Bernanrina Borghini FSP (2004)--Sr. M. Querubina Contreras PD (2005)--Bro Federico FAccioli SSP (2008)--Sr. Mary Caroline Tessa FSP (2008)--Sr. M. Regina Nota FSP (2009)--Pasquale Festa HFI (2009)--Elena Giaglia IAM (2010)

March 18, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 18
LENTEN WEEKDAY
ST CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
BISHOP, DOCTOR OF CHURCH
Is 1: 10, 16-20
Ps 50: 8-9, 16-17, 21
Mt 23: 1-12

Do not chet the truth, but declare it openly when it is your duty. Never lie (BM 96).

From Father Tom: How does this sound in our modern world? Can we trust anyone anymore? Every day that passes it seems that bigger and worse scandals are being revealed--with the unstated suggestion that even more shocking ones have not been revealed so far...

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 Grgorio PD (1998)

March 17, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 17
LENTEN WEEKDAY
ST PATRICK, BISHOP
Dn 9: 4-10
Ps 79: 8-9, 11, 13
Lk 6: 36-38

We can expect a day full of merits, joys and recollection, if our morning starts well in the Lord (FSP 55).

From Father Tom: Sometimes we wonder if we will EVER start a morning in that state of mind! So many problems for the young...what does the future hold? For the old...can they find someone to take care of them in the present confused state of the nation? Oremus...

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr Natalia Colavecchio FSP (1949)--Sr. Alba Prest sGBP (1967)--Sr. Romana Migliardi FSP (1988)--Renee' Montes HFI (1988)--Raffaella Cappai FSP (2008)--Giovanni Cleri HFI (2008)--Sr. Teresa Migliornii FSP (2010)==Rev Joseph E. Lappett (1965)

March 16, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 16
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
Gn 12: 1-4
Ps 33: 4-5, 18-20, 22
2 Tim 1: 8-10
Mt 17: 1-9

By means of the cross, souls receive the life of grace, the Church receives power and every blessing descends on humanity (BM 385).

From Father Tom: This is true also when talking about our personal crosses. Suffering in itself was never God's first thought--how on earth could it be--would He not have been highly sadistic? Instead He accepted the suffering but personally led the way in showing us how to approach it.

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, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 15
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dt 26: 16-19
Ps 119: 1-2, 4-5, 7-8
Mt 5: 43-48

The Son of God washed with his blood the spiritual wounds of humanity, healing us with the oil of His grace and the wine of the Eucharist (BM 637).

From Father Tom: The Eucharist is the very center and reason for all apostolic activity. It is the Master, really present in His people, sustaining them and indicating what to do. To see it as just one of the Seven Sacraments is to miss the fundamental meaning.

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)--Pacido Airo' HFI (1982)--Fr. Giovanni Rossi SSP (1983)--Marianna Zaccaria HFI (2000)--Fr Vincenzo Di Renzo IJP (2007)--Nunzia Zinni IAM (2008)

March 14, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 14
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Ez 18: 21-28
Ps 130: 1-8
Mt 5: 20-26

When God calls, everyone must leave what he prefers--even contemplation-and run to the battles of God (BM 306).

From Father Tom: As the years pass, obedience becomes more and more difficult and we are better-educated and generally smarter than the individual given the title "superior". The superior, on the other hand, has to bear patiently a great deal of resistance, not to talk of abuse. Both superior and inferior need plenty of virtue.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Sr. Adeodata Galo FSP (1974)--Maria Tommaso HFI (1996)--Sr. Pilar Roggero FSP (2005)--Sr. Domenica Credico FSP (2005)--Sr. Magdala Castellino FSP (2005)--Fr. Govanni Bandini (2009)--Leo Converse (1961)

March 13, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 13
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Est C12: 14-16, 23-25
Ps 138: 1-3, 7-8
Mt 7: 7-12

***Fr. Alberione makes his first Vows

Work is the body's prayer and it is indispensable because we have to put our whole selves at the service of God (Calendario Paolino, 1959)

From Father Tom: Physical work was a big element in the early Pauline Family, and remained so up to the point where it was more economical to hire workers and allow members to do the intellectual tasks--often more difficult and responsible.

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)Rafaele Iavazzi (2011)--Thomas Endress (1991)

March 12, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 12
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jon 3: 1-10
Ps 51: 3-4, 12-13, 18-19
Lk 11: 29-32

The incarnate Son of God was tempted, therefore temptation is no disgrace for anybody, but is, on the contrary, a means of winning a higher place in heaven (BM 307).

From Father Tom: This assumes that we avoid the persons, places or things which past experience shows to have been occasions of temptation, not only against chastity but also against obedience and poverty which in general we may not take seriously enough.

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. Francesco Manca IJP (2009)--Bro Lukie Matthew Addasseril SSP (2011)--Joeph J. Burnieka (1993)

March 11, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 11
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 55: 10-11
Ps 34: 4-7, 16-19
Mt 6: 7-15

Redemptive work, hard work, apostolic work, is this not the way of perfection putting in the active service of God all our energies, even the physical ones? (Abudantes 128)

From Father Tom: Sometimes intellectual work is actually more difficult: memorizing, translating, putting in context, etc. This can be more wearing than physical activity.

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

March 10, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 10
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Lv 19: 1-2, 11-18
Ps 19: 8-10, 15
Mt 25: 31-46

Work was ennobled by Jesus Christ to the highest level. it was assiduous, incessant and done with the right intention (BM 301).

From Father Tom: All work is, or should be, the use of talents God gave us to serve Him and to serve others. This is what we have already seen as the "priesthood of the people"-the offering outside the Mass corresponding to the offering in Church.

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. Nazareno 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 9, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 9
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
Gn 2: 7-9 3: 1-7
Ps 51: 3-6, 12-13, 17
Rom 5: 12-19
Mt 4: 1-11

Jesus sanctified family life with ineffable virtues and especially obedience, docile and loving submission to Mary and Joseph (BM 294).

From Father Tom: The key words here are "docile" and "loving." Parents--no matter how careless--have a special grace of guidance, just as in Religious Life; a defective Superior still represents the will of God in that time and place.

Please Pray For Our Deceased: Bro Andrea Degani SSP (1986)--Sr. Marcellina Berto 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 Komie 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, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, March 8
SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
ST JOHN OF GOD, RELIGIOUS
Is 58: 9-14
Ps 86: 1-6
Lk 5: 27-32

Mary was the first to present the Divine Master to St. Joseph, to the shepherds, to the Magi, to the elderly Simeon...in fact, to the world.

From Father Tom: When baby George was presented by his mom some time ago, we all smiled and cheered...and then forgot all about him! Happened to Jesus too but with far more serious consequences.

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

March 7, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, March 7
FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH--THE SACRED HEART
FREDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
SS. PEPRETUA & FELICITY, MARTYRS
Is 58: 1-9
Ps 51 51: 3-6, 18-19
Mt 9: 14-15

The more we learn the more we shall love the Lord who manifests Himself in His works and the better shall we accomplish our apostolate (Bro Andrea Borello).

From Father Tom: Brother Borello, one of the early Brothers spent much of his time repairing the foot-wear of community members not very modern media but definitely ancient holiness

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

March 6, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, March 6
FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH--THE ANGEL GUARDIANS
THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Dt 30: 15-20
Ps 1: 1-4, 6
Lk 9: 22-25

To read the Scriptures is to educate oneself in the things of God. To disseminate the Scriptures is to take part in a great apostolate (BM 327).

From Father Tom: Do we read the Scriptures regularly. Most would say they rad the Gospel which is the most accessible part of Scriptures. How about you and I doing extra this Lent?

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

March 5, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, March 5
FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH--ST JOSEPH
ASH WEDNESDAY
Jl 2: 12-18
Ps 51: 3-6b, 12-14-17
2 Cor 5: 20-6:2
Mt 6: 1-6, 16-18

The glory of Solomon spread to far countries but such greatness made him forget the Lord and his law (LS 104).

From Father Tom: Nothing new, really. Our world today is full of "Solomons: desperate about their world-wide fame, yearning for the roar of the crowd, torn with envy and jealousy...and even we people can be trapped into this dreadful mistake. Ask yourself today: How exactly do I measure my work for the Church? Numbers reached?

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

March 4, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, March 4
FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH--THE SOULS IN PURGATORY
ST CASMIR
OF THE DAY
1 Pt 1: 10-16
Ps 98: 1-4
Mk 10: 28-31

If our soul is found to be totally pure, it will quickly enter Paradise: to see God, to love God, to enjoy God (BM 57).

From Father Tom: The idea of "enjoying" God is not all that easy to grasp-we have spent so much time in church and outside it "obeying" rather than "enjoying". So perhaps the best thing is to leave God to worry about what it means!

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

March 3, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, March 3
FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH--ST PAUL
ST KATHARINE DREXEL, VIRGIN
1 Pt 1: 3-9
Ps 111: 1-2, 5-6, 9-10
Mk 10: 17-27

May the fear of God convert those who need it, as it has themany who then distinguished themselves for holiness (NOV 122).

From Father Tom: Do we have any of those converts among our members? Why not? The mercy of God is greater than our misdeeds and He has a specific plan for each of us--a plan which we appreciate all the more when we realized how different things might have been.

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 Parma PD (1999)--Sr. M. Redenta Alessi PD (2002)--Sr. Nazarena Merigo SGBP (2004)--Isabel Marquez IAM (2008)--Luigi Roberti HFI (2011)--Paul Douglas (2004)--Buna Wecker (2010)

March 2, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, March 2
FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH--THE DIVINE MASTER, WAY, TRUTH AND LIFE
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Is 49: 14-15
Ps 62: 2-3, 6-9
1 Cor 4: 1-5
Mt 6: 24-34

There is so much to fear for certain souls who are stubborn in evil and end up falling into eternal punishment (NOV 239).

From Father Tom: Certain souls? Meaning "occasional"? And who are they? Do you know many who qualify? Quite a problem, isn't it?

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 (2022)--Olandia Bonoarr (1952)