March 1, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

MARCH 2016

EASTER: MARCH 27, 2016
TUESDAY, MARCH 1
FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH--THE POOR
SOULS IN PURGATORY
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dt 3: 25, 34-35
Ps 25: 4-9

Mt 19: 21-35

MONTHLY INTENTIONS: 

For the conversion of those who, in the use of the instruments of social communication, refuse to acknowledge the Magisterium of Christ and of the Church, thus deviating the mind, the heart and the activities of men.

FROM FATHER TOM: But first we must convert ourselves. The Founder began with four hours of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. It would be interesting to check if this member or that passes any hours.


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

February 29, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, February 28

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

Only the person that does not walk has need to ask for directions (SP Mar 1957).

FROM FATHER TOM:  And do you really need my commentary on this "Thought"?

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Filomena Zaccheddu HFI (1976)--Sr. M. Del Socorro Mendez Moreno FSP (2012)--Sr M. Agnes Shamba PD (2012)--Antonino Taormina HFI (2012).

The Burning Bush...

"What is the "burning bush" God is using to get your attention this Lent?

~Daily Prayer 2016, p. 92

February 28, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, February 27

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
Ex 3: 1-8, 13-15
Ps 103: 1-11
1 Cor 10: 1-6, 10-12
Lk 13: 1-9

Always ask and look for advice.  Always reflect.  Our ignorance is greatest when we are persuaded that we know everything (FSP 55, p. 136).

FROM FATHER TOM:  This thought hardly needs comment.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. Angela Teresa Bagnati FSP (1971)--Sr. Joan Mary Ravetto FSP (1978)--M. Giovanna Martina HFI (1987)--Sr. Adelaide Prunotto FSP (1989)--S.r Ilba Garcia FSP (1992)--Cosimo Corigliano HFI (1998)--Sr. Amalia MIlo FSP (1999)--S.r Bianca M. Zanoni FSP (1999)--Ettore Serli HFI (2003)--Rafael Juan Mangini HFI (2006)--Sr. M. Fidelis Puebla Lobo  FSP (2008))--Sr. M. Marcellina Trincucci FSP (2012)

Faith Means...

"Faith means continuing to pray in he night because for the one who prays, there is no night that does not finally bring forth its own dawn."
~Concord January 2016

Be Merciful...

God of mercy, 

Your love is beyond our comprehension.

Purify our hearts to accept this gift

so we may share it with others. 

Help us be faithful to Your ways as 

disciples of Jesus.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

~Daily Prayer 2016 p. 91

February 27, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, February 27

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Mi 7: 14-20
Ps 103: 1-4, 9-12
Lk 15: 1-3, 11-32

True love is that which you show with your hard work in the apostolate: it makes you think, run and organize (FSP 48, p. 580)..

FROM FATHER TOM:  The comment originally applied to our work in the printing-plant, etc. But, of course, it applies all the more to Institute members and their many challenges.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Domenica Abbate PD (1973)--Fr. Luigi Sbaizero IJP (2981)--Sr. Genoveffa Sandri FSP (1986)--Roberto Garcia HFI (1997)--Sr. Enrica Tacconi FSP (1999)--M.Antonietta Scarso IAM (2008)--Fr. Savino Marandola SSP (2013)--Fr. Luigino Melotto SSP (2015)--Sr. M. Anunciacion Hernandez Zendejas FSP (2015)--Sr. M. Cleta Taricco PD (2015)--Gary Edward Piatt (2008)--Christina Netto (2009)

February 26, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, February 26

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Gn 37: 3-4, 12-28
Ps 105: 16-21
Mt 21: 33-46

If envy reigns, the charity of Jesus is not there; if anger reigns, the meekness of Jesus is not there (APD 1956, 276).

FROM FATHER TOM:  We are generally aware if we are angry or not but envy is something else: a sort of corrosion which wears away the good feelings we should have and makes them seem justified. 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Costantina Telada FSP (1981)--Sr. M. Diamantina Russo FSP (1986)--Sr. M. Rosaria Sabatino FSP (1987)--Sr. Anselma De Stefani FSP (1998)--Sr. M. Candida Massimi FSP (2001)---Fr. Giuseppe Barbero SSP (2003)--Sr. M. Antonietta Martini FSP (2003)--Sr. M. Antonietta Martini FSP (2003)--Lucrezia Protano IAM (2008)--Fr. Carmelo Tommaselli IJP (2010)--Bro Oberdan Picciotti SSP (2011)--Bro Albino Rigamonti SSP (2013)--Fr. Attilio Monge SSP (2015)

February 25, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, February 25

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 17: 5-10
Ps 1: 1-6
Lk 16: 19-31

The poor people, when they stand before the rich with their torn clothes and their beseeching demeanor, they reveal their total need and all their hope (BM p. 635).

FROM FATHER TOM:  And the real poor?  Have we not all been told who they are? Do we know? Yes, we do, because all too often we ourselves are the real poor--lacking in virtue, in Divine Grace, in holiness.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Rosa Usai HFI (1983)--Sr. Maria Paola Fadda FSP (1985)--Sr. M. Ermenegilda Asolan PD (1985)--Carlos Anibal Munoz HFI (1990)--Sr. M. Giacinta Giordana FSP (1996)--Anna Namestnik HFI (2003)--Sr. Eliana Belli FSP (2012)--Sr. M. Celestina Gainelli PD (2012)--Angela Marchica IAM (2015)--Giovanni La Rocca HFI (2015)

February 24, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, February 24

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jer 18: 18-20
Ps 31: 5-6, 14-16
Mt 20: 17-28

You do not do works of charity in the hospitals, in works of charity in general, but your charity is more exquisite: you give the truth. This is the greatest charity, because it is charity for the mind, for the soul and for the spirit. (FSP 55, p. 430).

FROM FATHER TOM:  The Founder does not mention prayer...he takes it for granted if we look at his lifestyle.  But it is not to be taken for granted among ourselves and is this not a basic thought: reaching people, yes, being of benefit to them and to ourselves...?

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Giustina Rossi FSP (1999)--Maria Pia Basciani HFI (2006)--Maria Badellino HFI (2015)--Marge Ashman (2007)

February 23, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, February 23

ST POLYCARP, BISHOP, MARTYR
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 1: 10, 16-20
Ps 50: 8-9
Mt 23: 1-12

Even if all time passes and even if science continues to progress, Jesus always remains as the only and infallible Master (Vademecum, 237)

FROM FATHER TOM:  And, if we possess him personally, we journey through life not infallible but extremely helpful--and isn't that enough?

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Lina Conte IAM (1983)--Sr. M. Lilia Ranieri FSP (1990)--Augusta Omiccioli HFI (1993)--Sr. M. Corradina Panella PD (1996)--Sr. M. Silvana Guerriero FSP (1998)--Fr. Piero Burgio IJP (1999)--Sr. Clelia Bianco FSP (2000)--Sr. Concettina Borgogno FSP (2003)--Sr. Stefanina Busso FSP (2003)--Fr. Nicola Rutzu IJP (2005) Fr. Leo Sartor SSP (2007)--Jose Guadalupe Paredes HFI (2008)--Sr. Anna Maria Prandi FSP (2010)--Maria Permunian HFI (2015)--Caroline Denise Baack (1971)

February 22, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, February 22

CHAIR OF PETER
LENTEN WEEKDAY
1 Pt 5: 1-4
Ps 23: 1-6
Mt 16: 13-19

The Church walks forward and we walk with her; the means to make known Jesus Christ, time will give them to us, as well as human ingenuity and Divine Providence (FSP 48, pp. 524-525).

FROM FATHER TOM:  A key condition for this is that all of us have an abundant prayer life--not always the case as we trust more in our own skills than in God's. 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Caterina Servello PD (1982)--Sr. M. Genoveffa Galina PD (1983)--Mons Umberto Florenzani IJP (1987)--Sr. Edvige Gasparini FSP (1992)--Sr. M. Rosina Pucci PD (1992)--Bro DionisioBurlon SSP (2005)--Iolanda Brach HFI (2008)--Sr. M. Rosanna Cavallin FSP (2009)--Augusto Ambrogioni HFI (2009)--Marina Moretti IAM (2014)--Rina Signoretti HFI (2010)--Maria Zunigo (1941)

February 21, 2016 With Blessed James Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, February 21

SECOND SUNDAY LENT
Gn 15: 5-18
Ps 27: 7-14
Phil 3: 17-4: 1
Lk 9: 28-36

Love of God is shown when we think about Him, contemplate Him and stay with Him (NOV 233).

FROM FATHER TOM:  This can also be an act of will--perhaps it is in most cases--and so more meritorious.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Angela Yammanouchi FSP (1982)--Fr. Francesco Amoroso IJP (1989)--Sr. Albana Tonin FSP (2002)--Vittorio Furlani HFI (2013)--Sr. M. Gabriela Kubecka PD (2014)--Sr. M. Maurilia Chiavazza PD (2015)--Frank McGrady (1979)--Patricia Palmer (2012).

February 20, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, February 20

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Dt 26: 16-19
Ps 119: 1-8
Mt 5: 43-48

Spiritual progress depends in very great part on the spirit of generosity, of renunciation, of abnegation by which one is animated (Ven Thecla Merlo, Vi porto ne cuore, p. 252).

FROM FATHER TOM:  And especially when the individual concerned is not naturally like this--and that means most of us.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Natalia Accattino HFI (1984)--Sr. M. Teresa Binello PD (1985)--Bro Luigi Toffoletto SSP (1993)--Sr. M. Aurelia Colesso PD (1996)--Sr. Grgorina Baroni FSP (1999)--Palmira Teixeira Goncalves IAM (2001)--Giuseppina Galiano IAM (2002)--Sr. Elena Ravotto Fsp (2004)--Fr. Enrico Lazzarini IJP (2008)--Fr. Marsilio Galli IJP (2009)--Baltazar Valdes (1927)--Ray Clark (no year)--Catherine Burrell (1966)

February 19, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, February 19

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

One who is able to restrain his tongue shows that he can command his body, his senses and his passions (RSP, p. 222).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Unless, of course, he is one of those awful people who makes life difficult because they have nothing to say when you want to begin a pleasant conversation.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M Orsola Crespan PD (1934)--Sr. M. Silvestra Boscariol FSP (1966)--Fr. Pierino Marazza SSP (1977)--Sr. Carmelina Gado FSP (1985)--Fr. Teresio Pesce SSP (1986)--Fr. Virginio Passarin SSP )1099)--Giocaonda Giannotta HFI (1991)--Sr. M. Rosangela Fruttero PD (1995)--Alfonso Ricca HFI (2005)--Sr. Emilia Menale FSP (2008)--Sr. Maria Rosa Monticone FSP (2014)--Joseph Lee Basquete (2005)

February 18, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, February 18

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Est C: 12-16, 23-25
Ps 5138: 1-3, 7-8
Mt 7: 7-12

Every person is a master of himself and can dominate his tendencies (BM, p. 92)

FROM FATHER TOM:  Undoubtedly, but not by himself. God is always needed.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M Cecilia Calabresi FSP (1999)--Sr Maria de Lourdes Belem FSP (2009)--Fr. Giovanni Battista Di Cesare SSP (2011)--Sr. M. Auxilia Fernandez PD (2011)--Bro Amorino Remelli SSP (2014)--Sr. Assunta Cantone FSP (2015)--William D. McParland

February 17, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, February 17

SEVEN FOUNDERS OF 
THE SERVITE ORDER
LENTEN WEEKDAY
Jon 3: 1-10
Ps 51: 3-4, 12-13, 18-19
Lk 11: 29-32

The person who sins does not love himself or his neighbor; and perhaps he will also be a scandal and an occasion of ruin for others (RSP, p. 150).

FROM FATHER TOM:  There is no real "perhaps". If the sin is continued it becomes second nature and reveals itself on the outside. 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. Clorinda Serfilippo FSP (1973)--Antonietta Mancuso IAM (1984)--Sr. M. Pierina Cordero FSP (1990)--Domenico Parenzan HFI (1995)--Fr. Carlo Boano SSP (1998)--Barbara Rubino IAM (1998)--Sr. M. OnesimaChiavassa PD (2004)--Sr. M. Frumenzia Manuli PD(2007)--Sr. M. Viola Lauria Pantano FSP (2009)--Fr. Remo Quaranta IJP (2009)--Alfio Bartolini HFI (2009)--Sr. M. Aurora Malavolta FSP (2010)--Maria Antonietta Murgia IAM (2011)--Sr. Tecla Mazzei SGBP (2013)--Sr. M. Redenta Fabillon FSP (2014)--Leonarda Librizzi IAM (2015)

February 16, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, February 16

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

Sad to say, there are consecrated persons who live and lead others into a kind of bourgeois lifestyle.  While having solemnly renounced the goods of this world, the satisfactions of family life, and the right to choose and act freely, they neither attain the infinite goods of their chosen life nor aspire to a life of fervor and ongoing improvement (UPS, IV, 187)

FROM FATHER TOM:  That was true when the Founder wrote. Except that it was then the exception.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Alberto Vidal HFI (1987)--Sr. M. Carolina Bordino FSP  (1988)--Santio Giovanrosa, Gabrielite (2004)--Domenico Pitacco HFI (2011)--Billie Ruth Baack (1998)--Dominador Quinto (1936)

February 15, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, February 15

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

Sanctity is life of grace. It is merit in the present life; glory in the world to come. To acquire grace by practicing virtue is the work of the Christian and it is the reason for our present life (SM 465).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Interesting. It is the reason for our present life. Don't we all KNOW this...how come then that we leave sanctity until we retire, or get old, or get sick?  Meanwhile we have all those meetings and phone calls and plane trips and overnights...when will we really put sanctity first?

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Angelica Castellani FSP (2001)--Sr. Giovanna Dal Borgo SGBP (2003)--Laura Perrucci HFI (2003)--Sr. M. Ignazia Scano PD (2009)--Maria Marchi HFI (2010)--Domenico Gramaglia HFI (2011)--Josephine Diederich (2003)

Just Think...

Just think,

You’re here, not by chance,

But by God’s choosing.

His hand formed you

And made you

The person you are.

He compared you to no one else—

You are one of a kind.

You lack nothing

That His grace can’t give you.

He has allowed you to be here

At this time in history

To fulfill His special purpose

For this generation.

~Roy Lessin (DaySpring co-founder)

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heave.

ECCLESIASTES 3: 1

February 14, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, February 14

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
Dt 26: 4-10
Ps 91: 1-2, 10-15
Rom 10: 8-13
Lk4: 1-13

The devil always comes to disturb even the holiest and most beautiful things (Si vis perfectus  esse, 1).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Of course the devil may also disguise himself as "a most beautiful thing" and many Religious in past times were blinded.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Claudia Da Sois SGBP (1957)--Sr. M. Carmela Ferrero PD (1975)--Sr/Tp,asoma Pica PD (1992)--Sr. M. Celeste Paccione FSP (1998)--Fr. Luigi Rossi IJP (2000)--Sr. M. Ignazia Bellagamba PD (2000)--Sr. M. Amabile Atzori PD (2002)--Sr. Gabriella Dal Vecchio SGBP (2008)--Ligi Barria HFI (2008)--Sr. M. Anna Fazio PD (2011)--Sr. M. Maggiorina Almici FSP (2013)--Sr. M. Annunziatina Parafati PD (2014)--Carole A. Roadarmel HFI (2014)--FRanca Rubini HFI (2015)--Herminio N. Diosomito (1994)

February 13, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, February 13

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 58: 9-14
Ps 86: 1-6
Lk 5: 27-32

Through charity man tends towards God not only mentally and effectively but also operatively (SM 292).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Indeed, if there is no "operatively" --something done for others--the other two are pure sentiments.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. Paola Cordero FSP (1991)--Sr. Teofila Pordon FSP (2004)--Fr. Miguel Rojo Serna SSP (2011)--Isabel Marie Muellecker HFI (2014)

Concord Magazine: February 2016

Please click on the link to read the February Concord Magazine.

God bless, in Jesus Master through Mary Queen of Apostles and St. Paul,

http://hficoncord.com/templates/SummerForest/images/Feb 2016/CONCORD Feb 2016/index.html

February 12, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, February 12

LENTEN WEEKDAY
Is 58: 1-9
Ps 51: 3-6, 18-19
Mt 9: 14-15

Conversion means to hold an exact position in the journey of virtue, of sanctity, of the apostolate. A right position, to walk on both feet: By myself I can do nothing, with God, I can do everything (FSP 56, p. 375).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Nothing? Well, maybe. But a least we can try. Expecting everything from God ignores the endless gifts we already have.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr. Tommaso Dragone SSP (1974)--Sr. M. Luigina Nanni PD (1976)--Fr. Alejandro Sanchez SSP (1979)--Sr. M. Celina Bonini FSP (2007)--Walter Fortuna HFI (2008)--Sr. M. Augusta Monti FSP (2010)--Margery Seamen Bowe (2009)--Msgr. Ralph Brennan (2012)

If Anyone Wishes to Follow Me...

“…If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.”

                                                                                                         ~Luke 9: 23

February 11, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, February 11

OUR LADY OF LOURDES
Dt 30: 15-20
Ps 1: 1-6
Lk 9: 22-25

There is the apostolate of humility, of suffering and of work.  In the Lord's eyes those who pray are good, those who work, better, those who suffer best (FSP).

FROM FATHER TOM:  The meaning here is: those who work or suffer and also are people of prayer are the ideal. It's also possible to work like a slave or suffer like an animal.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Lucia Melchiori FSP (1944)--Fr. Gino Caffarri SSP (1968)--Sr. Giovanna M. Ricca FSP (1976)--Sr. M. Filomena Creda PD (1984)--Fr. Thomas Cheruvil SSP (1990)--Giuseppina Pigiona HFI (2002)--Anna Maria Mazzoni IAM (2003)--Sr. M. Lucis Scurti FSP (2006)--Sr. Teresina Tacconelli FSP (2012)--Sr. M. Josangela Bassignana PD (2012)--Sr. Pierina Frepoli FSP (2013)

February 10, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, February 10

ASH WEDNESDAY
Jl 2: 12-18
Ps 51: 3-6, 12-17
2 Cor 5: 20-6: 2
Mk 6:1-6, 16-18

The interior life enlightens our minds, rouses our hearts, strengthens our wills, and makes us enter into ourselves so that we may look after our eternal salvation (APD 1947, 277).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Interior life...not sickness (frequent venial sin) or even interior death--know what that is.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. Edoarda Marengo FSP (1982)--Maria Viti HFI (1987)--Fr. Calcedonio Ogniebene IJP (1998)--Sr. Maria Sol Cababarros FSP (2001)--Sr. M. Vittorina Della Valle PD (2013)--Faustina Policarpo IAM (2012)--Ada Aramu HFI (2015)-Luigi Bruno Dal anto HFI (2015)--Mary Costello (1959)--John Costello (1968)--Doris L. Kennedy (1985)--Vincent Scheer (2004)

February 9, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, February 9

ORDINARY WEEKDAY
1 Kgs 8: 22-30
Ps 84: 3-11
Mk 7:1-13

That which is bad, it's evil to think about it, imagine it, remember it, love it an desire it (BM, p. 254).

FROM FATHER TOM:  It's evil deliberately to do these things, but if we do all in our power to resist them, then that resistance makes something evil meritorious.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr. Alfredo Manera SSP (1941)--Angela Urbani HFI (1986)--Bro Domingos Lazzari SSP (2001)--Lelio Toschi, Gabrelite (2001)--Helen Vincent HFI (2010)--Bro Francisco Javier Martinez de Antonana SSP (2011)--Fr. Calogero Stanislao Fabio SSP (2012)--Sr. Franca Carminati FSP (2013)--Sr. M. Augustina cerri PD (2015)--John David Palmer (1971)--Loretta Herron (1993)

February 8, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, February 8

ST JEROME EMILIANI, PRIEST
ST JOSEPHINE BAKHITA, VIRGIN
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
1 Kgs 8: 1-13
Ps 132: 6-10
Mk 6: 53-56

Experience the great pain, make atonement and pray so as to combat the bad press with the good press; and likewise film with film, radio with radio, television with television, and so on (UPS, IV, 196)

FROM FATHER TOM:  Or, as I have often said, reduce our viewing to the news about which we pray when it is especially disheartening.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Ch. Angelo Battaglia SSP (1951)--Fr. M. Calogero Cascio IJP (1984)--Fr. Lino Ruzzante SSP (1991)--Bro Martino Zacconi SSP (1995)--Sr. M. Cielo Porcella FSP (1996)--Fr. Giuseppe Ferrari IJP (1996)--Sr.Silvestra Coradu FSP (1997)--Sr. M. Gemma Fratipietro FSP (1999)--Sr. Elisa M. Izzo FSP (2001)--Bro Silvio Dante SSP (2009)--Sr. :Paquita Lackar FSP (2009)--William Beattie HFI (2011)--Nancy Deren IAM (2011)--Alicia Servin HFI (2012)

February 7, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, February 7

FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH-
THE DIVINE MASTER, WAY, TRUTH AND LIFE
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Is 6: 1-8

Ps 138: 1-8
1 Cor 15: 1-11
Lk 5: 1-11

There are so many things that we do not understand except before the Tabernacle; if we meditate, if we pray, the light of God shines in our souls (RSP, p. 312).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Is this easy? For some, perhaps, but for the average Pauline, rushing to get ten things done at once, it is not easy to get these good results.  Lord have mercy on us!

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr. Angelo Zappalorto SSP (1983)--Fr. Ansaloni IJP (1987)--Sr. Bruna De Stefani FSP (1990)--Sr. Giovanna Pettinati FSP (1998)--Sr. Enrica Orsini FSP (1999)--Sr. M. Julianna Castelino PD (2004)--Maria de Jeus Salas HFI (2013)

February 6, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, February 6

FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH-
MARY, QUEEN OF THE APOSTLES
ST PAUL MIKI, MARTYR, AND 
COMPANIONS, MARTYRS
1 Kgs 3: 4-13

Ps 119: 9-14
Mk 6: 30-34

The time of Spiritual Exercises is for recollection: it is the time in which one isolates himself to find himself to find himself alone with God, to talk to Him about one's own life; about the journey one has made and about what is still wanting in one's sanctification (FSP 58, p. 436).

FROM FATHER TOM:  The Triduum is not exactly Spiritual Exercises--rather a time to meet old friends. But that, too, can be a blessing--the Lord reaches out to us in many different ways.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Nazarena Bonfarnuzzo PD (1985)--Fr. Dino Masini IJP (1995)--Bro. Rosarius Thuruthiparayil SSP (2003)--Fr. Andres Arboleda SSP (2005)--Sr. Pierpaola Taccaliti FSP (2007)--Fr. Giordano Pasutto SSP (2009)---Bro Joa da Cruz Acacio Paulino Pinto SSP (2011)--Sr. Ursula Anthony Marthi FSP (2011)--Fr. Mario Mancini SSP (2013)-Fr. Robert Flynn (2001)

February 5, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, February 5

FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH-
SACRED HEART OF JESUS
ST AGATHA, VIRGIN
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Sir 47: 2-22
Ps 18:31, 47-51 
Mk 6: 14-29

I am convinced ever more that the most important thing is to love the Lord and do His will; that we must increase our faith an confidence in God because without Him we cannot do anything; that we must often think of Paradise (Ven. Thecla Merlo, Vi porto nel cuore, p. 197)

FROM FATHER TOM:  And don't we all agree with this? But how, then are we accustomed first to try everything we know at the human level and then...well, let's pray about it?

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Catrina Rosso PD (1943)--Ven Sr. Tecla Merlo, FSP, first Mother General of the Daughters (1964)--S.r M. Colomba Bovicelli FSP (1991)--Fr. Salvatore Bella IJP (1993)--Bro. Jose M. Lopez SSP (1998)--Fr. Guglielmo Badenchini SSP (1998)--Bro Maggiorino Caldellara SSP (2001)--Sr. M. Angelica Baldi FSP (2006)--Sr. M. Nazarena Huerta Juarez FSP (2007)--Sr. Veritas Iolanda Ferro SGBP (2008)--Francesca Bertola HFI (2009)--Bro Lucinio Lopez Lucio SSP (2015) 

February 4, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, February 4

FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH-
THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

1 Kgs 2: 1-4, 10-12
(Ps) 1 Chr 29: 10-12
Mk 6: 7-13

There are so many things we do not understand except before the Tabernacle. If we meditate, if we pray, the light of God shines in our souls (RSP 312)

FROM FATHER TOM:  Of course the actual insight may not come when we are kneeling in prayer, but come it will at the right time.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr. Giuseppe Vessia IJP (2003)--Susan Berlo (1973)--Norman Rahy (1990)

February 3, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, February 3

FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH-
ST JOSEPH
ST BLAISE, BISHOP, MARTYR
ST ANSGAR, BISHOP
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

2 Sm 24: 2, 9-17
Ps 32: 1-7
Mk 6: 1-6

If you are with Jesus, you cannot be sad. God is joy (Alla sorgente).

FROM FATHER TOM:  Meaning that, no matter how you are physically, you have a deep certainty that you are walking the right road with the right Guide.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Ch. Agostino Zappalorto SSP (1933)--Fr. Agostino Ghino SSP (1960)-- Sr. Gilma M. Alvarado FSP (1982)--Mons. Umberto Altomare IJP (1986)--Fr. Francesco Bruno IJP (1991)--Virginia Boi HFI (1993)--Carmela M. Calzarano IAM (1995)--Lidia Satta HFI (2005)--Antonietta Pittalis IAM (2009)--Bro Francisco Majorino Pedroso da Silva SSP (2013)--Richard (Ricky) Paplow (1980)--Evelyn Banahan (1990)

February 2, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, February 2

FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH-
THE SOULS IN PURGATORY
PRESENTATION OF THE LORD

Mal 3: 1-4
Ps 24: 7-10
Heb 2: 14-18
Lk 2: 22-40

The man in whom his conscience speaks is happy; the person who no longer hers its voice (BM 94).

FROM FATHER TOM:  And how easy it is to acquire this special deafness! Especially being deaf to the requirements of the STATUTE. When did you last read it?

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr. Stanislao Evangelista SSP (1972)--Fr. Vito Minerva IJP (1978)--Fr. Luis Bohorquiez SSP (1991)--Fr. Gino Pizzeghello SSP (1992)--Sr. M. Immacolata Aiello FSP (1996)--Anna Priore IAM (1998)--Mons. Carlo Urru IJP (2002)--Sr. Natalina Pillolla FSP (2010)--Metella Petri IAM (2015)--Rose Valdes (1943)--Nathaniel Riddick (2004)--Jennie Klucher (2011)