November 1, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, November 1
SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS--HOLY DAY 
OF OBLIGATION
FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH--ST JOSEPH
Rv 7: 2-4, 9-14

Ps 24: 1-6
1 Jn 3: 1-3
Mt 5: 1-12a

                 

I will be posting something a little different until I receive my Thoughts from the Founder. 

Reflection: If I do not know how to dominate my character, how many failures will there be in my undertakings? How much interior pain? And how much rebellion of minds, of hearts, of deeds against the hardhearted? What does my past life tell me? How do I stand right now? Am I working to correct and form my character?

~ Daily Meditations: The Great Truths p.109

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: As you remember the souls of your relatives, families and friends, please pray for the deceased members of the Pauline Family in a special way today and during the entire month of November. Today is the Solemnity of All Saints and it heads up the month of November, the month of poor souls.

Eternal rest grant to the souls in Purgatory, O Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

October 31, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberoine

Tuesday, October 31
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Romans 8: 18-25

Psalms 126: 1-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6
Luke 13: 18-21
                    

Let us allow the Holy Spirit to operate in us. And, during the day, let us keep Him in our hearts, as if we were the many tabernacles that bring Jesus, the many tabernacles that contain and carry the Holy Spirit (APD57, 157).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Renato Magnani SSP (1962)--Sr M Addolorata Saracco FSP (1970)--Sr Bernarda Lagrutta FSP (1973)--Sr M Edvige Wronska PD (1984)--Sr Esterina Degni FSP (1994)--Fr Enzo Quaglia IJP (1999)--Fr Paolo Gilli SSP (2003)--Sr Lidia Minnig FSP (2006)--Giovanna Corigliano HFI (2006)--Natalina Fortini IAM (2008)--Bro Vittorio De Ligio SSP (2012)--Sr Anna Maria Principi PD (2013)--Anna I Logan HFI (2015)--Antonio Valdes (1950).

October 30, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, October 30
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Romans 8: 12-17

Psalms 68: 2 & 4, 6-7ab, 20-21
Luke 13: 10-17
                    

The ways of the Lord are so many, unpredictable many times on our part. We cannot predict all of them, but the Lord is good, the Lord thinks of us, the Lord takes care of us (AP 1960).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Eugenia Sanchez FSP (1994)--Rosa Esteves Martins IAM (1996)--Sr M Irene Kimura FSP (1997)--Sr M Rachel Sawal PD (2003)--Sr Maria Cevolani FSP (2004)--Maria Scarciofalo IAM (2005)--Maria Cossu IAM (2013)--Guillermina Leal Almodovar  (2016)

Prayers for the Suffering Souls...

Prayers for the Suffering Souls in November

One of Father Tom Fogarty’s many spiritual gifts to me as a member of the Holy Family Institute, and Pauline family, was the instilling of a great love and devotion for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.  Although I know they are blessed because they are assured their place in Heaven, it saddens me to think of them as suffering so much in reparation for debts not fully paid to the Divine Majesty.  I want very much to help them, family, friend, and even those I don’t know or count as friend—as I’m sure all of you do.  Normally I say the Heroic Act of Love (p. 142 of the Prayers of the Pauline Family) at least once a day, and the Eternal Rest prayer several times a day, in addition to the chaplet for the Holy Souls, the first Tuesday of each month (pp 138-142 of the Prayers of the Pauline Family). But wouldn’t it be nice to do more? November is almost upon us, and that gives me, and anyone else who might like to help the Holy Souls a chance to do just that.

What can we do?

1.      Say the Chaplet for the Holy Souls in Purgatory every day during the month of November

2.      Say a rosary each day for the Holy Souls (“The Rosary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory” by Susan Tassone is a good resource for this.)

3.      Read “Day by Day” for the Holy Souls in Purgatory 365 Reflections by Susan Tassone (This is divided days so you can do the reflections for November only if you wish.)

4.      Visit a cemetery and pray for the dead

5.      Have Masses said for the Holy Souls

6.      Pray the Novena for the Holy Souls (Yes, the time is finished for the actual Novena leading to All Souls day, but it can be prayed any time and is a lovely prayer.)

7.      Ask the poor souls to help you and your loved ones

8.      Offer up your sufferings, joys, works, and actions for their liberation

9.      Pray for the Holy Souls as your intention during your Visit or Adoration

These are just a few of the many ways in which we can honor and pray for the poor souls. Even doing one or two during the month of November (and hopefully beyond) will provide welcome relief and maybe hasten the release of one or more poor souls.  Please consider joining me during this month of November to render assistance to our loved ones, friends, relatives, acquaintances and those unknown or in most need in purgatory.  They will never forget our act of love and charity.

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

Resources mentioned:

1.      The Rosary of the Holy Souls in Purgatory: by Susan Tassone

2.      Day by Day for the Holy Souls, 365 Reflections: by Susan Tassone

3.      Feast of the Holy Souls Novena  (There are many. I have linked three.)

https://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/Purgatory.htm

or

http://www.lepantoinstitute.org/novena-for-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/

or

http://christorhniales.net/uploads/3/5/5/4/35544669/holy_souls_novena.pdf

4.      The Prayers of the Pauline Family

October 29, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, October 29
THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN 
ORDINARY TIME
Exodas 22: 20-26

Psalms 18: 2-4, 47, 51 (2)
1 Thes 1: 5c-10
Mt 22: 34-40
                    

Apostolate means to give Jesus, and Mary gave Him in a wonderful way that cannot be surpassed. She gave Him as a Son, as a Teacher of mankind, as the Redeemer (AP 1960, p. 86).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Giacomo Ricolfi SSP (1982)--Fr Pietro Mozzanica IJP (1988)--Sr Lucina Dal Pozzo SGBP (1989)-Sr M Rosa Capra FSP (2000)--Sr M Edita Martinez PD (2000)--Giovanna Curreri IAM (2005)--Augustine A Mennella (1978)

Who Deliver Me...

Who Will Deliver Me From This Mortal Body

The First Reading for today, October 27, 2017, always gives me hope.  (Romans 7: 18-25)

Brothers and sisters: I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do  it, but sin that dwells in me. So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand. For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

October 28, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, October 28
MEMORIAL OF THE VIRGIN MARY
STS SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES FEAST
Eph 2: 19-22

Ps 19: 2-3, 4-5
Lk 6: 12-16
                    

Let us acquire to have in us the thoughts, the intentions, the desires, the feelings of Jesus Christ, in order to live in Him and to give God the greatest glory possible (FSP 39, p 667).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Agostino Damonte SSP (1956)-Fr Aurelio Nosetti SSP (1983)--Franca Lattuca IAM (1994)--Bro Candido Turbiani SSP (1995)--Sr Clotilde Menno FSP (1997)--Sr Valentina Borsoi FSP (1998)--Fr Giuseppe Cricini SSP (2000)--Sr Clotilde Vedovello FSP (2007)--Bro Michael Pinto SSP (2013)--Mary Wersinger (2003)

October 27, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, October 27
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 7: 18-25
Ps 119: 66-93
Lk 12: 54-59
                    

Jesus forgave with such breadth and He forgives us every week, every day: let us forgive others as we want to be forgiven ourselves (AP 1959, p 126).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Samuella Pattaro FSP (1973)--Bro Salvatore Stagliano SSP (1981)--Sr Maurizia Mancosu PD (1982)--Fr Alberto Carboni IJP (1983)--Sr Marina Bianchi PD (1995)--Sr Valeria Iannella FSP (1997)--Bruno Trono HFI (2011)--Mary Gooding HFI (2011)--Mary Gooding HFI (2011)--Elizabeth Graff (2005)

October 26, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, October 26
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 6: 19-23
Ps 1: 1-6
Lk 12: 49-53
                    

We must let the integral Jesus live in souls. Jesus did not only proclaim doctrine, but He gave the example (way), indeed His entire life was a model of virtue so as to become our life on the cross (FSP35, p 286).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Arcangela Petrucci FSP (1943)--Sr M Alma Cortez FSP (1974)--Sr M Noemi Gatti FSP (1981)--Sr M Gemma Maselli PD (1999)--Sr M Ines Peretti FSP (2001)--Bro Clement Lachance SSP (2003)--Anthony Mumphrey HFI (2003)--Antonia Costenaro IAM (2006)--Sr Giuseppina Gragnolati FSP (2011).

October 25, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, October 25
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 6: 12-18
Ps 124: 1-8
Lk 12: 39-48
                    

Be humble towards each other, be caring for one another, have a heart that understands the sisters, a heart conformed to goodness; and in everything let there be perfect love, yes, in everything (AP 1959, p. 52)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Saveria Pistamiglio PD (1942)--Sr M. Chiara Virdis FSP (1956)--Fr Antonio Brossa SSP (1984)--Br Jesus Gamez SSP (1989)--Sr M. Fidelis Di Sciacca FSP (1999)--Fr jose Vitor SSP (2004)--Antonietta Falappi HFI (2007)--Sr Piergiovanna Dedola FSP (2008)--Bro Marcelino Punto SSP (2009)--Sr M Timotea Jovine FSP (2010)--Bro Mackson Pedro Bezerra De Souza SSP (2015)--Sr Anna Vicino FSP (2015)

October 24, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Tuesday, October 24
ANTHONY MARY CLARET, BISHOP,
RELIGIOUS FOUNDER
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 5: 12-21
Ps 40: 7-17
Lk 12: 35-38
                    

The word falling in love is, many times, so to say, wasted, or rather defiled, but the souls who are hopelessly in love with God are those who love God, souls who are genuinely in love with God (AP 1960, p. 192)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Assunta Aimo PD (1970)--Sr Teresinha Moraes FSP (1979)--Fr Virginio Manzi IJP (2007)--Fr Silvio Pignotti SSP (2009)

October 23, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, October 23
JOHN OF CAPISTRANO, PRIEST
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 4: 20-25
Lk 1: 69-75
Lk 12: 13-21
                    

By going deeper into a more intimate knowledge of ourselves, it will easily bring about progress, improvement in us, and therefore obtain the results that you want to achieve during these days of spiritual exercises (AP 1960, p. 146)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Genesia Bonadie FSP (1975)--Sr M Raffaella Tizzi FSP (1992)--Fr Paolo Careddu SSP (1997)--Sr Virginia Costa FSP (2004)--Fr Eudardo Barretta IJP (2006)--Sr M Innocenza Cellini FSP (2007)--Fr Ettore Lessa IJP (2010)--Fr Francesco Venneri IJP (2011)--Sr Myrlie Lozano FSP (2014)--Helen Beck (no year)

You Are an Example...

“We all have the duty of giving good example, of practicing justice, charity, prayer, and fraternal correction. 

                                  ~ Daily Meditations—The Great Truths, p. 88)

October 22, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, October 22
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN 
ORDINARY TIME

Is 45: 1-6
Ps 96: 1-10
1 Thes 1:-5
Mt 22: 15-21
                    

The world needs Jesus Christ Way, Truth and Life. Mary gives Him through the apostles and their apostolates. She raises them up, forms them, assists them and crowns them with good results and glory in heaven (AD, 182)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Clelia Calliano FSP (1918)--Sr M Nicodema spinelli PD (1972)--Bro Luigi Pasqualini SSP (1988)--Fr Antonio Fioritto IJP (1998)--Bro GiuseppePaolo Cirillo SSP (2008)--Sr M Angelica Merli PD (2011)--Mons Salvatore De Filippo IJP (2011)--Alan Spaniel (1999)--Ted Charles Endress (2009) 

On the Day of Judgment...

Food for Thought:

On the day of judgment I will find myself with those whom I have preferred, chosen, imitated and followed on earth. Who are my companions now? Who are the models I imitate? Do I follow the counsels of my guardian angel? Or the instigations of the devil? 

       ~ Daily Meditations—The Great Truths p. 86

October 21, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, October 21
MEMORIAL OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 4: 13-18
Ps 105: 6-8 and 42-43
Lk 12: 8-12
                    

When a Son or a Daughter of St. Paul is about to pass into eternity, it is good to make him or her feel that up there the Pauline life will continue. It is because life is not taken away, but it changes for the better (CISP, p. 259).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Maria Rosso PD (1995)--Sr Amedea Rizzo FSP (2001)--Sr M Tereza Vazzoler PD (2010)--Sr Bernadette De Castro FSP (2012)

October 20, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, October 20
ST PAUL OF THE CROSS
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Rom 4: 1-8
Ps 32: 1-11
Lk 12: 1-7
                    

If we truly love our neighbor as ourselves, we would want many others the good that we ourselves possess: the vocation (UPS I, 85).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Esperanza Magana PD (1974)--Sr M Dina Beveiacqua FSP (1987)--Sr M Tarcisia Pasolini FSP (1988)--Sr Giovanna Maria Roggero FSP (1992)--Fr Francesco Fomicola IJP (1994)--Sr Giovanna Rosa Cunico FSP (1995)--Sr M Redenta Gorlani PD (1995)--Ana Maria Martin HFI (2003)--Sr MargaritaBecerra FSP (2008)--Fr Francesco Campus SSP (2011)--Fr Agapito Aliende Palma SSP (2013)--Sr M Nazarena Lovato FSP (2013)--Aurora De Caro HFI (2013)--Sr M Fiorangela Goto PD (2014)--Patricia Cadenhead McNair (2007)

October 19, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, October 19
SS JOHN de BREBEUF AND 
ISAAC JOGUES AND
COMPANIONS, MARTYRS

Rom 3: 21-30
Ps 130: 1-6
Lk 11: 47-54
                    

Father Giaccardo was the Master who preceded everyone with example, taught everything, counseled everyone, built anything with his enlightened and ardent prayer (CISP, p. 395)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Gabriele Piazzo SSP (1983)--Maria Patera HFI (1998)--Sr M Gian Piera Piacentini FSP (2000)--Sr M. Alejandra Herrera Lopez FSP (2004)--Sr M Felciana Chiesa FSP (2006)--Anacleto Aguilera HFI (2010)--Luigia Locastello HFI (2010)--Lidia Tomassini HFI (2012)--Sr M Margaret Savarinathan FSP (2014)

October 18, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, October 18
ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST

2 Tim 4: 10-17
Ps 145: 10-18
Lk 10: 1-9
                    

Form an organization, but a religious one; where efforts would coalesce, dedication would be total and the doctrine purer (AD 24).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr  Virgelina Ceballos FSP (1997)--Fr Josephino Javellana SSP (2006)--Sr Giuseppina M. Balestra FSP (2015)

October 17, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Tuesday, October 17
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
ST IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH, BISHOP
AND MARTYR

Rom 1: 16-25
Ps 19: 2-5
Lk 11: 37-41
                    

Vocation is an active love for the Lord and for souls, highly charged, so to say. To ignite it is to prepare the ground; the Lord will allow the seed to sprout, if that is His will. (UPS I, 226).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr  Dirce Duarte Ortigoso FSP (1992)--Sr M Giulia Pattaro FSP (1995)--Pietro Tidei HFI (2003)--Sr M Alba Bertolin FSP (2008)--Sr M Lina Gasparotto PD (2013)--Florence Seifert (1999)--Fr Joe Small SJ (2004).

October 16, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, October 16
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
ST HEDWIG, RELIGIOUS
ST MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE, VIRGIN

rom 1: 1-7
Ps 98: 1-4
Lk 11: 29-32
                    

The universality of the apostolate of the editions requires, for one exercising it, the aspirations and special skills: to feel with Jesus Christ, with the Church and with St. Paul (AE, 33).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Celestina Cappa FSP (1978)--Sr Priscilla Daller Piatte FSP (1984)--Sr M Illuminata Uy FSP (1989)--Sr M Beniamina Sedita FSP (1997)--Sr M Teresina Doctor FSP (2002)--Sr M Rosa Pivetta FSP (2003)--Sr M Felcina Airano PD (2007)--Sr M Flaminia Montecchio PD (2008)--Fabrizio Vechi GABRIELITE (2009)--Fr Francesco Lamarca IJP (2010)

October 15, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, October 15
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN
ORDINARY TIME

Is 25: 6-10
Ps 23: 1-6
Phil 4: 12-20
Mt 22: 1-14

                                              

It is necessary to acquire a new heart, a new way of thinking and a new way of doing: yes, as religious...and the examples are there: Mary, Jesus, St. Paul (AP 1960, p. 98)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Deacon Pasquale Sterpone SSP (1943)--Sr Tarcisia Pillai FSP (1959)--Sr M Leontina Vincenti FSP (1967)--Bro Onesimo Valli SSP (1979)--Sr M Pancrazia Frisone PD (1992)--Bro Celestino Marchese SSP (2007)--Sr M Palma Sala FSP (2012)--Sr M Carla Ginocchio FSP (2014)Cassie Fortuna (2005).

October 14, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, October 14
Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
St Callistus I, Pope, Martyr

ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Joel 4: 12-21
Ps 97: 1-12
Lk 11: 27-28

                                              

Pass on what is good from one house to another, not what is evil. Be always reserved in judging things, especially on persons who are absent (CISP, p 279)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Sebastiano Trosso SSP (1952)--Fr Pietro Zugna SSP (1954)--Sr M Cherubina Crudale PD (1957)--Sr Milagros Banez FSP (1983)--Fr Giovanni Bartolomasi SSP (1986)--Bro Raymond Kraus SSP (1989)--BrunaCapriotti IAM (1989)--Sr M Federica Cozzo FSP (1993)--Mary Culotta HFI (2004)--Sr Anna Cestarollo FSP (2005)--Sr Angela M DiNiso FSP (2006)-Sr Maria Linda Repetto FSP (2013)--Andrew Primavera (1971)

October 13, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, October 13

ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Joel 1: 13-15 & 2: 1-2
Ps 9: 2-6
Lk 11: 15-26

                                              

Have a heart molded in the heart of Jesus Good Shepherd which was formed by the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask always that Mary form your heart: a heart that is all goodness, compassion, mercy (PrP, VIII, p 238).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Nazarena Costa FSP (1938)--Sr Adelaide Tarasconi FSP (1985)--Fr Agostino Monticone SSP (1989)--Fr Gabriele Colasanto SSP (1993)--Sr Gaetanina Modenese FSP (1999)--Sr Christine Driscoll FSP (2004)--Mary Jane Melodia HFI (2006)--Sr M Rita Guidi FSP (2012)

October 12, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, October 12

ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Mal 3: 13-20
Ps 1: 1-6
Lk 11: 5-13

                                              

Animate everything with the super-natural, see Jesus in the neighbor. Do good to the poor, the sinner, the ignorant, the wretched. "Whatever you do to the least of these you did it to Me" (PrP, VIII, p. 220).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Bro Alfonso Pavan SSP (1948)--Fr Dante Giovagnoli IJP (1977)--Sr Scolastica Flosco FSP (1987)--Sr M Mansuela Cracco PD (1990)--Sr Gasparina Sorrentini FSP (1991)--Fr Bernardo Bosio SSP (1992)--Sr M Eugenia Spiga FSP (1993)--Sr M Josephine Vas PD (1997)--Sr M Lourdes Morales PD (2001)--Sr M Laura Saraniti PD (2003)--Bro Umberto Moretti SSP (2006)--Giuseppe Ceccanti HFI (2008)--M Stella Talluto IAM (2010)--Sr Timotea Park FSP (2011)

October 11, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Wednesday, October 11

ST JOHN XXIII, POPE
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Jonah, 4: 1-11
Ps 86, 3-10
Lk 11: 1-4

                                              

God is love; and one who promotes the spirit of love and unity is from God and fulfills the works of God. The spirit of division is not of God (CISP, p 30)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Fr Salvatrore Occheti SSP (1931)--Fr Paolino Panunzi SSP (1960)--Sr Candida Lex FSP (1975)--Sr Gabriella Stellini SGBP (1989)--Sr M Marta Furukawa PD (2000)--Franco D'Eugenio HFI (2002)--Sr Annabianca D'Alberto FSP (2008)--Sr M Eusebia Marcazzan FSP (2015)--Sr Assunta M Becchis FSP (2015)--June Burrell Scheer (2000)

Tuesday, October 10

ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Jonah, 3: 1-10
Ps 130: 1-8
Lk 10: 38-42

                                              

The Eucharist is the fire that ignites the love of God and love for souls, love of neighbor (AP 1960, p. 97).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Giovanna Paola Leo FSP (1967)--Sr M Dolores Farci FSP (1988)--Sr Giacomina Cardenti SGBP (2000)--Sr M Melania Turino PD (2003)--Maria Piazza Scofdo IAM (2010)--Sr Francesca Miyata FSP (2015).

October 9, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, October 9

ST DENIS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS;
ST JOHN LEONARDI, PRIEST;
COLUMBUS DAY
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Jonah, 1: 1-11
Jonah 2: 3-8
Lk 10: 25-37

                                              

Jesus submitted Himself to obey Joseph, a simple and not a learned man, a man who had an ordinary job: a carpenter (FSP30. p 61).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr  Flavia Vignotto FSP (1982)--Sr Teresa Quaino FSP (1990)--Fr Alfonso Ferrero SSP (1996)--Fr Vincenzo De Carli SSP (2005)--Angelina Muner HFI (2010)--Gaetano Cerrito HFI (2013)--Maria Abbondanza Fabrizio HFI (2013)--Sr Mercedes Barriuso Perez FSP (2014)--Frank J Capuzello (1990).

October 8, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Sunday, October 8

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY 
IN ORDINARY TIME
Is 5: 1-7
Ps 80: 9-20
Phil 4: 6-9
Mt 21: 33-43

                                              

The Institutes of the Pauline Family have to live a common spirit with a color that specifies the particular, but the general principle is the same for all, namely: the spirituality revolves always in Jesus Master, Way, Truth and Life (SPD63, 164).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr  Attilia Trevisani FSP (1943)--Sr Tere-zinha Lopes SGBP (1995)--Domenico Nardis HFI (1998)--Fr Paolo Colonna IJP (2011)--Sr Antonietta Bottiglieri FSP (2012)-Arthur Mulligan (1999)

One Will Die As...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

“One will die as one has lived.”

REFLECTION:

“Do I take advantage of all the occasions which are presented to me in order to earn all the merits I can? Do I strive to be always in a state of fervor and good will?”

RESOLUTION:

“I want to assure myself of a devout, good and holy death. There is only one means of securing it: to live a devout, good and holy life.”

All quotes from: Daily Meditations: The Great Truths pp. 54-55

October 7, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Saturday, October 7

FIRST SATURDAY--MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
Bar 4: 5-29

Ps 69: 33-37
Lk 10: 17-24

                                              

Going abroad, bring the heart of the Catholic Church. Catholic means universal. Having an encompassing heart (APD57, 160).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr  M Luigia Boffa PD (1931)--Sr M Ida Vagli FSP (1991)--Domenica Strazzeri HFI (1992)--Sr M Augusta Arlorio PD (1997)--Mafalda Rossetto IAM (1999)--Fr Carlo Berloi IJP (2002)--Sr Susana Alvarez FSP(2006)--Vincenzo Arcione HFI (2008)--Bro Candido Bessegato SSP (2009)--Maria Arixi HFI (2009)--Maria Ernas HFI (2009).

October 6, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Friday, October 6

FIRST FRIDAY--THE SACRED HEART
ST BRUNO; PRIEST, HERMIT
BL ROSE DUROCHER, VIRGIN
Bar 1: 15-22

Ps 79: 1-9
Lk 10: 13-16

                                              

Our piety is first and foremost Eucharistic. Everything gushes forth from the Eucharistic Master as from a life--giving source (UPS II, 10). 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Gloris Boff SGBP (1988)--Fr Emanuele Fassino SSP (1989)--Sr M Pala Cufre PD (1990)--Sr Lucina Bianchini FSP (1993)--Fr Lorenzo Foletto SSP (1994)--Mons Antonio D'Erchia IJP (1997)--Sr Leonzia Spigarolo FSP (1998)--Fr Angelo Lauzzi iJP (1998)--Fr Pietro Romano IJP (2002)--M Giovanna Palazzo HFI (2002)--Sr Candida rivi FSP (2008)--Sr M Andreina Yokoyama FSP (2010)--Bro giovanni Andreatta SSP (2014)--Edward Drouhard (1971)--Bonnie Taylor (2007).

October 5, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Thursday, October 5

FIRST THURSDAY--GUARDIAN ANGELS
Neh 8: 1-12

Ps 19: 8-11
Lk 10: 1-12

                                              

The Pauline Family mirrors the Church in its members, in its activities, in its apostolate, in its mission (APD63, 163).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Vincenza GAsbarone FSP (1947)--Fr Francesco Peira SSP (1957)--Fr Dionigi Bertone SSP (1972)--Fr Felice Pisano IJP (1983)--Bro Marcello Bandinelli SSP (1986)--Alberto Rubini HFI (1992)--Fr Manuel Linterna SSP (1997)--Sr M Angela Nishida PD (2002)--Fr Giuseppe Riccobene IJP (2002)--Sr M Angela Monticelli FSP(2004)--Amalia Esther Avendano IAM (2005)--Sr Adelina Boccella FSP (2014)--Susan V Cereno (1995)

October 4, 2017 With Blessed James Alberione

Wednesday, October 4

FIRST WEDNESDAY--ST JOSEPH
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Neh 2: 1-8
Ps 137: 1-6
Lk 9: 57-62

                                              

Feel with the Congregation. Do not consider only one's own nation, office ideas and fixated only on one point of view and living in a kind of nest where one's thinking (APD57, 1940)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr Emilia Nicoli FSP (1947)--Sr M Ausilia Urgeghe FSP (1986)--Sr Maggiorina Fracaroli FSP (1990)--Fr Girolamo Ghiglione SSP (1992)--Sr Anna Antonioli FSP (1992)--Sr  Giannina Brunetti FSP (1996)--Fr Carmine Fais IJP (1997)--Sr M Gesuina Liguori FSP (2003)--Sr M Vittoria Aldegheri PD (2004)--Sr Anselmina Satta SGBP (2006)--Fr Antonio Piccolo IJP (2007)--Antonio Iovine HFI (2011)--Charles Dulleck HFI (2014)

October 3, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Tuesday, October 3

FIRST TUESDAY--THE SOULS IN PURGATORY
ORDINARY WEEKDAY

Zec 8: 20-23
Ps 88: 1-7
Lk 9: 51-56

                                              

A scene that is sometimes painful: generous confreres who are overloaded with work; others, instead, act like bystanders who comment, pass judgement, highlight defects (UPS I, 289).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Pia Dogliani PD (1983)--Sr M Angela Parnoff FSP(1988)--Fr Andrzej Garbulewski IJP (1994)--Sr Erminia Jovine FSP (1996)--Fr Giovanni Ferrero SSP (2001)--Giuseppe  Frumento  GABRIELITE (2005)--Sr M Emilia Tenaglia FSP (2015)--Daniel J Hickey (1997)--Orro W Baack (2004)

October 2, 2017 With Blessed Father Alberione

Monday, October 2

FEAST DAY OF THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
FIRST MONDAY--St Paul the Apostle

Zec 8: 1-8
Ps 102: 16-23
Mt 18: 1-5; 10

                                              

Love also unites us, as we often say and we should also write in our houses <<Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor>>Let there be unity among all persons who tend to the same ideal (PrP, VIII, p. 190).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED: Sr M Innocenza Maio PD (2002)--Sr M. Clemens Sanfilippo PD (2003)--Maria da Conciecao da Silva IAM (2005)--Fr Francesco Simone IJP (2006)--Sr Lucia Badenchini FSP (2009)--Sr M Giuditta De Carolis FSP (2013)--Fr Alfonso Esposito IJP (2014)