January 1, 2019 With Blessed Father Alberione

TUESDAY January 1, 2019

MARY, MOTHER OF GOD SOLEMNITY,

HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH—THE SOULS

IN PURGATORY

Num 6: 22-27

Ps 67: 2-3, 5-6, 8 (2a)

Gal 4: 4-7

Lk 2: 16-21

 

MONTHLY INTENTION: Lord, I offer you, in union with the priests who today celebrate the Holy Mss, Jesus-Host and myself: that all may follow only Him whom You, Father, in the immensity of your love, have sent into the world, proclaiming: “This is my beloved son, listen to Him” (Preghiere, p 40).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr Pierina Giovannini FSP (1972)—Fr Francesco Gatto IJP (1995)—Sr Diomira Sossi FSP (1999)—Fr Ugo Gentile IJP (2000)—Fr Frabcesci Ventura IJP (2000)—Sr GErardina Cunó FSP (2002)—Bro Celestino La Perna SSP (2003)—Fr Mario Zappa SSP (2010)—Sr M Gualberta Gazzera PD (2013)—Annie Inez Palmer (1983)

Welcome 2019!

To Jesus Through Mary

Divine Heart of Jesus,

I offer Thee, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Mother of the Church,

In union with the Eucharistic sacrifice:

My prayers, actions, joys,

And sufferings of this day,

In reparation for sins and for the

Salvation of all men and women,

According to the special

Intentions of the Superior

General, in the grace of the Holy

Spirit, for the glory of the

Heavenly Father. Amen

December 21, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

MONDAY DECEMBER 31, 2018

CHRISTMAS WEEKDAY—

ST SYLVESTOR I, POPE

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

1 Jn 2: 18-21

Ps 96: 1-2, 11-13

Jn 3: 1-18

 

You have passed a year full of grace, truth, merits, activities, progress. One year of Truth. All the teaching that has been given, is here: the Truth…The teaching that has descended directly into our hearts from the inner light of the Holy Spirit into our activities: the year full of Truth! (AAP58, 399)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr M Agostina Messa PD (1972)—Sr M Ignazia Biello PD (1988)—Fr Giacomo Perrinjo IJP (1990)—Fr Giuseppe Di Matteo IJP (1995)—Fr Giuseppe Quarta IJP (1997)—Sr Giovanna Coccato SGBP (2006)—Sr M Domenica Ssan Martino FSP (2007)—Sr Alfonsa Rittá FSP (2007)—Sr M Giuseppina Pratillo PD (2007)—Sr M Immacolatina Zuncheddu FSP (2014)—Sr M Hieronima Chmielewska PD (2015)

December 30, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

SUNDAY DECEMBER 30, 2018

THE HOLY FAMILY FEAST

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

1 Sm 1: 20-22, 24-28 OR

Sir 3: 2-6, 12-14

Ps 84: 2-3, 5-6, 9-10

Jn 3: 1-2, 21-24 OR

Col 3: 12-21

Lk 2: 41-52

 

Mary was the first worshipper: she had taken the Child, wrapped Him in poor clothes, put Him upon a little hay in the Crib (AP 1958/1, p 204).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr Gustavo Montanari IJP (1987)—Sr M Caritas Escareno SSP (1991)—Fr Antonio Vertuccio IJP (1994)—Liberata Stara HFI (1994)—Fr Stanislao Cendron SSP (2002)—Fr Ermenegildo Dalla Cort SSP (2005)—Fr Primo Guatta IJP (2005)—Sr Mary Paul Ladensma PD (2006)—Rosalia Lo Polito IAM (2008)—Alberto Bernabé HFI (2012)—Fr Vicgtor Dolzani SSP (2016)

Feast of the Holy Family

Image received in an email from a friend and fellow HFI member. 

Happy Feast of the Holy Family.  May our families grow ever closer to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and to the wonderful example of family life that they set.  

We ask for their guidance and protection in the coming year, that we may follow the will of God in our lives and be blessed by Him in 2019 regardless of our circumstances, and that we may always give glory and honor to Him, as they did.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me at the hour of my death.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I die and rest in you.

I hope you all had a wonderful 2018 and pray that your 2019 will be filled with every blessing and good things.

December 29, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

SATURDAY DECEMBER 29, 2018

CHRISTMAS WEEKDAY

ST THOMAS BECKET, BISHOP, MARTYR

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

1 Jn 2: 3-11

Ps 96: 1-3, 5b-6

Lk 2: 22-35

 

Go through these days in the company of Mary; on Christmas night, you receive the Child from the hands of Mary. And then, everyday, continue to keep your good Christmas atmosphere at home (AAP58, 397).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr Maurilia Colangelo FSP (1946)—Fr Pietro Delcampo SSP (1989)—Sr Anselmina Cerri FSP (1994)—Sr Panacea Mocci FSP (1994) Sr Panacea Mocci FSP (1998)—Fabiola Brandi HFI (2006)—Sr M Cristina Goday FSP (2010)—Bro Vincent Puthukadan SSP (2012)—Fr Atanasio Taniguchi SSP (2013)—Sr Bernardetta Marcon FSP (2013)—Mary Williams (2004)

December 28, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

FRIDAY DECEMBER 28, 2018

HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYRS, FEAST

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

1 Jn 1: 1-5 – 2: 2

Ps 124: 2-5, 7b-8

Mt 2: 13-18

 

Let’s learn well in mind the teachings of the Crib. In it we find the Child who is dear, beautiful, lovable, and around whom there are angels.  We ask St. Francis of Assisi and St Alphonsus, who put their hearts into it; we ask St. Theresé of the Child Jesus who teaches us the science of spiritual childhood and her love for the heavenly Child (PRP 7, p 331).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Br Giuseppe Caravina SSP (1970)—Maria Balint HFI (1986)—Sr Cherubina Cordero FSP (1991)—Fr Luigi Zanoni SSP (1991)—Fr Luigi Zanoni SSP (1995)—Fr Remo Santi SSP (1996)—Sr Luigina Borrano FSP )2002)—Fr Giuseppe Amato IJP (2004)—Ramona AllenHFI (2008)—Sr Paola Zampini SGBP (2013)—Michael A Costello (1993)

December 27, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

THURSDAY DECEMBER 27, 2018

ST JOHN, APOSTLE, EVANGELIST, FEAST

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

1 Jn 1: 1-4

Ps 97: 1-2, 5-6, 11-12

Jn 20: 1a, 2-8

 

The contemplation of the mystery of Holy Christmas makes us simple and humble as the shepherds who did not float high-mindedness and pride, who did not honor and esteem themselves, but lived in simplicity and humility of heart (PrP 7, p. 329).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr Rosa Lubinu FSP (1945)—Fr Giovanni Castoldi SSP (1961)—Sr Tecla Tocchetto FSP (1965)—Sr Secondina Pellerino FSP (1984)—Adelia Tommasini HFI (1992)—Antonio Melotto HFI (1993)—Fr Alessandro Audino IJP (1995)—Fr Giuseppe Volpini IJP (1999)—Mercedes Miguel Pereyra HFI (2006)—Sr M Adele Carrara FSP (2011)

December 26, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 26, 2018

ST STEPHEN, FIRST MARTYR, FEAST

OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

Acts 6: 8-10, 7: 54-59

Ps 31: 3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17

Mt 10:17-22

 

Getting to think how Jesus expresses Himself in the Beatitudes, means to come to union of mind with Him, to have His same thoughts, to judge thinks as He judges, and to see them in God and in Him: “Christ lives in me”, in my mind (AP (1958/1, p 171).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Novice Angelo Rodriguez SSP (1951)—Sr Agnese Manera FSP (1982)—Bro Giovanni Manfredi SSP (1987)—Fr Pietro Occelli SSP (1994)—Sr M Cesira Ferrero PD (1996)—Fr Paolo Ruggeri SSP (2003)—Mario Vattovani HFI (2003)—Sr M Goretti Marianna PD (2004) Sr Lorenzina Pangrazi SGP (206)—Sr Giuliana De Santis FSP (2011)—Grazia Curto HFI (2011)—Bro Robert Santoro SSP (2012)—Lena Piampiano (1991)—Richard L Haas (2011)

December 25, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

TUESDAY DECEMBER 25, 2018

NATIVITY OF THE LORD, SOLEMNITY,

HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION

Is 52: 7-10

Ps 98: 1-6 (3c)

Heb 1: 1-6

Jn 1: 1-18

 

A happy, holy Christmas to you, full of good fruits and religious joy, that joy arising from intimacy with, and union with Jesus (AAP58, 397).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr Carla M Bovio FSP (1970)—Bro Elia Orsini SSP (1981)—Sr Angela De Rubertis FSP (1989)—Mario Zanini GABRIELITE (1990)—Fr Lucas Caravina SSP (1998)—Fr Vito Raimondo IJP (1999)—Fr Augustine Ampattukuzhy SSP (2005)—Sr M Fulgenzia Bellagamba PD (2011)

December 24, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

MONDAY DECEMBER 24, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY

2 Sm 7: 1-5, 8ab-12, 14a, 16

Ps 89: 2-5, 27, 29

Lk 1: 67-79

 

The thinking of the world is so different from Jesus Christ’s thinking, and to love Jesus Christ means to think like Him, in the first place (AP 1958/1, p 172)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr M Martina Albano PD (1986)—Sr Assunta Romeo SGBP (2001)—Fr Rocco Fortunato IJP (2001)—Pietro Celli HFI (2007)—Fr Aldo Cristofani IJP (2010)—Samuel and Ellenor Yambrik Skvarka (no year)

Holy Family Institute: Prayer AND Action

“It follows that membership of the Institute cannot be fulfilled by prayer alone. But, on the other hand, action without prayer becomes disordered, loved for its own sake and in the end largely useless: not prayer alone, therefore, but prayer and the exam of conscience to ensure that we are growing closer to God; not action alone which is very misleading, being frequently-and incorrectly-called ‘apostolate.’ Not so. Activity founded on prayer and on a sincere desire to improve spiritually through the exam of conscience is indeed apostolate. Activity devoid of these supports is simply…activity.”

~ Excerpt from Oct-Dec 2018 Concord

   Dynamic Fidelity to Our Consecration by Fr. Tom Fogarty

December 23, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

SUNDAY DECEMBER 23, 2018

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT (O EMMANUEL)

Micah 5: 1-4a

Ps 80: 2-3, 15-16, 18-19 (4)

Heb 10: 5-10

Lk 1: 39-45

 

The eight beatitudes indicate His secret thoughts and what Jesus thought of the things of the world; and the things we have to do in the world, in our lives, when we align our thoughts to His (AP 1958/1, p 152)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Novice Girolamo Iacovacci SSP (1934)—Sr M Rosa Gerlotto FSP (1936)—Novice Maria Mussi FSP (1940)—Sr M Alicia Hierro Ruiz FSP (1970)—Novice Salete Mattos PD (1988)—Sr Lucidia Cardona FSP (1991)—Sr M Lucinia Stella PD (2003)—Sr M Luisa Macellari PD (2004)-Emilia Luchetti HFI (2005)—Maira Salaris HFI (2007)—Sr M Zita Braida FSP (2011)—Sr M Nazerena Yamaguchi FSP (2013)—Sr M Livia Bovio FSP (2014)—Sr M Annina Romagnoli PD (2015) Sr Giuseppa La Barbera SGBP (2015)

December 22, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

SATURDAY DECEMBER 22, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY (O REX GENTIUM)

1 Sm 1: 24-28

1 Sm 2: 1-8abcd

Lk 1: 46-56

 

On the Sabbath before Christmas Mary brings us Jesus; on Holy Saturday, after being our coredemptrix, she prepares us for the glorification of her Son; on the Sabbath preceding Pentecost, she invokes the Holy Spirit on the Church and on all the Apostles (PRP 7 p. 332).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr M Ausilia Baggio PD (1951)—Sr M Gesualda Rocchi FSP (1969)—Sr Anna Mocci FSP (1987)—Fr Luigi Lenta SSP (1997)—Sr Rufina Facchiano FSP (2000)—Sr Paola Mannai SGBP (2001)—Sr Fausta Lorenzo FSP (2008)—Sr M Arcangela Hashiguchi PD (2009)—Sr Teresina Bonini FSP (2010)—Florencio Rodriguez Romero HFI (2010)—Michelina Della Sala SGBP (2016)

From Yesterday:  Sr M Bonaria De Sabbata FSP (1973)—Sr Irma Antinozzi FSP (1999)—Fr Angelo Dalmonte IJP (1999)—Fr Ezio Acciai IJP (2000)—Bro Jorge Chaparro SSP (2003)—Sr M Adelia Gasparini PD (2004)—Sr M Santina Pettinati FSP (2005)—Leni Perotto IAM (2009)—Sr Rina Ivana Prandi FSP (2010)—Fr Paul Maruthanakuzhyil SSP (2011)—Sr Inacia Frezzatti FSP (2011)—Olga Longaretti IAM (2013)—Mie Ducote (2001)

December 21, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

FRIDAY DECEMBER 21, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY (O ORIENS)

ST PETER CANISIUS, PRIEST, DOCTOR

Songs 2: 8-14 OR

Zeph 3: 4-18a

Ps 33: 2-3, 11-12, 20-21

Lk 1: 39-45

 

Mary brings us Jesus. This is all her vocation. She is the apostle who gives us the Apostle. In the first Christmas, Mary prepared a cradle of straw, and laid down her Jesus so delicately and surrounded Him with all tenderness and kindness PrP 7, p 332).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr M Ausilia Baggio PD (1951)—Sr M Gesualda Rocchi FSP (1969)—Sr Anna Mocci FSP (1987)—Fr Luigi Lenta SSP (1997)—Sr Rufina Facchiano FSP (2000)—Sr Paola Mannai SGBP (2001)—Sr Fausta Lorenzo FSP (2008)—Sr M Arcangela Hashiguchi PD (2009)—Sr Teresina Bonini FSP (2010)—Florencio Rodriguez Romero HFI (2010)—Michelina Della Sala SGBP (2016)

December 20, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY (O CLAVIS DAVID)

Is 7: 10-14

Ps 24: 1-4ab, 5-6

Lk 1: 26-38

 

Never like this night and these days have I seen so clearly the will of God. He wants a few but of good, energetic and resolute will.  If you understand the height of our mission! As you grow up you will feel more…(Diary, December 22, 1917)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr M Lucilla Di Bianca PD (1985)—Mario Ferrara HFI (1998)—Sr Angela Festari FSP (2000)—Sr M Fernanda De Angeli FSP (2016)—John Yuska (no year)

December 19, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY (O RADIX JESSE)

Jdgs 13: 2-7, 24-25a

Ps 71: 3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17

Lk 1: 5-25

 

Those who do not love young people cannot find the means and they neither know how to attract them. Only those who love often think of others, and thinking of others is often the secret of success (ATP 282).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr Giacinta Gomes FSP (1966)—Fr Carmine Salerni SSP (1981)—Sr Giuseppina Albesiano FSP (1983)—Fr Girolamo Casolari SSP (1990)—Fr Pascual Leviste SSP (2000)—Sr M Antonietta Mineo PD (2003)—Bro Salvatore Giuseppino Lanza SSP (2011)—Sr Angelina Barattin SGBP (2011)

December 18, 2918 With Blessed Father Alberione

TUESDAY DECEMBER 18, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY (O ADONAI)

Jer 23: 5-8

Ps 72: 1-2, 12-13, 18-19

Mt 1: 18-25

 

There are people who fall into the pit because they are always wateching others not fall into it (ACV, p. 35).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Novice Anselmina Conterno FSP (1939)—Sr M Angioletta Miyazaki PD (2006)—Fr Giuseppe Cinaglia SSP (2008)—Sr M Epifania Bassi FSP (2009)—Sr M Amalia Racelis FSP (2014)—Giacomo Pierpaoli HFI (2014)

MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018

ADVENT WEEKDAY (O SAPIENTIA)

Gen 49: 2, 8-10

Ps 72: 1-4ab, 7-8, 17

Mt 1: 1-17

 

“All I give, I offer, I consecrate”. All. The value of the offer is especially in this adjective: all, which means to love the Lord with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your strength, with all your will (AAP60, 634).

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr Matilde Gastaldi FSP (2000)—Giuseppina Miscali IAM (2005)—Demetrina Schirra IAM (2005)—Sr M Ottavia Tonet FSP (2011)—Fr Romano Carrieri IJP (2013)—Howard Nephew (1959)—Johnny Preston (1983)—John Banahan (no year).

O Come, Emmanuel...

From an email I received from our Friends at EWTN

As we get closer to Christmas, I hope you are able to make time for Eucharistic adoration and contemplation of our Savior’s imminent birth. Here are today’s readings:

First reading: Zephaniah 3:14–18a

Psalm: Isaiah 12:2–6

Second reading: Philippians 4:4–7

Gospel: Luke 3:10–18

Today is Gaudete Sunday – meaning “Rejoice”.  The theme in these verses: “The Lord your God is in your midst” (Zephaniah), “Great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah), “The Lord is near” (Philippians) is reason to rejoice indeed!

While God has always been close to His creation and His people, the thought that Emmanuel, “God with us”, would condescend to take on the human condition and literally live as one of us is reason for a great celebration at His birth!

Leading up to this joyful event, the last week of Advent brings the ancient O Antiphons to the Liturgy of the Hours, the universal prayer of the Church. Each day’s antiphon petitions Jesus to “come” to us.  Here they are for you to pray, contemplate and enjoy throughout this week:

December 17: O Wisdom of our God Most High, guiding creation with power and love: come to teach us the path of knowledge!

December 18:  O Leader of the House of Israel, giver of the Law to Moses on Sinai: come to rescue us with your mighty power!

December 19: O Root of Jesse’s stem, sign of God’s love for all his people: come to save us without delay!

December 20: O Key of David, opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom: come and free the prisoners of darkness!

December 21: O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law: come to save us, Lord our God!

December 22: O King of all nations and keystone of the Church: come and save man, whom you formed from the dust!

May God continue to bless you on your Advent journey,

Father Joseph Mary Wolfe, MFVA

EWTN Global Catholic Network

December 16, 2018 With Blessed Father Alberione

SUNDAY DECEMBER 16, 2018

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Zeph 3: 14-18

Isaiah 12: 2-6 (6a)

Philippians 4: 4-7

Lk 3: 10-18

 

Be animated, guided, imbued with the spirit of the Good Shepherd wherever you go. The Lord grants you these graces. Bring forth and glorify Jesus (PrP 8: p 178)

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Fr Luigi Iannelli IJP (1980)—Luisa Dotti IAM (1995)—Fr Giacomo Baricalla SSP (1996)—Fr Luigi Sbravati IJP (1996)—Sr Clementina Laudanno FSP (2003)—Sr M Teodolinda Longo PD (2005)—Fr Giovanni Piazza SSP (2006)—Anna Maria Orru HFI (2008)