May 1, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, May 1

FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH--SACRED HEART
OF JESUS 
ST JOSEPH THE WORKER
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 13: 26-33
Ps 2: 6-11
Jn 14: 1-6

MONTHLY INTENTION:

For social communications:"The Church recognizes that the instruments of social communications, if used well, offer great advantages to the human race, because they contribute efficaciously to elevate and enrich the spirit, as well as spread and consolidate the Kingdom of God" (Inter Mirifica, 2).

From Father Tom:  What a joy for our Founder to hear his life-long work approved not just by a Bishop or even the Holy Fahter, but by an ECUMENICAL COUNCIL!!

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Angela Losito HFI (1994)--Alfred Edlmair, Gabrielite (1998)--Fr. Pasquale Casillo SSP (2011)--Sr. M. Gabriella Munoz FSP (2008)--Sr Mauriia Sartorado FSP (2009)--Elizabeth Marie Beattie (2001)--Ella Friloux--JOhn Stevens (No years).

April 30, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Thursday, April 30

ST. PIUS V, POPE
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 13: 13-25
Ps 89: 2-3, 21-27
Jn 13: 16-20

When you are happy, it is easier for you to become a saint. Let not the heart of him who looks for God and loves Him ever be perturbed (ABD 1847, 237).

From Father Tom:  Unfortunately, very few of us are perturbed because we are not saints: our concern is more likely to be bills not paid, house repairs we want done, better relations with neighbors and many other concerns.

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Sr. M. Tecla Cutrini FSP (1960)--Fr. Ugo Antonucci IJP (1991)--Sr. M. Salvina Pipus FSP (2008)--Jesus Valdes (1987)--Emilio A. Mamaril (2009)

April 29, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, April 29

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA, VIRGIN, DOCTOR
OF THE CHURCH
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 12: 24-13: 5
Ps 67: 2-8
Jn 12: 44-50

Jesus looks at the heart and has compassion for our weaknesses. Generosity is greatly pleasing to Him, our efforts and our daily resolutions give Him comfort (BM p. 34).

From Father Tom:  And doubtless this means that many, if not all, of us are further on in the spiritual life than we take credit for. The Lord hides our major virtues from us as we struggle with some minor fault. May it always be so!

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Sr. M. Carmelina Chillur, FSP (1981)--Fr. Andrea Ferrereo SSP (1985)--Br. Dante Colaretti SSP (1965) Sr. Claudina Moccia FSP (2002)--Sr. Prassede Milan FSP (2000)--Sr. M. Agnese Gaibotti FSP (2002)--Giuseppe Ursini HFI (2006)--Sr. Redenta Commentucci FSP (2007)--Sr. Cecilia Cazzato FSP(2009)--Federico Lebani HFI (2010)--Jose Parangalan, Jr HFI (2012)

April 28, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Tuesday, April 28

ST. PETER CHANEL, PRIEST, MARTYR
ST. LOUIS MARIE DE MONTFORT, PRIEST
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 11: 19-26
Ps 87: 1-7
Jn 10: 22-30

The common life to which we ought to conform ourselves, is first of all piety, whether speaking of the practices of piety or of the manner and the spirit with which to accomplish them (SP Dec 1952).

From Father Tom:  We have, obviously, no "common life," but we have the "practices of piety and "the manner and the spirit with which to accomplish them." In general most of us do very well indeed on this point.

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Fr. Vincenzo Mancardi SSP (1973)--Sr. Marghaeria Boetti FSP (1979)--Fr. Luigi Ranieri SSP (1982)--Fr. Angelo Noto IJP (1988)--Fr. Sergio Costamagna SSP (1993)--Sr. Ester Inocenti FSP (2003)--Fr. Giovanni Turco SSP (2007)--Sr M. Agape Saccone PD (2008)--Fr. Ennio  Ori IJP (2007)--Amelia Aguirre IAM (2009)

April 27, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, April 27

EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 11: 1-18
Ps 42: 2-3, 43: 3-4
Jn 10: 1-10

We must note that in our House there is too much colorless devotions. Why is there so much difficulty in welcoming devotion to the Divine Master, to Mary Queen of Apostles, to St. Paul (FSP 54: 115-156)?

From Father Tom:  Today the Founder might well say: why is there so much difficulty in welcoming any devotion to anyone?

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Fr. Pancrazio Demarie SSP (2954)--Bro Salvatore Fabio SSP (1954)--Pietro Deplano HFI (1991)--Salvatore D' Aprile HFI (2005)--Sr. Angela Cavalli FSP (2009)--Luigi Cocci HFI (2011).

April 26, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, April 26

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER 
Acts 4: 8-12
Ps 118: 8-29
1 Jn 3: 1-2
Jn 10: 11-18

If you stir up in others devotion to Jesus, the Good Shepherd, it is easier to have vocations and easier to accomplish your parish apostolate well (Alle Suore di Gesu', Buon Pastore, 1959, 24).

From Father Tom:  Of course. But these days, the majority of people understanding what "Jesus, the Good Shepherd" might mean are well beyond teh likely possibility of a religious vocation--though never beyond the possibility of a call to the Institute.

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Cleric Stefano Bernardi SSP (1931)--Fr. Francesco Santacaterina SSP (1941)--Fr. Vincenzo Testi SSP (1978)--Sr. M. Paola Morbini FSP (1983)--Sr. Emerenziana Costa FSP (1993)--Sr. M. Cleofe Piscitello PD (1996)--Sr. M. Santina Ferreyra PD (1997)--Bro Giulio Dell-Arciprete SSP (2002)--Fr. Francesco Mirti SSP (2006)--Sr. M. Loreta Gioacchini FSP (2007)--Carley Zoldan (1994)

April 25, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, April 25

EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 11: 1-18
Ps 42: 2-3, 43: 3-4
Jn 10: 1-10

We must note that in our House there is too much colorless devotions. Why is there so much difficulty in welcoming devotion to the Divine Master, to Queen of Apostles, to St. Paul (FSP 54, 115-156)?

From Father Tom:  Today the Founder might well say: why is there so much difficulty in welcoming any devotion to anyone?

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Fr. Pancrazio Demarie SSP (1954)--Bro Salvatore Fabio SSP (1954)--Pietro Deplano HFI (1991)--Salvtore D'Aprile HFI (2005)--Sr. Angela Cavalli FSP (2005)--Luigi Cocci HFI (2011)

For Immediate Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information: AlberioneFilm@gmail.com

The Daughters of St. Paul announce the release of
Media Apostle: The Father James Alberione Story
A film about the priest who loved our media world

BOSTON, April 17, 2015 -- As a young man, James Alberione (1884–1971) was kicked out of the seminary—in part because of his misuse of media—but he turned himself around and went on to found a worldwide Catholic media empire and the Pauline Family: 10 religious congregations and institutes of bishops, priests, brothers, sisters, and laity in over 60 countries. Together these men and women were to be St. Paul living today, doing what St. Paul would do if he were alive:  using, in Fr. Alberione’s words, the "latest, most effective media to reach the greatest number of people with the Gospel." Now this priest’s incredible story is told in the 90-minute documentary Media Apostle: The Father James Alberione Story, available for purchase as a DVD or download/streaming from Pauline Books & Media, the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul.

Sr. Helena Burns, a Daughter of St. Paul who was the writer and director for the film, "fell in love" with Fr. Alberione when she was first discerning religious life. "Finally! I thought. A saint who really gets us modern people and isn't afraid of technology or the future! I feel so privileged to be telling his story."

Rob Kaczmark of Spirit Juice Studios, director of photography for the film, was thrilled to discover this media priest well known to Europe but less known to North America: "Alberione is truly a man of our time, and his example serves as a real inspiration for the work we do each and every day as a film studio."

The documentary was shot on location in northern Italy and in Rome, places familiar to Alberione, who began the Pauline Family in 1914. The 90-minute film (which is available also in a 50-minute format on the same DVD) focuses on the life, media work, and media spirituality of the man whom Pope John Paul II called “the first apostle of the New Evangelization.” “Fr. Alberione was a prophet for our times,” said Sr. Burns. “He intuited that the media would be tremendous gifts to use for evangelization. Today we are constantly wired, plugged-in, constantly communicating information, ideas, entertainment, inspiration—constantly socializing through the media. Where is God in all this? Doesn’t a profoundly media-oriented world need a profound media spirituality? Fr. Alberione had an answer, and a vision. That is what the documentary hopes to share.”

Media Apostle: The Father James Alberione Story is now available from Pauline Books and Media: www.pauline.org, 800-876-4463. To watch the trailer and learn more about this very contemporary saint: www.MediaApostle.com (DVD and streaming/download can also be purchased through this website).

April 24, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Friday, April 24

ST FIDELIS OF SIGMARINGEN, 
PRIEST, MARTYR
EASTER WEEKDAY
Acts 9: 1-20
Ps 117: 1-2
Jn 6: 52: 59

Sanctity is like a magnet that draws -- and draws especially the pure and innocent of heart (Abundantes of divitiae Gratiae duae, 340).

From Father Tom:  A good question in our time: which is less common; sanctity or people--presumably young--with a pure and innocent heart.

Please Pray for Our Deceased:  Bro Paolo Yamano SSP (1982)--Sr. M. Fiorella Portale PD (1990)--Fr. Pio Bertino SSP (1994)--Sr. Paula M. Somoes FSP (1999)--Sr. Modesta Cane FSP (2006)