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Daily Mass Reading Podcast For December 10, 2024

December 9, 2024 for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. Gospel Passage: Luke 1:48. Quoting from the Apostolic Constitution "Ineffabilis Deus" by Pope Pius IX dated December 8, 1854 in https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9ineff.htm and www.ewtn.com/catholicism/teachings/pius-ixs-ineffabilis-deus-defining-the-immaculate-conception-153 and from St. Josemaría Escrivá's "Christ Is Passing By" Point 143 in escriva.org/en/es-cristo-que-pasa/143 and "Friends of God" Point 293 in escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/293. References: "In Conversation with God" Volume 1 by Francis Fernandez Carvajal and "True Devotion to Mary" by St. Louis de Montfort in www.catholicwaypublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/True-Devotion-to-Mary-With-Preparation-Saint-Louis-de-Montfort-5x8-Paperback-PDF-Edition.pdf and "Nican Mopohua" on Our Lady of Guadalupe in web.archive.org/web/20071022042328/http://www.interlupe.com.mx/nican-e.html. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Inmaculada Concepción" (detail) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Wikimedia Commons).

Mary Immaculate. Live a Marian Life. (Rebroadcast, Novena to the Immaculate Conception, Day 9)

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Daily Mass Reading Podcast For January 18, 2025

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December 18, 2024. Gospel Passages: Matthew 3:1-6; John 1:23 (Isaiah 40:3); John 1:29. Also Psalm 2:7 and  Isaiah 12:3. Quoting from "Furrow" Point 145 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/surco/145 and "The Way" Point 504 in escriva.org/en/camino/504; from "The Restless Heart: Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness" Part One by Ronald Rolheiser; from "The Spiritual Desert Isn't Optional" by Joshua Witfield in churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-spiritual-desert-isnt-optional quoting from Apostolic Exhortation "Christus Vivit" Point 216 in by Pope Francis in www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20190325_christus-vivit.html and Encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" Point 21 by Pope John Paul II in www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist" by Massimo Stanzione in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Wikimedia Commons).

Contemplative Conversion

December 27, 2024. Gospel Passages: John 20:1-10; Matthew 20:20-23; Luke 9:51-56; John 13:23-25; Luke 2:19; John 19:26-27. Also 1 John 4:7-8 and 1 John 3:1. Quoting St. Josemaría Escrivá's "Friends of God" Point 228, "The Way" Point 884, and  "The Forge" Point 755 n escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/228 and escriva.org/en/camino/884 and escriva.org/en/forja/755. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Tomb on the Morning of the Resurrection" by Eugène Burnand (Wikimedia Commons).

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