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St. Francis Chapel
Lanteri’s
Corner
Spiritual thoughts
from
Ven. Bruno Lanteri,
Founder of the
Oblates
of the Virgin Mary.
Excuses Offered by the Sad (continued)
Many times, the disgust is disgust because we want to be
disgusted, like restive horses who jump backwards not
because there may be an occasion for fear, but because they
themselves create the fear.
The example of Jonah: “I am greatly afflicted. Lord, take my
soul for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord
says, “Let go of your anger. You will not see Ninevah
destroyed after 40 days as was predicted.” Jonah believed
that all of Ninevah might speak ill of him as one who
prophesied false things. Yet later, all of Ninevah thanked
him… . - From “On Spiritual Joy” by Fr. Pio Bruno Lanteri
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In this part of Jesus
of Nazareth, the
drama continues to
unfold. This part
concludes with
Jesus raising
Lazarus from the
dead, his entrance
into Jerusalem on
Palm Sunday, and
his dramatic
confrontation with
the scribes and
Pharisees. Stars
include Sir
Laurence Olivier
(pictured at left).
Stations of the Cross
Prayed every Friday during Lent
at 5:15 p.m.
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Oblates of the Virgin Mary
MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK
MASS INTENTIONS THAT DO NOT APPEAR HERE WERE SCHEDULED AFTER THIS BULLETIN WAS FINALIZED.
Sunday, March 1
8:00 AM
+Catherine
9:15 AM
+for Regina’s Father
10:30 AM
+Mrs. Adele Odorizzi
11:45 AM
+Carlos Pinto
1:15 PM
+Fernando Correa Posada
4:00 PM
+Jorge, Maravi, and Julia Bustios
5:30 PM
+Christine Boyd
12:35 PM
4:45 PM
Monday, March 2
8:00 AM
+Mahon Family
12:05 PM
+Ralph E. Wellings
12:35 PM
Naida Pabón
4:45 PM
Thanksgiving
Friday, March 6
8:00 AM
Marina Acero “birthday”
12:05 AM
Anita Crovo
12:35 AM
+Jose Luis Berrios
4:45 PM
+Agnes Hart
Tuesday, March 3
8:00 AM
Ann Marie Sorriso
12:05 PM
Souls in Purgatory—sp. int.
12:35 PM
+Margaret Wellings
4:45 PM
Special Intention
Saturday, March 7
9:00 AM
+Gertrude and Justin Donovan
12:00 PM
Walter
4:00 PM
Bridget and James Riordan
5:30 PM
+Michael Greyes
7:00 PM
+Maria Margarite Rendón
Wednesday, March 4
8:00 AM
Hector Luis Casio
12:05 PM
Emmanuel Boursiquot (for help)
+Ernest Secchini
+Patricia Ruiz
Thursday, March 5
8:00 AM
+Grace and Anthony Piraino
12:05 AM
+Edward T. Coughlin
12:35 PM
Richard and Walter Horsley
4:45 PM
+Mary Hogan
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St. Francis Chapel
Prudential Center, Boston
Do you want to live the best Lent of your entire life? If so, then go to Mary
St. Louis de Montfort once asked, “When
will the Church be renewed?” He responded,
“When the Church breathes Mary as the body
breathes air.”
That gives us much to reflect on as we begin
this yearly time of renewal, the Season of Lent. If
we want to convert deeply and to become
authentically holy, then we too must go to Mary.
There can be no conversion and no growth in
holiness without grace, and God has freely chosen to
give us all graces through Mary. Thus in order to
find grace, we must go to Mary – more and more
and more. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta deeply
believed this as well, and thus complete entrustment
to Mary was at the very heart of her life. Mother
Teresa told her Sisters, “The more we abandon
ourselves to her totally and without reserve, the
greater will be the number of great saints in our
Society – for nothing is impossible for those whose
Mother she is.” Fr. Joseph Langford, the founder of
the priestly branch of Mother Teresa’s Society,
wrote that many people have tried to imitate Mother
Teresa in her prayer and her love for the poor, but
“they do not share in the depth of her relationship
with Jesus crucified,” because “they don’t have her
relationship with Our Lady.”
If we want deep union with Jesus then let us
entrust all that we are and have without reserve to
Our Lady. To be able to invite her into our life and
to entrust everything to her was Jesus’ gift to us
from the cross. (cf. John 19:25-27) Our Lady will
take everything with all of its imperfections and
stains. She will purify our offering. She will
embellish it with her graces and merits. She will
then offer it to her Son. As a result our lives will
give to God the greatest possible glory. She will use
all the value of our good actions and dispose of them
as she sees fit, and thus our lives will also enrich the
Church in the greatest possible manner. Let’s
surrender everything to her so that our lives are no
longer ours, but totally and without reserve hers. Let’s
seek to be led only by her. Mother Teresa was often
seen with a rosary in her hand even when she was not
praying it. When asked why, she stated that she
wanted to be constantly led by Our Lady, as if by the
hand. What can we do so that this becomes ever more
true in our lives? I list here a few things.
1. Pray. When Our Lady comes from heaven
she is always inviting us to pray. There is a certain
urgency in her words. At Fatima she said, “Pray, pray
much.” Her words were accompanied by a powerful
and penetrating grace that led the three children to
spend hours daily in prayer, a prayer that profoundly
transformed them, and we can be sure that it had a
deep, beneficial influence upon the world as well. A
beautiful practice is to wake up a bit earlier in the
morning, and to begin our day by entrusting ourselves
to her. Let’s pray the rosary, being open to listening
to her while meditating upon her and the mysteries of
her Son’s life. Let’s reflect on the Gospel of the day,
listening attentively, like her, to her Son. If you are
already doing this, then ask Our Lady to take you even
deeper. Her desire is to lead us to daily Mass, daily
Communion, Eucharistic adoration, and an ever
deeper spirit of prayer in the midst of our daily
activities.
2. Conversion and penance. Through prayer
Our Lady and the Holy Spirit are able to speak to our
hearts and we are able to perceive their guidance. This
guidance, always given in peace, is a hope-filled
invitation to conversion. This conversion is
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Intentions of Pope Benedict XVI for the Month of March
General: That the role of women may be more appreciated and used to good
advantage in every country in the world.
Mission: That in the light of the letter addressed to them by Pope Benedict XVI, the
Bishops, priests, consecrated persons, and lay faithful of the Catholic Church in the
Popular Republic of China may commit themselves to being the sign and instrument of
unity, communion and peace.
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Oblates of the Virgin Mary
¿Desea vivir la mejor Cuaresma de toda su vida? Si es así, entonces vaya a María
San Louis de Montfort una vez ha
preguntado, “¿Cuándo será renovada la Iglesia?” El
respondió, “Cuando la Iglesia respire a María como
el cuerpo respira el aire”.
Esto nos da mucho en que reflexionar
mientras comenzamos este tiempo anual de
renovación, el tiempo de Cuaresma. Si deseamos
convertirnos profundamente, y deseamos hacernos
auténticamente santos, entonces debemos nosotros
también, ir a María. No podría haber una conversión
y un crecimiento en la santidad sin la gracia. Y Dios
ha escogido libremente dar todas sus gracias a través
de María. Así es que a fin de encontrar la gracia,
debemos ir a María más y más y más. Beata Madre
Teresa de Calcuta también creía en esto
profundamente, y así es que en el corazón mismo de
su vida había una completa confianza en María.
Madre Teresa dijo a sus hermanas: “Lo más que nos
abandonamos totalmente nosotros mismos a Ella y
sin reservas, mayor será el número de grandes santos
en nuestra sociedad, ya que para aquellos cuya
Madre ella es nada es imposible”.¹ Padre Joseph
Langford, el fundador de la rama de sacerdotes de la
Sociedad de Madre Teresa, ha escrito que muchas
personas han tratado de imitar a Madre Teresa en su
oración y su amor por los pobres, pero “ellos no
comparten la profundidad de su relación con
Jesucristo crucificado”, porque “ellos no tienen la
relación de ella con Nuestra Senora”.²
Si verdaderamente deseamos una unión
profunda con Jesús, entonces debemos confiar todo
lo que somos y tenemos sin reserva a Nuestra
Señora. El ser capaz de invitarla a nuestra vida y
entregar todo a ella fue el regalo de Jesús a nosotros
desde la cruz (cf. Juan 19; 25-27). Nuestra Señora
tomará todo, con todas sus manchas e
imperfecciones, ella con sus gracias y méritos,
purificará nuestra ofrenda. Ella la embellecerá. Se la
ofrecerá a su Hijo. Y como resultado, nuestras vidas
darán a Dios la más grande gloria posible. Ella usará
todo el valor de nuestras buenas acciones y
dispondrá de ellas de la manera que sabe más
conveniente, y así, nuestras vidas también
enriquecerán la Iglesia de la manera más grande
posible. Queremos entregarle todo a ella para que
nuestras vidas no sean más nuestras, pero totalmente
y sin reservas de ella. Busquemos ser guiados
solamente por ella. Madre Teresa era vista a menudo
con un rosario en su mano aun cuando ella no estaba
rezando. Cuando le preguntaban por qué, ella
declaró que deseaba ser guiada constantemente por
Nuestra Señora, como si de su mano. ¿Qué podemos
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“No hay nada más hermoso, que encontrar a Cristo
y comunicarlo a todos” ( Benedicto XVI)
GRUPO DE STUDIO BIBLICO
EN LENGUA ESPAÑOL
— para todos —
Capilla San Francisco
todos los jueves,
de 6:00 a 8:00 p.m.
P. Gregorio OMV
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St. Francis Chapel
Prudential Center, Boston
Do you want to live the best Lent of your entire life? If so, then go to Mary
(continued)
essentially interior repentance, which is a radical
turning away from all that is evil, and a loving
submission with all of our hearts to God. It is
accompanied by an unlimited trust in the infinite
mercy of God. We hope from Him not only the
forgiveness of our sins but an unimaginable holiness
of life. This interior repentance can be expressed in
many ways but divine revelation insists above all on
three: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. Fasting
expresses our conversion in relation to ourselves,
prayer in our relation to God, and almsgiving in our
relationship to others. This interior repentance
should lead us as well to the frequent practice of the
Sacrament of Penance.
The children of Fatima led by Our Lady
filled their lives with so many little sacrifices for the
salvation of others that the totality of their lives
became a holocaust to the merciful love of God.
Through this prayer and penance Our Lady
communicated to them a deep holiness of life.
When Jacinta is canonized she will be the youngest
non-martyr saint in the history of the Church. Our
Lady can do the same also for us.
3. Read about Our Lady. There are many
good works that can inspire us to have a deeper
confidence, love, and abandonment to Our Lady.
The following are some that many have found
particularly helpful: works by St. Luis de Montfort,
The Secret of the Rosary, The Secret of Mary, and
True Devotion to Mary; St. Maximilian Kolbe’s
Aim Higher; Marian Shrines of France; and Fatima
in Lucia’s Own Words.
This total entrustment of ourselves to Our
Lady gives her great joy because it gives her the
freedom to be able to act within our lives, to protect
us, guide us, and to use our lives for the salvation of
others. At the same time it is a source of
tremendous joy and hope for us. What a beautiful
thing, that our lives no longer be ours, but only hers.
What beautiful things she has in store for us. She
will bring us into deep intimacy with Jesus, who is
ever making “all things new.”
Let’s live the best Lent of our lives. Let’s go
to Mary.
Fr. Greg
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Oblates of the Virgin Mary
¿Desea vivir la mejor Cuaresma de toda su vida? Si es así, entonces vaya a María
(continued)
hacer para que esto se haga más verdadero? A
continuación nombro lo más importante.
1. Orar. Cuando Nuestra Señora viene del
cielo ella siempre nos invita a orar. Hay una cierta
urgencia en sus palabras. En Fátima ella dijo, “Oren,
oren mucho”. Sus palabras estaban acompañadas por
una gracia poderosa y penetrante que llevó a los tres
niños a pasar horas en oración diariamente, en
oración que los transformó profundamente, y
nosotros estamos seguros que esto tuvo una
profunda influencia benéfica también sobre el
mundo. Una hermosa práctica es el levantarse un
poquito más temprano por la mañana, y comenzar
nuestro día confiándonos a ella. Luego rezar el
rosario, abriéndonos a escucharla mientras
meditamos sobre ella y los misterios de la vida de su
Hijo. Vamos a reflexionar sobre el Evangelio del
día, escuchando, como ella, atentamente a su Hijo.
Si usted ya esta haciendo esto, entonces pídale a
Nuestra Señora que lo lleve aún más profundamente.
El deseo de ella es de guiarnos a la Misa diaria, a la
Comunión diaria, a la Adoración Eucarística y hasta
un cada vez más profundo espíritu de oración, en
medio de nuestras actividades cotidianas.
2. Conversión y penitencia. Nuestra Señora
y el Espíritu Santo pueden hablarnos a través de la
oración y nosotros somos capaces de percibir su
guía. Esta guía, siempre dada en paz, es una
invitación a la conversión llena de esperanza. Esta
conversión es esencialmente un arrepentimiento
interior, lo cual es un alejamiento radical de todo lo
que es malo, y una sumisión amorosa con todo
nuestro corazón a Dios. Y está acompañada por una
confianza ilimitada en la infinita misericordia de
Dios. Esperamos de Él no solamente el perdón de
nuestros pecados sino también una inimaginable
vida santa. Este arrepentimiento interior puede ser
expresado de muchas maneras pero la revelación
divina insiste sobre todo en estas tres: ayuno,
expresa la conversión en relación con nosotros
mismos, oración en relación con Dios, y caridad en
relación con los demás. Este arrepentimiento,
cuando es sincero, nos guía hacia la práctica de la
Confesión frecuente.
Los niños de Fátima conducidos por Nuestra
Señora llenaban su vida con pequeños sacrificios
para la salvación de otros en tal manera que la
totalidad de sus vidas se convirtió en un holocausto
para el amor misericordioso de Dios. Por esta oración
y penitencia, Nuestra Señora, les comunicaba una
profunda santidad de vida. Cuando Jacinta fue
canonizada, ella se convirtió en la más pequeña santa
no mártir en la historia de la Iglesia. Y nuestra Señora
puede hacer lo mismo por nosotros.
3. Leer sobre Nuestra Señora. Hay muchos
libros buenos que nos podrían inspirar a tener mas
confianza, amor y abandono a Nuestra Señora. Los
siguientes son algunos que yo he encontrado
particularmente provechosos: los trabajos de San
Louis de Montfort, El Secreto del Rosario, El Secreto
de María y La Verdadera Devoción a María; y Las
Memorias de la Hermana Lucia, y El Silencio de
María por Larrañaga.
Esta total entrega de nosotros mismos a
Nuestra Señora le da a Ella mucha alegría porque le da
la libertad de poder actuar en nuestras vidas, para
protegernos, guiarnos y usar nuestras vidas para la
salvación de otros. A la misma vez es una fuente de
gran alegría y esperanza para nosotros. Que cosa tan
hermosa que nuestras vidas ya no son nuestras, pero
solo de Ella. Que hermosas cosas tendrá Ella
reservadas para nosotros. Ella nos conducirá a una
intimidad profunda con Jesús, quien siempre esta
haciendo “nuevas todas las cosas”.
Vivamos la mejor Cuaresma de nuestras vidas.
Vamos a María.
Padre Gregorio
¹Joseph Langford, Madre Teresa: En la Sombra
de Nuestra Señora (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday
Visitor, 2007) pag.71
²Ibid., pag.48
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St. Francis Chapel
Prudential Center, Boston
Oblates of the Virgin Mary—USA
Fr. Bruno
Lanteri
(1759-1830)
The Founder of the
Oblates of the Virgin Mary.
Declared “Venerable” the first step to
Sainthood.
The Oblates of the Virgin Mary is an international religious
community of priests and brothers serving in Italy, France,
Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, the United States
and the Philippines. The Oblates are involved in retreat and
parish missions, spiritual direction, parish work, the mass
media, clergy formation, and the foreign missions.
The US Province of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary is
dedicated to St. Ignatius of Loyola, and includes
communities in Massachusetts, Illinois, Colorado,
California and the Philippines.
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Alton, IL
The OMV motto,
OMV FORMATION CENTER
Cebu City, Philippines
“MARIAM COGITA, MARIAM
INVOCA”
“THINK OF MARY, CALL ON
MARY”
is taken from a homily by St.
Bernard
on the Blessed Virgin .