- August 17, 2012
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Porn and Nude Art: What’s the Difference?
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Catholic Answers speaker and apologist Matt Fradd explains to a caller the difference between pornography and nude art.
Matt Fradd is Australian by birth and Catholic by choice. After experiencing a profound conversion at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, Matt committed himself to inviting others to know Jesus Christ and the Church He founded. As a missionary in Canada and Ireland, Matt proclaimed the Gospel to over ten thousand teens and young adults. Matt has also served the Church through full-time lay ministry in Australia, Ireland, Canada, and Texas.
Matt has been seen or heard on the BBC, EWTN, The Irish Morning Show, and Catholic Answers Live, where he has shared his personal story of sin, redemption, and healing to people all over the world.
Recently, Matt, his fearless Texan wife, and their three beautiful children (Liam, Avila, and baby on the way) moved to sunny San Diego where Matt now works as an Apologist and Speaker with Catholic Answers. Matt best demonstrates his infectious passion for the faith when he speaks about the many wounds that pornography inflicts, the healing that Christ offers in the Sacraments, and the freedom that the Church proposes in Her teachings on the virtue of chastity.
- August 9, 2012
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Aug 08 – Homily: St. John Vianney, Patron and Model of All Priests
Fr. Ignatius identifies three traits of St. John Vianney from the collect of today’s Mass that should be characteristic of all priests.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. John Mary Vianney, Confessor – 3rd Cl – Form: EF, Os Iusti
Readings:
1st: sir 31:8-11
Gsp: luk 12:35-40
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- April 24, 2012
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Litany of the Saints, Litania Sanctorum – Catholic Devotional Prayer
This is a somewhat abridged/alternative version of the most famous litany of the Church, the Litany of the Saints. While creating the video I have not included lyrics, as it is quite easy to understand what is being chanted and uses simple and oft repeated words which even a beginner can follow. Instead, I have included several art works, that depict the Saints. The great men and women of God, who have lived and died in His grace, are always there to intercede for us and to be our loving role models. Not only those mentioned by name in this version, or in other versions of the prayer, but all the Saints of God, please pray for us!
- June 30, 2011
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A Message from Leah Darrow – Fashion + Modesty
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The Real Beauty Is Truth
For every Marilyn Monroe, there’s a Mary Magdalene; for every Joan Jett, there’s a Joan of Arc; and for every Lady Gaga, there’s Our Lady, Eternal Queen of Heaven.
Fortunately for young women today, another sort of model took these great models of womanhood—the saints in heaven—to heart.
In her new DVD, From Top Model to Role Model, fashion model and Catholic “revert” Leah Darrow offers her own story of sin and redemption as a case study in how damaging the current culture can be to women.
In From Top Model to Role Model, Leah takes you behind the scenes of the high-pressure world of high fashion.
Launching her career as a cast member of the TV reality show America’s Next Top Model, Leah plunged headfirst into the modeling business.
Today, recovering from the ordeal and having returned to the Catholic Church of her childhood, Leah speaks to young people, in particular young women, about the importance of maintaining their dignity and their relationship with God.
Using humor and heartfelt stories from her own life, Leah shares with young people the facts about:
* the false promises of Hollywood, high fashion, and celebrity culture,
* how modesty, purity, and true love are connected,
* why it’s important to define your worth not by the world’s standards, but by God’s,
* the role that parents play as (sometimes) secret allies,
* how a person’s outward image reflects the interior state, and how prayer affects both,
* why offering virginity outside of marriage as a sign of “true” love is a mistake,
* why celebrating womanhood through fashion makes no sense, and why immodesty cheapens womanhood.
From America’s Next Top Model to Catholic speaker, Leah Darrow’s journey in faith has been a battle at times. Even in the years prior to her reality-TV fame, her Catholic faith took a backseat role. That all changed during one special photo shoot in which God allowed her to see her soul in its current state. This extraordinary and supernatural grace gave her the courage to change every aspect of her life: her friends, her beliefs, her clothes, and her opinion of the world and herself.
- February 25, 2011
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Salve Mater Misericordiae – Catholic Songs of Praise
An excellent 11th century Marian hymn. This version is from the CD ‘sublime chant’. The Latin lyrics and English translation:
Salve Mater misericordiae, Mater Dei et Mater veniae, Mater spei et Mater gratiae, Mater plena Sanctae Letitiae,
O Maria!
Salve decus humani generis. Salve Virgo dignior ceteris, quae virgines omnes transgrederis et altius sedes in superis. O Maria!
Salve Mater…
Salve felix Virgo puerpera: Nam qui sedet in Patris dextera, Caelum regens, terram et aethera, Intra tua se clasit viscera. O Maria!
Salve Mater…
Esto, Mater, nostrum solatium: Nostrum esto, tu Virgo, guadium, et nos tandem post hoc exsilium, Laetos juge choris caelestium. O Maria!
Salve Mater…
Hail mother of mercy, mother of God and mother of pardon, mother of hope and mother of grace, mother full of holy gladness. O Mary!
Hail, honor of the mankind. Hail worthier Virgin than the other ones because you overcome all of them and in the heaven you occupy the highest seat of honor. O Mary!
Hail mother…
Hail Blest Virgin yet bearing child: For he who sits at the Father’s right hand. The ruler of heaven, of earth and sky, has sheltered Himself in your womb. O Mary!
Hail mother…
Become, O mother, our solace: Be for us our source of joy, and at the last, after this exile, unite us rejoicing to the choir of angels. O Mary!
Hail mother…
- January 9, 2011
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Catholic Hymns, Gregorian Chant – O Sanctissima
This Marian hymn is from around the 18th century. This particular version, by the Cathedral Singers of Richard Proulx, is highly abridged of the original. The three beautiful paintings are ‘The Annunciation’ (Francesco de Mura), ‘The Song of the Angels’ (William Bouguereau), and ‘The Annunciation’ (supposedly Andrea del Sarto, but I have my doubts). The lyrics of this version and the rough English translation are as follows:
O sanctissima, O piissima, Dulcis Virgo Maria!
Mater amata, Intemerata:
Ora, ora pro nobis!
Tua guadia Et suspiria Juvent nos, O Maria!
In te speramus, Ad te clamamus,
Ora, ora pro nobis!
O most holy one, O most lowly one,
Loving virgin, Mary!
Mother of tender love,
Queen of the heavens above,
Pray for us here below!
Virgin ever fair, hear our fervent prayer,
Look upon us, Mary!
Bring to us your treasure, grace beyond measure;
Pray for us here below!