A Newsletter for Radio Maria20th USA Anniversary (2000-2020) Volume 13 Number 7 Radio Maria USA July 2020 Fr. John Fletcher named interim National Priest Director Father John Fletcher, and making decisions re- Thursdays at 8:30 a.m.) CC, has been named the garding the general oper- He also celebrates Mass interim National Priest ations of the stations. on the air every Monday Director of Radio Ma- Many listeners are at 8:00 a.m. ria USA. The appoint- already familiar with Fr. He is a member of a ment was made by Carlo John since he has been a community of priests and DiMaggio, president of presenter on Radio Maria seminarians called the Radio Maria USA, after for almost 10 years and Companions of the Cross. the resignation of Deacon has served as a director He recently celebrated his Al Vacek in early June. in the past. He is currently 19th anniversary of ordi- As national priest di- the host of two programs nation. He has served rector, Fr. John will pri- including Mary Queen of as a pastor and spiritual marily be responsible for Peace (live Tuesdays at director. He currently lives approving the programs 8:30 a.m. Central time Fr. John Fletcher in Detroit, MI., where he on Radio Maria, providing and rebroadcast Fridays ministers as a campus spiritual support for listen- at 4:30 p.m. and Satur- 33 Days to Merciful Love ers through programming, days at 6:30 a.m.) and (live Wednesdays and Continued on pg. 2 Pope adds 3 new titles to litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary By Courtney Mares divinae gratiae, and Solacium mi- Catholic News Agency grantium, which means “Comfort of Pope Francis has approved the migrants,” should follow Refugium inclusion of three additional invoca- peccatorum. tions in the Litany of the Blessed Sarah said Pope Francis wel- Virgin Mary. comed people’s desire to include In a June 20 letter to the presi- these invocations in the formulary dents of bishops’ conferences, Car- of the litany. dinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the The Litany of the Blessed Vir- Congregation for the Divine Liturgy gin Mary, also known as the Litany and the Discipline of the Sacra- of Loreto, has been an approved ments, said the invocations Mater prayer for the intercession of Mary misericordiae, Mater spei, and So- by the Church since the late 16th lacium migrantium should be insert- century, with its usage recorded ed in the Marian litany. even prior. In his letter, Cardinal Sarah not- means, “Mother of mercy,” should It consists of the recitation of ed where each invocation should be placed after Mater Ecclesiae. formal and informal titles of Mary, be added, using the Latin formula- Mater spei, which means “Moth- followed by the request to Mary to tions. Mater misericordiae, which er of hope,” should follow Mater “pray for us.” New Priest Director
From pg. 1 casting at the University Thank you Deacon Al! chaplain at Wayne State of Dayton and has a gen- It is with great sad- University in Detroit. He eral class amateur radio ness that Radio Maria also serves as a chap- license. had to say farewell to lain in the U.S. Army Re- Deacon Al Vacek, priest “Radio Maria is such director of Radio Maria serves. an important ministry, es- for the past year. Before becoming a pecially during these chal- As a deacon in the priest, he earned a degree lenging times. We need Diocese of Houston/ in Industrial Engineering Our Blessed Mother more Galveston, Deacon Al from Ohio University. He than ever and it is such a was recently assigned a worked as an engineer for new position as chaplain privilege to be part of her in a Houston hospital. a defense contractor and mission to bring the Good “We wish Deacon Al was a great asset to Our was a bartender in Silicon News of her Divine Son the best of luck in his new Lady’s mission through Valley for a few years be- Jesus into the hearts and assignment,” said Carlo Radio Maria and we ap- fore entering the priest- homes of the people of DiMaggio, president of preaciate all of his hard hood. He has taken a this great nation.” said Fr. Radio Maria. “Deacon Al work. We will miss him.” class in production broad- John.
Mary, the Prophet for Our Times We live in very opportunity to repent and hears our cries and challenging times even return to God. God hon- prayers and that she is without the Covid virus ored their sincerity and interceding on our be- and all the civil unrest in once again their nation half with her Divine Son the United States. So- would prosper. Jesus. She invites us ciety has been increas- I believe that this is to return to prayer and ingly making efforts to pretty much what’s taking to open our hearts and remove God from any place in our world today embrace conversion. kind of public mention and that the pandemic Our lives are short, she and discouraging even and unrest are merely says, and she warns personal belief. Fr. John Fletcher consequences of a world us that without God our We’ve seen these that has told God to get lives have no meaning. trends take place thinking and behaving. lost. God is sending us She wants to lead us to throughout the Old For the most part, they prophets even in our day Jesus more than any- Testament. As the Is- weren’t listened to. So and age and His great- thing else. realites abandoned God pulled back, so to est prophet is His own So during these dif- God more and more speak, from the Isrealites Mother, the Blessed Vir- ficult days, let us heed and went over to false who rejected Him. gin Mary. She has been Our Blessed Mother’s gods and inappropriate But as God pulls back, appearing in many places words, let us allow her behaviors, God got the His protection goes with over the past 175 years to take us by the hand message: they didn’t Him. Soon the Isrealites and now more than ever. and bring us to her Di- want Him around. were overcome by con- In a recent message vine Son. So God sent proph- quering nations resulting given in Medjugorje, Our There is no bet- ets to help the people in times of severe oppres- Lady encourages us. She ter way to Jesus than correct wrong ways of sion. This gave them the wants us to know that she through Mary. Racial injustice protests ‘hijacked’ by violent anarchists Catholic News Agency enon that seems to be re- ism and assault after swas- peating itself throughout the tikas were painted on the After the toppling of a country.” graves of several Dominican saint’s statue in San Fran- “St. Serra made heroic friars and a security guard cisco, the city’s archbishop sacrifices to protect the in- was assaulted at Catholic said that important protests digenous people of Cali- college June 22. over racial injustice have fornia from their Spanish • The mayor of a Dutch been “hijacked” by a mob conquerors, especially the town in the Netherlands has bent on violence. soldiers. Even with his in- condemned vandals who de- “What is happening to firmed leg which caused him faced an image of Our Lady our society? A renewed such pain, he walked all the of Częstochowa and daubed national movement to heal way to Mexico City to obtain the letters “BLM” (Black memories and correct the special faculties of gover- Lives Matter) beneath it. injustices of racism and po- nance from the Viceroy of • The Catholic former Spain in order to discipline president of a Florida univer- lice brutality in our country the military who were abus- sity’s student senate says has been hijacked by some ing the Indians. And then he he was removed from office into a movement of vio- facing of statues in Golden walked back to California.” for questioning controversial lence, looting and vandal- Gate Park, including that of “St. Junipero Serra also policy positions of the Black ism,” Archbishop Salvatore St. Junipero Serra, have be- offered them the best thing Lives Matter group in a text Cordileone said in a state- come the latest example,” of he had: the knowledge and message thread with fellow ment June 20. that shift in the protest move- love of Jesus Christ, which Catholic students. The archbishop’s state- ment, the archbishop added. he and his fellow Franciscan Cordileone emphasized ment came after a statue of “The memorialization friars did through education, the importance of calls for St. Junipero Serra was torn of historic figures merits an health care, and training in racial justice and an end to down in San Francisco’s honest and fair discussion the agrarian arts.” police brutality, which began Golden Gate Park June 19, as to how and to whom such Other headlines have after the May 25 death of along with statues of Fran- honor should be given. But surfaced in places around George Floyd, a black man cis Scott Key and Ulysses here, there was no such ra- the world: killed by a Minneapolis po- S. Grant. tional discussion; it was mob • A man has been arrest- lice officer who kneeled on “The toppling and de- rule, a troubling phenom- ed and charged with vandal- Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes.
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Catechism of the Catholic Gospel of Life: Find Something More-Find Learning to Live in God's Pro-Life Activism from Meet the Author Aim High Church Pro-Life Issues Your Way Home Divine Will Creation to Death 9:00PM Ken Huck Fr. Jason Kulczynski 10:00PM Fr. Joseph Koterski Priests for Life Christine Watkins and Kendra Von Esh Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi Jim Sedlak
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Holy Rosary and Litany 11:00PM Midnight Healing Through the Mass St. Faustina's Diary God's Word Alive & Active Mary Queen of Peace Fr. Duane Stenzel Fr. John Fletcher Tom Webb Fr. John Fletcher
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