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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The biblical Readings this Sunday, feast of the Most Holy Trinity, help us to enter the mystery of God’s identity. The Second Letter presents the words of greeting that Saint Paul addresses to the community of Corinth: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Corinthians </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">13:13). This — let’s say — “blessing” of the Apostle is the fruit of his personal experience of God’s love, that love that the Risen Christ revealed to him, which transformed his life and “drove” him to take the Gospel to the Gentiles. From this experience of grace, Paul was able to exhort the Christians with these words: “Mend your ways, heed my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace” (v. 11). The Christian community, despite all its human limitations, can become a reflection of the communion of the Trinity, of its goodness and beauty. However this — as Paul himself attests — passes necessarily through the experience of God’s mercy, of His forgiveness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is what happened to the Jews on the way of the exodus. When the people broke the Covenant, God appeared to Moses in the cloud to renew that pact, proclaiming His Name and its meaning. He says thus: “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Exodus </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">34:6). This Name expresses that God is not far away and closed in Himself, but He is Life that wills to communicate itself, He is openness, He is Love that rescues man from infidelity. God is “merciful,” “compassionate,” and “rich in grace” because He offers Himself to us to fill our limitations and our failings, to forgive our errors, to bring us back to the way of justice and of truth. This revelation of God reached it fulfilment in the New Testament, thanks to the work of Christ and His mission of salvation. Jesus manifested to us the face of God, One in essence and Triune in Persons; God is altogether and only Love, in a subsistent relationship that creates, redeems and sanctifies all: Father and Son and Holy Spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And today’s Gospel “puts” Nicodemus “in the scene,” who, although occupying an important post in the religious and civil community of the time, never stopped seeking God. He did not think: “I’ve arrived,” he did not cease to seek God; and now he perceived the echo of his voice in Jesus. In the dialogue at night with the Nazarene, Nicodemus finally understands he has </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">already</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> been sought and awaited by God, has been personally loved by Him. God always seeks us first, waits for us first, loves us first. He is like the flower of the almond tree; so says the Prophet: “It flowers first” (Cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jeremiah </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1:11-12). In fact, that is how Jesus speaks to him: “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">John </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3:16). What is this eternal life? It is the unbounded and free love of the Father that Jesus gave on the cross, offering His life for our salvation. And, with the action of the Holy Spirit, this love has radiated a new light on earth and in every human heart that receives it — a light that reveals the dark corners, the hardness that impedes bearing the good fruits of charity and of mercy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">May the Virgin Mary help us to enter ever more, with all our being, in the Trinitarian Communion, to live and witness the love that gives meaning to our existence.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Original text: Italian] </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">After the Angelus</i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Itala Mela was proclaimed Blessed yesterday at La Spezia. She grew up in a family that was far from the faith. In her youth she professed herself atheist, however, she converted following an intense spiritual experience. She was committed among Catholic University students; then she became a Benedictine Oblate and undertook a mystical journey focused on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, which we celebrate today in a special way. May the testimony of the new Blessed encourage us, during our days, to turn our thought often to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who dwells in the cell of our heart.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I greet you all, dear Romans and pilgrims: parish groups, families, Associations. In particular I greet the faithful from Montpellier, Corsica and Malta; and, from Italy the faithful of Padua and Norbello, and the youngsters of Sassuolo.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A special thought goes to the Bolivian community that lives in Rome and is celebrating the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Virgin of Copacabana.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I wish you all a good Sunday. And please, do not forget to pray for me. Have a good lunch and see you soon}</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Original text: Italian] </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[ZENIT -Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</span></i></span></div>
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<pre><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><big style="text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><big>The Litany of the Most Holy Trinity</big></big><span style="text-align: center; white-space: normal;"></span></span><div style="text-align: center; white-space: normal;">
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Blessed be the holy Trinity and undivided Unity; <span style="font-style: italic;">We will give glory to Him, because He hath shown His mercy to us.</span></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">V. O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is Thy Name in all the earth! R. <i>O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God!</i></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Lord, have mercy. <span style="font-style: italic;">Lord, have mercy. </span> Christ, have mercy. <span style="font-style: italic;">Christ, have mercy. </span> Lord, have mercy. <span style="font-style: italic;">Lord, have mercy. </span> Blessed Trinity, hear us. <span style="font-style: italic;">Adorable Unity, graciously hear us.</span></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">God the Father of Heaven, <span style="font-style: italic;">Have mercy on us. </span> God the Son, Redeemer of the world, <span style="font-style: italic;">Have mercy on us. </span> God the Holy Ghost, <span style="font-style: italic;">etc. </span> Holy Trinity, One God, Father from Whom are all things, Son through Whom are all things, Holy Ghost in Whom are all things, Holy and undivided Trinity, Father everlasting, Only-begotten Son of the Father, Spirit Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Co-eternal Majesty of Three Divine Persons, Father, the Creator, Son, the Redeemer, Holy Ghost, the Comforter, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, Who art, Who wast, and Who art to come, God Most High, Who inhabitest eternity, To Whom alone are due all honor and glory, Who alone doest great wonders, Power infinite, Wisdom incomprehensible, Love unspeakable,</span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Be merciful, <span style="font-style: italic;">Spare us, O Holy Trinity. </span> Be merciful, <span style="font-style: italic;">Graciously hear us, O Holy Trinity.</span></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">From all evil, <span style="font-style: italic;">Deliver us, O Holy Trinity. </span> From all sin, <span style="font-style: italic;">Deliver us, O Holy Trinity. </span> From all pride, <span style="font-style: italic;">etc. </span> From all love of riches, From all uncleanness, From all sloth, From all inordinate affection, From all envy and malice, From all anger and impatience, From every thought, word, and deed contrary to Thy holy law, From Thine everlasting malediction, Through Thine almighty power, Through Thy plenteous loving kindness, Through the exceeding treasure of Thy goodness and love, Through the depths of Thy wisdom and knowledge, Through all Thy unspeakable perfections, We sinners <span style="font-style: italic;">Beseech Thee, hear us.</span></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">That we may ever serve Thee alone, <span style="font-style: italic;">We beseech Thee, hear us. </span> That we may worship Thee in spirit and in truth, <span style="font-style: italic;">We beseech Thee, hear us. </span> That we may love Thee with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength, <span style="font-style: italic;">etc. </span> That, for Thy sake, we may love our neighbor as ourselves, That we may faithfully keep Thy holy commandments, That we may never defile our bodies and souls with sin, That we may go from grace to grace, and from virtue to virtue, That we may finally enjoy the sight of Thee in glory, That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to hear us,</span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">O Blessed Trinity, <span style="font-style: italic;">We beseech Thee, deliver us. </span> O Blessed Trinity, <span style="font-style: italic;">We beseech Thee, save us. </span> O Blessed Trinity, <span style="font-style: italic;">Have mercy on us. </span> Lord, have mercy, <span style="font-style: italic;">Christ, have mercy. </span> Lord, have mercy.</span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Our Father [silently]. Hail Mary [silently].</span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">V. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, in the firmament of Heaven, R. <i>And worthy to be praised, and glorious, and highly exalted forever.</i></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><big><i><big><big>Let Us Pray. </big></big></i></big>Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast granted Thy servants in the confession of the True Faith, to acknowledge the glory of an Eternal Trinity, and in the power of Thy majesty to adore a Unity: we beseech Thee that by the strength of this faith we may be defended from all adversity. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. <span style="font-style: italic;">R. Amen. </span></span></big></div>
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<big><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Litany from Catholic Tradition</span></span></big></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>NOVENA to the Most Holy Trinity</u></b> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">( Say for 9 days - Each day Say 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and 1 Glory Be)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">God Eternal Father</strong></em>, bless me through the love with which You have begotten Your only Son from all eternity and shared with Him the fullness of Your Divinity. Bless me through the love which has adopted us as children, and made us partakers of the treasures of Your Divinity. Bless me through the love which sent us Your Son and the Holy Spirit to work the miracles of Your power and mercy in us. Grant that I may always revere and honor You as my great God, and love You with my whole heart as the best of fathers. Eternal Father, grant my petition:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">God Eternal Son</strong></em>, image of the splendor of the Father, bless me through the love with which You surround us, Your poor creatures. You have become our Brother according to the flesh to make us Your brothers according to Your Divinity, and an image of Your splendor. Bless me through the marvelous goodness of Your Sacred Heart which chose death to bring us life. Bless me through the love with which You plead for us before the throne of God, in the Blessed Sacrament, and with which You give Yourself to us in Holy Communion. Grant that all this love and bitter pain may not be lost on me. Eternal Son, grant my petition:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">God Holy Spirit</strong></em>, mutual Love of the Father and the Son, bless me through the love with which You proceed from the Father and the Son and unite Them in eternal unity. Bless me through the love with which You give Yourself to us as our greatest Gift, dispensing Your Divine graces to us and transforming sinners into children of God. Bless me through the love with which You dwell in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through Whose merits the earth is filled with grace, and made a dwelling place for the God of heaven. Grant that I, Your faithful servant, may always allow You to lead me so I may advance in virtue and reach eternal happiness. Eternal Holy Spirit, grant my petition:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Most Holy Trinity</strong></em>, Godhead indivisible, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, our first beginning and our last end, You have made us after Your own image and likeness. Grant that all the thoughts of my mind, all the words of my mouth, all the affections of my heart, and all my actions be always conformed to Your holy Will. After having seen You here below in Your manifestations and by faith, may I come at last to see You face to face in the perfect possession of You forever in heaven. <em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Amen</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Prayer:</strong> Almighty and Everlasting God, by the profession of the true faith, You have given us, Your servants, grace to acknowledge the glory of the Eternal Trinity, and in the power of Your Divine Majesty to worship the Unity. We beg You to grant that, by our fidelity in this same faith, we may always be defended from all dangers. Through Christ our Lord. <em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Amen</em>.</span></div>
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<span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">+</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">In the name of the Father, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and of the Son, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">V.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Lord, open my lips.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">And my mouth will proclaim your praise.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">V.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">God, come to my assistance.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Lord, make haste to help me.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">V. </span><span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">The decade below is recited three times, once for each member of the Trinity. </span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">All:</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Our Father who art in heaven,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">hallowed be thy name.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Thy kingdom come.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Give us this day our daily bread,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and forgive us our trespasses,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">as we forgive those who trespass against us,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and lead us not into temptation,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">but deliver us from evil.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">The following is repeated nine times: </span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">V.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">O Blessed Trinity, to you be praise, and glory, and thanksgiving, for ever and ever!</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts. Heaven and earth are filled with your glory.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">After the ninth time is said:</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">V.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">After the three decades:</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">With all our heart and voice we acknowledge you, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">we praise you, and we bless you, O God</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">the Unbegotten Father, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">the Only-begotten Son, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and Holy Spirit, the Comforter; </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">one, holy and undivided Trinity.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Glory to you forever.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">V.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Let us bless the Father, and the Son with the Holy Spirit.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R. </span><span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Let us praise and exalt him above all forever. </span> <em>Let us pray</em> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">God our Father, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">who by sending into the world</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">made known to the human race your wondrous mystery,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">grant us, we pray, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">that in professing the true faith,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">one God, for ever and ever.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Amen</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">All: </span><span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">O Blessed Trinity, free us, save us, and enliven us.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">+</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">May God the Father, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">who has granted us salvation in Christ, his Son, </span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and in the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">and has given joy to the whole world,</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">shower us with his graces and his love.</span> <span class="rubrica" style="color: #dc2300;">R.</span> <span class="paragrafo_piccolo" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold;">Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1EX 34:4B-6, 8-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Early in the morning Moses went up Mount Sinai<br />as the LORD had commanded him,<br />taking along the two stone tablets.<br /><br />Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with Moses there<br />and proclaimed his name, "LORD."<br />Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out,<br />"The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God,<br />slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity."<br />Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship.<br />Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord,<br />do come along in our company.<br />This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins,<br />and receive us as your own."</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmDN 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (52b)<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Glory and praise for ever!</span><br />Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers,<br />praiseworthy and exalted above all forever;<br />And blessed is your holy and glorious name,<br />praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Glory and praise for ever!</span><br />Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory,<br />praiseworthy and glorious above all forever.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Glory and praise for ever!</span><br />Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom,<br />praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Glory and praise for ever!</span><br />Blessed are you who look into the depths<br />from your throne upon the cherubim,<br />praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Glory and praise for ever!</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 22 COR 13:11-13</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters, rejoice.<br />Mend your ways, encourage one another,<br />agree with one another, live in peace,<br />and the God of love and peace will be with you.<br />Greet one another with a holy kiss.<br />All the holy ones greet you.<br /><br />The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ<br />and the love of God<br />and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaCF. RV 1:8</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit;<br />to God who is, who was, and who is to come.<br />R.<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelJN 3:16-18</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,<br />so that everyone who believes in him might not perish<br />but might have eternal life.<br />For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,<br />but that the world might be saved through him.<br />Whoever believes in him will not be condemned,<br />but whoever does not believe has already been condemned,<br />because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><br /><br /><b>1. What is the Trinity</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Trinity refers to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit the 3 Persons in 1 God. This <span style="line-height: 22.4px;">defininition of </span>God<span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> involves three consubstantial </span>persons<span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> or </span><i style="line-height: 22.4px;">hypostases</i><span style="line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">.</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: #fbfaf8;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>CCC 232</b> Christians are baptized "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"<sup>53</sup> Before receiving the sacrament, they respond to a three-part question when asked to confess the Father, the Son and the Spirit: "I do." "The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity."<sup>54</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>2. Where does the Word Trinity come from?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The word "Trinity" comes from the Latin noun "trinitas" meaning "three are one." It was first introduced by Tertullian at the end of the 2nd century.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><b>3. Do all Christians accept the Trinity?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Yes, the doctrine of the Trinity is Key to the Christian Faith however, some non-Christian churches reject the doctrine of the Trinity including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Unitarians and others.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: #fbfaf8;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>4. Is the Trinity a Mystery? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>CCC234</b> The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the "hierarchy of the truths of faith".<sup>56</sup> The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men "and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin".<sup>57</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">5. <b>Where does the Trinity appear in the Bible?</b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Trinity is mentioned in the Bible: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ... (Matthew 28:19, ESV) </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus said, "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me." (John 15:26, ESV) The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><b>6. Is the Trinity One or Three Gods?</b></span><br /><div style="background-color: #fbfaf8;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>CCC 253</b> <i>The Trinity is One</i>. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity".<sup>83</sup> The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God."<sup>84</sup> In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature."<sup>85</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>CCC 254</b> <i>The divine persons are really distinct from one another</i>. "God is one but not solitary."<sup>86</sup> "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son."<sup>87</sup> They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds."<sup>88</sup> The divine Unity is Triune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yes, the Old Testament has Bible Verses referring to the Trinity including Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:22, Deuteronomy 6:4. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><b>8. What is the Nicene Creed?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Shortened From the Catholic Encyclopedia) The Nicene Creed, as approved in amplified form at the Council of Constantinople (381), is the profession of the Christian Faith common to the Catholic Church, to all the Eastern Churches separated from Rome, and to most of the Protestant denominations. It expresses Belief in the Holy Trinity:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> We believe (I believe) in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. (God of God) light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and the third day rose again according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose Kingdom there shall be no end. And (I believe) in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father (and the Son), who together with the Father and the Son is to be adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We confess (I confess) one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for (I look for) the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen."</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>9. Has the Church always believed in the Trinity?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yes, the Catholic Church has always believed in the Trinity. The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity was established as a Double of the Second Class by Pope John XXII it is celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost. It was made a<span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> Double of the First Class by </span>Pope Pius X<span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> on 24 July 1911.</span>The liturgical color is white. </span><br /><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">10. When was the term Trinity first Recorded?</span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">The first time the Greek word was used was in the works of </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span>Theophilus of Antioch<span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">in about 170. </span></span><br /><blockquote style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;">
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Also See: <span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>#Novena to the Most Holy Trinity and Litany #Prayers to SHARE </b>#HolyTrinity </span><a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2016/05/novena-to-most-holy-trinity-and-litany.html" style="color: #666555; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2016/05/novena-to-most-holy-trinity-and-litany.html</a><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">CCC refers to sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VslNxpsfCik" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" width="640"></iframe></span></div>
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St. Barnabas</div>
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APOSTLE</div>
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Feast: June 11</div>
Information:<br /><br /><u><b>Feast Day:</b></u><br />June 11<br /><u><b>Born:</b></u><br />Cyprus<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />61 AD, Salamis, Cyprus<br /><u><b>Major Shrine:</b></u><br />Monastery of St Barnabas in Famagusta, Cyprus<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as peacemaker<br /></div>
<br />arnabas (originally Joseph), styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture, and, like St. Paul, ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them; b. of Jewish parents in the Island of Cyprus about the beginning of the Christian Era. A Levite, he naturally spent much time in Jerusalem, probably even before the Crucifixion of Our Lord, and appears also to have settled there (where his relatives, the family of Mark the Evangelist, likewise had their homes — Acts 12:12) and to have owned land in its vicinity (4:36-37). A rather late tradition recorded by Clement of Alexandria (Strom., II, 20, P.G., VIII, col. 1060) and Eusebius (H. E., II, i, P. G., XX, col. 117) says that he was one of the seventy Disciples; but Acts (4:36-37) favours the opinion that he was converted to Christianity shortly after Pentecost (about A.D. 29 or 30) and immediately sold his property and devoted the proceeds to the Church. The Apostles, probably because of his success as a preacher, for he is later placed first among the prophets and doctors of Antioch (xiii, 1), surnamed him Barnabas, a name then interpreted as meaning "son of exhortation" or "consolation". (The real etymology, however, is disputed. See Encyl. Bibli., I, col. 484.) Though nothing is recorded of Barnabas for some years, he evidently acquired during this period a high position in the Church.<br /><br />When Saul the persecutor, later Paul the Apostle, made his first visit (dated variously from A.D. 33 to 38) to Jerusalem after his conversion, the Church there, remembering his former fierce spirit, was slow to believe in the reality of his conversion. Barnabas stood sponsor for him and had him received by the Apostles, as the Acts relate (9:27), though he saw only Peter and James, the brother of the Lord, according to Paul himself (Galatians 1:18-19). Saul went to his house at Tarsus to live in obscurity for some years, while Barnabas appears to have remained at Jerusalem. The event that brought them together again and opened to both the door to their lifework was an indirect result of Saul's own persecution. In the dispersion that followed Stephen's death, some Disciples from Cyprus and Cyrene, obscure men, inaugurated the real mission of the Christian Church by preaching to the Gentiles. They met with great success among the Greeks at Antioch in Syria, reports of which coming o the ears of the Apostles, Barnabas was sent thither by them to investigate the work of his countrymen. He saw in the conversions effected the fruit of God's grace and, though a Jew, heartily welcomed these first Gentile converts. His mind was opened at once to the possibility of this immense field. It is a proof how deeply impressed Barnabas had been by Paul that he thought of him immediately for this work, set out without delay for distant Tarsus, and persuaded Paul to go to Antioch and begin the work of preaching. This incident, shedding light on the character of each, shows it was no mere accident that led them to the Gentile field. Together they laboured at Antioch for a whole year and "taught a great multitude". Then, on the coming of famine, by which Jerusalem was much afflicted, the offerings of the Disciples at Antioch were carried (about A.D. 45) to the mother-church by Barnabas and Saul (Acts 11). Their mission ended, they returned to Antioch, bringing with them the cousin, or nephew of Barnabas (Colossians 4:10), John Mark, the future Evangelist (Acts 12:25).<br /><br />The time was now ripe, it was believed, for more systematic labours, and the Church of Antioch felt inspired by the Holy Ghost to send out missionaries to the Gentile world and to designate for the work Barnabas and Paul. They accordingly departed, after the imposition of hands, with John Mark as helper. Cyprus, the native land of Barnabas, was first evangelized, and then they crossed over to Asia Minor. Here, at Perge in Pamphylia, the first stopping place, John Mark left them, for what reason his friend St. Luke does not state, though Paul looked on the act as desertion. The two Apostles, however, pushing into the interior of a rather wild country, preached at Antioch of Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, at Derbe, and other cities. At every step they met with opposition and even violent persecution from the Jews, who also incited the Gentiles against them. The most striking incident of the journey was at Lystra, where the superstitious populace took Paul, who had just cured a lame man, for Hermes (Mercury) "because he was the chief speaker", and Barnabas for Jupiter, and were about to sacrifice a bull to them when prevented by the Apostles. Mob-like, they were soon persuaded by the Jews to turn and attack the Apostles and wounded St. Paul almost fatally. Despite opposition and persecution, Paul and Barnabas made many converts on this journey and returned by the same route to Perge, organizing churches, ordaining presbyters and placing them over the faithful, so that they felt, on again reaching Antioch in Syria, that God had "opened a door of faith to the Gentiles" (Acts 13:13-14:27).<br /><br />Barnabas and Paul had been "for no small time" at Antioch, when they were threatened with the undoing of their work and the stopping of its further progress. Preachers came from Jerusalem with the gospel that circumcision was necessary for salvation, even for the Gentiles. The Apostles of the Gentiles, perceiving at once that this doctrine would be fatal to their work, went up to Jerusalem to combat it; the older Apostles received them kindly and at what is called the Council of Jerusalem (dated variously from A.D. 47 to 51) granted a decision in their favour as well as a hearty commendation of their work (Acts 14:27-15:30). On their return to Antioch, they resumed their preaching for a short time. St. Peter came down and associated freely there with the Gentiles, eating with them. This displeased some disciples of James; in their opinion, Peter's act was unlawful, as against the Mosaic law. Upon their remonstrances, Peter yielded apparently through fear of displeasing them, and refused to eat any longer with the Gentiles. Barnabas followed his example. Paul considered that they "walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel" and upbraided them before the whole church (Galatians 2:11-15). Paul seems to have carried his point. Shortly afterwards, he and Barnabas decided to revisit their missions. Barnabas wished to take John Mark along once more, but on account of the previous defection Paul objected. A sharp contention ensuing, the Apostles agreed to separate. Paul was probably somewhat influenced by the attitude recently taken by Barnabas, which might prove a prejudice to their work. Barnabas sailed with John Mark to Cyprus, while Paul took Silas an revisited the churches of Asia Minor. It is believed by some that the church of Antioch, by its God-speed to Paul, showed its approval of his attitude; this inference, however, is not certain (Acts 15:35-41).<br /><br />Little is known of the subsequent career of Barnabas. He was still living and labouring as an Apostle in 56 or 57, when Paul wrote I Cor. (ix, 5, 6). from which we learn that he, too, like Paul, earned his own living, though on an equality with other Apostles. The reference indicates also that the friendship between the two was unimpaired. When Paul was a prisoner in Rome (61-63), John Mark was attached to him as a disciple, which is regarded as an indication that Barnabas was no longer living (Colossians 4:10). This seems probable.<br />Various traditions represent him as the first Bishop of Milan, as preaching at Alexandria and at Rome, whose fourth (?) bishop, St. Clement, he is said to have converted, and as having suffered martyrdom in Cyprus. The traditions are all late and untrustworthy.<br /><br />With the exception of St. Paul and certain of the Twelve, Barnabas appears to have been the most esteemed man of the first Christian generation. St. Luke, breaking his habit of reserve, speaks of him with affection, "for he was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of Faith". His title to glory comes not only from his kindliness of heart, his personal sanctity, and his missionary labours, but also from his readiness to lay aside his Jewish prejudices, in this anticipating certain of the Twelve; from his large-hearted welcome of the Gentiles, and from his early perception of Paul's worth, to which the Christian Church is indebted, in large part at least, for its great Apostle. His tenderness towards John Mark seems to have had its reward in the valuable services later rendered by him to the Church.<br /><br />The feast of St. Barnabas is celebrated on 11 June. He is credited by Tertullian (probably falsely) with the authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the so-called Epistle of Barnabas is ascribed to him by many Fathers.<br /><br /><em>(Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia)</em></div>
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Novena in Honour of Saint Charles Lwanga & the Martyrs of Uganda<br /><br />In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.<br /><br />O God, by whose providence the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church: Grant that we who remember before you the blessed martyrs of Uganda, may, like them, be steadfast in our faith in Jesus Christ, to whom they gave obedience even unto death, and by their sacrifice brought forth a plentiful harvest; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end, Amen<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmut2m5VWd8oHRkiCFQd5R0IlMIcK2Q3YBm7hBO0jpyHDObeTDN6bYoq-4Ts_kVr16yrFRka2Uho9AYZFlILJ6xDq8g9ooPt-UhTEEM5-eou4g_hNedkWsfVwYgWmMaqgKcAsMsFImqF0/s1600/ugandamartyrs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #666555; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmut2m5VWd8oHRkiCFQd5R0IlMIcK2Q3YBm7hBO0jpyHDObeTDN6bYoq-4Ts_kVr16yrFRka2Uho9AYZFlILJ6xDq8g9ooPt-UhTEEM5-eou4g_hNedkWsfVwYgWmMaqgKcAsMsFImqF0/s640/ugandamartyrs.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br /><br />OUR FATHER<br />Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be<br />Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done,<br />on earth, as it is<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> in Heaven. Give us this day our</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we<br />forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us<br />not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.<br /><br />HAIL MARY<br />Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.<br />Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is<br />the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.<br />Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,<br />now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.<br /><br />GLORY BE<br />Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.<br /><br /><br />O Jesus, our Lord and Redeemer, through your passion and death, we adore and thank Thee.<br />Holy Mary, Mother and Queen of Martyrs, Obtain for us sanctification through our sufferings.<br />Holy Martyrs, followers of the suffering Christ, obtain for us the grace to imitate Him.<br />St. Joseph Balikuddembe, first Martyr of Uganda, who inspired and encouraged Nephytes, obtain for us a spirit of truth and justice.<br />St. Charles Lwanga, patron of the Youth and Catholic Action, obtain for us a firm and zealous faith.<br />St. Matthias Mulumba, ideal Chief and follower of Christ meek and humble, obtain for us a Christian gentleness.<br />St. Dionysius Sebuggwawo, zealous for the Christian Faith and renowned for your modesty, obtain for us the virture of modesty.<br />St. Andrew Kaggwa, model Catechist and teacher, obtain for us a love of the teaching of Christ.<br />St. Kizito, child resplendent in purity and Christian joy, obtain for us the gift of joy in our Lord.<br />St. Gyaviira, shining example of how to forgive and forget injuries, obtain for us the grace to forgive those who injure us.<br />St. Mukasa, fervent catechumen rewarded with the Baptism of your blood, obtain for us perseverance unto the death.<br />St. Adolfus Ludigo, conspicuous by your following of our Lord's spirit of service to others; obtain for us a love of unselfish service.<br />St. Anatoli Kiriggwajjo, humble servant preferring a devout life to wordly honours; obtain for us to love piety more than earthly things.<br />St. Ambrosius Kibuuka, young man full of joy and love of your neighbour; obtain for us fraternal charity.<br />St. Achilles Kiwanuka, who for the sake of Christ detested vain superstitious practices; obtain for us holy hatred of superstitious practices.<br />St. John Muzeeyi, prudent councilor, renowned for the practice of works of mercy; obtain for us a love of those works of mercy.<br />Blessed Jildo Irwa and Blessed Daudi Okello who gave up your lives for the spread of the Catholic Faith; obtain for us the zeal of spreading the Catholic Faith.<br />St. Pontaianus Ngondwe, faithful soldier, longing for the martyr's crown; obtain for us the grace to be always faithful to our duty.<br />St. Athanasius Bazzekuketta, faithful steward of the royal treasury; obtain for us a spirit of responsibility.<br />St. Mbaaga, who preferred death to the persuasions of your parents; obtain for us to follow generously divine grace.<br />St. Gonzaga Gonza, full of sympathy for prisoners, and all who were in trouble; obtain for us the spirit of mercy.<br />St. Noe Mawaggali, humble worker and lover of evangelical poverty; obtain for us love of evangelical poverty.<br />St. Luke Baanabakintu, who ardently desired to imitate the suffering Christ by Martyrdom; obtain for us a love of our motherland.<br />St. Bruno Serunkuuma, soldier who gave an example of repentance and temperance; obtain for us the virture to repentance and temperance.<br />St. Mugagga, young man renowned for your heroic chastity; obtain for us perserverance in chastity.<br />Holy Martyrs, firm in your fidelity to the true Church of Christ; help us to be always faithful to the true Church of Christ.<br />Let us pray<br />O Lord Jesus Christ, who wonderfully strengthened the Holy Martyrs of Uganda St. Charles Lwanga, Matthias Mulumba, Blessed Jildo Irwa, Blessed Daudi Okello and their Companions; and gave them to us as examples of faith and fortitude, chastity, charity, and fidelity; grant, we beseech you, that by their Intercession, the same virtues may increase in us, and that we may deserve to become propagators of the true faith. 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The Archbishop of Bafia, Cameroon, Mgr Jean Marie Benoît Balla has reportedly committed suicide by jumping into the Sanaga River around the Ebebda Bridge in Cameroon. The Catholic community searched for the clergyman after his Land Cruiser SUV with registration plate number CE 9503V was found on the Ebebda bridge Wednesday afternoon- about 90km from Yaounde. The vehicle was found with his ID card, driver’s license and car documents. A handwritten note on the letter head of the diocese simply read “Je suis dans l’eau”, which translated is “I am in the water” was also found in the car. Governor of the Centre region, the Divisional Officer of the locality and other administrative authorities were reported to have rushed to the scene with security forces. The Divisional Officer, D.O, of Ebebda, told journalists that a Reverend Father informed him about the incident at about 1pm. “I immediately ran to the scene and saw for myself. No damage had been done to the car which indicates there was no violence. An investigation into the suicide has begun as those who knew the Archbishop said this was not something he would do. Edited from cameroon-info.net reported.</div>
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Feast: June 3</div>
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<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top" width="84"><u><b>Feast Day:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">June 3</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Born:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">475, Lyon, France</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Died:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">545, Tours, France</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Patron of:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">brides, adopted children, parents, exiles, widows</td></tr>
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</td><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top" width="68%">Was daughter of Chilperic, younger brother to Gondebald, the tyrannical king of Burgundy, who put him, his wife, and the rest of his brothers, except one, to death, in order to usurp their dominions. In this massacre he spared Chilperic's two fair daughters, then in their infancy. One of them became afterwards a nun; the other, named Clotildis, was brought up in her uncle's court, and by a singular providence, was instructed in the Catholic religion, though she was educated in the midst of Arians. It was her happiness in the true faith, to be inspired from the cradle with a contempt and disgust of a treacherous world, which sentiments she cherished and improved by the most fervent exercises of religion. Though she saw herself surrounded with all the charms of the world, and was from her infancy its idol, yet her heart was proof against its seductions. She was adorned with the assemblage of all virtues; and the reputation of her wit, beauty, meekness, modesty, and piety, made her the adoration of all the neighboring kingdoms, when Clovis I., surnamed the great, the victorious king of the Franks, demanded and obtained her of her uncle in marriage granting her all the conditions she could desire for the free and secure exercise of her religion.1 The marriage was solemnized at Soissons, in 493. Clotildis made herself a little oratory in the royal palace, in which she spent much time in fervent prayer and secret mortifications. Her devotion was tempered with discretion, so that she attended all her business at court, was watchful over her maids, and did every thing with a dignity, order, and piety, which edified and charmed the king and his whole court. Her charity to the poor seemed a sea which could never be drained. She honored her royal husband, studied to sweeten his warlike temper by Christian meekness, conformed herself to his humor in things that were indifferent; and, the better to gain his affections, made those things the subject of her discourse and praises in which she saw him to take the greatest delight. When she saw herself mistress of his heart, she did not defer the great work of endeavoring to win him to God, and often spoke to him on the vanity of his idols, and on the excellency of the true religion. The king always heard her with pleasure; but the moment of his conversion was not yet come. It was first to cost her many tears, severe trials, and earnest perseverance. After the baptism of their second son, Clodomir, and the infant's recovery from a dangerous indisposition, she pressed the king more boldly to renounce his idols. One day especially, when he had given her great assurances of his affection, and augmented her dowry by a gift of several manors, she said she begged only one favor of his majesty, which was the liberty to discourse with him on the sanctity of her religion, and to put him in mind of his promise of forsaking the worship of idols. But the fear of giving offence to his people made him delay the execution. His miraculous victory over the Alemanni, and his entire conversion in 496, were at length the fruit of our saint's prayers.<br /><br />Clotildis, having gained to God this great monarch, never ceased to excite him to glorious actions for the divine honor: among other religious foundations he built in Paris, at her request, about the year 511, the great church of SS. Peter and Paul, now called St. Genevieve's. This great prince had a singular devotion to St. Martin, and went sometimes to Tours, to prostrate himself in prayer at his tomb. He sent his royal diadem, which is called, to this day, The Realm, a present to pope Hormisdas, as a token that he dedicated his kingdom to God. His barbarous education and martial temper made it, in certain sallies of his passions, difficult for Clotildis to bridle his inclination to ambition and cruelty, so that he scarce left any princes of his own relations living, except his sons. He died on the 27th of November, in the year 511, of his age the forty-fifth, having reigned thirty years. He was buried in the church of the apostles, SS. Peter and Paul, now called St. Genevieve's, where his tomb still remains. An ancient long epitaph, which was inscribed on it, is preserved by Aimoinus, and copied by Rivet. His eldest son Theodoric, whom he had by a concubine before his marriage, reigned at Rheims over Austrasia, or the eastern parts of France, which comprised the present Champagne, Lorraine, Auvergne, and several provinces of Germany. Metz was afterwards the capital of this country. As to the three sons of Clotildis, Clodomir reigned at Orleans, Childebert at Paris, and Clotaire I., at Soissons. This division produced wars and mutual jealousies, till, in 560, the whole monarchy was reunited under Clotaire, the youngest of these brothers. St. Clotildis lived to see Clodomir defeat and put to death Sigismund, king of Burgundy; but soon after, in 524, himself vanquished and slain by Gondemar, successor to Sigismund; Gondemar overcome and killed by Childebert and Clotaire, and the kingdom of Burgundy united to France. The most sensible affliction of this pious queen was the murder of the two eldest sons of Clodomir, committed in 526, by their uncles Childebert and Clotaire, who seized on the kingdom of Orleans. This tragical disaster contributed more perfectly to wean her heart from the world. She spent the remaining part of her life at Tours, near the tomb of St. Martin, in exercises of prayer, almsdeeds, watching, fasting, and penance, seeming totally to forget that she had been queen, or that her sons sat on the throne. Eternity filled her heart, and employed all her thoughts. She foretold her death thirty days before it happened; having been admonished of it by God at the tomb of St. Martin, the usual place of her tears. In her last illness, she sent for her sons Childebert, king of Paris, and Clotaire, king of Soissons, and exhorted them, in the most pathetic manner, to honor God and keep his commandments; to protect the poor, reign as fathers to their people, live in union together, and love and study always to maintain tranquillity and peace. She scarce ever ceased repeating the psalms with the most tender devotion, and ordered all she had left to be distributed among she poor; though this was very little; for she had always been careful to send her riches before her by their hands. On the thirtieth day of her illness she received the sacraments, made a public confession of her faith, and departed to the Lord on the 3d of June, in 545. She was buried, by her own order, in the church of St. Genevieve, at the feet of that holy shepherdess, and is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on the 3d of June. See St. Gregory of Tours, Hist. Franc., and Fortunatus; and among the moderns, Abbe Du Bos and Gilb. le Gendre, Antiquites de la Nation et Monarchie Francoise, & c. (Image Source: http://catholicteen15.blogspot.ca/2013/06/st-clotilde.html )<br />Text : Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated on the after the 8th day of the Feast of Corpus Christi.</span><span style="color: #191919; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Feast of the Sacred Heart in 2017 will be on </span><span style="color: #191919; line-height: 23px;">June 23, 2017.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus heart is the source of Divine love therefore, a devotion arose to increase love for Jesus through prayers. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been evident for many centuries under different forms. However, Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), a Visitation Nun of the monastery of Paray-le-Monial, France received visions of the Sacred Heart and spread its devotion with this feast. Jesus appeared asking for a devotion of expiatory love and frequent Communion, Communion on the First Friday of the month, and the observance of the Holy Hour.</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cdk_XqZBJ6E" width="640"></iframe><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.7467px;"></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In 1856, Pope Pius IX extended the feast of the Sacred Heart to the universal Church. On 11 June, 1899, by order of Pope Leo XIII, all peoples were solemnly consecrated to the Sacred Heart. It is annually celebrated on the Friday 19 days after Pentecost.<br /><strong>12 Promises of Jesus given in the Vision</strong></span><br /><div id="google300">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1. I will give them graces necessary for their state in life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2. I will give peace in their families.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">3. I will console them in all their troubles.<br />4. They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.<br />5. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.<br />6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.<br />7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.<br />8. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.<br />9. I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honored.<br />10. I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.<br />11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their name written in My Heart, and it shall never be effaced.<br />12. I promise thee in the excess of the mercy of My Heart, that its all-powerful Love will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of Nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving the Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour.</span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ffbf66; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>CONSECRATION TO THE SACRED HEART<br />FOR INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br />Lord Jesus Christ, we consecrate ourselves to You today, each one of us, and all of us together as a family. Your Sacred Heart, the heart of your crucified and risen Body, is the ever living source of mercy and grace, hope and love for all of us. We desire to pledge ourselves and our lives to You in return.<br /><br />Teach us to be always united with You, through Your Holy Spirit in mind and heart, in all our thoughts, words, deeds, joy and sufferings. Grant that we may ever know You more clearly, love You more dearly, and follow You more nearly.<br /><br />We wish to share in Your redeeming work in our world: that your Father's will may truly be done on earth as it is in heaven, that the civilization of justice and love may thus be built up in our land.<br /><br />Heart of Jesus, help us to keep sin away from our lives. Help us to keep loving, serving and forgiving each other. Live in our hearts and in our homes always, Make us wholly Yours.<br /><br />With Your Mother's Immaculate Heart, we renew our consecration to Your Sacred Heart, for the ever greater glory of the Father in Heaven, Amen.<br /><br />Jesus, Mary and Joseph, be with us and bless us now and at the hour of our death, Amen.</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" width="100%"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i><b><u>In 1899 Pope Leo XIII approved this Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for public use. </u></b></i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="50%"><span style="color: #75003a; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lord, have mercy<br />Christ, have mercy<br />Lord, have mercy<br /><br />Christ, hear us<br />Christ, graciously hear us.<br /><br />God the Father of Heaven,<br />God the Son, Redeemer of the world,<br />God, the Holy Spirit,<br />Holy Trinity, One God,<br />Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father,<br />Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother,<br />Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God,<br />Heart of Jesus, of Infinite Majesty,<br />Heart of Jesus, Sacred Temple of God,<br />Heart of Jesus, Tabernacle of the Most High,<br />Heart of Jesus, House of God and Gate of Heaven,<br />Heart of Jesus, burning furnace of charity,<br />Heart of Jesus, abode of justice and love,<br />Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love,<br />Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues,<br />Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise,<br />Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts,<br />Heart of Jesus, in whom are all treasures of wisdom and knowledge,<br />Heart of Jesus, in whom dwells the fullness of divinity,<br />Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father was well pleased,<br />Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all received,<br />Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills,<br />Heart of Jesus, patient and most merciful,<br />Heart of Jesus, enriching all who invoke Thee,<br />Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness,<br />Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins,<br />Heart of Jesus, loaded down with opprobrium,<br />Heart of Jesus, bruised for our offenses,<br />Heart of Jesus, obedient to death,<br />Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance,<br />Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation,<br />Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection,<br />Heart of Jesus, our peace and our reconciliation,<br />Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins<br />Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who trust in Thee,<br />Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee,<br />Heart of Jesus, delight of all the Saints,<br /><br />Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world,<br />Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world,<br />Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world,<br /><br />V. Jesus, meek and humble of heart.</span></td><td valign="top" width="50%"><span style="color: #75003a; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lord, have mercy.<br />Christ, have mercy.<br />Lord, have mercy.<br /><br />Christ, hear us.<br />Christ, graciously hear us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br />have mercy on us.<br /><br />spare us, O Lord.<br /><br />graciously hear us, O Lord.<br /><br />have mercy on us, O Lord.<br /><br /><br />R. Make our hearts like to Thine.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" width="100%"><span style="color: #75003a;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Let us pray;<br /><br />Almighty and eternal God, look upon the Heart of Thy most beloved Son and upon the praises and satisfaction which He offers Thee in the name of sinners; and to those who implore Thy mercy, in Thy great goodness, grant forgiveness in the name of the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who livest and reignest with Thee forever and ever. Amen.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u style="background-color: cyan;"><strong>Padre Pio's Sacred Heart Novena</strong><o:p></o:p></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This powerful prayer was recited every day by Padre Pio for all those who recommended themselves to his prayers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I. O my Jesus, You said "verily I say to You, ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you", behold I knock, I seek and I ask for the grace of...<o:p></o:p><br /><br /><i>Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father. Sacred Heart of Jesus I put all my trust in Thee.</i><o:p></o:p><br /><br />II. O my Jesus, You said, "verily I say to You, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you", behold in your name I ask the Father for the grace of...<o:p></o:p><br /><br /><i>Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father. Sacred Heart of Jesus I put all my trust in Thee.</i><o:p></o:p><br /><br />III. O my Jesus, You said, "verily I say to You, heaven and earth shall pass away but My words shall not pass away", behold I encouraged by your infallible words, now ask for the grace of...<o:p></o:p><br /><br /><i>Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father. Sacred Heart of Jesus I put all my trust in Thee.</i><o:p></o:p><br /><br />O sacred Heart of Jesus, to whom one thing alone is impossible, namely, not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of Thee through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your and our tender Mother.<br /><br /><br /><i>Say the Salve Regina (Hail Holy Queen) and add, St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us</i><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mf4lhzkhkgg?fs=1" width="459"></iframe></i></span></div>
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<br /><span class="title" style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY GHOST</span><br /><span class="title" style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. / I adore the brightness of Your purity the unerring keenness of Your justice and the might of Your love. You are the Strength / and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart! To be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light: and listen to Your voice and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You / by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds / and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart / I implore You / Adorable Spirit I Helper of my infirmity, so to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere / “Speak Lord for Your servant heareth.” Amen.<br />PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST<br />O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul / the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth / the Spirit on Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude, that I may bear my cross with You I and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God find know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable / the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples / and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.<br /><u></u></span><br /><span class="title" style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><u><strong>DAY 8 OF NOVENA </strong></u></span><br /><u style="font-size: 15.4px;"><em></em></u><i style="font-size: 15.4px;">Bend the stubborn heart and will, melt the frozen warm the chill. Guide the steps that go astray!</i><br /><b style="font-size: 15.4px;">The Gift of Wisdom</b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Embodying all the other gifts, as charity embraces all the other virtues, Wisdom is the most perfect of the gifts. Of wisdom it is written "all good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches through her hands." It is the gift of Wisdom that strengthens our faith, fortifies hope, perfects charity, and promotes the practice of virtue in the highest degree. Wisdom enlightens the mind to discern and relish things divine, in the appreciation of which earthly joys lose their savor, whilst the Cross of Christ yields a divine sweetness according to the words of the Saviour: "Take up thy cross and follow me, for my yoke is sweet and my burden light.</span><br /><b style="font-size: 15.4px;">Prayer</b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Come, O Spirit of Wisdom, and reveal to my soul the mysteries of heavenly things, their exceeding greatness, power and beauty. Teach me to love them above and beyond all the passing joys and satisfactions of earth. Help me to attain them and possess them for ever. Amen.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">(Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be to the Father 7 TIMES. Act of Consecration, Prayer for the Seven Gifts)</span><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />Novena Day 1 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-1-pentecost.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-1-pentecost.html</a><br />Day 2 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-2-for-pentecost.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-2-for-pentecost.html</a><br />Day 3 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-3-for-pentecost.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-3-for-pentecost.html</a><br />Day 4 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-4-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-4-for.html</a><br />Day 5 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-5-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-5-for.html</a><br /><i class="close_btn"></i>Day 6 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-6-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-6-for.html</a><br />Day 7 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-7-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-7-for.html</a><br />Day 8 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-8-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-8-for.html</a><br />Day 9 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-day-9-to-holy-spirit-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-day-9-to-holy-spirit-for.html</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs<br />Lectionary: 302</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1ACTS 28:16-20, 30-31</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When he entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself,<br />with the soldier who was guarding him.<br /><br />Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews.<br />When they had gathered he said to them, "My brothers,<br />although I had done nothing against our people<br />or our ancestral customs,<br />I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.<br />After trying my case the Romans wanted to release me,<br />because they found nothing against me deserving the death penalty.<br />But when the Jews objected, I was obliged to appeal to Caesar,<br />even though I had no accusation to make against my own nation.<br />This is the reason, then, I have requested to see you<br />and to speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel<br />that I wear these chains."<br /><br />He remained for two full years in his lodgings.<br />He received all who came to him, and with complete assurance<br />and without hindrance he proclaimed the Kingdom of God<br />and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 11:4, 5 AND 7</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (see 7b) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The LORD is in his holy temple;<br />the LORD's throne is in heaven.<br />His eyes behold,<br />his searching glance is on mankind.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The LORD searches the just and the wicked;<br />the lover of violence he hates.<br />For the LORD is just, he loves just deeds;<br />the upright shall see his face.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 16:7, 13</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />I will send to you the Spirit of truth, says the Lord;<br />he will guide you to all truth.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelJN 21:20-25</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Peter turned and saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved,<br />the one who had also reclined upon his chest during the supper<br />and had said, "Master, who is the one who will betray you?"<br />When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"<br />Jesus said to him, "What if I want him to remain until I come?<br />What concern is it of yours?<br />You follow me."<br />So the word spread among the brothers that that disciple would not die.<br />But Jesus had not told him that he would not die,<br />just "What if I want him to remain until I come?<br />What concern is it of yours?"<br /><br />It is this disciple who testifies to these things<br />and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true.<br />There are also many other things that Jesus did,<br />but if these were to be described individually,<br />I do not think the whole world would contain the books<br />that would be written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ST. CHARLES LWANGA AND COMPANIONS</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b style="line-height: 16px;">The 22 Martyrs of Uganda<br />Died 1886-1887</b><span style="background-color: #fff4e7; line-height: 16px;"></span></span><br /><div style="line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Charles was one of 22 Ugandan martyrs who converted from paganism. Though he was baptized the night before being put to death, he became a moral leader. He was the chief of the royal pages and was considered the strongest athlete of the court. He was also known as "the most handsome man of the Kingdom of the Uganda." He instructed his friends in the Catholic Faith and he personally baptized boy pages. He inspired and encouraged his companions to remain chaste and faithful. He protected his companions, ages 13-30, from the immoral acts and homosexual demands of the Babandan ruler, Mwanga.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mwanga was a superstitious pagan king who originally was tolerant of Catholicism. However, his chief assistant, Katikiro, slowly convinced him that Christians were a threat to his rule. The premise was if these Christians would not bow to him, nor make sacrifices to their pagan god, nor pillage, massacre, nor make war, what would happen if his whole kingdom converted to Catholicism?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When Charles was sentenced to death, he seemed very peaceful, one might even say, cheerful. He was to be executed by being burnt to death. While the pyre was being prepared, he asked to be untied so that he could arrange the sticks. He then lay down upon them. When the executioner said that Charles would be burned slowly so death, Charles replied by saying that he was very glad to be dying for the True Faith. He made no cry of pain but just twisted and moaned, "Kotanda! (O my God!)." He was burned to death by Mwanga's order on June 3, 1886. Pope Paul VI canonized Charles Lwanga and his companions on June 22,1964. We celebrate his memorial on June 3rd of the Roman Calendar. Charles is the Patron of the African Youth of Catholic Action.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Text source : Savior.org</span></div>
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Pope Francis’s discourse to the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations (FAFCE) which met the Pope on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary. Representing Catholic family associations from 14 European countries:</div>
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,</div>
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I offer you a warm greeting, dear families belonging to this Federation that is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. I thank your President, Antoine Renard, for his kind words.</div>
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Twenty years is not much time to attempt an overall assessment, but it is certainly a good occasion to give thanks for the vitality and the enthusiasm with which you have carried out your daily commitment. Your Association, “young” in spirit and in years, is called to attract others in the service of families, so that Europe can continue to consider the family its most precious treasure. This image of “treasure” was present in your meeting yesterday, which brought families from many countries of Europe to Rome. It is an image that well reflects the esteem that all of us must have for the family. In effect, families are not museum pieces, but through them, the gift is made concrete in mutual commitment and generous openness to children, but also in service to society. Families are thus a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.</div>
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1. Your wide gamut of activities is summed up in integral service to the family, which is the fundamental cell of society, as I recently reiterated to the authorities of the European Union gathered for the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Your work, in both the ecclesial and civil sectors, would at first sight seem to respond to a variety of disparate needs. Yet in fact it responds to the service of that good news which is the family. In Amoris Laetitia, I emphasized how, on the basis of the family, we can make the gift concrete through the beauty and the joy of mutual love. Seen in this light, your activity should help remind everyone that there is no better ally for the integral progress of society than to favour the presence of families in the social fabric. Today too, the family is the foundation of society and it remains the most suitable structure for ensuring for people the integral good necessary for their continuing development. I wanted to stress how the unity of all the members of the family, and the fraternal commitment of the family with society, are allies of the common good and of peace, also in Europe.</div>
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The family is the interpersonal relationship par excellence, inasmuch as it is a communion of persons. Your relationships as spouses, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, make it possible for every person to find a place in the human family. The way to live out these relationships is dictated by communion, the driving force of true humanization and evangelization. Today more than ever, we see the need for a culture of encounter that can enhance unity in diversity, reciprocity and solidarity between generations. This “family capital” is called to impregnate the economic, social and political relationships of the European continent. The way of “being family” that you want to spread is not subject to any contingent ideology, but grounded in the inviolable dignity of the person. On the basis of that dignity, Europe will be able to be truly one family of peoples (cf. Address to the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 25 November 2014).</div>
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2. Crises of different types are presently springing up in Europe, not least in the institution of the family. But crises are incentives to work harder and better, with trust and hope.</div>
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I am familiar with your initiatives to promote concrete policies favouring the family in the areas of the economy and employment, and not only these, with the goal of procuring a dignified and fitting employment for all, especially the young, who in many areas of Europe endure the scourge of unemployment. In these initiatives, as well as in others directly related to the legislative field, concern for showing respect and for the dignity of each person should always prevail. In this sense, the culture of encounter always includes an attitude of dialogue in which listening is always necessary. May your dialogue be always based on actions, testimonies, experiences and lifestyles that speak more loudly than your speeches and programmes. This is indispensable for if families are to play the role of “protagonists” to which my predecessor Saint John Paul II called them (Familiaris Consortio, 44).</div>
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Four crises in particular affect Europe at the present time: demographics, migration, employment and education. These crises might find positive outcomes precisely in the culture of encounter, if different social, economic and political actors were to join in shaping policies supportive of families. In these four areas, you are already working to propose answers tailored to families, seeing in the latter a resource and an ally for the person and his or her milieu. In this sense, your task very often will be to invite to a constructive dialogue with the various actors on the social scene, without concealing your Christian identity. Indeed, that identity will enable you always to look beyond appearances and the present moment. As you have clearly stressed, the culture of the ephemeral calls for an education for the future.</div>
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3. To carry out this demanding work, the family cannot remain isolated like a monad. Families need to go out from themselves; they need to dialogue and to encounter others, in order to build a unity that is not uniformity and that can generate progress and advance the common good.</div>
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Dear families, you have received much from your elders. They are the permanent memory that must encourage us to employ the wisdom of the heart and not merely technical expertise in crafting initiatives about the family and for the family. They are the memory and the younger generations are the responsibility facing you. With this wisdom, for example, your service to the sacredness of life takes concrete form in the covenant between generations and in service to all, especially those most in need, the disabled and orphans. It takes concrete form in solidarity with migrants, in the patient art of education that views each young person as a subject worthy of all the family’s love, in defending the right to life of the unborn who have no voice, and in ensuring dignified living conditions for the elderly.</div>
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The work before you is great and complex. Only by strengthening your association and inviting other families to join with you, will the task become less arduous, since union makes for strength. Frequently it will fall to you to be the ferment that teaches others to work together, respecting legitimate differences and approaches.</div>
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4. In conclusion, I encourage you to develop with creativity new methods and resources, so that the family can exercise, both in the ecclesial and the civil sectors, the threefold task of supporting the younger generation, accompanying others along the often rocky roads of life, and pointing to values and meanings in the journey of everyday life. This threefold mission can be a specific contribution that your Federation, by its daily service, can offer to families in Europe.</div>
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I give you my blessing and I accompany you with my prayers, asking the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth. And I ask you, please, not to forget to pray for me.</div>
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Before the Angelus:<br />
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Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!</div>
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Today, in Italy and in other countries, the Ascension of Jesus into heaven, 40 days after Easter, is celebrated. With how today’s Gospel of Matthew (cf. Mt 28: 16-20) concludes, we are presented with the moment of the definitive departure of the Risen Lord from His disciples. The scene is set in Galilee, the place where Jesus had called them to follow Him and form the first nucleus of His new community. Now those disciples have gone through the “fire” of Passion and Resurrection; At the sight of the Risen Lord, they bow to Him, some are still doubtful. To this frightened community, Jesus leaves the immense task of evangelizing the world; And concretizes this assignment, ordering them to teach and baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost [Holy Spirit] (cf. v. 19).</div>
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The Ascension of Jesus into heaven, thus, constitutes the end of the mission the Son has received from the Father and the beginning of the continuation of this mission of the Church. From this moment, in fact, the presence of Christ in the world is mediated by His disciples, by those who believe in Him and announce Him. This mission will last until the end of history and will enjoy the assistance of the Risen Lord daily, Who assures: “I am with you every day, until the end of the world” (v. 20).</div>
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His presence brings strength in persecutions, comfort in tribulations, support in the difficult situations which meet the mission and proclamation of the Gospel. The Ascension reminds us of this assistance of Jesus and of His Spirit that gives confidence and security to our Christian witness in the world. He reveals to us why the Church exists: She exists to proclaim the Gospel, only for that! And also, the joy of the Church is to announce the Gospel. We are all baptized by the Church. Today, we are invited to understand better that God has given us great dignity and responsibility to announce it to the world, to make it accessible to humanity. That is our dignity, this is the greatest honor of each of us, of all baptized!</div>
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On this Day of the Ascension, as we turn our gaze to heaven, where Christ ascended and sits at the right hand of the Father, we strengthen our footsteps on earth to continue with enthusiasm and courage on our journey, our mission of witnessing and living the Gospel in every environment. However, we are well aware that this does not depend primarily on our strengths, organizational skills and human resources. Only with the light and strength of the Holy Spirit, can we effectively fulfill our mission of making Jesus’ love and tenderness more and more to the knowledge and experience of others.</div>
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We ask the Virgin Mary to help us contemplate the goods of heaven, which the Lord promises us, and become more and more credible witnesses of His Resurrection, of True Life.</div>
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[Original text: English] [Translation by Deborah Castellano Lubov]</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">After Regina Coeli:</em></div>
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I want to express my closeness to my dear brother [Coptic Orthodox] Pope Tawadros II and the Orthodox Coptic community in Egypt, which two days ago suffered another act of fierce violence. Victims, faithful, including children, were going to a sanctuary to pray, and were killed when they refused to deny their Christian faith. The Lord welcomes these brave witnesses in His peace, and may He convert the hearts of the violent.</div>
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We also pray for the victims of the terrible attack on Manchester last Monday, where so many young lives have been cruelly taken. We are close to the families and those who weep for those lost.</div>
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Today, one celebrates World Social Communications Day, on the theme “Do not be afraid because I am with you” (Is 43.5). Social media offer the opportunity to share and disseminate news instantly; Such news can be beautiful or bad, true or false; Pray for communication, in all its forms, to be truly constructive, in the service of truth by refusing prejudices and by spreading hope and trust in our time.</div>
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I greet you all, dear Romans and pilgrims: families, parish groups, associations, schools.</div>
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In particular, I greet the faithful from Colorado; The Bavarian folk groups who came for the great parade in the centenary of the patron saint of Bavaria; And the Polish faithful, with a blessing also for those attending the pilgrimage to the Piekary Shrine.</div>
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I greet the Comboni Missionaries, who celebrate 150 years since their foundation; The pilgrimage of the Sisters of Ascoli Piceno; The groups of Naples, Scandicci, Thiesi, Nonantola, and the pupils of the school “Sacred Heart of the Incarnate Word” of Palermo.</div>
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A special thought and encouragement goes to the representatives of voluntary associations that promote the donation of organs, “noble and meritorious act” (Catechism, No. 2296). I would also like to welcome the employees of Mediaset Roma, with the hope that their work situation may be resolved, with the aim of realizing the company’s goodwill, not only its profits, but respecting the rights of all people involved.</div>
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I want to conclude with great greetings to all the people of Genoa and a great thank you for their warm welcome that I received yesterday. May the Lord bless them abundantly, and may Our Lady of the Guard keep them.</div>
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I wish everyone a good Sunday. Please do not forget to pray for me. Good lunch and goodbye!</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">The Ascension of Jesus is told in the Bible in Acts 1:9-11. This teaching explains that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to Heaven 40 days after the resurrection. The Gospels also describe the ascension of Jesus in Luke 24:50-53 and Mark 16:19. The ascension of Jesus is included in the Nicene Creed and in the Apostles' Creed. The Feast of the Ascension, is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter (always a Thursday). In some countries this Feast is transferred to the Sunday following the Thursday. Jesus said unto them, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation. Jesus led the eleven disciples to Bethany, not far from Jerusalem. Then he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. Acts 1:9 describes the Ascension: "And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." The Ascension took place on Mount Olivet. The Chapel of the Ascension in Jerusalem today is venerated by Christians and Muslims. There is a 12x12 meter octagonal structure (called a martyrium—"memorial"—or "Edicule") that remains to this day. Russian Orthodox have a Convent of the Ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives. Christian theology[edit] The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains:"Christ's Ascension into heaven signifies his participation, in his humanity, in God's power and authority." CCC 668. In John 20:17 Jesus told St. Mary Magdalene: "I have not yet ascended to the Father; go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God"</span><br /><div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ascension remembers the day when Jesus went up into heaven 40 days after He rose from the dead. The Ascension is often transferred to the Sunday so that people can attend Mass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong>V.</strong> Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created.<br /><strong>R.</strong> And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O God, who hast taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the gift of the same Spirit we may be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolations,<br />Through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Our Father<br />Hail Mary</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.4px;">ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY GHOST</span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. / I adore the brightness of Your purity the unerring keenness of Your justice and the might of Your love. You are the Strength / and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart! To be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light: and listen to Your voice and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You / by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds / and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart / I implore You / Adorable Spirit I Helper of my infirmity, so to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere / "Speak Lord for Your servant heareth." Amen.</span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST</span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul / the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth / the Spirit on Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude, that I may bear my cross with You I and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God find know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable / the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples / and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.</span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">FIRST DAY OF THE NOVENA</span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 15.4px;"></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: xx-small;"></span><br style="font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Holy Spirit! Lord of Light!<br />From Your clear celestial height,<br />Your pure beaming radiance give!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Prayer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Almighty and eternal God, Who hast vouchsafed to regenerate us by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given us forgiveness all sins, vouchsafe to send forth from heaven upon us your sevenfold Spirit, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and fortitude, the Spirit of Knowledge and Piety, and fill us with the Spirit of Holy Fear. Amen.<br /><br />(Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be to the Father 7 TIMES. Act of Consecration, Prayer for the Seven Gifts)</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />Novena Day 1 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-1-pentecost.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-1-pentecost.html</a><br />Day 2 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-2-for-pentecost.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-2-for-pentecost.html</a><br />Day 3 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-3-for-pentecost.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/holy-spirit-novena-day-3-for-pentecost.html</a><br />Day 4 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-4-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-4-for.html</a><br />Day 5 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-5-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-5-for.html</a><br /><i class="close_btn"></i>Day 6 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-6-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-6-for.html</a><br />Day 7 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-7-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-7-for.html</a><br />Day 8 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-8-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-to-holy-spirit-day-8-for.html</a><br />Day 9 <a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-day-9-to-holy-spirit-for.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/05/novena-day-9-to-holy-spirit-for.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">According to Fr Greiche, a spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic Church, militants want to "purify Egypt and the Middle East of the Christian presence." The attack on the eve of Ramadan is the "the worst advertisement". It is a sad moment for Egypt and “Muslims who want to live peace". Tonight, prayers and services will be held in memory of the victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Cairo (AsiaNews) – Christians are “targeted by terrorists;” this is “a fact. From their distorted perspective, such actions "are an attempt to purify Egypt and the Middle East of the Christian presence,” said Fr Rafic Greiche, spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic Church, who talked to <em>AsiaNews</em> about today’s attack against Coptic Christians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">"Different sources give contradictory figures for the number of casualties,” Fr Greiche noted. “Some reports say 23; others, 25; the latest rumours say 26 dead (36 according to others). What is certain is that there are also many children among the victims."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">In its initial reporting, Egypt’s state news agency, citing local sources, said that about a dozen men armed with automatic weapons, stopped a bus carrying pilgrims to the monastery of Anba Samuel in Minya Governorate, south of Cairo, then opened fire on the passengers. One apparently taped the slaughter with a smartphone. According to the latest news, “The terrorists attacked at least three vehicles,” Fr Rafic said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">In addition to the dead, dozens of people were wounded, some in serious conditions, by a group of Jihadis, perhaps linked to the Islamic State group, active in the area. Eyewitnesses claim that gunmen were wearing military uniforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">The pilgrims were travelling to an orthodox monastery in Upper Egypt, about 300 kilometres from Cairo. Many people visit the monastery on week-ends to pray and attend Mass, especially on Friday, which is the day off in Egypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">"Many people came for the [religious] services,” Fr Greiche said, and were “an easy target for terrorists.” In fact, "Today is the eve of Ramadan, which the terrorists picked for their attack,” he added. “They did the same on <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Cairo-attack:-Catholic-Church-condemnation.-Reactions-of-Arab-world-39372.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">11 December</a></strong>, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. They attack when there are a lot of people. "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">In addition to being a “sad moment for Egypt and Egyptians, especially for Muslims who want to live in peace,” this new attack a few hours before the start of the Islamic month of fasting and prayer "is the worst advertisement" terrorists can have. "This evening, we shall pray for the new Christian victims during Mass and other services.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Today's incident is but the latest in a long trail of blood among Egypt’s Christian minority (10 per cent of the population). At least 75 Christians have been killed by Muslim extremists over the past few months, in <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Egypt,-Catholic-Church-spokesman:-Attacks-cast-a-shadow-on-Easter-and-the-Popes-visit-40432.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">last month’s church attacks</a></strong>, in the Palm Sunday bombing, as well as last December’s <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Francis-calls-Tawadros-II-to-convey-his-condolences-and-solidarity-to-Copts-and-victims-39378.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">attack</a></strong> against St Catherine Coptic cathedral in Abassiya, Cairo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Following these attacks, the Islamic State group (also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh) claimed responsibility for them and threatened more violence against the country’s Christian minority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">The rising violence almost scuttled Pope Francis's <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope-in-Egypt:-Enthusiasm-and-admiration-online-and-in-press-40607.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">apostolic visit</a></strong> to Egypt in late April. The pontiff went ahead anyway and met with <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope-in-Egypt:-Egypt-called-to-condemn-violence-and-poverty-in-the-Middle-East-40604.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">Egyptian President al-Sisi</a></strong>, al-Azhar <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope-in-Egypt:-The-future-depends-on-the-encounter-of-religions-and-cultures-40603.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayeb</a></strong>, and celebrated <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope-in-Egypt:-Any-other-fanaticism-does-not-come-from-God-and-is-not-pleasing-to-him-40609.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">Mass</a></strong> in front of tens of thousands of faithful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Recently, Egypt’s public prosecutor <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Cairo,-48-jihadists-on-trial-for-attacks-on-Coptic-churches-40799.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;">charged</a></strong> 48 alleged Islamic State militants and sympathisers in connection with three attacks against Coptic churches. At present, 31 are in prison, whilst the others are still on the run.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">In light of the escalation of violence, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has imposed a state of emergency across the country. Today he chaired a meeting of his security council during which he pledged an all-out war against extremist and Jihadi movements operating in the country. (DS)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY GHOST<br /><br />On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. / I adore the brightness of Your purity the unerring keenness of Your justice and the might of Your love. You are the Strength / and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart! To be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light: and listen to Your voice and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You / by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds / and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart / I implore You / Adorable Spirit I Helper of my infirmity, so to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere / "Speak Lord for Your servant heareth." Amen.<br /><br /><br />PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST<br /><br />O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul / the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth / the Spirit on Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude, that I may bear my cross with You I and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God find know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable / the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples / and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.56px;"><em style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Come. Father of the poor. Come, treasures which endure; Come, Light of all that live!</span></em><br /><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Gift of Fear</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The gift of Fear fills us with a sovereign respect for God, and makes us dread nothing so much as to offend Him by sin. It is a fear that arises, not from the thought of hell, but from sentiments of reverence and filial submission to our heavenly Father. It is the fear that is the beginning of wisdom, detaching us from worldly pleasures that could in any way separate us from God. "They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and in His sight will sanctify their souls."</span><br /><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Prayer</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Come, O blessed Spirit of Holy Fear, penetrate my inmost heart, that I may set you, my Lord and God, before my face forever, help me to shun all things that can offend You, and make me worthy to appear before the pure eyes of Your Divine Majesty in heaven, where You live and reign in the unity of the ever Blessed Trinity, God world without end. Amen.</span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new";"></span></strong></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.56px;">(Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be to the Father 7 TIMES. Act of Consecration, Prayer for the Seven Gifts)</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the first book, Theophilus,<br />I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught<br />until the day he was taken up,<br />after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit<br />to the apostles whom he had chosen.<br />He presented himself alive to them<br />by many proofs after he had suffered,<br />appearing to them during forty days<br />and speaking about the kingdom of God.<br />While meeting with them,<br />he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,<br />but to wait for "the promise of the Father<br />about which you have heard me speak;<br />for John baptized with water,<br />but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."<br /><br />When they had gathered together they asked him,<br />"Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"<br />He answered them, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons<br />that the Father has established by his own authority.<br />But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,<br />and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,<br />throughout Judea and Samaria,<br />and to the ends of the earth."<br />When he had said this, as they were looking on,<br />he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.<br />While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going,<br />suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them.<br />They said, "Men of Galilee,<br />why are you standing there looking at the sky?<br />This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven<br />will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (6) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />All you peoples, clap your hands,<br />shout to God with cries of gladness,<br />for the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,<br />is the great king over all the earth.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy;<br />the LORD, amid trumpet blasts.<br />Sing praise to God, sing praise;<br />sing praise to our king, sing praise.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />For king of all the earth is God;<br />sing hymns of praise.<br />God reigns over the nations,<br />God sits upon his holy throne.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reading 2EPH 1:17-23</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,<br />give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation<br />resulting in knowledge of him.<br />May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened,<br />that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call,<br />what are the riches of glory<br />in his inheritance among the holy ones,<br />and what is the surpassing greatness of his power<br />for us who believe,<br />in accord with the exercise of his great might,<br />which he worked in Christ,<br />raising him from the dead<br />and seating him at his right hand in the heavens,<br />far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion,<br />and every name that is named<br />not only in this age but also in the one to come.<br />And he put all things beneath his feet<br />and gave him as head over all things to the church,<br />which is his body,<br />the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AlleluiaMT 28:29A, 20B</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Go and teach all nations, says the Lord;<br />I am with you always, until the end of the world.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GospelMT 28:16-20</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The eleven disciples went to Galilee,<br />to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.<br />When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.<br />Then Jesus approached and said to them,<br />"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.<br />Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,<br />baptizing them in the name of the Father,<br />and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,<br />teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.<br />And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."</span></div>
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The St. Bernard dogs are named after him. Born in 923, probably in the castle Menthon near Annecy, in Savoy; died at Novara, 1008. He was descended from a rich, noble family and received a thorough education. He refused to enter an honorable marriage proposed by his father and decided to devote himself to the service of the Church. Placing himself under the direction of Peter, Archdeacon of Aosta, under whose guidance he rapidly progressed, Bernard was ordained priest and on account of his learning and virtue was made Archdeacon of Aosta (966), having charge of the government of the diocese under the bishop. Seeing the ignorance and idolatry still prevailing among the people of the Alps, he resolved to devote himself to their conversion. For forty two years he continued to preach the Gospel to these people and carried the light of faith even into many cantons of Lombardy, effecting numerous conversions and working many miracles.<br />
For another reason, however, Bernard's name will forever be famous in history. Since the most ancient times there was a path across the Pennine Alps leading from the valley of Aosta to the Swiss canton of Valais, over what is now the pass of the Great St. Bernard. This pass is covered with perpetual snow from seven to eight feet deep, and drifts sometimes accumulate to the height of forty feet. Though the pass was extremely dangerous, especially in the springtime on account of avalanches, yet it was often used by French and German pilgrims on their way to Rome. For the convenience and protection of travelers<br />
St. Bernard founded a monastery and hospice at the highest point of the pass, 8,000 feet above sea-level, in the year 962. A few years later he established another hospice on the Little St. Bernard, a mountain of the Graian Alps, 7,076 feet above sea-level. Both were placed in charge of Augustinian monks after pontifical approval had been obtained by him during a visit to Rome. These hospices are renowned for the generous hospitality extended to all travelers over the Great and Little St. Bernard, so called in honor of the founder of these charitable institutions. At all seasons of the year, but especially during heavy snow-storms, the heroic monks accompanied by their well-trained dogs, go out in search of victims who may have succumbed to the severity of the weather. They offer food, clothing, and shelter to the unfortunate travelers and take care of the dead. They depend on gifts and collections for sustenance. At present, the order consists of about forty members, the majority of whom live at the hospice while some have charge of neighboring parishes. The last act of St. Bernard's life was the reconciliation of two noblemen whose strife threatened a fatal issue. He was interred in the cloister of St. Lawrence. Venerated as a saint from the twelfth century in many places of Piedmont (Aosta, Novara, Brescia), he was not canonized until 1681, by Innocent XI. His feast is also celebrated on the 15th of June in some Calendars. (From the Catholic Encyclopedia)</div>
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The life of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was tragic from her cradle to her grave.l Nay, even before she was born, death in its most violent or dreaded forms had been long busy with her family—hastening to extinction a line that had swayed the destinies of England for nearly four centuries and a half. Her grandfather was that splendid Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the mighty King-maker, who as the "last of the Barons," so fittingly died on the stricken field of garnet, and whose soldier's passing gave to Shakespeare a theme worthy of some of his most affecting lines. Her father was the George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV, whose death in the Tower in January, 1478, has been attributed to so many causes. The murdered "Princes in the Tower," Edward V and his little brother, the Duke of York, were her first cousins, while her only brother, Edward, Earl of Warwick, was judicially murdered by Henry VII to ensure his own possession of the Crown.<br />
The list of tragedies in the family of the Blessed Margaret is still far from complete, but sufficient instances have been given to justify the description we have given of her whole career. Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was born at Farley Castle, near Bath, on 14th August, in or about the year 1473. Her mother, Isabel, daughter of the above-mentioned "King-maker," died 22nd December, 1476, and her father in the Tower nearly two years later. During the reign of Edward IV, little Margaret and her brother were brought up at Sheen, with the children of her uncle, King Edward IV. At his death, Margaret and Edward, after a short stay at Warwick Castle—their ancestral home—resided for a short time at the Court of Richard III. When the crook-back King's son died, the youthful Earl of Warwick became de jure heir to the Crown, and Margaret, his sister, in the same way, Princess Royal. These short-lived honours, however, ended in 1485, when the victory of Bosworth gave the Throne to the Tudor Adventurer who, as Henry VII was to introduce a new dynasty and the oldest and most repulsive form of Oriental despotism into the realm!<br />
England, as the late Mr. J. M. Kerr shows in his well-known Elements of Public Law, was as practically free in 1485 as she was in the nineteenth century. By the time of the death of Harry Tudor's appalling son, the country had become as abject and prostrate as any of the dominions of contemporary Sultans or Rajahs! In 1491, when Margaret was about eighteen years of age, she was married by the King, Henry VII, to a distant relative and thorough-going supporter of his own, Sir Richard Pole. The Order of the Garter was conferred upon this gentleman, who hailed from Buckinghamshire, and in 1486, on the birth of Prince Arthur, the King's eldest son, he received the high position of Governor to the Prince of Wales.<br />
Lady Pole, as she was now, appears to have been happy in her union. Five children were born of the marriage, and both she and her husband stood high in the favour of the cold and calculating King. But one dark cloud hung ever over her. All this time her unhappy brother, the true heir to the Crown, lay in the Tower, his only "crime," of course, being that summed up in the phrase, "the right of the first-born is his!" Secluded from all society, and most shamefully neglected, the poor young Earl of Warwick grew up in almost total ignorance and simplicity, so as not to know, as men said, "a goose from a capon." Once, to expose the Lambert Simnel pretensions by the most convincing of all proofs, Henry caused the unhappy youth to be paraded through London, and this show duly over, the royal captive was again consigned to his lonely prison.<br />
Then in 1499, came his alleged attempt to escape, together with another claimant, the plebeian Perkin Warbeck, and the cruel and selfish despot had a plausible pretext for bringing the "last of the Plantagenets to the scaffold." This was one of the most brutal and callous State murders in the whole of English history, and the absence of any sort of protest either from the servile hierarchy or the upstart lords that bowed down before Henry's throne, shows how deeply the nation had already sunk in political and social slavery! The decapitated corpse of the young and perfectly innocent Earl, thus foully done to death, was interred at Bisham Priory, near Maidenhead, a place where his grief-stricken sister was to find a home nearer the end of her own sorrow-laden and tragic life. When the sickly Arthur married Catharine of Aragon, and went to keep his short-lived Court at Ludlow Castle, Lady Pole became one of the ladies of the Princess of Wales. The appointment must have carried with it poignant reflections on both sides. For Catharine herself believed—and was later bitterly to make her foreboding known—that no good could come of her union with the scion of the Tudor House, since that union had been brought about by the price of innocent blood! For the "most Catholic"—and most calculating—King Ferdinand VII, her father, had made it one of the conditions of his daughter's nuptials, that there should be no claimants to the English Crown. His royal brother of England had forthwith nobly obliged by presenting to the Monarch of Castile and Aragon, the head of the innocent Warwick on a charger—and "all went merry as a marriage-bell"—for a time! Catharine on her side, soon conceived a great affection for the sister of one so cruelly sacrificed to make smooth her own matrimonial path. She did all she could to forward the interests of the Pole family, notably after the death of Sir Richard in 1503.<br />
There can also be little doubt that when, in November, 1513, Parliament reversed the infamous Act of Attainder passed on her murdered brother and restored to Margaret's family the title and estates, forfeited on that iniquitous occasion, the excellent Queen Catharine again proved herself a friend at Court, and facilitated by her influence the partial undoing of this hideous murder by statute. When the Princess Mary, afterwards Queen, was baptized in the Church of the Franciscan Observants at Greenwich, the Countess of Salisbury—as Lady Margaret Pole had now become, owing to the reversal of her brother's attainder, and the restoration of the ancestral honours—held the child at the font. Nine years later, she was nominated Governess of the Princess, and appointed to preside over the Court of the little royal lady at Ludlow Castle, one of the official residences of the Princes and Princesses of Wales. Meanwhile the children of the Lady Salisbury were growing up, and the most interesting of them was undoubtedly Reginald, the future Cardinal and last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. Endowed by Providence with great personal beauty and rare mental gifts, he possessed what was greater than these, that sense of principle, and that elevated moral standard which were so conspicuously lacking to the ruling and upper classes throughout the Tudor period. A boy Bachelor of Oxford at the age of fifteen, he had afterwards studied the Canon Law at Padua. The world, indeed, was at the feet of this singularly gifted youth. Henry was to think of making him Archbishop of York after the death of Wolsey, and still later was even more intensely to think of having him assassinated! Meanwhile, as a most winsome and delectable youth, he was a decided "catch" from the matrimonial point of view, and good Queen Catharine, ever eager to serve a family that had suffered so much through her, but surely not by her, had ideas of marrying the Princess Mary to the brilliant son of her almost lifelong friend.<br />
The "future" of the much-discussed Reginald, however, was settled, and settled finally by the complications and menaces of the royal divorce question which became acute about 1527-8. A little later, the French Ambassador Castillon, horrified at the well-nigh weekly slaughter that had become almost a mere incident in the life of England at this period, exclaimed: "I think few Lords feel safe in this country!" Reginald Pole, to whom the King looked for learned and moral support at this crisis, was certainly one of the majority, so to save his head, he prudently withdrew to the Continent, under the pretext of pursuing his theological studies. The immediate effect of the King's divorce and subsequent marriage with Anne Boleyn, was to deprive the Countess of Salisbury of her post of Governess to the Princess Mary, and, indeed, to cause her forcible separation from her charge to whom she had become tenderly attached. Robbed thus of the friends of her youth—doomed to see many of them die in prison or on the scaffold—herself declared illegitimate and deprived of her just rights—is it any wonder that Mary learnt to loathe the very name of the "Reformation?" For from the first, its aiders and abetters ever showed themselves the thick and thin supporters of despotism—the despotism that plundered the church and the poor—cynically gave the "people" a Bible which most of them could neither read nor understand—and filled the whole country with nauseating phrases and catchwords redolent of cant and hypocrisy! All this has to be borne in mind in judging of the Queen of "bloody" memory.<br />
After the breaking up of the Princess Mary's household, Lady Salisbury went to live for a time at Bisham, close to her murdered brother's "last long home." The greater Abbeys, as is well-known, were not suppressed till 1539, but for many months before this, it was generally understood throughout England that the Religious Houses were doomed. Henry's prodigality was enormous, and his meretricious Court and the host of extravagances its pleasures—noble and ignoble—entailed, made him cast envious eyes on the age—long monastic Foundations and their material possessions. This was quite apart from their known dislike of his schismatical policy, and so the fate of Abbeys and Priories was soon sealed. The Priory of Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Bisham was dear to Lady Salisbury and her family, apart from its sacred character, and the fact that the remains of their murdered relative, the ill-fated Earl of Warwick, lay buried within its precincts. For it had been founded by William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of Edward III, and so might almost be regarded as a quasi possession of the house. Lady Salisbury now advised the Prior not to resign the Priory unless the inevitable occurred, when, of course, all would be able to see that the dissolution had been made by force. The said Prior was ejected to make way for the notorious William Barlow, who shortly afterwards "surrendered" the House to the King. The year that saw the passing of Bisham and the rest of the abodes of "the Monks of Old," was the year of the appearance of Reginald Pole's treatise De Unitate Ecclesiastical The book gave the lie to almost every one of Henry's recent declarations on the subject of the Church, and in arraigning him at the bar of ecclesiastical history and Catholic doctrine, exposed him to the condemnation of Europe. The rage of the royal Nero, of course, knew no bounds. In vain did he command Pole to return to England without excuse or delay so as to lose his head! Equally in vain did he instruct Sir Thomas Wyatt and other of his agents abroad, to have his daring relative assassinated.1 Pole was now a Cardinal and busy pushing forward the initial negotiations and arrangements that were to prepare the way for the Council of Trent. His office as Legate to the Low Countries was all in the same direction—to make peace between the Emperor and France, and so facilitate the opening of the Council that was to do so much to heal the wounds of Holy Church. He was not, as Lingard shows (History, vol. v., chap. ii.), engineering a crusade against the Tudor Monster, though, no doubt, the thought of such a movement was uppermost In many minds. Unable either to get the Cardinal in his toils or murdered out of hand, Henry struck at his kinsfolk and acquaintances. In November, 1538, Henry Lord Montague, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Edmund Neville, the Marquis of Exeter, and Sir Nicholas Carew, were lodged in the Tower on the usual charge of "Treason." Historic accuracy compels us to admit that Cardinal Pole, like Lord Stafford in 1680, was not "a man beloved of his own relatives," at least in this crisis. His own mother had seen the danger likely to arise from his book and had even spoken of him as "a traitor." His brother, Lord Montague had likewise written letters of remonstrance to him. Needless to say all this was largely pro forma to divert Henry's fatal wrath, but whatever was the object all was in vain, and this crowd of noble personages, except Sir Geoffrey Pole, were done to death after the usual judicial mummery on Tower Hill, 3rd January, 1539.<br />
Before being officially murdered, Lord Montague asked for absolution for having taken the Oath of Supremacy, and this fact is said to have sealed his fate. The "execution" of these gentlemen, as usual, caused universal horror, and Henry was widely compared to the worst of the persecutors in the days of pagan Rome, though that heathen city, at least, had the advantage of a Pretorian Guard to deliver its citizens from their tyrants when these got past all bearing. While her family was being prepared for the slaughter—to make a Tudor holiday—the now aged Countess of Salisbury was living in retirement at Warblington, near Havant in Hampshire. She was arrested there by Fitz William, Earl of Southampton, and Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, 13th November, 1538, and almost immediately removed to Cowdray, Sussex. Here she remained several months, being treated by the Earl of Southampton, her jailer, with great harshness. Her trunks and coffer were searched, and in one of these was found a tunic or "vestment," embroidered with the Five Wounds. It looks as if an ordinary tabard adorned with one of the devices of the Plantaganets, Margaret's ancestors, had come to light, but Cromwell and his Master affected to see in this old raiment a traitorous connection with the "Pilgrimage of Grace," the banner of which was a representation of Our Lord's Wounds. Another murder by Act of Parliament, of course, went forward, and on 28th June, 1539, the Countess of Salisbury, her eldest son, the Marquis of Exeter, and a number of other persons of lesser degree, including three Irish priests "for carrying letters to the Pope," were added to the "attainted" victims of the King. The news of his dear mother's condemnation greatly affected the Cardinal. "You have heard, I believe, of my mother being condemned by public Council to death, or rather to eternal life," he wrote on 22nd September, of the same year. "Not only has he who condemned her, condemned to death a woman of seventy—than whom he has no nearer relative, except his daughter, and of whom he used to say there was no holier woman in his kingdom—but at the same time her grandson, son of my brother, a child, the remaining hope of our race.1 See how far this tyranny has gone, which began with priests, in whose order it only consumed the best, then [went on] to nobles, and there, too, destroyed the best." (Epistolae Poli, ii, 191.) On the very day that the obsequious Divan, misnamed Parliament, passed the Bill of Attainder, Margaret was transferred from Cowdray to the Tower. There for two years, she suffered much from cold and neglect, for she had been hurried to London without any time to make the necessary preparations. At last it was resolved to add her venerable name to those of the other martyrs of the Faith. She was sacrificed out of hatred to her son, the great champion of the Church, whose discourses and writings had done so much to expose to the world the villainies of the Tudor Tiberius and his Sejanus, Thomas Cromwell, and make all just men shrink with horror at the very mention of the names of these two oppressors of the human race. The Countess of Salisbury was taken to East Smithfield early in the morning of 28th May, 1541, and there beheaded on a low block or log in the presence of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and a few other spectators. The regular headsman was away from London at the time, and his deputy, an unskilful lout, hacked at the blessed Martyr in such a way as to give some foundation to the story afterwards made current by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, that she had refused to lay her head on the block and was, therefore, struck repeatedly by the executioner till she fell dead. Before her death, she prayed for the King, Queen (Catherine Howard), Prince of Wales (later Edward VI), and the Princess Mary Her last words were: "Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice' sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." The body of the Blessed Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was interred in the Tower, in that Chapel dedicated to St. Peter's Chains, whose illustrious dead and historic associations are enshrined in Macaulay's memorable lines. She was declared Blessed with many of the rest of the English Martyrs by Leo XIII, 29th December, 1886. Others than her co-religionists, no doubt, like to reflect that a life, so marked by piety, and so full of griefs ever heroically borne, has after the lapse of nearly four centuries been thus honoured, and that the last direct descendant of the Plantaganet line has her place in the Hagiography of the Church so long associated with their sway. Endnotes 1 Two ruffians nearly carried out the King's benign intention concerning his kinsman, but Pole magnanimously forgave the would-be murderers, and merely sent them to the galleys for a few days. But after this he increased his bodyguard which then formed part of every Cardinal's household, at least in Italy. 2 This "remaining hope of our race" was Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, who after a captivity of sixteen years in the Tower, was among the prisoners released by Queen Mary immediately after her accession, 1553. Had he been "possible," there is little doubt but that the Queen would hare married him, and so saved all the odium and trouble that followed from the highly unpopular "Spanish match." Courtenay, who had probably been ruined in character by neglect and imprisonment, soon left the country, and ended his unworthy life at Padua, 1556. (Taken from Vol. V of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. 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St. Germanus</div>
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ABBOT AND BISHOP OF PARIS</div>
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Feast: May 28</div>
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<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top" width="84"><u><b>Feast Day:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">May 28</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Born:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">496 at Autun, France</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Died:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">576</td></tr>
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</td><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top" width="68%">St. Germanus, the glory of the church of France in the sixth age, was born in the territory of Autun about the year 469. He was brought up in piety and learning under the care of Scapilion his cousin, a holy priest. In his youth no weather could divert him from always going to Matins at midnight, though the church was above a mile from the place of his abode. Being ordained priest by St. Agrippinus bishop of Autun, he was made abbot of St. Symphorian's in the suburbs of that city, a house since converted into a priory of regular canons. Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers, who was well acquainted with our saint, tells us that he was favored at that time with the gifts of miracles and prophecy. It was his custom to watch great part of the night in the church in prayer, while his monks slept. One night in a dream he thought a venerable old man presented him with the keys of the city of Paris and said to him, that God committed to his care the inhabitants of that city, that he should save them from perishing. Four years after this divine admonition, in 554, happening to be at Paris when that see became vacant, on the demise of the bishop Eusebius, he was exalted to the episcopal chair, though he endeavored by many tears to decline the charge. His promotion made no alteration in his continual fasts and other austerities; and the same simplicity and frugality appeared in his dress, table, and furniture. In the evening at nine o'clock he went to the church, and staved there in prayer till after Matins, that is, in summer till about break of day His house was perpetually crowded with the poor and the afflicted. and he had always many beggars at his own table, at which no dainty meats were ever served; he took care that the souls of his guests should be refreshed at the same time with their bodies, by the reading of some pious book. God gave to his sermons a wonderful influence over the minds of ale ranks of people; so that the face of the whole city was in a very short time quite changed. Vanities were abolished, dances and profane amusements laid aside, enmities and discord extinguished, and sinners reclaimed. King Childebert, who till then had been an ambitious worldly prince, by the sweetness and the powerful discourses of the saint, was entirely converted to piety, and by his advice reformed his whole court. And so desirous did that prince become of exchanging the perishing goods of this world for eternal treasures, that, not content with making many religious foundations, to be nurseries of piety in all succeeding ages, and with sending incredible sums of money to the good bishop, to be distributed among the indigent after his coffers were drained he melted down his silver plate, and gave away the chains which he wore about his neck, begging the bishop, whom he made the steward of his charities, never to cease giving, assuring him that on his side he should never be tired with supplying all things for the relief and comfort of the distressed.<br />
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In the year 542, king Childebert, together with his brother Clotaire, making war in Spain, besieged Saragossa. The inhabitants of that city reposed a particular confidence in the patronage of St. Vincent, whose relics they carried in procession within sight of the French camp. King Childebert was moved with their devotion, and desiring to speak with the bishop of the city, promised to withdraw his army, on condition he might obtain some portion of the relics of St. Vincent. The bishop gave him the stole which that holy deacon wore at the altar. Upon which the king raised the siege, and, at his return to Paris, built a church in honor of St. Vincent, and of the Holy Cross; which is now called St. Germain's in the meadows, and stands in the suburbs of Paris. Childebert falling sick at his palace at Celles, near Melun, at the confluence of the Yon and Seine, St. Germanus paid him a visit; and when the physicians had in vain tried every thing, all human means failing, the saint spent the whole night in prayer for his recovery, and in the morning laid his hands on him; and at the same moment the king found himself perfectly healed. The king relates himself this miracle in his letters patent, in which, in gratitude to God for this benefit, he gave to the church of Paris and the bishop Germanus, the land of Celles, where he had received this favor. The good king did not long survive. As the king had chosen the church of St. Vincent for the place of his burial, the saint, assisted by six other bishops, performed the ceremony of the dedication on the 23d of December, 558, the very day on which that prince died. The king likewise had built a large monastery joining to this new church, which he endowed most liberally with the fief of Issy and other lands, on part of which a considerable suburb of Paris has been since built. This magnificent edifice was called the Golden Church, the walls being covered on the outside with plates of brass gilt, and within adorned with paintings on a rich gilt ground.1 This church was plundered by the Normans, in 845, 857, 858, and set on fire by them in 861 and 881; but rebuilt in 1014, and dedicated by pope Alexander III. in 1163. The lower part of the great tower and its gate with the statues of Clovis, Clodomir, Thierri, Childebert and his wife Ultrogotta, Clotaire, and others, seem to be as old as the time of king Childebert. This prince committed the monastery and church to the care of our saint, who placed there monks under the holy abbot Droctoveus, whom he had invited from Autun, where he had formed him to a religious life. Clotaire, who succeeded his brother Childebert, was the last of the sons of the great Clovis; and united again the four kingdoms of France into one monarchy. On his removing from Soissons to Paris, he at first seemed to treat the holy bishop coldly; but falling ill soon after of a violent fever, was put in mind by some that were about him to send for St. Germanus. He did so, and full of confidence in the power of God and the sanctity of his servant, took hold of his clothes and applied them to the parts of his body where he felt pain, and recovered immediately. From that moment he always treated the saint even with greater honor than Childebert had done. But that prince dying shortly after, in 561, his four sons, Charibert, Gontran, Sigebert, and Chilperic, divided the French monarchy into four kingdoms, in the same manner as the sons of Clovis had done. That of Paris was given to Charibert or Aribert, Gontran was king of Orleans and Burgundy, Sigebert of Austrasia, and Chilperic of Soissons. Charibert sunk into a vicious indolence, yet was obstinate and headstrong in his passions not being divested of all the prejudices of paganism, he divorced his wife Ingoberga, and took to wife Marcovesa her maid, who had worn a religious habit; and after her death, he married her sister Merofleda, Ingoberga being still living. Our saint many ways endeavored to make him sensible of the enormity of his crimes; but finding all his remonstrances lost on him, he proceeded so far as to excommunicate him and the accomplice of his sin, to hinder at least the dangerous influence of his scandalous example. The sinners were hardened in their evil courses; but God revenged the contempt of his laws and of the holy pastor as he has often done, by visible judgments; for the criminal lady fell ill and died in a few days, and the adulterous king did not long survive her, leaving by his lawful wife only three daughters, two of whom became nuns, the third, called Bertha, was married to Ethelbert, king of Kent.<br />
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Upon the death of Charibert in 570, his three brothers divided his dominions; but not being able to agree who should be master of Paris, the capital, came to an accommodation that they should hold it jointly, on condition that none of them should go into the city without the leave of the other two St. Germanus found his flock involved by this agreement in great difficulties, and the city divided into three different parties, always plotting and counterplotting against one another. He did all that the most consummate charity, prudence, and vigilance could do, to preserve the public peace; yet Sigebert and Chilperic appeared in arms, being fired by ambition, and stirred up by their wicked queens Fredegonda, wife of the latter, and Brunehaut of the former, burning with the most implacable jealousy against each other. The saint prevailed with them to suspend their hostilities for some time. At length Chilperic invaded the territories of Sigebert, but being worsted in battle, fled to Tournay. This victory left Sigebert free liberty of going to Paris with his wife Brunehaut and children, where he was received as conqueror. St. Germanus wrote to the queen, conjuring her to employ her interest with her husband to restore the peace of France, and to spare the life and fortune of a brother, whose ruin and blood would cry to heaven for vengeance. But Brunehaut's passion rendered her deaf to all remonstrances, and Sigebert was determined by her furious counsels to besiege Tournay. As he was setting out for this enterprise, he was met by St. Germanus, who told him that if he forgave his brother, he should return victorious; but if he was bent on his death, divine justice would overtake him, and his own death should prevent the execution of his unnatural design. Sigebert allowed this wholesome advice no weight; but the event showed that God had put these words in the mouth of the good bishop; for queen Fredegonda, enraged at the desperate posture of her husband's.<br />
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affairs, hired two assassins, who dispatched him with poisoned daggers, while he made a halt in his march at Vitri, in 575, after he had reigned fourteen years, with some reputation of humanity, as Fortunatus tells us.<br />
Chilperic, by his tyranny and oppressions, deserved to be styled the French Nero, as St. Gregory of Tours calls him. He sacrificed his own children by former wives to the fury of Fredegonda, but having discovered her infidelity to him, he was, by her contrivance, murdered by her gallant in 584. Fredegonda was regent of the kingdoms of Soissons and Paris for her son Clotaire III., and continued her practices and wars against Brunehaut and her son till she died, in 601. Brunehaut governed the kingdom of Austrasia for her son Childebert II., and after his death for her grandson Theodebert; but afterwards persuaded Theodoric, her second grandson, who reigned at Challons, to destroy him and his whole family in fill. The year following Theodoric died, and Clotaire II., surnamed the Great, son of Fredegonda, inheriting both their estates, accused Brunehaut before the states of putting to death ten kings and St. Desiderius, bishop of Vienne, because he had reproved her for her public scandalous lusts, and many other illustrious persons. She had at first appeared liberal, and built several churches; but afterwards became infamous for her cruelty, avarice, restless ambition, and insatiable lusts, to which she sacrificed all things, and employed both the sword and poison in perpetrating her wicked designs. Being condemned by the states, she was put to the rack during three days, and afterwards dragged to death, being tied to the tail of a wild mare; or, according to others, drawn betwixt four horses, in 613.<br />
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St. Germanus lived not to see the miserable ends of these two firebrands of their country. In his old age he lost nothing of that zeal and activity with which he had filled the great duties of his station in the vigor of his life, nor did the weakness to which his corporal austerities had reduced him, make him abate any thing in the mortifications of his penitential life, in which he redoubled his fervor as he approached nearer to the end of his course. By his zeal the remains of idolatry were extirpated in France. In the third council of Paris, in 557, he had the principal share in drawing up the canons. By his advice, king Childebert issued an edict commanding all idols to be destroyed throughout his dominions, and forbidding all indecent dances and diversions on Sundays and festivals. The saint continued his labors for the conversion of sinners till he was called to receive the reward of them on the 28th of May, 576, being eighty years old. King Chilperic composed his epitaph, in which he extols his zeal for the salvation of his people, and their affection and veneration for his person. He mentions the miracles which were wrought at his tomb, and says that sight was restored to the blind and speech to the dumb.2 He was, according to his own desire, buried in St. Symphorian's chapel, which he built at the bottom of the church of St. Vincent already mentioned. Many miracles manifested his sanctity, of which Fortunatus, then a priest, afterwards bishop of Poitiers, has left us a history, in which he gives two on his own evidence. Also two anonymous monks compiled relations of several miracles of St. Germanus, which Aimoinus, a monk of this monastery in 870, and a careful writer, digested into two books.3 The relics of St. Germanus remained in the aforesaid chapel till the year 754, when the abbot removed them into the body of the church. The ceremony of this translation was performed with great solemnity; and king Pepin thought himself honored by assisting at it.<br />
Prince Charles, known afterwards by the title of Charlemagne, who was then but seven years old, attended his father on this occasion, and was so strongly affected with the miracles performed at that time, that when he came to the crown, he took a particular pleasure in relating them, with all their circumstances. The greatest part of the relics of St. Germanus remain still in this church of St. Vincent, commonly called St. Germain-des-Prez. This abbey is possessed of the original privilege of its foundation and exemption, written on bark, and subscribed by St. Germanus, St. Nicetius, and several other bishops. The most valuable work of St. Germanus of Paris, is An Exposition of the Liturgy, published from an ancient manuscript by Dom. Martenne.4 The characteristical virtue of St. Germanus was his unbounded charity to the poor. Liberality in alms moves God to be liberal to us in the dispensations of his spiritual graces; but he who hardens his heart to the injuries and wants of others, shuts against himself the treasury of heaven. The Catholic Encyclopedia</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis wrapped up an intense 1-day apostolic visit to the Italian port city of Genoa with the celebration of Mass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the faithful present for the open-air ceremony in Genoa’s Kennedy Square, the Pope said Christians must never tire of working for the common good, they must never fear going out into the world with Christ’s message of peace and hope…</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Christian prayer is not a way of being a little bit at peace with oneself or finding some interior harmony; we pray in order to bring all to God, to entrust the world to Him,” Pope Francis said on Saturday. He was delivering a homily at an evening Mass in the Italian port city of Genoa. The Mass at the Kennedy Square seafront was the final event of his day-long visit to the city, during which he met the clergy and religious, youth, prisoners, children and staff of a pediatric hospital and lunched with the poor and the marginalized. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Commenting on the scripture readings of Sunday, the Pope explained that in Christ’s Ascensio n “the power of Jesus, the strength of God” is revealed that has “linked earth with heaven for us”. And this power continues even today and will last forever in <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ’s unceasing prayers and intercession for us before the Father, every moment….especially at every Mass.</strong> And “Jesus has gifted this capacity to intercede also to us, to his Church, that has the power and also the duty to intercede and pray for all.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The power of prayer lies in anchoring ourselves on God with our burdens, persons and situations in order not to be submerged by what he described as this “evil of living”. Prayer allows God to enter our time. “<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prayer is intercession. It’s not tranquility, it’s charity</strong>,” the Pope stressed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pope said our power lies not in triumphing or shouting loud according to the logic of the world but in exercising <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the ‘gentle power of prayer’, with which one can even stop wars and obtain peace. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another power of Jesus revealed in the Ascension is that of proclamation. When Jesus sent his disciples to proclaim Him with the power of the Holy Spirit, He trusted us with all our shortcomings. And in this, a great imperfection that we need to overcome immediately is that of closing ourselves. It’s because the Gospel cannot be shut in and sealed, because <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God's love is dynamic and wants to reach others</strong>. Hence to proclaim Him, one needs to go out, come out of oneself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the Lord is it is forbidden to relax in acquired comforts. A Christian is always on the move with the Lord towards other. He is a pilgrim, a missionary, a hopeful marathon man, gentle but intent on walking, the Pope said. The Lord desires that the <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">proclamation </strong>goes ahead with his strength, not with that of the world, with <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the limpid and meek strength of joyful witnessing.</strong> This, the Pope said, is urgent. </span></div>
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The Story of Ruth (1960) 132 min | Drama | 17 June 1960 (USA) Inspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.<br />
Director: Henry Koster Writer: Norman Corwin Stars: Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Radio Vaticana report: “Faith works primarily through charity and without it, it is dead. So I encourage you to carry out your delicate work motivated by charity", said Pope Francis to the staff members of “Giannini Gaslini” Pediatric Hospital during his day long visit to the Italian city of Genoa on Saturday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pope said that he couldn’t miss this visit where children are cared for, because the suffering of children is certainly something very difficult to accept. And added that it is there that the Lord called him to be, though briefly, close to the children and their relatives. "Often and again I ask myself: 'Why do children suffer?', and I don't find any explantion," the Pope said. "I only look at the crucifix and stand still there." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis commended the devoted service of the hospital staff, the President of the Foundation, the Archbishop of Genoa, physicians, paramedics, the various specialized staff, as well as the Cappucchin Friars Minor and all those who assist and help the children with love and dedication and said that they in fact also need their gestures of friendship, of understanding, of affection and paternal and maternal support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This institute is an act of love of Senator Gerolamo Gaslini he said who in honour of his daughter who died of a tender age had founded the hospital by sacrificing all he had: companies, establishments, property, money, and even his home. This is why this hospital is known and appreciated in Italy and around the world and has a special role of continuing to be a symbol of generosity and solidarity he said. In founding of the Hospital he observed, Gaslini said: "It is my firm will that this Institute has the Catholic faith as its foundation and guide [...] that it ferments every activity and comforts every pain." The pope called them to often think of the "good Samaritan" of the Gospel- attentive to the needs of their small patients, accepting tenderly their fragility, and seeing the Lord in them. Whoever serves the sick with love serves Jesus who opens the Kingdom of Heaven he affirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pope hoped that the Hospital, faithful to its mission, will continue its appreciated work of care and research through the generous and disinterested contribution and contribute to all categories and at all levels. He concluded assuring the staff, patients and their relatives of his prayer and blessings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earlier on Wednesday linking-up live via telephone to a parish radio in Genova that broadcasts a Wednesday weekly programme especially dedicated to the children’s hospital, Pope Francis told the little patients that it is with joy that he is preparing to be with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Istituto Giannina Gaslini" is a tertiary level pediatric hospital affiliated to the University of Genoa and is considered one of the foremost children’s hospitals in Europe and is formally recognized as a Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Today I would like to reflect on the experience of the two disciples of Emmaus, of which Luke’s Gospel speaks (Cf. 24:13-35). Let us imagine the scene: two men are walking disappointed, sad, convinced of leaving behind them the bitterness of an event that ended badly. Before that Passover they were full of enthusiasm: convinced that those days would have been decisive for their expectations and for the hope of all the people. Jesus, to whom they had entrusted their life, seemed to have arrived finally to the decisive battle: now He would have manifested His power, after a long period of preparation and hiddenness. This is what they were expecting, and it was not so.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The two pilgrims nourished only a human hope, which was now shattered. That cross, raised on Calvary, was the most eloquent sign of a defeat, which they had not foreseen. If that Jesus was truly according to God’s heart, they had to conclude that God was helpless, defenseless in the hands of the violent, incapable of opposing resistance to evil.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">So, that Sunday morning, these two fled from Jerusalem. In their eyes they still had the events of the Passion, Jesus’ death; and in their mind the painful vexation of those events, during the obligatory rest of the Sabbath. That Passover feast, which should intone the song of liberation, was transformed, instead, into the most painful day of their life. They left Jerusalem to go elsewhere, to a tranquil village. They had all the aspect of persons intent on removing a searing memory. So they are on the road, and walk, sad.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This scene – the road – was already important in the Gospel accounts; now it would become even more so, at the moment in which the history of the Church begins to be told.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus’ encounter with those two disciples seems to be altogether fortuitous: it is like the many crossroads that happen in life. The two disciples are walking deep in thought and someone unknown comes beside them. It is Jesus, but their eyes are unable to recognize Him. And then Jesus begins His “therapy of hope.” What happens on this road is a therapy of hope. Who does it? Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">First of all, He asks and listens: our God is not an invading God. Although He already knows the reason of the disappointment of those two, He gives them the time to be able to fathom the depth of the bitterness that has befallen them. A confession issues from it that is a refrain of human existence: </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We had hoped but . . . We had hoped but . . .“</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (v. 21). How much sadness, how many defeats, how many failures there are in the life of every person! At bottom we are all somewhat like those two disciples. How many times in life we have hoped, how many times we have felt one step away from happiness, and then we have found ourselves disappointed on earth. But Jesus walks with all disheartened persons who walk with their head lowered. And, walking with them in a discreet way, He succeeds in giving them hope again.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus speaks to them first of all through </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Scriptures</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Whoever takes God’s Book in hand will not come across stories of easy heroism, lightning campaigns of conquest. True hope is never at a low price: it always passes through defeats. The hope of someone who does not suffer, perhaps is not even such. God does not like to be loved as one would love a leader, who drags his people to victory annihilating his adversaries in blood. Our God is a faint light that burns on a cold and windy day, and although His presence in this world seems fragile, He has chosen the place that we all disdain.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then Jesus repeats for the two disciples </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">the cardinal gesture of every Eucharist</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">: He took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it. Is not the whole story of Jesus in this series of gestures? And is there not, in every Eucharist, also the sign of what the Church should be? Jesus takes us, blesses us, “breaks” our life – because there is no love without sacrifice – and offers it to others, to all.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus’ encounter with the two disciples of Emmaus is fleeting, but in it is the whole destiny of the Church. It tells us that the Christian community is not shut-in in a fortified citadel, but walks in her most vital environment, namely the road. And there she encounters persons, with their hopes and their disappointments, sometimes heavy. The Church listens to everyone’s story, as they emerge from the chest of the personal conscience, to then offer the Word of life, the witness of the love of God, faithful love to the end. And then persons’ heart burns again with hope.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">All of us have had difficult, dark moments in our life; moments in which we walked sad, deep in thought, without horizons, with only a wall before us. And Jesus is always beside us to give us hope, to warm our heart and say: “Go on, I am with you. Go on.” The secret of the road that leads to Emmaus is all here: even through contrary appearances, we continue to be loved, and God will never stop loving us. God will always walk with us, always, also in the most painful moments, also in the most awful moments, also in moments of defeat: the Lord is there. And this is our hope. We go on with this hope! Because He is beside us and walks with us, always!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A warm welcome goes to the Italian-speaking pilgrims. I greet the faithful from the earthquake areas of Valnerina; those of Massa di Somma, on the occasion of the anniversary of the foundation of the Saint Mary Assunta Parish and the Mayors of the Pinerolese. I greet the parish groups and the Associations, in particular that of the Lyrical Singers, as well as the artists of the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cirque du Soleil. </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">On the eve of the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, may this visit to the Eternal City reawaken the faith and arouse new commitment in charity and solidarity.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A special greeting goes to young people, the sick and newlyweds. Today we celebrate the Memoria of Mary Help of Christians. Dear young people, learn to love at the school of the Mother of Jesus; dear sick, in suffering ask for the celestial intercession of the Holy Virgin with the prayer of the Rosary; and you, dear newlyweds, as Our Lady, always be able to listen to the Will of God for your family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump </span>met in the Vatican<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;"> on Wednesday, discussing issues of peace, interfaith dialogue and religious freedom, as well as the role of the American Church in education, healthcare and support for immigrants.</span></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hMf-4fqJdTI" width="588"></iframe><br /><br /><article class="first-par" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px;"><span id="testo-articolo" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
The American leader spent half an hour in conversation with the Pope behind closed doors in the Apostolic Palace, before meeting with Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States or foreign minister.</div>
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A statement from the Vatican press office said during the course of the cordial encounter, the two men discussed the <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">good bilateral relations</strong> that exist between the U.S. and the Holy See. They also spoke of their “common <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">commitment in favour of life, religious liberty and freedom of conscience</strong>”.</div>
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The statement expressed the hope for a “serene cooperation between the State and the Catholic Church in the United States, which is committed to serving the population in the fields of <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">health care, education and assistance to immigrants</strong>.</div>
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It said the Pope and the President also exchanged views on international affairs and on the promotion of <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">peace through political negotiations and interfaith dialogue</strong>, mentioning especially the situation in the Middle East and the <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">protection of Christian communities</strong>.</div>
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Trump, who was accompanied by his wife Melania, as well as his daughter and son-in-law, is on the third leg of a nine day presidential tour that has already taken him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestine.</div>
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After the papal audience, Trump was taken on a tour of St Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, before meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella and with Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.</div>
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Melania Trump, meanwhile, visited Rome’s 'Bambin Gesù' Children’s Hospital, while the president's daughter, Ivanka, was scheduled to meet with victims of trafficking together with members of Rome's Sant’Egidio lay Catholic community<br />.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1ACTS 17:15, 22—18:1</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After Paul's escorts had taken him to Athens,<br />they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy<br />to join him as soon as possible.<br /><br />Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said:<br />"You Athenians, I see that in every respect<br />you are very religious.<br />For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines,<br />I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.'<br />What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.<br />The God who made the world and all that is in it,<br />the Lord of heaven and earth,<br />does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,<br />nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything.<br />Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.<br />He made from one the whole human race<br />to dwell on the entire surface of the earth,<br />and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,<br />so that people might seek God,<br />even perhaps grope for him and find him,<br />though indeed he is not far from any one of us.<br />For 'In him we live and move and have our being,'<br />as even some of your poets have said,<br />'For we too are his offspring.'<br />Since therefore we are the offspring of God,<br />we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image<br />fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.<br />God has overlooked the times of ignorance,<br />but now he demands that all people everywhere repent<br />because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world<br />with justice' through a man he has appointed,<br />and he has provided confirmation for all<br />by raising him from the dead."<br /><br />When they heard about resurrection of the dead,<br />some began to scoff, but others said,<br />"We should like to hear you on this some other time."<br />And so Paul left them.<br />But some did join him, and became believers.<br />Among them were Dionysius,<br />a member of the Court of the Areopagus,<br />a woman named Damaris, and others with them.<br /><br />After this he left Athens and went to Corinth. </span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heaven and earth are full of your glory.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Praise the LORD from the heavens;<br />praise him in the heights.<br />Praise him, all you his angels;<br />praise him, all you his hosts.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heaven and earth are full of your glory.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Let the kings of the earth and all peoples,<br />the princes and all the judges of the earth,<br />Young men too, and maidens,<br />old men and boys.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heaven and earth are full of your glory.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Praise the name of the LORD,<br />for his name alone is exalted;<br />His majesty is above earth and heaven.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heaven and earth are full of your glory.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />He has lifted up the horn of his people;<br />Be this his praise from all his faithful ones,<br />from the children of Israel, the people close to him.<br />Alleluia.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heaven and earth are full of your glory.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 14:16</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />I will ask the Father<br />and he will give you another Advocate<br />to be with you always.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelJN 16:12-15</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus said to his disciples:<br />"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.<br />But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,<br />he will guide you to all truth.<br />He will not speak on his own,<br />but he will speak what he hears,<br />and will declare to you the things that are coming.<br />He will glorify me,<br />because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.<br />Everything that the Father has is mine;<br />for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine<br />and declare it to you."</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Let us pray</span></em><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Heavenly Father, place deep in our hearts the love of Mary, our help and the help of all Christians. May we</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fight vigorously for the faith here on earth, and may</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">we one day praise your victories in heaven. Grant this</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, you readily agreed to the Angel’s request when you were asked to be the mother of God’s Son, and throughout your life your one desire was to do the will of your Father in heaven. Help me always to be obedient and humble. May I, like you, always have the generosity to follow Jesus, wherever he calls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, by your visit to your cousin, Saint Elizabeth, you joyfully spread the good news of the coming of Jesus into the world. May many young people generously follow your example, and give their lives totally to the service of your Son as priests, brothers and sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, ever since the wedding feast of Cana you have always been the powerful help of all those who have asked your aid and protection. By your prayers, keep me free from all dangers and help me always to rise above my faults and failings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, by your presence at the foot of the cross, you comforted and strengthened your son as he offered his life to the Father. Be with me at the hour of my death, and lead me quickly to the joys of your Son’s kingdom in heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, by your presence in the upper room you strengthened and encouraged the apostles and disciples as they waited for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. May I always be open to the gifts of the Spirit, and may my faith always be deep and living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, throughout her long history you have always defended your Son’s Church from the attacks of her enemies. Be with her again in our days. Help each one of us to be her loyal subjects and to work without ceasing for that unity of peace and love for which your Son so fervently prayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, you have always been the special guide and protector of Saint Peter’s successor, the Bishop of Rome. Keep our present Holy Father in your loving care. Defend him from all harm and give him all those gifts he needs to be the faithful shepherd of your Son’s flock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, the wonderful way you helped Saint John Bosco’s work to grow and spread shows that you have a great love for the young. As you watched over the child Jesus at Nazareth, so now watch over all young people, especially those most in need, and help them to grow daily in love of your Son.</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ninth Day</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, you so often showed great courage during your life here on earth. Help all those who are suffering pain and persecution as they try to worship your Son. Obtain for me a deep love of Jesus, so that my life may always be pure, my service of others generous and loving, and my death a truly happy one.</span></div>
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St. Vincent was of Gaulish extraction, had a polite education, was afterwards for some time an officer in the army, and lived with dignity in the world. He informs us in his Prologue, that having been some time tossed about in the storms of a bustling military life, he began seriously to consider the dangers with which he was surrounded, and the vanity and folly of his pursuits. He desired to take shelter in the harbor of religion, which he calls the safest refuge from the world. His view in this resolution was, that he might strenuously labor to divest his soul of its ruffling passions, of pride and vanity, and to offer to God the acceptable sacrifice of a humble and Christian spirit, and that being further removed from worldly temptations, he might endeavor more easily to avoid not only the wrecks of the present life, but also the burnings of that which is to come. In these dispositions he retired from the crowds of cities, and made for the desired haven with all the sail he could. The place he chose for his retirement was in a small remote island, sheltered from the noise of the world. This Gennadius assures us to have been the famous monastery of Lerins, situated in the lesser of the two agreeable green islands which formerly bore the name of Lerins, not far from the coast of Lower Provence towards Antibes. In this place he shut himself up, that he might attend solely to what God commands us, and study to know him. Vincent reflected that time is always snatching something from us: its fleeting moments pass as quick as they come, never, never more to return, as water which is gone from its source runs to it no more. Our course is almost run out; the past time appears as a shadow; so will that which is now to come when it shall be once over, and no tears, no entreaties, no endeavors, can recall the least moment we have already let slip unimproved. In these reflections the fervent servant of God assures us that he earnestly strove to redeem time,and to be always turning it to the best account, that this invaluable grace might not rise up at the last day in judgment against him. He considered that true faith is necessary to salvation no less than morality, and that the former is the foundation of Christian virtue; and he grieved to see the church at that time pestered with numberless heresies, which sucked their poison from their very antidote, the Holy Scriptures, and which, by various wiles, spread on,, every side their dangerous snares. To guard the faithful against the false and perplexing glosses of modern subtle refiners, and to open the eyes of those who had been already seduced by them, he, with great clearness, eloquence, and force of reasoning, wrote a book, which he entitled, A Commonitory against Heretics, which he composed in 434, three years after the general council of Ephesus had condemned the Nestorians. He had chiefly in view the heretics of his own times, especially the Nestorians and the Apollinarists, but he confuted them by general, clear principles, which overturn all heresies to the end of the world. Together with the ornaments of eloquence and erudition, the inward beauty of his mind, and the brightness of his devotion, sparkle in every page of his book.<br /><br />Out of humility, he disguises himself under the name of Peregrinus, to express the quality of being a pilgrim or stranger on earth, and one by his monastic state, in a more particular manner, estranged from the world. He styles himself The least of all the servants of God, and less than the least of all the saints, unworthy to bear the holy name of a Christian. He lays down this rule, or fundamental principle, in which he found, by a diligent inquiry, all Catholic pastors and the ancient fathers to agree, that such doctrine is truly Catholic as hath been believed in all places, at all times, and by all the faithful. By this test of universality, antiquity, and consent, he saith, all controverted points in belief must be tried. He showeth, that while Novatian, Photinus, Sabellius, Donatus, Arius, Eunomius, Jovinian, Pelagius, Celestius, and Nestorius expounded the divine oracles different ways, to avoid the perplexity of errors, we must interpret the Holy Scriptures by the tradition of the Catholic church, as the clew to conduct us in the truth. For this tradition, derived from the apostles, manifesteth the true meaning of the Holy Scriptures, and all novelty in faith is a certain mark of heresy; and, in religion, nothing is more to be dreaded than itching ears after new teachers. He saith: "They who have made bold with one article of faith will proceed on to others; and what will be the consequence of this reforming of religion, but only that these refiners will never have done till they have reformed it quite away." He elegantly expatiates on the divine charge given to the church, to maintain inviolable the sacred depositum of faith. He takes notice that heretics quote the sacred writings at every word, and that in the works of Paulus Samosatenus, Priscillian, Eunomius, Jovinian, and other like pests of Christendom, almost every page is painted and laid on thick with scripture texts, which Tertullian also remarks. But in this, saith, St. Vincent, heretics are like those poisoners or quacks who put off their destructive potions under inscriptions of good drugs, and under the title of infallible cures. They imitate the father of lies, who quoted scripture against the Son of God when he tempted him. The saint adds, that if a doubt arise in interpreting the meaning or the scriptures in any point of faith we must summon in the holy fathers, who nave lived and died in the faith and communion of the Catholic church, and by this test we shall prove the false doctrine to be novel. For that only we must look upon as indubitably certain and unalterable, which all, or the major part of these fathers have delivered, like the harmonious consent of a general council. But if any one among them, be he ever so holy, ever so learned, holds any thing besides, or in opposition to the rest, that is to be placed in the rank of singular and private opinions, and never to be looked upon as the public, general, authoritative doctrine of the church. After a point has been decided in a general council, the definition is irrefragable. These general principles, by which all heresies are easily confounded, St. Vincent explains with equal eloquence and perspicuity." His diction is pure and agreeable, his reasoning close and solid; and no controversial book ever expressed so much, and such deep sense, in so few words. The same rules are laid down by Tertullian in his book of Prescriptions, by St. Irenaeus and other fathers. St. Vincent died in the reigns of Theodosius II. and Valentinian III., consequently before the close of the year 456. His relics are preserved with respect at Lerins, and his name occurs in the Roman Martyrology.<br /><br />St. Vincent observes that souls which have lost the anchorage of the Catholic faith, "are tossed and shattered with inward storms of clashing thoughts, that by this restless posture of mind they may be made sensible of their danger; and taking down the sails of pride and vanity which they have unhappily spread before every gust of heresy, they may make all the sail they can into the safe and peaceful harbor of their holy mother the Catholic church; and being sick from a surfeit of errors, may there discharge those foul and bitter waters to make room for the pure waters of life. There they may unlearn well what they have learned ill; may get a right notion of all those doctrines of the church they are capable of understanding, and believe those that surpass all understanding."<br />Lives of the Saints by Butler </div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) On the second anniversary of the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed in 1980 by military squadrons linked to the Regime in San Salvador as he defended the poor, <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pope Francis</strong> recalled Romero’s religious fervor and passion for justice while warning the faithful against a ‘lukewarm’ Church. </span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope was speaking during <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mass</strong> at the<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Casa Santa Marta</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis exhorted believers to leave comfort to the side and embrace an energetic lifestyle proclaiming Jesus with joy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He reflected on the liturgical reading of the day which tells the story of Paul and Silas in Philippi where they were followed by a slave girl with an oracular spirit who was shouting “These people are slaves of the Most High God”. This seemed like praise, the Pope said, but Paul became annoyed and cast out the spirit. Paul understood, the Pope explained, that that was not the path to conversion of that city; it was not the Church of Christ. Everyone there accepted the doctrine, there were no conversions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Similar situations, the Pope continued, have been repeated in the history of salvation: when the people of God are quiet, they do not take risks, but are servants of ‘worldliness’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Then the Lord, he said, sent the prophets who – like Paul - were persecuted "because they made people uncomfortable." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“In the Church when someone cries out against the many ways of worldliness, they are given ‘the crooked eye’ as if something were wrong with them, and then they are distanced” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Francis spoke of personal memories from his own homeland recalling many men and women, whom he said, were not supporters of an ideology but “were good consecrated people” who spoke out saying “No, the Church of Jesus is like this....: they were branded as communists and persecuted” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Think of the Blessed Romero.What happened to him for having told the truth? And so many others in the history of the Church, even here in Europe. Why? Because the evil spirit prefers a tranquil, risk-free Church, a business-like Church, a comfortable and lukewarm Church” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In chapter 16 of the Acts it is also said that the slaves of the slave were angry: they had lost their hope of earning money because the slave could no longer divine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"The evil one, the Pope warned, always starts from the pocket. When the Church is lukewarm, quiet, organized, when there are no problems, look to where business is to be made" he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis also focused his homily, on joy. In fact, he told of how Paul and Silas were dragged by the slaves to the magistrates who ordered them to be beaten and then thrown into jail. The jailer threw them into the innermost part of the jail where the two men broke into song. Towards midnight a tremendous earthquake flung all the gates of the prison open. The jailer was about to take his life because he would have been killed if the prisoners had escaped but Paul urged him not to do so because, he said, “we are all here”. Then the jailer asked for explanations and converted. He washed their sores, was baptized, and “was filled with joy”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This, the Pope said, is the path of our daily conversion: “to move from a worldly, tranquil, safe, Catholic” lukewarm yes, to the true proclamation of Jesus Christ; to the joy of ' Christ's announcement. We must move, he said, from a religion that looks too much to earnings, to faith and to the proclamation that ‘Jesus is the Lord'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This, Francis continued, is the miracle performed by the Holy Spirit, and he invited the faithful to read Chapter 16 of the Acts in order to see how the Lord “together with his martyrs” makes the Church move forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope concluded his homily saying that a Church without martyrs breeds distrust; a Church that doesn’t take risks breeds distrust; a Church that is afraid of proclaiming Jesus Christ and of chasing out demons, idols and the lord of money is not Christ’s Church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Let us ask the Lord for the grace for renewed vigor in faith and conversion from a lukewarm way of life so we are able to make the joyful proclamation that Jesus is the Lord” he said. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Tragic news does not cease to arrive about the situation in Venezuela and the worsening of the clashes, with numerous dead, wounded and arrested. While I unite myself to the grief of the families of the victims, for whom I assure prayers of suffrage, I address a heartfelt appeal to the Government and to all the components of the Venezuelan society to avoid all further forms of violence; may human rights be respected and may negotiated solutions be sought to the grave humanitarian, social, political and economic crisis that is distressing the population. We entrust to the Most Holy Virgin Mary the intention of peace, of reconciliation and of democracy in that dear country. And we pray for all countries that are going through grave difficulties, I am thinking in particular these days of the Republic of Macedonia.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Proclaimed Blessed yesterday at Verona was Leopoldina Naudet, Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family. Brought up in the court of the Habsburgs, first in Florence and then in Vienna, from her youth she had a strong vocation to prayer, but also to educational service. She consecrated herself to God and, through various experiences, was able to form a new Religious Community at Verona, under the protection of the Holy Family, which is still alive in the Church. We unite ourselves to their joy and to their thanksgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Observed today in Italy is the Day of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. I encourage support to this important institution, which continues to invest in the formation of young people for a better world.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Christian formation is based on the Word of God. Therefore, I am pleased to recall also that “Biblical Sunday” is being held today in Poland. Read publicly in parish churches, in schools and in the mass media is a part of Sacred Scripture. I wish every good for this initiative.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">And you, dear friends of Catholic Action, I thank you from my heart, at the end of this meeting, for your presence! And, through you, I greet all your parish groups, families, children, youngsters, young people and elderly. Go forward!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">And I extend my greeting to the pilgrims that at this hour are united to us for the Marian prayer, especially those who have come from Spain, Croatia, Germany and Puerto Rico. We turn together to Mary, our Mother. We thank her particularly for the Apostolic Journey to Egypt, which I just carried out. I ask the Lord to bless all the Egyptian people, so hospitable, the Authorities and the Christian and Muslim faithful; may He give peace to that country.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Regina Coeli . . .</i></span></div>
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<br />Marie de l'Incarnation, née Marie Guyart, founder of the Ursuline order in Canada, mystic, author (born 28 October 1599 in Tours, France; died 30 April 1672 in Québec). With two Ursulines and Madame de la Peltrie, Marie landed at Québec 1 August 1639 and established a convent in the lower town (courtesy Library and Archives Canada). Marie de l'Incarnation, née Marie Guyart, founder of the Ursuline order in Canada, mystic, author (born 28 October 1599 in Tours, France; died 30 April 1672 in Québec). Life in France and Spiritual Vocation<br />As a child, Marie Guyart, daughter of a master baker, showed unusual spirituality. Her husband, Claude Martin, died in 1619 after two years of marriage, leaving her with a six-month-old son and a bankrupt business. Urged to remarry, she withdrew into secluded meditation and prayer and on 24 March 1620 experienced a mystical and emotional "conversion." She decided to withdraw from the world, but her sister and brother-in-law called on her to help their failing carrier business. Under Marie the business prospered but visions continued to haunt her.<br />Founder of the Ursuline Order in Canada<br />In 1632, though heartbroken at leaving her son, she entered the Ursuline cloister at Tours. She took her vows in 1633 and taught Christian doctrine for six years. From her reading of the Relations des Jésuites and her visions, she concluded that her vocation was in Canada. With two Ursulines and Mme de la Peltrie, she landed at Québec on 1 August 1639 and established a convent in the lower town. In 1642, it moved to a permanent stone building in the upper town. She worked zealously at educating French and Aboriginal girls, wrote numerous theological and spiritual treatises, an Iroquois catechism and Algonquian and Iroquois dictionaries (see Aboriginal Languages), and kept abreast of public affairs. Although cloistered, she received many notable visitors at her monastery. Canonization<br />In 1980, Marie de l’Incarnation, François de Laval, and Jose de Anchieta (the “Apostle of Brazil”) were officially declared “Blessed” by Pope John Paul II (this process is known as beatification and is often a step towards canonization, or the declaration of sainthood). On 3 April 2014, Pope Francis declared all three saints, using a process known as “equivalent canonization,” which does not require the verification of miracles made through the saint’s intervention. The canonization was celebrated on 12 October 2014 during the Thanksgiving mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, Archbishop of Québec, led a delegation from Québec which attended the ceremony.<br />Text : Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> 18!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> Ah, 18, alright great. I didn’t know. Nineteen is around the corner, so also you have a good number of Papal trips now. Thanks for this moment which is always a strong moment for us and let’s start with the Italian group, Paolo Rodari. I don’t know if you want to say something first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Yes, good evening and thanks for your work because these were 27 hours, I think, of much work. Thanks so much for what you did, thank you. And I’m at your disposal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> Thank you, Holy Father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Paolo Rodari (Repubblica):</strong> Hello. Holy Father, thank you. I wanted to ask you about your meeting yesterday with al Sisi. What did you speak about? Topics of human rights were mentioned and, in particular, that you were able to speak about the case of Giulio Regeni, and do you think the truth will be reached in that regard?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> On this I will give a general response, to then reach the particular. Generally when I am with a head of state in private dialogue, that remains private, unless, by agreement, we say ‘let’s say on this point, we’ll make it public.’ I had four private dialogues here with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, with al Sisi, with Patriarch Tawadros and with Patriarch Ibrahim and I believe that if it is private, for respect one must maintain privacy… it is confidential… but later there is the question on Regeni. I am concerned, from the Holy See I have moved on that topic because the parents also asked me to. The Holy See has moved. I will not say how or where, but we have moved.</span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> Dario Menor Torres, from El Correo Espanol.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Dario Menor (El Correo Espanol):</strong> Thank you, Holiness! You said yesterday that peace, prosperity and development deserve every sacrifice and later you underscored the importance of the inalienable rights of man. Does this mean a support for the Egyptian government, a recognition of its role in the Middle East, and how it tries to defend Christians despite insufficient democratic guarantees from this government?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Could you repeat… what does what mean? I didn’t hear…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Dario Menor:</strong> If these words that you said on the importance of peace, of prosperity and development, saying that they deserve every sacrifice, if we should interpret them as a support of the Egyptian government and how it tries to defend Christians despite insufficient democratic guarantees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> No, No… one must interpret (it) literally as values in themselves… I said that defending peace, defending the harmony of peoples, defending the equality of citizens, whichever the religion they profess may be, are values. I spoke of values! If a person who governs defends one value or defends another, it is another issue. I have made 18 [international] visits. In many of those nations, I’ve heard, ‘But the Pope, going there, gives support to that government,’ because a government always has its weaknesses or it has its political adversaries, and some say one thing or another… I don’t get mixed up (in that)... I speak about values, and every person sees, is a judge if this government, this state, that from here, that from there, carries those values forward…</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Dario Menor:</strong> Were you left with the urge to visit the Pyramids?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> But, do you know that today at 6:00 in the morning, two of my assistants went to visit the pyramids?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Dario Menor:</strong> Would you have liked to go with them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Truly, yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Dario Menor:</strong> Thanks a million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Virginie Riva (Europe 1):</strong> Holy Father, a question possibly starting from the trip and extending it to France, if you accept. You spoke at al-Azhar, at the university, about demagogic populism. French Catholics in this moment are tempted by the populist or extreme vote, they are divided and disoriented. What elements of discernment could you give these Catholic electors?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Great… there is a dimension of “populisms” - in quotes, because you know that this word for me, I’ve had to relearn it in Europe, because in Latin America it has another meaning - there is an issue in Europe and there is an issue of the European Union behind it… that which I said about Europe I will not repeat it here… I’ve spoken about it four times, I believe, twice in Strasbourg, once at the Charlemagne Prize and at the beginning of the commemoration of the 60th. There is everything I’ve said about Europe. Every nation is free to make choices that it believes convenient before this. I cannot judge if this choice is made for this reason, or for another, because I don’t know the internal politics. It is true that Europe is in danger of dissolving. This is true! I said it softly in Strasbourg. I said it more strongly at the Charlemagne [Prize ceremony] and lately without nuance. We must meditate on only that - the Europe that goes from the Atlantic to the Urals - there is an issue that scares Europe and perhaps feeds … the issue is emigration. This is true. But let’s not forget that Europe was made by migrants, centuries and centuries of migrants. We are them! But it is an issue that must be studied well, also respecting opinions, but the honest opinions of a political discussion - with the capital letter, big, with the big ‘Politics’ and not with the little ‘politics’ of the nation that in the end winds up falling. About France, I’ll tell the truth. I don’t understand the internal French politics. I don’t understand it. I’ve sought to have good relations, also with the current president, with which there was a conflict once, but after I was able to speak clearly about things, respecting his opinion. On the two political candidates, I don’t know the history. I don’t know where they come from, nor - yes, I know that one represents the strong right, but the other I truly don’t know where they come from - for this (reason) I cannot give a clear opinion on France. But, speaking with Catholics, here in one of the gatherings, while I was greeting people, one said to me, ‘But why don’t you think big about politics ?’ What does that mean? Well, he said it to me as if asking for help… eh, to make a party for Catholics. This is a good man but he’s living in the last century. For this, the populisms have relationships with migrants, but this is not from the trip. If I still have time later I can return to this. If I have time, I will return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Vera Shcherbakova (ITAR-TASS):</strong> Holy Father, thank you first of all for the blessings… you blessed me. I knelt down some minutes ago. I am Orthodox and I don’t see any contradiction with my baptism, anyway, I see it as a great pleasure. I wanted to ask: what are the prospects for the relations between the Orthodox, obviously Russian, but also yesterday in the common declaration with the Coptic Patriarch, the common date of Easter (came up) and that they speak of a recognition of baptism… where are we on this point? How do you evaluate the relations between the Vatican and Russia as a State, also in light of the defense of the values of Christians in the Middle East and especially in Syria? Thanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> This is Vera Shcherbakova, of the TASS Agency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Christos Anesti! I, with the Orthodox, have always had a great friendship, since Buenos Aires, no? For example, every January 6th I would go to vespers, to the complete readings, at your Cathedral of Patriarch Plato, who is in an archbishop in the area of Ukraine, no? And he… two hours and forty (minutes) of prayer in a language that I didn’t understand, but you could pray well, and then the dinner with the community. Three hundred people, a Christmas Eve dinner, not a Christmas dinner. They still couldn’t eat dairy or meat, but it was a beautiful dinner and then bingo, the lottery… friendship… also with the other Orthodox, also sometimes they needed legal help. They would come to the Catholic Curia because they are small communities and they would go to the lawyers. They’d come in and out. But, I’ve always had a filial, fraternal relationship. We are sister Churches! With Tawadros, there is a special friendship. For me, he’s a great man of God! And Tawadros is a patriarch, a pope that carries the Church forward, the name of Jesus before (him). He has a great apostolic zeal… He is one of the most - permit me the word, but in quotes - ‘fanatics’ of finding a fixed date for Easter. I am too. We are seeking the way. But he says, ‘Let’s fight!’ He is a man of God. He is a man who, when he was bishop, far from Egypt, went out to feed the disabled, a man who was sent to a diocese with five churches and he left behind 25, I don’t know how many Christian families with the apostolic zeal. The you know how they make the election among them. They look for three, then they put the names in a bag, they call a child, they close their eyes and the child chooses the name. The Lord is there. He is clearly a great patriarch. The unity of baptism is moving ahead. The guilt of baptism is an historical thing <em>(Editor’s note: Pope Francis seems to be referring to the historical ‘breach’ between the recognition of baptism between the Coptic Orthodox and Catholic traditions. Neither currently recognizes baptism carried out in the other Church)</em>, because in the first Councils it was the same, then as the Coptic Christians baptized children in the shrines, when they wanted to get married, they came to us, they were married with a Catholic, they asked for the faith… but they didn’t have it and they asked for baptism under a condition. It started with us, not with them… but now the door has been opened and we are on a good path of overcoming this issue, the door…. In the common declaration, the penultimate paragraph speaks of this. The Russian Orthodox recognize our baptism and we recognize their baptism. I was a very close friend as the bishop of Buenos Aires with the Russians, also with the Georgians, for example… but the patriarch of the Georgians is a man of God, Ilia II. He is a mystic! We Catholics must learn also from this mystical tradition of the Orthodox Churches. During this trip, we had this ecumenical encounter. Patriarch Bartholomew was there too. The Greek Orthodox Archbishop was there and then there were other Christians - Anglicans, also the secretary of the Union of Churches of Geneva <em>(Editor’s note: Pope Francis is referring to the Conference of European Churches)</em> but all that makes ecumenism is on the path. Ecumenism is made on the path, with the works of charity, with the works of helping, doing things together when they can be done together. Static ecumenism doesn’t exist! It is true that theologians must study and come to an agreement, but it will not be possible for this to finish well if we’re not walking. What can we do together? Pray together, work together, do works of charity together… but, together, eh! And move ahead. The relations with Patriarch Kirill are good. They are good. Also, Metropolitan Archbishop Hilarion has come many times to speak with me and we have a good relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> She’s asking about with the State…</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Ah, with the State! I know that the State speaks of this, of the defense of Christians in the Middle East. This I know and believe that it is a good thing to fight against persecution… today there are more martyrs than in the first centuries, most of all in the Middle East. </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> Phil Pulella...this question will address the trip, but then let's see where it ends...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Phil Pulella (Reuters):</strong> If I can I would like to speak about another topic, but I'll start with the trip. You spoke yesterday in your first speech about the danger of unilateral action, and that everyone must be builders of peace. Now you have spoken very clearly about the "third world war in pieces," but it seems that today this fear and anxiety is concentrated on what is happening in North Korea...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><br />Pope Francis:</strong> Yes, it's the focal point!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pulella:</strong> Exactly, it's the point of concentration. President Trump sent a team of military ships to the coast of North Korea, the leader of North Korea threatened to bomb South Korea, Japan and even the United States if they succeed in building long-range missiles. People are afraid and speak of the possibility of a nuclear war as if it were nothing. You, if you see President Trump, but also other people, what will you say to these leaders who are responsible for the future of humanity? Because we are in a very critical moment...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> I would call them, I call them and I will call them like I called on leaders in different positions to work on resolving problems along the path of diplomacy, and there are facilitators, many of them, in the world. There are mediators who offer...there are countries like Norway, for example, no one can accuse Norway of being a dictatorial country, and it's always ready to help, to name an example, but there are many. The path is the path of negotiation, the path of diplomatic solutions. This world war in pieces of which I've been talking about for two years more or less, it's in pieces, but the pieces have gotten bigger, they are concentrated, they are focused on points that are already hot. Things are already hot, as the issue of missiles in North Korea has been there for more than a year, now it seems that the thing has gotten too hot. I always say to resolve problems on the path of diplomacy, negotiation, because the future of humanity...today a widespread war destroys I don't say half of humanity, but a good part of humanity, and it's the culture, everything. It's terrible. I think that today humanity is not able to support it. Let's look to these countries that are suffering an internal war, inside, where there are the fires of war, in the Middle East for example, but also in Africa, in Yemen. Let's stop! Let's look for a diplomatic solution! And there I believe that the United Nations has the duty to resume their leadership, because it's been watered down a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pulella:</strong> Do you want to meet President Trump when he comes to Europe? Has there been a request for a meeting?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> I still have not been informed by the Secretariat of State if there has been a request, but I receive every head of state who asks for an audience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> I think the questions on the trip have finished. We can take one more still, then we have to go to dinner at six-thirty. There is Antonio Pelayo from Antena 3, who you know…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Antonio Pelayo (Antena 3):</strong> Thank you. Holy Father, the situation in Venezuela has deteriorated recently in a very serious way, and there have been many deaths. I want to ask you if the Holy See intends to carry out this action, this peacemaking intervention, and what forms could this action take?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> There was an intervention from the Holy See at the strong request of the four presidents that were working as facilitators. And the thing didn’t turn out. And it remained there. It didn’t turn out because the proposals weren’t accepted or they were diluted. It was a ‘yes-yes,’ but ‘no-no.’ We all know the difficult situation of Venezuela. It is a nation that I really love. And I know that now they are insisting, I don’t know well from where, I believe that it’s from the four presidents, on relaunching this facilitation and they are looking for the place. I think that this has to be with conditions already, very clear conditions. Part of the opposition doesn’t want this. Because it’s curious, the very opposition is divided and on the other hand it appears that the conflicts are always worse. But, there is something in movement. I was informed of that, but it is very up in the air still. But all that can be done for Venezuela has to be done, with the necessary guarantees, if not we’re playing ‘tin tin pirulero’ <em>(Editor’s note: this is a Spanish term for trying one thing, then another and another without knowing what one is doing)</em>. It’s not working...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> Thank you Holy Father. And now we go to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jörg Heinz Norbert Bremer (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)</strong>: Some days ago you spoke about the theme of refugees in Greece, in Lesbos, and you used this word "concentration camp" because there were too many people. For us Germans this was obviously a very, very serious word, and very close to "extermination camp." There are people who say that this was a linguistic lapse. What did you intend to say?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pope Francis:</strong> First, you must read well everything that I said. I said that the most generous in Europe were Italy and Greece. It's true, they are closer to Libya, to Syria. From Germany, I have always admired the ability of integration. When I studied there, there were many integrated Turks in Frankfurt. They integrated and had a normal life. There was no linguistic lapse: there are concentration camps, sorry: refugee camps that are true camps of concentration. Perhaps there are some in Italy, or in another area...in Germany, I'm not sure, but you think of what people do who are closed in a camp and can't leave. Think about what happened in Northern Europe when they wanted to cross the sea and go to England. They are closed inside. But it made me laugh a bit, and this is a bit of Italian culture, but it made me laugh that in a refugee camp in Sicily, a delegate of Catholic Action told me, one of the delegates from the dioceses in Argentina - there is one or two in the area there, I don't know which diocese - the heads of that city where the camp was spoke to the people in the refugee camp, and they said: you, here inside, it will hurt you and your mental health too...you have to go out, but please don't do anything bad. We can't open the door, but we can make a little hole behind. Go out, have a nice walk, and this is how relationships were made with the people who lived in that city, good relationships, and these (refugees) aren't delinquents, they don't commit crimes. The sole fact of being closed without anything (to do), this is a lager! <em>(Editor’s note: he is referring to the German name for concentration camp. For example, Auschwitz was a “lager”)</em>. But it doesn't have anything to do with Germany, no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Greg Burke:</strong> Thank you Holy Father.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><br />Pope Francis:</strong> Thanks to you for this work you do which helps a lot of people. You don't know the good that you can do with your news pieces, with your articles, with your thoughts. We must help people and also help communication, because communication...may the press lead us to good things, may it not lead us to disorientations that don't help us. Thank you very much! Have a good dinner, and pray for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Reading 1ACTS 2:14, 22-33</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then Peter stood up with the Eleven,<br />raised his voice, and proclaimed:<br />"You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem.<br />Let this be known to you, and listen to my words.<br />You who are Israelites, hear these words.<br />Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God<br />with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs,<br />which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know.<br />This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God,<br />you killed, using lawless men to crucify him.<br />But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death,<br />because it was impossible for him to be held by it.<br />For David says of him:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I saw the Lord ever before me,<br />with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.<br />Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted;<br />my flesh, too, will dwell in hope,<br />because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld,<br />nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.<br />You have made known to me the paths of life;<br />you will fill me with joy in your presence.</em><br />"My brothers, one can confidently say to you<br />about the patriarch David that he died and was buried,<br />and his tomb is in our midst to this day.<br />But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him<br />that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,<br />he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ,<br />that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld<br />nor did his flesh see corruption.<br />God raised this Jesus;<br />of this we are all witnesses.<br />Exalted at the right hand of God,<br />he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father<br />and poured him forth, as you see and hear."</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. (11a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord, you will show us the path of life.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;<br />I say to the LORD, "My Lord are you."<br />O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,<br />you it is who hold fast my lot.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord, you will show us the path of life.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />I bless the LORD who counsels me;<br />even in the night my heart exhorts me.<br />I set the LORD ever before me;<br />with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord, you will show us the path of life.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,<br />my body, too, abides in confidence;<br />because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld,<br />nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord, you will show us the path of life.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />You will show me the path to life,<br />abounding joy in your presence,<br />the delights at your right hand forever.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord, you will show us the path of life.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Reading 21 PT 1:17-21</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Beloved:<br />If you invoke as Father him who judges impartially<br />according to each one's works,<br />conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,<br />realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct,<br />handed on by your ancestors,<br />not with perishable things like silver or gold<br />but with the precious blood of Christ<br />as of a spotless unblemished lamb.<br /><br />He was known before the foundation of the world<br />but revealed in the final time for you,<br />who through him believe in God<br />who raised him from the dead and gave him glory,<br />so that your faith and hope are in God.</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">AlleluiaCF. LK 24:32</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Lord Jesus, open the Scriptures to us;<br />make our hearts burn while you speak to us.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GospelLK 24:13-35</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That very day, the first day of the week,<br />two of Jesus' disciples were going<br />to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,<br />and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.<br />And it happened that while they were conversing and debating,<br />Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,<br />but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.<br />He asked them,<br />"What are you discussing as you walk along?"<br />They stopped, looking downcast.<br />One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply,<br />"Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem<br />who does not know of the things<br />that have taken place there in these days?"<br />And he replied to them, "What sort of things?"<br />They said to him,<br />"The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene,<br />who was a prophet mighty in deed and word<br />before God and all the people,<br />how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over<br />to a sentence of death and crucified him.<br />But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel;<br />and besides all this,<br />it is now the third day since this took place.<br />Some women from our group, however, have astounded us:<br />they were at the tomb early in the morning<br />and did not find his body;<br />they came back and reported<br />that they had indeed seen a vision of angels<br />who announced that he was alive.<br />Then some of those with us went to the tomb<br />and found things just as the women had described,<br />but him they did not see."<br />And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are!<br />How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!<br />Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things<br />and enter into his glory?"<br />Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,<br />he interpreted to them what referred to him<br />in all the Scriptures.<br />As they approached the village to which they were going,<br />he gave the impression that he was going on farther.<br />But they urged him, "Stay with us,<br />for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over."<br />So he went in to stay with them.<br />And it happened that, while he was with them at table,<br />he took bread, said the blessing,<br />broke it, and gave it to them.<br />With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him,<br />but he vanished from their sight.<br />Then they said to each other,<br />"Were not our hearts burning within us<br />while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?"<br />So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem<br />where they found gathered together<br />the eleven and those with them who were saying,<br />"The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!"<br />Then the two recounted<br />what had taken place on the way<br />and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.</span></div>
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St. Pius V</div>
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POPE AND REFORMER</div>
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Feast: April 30<br /><br /><table border="0" id="table4"><tbody>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top" width="84"><u><b>Feast Day:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">April 30</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Born:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">17 January 1504 at Bosco, diocese of Alessandria, Lombardy, Italy</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Died:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">1 May 1572 in Rome, Italy</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Canonized:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">22 May 1712 by Pope Clement XI</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="bodytext" valign="top"><u><b>Patron of:</b></u></td><td class="bodytext">Bosco Marengo, Italy= Information:</td></tr>
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Born at Bosco, near Alexandria, Lombardy, 17 Jan., 1504 elected 7 Jan., 1566; died 1 May, 1572. Being of a poor though noble family his lot would have been to follow a trade, but he was taken in by the Dominicans of Voghera, where he received a good education and was trained in the way of solid and austere piety. He entered the order, was ordained in 1528, and taught theology and philosophy for sixteen years. In the meantime he was master of novices and was on several occasions elected prior of different houses of his order in which he strove to develop the practice of the monastic virtues and spread the spirit of the holy founder. He himself was an example to all. He fasted, did penance, passed long hours of the night in meditation and prayer, traveled on foot without a cloak in deep silence, or only speaking to his companions of the things of God. In 1556 he was made Bishop of Sutri by Paul IV. His zeal against heresy caused him to be selected as inquisitor of the faith in Milan and Lombardy, and in 1557 Paul II made him a cardinal and named him inquisitor general for all Christendom. In 1559 he was transferred to Mondovì, where he restored the purity of faith and discipline, gravely impaired by the wars of Piedmont. Frequently called to Rome, he displayed his unflinching zeal in all the affairs on which he was consulted. Thus he offered an insurmountable opposition to Pius IV when the latter wished to admit Ferdinand de' Medici, then only thirteen years old, into the Sacred College. Again it was he who defeated the project of Maximilian II, Emperor of Germany, to abolish ecclesiastical celibacy. On the death of Pius IV, he was, despite his tears and entreaties, elected pope, to the great joy of the whole Church.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aVALs3sd5X0" width="640"></iframe>He began his pontificate by giving large alms to the poor, instead of distributing his bounty at haphazard like his predecessors. As pontiff he practiced the virtues he had displayed as a monk and a bishop. His piety was not diminished, and, in spite of the heavy labours and anxieties of his office, he made at least two meditations a day on bended knees in presence of the Blessed Sacrament. In his charity he visited the hospitals, and sat by the bedside of the sick, consoling them and preparing them to die. He washed the feet of the poor, and embraced the lepers. It is related that an English nobleman was converted on seeing him kiss the feet of a beggar covered with ulcers. He was very austere and banished luxury from his court, raised the standard of morality, laboured with his intimate friend, St. Charles Borromeo, to reform the clergy, obliged his bishops to reside in their dioceses, and the cardinals to lead lives of simplicity and piety. He diminished public scandals by relegating prostitutes to distant quarters, and he forbade bull fights. He enforced the observance of the discipline of the Council of Trent, reformed the Cistercians, and supported the missions of the New World. In the Bull "In Coena Domini" he proclaimed the traditional principles of the Roman Church and the supremacy of the Holy See over the civil power.<br /><div class="bodytext">
But the great thought and the constant preoccupation of his pontificate seems to have been the struggle against the Protestants and the Turks. In Germany he supported the Catholics oppressed by the heretical princes. In France he encouraged the League by his counsels and with pecuniary aid. In the Low Countries he supported Spain. In England, finally, he excommunicated Elizabeth, embraced the cause of Mary Stuart, and wrote to console her in prison. In the ardour of his faith he did not hesitate to display severity against the dissidents when necessary, and to give a new impulse to the activity of the Inquisition, for which he has been blamed by certain historians who have exaggerated his conduct. Despite all representations on his behalf he condemned the writings of Baius, who ended by submitting.</div>
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He worked incessantly to unite the Christian princes against the hereditary enemy, the Turks. In the first year of his pontificate he had ordered a solemn jubilee, exhorting the faithful to penance and almsgiving to obtain the victory from God. He supported the Knights of Malta, sent money for the fortification of the free towns of Italy, furnished monthly contributions to the Christians of Hungary, and endeavoured especially to bring Maximilian, Philip II, and Charles I together for the defence of Christendom. In 1567 for the same purpose he collected from all convents one-tenth of their revenues. In 1570 when Solyman II attacked Cyprus, threatening all Christianity in the West, he never rested till he united the forces of Venice, Spain, and the Holy See. He sent his blessing to Don John of Austria, the commander-in-chief of the expedition, recommending him to leave behind all soldiers of evil life, and promising him the victory if he did so. He ordered public prayers, and increased his own supplications to heaven. On the day of the Battle of Lepanto, 7 Oct., 1571, he was working with the cardinals, when, suddenly, interrupting his work opening the window and looking at the sky, he cried out, "A truce to business; our great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given the Christian army". He burst into tears when he heard of the victory, which dealt the Turkish power a blow from which it never recovered. In memory of this triumph he instituted for the first Sunday of October the feast of the Rosary, and added to the Litany of Loreto the supplication "Help of Christians". He was hoping to put an end to the power of Islam by forming a general alliance of the Italian cities Poland, France, and all Christian Europe, and had begun negotiations for this purpose when he died of gravel, repeating "O Lord, increase my sufferings and my patience!" He left the memory of a rare virtue and an unfailing and inflexible integrity. He was beatified by Clement X in 1672, and canonized by Clement XI in 1712.<br />(Taken From Catholic Encyclopedia)</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Your Beatitudes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Dear Brothers and Sisters,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> As-salamu alaykum! Peace be with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice in him! Christ is forever victorious over death, let us rejoice in him!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> I am happy to be with you in this house of formation for priests, which represents the heart of the Catholic Church in Egypt. I am pleased to greet you, the priests and consecrated men and women of the small Catholic flock in Egypt, as the “leaven” which God is preparing for this blessed land, so that, together with our Orthodox brothers and sisters, his Kingdom may increase in this place (cf. Mt 13:13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> I wish first of all to thank you for your witness and for the good that you do every day amid many challenges and often few consolations. I want to encourage you! Do not be afraid of the burdens of your daily service and the difficult circumstances some of you must endure. We venerate the Holy Cross, the instrument and sign of our salvation. When we flee the Cross, we flee the resurrection!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Lk 12:32).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> This, then, demands believing, witnessing to the truth, sowing and cultivating without waiting for the harvest. In fact, we reap the fruits of so many others, whether consecrated or not, who have generously worked in the Lord’s vineyard. Your history is filled with such people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Although there are many reasons to be discouraged, amid many prophets of destruction and condemnation, and so many negative and despairing voices, may you be a positive force, salt and light for this society. Like the engine of a train, may you be the driving force leading all towards their destination. May you be sowers of hope, builders of bridges and agents of dialogue and harmony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> This will be possible if consecrated men and women do not give in to the temptations they daily encounter along their way. I would like to highlight some of the greatest of these temptations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1. The temptation to let ourselves be led, rather than to lead. The Good Shepherd has the responsibility of guiding the sheep (cf. Jn 10:3-4), of bringing them to fresh pastures and springs of flowing water (cf. Ps 23). He cannot let himself be dragged down by disappointment and pessimism: “What can I do?” He is always full of initiative and creativity, like a spring that flows even in the midst of drought. He always shares the caress of consolation even when he is broken-hearted. He is a father when his children show him gratitude, but especially when they prove ungrateful (cf. Lk 15:11-32). Our faithfulness to the Lord must never depend on human gratitude: “Your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (Mt 6:4, 6, 18).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2. The temptation to complain constantly. It is easy to always complain about others, about the shortcomings of superiors, about the state of the Church and society, about the lack of possibilities… But consecrated persons, though the Spirit’s anointing, are those who turn every obstacle into an opportunity, and not every difficulty into an excuse! The person who is always complaining is really someone who doesn’t want to work. It was for this reason that the Lord said to the pastors: “Lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees” (Heb 12:12; cf. Is 35:3).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">3. The temptation to gossip and envy. It is a great danger when consecrated persons, instead of helping the little ones to grow and to rejoice in the successes of their brothers and sisters, allow themselves to be dominated by envy and to hurt others through gossip. When, instead of striving to grow, they start to destroy those who are growing; instead of following their good example, they judge them and belittle their value. Envy is a cancer that destroys the body in no time: “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand” (Mk 3:24-25). In fact, “through the devil’s envy death entered the world” (Wis 2:24). Gossip is its means and its weapon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">4. The temptation to compare ourselves to others. Enrichment is found in the diversity and uniqueness of each one of us. Comparing ourselves with those better off often leads to grudges; comparing ourselves with those worse off often leads to pride and laziness. Those who are always comparing themselves with others end up paralyzed. May we learn from Saints Peter and Paul to experience the diversity of qualities, charisms and opinions through willingness to listen and docility to the Holy Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">5. The temptation to become like Pharaoh, that is to harden our hearts and close them off to the Lord and our brothers and sisters. Here the temptation is to think that we are better than others, and to lord it over them out of pride; to presume to be served rather than to serve. It is a temptation that, from the very beginning, was present among the disciples, who – as the Gospel tells us – “on the way argued with one another who was the greatest” (Mk 9:34). The antidote to this poison is: “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all” (Mk 9:35).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">6. The temptation to individualism. As a well-known Egyptian saying goes: “Me, and after me, the flood!” This is the temptation of selfish people: along the way, they lose sight of the goal and, rather than think of others, they are unashamed to think only of themselves, or even worse, to justify themselves. The Church is the community of the faithful, the Body of Christ, where the salvation of one member is linked to the holiness of all (cf. 1 Cor 12:12-27; Lumen Gentium, 7.) An individualist is a cause of scandal and of conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">7. The temptation to keep walking without direction or destination. Consecrated men and women can lose their identity and begin to be “neither fish nor fowl”. They can live with a heart between God and worldliness. They can forget their first love (cf. Rev 2:4). Indeed, when they lose clear and solid identity, consecrated men and women end up walking aimlessly; instead of leading others, they scatter them. Your identity as sons and daughters of the Church is to be Copts – rooted in your noble and ancient origins – and to be Catholics – part of the one and universal Church: like a tree that, the more deeply rooted it is in the earth, the higher it reaches to the heavens!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Dear consecrated friends, resisting these temptations is not easy, but it is possible if we are grafted on to Jesus: “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me” (Jn 15:4). The more we are rooted in Christ, the more we are alive and fruitful! Only in this way can we preserve the wonder and the passion of our first encounter with God, and experience renewed excitement and gratitude in our life with God and in our mission. The quality of our consecration depends on the quality of our spiritual life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Egypt has enriched the Church through the inestimable value of monastic life. I urge you, therefore, to draw upon to the example of Saint Paul the Hermit, Saint Anthony, the holy Desert Fathers, and the countless monks and nuns who by their lives and example opened the gates of heaven to so many of our brothers and sisters. You too can be salt and light, and thus an occasion of salvation for yourselves and for all others, believers and non-believers alike, and especially for those who are poor, those in need, the abandoned and discarded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> May the Holy Family protect and bless all of you, your country and its entire people. With all my heart, I invoke God’s blessings on you, and through you I greet the faithful whom the Lord has entrusted to your care. May he grant you the fruits of his Holy Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Gal 5:22).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> You are always in my heart and in my prayers. Take heart and keep moving forward with the help of the Holy Spirit! “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice in him!” And please, don’t forget to pray for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis at Mass for Egyptian Catholics in the “Air Defense Stadium” in Cairo on Saturday. </span></span><br /><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>Full text of the Holy Father’s prepared remarks, in their official English translation.</u></b></span></span><br /><br /><br /><article class="first-par" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px;"><span id="testo-articolo" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Today’s Gospel of the third Sunday of Easter speaks to us of the journey to Emmaus of the two disciples who set out from Jerusalem. It can be summed up in three words: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">death</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">resurrection </em>and<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> life</em>.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Death.</em> The two disciples are returning, full of despair and disappointment, to life as usual. The Master is dead and thus it is pointless to hope. They feel disappointment and despair. Theirs is a journey of return, as they leave behind the painful experience of Jesus’ crucifixion. The crisis of the cross, indeed the “scandal” and “foolishness” of the cross (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Cor</em> 1:18, 2:2), seems to have buried any hope they had. The one on whom they had built their lives is dead; in his defeat, he brought all their aspirations with him to the tomb.</div>
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They could not believe that their Master and Saviour, who had raised others from the dead and healed the sick, would end up hanging on the cross of shame. They could not understand why Almighty God had not saved him from such a disgraceful death. The cross of Christ was the cross of their own ideas about God; the death of Christ was the death of what they thought God to be. But in fact, it was they who were dead, buried in the tomb of their limited understanding. </div>
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How often do we paralyze ourselves by refusing to transcend our own ideas of God, a god created in the image and likeness of man! How often do we despair by refusing to believe that God’s omnipotence is not one of power and authority, but rather of love, forgiveness and life!</div>
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The disciples recognized Jesus in the “breaking of the bread”, in the Eucharist. Unless we tear apart the veil clouding our vision and shatter the hardness of our hearts and our prejudices, we will never be able to recognize the face of God.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Resurrection</em>. In the gloom of their darkest night, at the moment of their greatest despair, Jesus approaches the two disciples and walks at their side, to make them see that he is “the Way, and the Truth and the Life” (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jn</em> 14:6). Jesus turns their despair into life, for when human hope vanishes, divine hope begins to shine in its place. “What is impossible with men is possible with God” (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk</em> 18:27; cf. 1:37). When we reach the depths of failure and helplessness, when we rid ourselves of the illusion that we are the best, sufficient unto ourselves and the centre of our world, then God reaches out to us to turn our night into dawn, our affliction into joy, our death into resurrection. He turns our steps back to Jerusalem, back to life and to the victory of the Cross (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heb</em> 11:34).</div>
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After meeting the Risen Lord, the two disciples returned filled with joy, confidence and enthusiasm, ready to bear witness. The Risen One made them rise from the tomb of their unbelief and their sorrow. Encountering the Lord, crucified and risen, they discovered the meaning and fulfilment of the whole of Scripture, the Law and the Prophets. They discovered the meaning of the apparent defeat of the cross.</div>
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Those who do not pass from the experience of the cross to the truth of the resurrection condemn themselves to despair! For we cannot encounter God without first crucifying our narrow notions of a god who reflects only our own understanding of omnipotence and power. </div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life</em>. The encounter with the Risen Jesus transformed the lives of those two disciples because meeting the Risen One transforms every life, and makes fruitful what is barren (cf. BENEDICT XVI, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Audience</em>, 11 April 2007). Faith in the resurrection is not a product of the Church, but the Church herself is born of faith in the resurrection. As Saint Paul says: “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Cor</em> 15:14).</div>
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The Risen Lord vanished from the sight of the disciples in order to teach us that we cannot hold on to Jesus as he appeared in history: “Blessed are those who believe and yet have not seen” (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jn</em> 21:29; cf. 20:17). The Church needs to know and believe that Jesus lives within her and gives her life in the Eucharist, the scriptures and the sacraments. The disciples on the way to Emmaus realized this, and returned to Jerusalem in order to share their experience with the others: “We have seen the Risen One… Yes, he is truly risen!” (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk</em> 24:32).</div>
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The experience of the disciples on the way to Emmaus teaches us that it is of no use to fill our places of worship if our hearts are empty of the fear of God and of his presence. It is of no use to pray if our prayer to God does not turn into love for our brothers and sisters. All our religiosity means nothing unless it is inspired by deep faith and charity. It is of no use to be concerned about our image, since God looks at the soul and the heart (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Sam</em> 16:7) and he detests hypocrisy (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk</em> 11:37-54; <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Acts</em> 5:3, 4)<a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/04/29/pope_francis_in_cairo_full_text_of_homily_at_sat_am_mass_/1308944#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title=""><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</span></span></a>. For God, it is better not to believe than to be a false believer, a hypocrite!</div>
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True faith is one that makes us more charitable, more merciful, more honest and more humane. It moves our hearts to love everyone without counting the cost, without distinction and without preference. It makes us see the other not as an enemy to be overcome, but a brother or sister to be loved, served and helped. It spurs us on to spread, defend and live out the culture of encounter, dialogue, respect and fraternity. It gives us the courage to forgive those who have wronged us, to extend a hand to the fallen, to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to visit the imprisoned, to help orphans, to give drink to those who thirst, and to come to the aid of the elderly and those in need (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mt</em> 25). True faith leads us to protect the rights of others with the same zeal and enthusiasm with which we defend our own. Indeed, the more we grow in faith and knowledge, the more we grow in humility and in the awareness of our littleness.</div>
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Dear brothers and sisters,</div>
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God is pleased only by a faith that is proclaimed by our lives, for the only fanaticism believers can have is that of charity! Any other fanaticism does not come from God and is not pleasing to him!</div>
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So now, like the disciples of Emmaus, filled with joy, courage and faith, return to your own Jerusalem, that is, to your daily lives, your families, your work and your beloved country. Do not be afraid to open your hearts to the light of the Risen Lord, and let him transform your uncertainty into a positive force for yourselves and for others. Do not be afraid to love everyone, friends and enemies alike, because the strength and treasure of the believer lies in a life of love!</div>
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May Our Lady and the Holy Family, who dwelt in this venerable land of yours, enlighten our hearts and bless you and this beloved country of Egypt, which at the dawn of Christianity welcomed the preaching of Saint Mark, and throughout its history has brought forth so many martyrs and a great multitude of holy men and women.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Al Masih qam! Bi-l-haqiqa qam!</em></div>
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Christ is risen! He is truly risen!</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Divine Mercy Sunday is a Feast celebrated the Sunday after Easter. It comes from the visions of a Polish Nun, Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska, that began on February 21, 1931. <span style="line-height: 15.5556px;">In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized St. Faustina and, during the ceremony, he declared:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 15.5556px;"><br />It is important then that we accept the whole message that comes to us from the word of God on this Second Sunday of Easter, which from now on throughout the Church will be called “Divine Mercy Sunday”.</span></span>She saw a vision of Jesus standing and was told to have the image made with the prayer : JESUS I TRUST IN YOU. The visions that speak of Jesus' great mercy for sinners if they come to him lasted from 1931-1938.</span><br /><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">PLENARY INDULGENCE</span></u></b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 15.5556px;">Pope John Paul II established that this Sunday have a plenary indulgence, </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 15.5556px;">In this way, they can foster a growing love for God and for their neighbour, and after they have obtained God’s pardon, they in turn might be persuaded to show a prompt pardon to their brothers and sisters. . . .</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a plenary indulgence, granted under the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the intentions of Supreme Pontiff) to the faithful who, on the Second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, in any church or chapel, in a spirit that is completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin, take part in the prayers and devotions held in honour of Divine Mercy, or who, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed or reserved in the tabernacle, recite the Our Father and the Creed, adding a devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you!”).</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UgoAPCW20QE?fs=1" width="459"></iframe><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sister Faustina was declared a Saint by Pope John Paul II on in 2000. Divine Mercy Sunday was instituted at the same time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It is a universal Feast for the entire Church. The promise of Jesus to St. Faustina was: "I want to grant a complete pardon to the souls that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> on the Feast of My mercy. Whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment."</span></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Our Lord also asked…"I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere.</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>Here are the DIRECTIONS for fulfillment of Divine Mercy promise for the Sunday:</u></b></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1. Celebrate the Feast of the Divine Mercy Sunday</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 2. Sincerely repent of all our sins</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">3. Place our complete trust in Jesus</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">4. Go to Confession, preferably before that Sunday (or within a week)</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">5. Receive Holy Communion on the day of the Feast</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">6. Venerate the Image of The Divine Mercy</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">7. Be merciful to others, through our actions, words, and prayers on their behalf. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>8. Say the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy (Instructions below)</u></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span class="text_exposed_show">1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross, 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and The Apostles Creed.<br />2. Then on the Our Father Beads say the following:<br />Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.<br /><br />3. On the 10 Hail Mary Beads say the following:<br />For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.<br /><br />(Repeat step 2 and 3 for all five decades).<br /><br />4. Conclude with (three times):<br />Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.<br /><br />Then say: (optional)<br />O Blood and Water that gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of mercy for us, I trust in You.<br /><br />Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury<br />of compassion --- inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with<br />great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will,<br />which is Love and Mercy itself.<br />Sister Faustina who gave us the Chaplet from God acknowledges the following:<br /><br />"I saw an Angel, the executor of God's wrath... about to strike<br />the earth...I began to beg God earnestly for the world with words<br />which I heard interiorly. As I prayed in this way, I saw the<br />Angel's helplessness, and he could not carry out the just<br />punishment...."<br /><br />"Say unceasingly this chaplet that I have taught you. Anyone who<br />says it will receive great Mercy at the hour of death. Priests<br />will recommend it to sinners as the last hope. Even the most<br />hardened sinner, if he recites this Chaplet even once, will<br />receive grace from My Infinite Mercy. I want the whole world to<br />know My Infinite Mercy. I want to give unimaginable graces to<br />those who trust in My Mercy...."<br /><br />"....When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I<br />will stand between My Father and the dying person not as the just<br />judge but as the Merciful Savior".</span></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u style="background-color: yellow;">LIKE Us On Facebook <a href="http://fb.com/catholicnewsworld" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fb.com/catholicnewsworld</a> </u></b></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">FOR MORE INFORMATION:</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.thedivinemercy.org/" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.thedivinemercy.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On the Sunday of Divine Mercy, established by Saint John Paul II, Francis reiterated the importance of the experience of mercy, "the concrete form in which we give visibility to the resurrection of Jesus". He also explained the meaning of Sunday ‘in Albis’, and thanked those who sent him Easter greetings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vatican City (AsiaNews) – Mercy is "a true form of knowledge of the mystery we experience," Pope Francis said today, Sunday of the Divine Mercy, the second of Easter, before he recited the Regina Caeli with the pilgrims in St Peter's Square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The pontiff noted that, inspired by the Holy Spirit, Saint John Paul II established a special celebration of the Divine Mercy on this Sunday to remember the time when Jesus appeared to the disciples after his resurrection, giving them the power of reconciliation (cf. <em>Jn</em> 20: 19-31).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis had stressed the importance of this theme in the life of the Church and the world when he convened the Jubilee of Mercy that ended last November.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Saint John writes that Jesus, after greeting his disciples, said to them, ‘As the Father has sent me, so I send you.<a a="" after="" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #666555; text-decoration-line: none;" this=""> he breathed on them and added, ‘Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them’ (<em>Jn, </em>20-21-23). This is the meaning of mercy that occurs on the day of the resurrection of Jesus as [the act of] forgiving the sins. The Risen Jesus passed on to his Church, as its first task, his own mission to bring the concrete announcement of forgiveness to everyone. This visible sign of his mercy brings with him the peace of the heart and the joy of the renewed encounter with the Lord.”</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"We know," Francis went on to say, "that this is known through so many forms: the senses, intuition, reason, and so on. Well, we can also know it through the experience of mercy! The latter opens the door of the mind to a better understanding of the mystery of God and of our personal existence. It makes us understand that violence, rancour, revenge make no sense, and that the first victim of this are those who experience these feelings because it deprives them of their dignity. Mercy also opens the door of the heart and allows us to express closeness, especially with those who are alone and marginalised, because it makes them feel like brothers and sisters and children of one Father."</span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"It favours the recognition of those who need consolation and provides the right words to give comfort. Mercy warms the heart and makes it sensitive to the needs of one’s brothers and sisters through sharing and participation. Mercy, in short, commits everyone to be instruments of justice, reconciliation and peace. Let us never forget that mercy is the keystone in the life of faith, and the concrete form in which we give visibility to the resurrection of Jesus."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Earlier, Francis explained why this Sunday is called <em>in Albis</em>. "The expression was meant to draw attention to the rite performed by those who received baptism during Easter Vigil. Each of them was given a white robe - <em>alba</em> - to indicate the new dignity of the children of God. Even today babies receive a small symbolic garment whilst adults wear a real one. In the past, the white robe was worn for a week, until Sunday <em>in albis</em> [<em>deponenda</em>], when it was removed, and the new members began their new life in Christ and the Church.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After the Marian prayer of Easter time, the pope thanked "all those who sent me Easter greetings. I reciprocate with all my heart by invoking for each of them and for every family the grace of the Risen Lord." (Text shared from AsiaNewsIT)</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p5ILlmCRl_o" width="640"></iframe></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">JESUS said: I will deny nothing to any soul whom you will bring to the fount of My mercy. On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My bitter Passion, for graces for these souls".</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">NOVENA - Say for 9 days (can be said at anytime)</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 1. Today, bring to Me all mankind,especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Me.</st1:place></st1:state></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="391" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J2Ii0YZvaq8" width="640"></iframe><br />Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from it. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.<br />Oh omnipotence of Divine Mercy,<br />Salvation of sinful people,<br />You are a sea of mercy and compassion;<br />You aid those who entreat You with humility.<br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen.<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 2. Today bring to me the souls of priests and religious, and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave Me the strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them, as through channels, My mercy flows out upon mankind</span></strong><span style="color: #212123;">.</span><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in us, that we may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.<br /><br />The fountain of God’s love<br />Dwells in pure hearts,<br />Bathed in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Sea</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Mercy Radiant</st1:placename></st1:place> as stars,<br />bright as the dawn.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company [of chosen ones] in Your vineyard — upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen.<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 3.Today bring to Me all devout and faithful souls, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought Me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were that drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from it. We beg this of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.<br /><br />The miracles of mercy are impenetrable.<br />Neither the sinner nor just one will fathom them.<br />When You cast upon us an eye of pity,<br />You draw us all closer to Your love.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.<br /> <strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Day 4. Today bring to Me the unbelievers and those who do not yet know me. I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></span><br /><br />Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of pagans who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.<br /><br />May the light of Your love<br />Enlighten the souls in darkness;<br />Grant that these souls will know You<br />And, together with us, praise Your mercy.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of pagans and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 5. Today bring to Me the souls of heretics and schismatics, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart; that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church, My wounds heal, and in this way they alleviate My Passion.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of heretics and schismatics. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.<br /><br />Even for those who have torn the garment of your unity,<br />A fount of mercy flows from Your Heart.<br />The omnipotence of Your mercy, Oh God.<br />Can lead these souls also out of error.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of heretics and schismatics, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 6. Today bring to me the meek and humble souls and the souls of little children, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who would keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. Only the humble soul is able to receive My grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.</span></strong><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, “Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.” Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father’s favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.<br /><br />A truly gentle and humble soul<br />Already here on earth the air of paradise breathes,<br />And in the fragrance of her humble heart<br />The Creator Himself delights.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon the souls of little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 7. Today bring to me the souls who especially venerate and glorify My mercy, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over My Passion and entered most deeply into My Spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.</span></strong><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy. These souls are united to Jesus and carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.<br /><br />A soul who praises the goodness of her Lord<br />Is especially loved by Him.<br />She is always close to the living fountain<br />And draws graces from Mercy Divine.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their spirit, overflowing with joy, sings a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God: Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">I Myself will defend as My own glory, during their lifetime, and especially at the hour of their death, those souls who will venerate My fathomless mercy.</span></strong><br />Amen.<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 8. Today bring to Me the souls who are in the prison of Purgatory, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of the purifying fire, that in that place, too, the power of Your mercy may be praised.<br /><br />From that terrible heat of the cleansing fire<br />Rises a plaint to Your mercy,<br />And they receive comfort, refreshment, relief<br />In the stream of mingled Blood and Water.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #212123; padding: 0cm;">Day 9. Today bring to Me souls who have become lukewarm, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Garden</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Olives</st1:placename></st1:place> because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: “Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.” For them, the last hope of salvation is to flee to My mercy.</span></strong><span style="color: #212123;"><br /><br />Most Compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love let these tepid souls, who like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.<br /><br />Fire and ice cannot be joined,<br />Either the fire dies, or the ice melts.<br />But by Your mercy, O God,<br />You can make up for all that is lacking.<br /><br />Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls, who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1ACTS 2:42-47</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">They devoted themselves<br />to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life,<br />to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.<br />Awe came upon everyone,<br />and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.<br />All who believed were together and had all things in common;<br />they would sell their property and possessions<br />and divide them among all according to each one's need.<br />Every day they devoted themselves<br />to meeting together in the temple area<br />and to breaking bread in their homes.<br />They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart,<br />praising God and enjoying favor with all the people.<br />And every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (1) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love is everlasting.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Let the house of Israel say,<br />"His mercy endures forever."<br />Let the house of Aaron say,<br />"His mercy endures forever."<br />Let those who fear the LORD say,<br />"His mercy endures forever."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love is everlasting.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />I was hard pressed and was falling,<br />but the LORD helped me.<br />My strength and my courage is the LORD,<br />and he has been my savior.<br />The joyful shout of victory<br />in the tents of the just:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love is everlasting.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The stone which the builders rejected<br />has become the cornerstone.<br />By the LORD has this been done;<br />it is wonderful in our eyes.<br />This is the day the LORD has made;<br />let us be glad and rejoice in it.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love is everlasting.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 21 PT 1:3-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,<br />who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope<br />through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<br />to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading,<br />kept in heaven for you<br />who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith,<br />to a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time.<br />In this you rejoice, although now for a little while<br />you may have to suffer through various trials,<br />so that the genuineness of your faith,<br />more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire,<br />may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor<br />at the revelation of Jesus Christ.<br />Although you have not seen him you love him;<br />even though you do not see him now yet believe in him,<br />you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,<br />as you attain the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 20:29</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />You believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the Lord;<br />blessed are they who have not seen me, but still believe!<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelJN 20:19-31</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On the evening of that first day of the week,<br />when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,<br />for fear of the Jews,<br />Jesus came and stood in their midst<br />and said to them, "Peace be with you."<br />When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.<br />The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.<br />Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you.<br />As the Father has sent me, so I send you."<br />And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,<br />"Receive the Holy Spirit.<br />Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,<br />and whose sins you retain are retained."<br /><br />Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,<br />was not with them when Jesus came.<br />So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord."<br />But he said to them,<br />"Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands<br />and put my finger into the nailmarks<br />and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."<br /><br />Now a week later his disciples were again inside<br />and Thomas was with them.<br />Jesus came, although the doors were locked,<br />and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."<br />Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands,<br />and bring your hand and put it into my side,<br />and do not be unbelieving, but believe."<br />Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"<br />Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me?<br />Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."<br /><br />Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples<br />that are not written in this book.<br />But these are written that you may come to believe<br />that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,<br />and that through this belief you may have life in his name.</span></div>
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AD 275 and 281, Nicomedia, Bithynia, modern-day northwestern Turkey<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />April 23, 303, Lydda, Palestine<br />Martyr, patron of England, suffered at or near Lydda, also known as Diospolis, in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine. According to the very careful investigation of the whole question recently instituted by Father Delehaye, the Bollandist, in the light of modern sources of information, the above statement sums up all that can safely be affirmed about St. George, despite his early cultus and pre-eminent renown both in East and West (see Delehaye, "Saints Militaires", 1909, pp. 45-76). Earlier studies of the subject have generally been based upon an attempt to determine which of the various sets of legendary "Acts" was most likely to preserve traces of a primitive and authentic record. Delehaye rightly points out that the earliest narrative known to us, even though fragments of it may be read in a palimpsest of the fifth century, is full beyond belief of extravagances and of quite incredible marvels. Three times is George put to death—chopped into small pieces, buried deep in the earth and consumed by fire—but each time he is resuscitated by the power of God. Besides this we have dead men brought to life to be baptized, wholesale conversions, including that of "the Empress Alexandra", armies and idols destroyed instantaneously, beams of timber suddenly bursting into leaf, and finally milk flowing instead of blood from the martyr's severed head. There is, it is true, a mitigated form of the story, which the older Bollandists have in a measure taken under their protection (see Act. SS., 23 Ap., no. 159). But even this abounds both in marvels and in historical contradictions, while modern critics, like Amelineau and Delehaye, though approaching the question from very different standpoints, are agreed in thinking that this mitigated version has been derived from the more extravagant by a process of elimination and rationalization, not vice versa. Remembering the unscrupulous freedom with which any wild story, even when pagan in origin, was appropriated by the early hagiographers to the honour of a popular saint (see, for example, the case of St. Procopius as detailed in Delehaye, "Legends", ch. v) we are fairly safe in assuming that the Acts of St. George, though ancient in date and preserved to us (with endless variations) in many different languages, afford absolutely no indication at all for arriving at the saint's authentic history. This, however, by no means implies that the martyr St. George never existed. An ancient cultus, going back to a very early epoch and connected with a definite locality, in itself constitutes a strong historical argument. Such we have in the case of St. George. The narratives of the early pilgrims, Theodosius, Antoninus, and Arculphus, from the sixth to the eighth century, all speak of Lydda or Diospolis as the seat of the veneration of St. George, and as the resting-place of his remains (Geyer, "Itinera Hierosol.", 139, 176, 288). The early date of the dedications to the saint is attested by existing inscriptions of ruined churches in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, and the church of St. George at Thessalonica is also considered by some authorities to belong to the fourth century. Further the famous decree "De Libris recipiendis", attributed to Pope Gelasius in 495, attests that certain apocryphal Acts of St. George were already in existence, but includes him among those saints "whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose actions are only known to God".<br />There seems, therefore, no ground for doubting the historical existence of St. George, even though he is not commemorated in the Syrian, or in the primitive Hieronymian Martyrologium, but no faith can be placed in the attempts that have been made to fill up any of the details of his history. For example, it is now generally admitted that St. George cannot safely be identified by the nameless martyr spoken of by Eusebius (Church History VIII.5), who tore down Diocletian's edict of persecution at Nicomedia. The version of the legend in which Diocletian appears as persecutor is not primitive. Diocletian is only a rationalized form of the name Dadianus. Moreover, the connection of the saint's name with Nicomedia is inconsistent with the early cultus at Diospolis.<br />Still less is St. George to be considered, as suggested by Gibbon, Vetter, and others, a legendary double of the disreputable bishop, George of Cappadocia, the Arian opponent of St. Athanasius. "This odious stranger", says Gibbon, in a famous passage, "disguising every circumstance of time and place, assumed the mask of a martyr, a saint, and a Christian hero, and the infamous George of Cappadocia has been transformed into the renowned St. George of England, the patron of arms, of chivalry, and of the Garter." "But this theory, says Professor Bury, Gibbon's latest editor, "has nothing to be said for it." The cultus of St. George is too ancient to allow of such an identification, though it is not improbable that the apocryphal Acts have borrowed some incidents from the story of the Arian bishop. Again, as Bury points out, "the connection of St. George with a dragon-slaying legend does not relegate him to the region of the myth, for over against the fabulous Christian dragon-slayer Theodore of the Bithynian Heraclaea, we can set Agapetus of Synnada and Arsacius, who though celebrated as dragon-slayers, were historical persons". This episode of the dragon is in fact a very late development, which cannot be traced further back than the twelfth or thirteenth century. It is found in the Golden Legend (Historia Lombardic of James de Voragine and to this circumstance it probably owes its wide diffusion. It may have been derived from an allegorization of the tyrant Diocletian or Dadianus, who is sometimes called a dragon (ho bythios drakon) in the older text, but despite the researches of Vetter (Reinbot von Durne, pp.lxxv-cix) the origin of the dragon story remains very obscure. In any case the late occurrence of this development refutes the attempts made to derive it from pagan sources. Hence it is certainly not true, as stated by Hartland, that in George's person "the Church has converted and baptized the pagan hero Perseus" (The Legend of Perseus, iii, 38). In the East, St. George (ho megalomartyr), has from the beginning been classed among the greatest of the martyrs. In the West also his cultus is very early. Apart from the ancient origin of St. George in Velabro at Rome, Clovis (c. 512) built a monastery at Baralle in his honour (Kurth, Clovis, II, 177). Arculphus and Adamnan probably made him well known in Britain early in the eighth century. His Acts were translated into Anglo-Saxon, and English churches were dedicated to him before the Norman Conquest, for example one at Doncaster, in 1061. The crusades no doubt added to his popularity. William of Malmesbury tells us that Saints George and Demetrius, "the martyr knights", were seen assisting the Franks at the battle of Antioch, 1098 (Gesta Regum, II, 420). It is conjectured, but not proved, that the "arms of St. George" (argent, a cross, gules) were introduced about the time of Richard Coeur de Lion. What is certain is that in 1284 in the official seal of Lyme Regis a ship is represented with a plain flag bearing a cross. The large red St. George's cross on a white ground remains still the "white ensign" of the British Navy and it is also one of the elements which go to make up the Union Jack. Anyway, in the fourteenth century, "St. George's arms" became a sort of uniform for English soldiers and sailors. We find, for example, in the wardrobe accounts of 1345-49, at the time of the battle of Crecy, that a charge is made for 86 penoncells of the arms of St. George intended for the king's ship, and for 800 others for the men-at-arms (Archaeologia, XXXI, 119). A little later, in the Ordinances of Richard II to the English army invading Scotland, every man is ordered to wear "a signe of the arms of St. George" both before and behind, while the pain of death is threatened against any of the enemy's soldiers "who do bear the same crosse or token of Saint George, even if they be prisoners". Somewhat earlier than this Edward III had founded (c. 1347) the Order of the Garter, an order of knighthood of which St. George was the principal patron. The chapel dedicated to St. George in Windsor Caste was built to be the official sanctuary of the order, and a badge or jewel of St. George slaying the dragon was adopted as part of the insignia. In this way the cross of St. George has in a manner become identified with the idea of knighthood, and even in Elizabeth's days, Spenser, at the beginning of his Faerie Queene, tells us of his hero, the Red Cross Knight:<br />But on his breast a bloody Cross he bore,<br />The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweet sake that glorious badge we wore And dead (as living) ever he adored.<br />We are told also that the hero thought continually of wreaking vengeance:<br />Upon his foe, a dragon horrible and stern.<br />Ecclesiastically speaking, St. George's day, 23 April, was ordered to be kept as a lesser holiday as early as 1222, in the national synod of Oxford. In 1415, the Constitution of Archbishop Chichele raised St. George's day to the rank of one of the greatest feasts and ordered it to be observed like Christmas day. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries St. George's day remained a holiday of obligation for English Catholics. Since 1778, it has been kept, like many of these older holidays, as a simple feast of devotion, though it ranks liturgically as a double of the first class with an octave.<br />Saint George and the dragon<br />The best known form of the legend of St. George and the Dragon is that made popular by the "Legenda Aurea", and translated into English by Caxton. According to this, a terrible dragon had ravaged all the country round a city of Libya, called Selena, making its lair in a marshy swamp. Its breath caused pestilence whenever it approached the town, so the people gave the monster two sheep every day to satisfy its hunger, but, when the sheep failed, a human victim was necessary and lots were drawn to determine the victim. On one occasion the lot fell to the king's little daughter. The king offered all his wealth to purchase a substitute, but the people had pledged themselves that no substitutes should be allowed, and so the maiden, dressed as a bride, was led to the marsh. There St. George chanced to ride by, and asked the maiden what she did, but she bade him leave her lest he also might perish. The good knight stayed, however, and, when the dragon appeared, St. George, making the sign of the cross, bravely attacked it and transfixed it with his lance. Then asking the maiden for her girdle (an incident in the story which may possibly have something to do with St. George's selection as patron of the Order of the Garter), he bound it round the neck of the monster, and thereupon the princess was able to lead it like a lamb. They then returned to the city, where St. George bade the people have no fear but only be baptized, after which he cut off the dragon's head and the townsfolk were all converted. The king would have given George half his kingdom, but the saint replied that he must ride on, bidding the king meanwhile take good care of God's churches, honour the clergy, and have pity on the poor. The earliest reference to any such episode in art is probably to be found in an old Roman tombstone at Conisborough in Yorkshire, considered to belong to the first half of the twelfth century. Here the princess is depicted as already in the dragon's clutches, while an abbot stands by and blesses the rescuer. (The Catholic Encyclopedia)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dZ7_EDVUJ7E" width="640"></iframe></div>
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Pope Francis is among "Time Magazine's" 2017 list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The article contained a short reflection on Pope Francis, written by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; the Full Text appears below. The Magazine list also included U.S. President Donald Trump, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<br /><u>TIME Magazine: </u><br /><i><b>Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? Francis told us in his first interview after being elected Pope: “I am a sinner,” he said. “This the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech.” Before hearing confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica, he kneels in confession himself—because one cannot accompany a suffering world without acknowledging one’s own faults. The same goes for the church Francis leads. Before being elected Pope, Francis gave a speech to his fellow Cardinals warning against becoming a “self-referential” church, rather than one that goes out of itself to the margins of society to be with those who suffer. That is where God is working in the world and where he calls us to be. This has rung especially true this year, as Francis has spoken out on the need to welcome refugees amid a global crisis. As Pope Paul VI once said: “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers.” Francis loves that phrase, and it is precisely because of his powerful witness, in both word and deed, that we listen so willingly to him.</b></i></div>
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<br />BISHOP AND MARTYR<br /><u><b>Feast Day:</b></u><br />April 23<br /><u><b>Born:</b></u><br />939, Libice nad Cidlinou, Bohemia<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />997, Truso (Elbląg) or Kaliningrad Oblast<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Bohemia; Poland; Prussia<br /><div class="bodytext">
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Born 939 of a noble Bohemian family; died 997. He assumed the name of the Archbishop Adalbert (his name had been Wojtech), under whom he studied at Magdeburg. He became Bishop of Prague, whence he was obliged to flee on account of the enmity he had aroused by his efforts to reform the clergy of his diocese. He betook himself to Rome, and when released by Pope John XV from his episcopal obligations, withdrew to a monastery and occupied himself in the most humble duties of the house. Recalled by his people, who received him with great demonstrations of joy, he was nevertheless expelled a second time and returned to Rome. The people of Hungary were just then turning towards Christianity. Adalbert went among them as a missionary, and probably baptized King Geysa and his family, and King Stephen. He afterwards evangelized the Poles, and was made Archbishop of Gnesen. But he again relinquished his see, and set out to preach to the idolatrous inhabitants of what is now the Kingdom of Prussia. Success attended his efforts at first, but his imperious manner in commanding them to abandon paganism irritated them, and at the instigation of one of the pagan priests he was killed. This was in the year 997. His feast is celebrated 23 April, and he is called the Apostle of Prussia. Boleslas I, Prince of Poland, is said to have ransomed his body for an equivalent weight of gold. He is thought to be the author of the war-song, "Boga-Rodzica", which the Poles used to sing when going to battle. (The Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio)<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pope Francis</strong> on Saturday paid tribute to <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">modern day martyrs</strong> whom he said “are the living blood of the Church".</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope was presiding over a Liturgy of the Word at the <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Church of St. Bartholomew on the Tiber</strong>, a shrine to the martyrs of the 20th and 21st centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And, speaking off-the-cuff the Pope turned his attention to refugees who have been forced to flee their homelands because of their faith and said that many, today, find themselves in refugee camps, many of which he said, are like concentration camps, while international agreements seem to be more important than human rights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We have come as pilgrims to this Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Tiber Island, where the ancient history of martyrdom joins the memory of the new martyrs, of many Christians killed by the insane ideologies of the last century, and killed only because they were disciples of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The memory of these heroic, old and recent witnesses confirms us in the awareness that the Church is a Church of martyrs. And martyrs are those who, as the Book of Revelation reminds us, "Are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” They had the grace to confess Jesus until the end, until death. They suffered, they gave their lives, and we receive the blessing of God for their witness. And there are also many hidden martyrs, those men and women who are faithful to the gentle strength of love, to the voice of the Holy Spirit, those who in their daily lives seek to help their brothers and sisters and to love God without reserve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">If we look hard, we can see that the cause of every persecution is the hatred of the prince of this world toward those who have been saved and redeemed by Jesus through His death and resurrection. In the Gospel we just heard (cf. Jn 15: 12-19), Jesus uses a strong and frightening word: the word "hatred". He, who is the master of love, who so enjoyed talking about love, speaks of hatred. But he always liked to call things by their name. And he tells us, "Do not be afraid! The world will hate you; but know that before it hated you, it hated me. "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus chose us and redeemed us as a free gift of His love. With His death and resurrection He redeemed us from the power of the world, from the power of the devil, from the power of the prince of this world. And the origin of hatred is this: since we are saved by Jesus, and the prince of the world does not want that, he hates us and encourages persecution, which from the time of Jesus and the birth of the Church continues to this day. How many Christian communities are being persecuted today! Why? Because of the hatred of the spirit of this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How often, in difficult moments of history, have we heard it said: "Today our country needs heroes."? Likewise, we can ask, "Today what does our Church need?" Martyrs, witnesses, that is, everyday saints of ordinary life, lives lived coherently; but we also need those who have the courage to accept the grace to be witnesses until the end, until death. All these are the living blood of the Church. They are the witnesses who carry forward the Church; those who witness to the fact that Jesus is risen, that Jesus is alive, who witness to Him with coherent lives and with the strength of the Holy Spirit they have received as a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Remembering these witnesses of the faith and praying in this place is a great gift. It is a gift for the Community of Sant'Egidio, for the Church in Rome, for all the Christian communities of this city, and for so many pilgrims. The living legacy of martyrs today gives us peace and unity. They teach us that with the strength of love, with gentleness, one can fight against arrogance, violence, and war - and that peace can be achieved with patience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And so we can pray: O Lord, make us worthy witnesses of the Gospel and of your love; pour out your mercy upon humanity; renew your Church, protect persecuted Christians, grant peace to the whole world, soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ visit to the Basilica of Saint Bartholomew on the Tiber Island (San Bartolomeo all’Isola) featured a Liturgy of the Word for the Vigil of the “New Martyrs” of the 20th and 21st centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During the Liturgy, family members and friends of three of the many new “witnesses of the faith” offered their testimonies about the witness of their loved ones: Karl Schneider, the son of Reformed Church pastor Paul Schneider, who was killed in Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald; Roselyne, the sister of Fr Jacques Hamel, killed by radical Islamists in France last year; and Francisco Hernandez Guevara, a friend of William Quijano, killed in El Salvador in 2009. Mementos of all three martyrs are preserved by the Sant’ Egidio Community at the Basilica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Karl Schneider said his father Paul worked to maintain “a Christian orientation” in German society during the Nazi era. Paul Schneider, he said, was killed because he knew that the goals of National Socialism were irreconcilable with the words of the Bible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Despite his age – he was 85 years old when he was murdered – Père Jacques Hamel was “strong in his faith in Christ, strong in his love for the Gospel and for the people” – including, his sister said, even his murderers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Finally, William Quijano, who organized “Schools for Peace” in El Salvador, “never spoke of repression or revenge against the violent gangs in his country. His friend, Francisco Guevara, said Quijano “never gave up teaching peace… His commitment broke the chain of violence.”</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Below, please find the prepared testimonies of the family and friends of the “new martyrs”:</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Holy Father, dear Sant’Egidio community, dear Christian community,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I want to offer heartfelt thanks for the great honour you paid today to my father Paul Schneider, and for the fact that my daughter and I are able to be here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">My father was killed in 1939 at the Buchenwald concentration camp because for him the goals of National Socialism were irreconcilable with the words of the Bible. The Church has the task of watching over the State. With this conviction, my father strongly opposed any attempt to influence the Church politically. He committed himself so that the German people might maintain a Christian orientation in the state and in society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">All of us, even today, make too many compromises, but my father remained faithful only to the Lord and to the faith. He was a shepherd and a spiritual guide – even in the concentration camp! Until the end, whenever possible, despite torture and suffering, he cried with courage from the window of his cell in the bunker words of consolation and hope of the Bible to other prisoners. This is why he was called “the Preacher of Buchenwald.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And he did not forget us, his family. In a letter from the concentration camp kept in this church, my father strongly affirms his faith in the Easter victory of life. And he writes knowing that my mother, I, my brothers and sisters, are also under the protection of God. My mother's words, even when she was very old, were: “He was chosen to proclaim the Gospel and this is my consolation.” I, as his son, feel this consolation to this day.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading from Revelation 7:11-14):</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lector</strong>: And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.” Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Testimony of Roselyne, sister of Père Jacques Hamel, killed in Rouen, 26 </strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">July 2016</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Holy Father, last year, on July 26, my brother, Jacques Hamel, was killed at the end of the Mass he had just celebrated at Sant’Etienne de Rouvray in Normandy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jacques was 85 years old when two young men, radicalized by hate speech, thought they would commit a heroic act by turning murderous violence. At his age Jacques was frail, but he was also strong. Strong in his faith in Christ, strong in his love for the Gospel and for the people, whoever they might be – and, I’m certain, for his killers as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As your Holiness said in memory of Jacques, in this difficult time he did not lose his presence of mind when, from the altar, he accused the true author of the persecution: “Begone Satan!” Truly, “killing in the name of God is always satanic.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">His death is in line with his priestly life, which was a “given” life: a life offered to the Lord when he said “yes” at the time of his ordination, a life serving the Gospel, a life given to the Church and for the people, especially for the poorest, whom he always served on the outskirts of Rouen. There is a paradox: he who never wanted to be spotlight bore witness to the entire world, [a witness] whose cannot yet be measured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We have lived the reaction of all those Christians who have not yet preached revenge or hatred, but love and forgiveness; we have seen it in the solidarity of Muslims who wanted to visit the Sunday assemblies after his death; we have seen it in France, which has shown its unity around the tenderness for this priest. For us, his family, there is surely pain and emptiness. But it is a great comfort to see how many new encounters, how much solidarity, and how much love has been generated by Jacques’s witness. As he wrote, “Our vocation is to participate in building a new fraternity in a new world context.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yes, Jacques, my brother, with his life wanted to live as a brother with all those who had been entrusted to him; with his death he became to all. Last September we accompanied Jacques’ breviary which is now preserved in this Basilica, and we are deeply grateful for the memory of the witnesses of the faith here and for the solidarity [we experienced]. May Jacques’ sacrifice bear fruit, that men and women of our time might find the way to live together in peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Witness of Francisco Hernandez</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Guevara</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, friend of William Quijano, killed in El Salvador on </strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28 September 2009</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Holy Father, my name is Francisco Guevara, and I come from El Salvador in Central America. I am absolutely certain: Love and friendship enlarge the heart; William, too, had a heart enlarged by hope, and this was his strength. He loved life, and in his friendly way he attracted many young people and children to the “School of Peace.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And on September 28, 2009, he was killed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">What was his crime? He dreamed of a world of peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">William never gave up teaching peace; indeed his commitment broke the chain of violence. He said, “The world is full of violence, so we must work for peace, beginning with children. We must have the courage to be teachers, because a country without schools or teachers is a country without a future and without hope. The Schools of Peace are sanctuaries that place a barrier in the way of violence and poverty. Security is not only achieved with firmness, but with love.” He spoke to everyone about his dream: “We have the heart [<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">anime</em>], the intelligence and the strength to put ourselves to work. And prayer will sustain us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It is surprising that William never spoke of repression or revenge against <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">maras</em> (as the gangs are called Salvador), but insisted on the need for a change of mindset. For everyone. In the children, first of all; and he sought to give them affection in order to show that with the study they could progress, they could have a future – [but he also saw the need for a change in attitude] in young people, in adults.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He had effected just such a change in himself. He could have been one of the many who said, “No, nothing can be done here.” But instead he entered so profoundly into the dream of the Community, the dream of a new humanity, that he wanted to live it to the full. Children could and should change; young people could and should change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">What happened to William, although it is tragic, makes us believe that another Latin America can be built, free from the nightmare of the <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">maras</em>. In the existential periphery, William bore witness to his hope in a different world, based on the Gospel and on more human values, on the centrality of closeness. This is the great gift of the small life of William Alfredo Quijano Zetino, my friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Today the Church repeats, sings, shouts, "Jesus is risen!". But why? Peter, John, the women went to the tomb and it was empty, he was not there. They went with their hearts closed by sadness, the sadness of defeat: the Master, their Master, the one they loved so much had been executed, had died. And you do not come back from the dead. This is defeat, this is the path of defeat, the road to the tomb. But the angel said to them: "He is not here, he is risen." It is the first announcement: "He is Risen." And then the confusion, closed the heart, the apparitions. But the disciples remain closed all day in the Cenacle, because they were afraid the same would happen to them as had befallen Jesus. And the Church does not cease to tell of our defeats, our closed and fearful hearts: "Stop, The Lord is risen." But if the Lord is risen, why are these things happening? Why are there so many unfortunate things happening, diseases, human trafficking, the exploitation of people, wars, destruction, mutilation, revenge and hatred? But where is the Lord? Yesterday I phoned this young man with a serious disease, a well-educated young man, an engineer and talking, to give him a sign of faith, I told him: "There is no explanations for what is happening to you. Look at Jesus on the Cross, God did this with his Son, and there is no other explanation. " And he replied: "Yes, but He asked his Son and His Son said yes. I was not asked if I wanted it. " This moves us, none of us are asked: "Are you happy with what is happening in the world? Are you willing to carry on this cross? ". And the cross goes on, and faith in Jesus comes down. Today, the Church continues to say: "Stop, Jesus is risen." And this is not a fantasy, the Resurrection of Christ is not a party with many flowers. This is nice, but this is not it; It is the mystery of the rejected stone that ends up being the foundation of our existence. Christ is risen, this is what it means. In this culture of waste where what is not needed is thrown away, discarded, the stone - Jesus - is discarded and is the source of life. And we too, pebbles on the ground, in this land of pain, tragedy, with faith in the Risen Christ we have a sense among many calamities. The sense to look beyond the and say, "Look there is a wall; there is a horizon, there life, there is joy, there is the cross with this ambivalence. Look ahead, do not close yourself. You pebble, you have a meaning in life because you are a pebble of that stone, the stone that the wickedness of Sin has dropped. " What about the Church today in front of so many tragedies? This simply. The rejected stone is not really discarded. The pebbles that believe and stick to that Stone are not discarded, they make sense and the Church repeats this sentiment from the bottom of its heart: "Christ is risen." Let's think a bit ', each of us think, to everyday problems, diseases we have experienced or that someone of our relatives; think of wars, human tragedies and, simply, in a humble voice, not flowery, just before God, before we say "I do not know how this will go, but I'm sure that Christ is Risen, and I'd bet on that. " Brothers and sisters, this is what I wanted to say to you, go home today and repeat: Christ is Risen.</span></div>
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1. "Victimae Pascaeli Laudes" Victimae Paschali Laudes is one of four medieval sequences that were preserved in the Missale Romanum published in 1570 after the Council of Trent (1545-63). Victimae paschali laudes immolent Christiani. Agnus redemit oves: Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores. Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus. Dic nobis Maria, quid vidisti in via? Sepulcrum Christi viventis, et gloriam vidi resurgentis: Angelicos testes, sudarium, et vestes. Surrexit Christus spes mea: praecedet suos [vos] in Galilaeam. [Credendum est magis soli Mariae veraci Quam Judaeorum Turbae fallaci.] Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere: tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere. [Amen.] [Alleluia.]<br />English: Let Christians offer sacrificial praises to the passover victim. The lamb has redeemed the sheep: The Innocent Christ has reconciled the sinners to the Father. Death and life contended in a spectacular battle: the Prince of life, who died, reigns alive. Tell us, Mary, what did you see on the road? "I saw the tomb of the living Christ and the glory of his rising, The angelic witnesses, the clothes and the shroud." "Christ my hope is arisen; into Galilee, he will go before his own." [Happy they who bear the witness Mary's word believing above the tales of Jewry deceiving.] We know Christ is truly risen from the dead! To us, victorious King, have mercy! Amen. [Alleluia.]<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V7l517BNCts" width="854"></iframe><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2.O Filii et Filiae O Sons and Daughters (Filii et Filiae) Composed by Jean Tisserand O.F.M. Sung by the Daughters of Mary</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">more common versions. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. O filii et filiae,Rex caelestis, Rex gloriae, morte surrexit hodie.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Ye sons and daughters of the Lord, the King of glory, King adored,this day Himself from death restored.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia, Ex mane prima Sabbati ad ostium monumenti accesserunt discipuli.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia All in the early morning gray went holy women on their way, to see the tomb where Jesus lay.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Et Maria Magdalene, et Iacobi, et Salome Venerunt corpus ungere</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Of spices pure a precious store in their pure hands these women bore, to anoint the sacred Body o'er.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia In albis sedens angelus praedixit mulieribus: In Galilaea est Dominus.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia The straightaway one in white they see, who saith, "seek the Lord: but He is risen and gone to Galilee."</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Et Ioannes apostolus cucurrit Petro citius, monumento venit prius.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia This told they Peter, told John; who forthwith to the tomb are gone, but Peter is by John outrun.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Discipulis astantibus, in medio stetit Christus, dicens: Pax vobis omnibus.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia That self-same night, while out of fear the doors where shut, their Lord most dear to His Apostles did appear.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Ut intellexit Didymus quia surrexerat Iesus, remansit fere dubius.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia But Thomas, when of this he heard, was doubtful of his brethren's word; wherefore again there comes the Lord.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Vide Thoma, vide latus, vide pedes, vide manus, noli esse incredulus. R. Alleluia "Thomas, behold my side," saith He; "My hands, My feet, My body see, and doubt not, but believe in Me." R. Alleluia Quando Thomas vidit Christum, pedes, manus, latus suum, dixit: Tu es Deus meus. R. Alleluia When Thomas saw that wounded side, the truth no longer he denied; "Thou art my Lord and God!" he cried.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Beati qui non viderunt et firmiter crediderunt; vitam aeternam habebunt.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Oh, blest are they who have not seen their Lord and yet believe in Him! eternal life awaitheth them.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia In hoc festo sanctissimo sit laus et iubilatio: benedicamus Domino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Now let us praise the Lord most high, and strive His name to magnify on this great day, through earth and sky:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Ex quibus nos humillimas devotas atque debitas Deo dicamus gratias.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia Whose mercy ever runneth o'er; Whom men and Angel hosts adore; to Him be glory evermore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. Alleluia<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uz9akqofziE" width="854"></iframe>3. Regina Caeli, Chant O Queen of heaven, rejoice, alleluia, Because the Son you were chosen to bear, alleluia, Has risen as he foretold, alleluia! Pray for us, oh, pray to God, alleluia! </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Latin: Regina coeli, laetare, alleluia Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yzMa0qzwagA" width="854"></iframe>4."Allelujah, Sing to Jesus"</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span><br /><div style="color: #0a3f64; display: inline-block; line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.6em; padding: 0px; width: 475.313px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">His the scepter, his the throne;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Alleluia! His the triumph,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">his the victory alone.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Hark! The songs of peaceful Zion</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">thunder like a mighty flood.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus, out of every nation,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">has redeemed us by his blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2 Alleluia! Not as orphans</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">are we left in sorrow now;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Alleluia! He is near us;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">faith believes nor questions how.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Though the cloud from sight received him</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when the forty days were o'er,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">shall our hearts forget his promise, <span style="line-height: 20.4px;">"I am with you evermore"?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">3 Alleluia! Heavenly High Priest,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">here on earth our help, our stay;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Alleluia! Hear the sinful</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">cry to you from day to day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Intercessor, friend of sinners,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">earth's Redeemer, hear our plea,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">where the songs of all the sinless</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sweep across the crystal sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">4 Alleluia! King eternal,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">you the Lord of lords we own:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Alleluia! born of Mary,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">earth your footstool, heaven your throne:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">you within the veil, have entered,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">robed in flesh, our great High Priest:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by your Spirit, left us heavenward,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0a3f64; line-height: 20.4px;">in the Eucharistic feast!</span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/56a4w7XxvfY" width="640"></iframe> 5."Allelujah, Allelujah, Give Thanks"</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Tune: Alleluia No. 1 Meter: 99 and Refrain</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Composer: Donald Emry Fishel Alleluia, Alleluia Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord - Lyrics</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Refrain: Alleluia, Alleluia Give thanks to the risen Lord Alleluia, alleluia, give praise to His name</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Jesus is Lord of all the earth He is the King of creation Ref.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Spread the good news o'er all the earth Jesus has died and has risen Ref.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> We have been crucified with Christ Now we shall live forever Ref.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DyPYJtxu8cE" width="854"></iframe>6."Jesus Christ is Risen Today"<b></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span><br /><div style="display: inline !important;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Easter Hymn (<i>Lyra Davidica</i>, 1708;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ENGLISH:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1 Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who did once upon the cross, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2 Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">3 But the pains which he endured, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our salvation have procured. Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Now above the sky he's King, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">4 Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">praise eternal as God's love. Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Praise our God, ye heavenly host, Alleluia!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia!</span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMwPEmUMP7U" width="854"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">7."At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing" </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">By: office hymn, 17<sup>th</sup> cent.</span><br /><div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Author: Bohemian Brethren</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Tune: Sonne Der Gerechtigkeit</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At the Lamb’s high feast we sing<br />Praise to our victorious king,<br />Who has washed us in the tide<br />Flowing from his pierced side.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Praise we him, whose love divine<br />Gives his sacred blood for wine,<br />Gives his body for the feast<br />Christ the victim, Christ the priest.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Where the paschal blood is poured,<br />Death’s dread angel sheathes the sword;<br />Israel’s hosts triumphant go<br />Through the wave that drowns the foe.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Praise we Christ, whose blood was shed,<br />Paschal victim, paschal bread;<br />With sincerity and love<br />Eat we manna from above.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mighty Victim from the sky,<br />Hell’s fierce powers beneath you lie;<br />You have conquered in the fight<br />You have brought us life and light.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Now no more can death appall,<br />Now no more the grave enthrall;<br />You have opened paradise,<br />And your saints in you shall rise.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Easter triumph, Easter joy!<br />This alone can sin destroy;<br />From sin’s power, Lord, set us free,<br />Newborn souls in you to be.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Father, who the crown shall give,<br />Savior, by whose death we live,<br />Spirit, guide through all our days;<br />Three in One, Your name we praise.<br />Alleluia!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9xNSm5r_2vQ" width="640"></iframe> 8."The Strife is O'er" </span><br /><b>"The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done"</b><br /><span style="background-color: #ffffce;">by unknown author, 1695</span><br /><span style="background-color: #ffffce;">Translated by Francis Pott, 1832-1909</span>1. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!<br />The strife is o'er, the battle done;<br />Now is the Victor's triumph won;<br />Now be the song of praise begun.<br />Alleluia!<br />2. Death's mightiest powers have done their worst,<br />And Jesus hath His foes dispersed;<br />Let shouts of praise and joy outburst.<br />Alleluia!<br />3. On the third morn He rose again<br />Glorious in majesty to reign;<br />Oh, let us swell the joyful strain!<br />Alleluia!<br />4. He closed the yawning gates of hell;<br />The bars from heaven's high portals fell.<br />Let songs of praise His triumph tell.<br />Alleluia!<br />5. Lord, by the stripes which wounded Thee.<br />From death's dread sting Thy servants free<br />That we may live and sing to Thee.<br />Alleluia!<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jGVazujx9Lc" width="640"></iframe> 9."That Eastertide with Joy was Bright" </span><br /><table class="intro" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px none; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody>
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<span class="lead" style="font-style: italic;">Words:</span> Unknown author, 5th Century (<em lang="la">Aurora lucis rutilat</em>); translated from Latin to English in <span class="pub" style="font-style: italic;">Hymns Ancient and Modern</span>, 1861, based on John M. Neale’s text.</div>
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<span class="lead" style="font-style: italic;">Music:</span> <span class="music" lang="la" style="font-size: 14.4px;">Puer Nobis Nascitur</span>, Trier manuscript, 15th Century, adapted by Michael Praetorius, 1609; harmony by George R. Woodward, 1910<span class="musicLinks"> </span></div>
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That Eastertide with joy was bright,<br />The sun shone out with fairer light,<br />When, to their longing eyes restored,<br />The glad apostles saw their Lord.</div>
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He bade them see His hands, His side,<br />Where yet the glorious wounds abide;<br />The tokens true which made it plain<br />Their Lord indeed was risen again.</div>
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Jesus, the King of gentleness,<br />Do Thou Thyself our hearts possess<br />That we may give Thee all our days<br />The tribute of our grateful praise.</div>
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O Lord of all, with us abide<br />In this our joyful Eastertide;<br />From every weapon death can wield<br />Thine own redeemed forever shield.</div>
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All praise be Thine, O risen Lord,<br />From death to endless life restored;<br />All praise to God the Father be</div>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold;">And Holy Ghost eternally.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gA5PUXAS7Fk" width="640"></iframe> 10.Hallelujah Chorus</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The <i>Hallelujah Chorus</i> is part of the oratorio <i>Messiah</i> by Handel, concluding the second of three parts. The text of the chorus are taken from the King James Bible.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In many parts of the world it is traditional for the audience to stand during the <i>Hallelujah Chorus</i>. Legend has it that King George II was so moved by the music that he stood to his feet when he heard it, requiring that his subjects followed suit. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IUZEtVbJT5c" width="854"></iframe></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Dear Brothers and Sisters, Happy Easter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Today, throughout the world, the Church echoes once more the astonishing message of the first disciples: “Jesus is risen!” – “He is truly risen, as he said!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The ancient feast of Passover, the commemoration of the liberation of the Hebrew people from slavery, here finds fulfilment. By his resurrection, Jesus Christ has set us free from the slavery of sin and death, and has opened before us the way to eternal life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> All of us, when we let ourselves be mastered by sin, lose the right way and end up straying like lost sheep. But God himself, our shepherd, has come in search of us. To save us, he lowered himself even to accepting death on the cross. Today we can proclaim: “The Good Shepherd has risen, who laid down his life for his sheep, and willingly died for his flock, alleluia” (Roman Missal, IV Sunday of Easter, Communion antiphon).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> In every age, the Risen Shepherd tirelessly seeks us, his brothers and sisters, wandering in the deserts of this world. With the marks of the passion – the wounds of his merciful love – he draws us to follow him on his way, the way of life. Today too, he places upon his shoulders so many of our brothers and sisters crushed by evil in all its varied forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The Risen Shepherd goes in search of all those lost in the labyrinths of loneliness and marginalization. He comes to meet them through our brothers and sisters who treat them with respect and kindness, and help them to hear his voice, an unforgettable voice, a voice calling them back to friendship with God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> He takes upon himself all those victimized by old and new forms of slavery, inhuman labour, illegal trafficking, exploitation and discrimination, and grave forms of addiction. He takes upon himself children and adolescents deprived of their carefree innocence and exploited, and those deeply hurt by acts of violence that take place within the walls of their own home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The Risen Shepherd walks beside all those forced to leave their homelands as a result of armed conflicts, terrorist attacks, famine and oppressive regimes. Everywhere he helps these forced migrants to encounter brothers and sisters, with whom they can share bread and hope on their journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> In the complex and often dramatic situations of today’s world, may the Risen Lord guide the steps of all those who work for justice and peace. May he grant the leaders of nations the courage they need to prevent the spread of conflicts and to put a halt to the arms trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Especially in these days, may he sustain the efforts of all those actively engaged in bringing comfort and relief to the civil population in Syria, prey to a war that continues to sow horror and death. May he grant peace to the entire Middle East, beginning with the Holy Land, as well as in Iraq and Yemen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> May the Good Shepherd remain close to the people of South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who endure continuing hostilities, aggravated by the grave famine affecting certain parts of Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> May the Risen Jesus sustain the efforts of all those who, especially in Latin America, are committed to ensuring the common good of societies marked at times by political and social tensions that in some cases have resulted in violence. May it be possible for bridges of dialogue to be built, by continuing to fight the scourge of corruption and to seek viable and peaceful solutions to disputes, for progress and the strengthening of democratic institutions in complete respect for the rule of law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> May the Good Shepherd come to the aid of Ukraine, still beset by conflict and bloodshed, to regain social harmony. May he accompany every effort to alleviate the tragic sufferings of those affected by the conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The Risen Lord continues to shed his blessing upon the continent of Europe. May he grant hope to those experiencing moments of crisis and difficulty, especially due to high unemployment, particularly among young people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Dear brothers and sisters, this year Christians of every confession celebrate Easter together. With one voice, in every part of the world, we proclaim the great message: “The Lord is truly risen, as he said!” May Jesus, who vanquished the darkness of sin and death, grant peace to our days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1ACTS 10:34A, 37-43</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Peter proceeded to speak and said:<br />"You know what has happened all over Judea,<br />beginning in Galilee after the baptism<br />that John preached,<br />how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth<br />with the Holy Spirit and power.<br />He went about doing good<br />and healing all those oppressed by the devil,<br />for God was with him.<br />We are witnesses of all that he did<br />both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.<br />They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.<br />This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,<br />not to all the people, but to us,<br />the witnesses chosen by God in advance,<br />who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.<br />He commissioned us to preach to the people<br />and testify that he is the one appointed by God<br />as judge of the living and the dead.<br />To him all the prophets bear witness,<br />that everyone who believes in him<br />will receive forgiveness of sins through his name."</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (24) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,<br />for his mercy endures forever.<br />Let the house of Israel say,<br />"His mercy endures forever."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />"The right hand of the LORD has struck with power;<br />the right hand of the LORD is exalted.<br />I shall not die, but live,<br />and declare the works of the LORD."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The stone which the builders rejected<br />has become the cornerstone.<br />By the LORD has this been done;<br />it is wonderful in our eyes.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 2COL 3:1-4</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,<br />where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.<br />Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.<br />For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.<br />When Christ your life appears,<br />then you too will appear with him in glory.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Or1 COR 5:6B-8</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?<br />Clear out the old yeast,<br />so that you may become a fresh batch of dough,<br />inasmuch as you are unleavened.<br />For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.<br />Therefore, let us celebrate the feast,<br />not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,<br />but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sequence — Victimae Paschali Laudes</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christians, to the Paschal Victim<br />Offer your thankful praises!<br />A Lamb the sheep redeems;<br />Christ, who only is sinless,<br />Reconciles sinners to the Father.<br />Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous:<br />The Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.<br />Speak, Mary, declaring<br />What you saw, wayfaring.<br />"The tomb of Christ, who is living,<br />The glory of Jesus' resurrection;<br />bright angels attesting,<br />The shroud and napkin resting.<br />Yes, Christ my hope is arisen;<br />to Galilee he goes before you."<br />Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.<br />Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning!<br />Amen. Alleluia.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaCF. 1 COR 5:7B-8A</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed;<br />let us feast with joy in the Lord.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelJN 20:1-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On the first day of the week,<br />Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,<br />while it was still dark,<br />and saw the stone removed from the tomb.<br />So she ran and went to Simon Peter<br />and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,<br />"They have taken the Lord from the tomb,<br />and we don't know where they put him."<br />So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.<br />They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter<br />and arrived at the tomb first;<br />he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.<br />When Simon Peter arrived after him,<br />he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,<br />and the cloth that had covered his head,<br />not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.<br />Then the other disciple also went in,<br />the one who had arrived at the tomb first,<br />and he saw and believed.<br />For they did not yet understand the Scripture<br />that he had to rise from the dead.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">OrMT 28:1-10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning,<br />Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.<br />And behold, there was a great earthquake;<br />for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven,<br />approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.<br />His appearance was like lightning<br />and his clothing was white as snow.<br />The guards were shaken with fear of him<br />and became like dead men.<br />Then the angel said to the women in reply,<br />"Do not be afraid!<br />I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified.<br />He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said.<br />Come and see the place where he lay.<br />Then go quickly and tell his disciples,<br />'He has been raised from the dead,<br />and he is going before you to Galilee;<br />there you will see him.'<br />Behold, I have told you."<br />Then they went away quickly from the tomb,<br />fearful yet overjoyed,<br />and ran to announce this to his disciples.<br />And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them.<br />They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage.<br />Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid.<br />Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee,<br />and there they will see me."</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At an afternoon or evening Mass.</em><br /><br />That very day, the first day of the week,<br />two of Jesus' disciples were going<br />to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,<br />and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.<br />And it happened that while they were conversing and debating,<br />Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,<br />but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.<br />He asked them,<br />"What are you discussing as you walk along?"<br />They stopped, looking downcast.<br />One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply,<br />"Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem<br />who does not know of the things<br />that have taken place there in these days?"<br />And he replied to them, "What sort of things?"<br />They said to him,<br />"The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene,<br />who was a prophet mighty in deed and word<br />before God and all the people,<br />how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over<br />to a sentence of death and crucified him.<br />But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel;<br />and besides all this,<br />it is now the third day since this took place.<br />Some women from our group, however, have astounded us:<br />they were at the tomb early in the morning<br />and did not find his body;<br />they came back and reported<br />that they had indeed seen a vision of angels<br />who announced that he was alive.<br />Then some of those with us went to the tomb<br />and found things just as the women had described,<br />but him they did not see."<br />And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are!<br />How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!<br />Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things<br />and enter into his glory?"<br />Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,<br />he interpreted to them what referred to him<br />in all the Scriptures.<br />As they approached the village to which they were going,<br />he gave the impression that he was going on farther.<br />But they urged him, "Stay with us,<br />for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over."<br />So he went in to stay with them.<br />And it happened that, while he was with them at table,<br />he took bread, said the blessing,<br />broke it, and gave it to them.<br />With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him,<br />but he vanished from their sight.<br />Then they said to each other,<br />"Were not our hearts burning within us<br />while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?"<br />So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem<br />where they found gathered together<br />the eleven and those with them who were saying,<br />"The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!"<br />Then the two recounted<br />what had taken place on the way<br />and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Happy Birthday Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">age 90</span><sup style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">. </sup></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em;">Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger turned 78 when he was elected Pope. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was born on 16 April, Holy Saturday, 1927, in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany. He was baptised the same day. Pope Benedict XVI's brother, Georg Ratzinger, is a priest. His sister, Maria Ratzinger, who never married, managed Cardinal Ratzinger's household until her death in 1991. Benedict XVI<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> is now Pope Emeritus of the Catholic Church. He was Pope from 2005 to 2013. Benedict XVI was elected on 19 April 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II. He was ordained as a priest in 1951 in Bavaria, Germany. Benedict XVI currently lives in the Residence Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican His parents were Joseph Ratzinger, Sr. and Maria Ratzinger (born: Peintner)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.7467px;">ent.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.7467px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.7467px; text-align: center;"> </span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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St. Bernadette Soubirous<br /><div align="center" class="subtitle">
VISIONARY OF LOURDES, VIRGIN</div>
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Feast: April 16</div>
Information: 7 January 1844 at Lourdes, France<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />16 April 1879, Nevers, France<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />December 8, 1933, Rome by Pope Pius XI<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Sick people, poverty, the family, Lourdes, shepherds<br />Bernadette's canonization in 1933 was the culmination of a process which had been started nearly three-quarters of a century earlier: she is, therefore, a saint of modern times, and the remarkable facts of her life are readily accessible to all. Her story even challenges the interest of those who do not share the Catholic faith. Christianity had its beginnings among humble people without influence or riches, such as Bernadette. Perhaps it is a natural human instinct to rejoice when the lowly are lifted up to the heights, and especially when a child, neglected and untaught, is chosen for special grace and favor, thus becoming an instrument for good.<br /><div class="bodytext">
Born in Lourdes, France, on January 7, 1844, Bernadette was the first child of Francois and Louise Soubirous. At the time of her birth, Francois was a miller, operating a mill which had belonged to his wife's people. He was a good-natured, easy-going man, with little ability for carrying on a business, and before many years the mill had been forfeited for debt. During most of Bernadette's childhood he was an odd job man, picking up a day's work as opportunity offered, and, from time to time, escaping from his problems and responsibilities by turning to the delusive comfort of alcohol. His wife and children, naturally, were the chief sufferers from his ineffectualness. Louise, whose family was of somewhat better economic status than her husband's, was a hard worker, a warm-hearted neighbor, and exemplary in her observance of Catholic rites. Within a short space of years many children were born to her, only five of whom survived infancy. After Bernadette, there was another girl, Toinette Marie, and three boys. To help feed and clothe them it was often necessary for their harassed mother to go out to work by the day, doing laundry and other rough tasks for the more prosperous citizens, and, on one occasion, at least, helping to harvest a crop of grain. A peasant woman of the region has told of seeing little Bernadette, then about twelve, carrying the youngest baby to Louise in the field, to be nursed during the noon-day rest period. As a child, Bernadette not only did more than might be expected in caring for the smaller children, but helped in their moral and religious training as well.</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WY-pDCyq5GI" width="854"></iframe> Bernadette was never strong, and from the age of six she showed symptoms of the respiratory ailment that later became a chronic affliction. It is not clear at this early stage whether she suffered from asthma or tuberculosis, but we know that her mother was anxious about her health and made an effort to provide special food for her. When Bernadette was thirteen she was sent to the neighboring mountain hamlet of Bartres, to the home of one Marie Arevant, her foster mother. It was here that Bernadette had been taken for a few months when she was still an infant, to be nursed by Madame Arevant, who had just lost a baby. The woman now had a large family and little Bernadette made herself useful in the house and in the fields. One of her duties was to tend a small flock of sheep that grazed on a hillside nearby; it is this brief phase of her girlhood that has inspired artists to picture her as a shepherdess. Her life was a lonely one, and we get the impression that she was overworked and homesick while she remained in this peasant home. At all events she sent word to her parents that she wished to leave Bartres. One thing seemed especially to disturb her at this time; although she was now fourteen, she had not made her First Communion. Her foster mother had tried half-heartedly to prepare her, but after one or two sessions had impatiently given it up, saying that Bernadette was too dull to learn.</div>
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When Bernadette went back to Lourdes, it made her very happy to be admitted to the day school conducted by the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction. This was a teaching and nursing order whose mother-house is at Nevers, in central France. A hospice, a day school, and a boarding school were maintained at Lourdes by these devout nuns, who were, as a group, unusually well trained. Thus Bernadette at last began her secular education, and, under Abbe Pomian, continued to prepare for First Communion. She was also learning a little French, for up to this time she spoke only the local dialect. The nuns discovered that beneath a quiet, modest exterior, Bernadette had a winning personality and a lively sense of humor. This might have been a happy and constructive time for the little girl had it not been for the ever-increasing shadows of poverty at home.</div>
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After moving from one poor location to another, the Soubirous family was now living in a single room of a dilapidated structure in the rue des Petits Fosses; this damp, unwholesome place had once served as a jail and was known as Le Cachot, the Dungeon. Above loomed an ancient fortress, and the narrow cobbled street had once been a part of the moat. The town of Lourdes, itself very old, is situated in one of the most picturesque parts of France, lying in the extreme southwest, near the Spanish frontier, where the Pyrenees mountains rise sharply above the plains. From the craggy, wooded heights, several valleys descend to converge at this site, and the little river Gave rushes through the town, its turbulent current turning the wheels of many mills. There are escarpments of rock in and around Lourdes, the most famous being the Massabeille, a great mound jutting out from the base of a plateau. On the side facing the river it had an arch-shaped opening which led into a sizeable grotto-a grotto that was soon destined to become famous in every part of the world. At this time the Massabeille had, if not exactly an aura of evil, a touch of the sinister. According to legend, it had been sacred to the pagans of prehistoric times; now it served as a shelter for fishermen or herdsmen caught by sudden storms.</div>
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It was very cold on February 11, 1858, the day that was to mark the beginning of such an extraordinary series of events at the rock of Massabeille. When Bernadette returned from school her mother gave her permission to go down by the river to pick up driftwood and fallen branches. Toinette Marie, aged nine, and Marie Abadie, aged twelve, a neighbor's child, went with her. When the three girls reached the Massabeille, the two younger ones took off their wooden shoes to wade across an icy mill-stream which here joined the river. Bernadette, more sensitive, hung behind. Standing alone beside the river, she had started to remove her stockings when she heard a noise like a sudden rush of wind. Looking up towards the grotto she saw some movement among the branches, then there floated out of the opening a golden cloud, and in the midst of it was the figure of a beautiful young girl who placed herself in a small niche in the rock, at one side of the opening and slightly above it. In the crannies around this niche grew stunted vines and shrubs, and in particular a white eglantine. Bernadette, staring in fascination, saw that the luminous apparition was dressed in a soft white robe, with a broad girdle of blue, and a long white veil that partially covered her hair. Her eyes were blue and gentle. Golden roses gleamed on her bare feet. When the vision smiled and beckoned to Bernadette, the girl's fear vanished and she came a few steps nearer, then sank reverently to her knees. She drew her rosary from her pocket, for, in moments of stress, she habitually said her beads. The mysterious being also had a rosary, of large white beads, and to quote Bernadette's own account: "The Lady let me pray alone; she passed the beads of the rosary between her fingers, but said nothing; only at the end of each decade did she say the Gloria with me." When the recitation was finished, the Lady vanished into the cave and the golden mist disappeared with her. This experience affected Bernadette so powerfully that, when the other girls turned back to look for her, she was still kneeling, a rapt, faraway look on her face. They chided her, thinking she had passed the time praying to escape the task of gathering fuel. Tying up their twigs and branches into faggots, they started for home. Too full of her vision to keep quiet about it, before they had gone far Bernadette burst out with the whole wondrous story; she asked the girls to say nothing at home. But Toinette told Madame Soubirous that same evening, and soon the news spread further. Bernadette wished to go back to the Massabeille the next day, but her mother, after talking the matter over with a sister, refused her permission.</div>
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Bernadette now showed the independence of spirit-some were to characterize it as obstinacy-that became one of her outstanding traits. When she told her confessor of the apparition, Abbe Pomian made light of it, thinking the girl suffered from hallucinations. Nevertheless, on the following Sunday Bernadette asked if she might go to the grotto and her father told her she might go if she took a flask of holy water with her, to exorcise the apparition should it prove to be a demon. Bernadette, advancing ahead of several little friends who accompanied her, knelt before the grotto and soon the vision appeared as before. On their return the excited girls, although they had seen nothing, naturally began to tell their versions of the affair, and soon the town buzzed with varying reports and rumors. On the next market day the peasants heard of these strange happenings. The story reached the Mother Superior of the convent, who took a firm stand: she announced to the class preparing for Communion, comprising Bernadette's friends and companions for the most part, that they must stop talking and thinking of this matter. Bernadette's teacher, Sister Marie Therese Vauzous, was even hostile.</div>
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The apparition was manifest to Bernadette for the third time on Thursday, February 18, when she went to the grotto accompanied by two women of Lourdes who thought the "damiezelo," as Bernadette called her, was the returning spirit of a young woman, one of their dear friends, who had died a few months before. On this occasion the same little figure appeared to Bernadette, smiled warmly, and spoke, asking Bernadette to come every day for fifteen days. Bernadette promised to come, provided she was given permission to do so. Since neither her god-mother, who was her mother's sister, nor the priest actually forbade it, Bernadette's parents offered no objection. On the following day her mother and aunt went with her, and on subsequent visits great crowds of people gathered on the Massabeille, or down by the river, hoping to see or hear something miraculous. During these two weeks the excitement increased to such a pitch that the civil authorities felt obliged to take action. The police were not content to threaten the Soubirous family; they must take Bernadette to the local police office for questioning and try to make her admit that it was all an elaborate hoax. Bernadette emerged from this and many another ordeal somewhat shaken but obdurate. The authorities continued to try to discredit her. They even gave currency to the report that the whole thing had been thought up by Bernadette's poverty-stricken parents, so that they might derive some profit from it. Francois and Louise Soubirous, from being puzzled, worried, and uncertain at the outset, had now come to believe in the supernatural character of their daughter's experiences, and stood loyally by her. They did not dream of exploiting the affair in their own interest. As a matter of fact, pious, well-meaning people were bringing them gifts of money and food, sometimes asking for a token from Bernadette. These offerings were declined; even Bernadette's small brothers were cautioned to accept nothing. The girl herself was adamant in her determination to have no part in any kind of trafficking; the record of her complete honesty and disinterestedness is clear and unquestioned. However, she found the sudden notoriety unpleasant, and this sensitivity to being stared at and talked about and pointed out was to last throughout her life. People began to gather at the grotto in the middle of the night, awaiting her appearance. It was rumored that she had a miraculous, healing touch. Several cures were attributed to her.</div>
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On Sunday, February 21, a number of persons went with her to the grotto, including citizens who had been highly skeptical. On this occasion, Bernadette reported later, the apparition said to her: "You will pray to God for sinners." On February 26, while she was in the trance-like state which lasted as long as she saw the vision, Bernadette crawled inside the grotto, and, at the Lady's bidding, uncovered with her bare hands a little trickle of water from which she drank and with which she bathed her face, still at the Lady's direction. This tiny spring continued to well up and by the next day was flowing steadily down into the river: to this day it has never ceased to gush forth from the grotto. The people regarded its discovery by Bernadette as a miracle.</div>
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On March 2 Bernadette saw the apparition for the thirteenth time. It was on this day that the Lady bade Bernadette to tell the priests that "a chapel should be built and a procession formed." Bernadette had no thought but to obey, in spite of the open hostility of the cure of Lourdes. Dean Peyramale, an imposing man of excellent family and background, received Bernadette and reprimanded her harshly, asking her to inquire the name of her visitant, and to tell her she must perform a real miracle, such as making the eglantine bloom out of season, to prove herself. During the preceding weeks he had ordered the priests to have nothing to do with the grotto, for it was the general practice of the clergy to discourage or ignore religious visionaries. Very often such persons were ill-balanced or suffering from delusions. As a matter of fact, Bernadette's experiences were proving contagious, and before long many others, young and old, were claiming to have had supernatural visions at the grotto and elsewhere. Dean Peyramale's stand of determined opposition was based on the necessity of restoring order in the parish.</div>
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On March 25, Lady Day, Bernadette started for the grotto at dawn. When the vision appeared to her, Bernadette said: "Would you kindly tell me who you are?" When the girl had repeated the question twice more, the Lady replied: "I am the Immaculate Conception. I want a chapel here." This answer, when reported by Bernadette, caused the local excitement to rise to a still higher pitch and the feeling grew that Bernadette's visitor was the Blessed Virgin. Only four years before the dogma of the Immaculate Conception had been promulgated. The seventeenth apparition took place on April 7, and the final one, more than three months later, on July 16. By that time, the grotto, which the people were trying to make into a sanctuary and place of worship, had been barricaded by the town authorities to discourage worshipers and curiosity-seekers from congregating there. During the twenty-one years that she was to remain on earth, Bernadette never again saw the vision. The accounts of what she had seen and heard, which she was obliged to repeat so often, never varied in any significant detail.</div>
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Meanwhile the news of the phenomenal happenings at Lourdes had reached the very highest ecclesiastical and government circles: the bishop, the prefect, even Emperor Napoleon III and his pious wife Eugenie, became actors in the drama. On October 5, the mayor of Lourdes, on orders from above, had the grotto reopened. It was thought that the empress herself had had a voice in this decision. At all events, it seemed to be the only appropriate response to the overwhelming demand of the people for a shrine Bernadette's visions, the new spring, and the cures that were being reported, all had taken a profound hold on the popular imagination.</div>
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Due to a lucky turn, Bernadette's family was now more comfortably situated, and, to escape visitors, Bernadette went to live at the convent. Even there, intrusions upon her privacy were allowed; these she bore as patiently as she could. While her fame not only continued but steadily grew, Bernadette herself withdrew more and more. At the age of twenty she decided to take the veil. Since the state of her health precluded the more ascetic orders, it was considered best for her to join the Sisters who had taught and sheltered her. At twenty-two, therefore, she traveled to the motherhouse of the convent. Her novitiate was full of trials and sorrows. Acting under the quite unfounded notion that Bernadette's visions and all the attendant publicity might have made the young woman vain or self-important, Sister Marie Therese Vauzous, now novice-mistress at Nevers, was very severe with her former pupil. Although she made life difficult for Bernadette, the little novice met all tests with perfect humility. She cheerfully performed the menial tasks assigned to her, at first in the convent kitchen, although this work must have taxed her strength. Later, when it was noted that her sympathetic manner made her a favorite with sick people, she was appointed assistant infirmarian. Her step and touch were light, and her very presence brought comfort. But during these years, Bernadette was suffering from the chronic disease which was slowly draining her life away. She was finally given work in the sacristy, where cleverness with the needle made her work admired and cherished. She displayed a real gift for design and color in embroidering the sacred vestments. To all tasks she brought a pure grace of spirit and an utter willingness to serve.</div>
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In September, 1878, Bernadette made her perpetual and final vows. Her strength was ebbing away, but even when she was confined to wheel chair or bed, she went on with the fine needlework. And now she had more time for prayer and meditation. There is little outward drama in the life of a nun, but in Bernadette's case there was steady activity, steady growth, in things of the spirit. She had been told by her vision that she would not attain happiness in this world. Her childhood had been sad, and maturity had brought no easing of the burden she must carry. During the last two years of life a tumor developed on one knee, which was followed by caries of the bone. She suffered excruciating pain. One day, when a Superior came to visit her and said, "What are you doing in bed, you lazy little thing?" Bernadette simply replied, "I am doing my stint. I must be a victim." She felt that such was the Divine plan for her.</div>
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The nuns, the novice mistress, and the Superior had all long since come to regard her as the vessel of Divine grace and to believe in the reality of those visitations of her youth. She still suffered from the curiosity of visiting strangers. Not only did nuns and priests come to Nevers but celebrities from Paris and other parts of France came to see for themselves the now famous Bernadette. Disliking publicity as she did, yet not wishing to remain isolated and aloof if a glimpse of her could help or inspire any other human soul, she met this test too-and sometimes with a native cleverness. Once a visitor stopped her as she was passing down a corridor and asked where she could get a glimpse of Sister Bernadette. The little nun said, "Just watch that doorway and presently you will see her go through." And she slipped away through the door. Such was the prestige her presence gave to the order that many young women now joined it.</div>
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On her death-bed, in a spasm of pain, Bernadette pressed the crucifix closer to her, and cried, "All this is good for Heaven!" That afternoon, as the nuns of the convent knelt round her bed to repeat the prayers for the dying, they heard her say in a low voice, "Blessed Mary, Mother of God, pray for me! A poor sinner, a poor sinner-" She could not finish. The date was April 16, 1879. As soon as the news spread, people came streaming towards the convent, chanting, "The saint is dead! The saint is dead!" Bernadette's body was placed in a casket which was sealed, then buried near the chapel of St. Joseph in the convent grounds. When it was exhumed in 1908 by the commission formed to forward the examination of Bernadette's life and character, it was found to be intact and uncorrupted. In August, 1913, Pope Pius X conferred the title of Venerable upon her, and in June, 1925, the ceremony of beatification took place. Since then, her body, reposing in a handsome glass reliquary, lies in the convent chapel, guarded above by a statue of the Blessed Virgin, and by the nuns who keep vigil. In Rome, on December 8, 1933, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, amidst a brilliant setting and the fanfare of silver trumpets, Bernadette Soubirous was admitted to the company of saints. This little nun, humble, unlettered, honest, and obedient, is venerated by the great host of Catholic worshipers throughout the world. Tens of thousands of them journey annually to the glorious shrine at Lourdes.</div>
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The story of Lourdes as a pilgrimage place forms a strange contrast to Bernadette's retired life of prayer and service. Its growth from a sleepy country town to its present status as the most popular pilgrimage place in Christendom has been phenomenal. A railroad line from Pau was built, facilitating the influx of visitors who, from the very first year, were drawn to Lourdes. Dean Peyramale and his superior, the bishop of Pau, who at first had scoffed, came to believe most ardently; it was the aged dean who found the money for raising the great basilica to Our Lady, which was completed in 1876. Participating in the ceremony were thirty-five prelates, a cardinal, and three thousand priests. Sister Bernadette had no share in these rites. Another church at the base of the basilica was erected and consecrated in 1901. The entire district has been enhanced by architecture and landscaping to make it an impressive sanctuary, with a background of great natural beauty.</div>
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Of the cures at Lourdes it can be said that even non-believers have observed something here that medical science cannot explain. The commission of physicians, known as the Bureau of Constatations, who examine evidence and report on their findings, operate with great caution and circumspection. The alleged cure must be immediate and permanent to be regarded as a miracle. Medical records prior to the trip are studied, as well as the patient's subsequent medical history. The patient may himself be a witness, and it is most moving to hear the words, "I was sick and now I am well," which give such comfort and hope to others who are ailing. Only a few cures each year stand up against these rigid tests, but those few are enough. The thousands-the lame, the halt, the blind -continue to come, to be washed in the waters of the spring, to share in the processions, the singing, the prayers, the impressive rites, and breathe the pure air of faith. The Canticle of Bernadette hovers in that air, and even those well persons who go to Lourdes simply searching for a renewal of faith find themselves amply rewarded, for the spirit of the child Bernadette is still a potent inspiration.</div>
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<br />St. Bendict Joseph Labre</div>
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Feast: April 16</div>
<br />Information:<b>Feast Day:</b><br />April 16<br /><u><b>Born:</b></u><br />25 March 1748 at Amettes, Boulogne, France<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />17 April 1783 at Rome<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />8 December 1883 by Pope Leo XIII<br /><u><b>Major Shrine:</b></u><br />Tomb at Santa Maria ai Monti<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Unmarried men, rejects, mental illness, mentally ill people, insanity, beggars, hobos, the homeless<br />Born 26 March, 1748 at Amettes in the Diocese of Boulogne, France; died in Rome 16 April, 1783.<br /><div class="bodytext">
He was the eldest of fifteen children. His parents, Jean-Baptiste Labre and Anne-Barba Grandsire, belonged to the middle class and so were able to give to their numerous offspring considerable opportunities in the way of education. His early training he received in his native village in a school conducted by the vicar of the parish. The account of this period furnished in the life written by his confessor, Marconi, and that contained in the one compiled from the official processes of his beatification are at one in emphasizing the fact that he exhibited a seriousness of thought and demeanor far beyond his years. Even at that tender age he had begun to show a marked predilection for the spirit of mortification, with an aversion for the ordinary childish amusements, and he seems from the very dawning of reason to have had the liveliest horror for even the smallest sin. All this we are told was coexistent with a frank and open demeanor and a fund of cheerfulness which remained unabated to the end of his life.</div>
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At the age of twelve his education was taken over by his paternal uncle, François-Joseph Labre, curé of Erin, with whom he then went to live. During the six following years which he spent under his uncle's roof, he made considerable progress in the study ofLatin, history, etc. but found himself unable to conquer a constantly growing distaste for any form of knowledge which did not make directly for union with God. A love of solitude, a generous employment of austerities and devotedness to his religious exercises were discernible as distinguishing features of his life at this time and constitute an intelligible prelude to his subsequent career.</div>
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At the age of sixteen he resolved to embrace a religious life as a Trappist, but having on the advice of his uncle returned to Amettes to submit his design to his parents for their approval he was unable to win their consent. He therefore resumed his sojourn in the rectory at Erin, redoubling his penances and exercises of piety and in every way striving to make ready for the life of complete self-annihilation to which the voice within his soul seemed to be calling him.</div>
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After the heroic death of his uncle during an epidemic in September 1766, Benedict, who had dedicated himself during the scourge to the service of the sick and dying, returned to Amettes in November of the same year. His absorbing thought at this time was still to become a religious at La Trappe, and his parents fearing that further opposition would be resistance to the will of God fell in with his proposal to enter the cloister. It was suggested, how ever, by his maternal uncle, the Abbé Vincent, that application be made to the Carthusians at Val-Sainte-Aldegonde rather than to La Trappe. Benedict's petition at Val-Sainte-Aldegonde was unsuccessful but he was directed to another monastery of the same order at Neuville. There he was told that as he was not yet twenty there was no hurry, and that he must first learn plain-chant and logic. During the next two years he applied twice unsuccessfully to be received at La Trappe and was for six weeks as a postulant with the Carthusians at Neuville, he finally sought and obtained admission to the Cistercian Abbey of Sept-Fonts in November, 1769. After a short stay at Sept-Fonts during which his exactness in religious observance and humility endeared him to the whole community, his health gave way, and it was decided that his vocation lay elsewhere. In accordance with a resolve formed during his convalescence he then set out for Rome. From Chieri in Piedmont he wrote to his parents a letter which proved to be the last they would ever receive from him. In it he informed them of his design to enter some one of the many monasteries in Italy noted for their special rigor of life. A short time, however, after the letter was dispatched he seems to have had an internal illumination which set at rest forever any doubts he might have as to what his method of living was to be. He then understood "that it was God's will that like St. Alexis he should abandon his country, his parents, and whatever is flattering in the world to lead a new sort of life, a life most painful, most penitential, not in a wilderness nor in a cloister, but in the midst of the world, devoutly visiting as a pilgrim the famous places of Christian devotion". He repeatedly submitted this extraordinary inspiration to the judgment of experienced confessors and was told he might safely conform to it. Through the years that followed he never wavered in the conviction that this was the path appointed for him by God. He set forward on his life's journey clad in an old coat, a rosary about his neck, another between his fingers, his arms folded over a crucifix which lay upon his breast. In a small wallet he carried a Testament, a breviary, which it was his wont to recite daily, a copy of the "Imitation of Christ", and some other pious books. Clothing other than that which covered his person he had none. He slept on the ground and for the most part in the open air. For food he was satisfied with a piece of bread or some herbs, frequently taken but once a day, and either provided by charity or gotten from some refuse heap. He never asked for alms and was anxious to give away to the poor whatever he received in excess of his scanty wants. The first seven of the thirteen remaining years of his life were spent in pilgrimages to the more famous shrines of Europe. He visited in this way Loreto, Assisi, Naples, Bari, Fabriano in Italy; Einsiedeln in Switzerland; Compostella in Spain; Parav-le-Monial in France. The last six years he spent in Rome, leaving it only once a year to visit the Holy House of Loreto. His unremitting and ruthless self-denial, his unaffected humility, unhesitating obedience and perfect spirit of union with God in prayer disarmed suspicion not unnaturally aroused as to the genuineness of a Divine call to so extraordinary a way of existence. Literally worn out by his sufferings and austerities, on the 16th of April 1783, he sank down on the steps of the church of Santa Maria dei Monti in Rome and, utterly exhausted, was carried to a neighboring house where he died. His death was followed by a multitude of unequivocal miracles attributed to his intercession. The life written by his confessor, Marconi, an English version of which bears the date of 1785, witnesses to 136 miraculous cures as having been certified to up to 6 July, 1783. So remarkable, indeed, was the character of the evidence for some of the miracles that they are said to have had no inconsiderable part in finally determining the conversion of the celebrated American convert, Father John Thayer, of Boston who was in Rome at the time of the saint's death. Benedict has proclaimed Venerable by Pius IX in 1859 and canonized by Leo XIII 8 December, 1881. His feast is kept on the 16th of April, the day of his death.<br />(Taken From Catholic Encyclopedia)</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A crowd of about 20,000 gathered in the evening of April 14, 2017, for the traditional <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Via Crucis</em>(Way of the Cross) with Pope Francis near the Colosseum in Rome. The texts of this year’s meditations for the Stations of the Cross were prepared by Anne-Marie Pelletier. The entire 35 page booklet in Italian can be found here: </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Below is a working translation of Pope Francis’ prayer at the end of the Via Crucis:</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, left alone and even betrayed and sold out by your own people.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, judged by sinners, delivered by leaders.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, in anguished flesh, crowned with thorns and clothed in purple. O Christ, scourged and nailed horribly.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, pierced by the lance that pierced Your heart.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, dead and buried, You Who are the God of life and existence.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, our only Savior, we come back to you again this year with eyes downcast with shame and with a heart full of hope:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Of shame, for all the images of devastation, destruction and shipwreck that have become common in our lives;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Shame, for the innocent blood that day shed of women, children, immigrants and people persecuted for the color of their skin or because of their ethnic and social belonging and for their faith in you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Shame for the times we too, like Judas and Peter, sold, betrayed and left you alone to die for our sins, cowards running away from our responsibilities;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Shame for our silence before injustice; by our hand in laziness and greed; for our loud voice in defending our interests and our shy one, in speaking for another’s; for our quick feet, on the path of evil and our paralysis;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Shame for all the times that we Bishops, priests, consecrated men and women we have scandalized and hurt Your Body, the Church; and we have forgotten our first love, our first enthusiasm and our total availability, leaving our hearts and our consecration to rust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dFGahxvYhTw" width="588"></iframe> So much shame, Lord, but our heart is also nostalgic for the confident hope that You do not treat us according to our merits, but solely according to the multitude of Your mercy; that our betrayals do not negate the immensity of Your love; Your heart, mother’s and father, do not forget us because of the hardness of our entrails;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The sure hope that our names are etched in Your heart and that we are placed in the apple of Your eye;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Hope that your Cross turns our hearts hardened in heart of flesh able to dream, to forgive and to love; [and] transforms this dark night of the Cross in the meteoric rise of your Resurrection;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Hope that Your truth is not based on our own;</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">\The hope that the group of men and women faithful to your Cross continues and will continue, to remain faithful like the flavor of yeast and as the light that opens up new horizons in the body of our wounded humanity;</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">\Hope that your church will try to be the voice crying in the desert of humanity to prepare the way for Your triumphant return, when you come to judge the living and the dead;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The hope that good will win in spite of its apparent defeat!</span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Lord Jesus, the Son of God, innocent victim of our redemption, before thy royal banner, your mystery of death and glory, before your scaffold, we kneel, ashamed and hopeful, and ask that You wash the blood with the water which flowed from your Heart pierced; to forgive our <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">sins and our guilt;</span></span></div>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We ask you to remember our brothers cut off by violence, indifference and war;</span></div>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We ask you to break the chains that hold us prisoners in our selfishness, in our <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">voluntary</span> blindness and in the futility of our worldly calculations.</span></div>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Christ, we ask you to teach us to never be ashamed of Your Cross, not to exploit it, but to honor <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">and</span> worship [it], because with it, You have shown us the monstrosity of our sins, <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the greatness</span> of Your Love, injustice of our judgments and the power of Your Love. Amen</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">[Pope Francis words ZENIT Working Translation by Deborah Castellano Lubov]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Catholic hymn to Mary. It imagines her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. Although not certain it is that Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III composed the text. This musical rendition is by Pergolesi who lived in 1736.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gtz9v-biLYM" width="854"></iframe></span><br /><div style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Stabat mater dolorosa</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">juxta Crucem lacrimosa,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">dum pendebat Filius.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Cuius animam gementem,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">contristatam et dolentem</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">pertransivit gladius.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O quam tristis et afflicta</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fuit illa benedicta,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">mater Unigeniti!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Quae mœrebat et dolebat,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">pia Mater, dum videbat</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">nati pœnas inclyti.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Quis est homo qui non fleret,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">matrem Christi si videret</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in tanto supplicio?</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Quis non posset contristari</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christi Matrem contemplari</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">dolentem cum Filio?</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pro peccatis suæ gentis</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">vidit Iesum in tormentis,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">et flagellis subditum.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vidit suum dulcem Natum</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">moriendo desolatum,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">dum emisit spiritum.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Eia, Mater, fons amoris</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">me sentire vim doloris</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fac, ut tecum lugeam.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Fac, ut ardeat cor meum</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in amando Christum Deum</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ut sibi complaceam.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sancta Mater, istud agas,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">crucifixi fige plagas</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">cordi meo valide.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Tui Nati vulnerati,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">tam dignati pro me pati,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">pœnas mecum divide.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Fac me tecum pie flere,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">crucifixo condolere,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">donec ego vixero.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Juxta Crucem tecum stare,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">et me tibi sociare</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in planctu desidero.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Virgo virginum præclara,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">mihi iam non sis amara,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fac me tecum plangere.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Fac, ut portem Christi mortem,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">passionis fac consortem,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">et plagas recolere.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Fac me plagis vulnerari,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fac me Cruce inebriari,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">et cruore Filii.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Flammis ne urar succensus,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">per te, Virgo, sim defensus</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in die iudicii.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christe, cum sit hinc exire,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">da per Matrem me venire</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ad palmam victoriæ.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Quando corpus morietur,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fac, ut animæ donetur</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">paradisi gloria. 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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At the Cross her station keeping,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">stood the mournful Mother weeping,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">close to her Son to the last.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Through her heart, His sorrow sharing,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">all His bitter anguish bearing,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">now at length the sword has passed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O how sad and sore distressed</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was that Mother, highly blest,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the sole-begotten One.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ above in torment hangs,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">she beneath beholds the pangs</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of her dying glorious Son.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Is there one who would not weep,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">whelmed in miseries so deep,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ's dear Mother to behold?</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Can the human heart refrain</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from partaking in her pain,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in that Mother's pain untold?</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For the sins of His own nation,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">She saw Jesus wracked with torment,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">All with scourges rent:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">She beheld her tender Child,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Saw Him hang in desolation,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Till His spirit forth He sent.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O thou Mother! fount of love!</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Touch my spirit from above,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">make my heart with thine accord:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Make me feel as thou hast felt;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">make my soul to glow and melt</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with the love of Christ my Lord.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Holy Mother! pierce me through,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in my heart each wound renew</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of my Savior crucified:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Let me share with thee His pain,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who for all my sins was slain,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who for me in torments died.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Let me mingle tears with thee,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">mourning Him who mourned for me,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">all the days that I may live:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">By the Cross with thee to stay,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">there with thee to weep and pray,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">is all I ask of thee to give.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Virgin of all virgins blest!,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Listen to my fond request:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">let me share thy grief divine;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Let me, to my latest breath,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in my body bear the death</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of that dying Son of thine.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Wounded with His every wound,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">steep my soul till it hath swooned,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in His very Blood away;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Be to me, O Virgin, nigh,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">lest in flames I burn and die,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in His awful Judgment Day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ, when Thou shalt call me hence,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">be Thy Mother my defense,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">be Thy Cross my victory;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">While my body here decays,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">may my soul Thy goodness praise,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Safe in Paradise with Thee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis presided over the Passion Liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In keeping with tradition, the Preacher of the Papal Household, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM. Cap., preached the sermon on the occasion.</span></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YbwJBRfhSAY" width="588"></iframe><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This year, the Preacher’s remarks focused entirely on the Cross of Christ: the only hope of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“O CRUX, AVE SPES UNICA”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Cross, the Only Hope of the World</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sermon for Good Friday, 2017, St. Peter’s Basilica</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We have listened to the story of the Passion of Christ. Apparently nothing more than the account of a violent death, and news of violent deaths are rarely missing in any evening news. Even in recent days there were many of them, including those of 38 Christians Copts in Egypt killed on Palm Sunday. These kinds of reports follow each other at such speed that we forget one day those of the day before. Why then are we here to recall the death of a man who lived 2000 years ago? The reason is that this death has changed forever the very face of death and given it a new meaning. Let us meditate for a while on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water</em>” (Jn 19:33-34). At the beginning of his ministry, in response to those who asked him by what authority he chased the merchants from the temple, Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (Jn 2:19). John comments on this occasion, “he spoke of the temple of his body” (Jn 2:21), and now the same Evangelist testifies that blood and water flowed from the side of this “destroyed” temple. It is a clear allusion to the prophecy in Ezekiel about a future temple of God, with water flowing from its side that was at first a stream and then a navigable river, and every form of life flourished around it (see Ezek 47:1ff).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">But let us enter more deeply into the source of the “rivers of living water” (Jn 7:38) coming from the pierced heart of Christ. In Revelation the same disciple whom Jesus loved writes, “Between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain” (Rev 5:6). Slain, but standing, that is, pierced but resurrected and alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There exists now, within the Trinity and in the world, a human heart that beats not just metaphorically but physically. If Christ, in fact, has been raised from the dead, then his heart has also been raised from the dead; it is alive like the rest of his body, in a different dimension than before, a real dimension, even if it is mystical. If the Lamb is alive in heaven, “slain, but standing,” then his heart shares in that same state; it is a heart that is pierced but living—eternally pierced, precisely because he lives eternally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There has been a phrase created to describe the depths of evil that can accumulate in the heart of humanity: “the heart of darkness.” After the sacrifice of Christ, more intense than the heart of darkness, a heart of light beats in the world. Christ, in fact, in ascending into heaven, did not abandon the earth, just as he did not abandon the Trinity in becoming incarnate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">An antiphon in the Liturgy of the Hours says, “the plan of the Father” is now fulfilled in “making Christ the heart of the world.” This explains the unshakeable Christian optimism that led a medieval mystic to exclaim that it is to be expected that “there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing [sic] shall be well” (Julian of Norwich).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Carthusian monks have adopted a coat of arms that appears at the entrance to their monastery, in their official documents, and in other settings. It consists of a globe of the earth surmounted by a cross with writing around it that says, “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stat crux dum volvitur orbis</em>” (“The Cross stands firm as the world turns”).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">What does the cross represent in being this fixed point, this mainmast in the undulation of the world? It is the definitive and irreversible “no” of God to violence, injustice, hate, lies—to all that we call “evil,” and at the same it is equally the irreversible “yes” to love, truth, and goodness. “No” to sin, “yes” to the sinner. It is what Jesus practiced all his life and that he now definitively consecrates with his death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The reason for this differentiation is clear: sinners are creatures of God and preserve their dignity, despite all their aberrations; that is not the case for sin; it is a spurious reality that is added on, the result of one’s passions and of the “the devil’s envy” (Wis 2:24). It is the same reason for which the Word, in becoming incarnate, assumed to himself everything human except for sin. The good thief to whom the dying Jesus promised paradise, is the living demonstration of all this. No one should give up hope; no one should say, like Cain, “My sin is too great to be forgiven” (see Gen 4:13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The cross, then, does not “stand” against the world but for the world: to give meaning to all the suffering that has been, that is, and that will be in human history. Jesus says to Nicodemus, “God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him” (Jn 3:17). The cross is the living proclamation that the final victory does not belong to the one who triumphs over others but to the one who triumphs over self; not to the one who causes suffering but to the one who is suffering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dum volvitur orbis</em>,” as the world turns. Human history has seen many transitions from one era to another; we speak about the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, the imperial age, the atomic age, the electronic age. But today there is something new. The idea of a transition is no longer sufficient to describe our current situation. Alongside the idea of a change, one must also place the idea of a dissolution. It has been said that we are now living in a “liquid society.” There are no longer any fixed points, any undisputed values, any rock in the sea to which we can cling or with which we can collide. Everything is in flux.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The worst of the hypotheses the philosopher had foreseen as the effect of the death of God has come to pass, which the advent of the super-man was supposed to prevent but did not prevent: “What did we do when we loosened this earth from its sun? Whither does it now move? Whither do we move? Away from all suns? Do we not dash on unceasingly? Backwards, sideways, in all directions? Is there still an above and below? Do we not stray, as through infinite nothingness?” (Nietzsche, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gay Science</em>, aphorism 125).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It has been said that “killing God is the most horrible of suicides,” and that is in part what we are seeing. It is not true that “where God is born, man dies” (Jean-Paul Sartre). Just the opposite is true: where God dies, man dies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A surrealist artist from the second half of the last century (Salvador Dalí) painted a crucifix that seems to be a prophecy of this situation. It depicts an immense, cosmic cross with an equally immense Christ seen from above with his head tilted downward. Below him, however, is not land but water. The Crucified One is not suspended between heaven and earth but between heaven and the liquid element of the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This tragic image (there is also in the background a cloud that could allude to an atomic cloud) nevertheless contains a consoling certainty: there is hope even for a liquid society like ours! There is hope because above it “the cross of Christ stands.” This is what the liturgy for Good Friday has us repeat every year with the words of the poet Venanzio Fortunato: “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O</em> <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">crux, ave spes unica</em>,” “Hail, O Cross, our only hope.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yes, God died, he died in his Son Christ Jesus; but he did not remain in the tomb, he was raised. “You crucified and killed Him,” Peter shouts to the crowd on the day of Pentecost, “But God raised him up” (see Act 2:23-24). He is the one who “died but is now alive for evermore” (see Rev 1:18). The cross does not “stand” motionless in the midst of the world’s upheavals as a reminder of a past event or a mere symbol; it is an ongoing reality that is living and operative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We would make this liturgy of the Passion pointless, however, if we stopped, like the sociologists, at the analysis of the society in which we live. Christ did not come to explain things but to change human beings. The heart of darkness is not only that of some evil person hidden deep in the jungle, nor is it only that of the western society that produced it. It is in each one of us in varying degrees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Bible calls it a heart of stone: “I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone,” God says through the prophet Ezekiel, “and give you a heart of flesh” (Ez 36:26). A heart of stone is a heart that is closed to God’s will and to the suffering of brothers and sisters, a heart of someone who accumulates unlimited sums of money and remains indifferent to the desperation of the person who does not have a glass of water to give to his or her own child; it is also the heart of someone who lets himself or herself be completely dominated by impure passion and is ready to kill for that passion or to lead a double life. Not to keep our gaze turned only outward toward others, we can say that this also actually describes our hearts as ministers for God and as practicing Christians if we still live fundamentally “for ourselves” and not “for the Lord.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It is written that at the moment of Christ’s death, “The curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split; the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised” (Matt 27:51). These signs are generally given an apocalyptic explanation as if it is the symbolic language needed to describe the eschatological event. But these signs also have a parenetic significance: they indicate what should happen in the heart of a person who reads and meditates on the Passion of Christ. In a liturgy like today’s, St. Leo the Great said to the faithful, “The earth—our earthly nature—should tremble at the suffering of its Redeemer. The rocks—the hearts of unbelievers—should burst asunder. The dead, imprisoned in the tombs of their mortality, should come forth, the massive stones now ripped apart.” (“Sermon 66,” 3; PL 54, 366).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The heart of flesh, promised by God through the prophets, is now present in the world: it is the heart of Christ pierced on the cross, the heart we venerate as the “Sacred Heart.” In receiving the Eucharist we firmly believe his very heart comes to beat inside of us as well. As we are about to gaze upon the cross, let us say from the bottom of our hearts, like the tax collector in the temple, “God, be merciful to me a sinner!” and then we too, like he did, will return home “justified” (Lk 18:13-14).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Holy Thursday washed the feet of inmates at Paliano prison, south of Rome, during the Mass of Our Lord’s Supper.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope traveled to the penitentiary for a private visit and the celebration of Mass marking Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples on the day before his Crucifixion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In his off-the-cuff homily Pope Francis invited those present – and all Christians - to serve the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"The disciples, the Pope said, used to argue about who was the most important amongst them".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“He who feels or thinks he is important, he continued, must become small and be a servant to the others. That is what God – who loves us as we are – does every day”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The center hosts some 70 inmates, and amongst those whose feet the Pope washed, there are 10 Italians, 1 Argentinean and 1 Albanian. Amongst them 3 are women and 1 is a Muslim who will receive the Sacrament of Baptism in the coming month of June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Paliano detention center is the only such institute in Italy reserved in particular for former members of criminal gangs who collaborate with police and the judiciary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vocational training is part of the programmes in place for the inmates at Paliano and courses include pottery, bakery, carpentry, farming and bee-keeping. That’s why the inmates gifts for Pope Francis include baskets of fresh farm produce, eggs, honey and a wooden crucifix. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis began the tradition of travelling to a prison for the traditional Last Supper Mass in March 2013, just a few days after the inauguration of his pontificate. On that occasion he travelled to Rome’s Casal del Marmo youth detention centre where he included, for the first time, women and Muslims among the inmates whose feet he washed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The following year, he celebrated the Last Supper Mass at Rome’s Don Gnocchi centre for the disabled, again including women among those who had their feet washed in memory of Jesus’ gesture of humility and service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In 2015 Pope Francis travelled to Rome’s Rebibbia prison for the Holy Thursday celebration, while last year he washed the feet of refugees, including Muslims, Hindus and Coptic Orthodox men and women at a centre for asylum seekers in Castelnuovo di Porto, just north of Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1IS 52:13—53:12</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">See, my servant shall prosper,<br />he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.<br />Even as many were amazed at him<br />so marred was his look beyond human semblance<br />and his appearance beyond that of the sons of man<br />so shall he startle many nations,<br />because of him kings shall stand speechless;<br />for those who have not been told shall see,<br />those who have not heard shall ponder it.<br /><br />Who would believe what we have heard?<br />To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?<br />He grew up like a sapling before him,<br />like a shoot from the parched earth;<br />there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him,<br />nor appearance that would attract us to him.<br />He was spurned and avoided by people,<br />a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,<br />one of those from whom people hide their faces,<br />spurned, and we held him in no esteem.<br /><br />Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,<br />our sufferings that he endured,<br />while we thought of him as stricken,<br />as one smitten by God and afflicted.<br />But he was pierced for our offenses,<br />crushed for our sins;<br />upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole,<br />by his stripes we were healed.<br />We had all gone astray like sheep,<br />each following his own way;<br />but the LORD laid upon him<br />the guilt of us all.<br /><br />Though he was harshly treated, he submitted<br />and opened not his mouth;<br />like a lamb led to the slaughter<br />or a sheep before the shearers,<br />he was silent and opened not his mouth.<br />Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away,<br />and who would have thought any more of his destiny?<br />When he was cut off from the land of the living,<br />and smitten for the sin of his people,<br />a grave was assigned him among the wicked<br />and a burial place with evildoers,<br />though he had done no wrong<br />nor spoken any falsehood.<br />But the LORD was pleased<br />to crush him in infirmity.<br /><br />If he gives his life as an offering for sin,<br />he shall see his descendants in a long life,<br />and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him.<br /><br />Because of his affliction<br />he shall see the light in fullness of days;<br />through his suffering, my servant shall justify many,<br />and their guilt he shall bear.<br />Therefore I will give him his portion among the great,<br />and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty,<br />because he surrendered himself to death<br />and was counted among the wicked;<br />and he shall take away the sins of many,<br />and win pardon for their offenses.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (Lk 23:46) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.</span><br />In you, O LORD, I take refuge;<br />let me never be put to shame.<br />In your justice rescue me.<br />Into your hands I commend my spirit;<br />you will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.</span><br />For all my foes I am an object of reproach,<br />a laughingstock to my neighbors, and a dread to my friends;<br />they who see me abroad flee from me.<br />I am forgotten like the unremembered dead;<br />I am like a dish that is broken.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.</span><br />But my trust is in you, O LORD;<br />I say, "You are my God.<br />In your hands is my destiny; rescue me<br />from the clutches of my enemies and my persecutors."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.</span><br />Let your face shine upon your servant;<br />save me in your kindness.<br />Take courage and be stouthearted,<br />all you who hope in the LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 2HEB 4:14-16; 5:7-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,<br />Jesus, the Son of God,<br />let us hold fast to our confession.<br />For we do not have a high priest<br />who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,<br />but one who has similarly been tested in every way,<br />yet without sin.<br />So let us confidently approach the throne of grace<br />to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.<br /><br />In the days when Christ was in the flesh,<br />he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears<br />to the one who was able to save him from death,<br />and he was heard because of his reverence.<br />Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;<br />and when he was made perfect,<br />he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Verse Before The GospelPHIL 2:8-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ became obedient to the point of death,<br />even death on a cross.<br />Because of this, God greatly exalted him<br />and bestowed on him the name which is above every other name.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelJN 18:1—19:42</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley<br />to where there was a garden,<br />into which he and his disciples entered.<br />Judas his betrayer also knew the place,<br />because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.<br />So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards<br />from the chief priests and the Pharisees<br />and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.<br />Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him,<br />went out and said to them, "Whom are you looking for?"<br />They answered him, "Jesus the Nazorean."<br />He said to them, "I AM."<br />Judas his betrayer was also with them.<br />When he said to them, "I AM, "<br />they turned away and fell to the ground.<br />So he again asked them,<br />"Whom are you looking for?"<br />They said, "Jesus the Nazorean."<br />Jesus answered,<br />"I told you that I AM.<br />So if you are looking for me, let these men go."<br />This was to fulfill what he had said,<br />"I have not lost any of those you gave me."<br />Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it,<br />struck the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.<br />The slave's name was Malchus.<br />Jesus said to Peter,<br />"Put your sword into its scabbard.<br />Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?"<br /><br />So the band of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish guards seized Jesus,<br />bound him, and brought him to Annas first.<br />He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,<br />who was high priest that year.<br />It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews<br />that it was better that one man should die rather than the people.<br /><br />Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.<br />Now the other disciple was known to the high priest,<br />and he entered the courtyard of the high priest with Jesus.<br />But Peter stood at the gate outside.<br />So the other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest,<br />went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter in.<br />Then the maid who was the gatekeeper said to Peter,<br />"You are not one of this man's disciples, are you?"<br />He said, "I am not."<br />Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire<br />that they had made, because it was cold,<br />and were warming themselves.<br />Peter was also standing there keeping warm.<br /><br />The high priest questioned Jesus<br />about his disciples and about his doctrine.<br />Jesus answered him,<br />"I have spoken publicly to the world.<br />I have always taught in a synagogue<br />or in the temple area where all the Jews gather,<br />and in secret I have said nothing. Why ask me?<br />Ask those who heard me what I said to them.<br />They know what I said."<br />When he had said this,<br />one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said,<br />"Is this the way you answer the high priest?"<br />Jesus answered him,<br />"If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong;<br />but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"<br />Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.<br /><br />Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping warm.<br />And they said to him,<br />"You are not one of his disciples, are you?"<br />He denied it and said,<br />"I am not."<br />One of the slaves of the high priest,<br />a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said,<br />"Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"<br />Again Peter denied it.<br />And immediately the cock crowed.<br /><br />Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium.<br />It was morning.<br />And they themselves did not enter the praetorium,<br />in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.<br />So Pilate came out to them and said,<br />"What charge do you bring against this man?"<br />They answered and said to him,<br />"If he were not a criminal,<br />we would not have handed him over to you."<br />At this, Pilate said to them,<br />"Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law."<br />The Jews answered him,<br />"We do not have the right to execute anyone, "<br />in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled<br />that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.<br />So Pilate went back into the praetorium<br />and summoned Jesus and said to him,<br />"Are you the King of the Jews?"<br />Jesus answered,<br />"Do you say this on your own<br />or have others told you about me?"<br />Pilate answered,<br />"I am not a Jew, am I?<br />Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me.<br />What have you done?"<br />Jesus answered,<br />"My kingdom does not belong to this world.<br />If my kingdom did belong to this world,<br />my attendants would be fighting<br />to keep me from being handed over to the Jews.<br />But as it is, my kingdom is not here."<br />So Pilate said to him,<br />"Then you are a king?"<br />Jesus answered,<br />"You say I am a king.<br />For this I was born and for this I came into the world,<br />to testify to the truth.<br />Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."<br />Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"<br /><br />When he had said this,<br />he again went out to the Jews and said to them,<br />"I find no guilt in him.<br />But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at Passover.<br />Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"<br />They cried out again,<br />"Not this one but Barabbas!"<br />Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.<br /><br />Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.<br />And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head,<br />and clothed him in a purple cloak,<br />and they came to him and said,<br />"Hail, King of the Jews!"<br />And they struck him repeatedly.<br />Once more Pilate went out and said to them,<br />"Look, I am bringing him out to you,<br />so that you may know that I find no guilt in him."<br />So Jesus came out,<br />wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak.<br />And he said to them, "Behold, the man!"<br />When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out,<br />"Crucify him, crucify him!"<br />Pilate said to them,<br />"Take him yourselves and crucify him.<br />I find no guilt in him."<br />The Jews answered,<br />"We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die,<br />because he made himself the Son of God."<br />Now when Pilate heard this statement,<br />he became even more afraid,<br />and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus,<br />"Where are you from?"<br />Jesus did not answer him.<br />So Pilate said to him,<br />"Do you not speak to me?<br />Do you not know that I have power to release you<br />and I have power to crucify you?"<br />Jesus answered him,<br />"You would have no power over me<br />if it had not been given to you from above.<br />For this reason the one who handed me over to you<br />has the greater sin."<br />Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out,<br />"If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar.<br />Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar."<br /><br />When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out<br />and seated him on the judge's bench<br />in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha.<br />It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon.<br />And he said to the Jews,<br />"Behold, your king!"<br />They cried out,<br />"Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!"<br />Pilate said to them,<br />"Shall I crucify your king?"<br />The chief priests answered,<br />"We have no king but Caesar."<br />Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.<br /><br />So they took Jesus, and, carrying the cross himself,<br />he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull,<br />in Hebrew, Golgotha.<br />There they crucified him, and with him two others,<br />one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.<br />Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross.<br />It read,<br />"Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews."<br />Now many of the Jews read this inscription,<br />because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city;<br />and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.<br />So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,<br />"Do not write 'The King of the Jews,'<br />but that he said, 'I am the King of the Jews'."<br />Pilate answered,<br />"What I have written, I have written."<br /><br />When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,<br />they took his clothes and divided them into four shares,<br />a share for each soldier.<br />They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless,<br />woven in one piece from the top down.<br />So they said to one another,<br />"Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be, "<br />in order that the passage of Scripture might be fulfilled that says:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They divided my garments among them,<br />and for my vesture they cast lots.</em><br />This is what the soldiers did.<br />Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother<br />and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,<br />and Mary of Magdala.<br />When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved<br />he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son."<br />Then he said to the disciple,<br />"Behold, your mother."<br />And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.<br /><br />After this, aware that everything was now finished,<br />in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled,<br />Jesus said, "I thirst."<br />There was a vessel filled with common wine.<br />So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop<br />and put it up to his mouth.<br />When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,<br />"It is finished."<br />And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.<br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here all kneel and pause for a short time.</em><br /><br />Now since it was preparation day,<br />in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath,<br />for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one,<br />the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken<br />and that they be taken down.<br />So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first<br />and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.<br />But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,<br />they did not break his legs,<br />but one soldier thrust his lance into his side,<br />and immediately blood and water flowed out.<br />An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true;<br />he knows that he is speaking the truth,<br />so that you also may come to believe.<br />For this happened so that the Scripture passage might be fulfilled:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Not a bone of it will be broken.</em><br />And again another passage says:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will look upon him whom they have pierced.</em><br /><br />After this, Joseph of Arimathea,<br />secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews,<br />asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus.<br />And Pilate permitted it.<br />So he came and took his body.<br />Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night,<br />also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes<br />weighing about one hundred pounds.<br />They took the body of Jesus<br />and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices,<br />according to the Jewish burial custom.<br />Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden,<br />and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.<br />So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day;<br />for the tomb was close by.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>Video Liturgy Starts at 9:00 minutes</u></b></span></div>
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<br />Good Friday, is the Friday in Holy Week. On this day the Church remembers the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is one of the oldest feasts in the calendar. From the earliest times the Christians kept every Friday as a feast day. The origin of the term Good is not clear. Some say it is from "God's Friday" (Gottes Freitag). Sometimes, too, the day was called Long Friday by the Anglo-Saxons; so today in Denmark.<br />Good Friday, is the Friday before Easter Sunday. It celebrates the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross. This falls on the 2nd day of the Easter Triduum after the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday.<br />During the liturgy the account of the Passion according to the Gospel of John is read, there are intercessory prayers, and the faithful venerate the Cross by kissing it. The Liturgy ends with the distribution of Holy Communion.<br /> There is no Mass celebrated on Good Friday Hosts that were kept from the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday are distributed. The service on Good Friday is very solemn; the organ is not played, and all vestments are red or (Traditional Latin Mass) black.<br /> Fasting and Abstinence is observed on Good Friday. Catholics over the age of 18 and under the age of 60 are required to fast, this means that they can eat only one complete meal and two smaller ones during the day, with no food in between. Those who are over the age of 14 are required to refrain from eating any meat, or any food made with meat, on Good Friday.<br />Catholics are encouraged to attend the Commemoration of Our Lord's Passion on Good Friday. However, Good Friday is not a Holy Day of Obligation. A veiled image of the Crucifix is gradually exposed to view, while the celebrant, accompanied by his assistants, sings three times the "Ecce lignum Crucis", etc. (Behold the wood of the Cross on which hung the salvation of the world), to which the choir answers, each time, "Venite adoremus" (Come let us adore). During the singing of this response the whole assembly (except the celebrant) kneel in adoration. When the Cross is completely unveiled the celebrant carries it to the foot of the altar, and places it in a cushion prepared for it. He then takes off his shoes and approaches the Cross (genuflecting three times on the way) and kisses it. Edited from the Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<b><u>Born </u></b>at Schiedam, Holland, 18 April 1380;<br /><b><u>Died </u></b>14 April, 1433.<br /><b><u>Patron</u></b>: <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of sickness; chronically ill, ice skaters, town of Schiedam</span></span><br />Her father, Peter by name, came of a noble family while her mother Petronella, born at Kethel, Holland, was a poor country girl. Both were poor. Very early in her life St. Lidwina was drawn towards the Mother of God and prayed a great deal before the miraculous image of Our Lady of Schiedam. During the winter of the year of 1395, Lidwina went skating with her friends, one of whom caused her to fall upon some ice with such violence that she broke a rib in her right side. This was the beginning of her martyrdom. No medical skill availed to cure her. Gangrene appeared in the wound caused by the fall and spread over her entire body. For years she lay in pain which seemed to increase constantly. Some looked on her with suspicion, as being under the influence of the evil spirit. Her pastor, Andries, brought her an unconsecrated host, but the saint distinguished it at once. But God rewarded her with a wonderful gift of prayer and also with visions. Numerous miracles took place at her bed-side. The celebrated preacher and seer, Wermbold of Roskoop, visited her after previously beholding her in spirit. The pious Arnold of Schoonhoven treated her as a friend. Hendrik Mande wrote for her consolation a pious tract in Dutch. When Joannes Busch brought this to her, he asked her what she thought of Hendrik Mande's visions, and she answered that they came from God. In a vision she was shown a rose-bush with the words, "When this shall be in bloom, your suffering will be at an end." In the spring of the year 1433, she exclaimed, "I see the rose-bush in full bloom!" From her fifteenth to her fifty-third year, she suffered every imaginable pain; she was one sore from head to foot and was greatly emaciated. On the morning of Easter-day, 1433, she was in deep contemplation and beheld, in a vision, Christ coming towards her to administer the Sacrament of Extreme Unction. She died in the odour of great sanctity. At once her grave became a place of pilgrimage, and as early as 1434 a chapel was built over it. Joannes Brugmann and Thomas à Kempis related the history of her life, and veneration of her on the part of the people increased unceasingly. In 1615 her relics were conveyed to Brussels, but in 1871 they were returned to Schiedam. On 14 March, 1890, Leo XIII put the official sanction of the Church upon that veneration which had existed for centuries.<br />Shared From The Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Holy Thursday, marks the start of Holy Week, and the Easter Triduum. From the Latin word meaning "three days", the Easter Triduum is the holiest time of the year in the Catholic Church. The solemn liturgies of the Triduum are the most important liturgies of the Church year teaching the meaning of Christ's life, death and resurrection. People gather to commemorate the three pillars of the Catholic faith: the Sacrament of Holy Communion, the Priesthood and the Mass.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During the Chrism Mass, the Holy Oils to be used throughout the coming year for Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders and the Anointing of the Sick are consecrated. The Mass of the Lord's Supper is traditionally held after sundown. </span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HugMM_3FfnI" width="640"></iframe> <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">commemorates</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the Institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion and recalls the Last Supper of Our Lord. It was at this last supper that Christ after he was betrayed, offered His Body and Blood to God the Father, under the species of bread and wine which he gave to the Apostles as spiritual nourishment, commanding them and their successors in the priesthood to perpetuate this offering. At the Mass of the Lord's Supper it is traditional in Catholic dioceses for the archbishop or bishop to wash the feet of 12 priests to symbolise Christ's washing of the feet of His Apostles and a symbol of service everyone is called to live. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This Mass ends in silence, the Blessed Sacrament is carried in procession to the Altar of Repose where it will remain until Mass the following day. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and is the most solemn day in the Christian calendar. It is a day of quiet fasting and mourning, remembering again how Jesus suffered and died for our sins.Christ has died. Christ is Risen. Christ will come again. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> During t</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">he Solemn Commemoration of the Lord's Passion t</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">he ceremony and prayers are solemn and reflective. The pulpit and altar will be bare; no candles lit. This creates the awareness of grief over the sacrifice of God's only begotten Son. Communion will be distributed - the hosts having been blessed in the Thursday Mass. On Holy Saturday the service begins in a darkened Church. There is the blessing of new fire, lighting of the paschal candle and the Easter Proclamation. These are the most important days of remembrance and celebration in the Catholic Church. The Easter Triduum is the holiest time of the year in the Catholic Church. The Easter fast, begun on Good Friday ends on Sunday, when the world celebrates the Resurrection of Our Lord. Statues and artworks covered for Lent are uncovered, the altar is no longer bare and the entire church is filled with flowers. The Palm Sunday celebration commemorated Christ's arrival in ancient Jerusalem riding on a small donkey to be greeted by exuberant crowds hailing him as the Messiah and waving palm leaves. As we know before the week was out, Christ had been betrayed and arrested. What followed was the Lord's terrible suffering and his crucifixion outside the walls of the city. But three days later came His glorious resurrection which Catholics and Christians of all denominations celebrate on Easter Sunday. Edited from Archdiocese of Sydney</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>USCCB Release 18 Questions Answered About the Triduum:</u></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>The following eighteen questions address the most commonly received questions concerning the Sacred Paschal Triduum, and may be freely reproduced by diocesan Offices for Worship, parish Liturgy Committees, and others seeking to promote the effective celebration of these most sacred days. </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>1. When does the Triduum begin and end? </b>The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2. <b>May another Mass besides the Mass of the Lord’s Supper be celebrated on Holy Thursday?</b> Ordinarily, no other Mass may be celebrated on Holy Thursday. However, by way of exception, the local Ordinary may permit another Mass in churches and oratories to be celebrated in the evening, and, in the case of genuine necessity, even in the morning. Such Masses are provided for those who in no way are able to participate in the evening Mass. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">3. <b>How are the Holy Oils, consecrated and blessed at the Chrism Mass, to be received in the parish?</b> A reception of the oils may take place before the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. The oils, in suitable vessels, can be carried in procession by members of the assembly. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">4. <b>A text for this can be found here. Is the Mandatum, the washing of feet at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, required? </b>No. The Roman Missal only indicates, “After the Homily, where a pastoral reason suggests it [ubi ratio pastoralis id suadeat], the Washing of Feet follows.” </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>5. When should the Good Friday Celebration of the Lord’s Passion take place? </b>Normally it should take place in the afternoon, at about 3:00 PM, to enable people to assemble more easily. However, pastoral discretion may indicate a time shortly after midday, or in the late evening, though never later than 9:00 PM. Depending on the size or nature of a parish or other community, the local Ordinary may permit the service to be repeated. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">6. <b>May a deacon officiate at the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion?</b> Although the Celebration of the Lord's Passion appears to be a service of the Word with the distribution of Holy Communion, the Roman Missal does not permit a deacon to officiate at the celebration. Historically, even though the Eucharist is not celebrated on this day, the liturgy of Good Friday bears resemblance to a Mass. At one time it was called the “Mass of the Presanctified” (referring to the pre-consecrated hosts used at Communion, even when only the priest received Communion). This is also reflected in the prescribed vesture for the priest: stole and chasuble. The liturgy of Good Friday, as an integral part of the Triduum, is linked to the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. While there may be cases where a parish with multiple churches or chapels (e.g., mission churches or a cluster of parishes under one pastor) might rotate the liturgies among the various locations, it would not be appropriate for a community to celebrate only part of the Triduum. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>7. May any of the readings at the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion be omitted? </b>The Lectionary for Mass does not indicate that any readings may be omitted at the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion. All three readings (Isaiah, Hebrews, and the Passion according to John) are required. It should be noted, however, for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the Lectionary indicates that while all three readings provided should be used, there may be circumstances in which one or more of the readings at Mass could be omitted: “Given, however, the importance of the account of the Lord’s Passion, the priest, having in mind the character of each individual congregation, is authorized to choose only one of the two readings prescribed before the Gospel, or if necessary, he may read only the account of the Passion, even in the shorter form. This permission applies, however, only to Masses celebrated with a congregation.” Thus, the account of the Passion is never omitted. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>8. Does the Church encourage any other liturgical celebrations on Good Friday? </b>On this day the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer could appropriately be celebrated with the participation of the people in the churches. Note that Evening Prayer is only prayed by those who do not participate in the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>9. Do devotions have a particular importance on Good Friday?</b> The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (2002) provides the proper perspective in paragraphs 142-145. Clearly the central celebration of this day is the Good Friday Celebration of the Lord’s Passion. In no way should manifestations of popular piety, either by the time or manner in which they are convoked, substitute for this solemn liturgical action. Nor should aspects of the various acts of piety be mixed with the Good Friday celebration, creating a hybrid. In recent times, Passion processions, celebrations of the Stations of the Cross, and Passion Plays have become more common. In such representations, actors and spectators can be involved in a moment of faith and genuine piety. Care should be taken, however, to point out to the faithful that a Passion Play is a representation which is commemorative and they are very different from “liturgical actions” which are anamnesis, or the mysterious presence of the redemptive event of the Passion. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>10. How does the Adoration of the Holy Cross on Good Friday begin? </b>The Adoration of the Holy Cross begins with one of two forms of the Showing of the Holy Cross. The First Form begins as the deacon or another suitable minister goes to the sacristy and obtains the veiled Cross. Accompanied by two ministers with lighted candles, the veiled Cross is brought to the center of the sanctuary in procession. The priest accepts the Cross and then, standing in front of the altar and facing the people, uncovers the upper part of the Cross, the right arm, and then the entire Cross. Each time he unveils a part of the Cross, he sings the acclamation, Behold the wood of the Cross. In the Second Form of the Showing of the Holy Cross, the priest or deacon goes to the church door, where he takes up the uncovered Cross. Accompanied by two ministers with lighted candles, he processes to the sanctuary, stopping at the door of the church, in the middle of the church, and before entering the sanctuary, to sing the acclamation, Behold the wood of the Cross. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>11. How is the cross venerated by members of the congregation on Good Friday? </b>After the showing of the Cross, the priest or deacon may carry the Cross to the entrance of the sanctuary or another suitable place. The first person to adore the Cross is the priest celebrant. If circumstances suggest, he takes off his chasuble and his shoes. The clergy, lay ministers and the faithful then approach the Cross. The personal adoration of the Cross is an important feature in this celebration and every effort should be made to achieve it. The rubrics remind us that “only one Cross” should be used for adoration. If the numbers are so great that all cannot come forward, the priest, after some of the clergy and faithful have adored the Cross, can take it and stand in the center before the altar. In a few words he invites the people to adore the Cross. He then elevates the Cross higher for a brief period of time while the faithful adore it in silence. It should also be kept in mind that when a sufficiently large Cross is used even a large community can reverence it in due time. The foot of the Cross as well as the right and left arm can be approached and venerated. Coordination with ushers and planning the flow of people beforehand can allow for this part of the liturgy to be celebrated with decorum and devotion. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>12. When should the Easter Vigil take place? </b>The Vigil, by its very nature, must take place at night. It is not begun before nightfall and should end before daybreak on Easter Sunday. The celebration of the Easter Vigil takes the place of the Office of Readings of Easter Sunday. The Easter Vigil begins and ends in darkness. It is a nocturnal vigil, retaining its ancient character of vigilance and expectation, as the Christian people await the Resurrection of the Lord during the night. Fire is blessed and the paschal candle is lighted to illumine the night so that all may hear the Easter proclamation and listen to the word of God proclaimed in the Scriptures. For this reason the Solemn Beginning of the Vigil (Lucernarium) takes place before the Liturgy of the Word. Since sunset varies at different locations throughout the country, local weather stations can be consulted as to the time of sunset in the area, keeping in mind that twilight concludes (i.e., nightfall occurs) somewhat later. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>13. What considerations should be given for the paschal candle used at the Easter Vigil? </b>This candle should be made of wax, never be artificial, be replaced each year, be only one in number, and be of sufficiently large size that it may convey the truth that Christ is the light of the world. The paschal candle is the symbol of the light of Christ, rising in glory, scattering the darkness of our hearts and minds. Above all, the paschal candle should be a genuine candle, the pre-eminent symbol of the light of Christ. Choice of size, design, and color should be made in relationship to the sanctuary in which it will be placed. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>14. In the case of mission churches and cluster parishes, can multiple paschal candles be used for the Service of Light? </b>The Roman Missal, not envisioning the pastoral situation of mission churches or cluster parishes, specifies that only one paschal candle is used. To accommodate the particular circumstances, the Secretariat of Divine Worship might suggest that the candles from the mission churches or other parish churches could be present at the Easter Vigil, having been prepared in advance, and blessed alongside the main candle (perhaps having deacons or other representatives holding them). In keeping with the rubrics, for the lighting and procession only one candle should be lit (the principal one, or the one which will remain in that particular church). As the other candles in the congregation are lit, the other paschal candles could be lit and held(but not high, in order to maintain the prominence of the one principal candle) by someone at their place in the assembly. Once all the candles are extinguished after the singing of the Exsultet, the other paschal candles are put aside. On Easter Sunday morning, those candles could be taken to each of the missions and carried, lit, in the entrance procession at the first Mass at each church and put in place in the sanctuary. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>15. How many readings should be proclaimed at the Easter Vigil?</b> One of the unique aspects of the Easter Vigil is the recounting of the outstanding deeds of the history of salvation. These deeds are related in seven readings from the Old Testament chosen from the law and the prophets and two readings from the New Testament, namely from the Apostle Paul and from the Gospel. Thus, the Lord meets us once again on our journey and, “beginning with Moses and all the prophets” (Lk 24:27) opens up our minds and hearts, preparing us to share in the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the cup. The faithful are encouraged to meditate on these readings by the singing of a responsorial psalm, followed by a silent pause, and then by the celebrant’s prayer. Meditation on these readings is so significant for this night that we are strongly urged to use all the readings whenever it can be done. Only in the case of grave pastoral circumstances can the number of readings be reduced. In such cases, at least three readings from the Old Testament should be read, always including Exodus 14.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>16. How is the First Communion of the neophytes to be emphasized during the Easter Vigil?</b> The celebrant, before he says, Behold the Lamb of God, may make a brief remark to the neophytes about their first Communion and about the importance of so great a mystery, which is the climax of initiation and the center of the Christian life. This is a night when all should be able to receive Holy Communion under both forms. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>17. What directions are given for the celebration of Masses on Easter Sunday?</b> Mass is to be celebrated on Easter Day with great solemnity. A full complement of ministers and the use of liturgical music should be evident in all celebrations. On Easter Sunday in the dioceses of the United States, the rite of the renewal of baptismal promises may take place after the homily, followed by the sprinkling with water blessed at the Vigil, during which the antiphon Vidi aquam, or some other song of baptismal character should be sung. (If the renewal of baptismal promises does not occur, then the Creed is said. The Roman Missal notes that the Apostles' Creed, "the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church," might be appropriately used during Easter Time.) The holy water fonts at the entrance to the church should also be filled with the same water. On the subsequent Sundays of Easter, it is appropriate that the Rite for the Blessing and Sprinkling of Water take the place of the Penitential Act. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>18. Where is the paschal candle placed during Easter Time? </b>The paschal candle has its proper place either by the ambo or by the altar and should be lit at least in all the more solemn liturgical celebrations of the season until Pentecost Sunday, whether at Mass, or at Morning and Evening Prayer. After Easter Time the candle should be kept with honor in the baptistery, so that in the celebration of Baptism the candles of the baptized may be lit from it. In the celebration of funerals the paschal candle should be placed near the coffin to indicate Christ’s undying presence, his victory over sin and death, and the promise of sharing in Christ’s victory by virtue of being part of the Body of Christ (see Order of Christian Funerals, no. 35). The paschal candle should not otherwise be lit nor placed in the sanctuary outside Easter Time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Coptic Orthodox Patriarch is unharmed. So far 11 are dead and 66 wounded. Initial reports indicate a suicide bomber was responsible. Egypt’s National Defence Council is set to meet. Some call for an overhaul of security measures around churches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Cairo (AsiaNews) – Less than two hours after an explosion tore through the <strong><a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2017/04/breakingnews-over-21-killed-and-69.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">Mar Girgis Coptic Church in Tanta</a></strong>, a second blast struck St Mark Cathedral in Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast, during the Palm Sunday service led by Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II. The church is the traditional seat of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Initial reports suggest that a man blew himself up at the entrance of the church, street-side, as the patriarch celebrated Mass at the altar inside. The latter was whisked away to a safe place under tight protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">So far 11 people are dead and 66 wounded. Some policemen are among the casualties, including Adel El-Rakiby, head of the police department in Atarin district. In addition to the church, the blast hit a small building across the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Many people demand an overhaul of security measures around churches. The city of Alexandria has 48 Coptic Orthodox churches, plus those of other rites.</span></div>
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Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. Director: Mel Gibson Writers: Benedict Fitzgerald (screenplay), Mel Gibson (screenplay) Stars: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern |<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="515" src="https://videopress.com/embed/qwNU224l" width="960"></iframe></div>
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<br />PALM SUNDAY OR PASSION SUNDAY is the Sunday before Easter. It commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. The donkey was a symbol of peace. The biblical account can be found in the Gospels:<br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 18px; text-align: justify;">
<i><b>Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the yoke.</b></i><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #000066;"><b><u>How to fold a Palm into a Cross:</u></b></span></div>
<b><span style="color: #000066;">1. Take a palm frond about 1/2 inch wide and 13 inches and hold upright</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #000066;">2. Fold the top down, away from you, and the bottom up, away from you, to form the shaft of a cross of desired length</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #000066;">3. Turn the end down and twist around to the right and across the front of the shaft to make a crossbar in proportion to the length.</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #000066;">4. Fold the end around behind the shaft.<br />5. Bring the end from behind, under the centre. Fold from the bottom right to the top left and under again from the bottom left to the top right.</span></b><br /><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #000066;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #000066;">6. Fasten the end through the back loops to lock.</span></b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oT-0Z6YSJoU" width="640"></iframe><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJnaTaJmD_ImtTFvVJfUO-J3kuXI7wnPQZtTi0JrOdhNV15FtLR0UjSm-cmLDtv0WWySSVqWDr6Al9g01GIY5XlGksgtDjeVRcPVptICJsbX8-D5Nd3IpSUiM_QC89FiKxkLGPJoiPcQ/s1600/palm.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #666555; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJnaTaJmD_ImtTFvVJfUO-J3kuXI7wnPQZtTi0JrOdhNV15FtLR0UjSm-cmLDtv0WWySSVqWDr6Al9g01GIY5XlGksgtDjeVRcPVptICJsbX8-D5Nd3IpSUiM_QC89FiKxkLGPJoiPcQ/s400/palm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">And they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon them, and made him sit thereon.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="highlight" style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> </span></b></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><i><b>And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this? </b></i>(Matt. 21: 4-10) </span>Palm leaves are blessed and given out to the congregation at Church. This is a Solemnity in the Church Calendar and the liturgical colors are red for this day. The palms are kept and burned the next year for <i>Ash Wednesday.</i>(Image Share : Google)<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y3Vor55BoE0" width="425"></iframe></div>
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis delivered the homily at Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square. Below, please find the full text of his prepared remarks.<br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Today’s celebration can be said to be bittersweet. It is joyful and sorrowful at the same time. We celebrate the Lord’s entrance into Jerusalem to the cries of his disciples who acclaim him as king. Yet we also solemnly proclaim the Gospel account of his Passion. In this poignant contrast, our hearts experience in some small measure what Jesus himself must have felt in his own heart that day, as he rejoiced with his friends and wept over Jerusalem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For thirty-two years now, the joyful aspect of this Sunday has been enriched by the enthusiasm of young people, thanks to the celebration of World Youth Day. This year, it is being celebrated at the diocesan level, but here in Saint Peter’s Square it will be marked by the deeply moving and evocative moment when the WYD cross is passed from the young people of Kraków to those of Panama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Gospel we heard before the procession (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mt</em> 21:1-11) describes Jesus as he comes down from the Mount of Olives on the back of a colt that had never been ridden. It recounts the enthusiasm of the disciples who acclaim the Master with cries of joy, and we can picture in our minds the excitement of the children and young people of the city who joined in the excitement. Jesus himself sees in this joyful welcome an inexorable force willed by God. To the scandalized Pharisees he responds: “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would shout out” (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk </em>19:40).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yet Jesus who, in fulfilment of the Scriptures, enters the holy city in this way is no misguided purveyor of illusions, no new age prophet, no imposter. Rather, he is clearly a Messiah who comes in the guise of a servant, the servant of God and of man, and goes to his passion. He is the great “patient”, who suffers all the pain of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">So as we joyfully acclaim our King, let us also think of the sufferings that he will have to endure in this week. Let us think of the slanders and insults, the snares and betrayals, the abandonment to an unjust judgment, the blows, the lashes and the crown of thorns… And lastly, the way of the cross leading to the crucifixion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He had spoken clearly of this to his disciples: “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mt </em>16:24). Jesus never promised honour and success. The Gospels make this clear. He had always warned his friends that this was to be his path, and that the final victory would be achieved through the passion and the cross. All this holds true for us too. Let us ask for the grace to follow Jesus faithfully, not in words but in deeds. Let us also ask for the patience to carry our own cross, not to refuse it or set it aside, but rather, in looking to him, to take it up and to carry it daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This Jesus, who accepts the hosannas of the crowd, knows full well that they will soon be followed by the cry: “Crucify him!” He does not ask us to contemplate him only in pictures and photographs, or in the videos that circulate on the internet. No. He is present in our many brothers and sisters who today endure sufferings like his own: they suffer from slave labour, from family tragedies, from diseases… They suffer from wars and terrorism, from interests that are armed and ready to strike. Women and men who are cheated, violated in their dignity, discarded… Jesus is in them, in each of them, and, with marred features and broken voice, he asks to be looked in the eye, to be acknowledged, to be loved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It is not some other Jesus, but the same Jesus who entered Jerusalem amid the waving of palm branches. It is the same Jesus who was nailed to the cross and died between two criminals. We have no other Lord but him: Jesus, the humble King of justice, mercy and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At The Procession With Palms — GospelMT 21:1-11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem<br />and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives,<br />Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them,<br />"Go into the village opposite you,<br />and immediately you will find an ass tethered,<br />and a colt with her.<br />Untie them and bring them here to me.<br />And if anyone should say anything to you, reply,<br />'The master has need of them.'<br />Then he will send them at once."<br />This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet<br />might be fulfilled:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Say to daughter Zion,<br />"Behold, your king comes to you,<br />meek and riding on an ass,<br />and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden."</em><br />The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them.<br />They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them,<br />and he sat upon them.<br />The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road,<br />while others cut branches from the trees<br />and strewed them on the road.<br />The crowds preceding him and those following<br />kept crying out and saying:<br />"Hosanna to the Son of David;<br />blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord;<br />hosanna in the highest."<br />And when he entered Jerusalem<br />the whole city was shaken and asked, "Who is this?"<br />And the crowds replied,<br />"This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee."</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At The Mass — Reading 1IS 50:4-7</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Lord GOD has given me<br />a well-trained tongue,<br />that I might know how to speak to the weary<br />a word that will rouse them.<br />Morning after morning<br />he opens my ear that I may hear;<br />and I have not rebelled,<br />have not turned back.<br />I gave my back to those who beat me,<br />my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;<br />my face I did not shield<br />from buffets and spitting.<br /><br />The Lord GOD is my help,<br />therefore I am not disgraced;<br />I have set my face like flint,<br />knowing that I shall not be put to shame.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (2a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?</span><br />All who see me scoff at me;<br />they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads:<br />"He relied on the LORD; let him deliver him,<br />let him rescue him, if he loves him."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?</span><br />Indeed, many dogs surround me,<br />a pack of evildoers closes in upon me;<br />They have pierced my hands and my feet;<br />I can count all my bones.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?</span><br />They divide my garments among them,<br />and for my vesture they cast lots.<br />But you, O LORD, be not far from me;<br />O my help, hasten to aid me.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?</span><br />I will proclaim your name to my brethren;<br />in the midst of the assembly I will praise you:<br />"You who fear the LORD, praise him;<br />all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him;<br />revere him, all you descendants of Israel!"<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 2PHIL 2:6-11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,<br />did not regard equality with God<br />something to be grasped.<br />Rather, he emptied himself,<br />taking the form of a slave,<br />coming in human likeness;<br />and found human in appearance,<br />he humbled himself,<br />becoming obedient to the point of death,<br />even death on a cross.<br />Because of this, God greatly exalted him<br />and bestowed on him the name<br />which is above every name,<br />that at the name of Jesus<br />every knee should bend,<br />of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,<br />and every tongue confess that<br />Jesus Christ is Lord,<br />to the glory of God the Father.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Verse Before The GospelPHIL 2:8-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ became obedient to the point of death,<br />even death on a cross.<br />Because of this, God greatly exalted him<br />and bestowed on him the name which is above every name.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMT 26:14—27:66</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot,<br />went to the chief priests and said,<br />"What are you willing to give me<br />if I hand him over to you?"<br />They paid him thirty pieces of silver,<br />and from that time on he looked for an opportunity<br />to hand him over.<br /><br />On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread,<br />the disciples approached Jesus and said,<br />"Where do you want us to prepare<br />for you to eat the Passover?"<br />He said,<br />"Go into the city to a certain man and tell him,<br />'The teacher says, "My appointed time draws near;<br />in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples."'"<br />The disciples then did as Jesus had ordered,<br />and prepared the Passover.<br /><br />When it was evening,<br />he reclined at table with the Twelve.<br />And while they were eating, he said,<br />"Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me."<br />Deeply distressed at this,<br />they began to say to him one after another,<br />"Surely it is not I, Lord?"<br />He said in reply,<br />"He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me<br />is the one who will betray me.<br />The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him,<br />but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.<br />It would be better for that man if he had never been born."<br />Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,<br />"Surely it is not I, Rabbi?"<br />He answered, "You have said so."<br /><br />While they were eating,<br />Jesus took bread, said the blessing,<br />broke it, and giving it to his disciples said,<br />"Take and eat; this is my body."<br />Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,<br />"Drink from it, all of you,<br />for this is my blood of the covenant,<br />which will be shed on behalf of many<br />for the forgiveness of sins.<br />I tell you, from now on I shall not drink this fruit of the vine<br />until the day when I drink it with you new<br />in the kingdom of my Father."<br />Then, after singing a hymn,<br />they went out to the Mount of Olives.<br /><br />Then Jesus said to them,<br />"This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken,<br />for it is written:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will strike the shepherd,<br />and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed;</em><br />but after I have been raised up,<br />I shall go before you to Galilee."<br />Peter said to him in reply,<br />"Though all may have their faith in you shaken,<br />mine will never be."<br />Jesus said to him,<br />"Amen, I say to you,<br />this very night before the cock crows,<br />you will deny me three times."<br />Peter said to him,<br />"Even though I should have to die with you,<br />I will not deny you."<br />And all the disciples spoke likewise.<br /><br />Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane,<br />and he said to his disciples,<br />"Sit here while I go over there and pray."<br />He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee,<br />and began to feel sorrow and distress.<br />Then he said to them,<br />"My soul is sorrowful even to death.<br />Remain here and keep watch with me."<br />He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying,<br />"My Father, if it is possible,<br />let this cup pass from me;<br />yet, not as I will, but as you will."<br />When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep.<br />He said to Peter,<br />"So you could not keep watch with me for one hour?<br />Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test.<br />The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."<br />Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again,<br />"My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass<br />without my drinking it, your will be done!"<br />Then he returned once more and found them asleep,<br />for they could not keep their eyes open.<br />He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time,<br />saying the same thing again.<br />Then he returned to his disciples and said to them,<br />"Are you still sleeping and taking your rest?<br />Behold, the hour is at hand<br />when the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners.<br />Get up, let us go.<br />Look, my betrayer is at hand."<br /><br />While he was still speaking,<br />Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived,<br />accompanied by a large crowd, with swords and clubs,<br />who had come from the chief priests and the elders<br />of the people.<br />His betrayer had arranged a sign with them, saying,<br />"The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him."<br />Immediately he went over to Jesus and said,<br />"Hail, Rabbi!" and he kissed him.<br />Jesus answered him,<br />"Friend, do what you have come for."<br />Then stepping forward they laid hands on Jesus and arrested him.<br />And behold, one of those who accompanied Jesus<br />put his hand to his sword, drew it,<br />and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.<br />Then Jesus said to him,<br />"Put your sword back into its sheath,<br />for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.<br />Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father<br />and he will not provide me at this moment<br />with more than twelve legions of angels?<br />But then how would the Scriptures be fulfilled<br />which say that it must come to pass in this way?"<br />At that hour Jesus said to the crowds,<br />"Have you come out as against a robber,<br />with swords and clubs to seize me?<br />Day after day I sat teaching in the temple area,<br />yet you did not arrest me.<br />But all this has come to pass<br />that the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled."<br />Then all the disciples left him and fled.<br /><br />Those who had arrested Jesus led him away<br />to Caiaphas the high priest,<br />where the scribes and the elders were assembled.<br />Peter was following him at a distance<br />as far as the high priest's courtyard,<br />and going inside he sat down with the servants<br />to see the outcome.<br />The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin<br />kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus<br />in order to put him to death,<br />but they found none,<br />though many false witnesses came forward.<br />Finally two came forward who stated,<br />"This man said, 'I can destroy the temple of God<br />and within three days rebuild it.'"<br />The high priest rose and addressed him,<br />"Have you no answer?<br />What are these men testifying against you?"<br />But Jesus was silent.<br />Then the high priest said to him,<br />"I order you to tell us under oath before the living God<br />whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."<br />Jesus said to him in reply,<br />"You have said so.<br />But I tell you:<br />From now on you will see 'the Son of Man<br />seated at the right hand of the Power'<br />and 'coming on the clouds of heaven.'"<br />Then the high priest tore his robes and said,<br />"He has blasphemed!<br />What further need have we of witnesses?<br />You have now heard the blasphemy;<br />what is your opinion?"<br />They said in reply,<br />"He deserves to die!"<br />Then they spat in his face and struck him,<br />while some slapped him, saying,<br />"Prophesy for us, Christ: who is it that struck you?"<br /><br />Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard.<br />One of the maids came over to him and said,<br />"You too were with Jesus the Galilean."<br />But he denied it in front of everyone, saying,<br />"I do not know what you are talking about!"<br />As he went out to the gate, another girl saw him<br />and said to those who were there,<br />"This man was with Jesus the Nazorean."<br />Again he denied it with an oath,<br />"I do not know the man!"<br />A little later the bystanders came over and said to Peter,<br />"Surely you too are one of them;<br />even your speech gives you away."<br />At that he began to curse and to swear,<br />"I do not know the man."<br />And immediately a cock crowed.<br />Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken:<br />"Before the cock crows you will deny me three times."<br />He went out and began to weep bitterly.<br /><br />When it was morning,<br />all the chief priests and the elders of the people<br />took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.<br />They bound him, led him away,<br />and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.<br /><br />Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned,<br />deeply regretted what he had done.<br />He returned the thirty pieces of silver<br />to the chief priests and elders, saying,<br />"I have sinned in betraying innocent blood."<br />They said,<br />"What is that to us?<br />Look to it yourself."<br />Flinging the money into the temple,<br />he departed and went off and hanged himself.<br />The chief priests gathered up the money, but said,<br />"It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury,<br />for it is the price of blood."<br />After consultation, they used it to buy the potter's field<br />as a burial place for foreigners.<br />That is why that field even today is called the Field of Blood.<br />Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah<br />the prophet,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And they took the thirty pieces of silver,<br />the value of a man with a price on his head,<br />a price set by some of the Israelites,<br />and they paid it out for the potter's field<br />just as the Lord had commanded me.</em><br /><br />Now Jesus stood before the governor, and he questioned him,<br />"Are you the king of the Jews?"<br />Jesus said, "You say so."<br />And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders,<br />he made no answer.<br />Then Pilate said to him,<br />"Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?"<br />But he did not answer him one word,<br />so that the governor was greatly amazed.<br /><br />Now on the occasion of the feast<br />the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd<br />one prisoner whom they wished.<br />And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.<br />So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them,<br />"Which one do you want me to release to you,<br />Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?"<br />For he knew that it was out of envy<br />that they had handed him over.<br />While he was still seated on the bench,<br />his wife sent him a message,<br />"Have nothing to do with that righteous man.<br />I suffered much in a dream today because of him."<br />The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds<br />to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus.<br />The governor said to them in reply,<br />"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?"<br />They answered, "Barabbas!"<br />Pilate said to them,<br />"Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?"<br />They all said,<br />"Let him be crucified!"<br />But he said,<br />"Why? What evil has he done?"<br />They only shouted the louder,<br />"Let him be crucified!"<br />When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all,<br />but that a riot was breaking out instead,<br />he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd,<br />saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood.<br />Look to it yourselves."<br />And the whole people said in reply,<br />"His blood be upon us and upon our children."<br />Then he released Barabbas to them,<br />but after he had Jesus scourged,<br />he handed him over to be crucified.<br /><br />Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium<br />and gathered the whole cohort around him.<br />They stripped off his clothes<br />and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.<br />Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head,<br />and a reed in his right hand.<br />And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying,<br />"Hail, King of the Jews!"<br />They spat upon him and took the reed<br />and kept striking him on the head.<br />And when they had mocked him,<br />they stripped him of the cloak,<br />dressed him in his own clothes,<br />and led him off to crucify him.<br /><br />As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon;<br />this man they pressed into service<br />to carry his cross.<br /><br />And when they came to a place called Golgotha<br />—which means Place of the Skull —,<br />they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall.<br />But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink.<br />After they had crucified him,<br />they divided his garments by casting lots;<br />then they sat down and kept watch over him there.<br />And they placed over his head the written charge against him:<br />This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.<br />Two revolutionaries were crucified with him,<br />one on his right and the other on his left.<br />Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying,<br />"You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,<br />save yourself, if you are the Son of God,<br />and come down from the cross!"<br />Likewise the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and said,<br />"He saved others; he cannot save himself.<br />So he is the king of Israel!<br />Let him come down from the cross now,<br />and we will believe in him.<br />He trusted in God;<br />let him deliver him now if he wants him.<br />For he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"<br />The revolutionaries who were crucified with him<br />also kept abusing him in the same way.<br /><br />From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land<br />until three in the afternoon.<br />And about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?"</em><br />which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"<br />Some of the bystanders who heard it said,<br />"This one is calling for Elijah."<br />Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge;<br />he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed,<br />gave it to him to drink.<br />But the rest said,<br />"Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him."<br />But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice,<br />and gave up his spirit.<br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here all kneel and pause for a short time.</em><br /><br />And behold, the veil of the sanctuary<br />was torn in two from top to bottom.<br />The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened,<br />and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.<br />And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection,<br />they entered the holy city and appeared to many.<br />The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus<br />feared greatly when they saw the earthquake<br />and all that was happening, and they said,<br />"Truly, this was the Son of God!"<br />There were many women there, looking on from a distance,<br />who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him.<br />Among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph,<br />and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.<br /><br />When it was evening,<br />there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph,<br />who was himself a disciple of Jesus.<br />He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus;<br />then Pilate ordered it to be handed over.<br />Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen<br />and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock.<br />Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb<br />and departed.<br />But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary<br />remained sitting there, facing the tomb.<br /><br />The next day, the one following the day of preparation,<br />the chief priests and the Pharisees<br />gathered before Pilate and said,<br />"Sir, we remember that this impostor while still alive said,<br />'After three days I will be raised up.'<br />Give orders, then, that the grave be secured until the third day,<br />lest his disciples come and steal him and say to the people,<br />'He has been raised from the dead.'<br />This last imposture would be worse than the first."<br />Pilate said to them,<br />"The guard is yours;<br />go, secure it as best you can."<br />So they went and secured the tomb<br />by fixing a seal to the stone and setting the guard.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; 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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Or</span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">MT 27:11-54</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus stood before the governor, Pontius Pilate, who questioned him,<br />"Are you the king of the Jews?"<br />Jesus said, "You say so."<br />And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders,<br />he made no answer.<br />Then Pilate said to him,<br />"Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?"<br />But he did not answer him one word,<br />so that the governor was greatly amazed.<br /><br />Now on the occasion of the feast<br />the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd<br />one prisoner whom they wished.<br />And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.<br />So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them,<br />"Which one do you want me to release to you,<br />Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?"<br />For he knew that it was out of envy<br />that they had handed him over.<br />While he was still seated on the bench,<br />his wife sent him a message,<br />"Have nothing to do with that righteous man.<br />I suffered much in a dream today because of him."<br />The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds<br />to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus.<br />The governor said to them in reply,<br />"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?"<br />They answered, "Barabbas!"<br />Pilate said to them,<br />"Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?"<br />They all said,<br />"Let him be crucified!"<br />But he said,<br />"Why? What evil has he done?"<br />They only shouted the louder,<br />"Let him be crucified!"<br />When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all,<br />but that a riot was breaking out instead,<br />he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd,<br />saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood.<br />Look to it yourselves."<br />And the whole people said in reply,<br />"His blood be upon us and upon our children."<br />Then he released Barabbas to them,<br />but after he had Jesus scourged,<br />he handed him over to be crucified.<br /><br />Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium<br />and gathered the whole cohort around him.<br />They stripped off his clothes<br />and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.<br />Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head,<br />and a reed in his right hand.<br />And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying,<br />"Hail, King of the Jews!"<br />They spat upon him and took the reed<br />and kept striking him on the head.<br />And when they had mocked him,<br />they stripped him of the cloak,<br />dressed him in his own clothes,<br />and led him off to crucify him.<br /><br />As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon;<br />this man they pressed into service<br />to carry his cross.<br /><br />And when they came to a place called Golgotha<br />— which means Place of the Skull —,<br />they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall.<br />But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink.<br />After they had crucified him,<br />they divided his garments by casting lots;<br />then they sat down and kept watch over him there.<br />And they placed over his head the written charge against him:<br />This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.<br />Two revolutionaries were crucified with him,<br />one on his right and the other on his left.<br />Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying,<br />"You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,<br />save yourself, if you are the Son of God,<br />and come down from the cross!"<br />Likewise the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and said,<br />"He saved others; he cannot save himself.<br />So he is the king of Israel!<br />Let him come down from the cross now,<br />and we will believe in him.<br />He trusted in God;<br />let him deliver him now if he wants him.<br />For he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"<br />The revolutionaries who were crucified with him<br />also kept abusing him in the same way.<br /><br />From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land<br />until three in the afternoon.<br />And about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?"</em><br />which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"<br />Some of the bystanders who heard it said,<br />"This one is calling for Elijah."<br />Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge;<br />he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed,<br />gave it to him to drink.<br />But the rest said,<br />'Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him."<br />But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice,<br />and gave up his spirit.<br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here all kneel and pause for a short time.</em><br /><br />And behold, the veil of the sanctuary<br />was torn in two from top to bottom.<br />The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened,<br />and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.<br />And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection,<br />they entered the holy city and appeared to many.<br />The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus<br />feared greatly when they saw the earthquake<br />and all that was happening, and they said,<br />"Truly, this was the Son of God!"</span></div>
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<a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2017/04/breakingnews-over-21-killed-and-69.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">#BreakingNews over 21 Killed and 69 Wounded at Terrorist Attack at Church on Palm Sunday - Please PRAY</a></h3>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">At least 21 dead and 69 wounded in an attack against Mar Girgis Coptic church in Tanta (Nile Delta)</span><br /><div class="sub_title_det" style="color: #6d6d6d;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Cairo (AsiaNews) – A bomb ripped through the Mar Girgis (St George) Coptic Church in the central Delta city of Tanta during Palm Sunday service.</span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">At least 21 people were killed and 69 wounded, Egypt's Health Ministry announced. The dealt toll is expected to rise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">The explosive device was planted under a chair in the main nave, very close to the altar, before the church filled up with worshipers for the liturgy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">At least 16 ambulances shuttled back and forth to local hospitals. Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi ordered military hospitals to treat the wounded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Mar Girgis Coptic Church in Tanta (Gharbiya governorate), 93 kilometres north of Cairo, is one of the country’s oldest. Built in 316 AD, it was restored several times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Overall, Gharbiya has 27 churches, four of which are classified as heritage buildings by Egypt’s Archeology Ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">The blast occurred as Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in the coastal city of Alexandria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Today’s is the second terrorist attack against a Coptic church in recent months. On 11 December 2016, <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Terrorist-attack-near-the-Coptic-cathedral-in-Cairo.-At-least-25-dead-and-dozens-wounded-39371.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">a suicide bomber blew himself up at Cairo’s St Peter’s and St Paul's Church</a></strong>, located near St Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, killing 28 people, and wounding more than 40 others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">For many years, Coptic Christians – about 10 per cent of the population – have been targeted by Jihadis, especially in the Sinai, where Christians have been killed and forced to flee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Frustrated by the ouster of their leader Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood groups too has tended to use Copts as scapegoats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Last month, Pope Francis announced that <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Egyptian-Church-happy:-the-Pope-will-be-in-Egypt-on-April-28-and-29-40233.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">he would be in Egypt on 28-29 April</a></strong> to continue the inter-religious dialogue with Al Azhar, Sunni Islam's highest authority.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><u>See the video below when the bomb exploded...Please Pray and Share</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis took part in a prayer vigil to open diocesan celebrations of World Youth Day on Saturday evening in the Basilica of St. Mary Major.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The vigil also marked the official beginning of preparations for the 2018 Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will focus on the place of young people in the life of the Church, discernment, and vocational accompaniment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The vigil also looked forward to the next global World Youth Day celebration, to be held in Panama in 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I don’t know if I will be there,” Pope Francis told the gathered crowd of young people, “but the Pope will be in Panama!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Moments before, the Pope had said, “At my age, we (old people) are about to pass away.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He reminded the young people of the urgency of living life to the fullest, saying, “Who guarantees life? No one. At your age, you have the future ahead of you.”</span></div>
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This title occurs only in John, xix, 25. A comparison of the lists of those who stood at the foot of the cross would seem to identify her with Mary, the mother of James the Less and Joseph (Mark 15:40; cf. Matthew 27:56). Some have indeed tried to identify her with the Salome of Mark, xv, 40, but St. John's reticence concerning himself and his relatives seems conclusive against this (cf. John 21:2). In the narratives of the Resurrection she is named "Mary of James"; (Mark 16:1; Luke 24:10) and "the other Mary" (Matthew 27:61; 28:1). The title of "Mary of James" is obscure. If it stood alone, we should feel inclined to render it "wife of (or sister of) James", but the recurrence of the expression "Mary the mother of James and Joseph" compels us to render it in the same way when we only read "Mary of James". Her relationship to the Blessed Virgin is obscure. James is termed "of Alpheus", i.e. presumably "son of Alpheus". St. Jerome would identify this Alpheus with Cleophas who, according to Hegesippus, was brother to St. Joseph (Hist. eccl., III, xi). In this case Mary of Cleophas, or Alpheus, would be the sister-in-law of the Blessed Virgin, and the term "sister", adelphe, in John, xix, 25, would cover this. But there are grave difficulties in the way of this identification of Alpheus and Cleophas. In the first place, St. Luke, who speaks of Cleophas (xxiv, 18), also speaks of Alpheus (6:15; Acts 1:13). We may question whether he would have been guilty of such a confused use of names, had they both referred to the same person. Again, while Alphas is the equivalent of the Aramaic, it is not easy to see how the Greek form of this became Cleophas, or more correctly Clopas. More probably it is a shortened form of Cleopatros. Source: Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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I want to thank you for being here at this Mass. I want to thank all those who worked for this double “marathon”: last Sunday [for the inauguration of the restored Cathedral] and this. Thank you very much! And I want to thank you, the sick. There are 4,500 sick here! Thank you, that with your help the suffering Church, helped to carry the cross of Christ. Thank you! Many thanks to you!</div>
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And at the end of this celebration, our thoughts turn to the Blessed Virgin, whom you venerate in your cathedral dedicated to her. To Mary, we offer our joys, our sorrows and our hopes. We ask for her mercy for those of us who are suffering, especially the sick, the poor and those without decent work.</div>
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Recalling the apostolic zeal of two lay figures of your land, Blessed Odoardo Focherini and Venerable Marianna Saltini, charity witnesses of Christ, I greet with gratitude to you, the lay faithful. I encourage you to be protagonists in the life of your community, in communion with your priests: always bet on what is essential in proclaiming and witnessing the Gospel.</div>
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I thank you, dear Bishop Francesco, and all of you, the Bishops of the Emilia Romagna Region, for your presence, and above all the shepherd of this diocese, Msgr. Francesco Cavina: I urge you to be close to your priests with listening, tenderness and caring closeness.</div>
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I would finally like to thank each and every one of you, dear faithful, priests, men and women religious, the Authorities and especially those who helped to organize this visit, with a special thought for the AGESCI and the choir, made up by all the choirs of the diocese, which has animated this liturgy.</div>
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We entrust our lives and the fate of the Church and of the world to Mary, reciting the Angelus prayer together.</div>
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I am deeply saddened by the tragedy that struck Colombia, where a giant mudslide caused by torrential rains, hit the city of Mocoa, causing numerous deaths and injuries. I pray for the victims and assure you of my and your closeness to those who are mourning the death of loved ones, and I thank all those who are working to bring relief.</div>
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There continue to be reports of bloody armed clashes in the region of Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo, clashes are causing deaths and displacement and which also affect people and property of the Church: churches, hospitals, schools. I assure you of my closeness to this nation, and I invite all to pray for peace so that the hearts of the architects of such crimes do not remain slaves of hatred and violence, why more hatred and violence destroy.</div>
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In addition, I follow with great attention to what is happening in Venezuela and Paraguay. I pray for those people, very dear to me, and I urge everyone to persevere tirelessly, avoiding any violence and in the search for political solutions</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-style: normal;">[Original Text: Italian] [ZENIT: Working translation by Deborah Castellano Lubov]</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "droid serif";">Pope Francis visited the Northern Italian city of Carpi, today, April 2, 2017</span><br /><div style="font-family: "droid serif";">
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Today’s readings speak of the God of life Who conquers death. Let us dwell, in particular, on the last of the miraculous signs wrought by Jesus before His Passover, namely the tomb of His friend, Lazarus.</div>
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There, everything seems to be over: the tomb is closed by a large stone in front of it. Even Jesus is shaken by the dramatic mystery of the loss of a loved one: “He is deeply moved” and “very troubled” (Jn 11:33). Then he “burst into tears” (v. 35) and came to the tomb, the Gospel says, “once more, deeply moved” (v. 38). This is the heart of God: Departing from evil, but [going] near those who suffer; evil doesn’t disappear magically, but with suffering, adopts and transforms.</div>
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We note however, that amid the general desolation over the death of Lazarus, Jesus was not carried away by anxiety. Despite suffering Himself, He calls for personal belief; not [being] locked up in tears, but, moved, He sets off into the tomb. He does not allow Himself to be destroyed by emotional resignation, but prays with confidence and says, “Father, I thank you” (v. 41). Thus, in the mystery of suffering, Jesus gives us an example of how to behave: not to escape the suffering, which belongs to this life, but not remain a victim to imprisoning pessimism.</div>
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Around the tomb, there’s a big clash. On one side, there’s big disappointment, the precariousness of our mortal life, crossed by anguish at death, [which] often experiences the defeat, an inner darkness that seems insurmountable. Our soul, created for life, suffering, feeling that thirst for eternal good, is oppressed by an ancient and evil dark. On the one hand, there is this defeat of the tomb. But on the other side, there is the hope that overcomes death and evil and that has a name: the hope is called Jesus. He brings a little well-being or some remedy to prolong life, but proclaims, “I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in me, though he die, shall live “(v. 25). For this definitely, says: “Take away the stone” (v. 39) and Lazarus shouts loudly: “Come out!” (V. 43).</div>
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Dear brothers and sisters, we too, are invited to decide which side to take. You can stand on the side of the grave or the side of Jesus. Some people are closed in by sadness and those who are open to hope. Some people are still trapped in the rubble of life and those who, like you, with the help of God, are raised from the rubble and rebuilt with patient hope.</div>
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In front of the big “why” of life, we have two options: to sit back sadly in the tombs of yesterday and today, or to bring Jesus to our graves. Yes, because each of us has a small tomb, some area a bit ‘dead’ inside our heart: a wound, an injury suffered or done, a bitterness that gives no respite, a remorse that comes back and back again, a pity that is difficult to overcome. We identify these, our little graves, and there we invite Jesus. It’s strange, but often we prefer to be alone in our dark caves that we have inside, instead of inviting Jesus; we are tempted to always look for brooding and anguished, wounded selves, rather than go to Him, saying, “Come to me you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mt 11:28 ). Let us not be imprisoned by the temptation of being alone and disheartened, to feel sorry for ourselves, for what happens to us; do not yield to useless and inconclusive logic and fear, resigned to repeat that everything is wrong and nothing is like it used to be. This is the atmosphere of the tomb; the Lord wants to instead, open the way of life, the encounter with Him, trust in Him, the resurrection of the heart, the way of ”Get up! Get up, come out!” That ‘s what we must ask the Lord, and He is close to us as we do it.</div>
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We feel the words of Jesus to Lazarus addressed to each of us: “Come out!”</div>
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More than 250 people were killed in Colombia flooding and 200 are missing, 400 injured after avalanche of mud and water sweeps through city of Mocoa<br /> Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos visiting a flooded area after heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow in Mocoa, killing more than 250 people. Waves of water from three overflowing rivers swept through a small city in Colombia while people slept, destroying homes and killing over 200 residents. The incident was stimulated by intense rains in Mocoa, a provincial capital near Colombia's southern border with Ecuador. Muddy water and debris quickly swept through the city's streets, destroying homes, ripping trees, lifting cars and trucks and carrying them downstream. Many of people did not have enough time to climb on top of their roofs or find refuge. According to the Red Cross, 400 people were injured and 220 believed missing. President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of emergency and said the death toll will likely rise . The Red Cross set up a special unit in Mocoa Saturday afternoon. </div>
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His parents were remarkable for the holiness of their lives. Remaining childless for some years after their marriage they had recourse to prayer, especially commending themselves to the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi. Three children were eventually born to them, eldest of whom was Francis. When still in the cradle he suffered from a swelling which endangered the sight of one of his eyes. His parents again had recourse to Francis of Assisi, and made a vow that their son should pass an entire year in the "little habit" of St Francis in one of the convents of his order, a not uncommon practice in the Middle Ages. The child was immediately cured. From his early years Francis showed signs of extraordinary sanctity, and at the age of thirteen, being admonished by a vision of a Franciscan friar, he entered a convent of the Franciscan Order in order to fulfil the vow made by his parents. Here he gave great edification by his love of prayer and mortification, his profound humility, and his prompt obedience. At the completion of the year he went with his parents on a pilgrimage to Assisi, Rome, and other places of devotion. Returning to Paula he selected a retired spot on his father's estate, and there lived in solitude; but later on he found a more retired dwelling in a cave on the sea coast. Here he remained alone for about six years giving himself to prayer and mortification. In 1435 two companions joined him in his retreat, and to accommodate them Francis caused three cells and a chapel to be built: in this way the new order was begun. The number of his disciples gradually increased, and about 1454, with the permission of Pyrrhus, Archbishop of Cosenza, Francis built a large monastery and church. The building of this monastery was the occasion of a great outburst of enthusiasm and devotion on the part of the people towards Francis: even the nobles carried stones and joined in the work. Their devotion was increased by the many miracles which the saint wrought in answer to their prayers. The rule of life adopted by Francis and his religious was one of extraordinary severity. They observed perpetual abstinence and lived in great poverty, but the distinguishing mark of the order was humility. They were to seek to live unknown and hidden from the world. To express this character which he would have his disciples cultivate, Francis eventually obtained from the Holy See that they should be styled Minims, the least of all religious. In 1474 Sixtus IV gave him permission to write a rule for his community, and to assume the title of Hermits of St. Francis: this rule was formally approved by Alexander VI, who, however, changed their title into that of Minims. After the approbation of the order, Francis founded several new monasteries in Calabria and Sicily. He also established convents of nuns, and a third order for people living in the world, after the example of St. Francis of Assisi. He had an extraordinary gift of prophecy: thus he foretold the capture of Otranto by the Turks in 1480, and its subsequent recovery by the King of Naples. Also he was gifted with discernment of consciences. He was no respecter of persons of whatever rank or position. He rebuked the King of Naples for his ill-doing and in consequence suffered much persecution. When Louis XI was in his last illness he sent an embassy to Calabria to beg the saint to visit him. Francis refused to come nor could he be prevailed upon until the pope ordered him to go. He then went to the king at Plessis-les-Tours and was with him at his death. Charles VIII, Louis's successor, much admired the saint and during his reign kept him near the court and frequently consulted him. This king built a monastery for Minims at Plessis and another at Rome on the Pincian Hill. The regard in which Charles VIII held the saint was shared by Louis XII, who succeeded to the throne in 1498. Francis was now anxious to return to Italy, but the king would not permit him, not wishing to lose his counsels and direction. The last three months of his life he spent in entire solitude, preparing for death. On Maundy Thursday he gathered his community around him and exhorted them especially to have mutual charity amongst themselves and to maintain the rigour of their life and in particular perpetual abstinence. The next day, Good Friday, he again called them together and gave them his last instructions and appointed a vicar-general. He then received the last sacraments and asked to have the Passion according to St. John read out to him, and whilst this was being read, his soul passed away. Leo X canonized him in 1519. In 1562 the Huguenots broke open his tomb and found his body incorrupt. They dragged it forth and burnt it, but some of the bones were preserved by the Catholics and enshrined in various churches of his order. The Order of Minims does not seem at any time to have been very extensive, but they had houses in many countries. The definitive rule was approved in 1506 by Julius II, who also approved a rule for the nuns of the order. The feast of St. Francis of Paula is kept by the universal Church on 2 April, the day on which he died. The Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thus says the Lord GOD:<br />O my people, I will open your graves<br />and have you rise from them,<br />and bring you back to the land of Israel.<br />Then you shall know that I am the LORD,<br />when I open your graves and have you rise from them,<br />O my people!<br />I will put my spirit in you that you may live,<br />and I will settle you upon your land;<br />thus you shall know that I am the LORD.<br />I have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. (7) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.</span><br />Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;<br />LORD, hear my voice!<br />Let your ears be attentive<br />to my voice in supplication.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.</span><br />If you, O LORD, mark iniquities,<br />LORD, who can stand?<br />But with you is forgiveness,<br />that you may be revered.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.</span><br />I trust in the LORD;<br />my soul trusts in his word.<br />More than sentinels wait for the dawn,<br />let Israel wait for the LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.</span><br />For with the LORD is kindness<br />and with him is plenteous redemption;<br />And he will redeem Israel<br />from all their iniquities.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Reading 2</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ROM 8:8-11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.<br />But you are not in the flesh;<br />on the contrary, you are in the spirit,<br />if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.<br />Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.<br />But if Christ is in you,<br />although the body is dead because of sin,<br />the spirit is alive because of righteousness.<br />If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,<br />the one who raised Christ from the dead<br />will give life to your mortal bodies also,<br />through his Spirit dwelling in you.</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Verse Before The GospelJN 11:25A, 26</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord;<br />whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will never die.</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GospelJN 11:1-45</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany,<br />the village of Mary and her sister Martha.<br />Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil<br />and dried his feet with her hair;<br />it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.<br />So the sisters sent word to him saying,<br />"Master, the one you love is ill."<br />when Jesus heard this he said,<br />"This illness is not to end in death,<br />but is for the glory of God,<br />that the Son of God may be glorified through it."<br />Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.<br />So when he heard that he was ill,<br />he remained for two days in the place where he was.<br />Then after this he said to his disciples,<br />"Let us go back to Judea."<br />The disciples said to him,<br />"Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you,<br />and you want to go back there?"<br />Jesus answered,<br />"Are there not twelve hours in a day?<br />If one walks during the day, he does not stumble,<br />because he sees the light of this world.<br />But if one walks at night, he stumbles,<br />because the light is not in him."<br />He said this, and then told them,<br />"Our friend Lazarus is asleep,<br />but I am going to awaken him."<br />So the disciples said to him,<br />"Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved."<br />But Jesus was talking about his death,<br />while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.<br />So then Jesus said to them clearly,<br />"Lazarus has died.<br />And I am glad for you that I was not there,<br />that you may believe.<br />Let us go to him."<br />So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples,<br />"Let us also go to die with him."<br /><br />When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus<br />had already been in the tomb for four days.<br />Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away.<br />And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary<br />to comfort them about their brother.<br />When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,<br />she went to meet him;<br />but Mary sat at home.<br />Martha said to Jesus,<br />"Lord, if you had been here,<br />my brother would not have died.<br />But even now I know that whatever you ask of God,<br />God will give you."<br />Jesus said to her,<br />"Your brother will rise."<br />Martha said to him,<br />"I know he will rise,<br />in the resurrection on the last day."<br />Jesus told her,<br />"I am the resurrection and the life;<br />whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,<br />and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.<br />Do you believe this?"<br />She said to him, "Yes, Lord.<br />I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,<br />the one who is coming into the world."<br /><br />When she had said this,<br />she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying,<br />"The teacher is here and is asking for you."<br />As soon as she heard this,<br />she rose quickly and went to him.<br />For Jesus had not yet come into the village,<br />but was still where Martha had met him.<br />So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her<br />saw Mary get up quickly and go out,<br />they followed her,<br />presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.<br />When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him,<br />she fell at his feet and said to him,<br />"Lord, if you had been here,<br />my brother would not have died."<br />When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping,<br />he became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said,<br />"Where have you laid him?"<br />They said to him, "Sir, come and see."<br />And Jesus wept.<br />So the Jews said, "See how he loved him."<br />But some of them said,<br />"Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man<br />have done something so that this man would not have died?"<br /><br />So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb.<br />It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.<br />Jesus said, "Take away the stone."<br />Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him,<br />"Lord, by now there will be a stench;<br />he has been dead for four days."<br />Jesus said to her,<br />"Did I not tell you that if you believe<br />you will see the glory of God?"<br />So they took away the stone.<br />And Jesus raised his eyes and said,<br />"Father, I thank you for hearing me.<br />I know that you always hear me;<br />but because of the crowd here I have said this,<br />that they may believe that you sent me."<br />And when he had said this,<br />He cried out in a loud voice,<br />"Lazarus, come out!"<br />The dead man came out,<br />tied hand and foot with burial bands,<br />and his face was wrapped in a cloth.<br />So Jesus said to them,<br />"Untie him and let him go."<br /><br />Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary<br />and seen what he had done began to believe in him.</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; 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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">OrJN 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33B-45</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying,<br />"Master, the one you love is ill."<br />When Jesus heard this he said,<br />"This illness is not to end in death,<br />but is for the glory of God,<br />that the Son of God may be glorified through it."<br />Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.<br />So when he heard that he was ill,<br />he remained for two days in the place where he was.<br />Then after this he said to his disciples,<br />"Let us go back to Judea."<br /><br />When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus<br />had already been in the tomb for four days.<br />When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,<br />she went to meet him;<br />but Mary sat at home.<br />Martha said to Jesus,<br />"Lord, if you had been here,<br />my brother would not have died.<br />But even now I know that whatever you ask of God,<br />God will give you."<br />Jesus said to her,<br />"Your brother will rise."<br />Martha said,<br />"I know he will rise,<br />in the resurrection on the last day."<br />Jesus told her,<br />"I am the resurrection and the life;<br />whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,<br />and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.<br />Do you believe this?"<br />She said to him, "Yes, Lord.<br />I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,<br />the one who is coming into the world."<br /><br />He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said,<br />"Where have you laid him?"<br />They said to him, "Sir, come and see."<br />And Jesus wept.<br />So the Jews said, "See how he loved him."<br />But some of them said,<br />"Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man<br />have done something so that this man would not have died?"<br /><br />So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb.<br />It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.<br />Jesus said, "Take away the stone."<br />Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him,<br />"Lord, by now there will be a stench;<br />he has been dead for four days."<br />Jesus said to her,<br />"Did I not tell you that if you believe<br />you will see the glory of God?"<br />So they took away the stone.<br />And Jesus raised his eyes and said,<br />"Father, I thank you for hearing me.<br />I know that you always hear me;<br />but because of the crowd here I have said this,<br />that they may believe that you sent me."<br />And when he had said this,<br />He cried out in a loud voice,<br />"Lazarus, come out!"<br />The dead man came out,<br />tied hand and foot with burial bands,<br />and his face was wrapped in a cloth.<br />So Jesus said to them,<br />"Untie him and let him go."<br /><br />Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary<br />and seen what he had done began to believe in him.</span></div>
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At the early age of twelve Mary left her home and came to Alexandria, where for upwards of seventeen years she led a life of public prostitution. At the end of that time, on the occasion of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, she embarked for Palestine, not however with the intention of making the pilgrimage, but in the hope that life on board ship would afford her new and abundant opportunities of gratifying an insatiable lust. Arrived in Jerusalem she persisted in her shameless life, and on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross joined the crowds towards the church where the sacred relic was venerated, hoping to meet in the gathering some new victims whom she might allure into sin. And now came the turning-point in her career. When she reached the church door, she suddenly felt herself repelled by some secret force, and having vainly attempted three or four times to enter, she retired to a corner of the churchyard, and was struck with remorse for her wicked life, which she recognized as the cause of her exclusion from the church. Bursting into bitter tears and beating her breast, she began to bewail her sins. Just then her eyes fell upon a statue of the Blessed Virgin above the spot where she was standing, and in deep faith and humility of heart she besought Our Lady for help, and permission to enter the church and venerate the sacred wood on which Jesus had suffered, promising that if her request were granted, she would then renounce forever the world and its ways, and forthwith depart whithersoever Our Lady might lead her. Encouraged by prayer and counting on the mercy of the Mother of God, she once more approached the door of the church, and this time succeeded in entering without the slightest difficulty. Having adored the Holy Cross and kissed the pavement of the church, she returned to Our Lady's statue, and while praying there for guidance as to her future course, she seemed to hear a voice from afar telling her that if she crossed the Jordan, she would find rest. That same evening Mary reached the Jordan and received Holy Communion in a church dedicated to the Baptist, and the day following crossed the river and wandered eastward into the desert that stretches towards Arabia.<br />Here she had lived absolutely alone for forty-seven years, subsisting apparently on herbs, when a priest and monk, named Zosimus, who after the custom of his brethren had come out from his monastery to spend Lent in the desert, met her and learned from her own lips the strange and romantic story of her life. As soon as they met, she called Zosimus by his name and recognized him as a priest. After they had conversed and prayed together, she begged Zosimus to promise to meet her at the Jordan on Holy Thursday evening of the following year and bring with him the Blessed Sacrament. When the appointed evening arrived, Zosimus, we are told, put into a small chalice a portion of the undefiled Body and the precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ (P.L. LXXIII, 686; "Mittens in modico calice intemerati corporis portionem et pretiosi sanguinis D.N.J.C." But the reference to both species is less clear in Acta SS., IX, 82: "Accipiens parvum poculum intemerati corporis ac venerandi sanguinis Christi Dei nostri"), and came to the spot that had been indicated. After some time Mary appeared on the eastern bank of the river, and having made the sign of the cross, walked upon the waters to the western side. Having received Holy Communion, she raised her hands towards heaven, and cried aloud in the words of Simeon: "Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word in peace, because my eyes have seen thy salvation". She then charged Zosimus to come in the course of a year to the spot where he had first met her in the desert, adding that he would find her then in what condition God might ordain. He came, but only to find the poor saint's corpse, and written beside it on the ground a request that he should bury her, and a statement that she had died a year before, on the very night on which he had given her Holy Communion, far away by the Jordan's banks. Aided, we are told, by a lion, he prepared her grave and buried her, and having commended himself and the Church to her prayers, he returned to his monastery, where now for the first time he recounted the wondrous story of her life.<br />The saint's life was written not very long after her death by one who states that he learned the details from the monks of the monastery to which Zosimus had belonged. Many authorities mention St. Sophronius, who became Patriarch of Jerusalem in 635, as the author; but as the Bollandists give good reasons for believing that the Life was written before 500, we may conclude that it is from some other hand. The date of the saint is somewhat uncertain. The Bollandists place her death on 1 April, 421, while many other authorities put it a century later. The Greek Church celebrates her feast on 1 April, while the Roman Martyrology assigns it to 2 April, and the Roman Calendar to 3 April. 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<br />Pope has surprise visit with blind children and elderly<br />A great round of applause. This was the affectionate welcome given to the pope by the patients of the Sant'Alessio center in Rome. One-by-one, Pope Francis tenderly and affectionaly greeted the 50 children who use these facilities.<br /> "How are you?"<br />"Good, good."<br /> Most of these children are blind or have some kind of sensory or intellectual disability. Pope Francis stopped and greeted the parents and little ones, who showed him all their affection. After the children, he spent time with the older residents. The pope passed through the residence where 37 elderly people live.<br /> "We love him very much. We love him very much."<br /> Many of them were so excited to meet the pope, like Maria Rosa, who is 96 years old. Everyone was thankful for his visit. "Thank you. Thanks for the visit. Thank you. I always pray for you." "Thank you. I appreciate it a lot." Pope Francis then spoke to the children, the elders, and their families. "It is a pleasure for me to greet you and pay you a visit. I want to be close to you, I am close to you. I pray for you and you pray for me." The pope received a mosaic made by the patients in the workshop activities organized by the center as a gift. Pope Francis also presented them with something very special. "I leave you as I memory, a writing in Braille and also in normal handwriting. And also an icon of the Virgin, the Mother of us all, so that she protects you." Although the Jubilee of Mercy ended months ago, and also the so-called "Fridays of Mercy," Pope Francis seems to want to continue with this custom that makes those who receive his unexpected visit so very happy. AC/MB CTV FL<br />Shared from RomeReports</div>
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<br />This Amazing Viral Song by artist Josh Groban has reached over 5 Million Views - It is perfect for this season of Lent. Keep Praying, Fasting and Giving because you are Loved by God!<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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(Vatican Radio excerpt) Pope Francis has written a letter to the organisers of next year’s <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">World Meeting of Families</strong>, who presented the event at the Vatican press office on Thursday morning.<br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
The Meeting is scheduled to take place in Dublin, Ireland from August 21st to 26th 2018 on the theme ‘<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Gospel of the Family: joy to the world</strong>”.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please find below the full text of Pope Francis’ letter for the World Meeting of Families</strong></div>
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To the Venerable Brother Cardinal KEVIN FARRELL, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life</div>
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At the end of the Eighth World Meeting of Families, held in Philadelphia in September 2015, I announced that the subsequent meeting with Catholic families of the world would take place in Dublin. I now wish to initiate preparations, and am pleased to confirm that it will be held from 21 to 26 August 2018, on the theme “The Gospel of the Family: joy for the world”. Indeed, it is my wish for families to have a way of deepening their reflection and their sharing of the content of the post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia.</div>
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One might ask: does the Gospel continue to be a joy for the world? And also: does the family continue to be good news for today’s world?</div>
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I am sure the answer is yes! And this “yes” is firmly based on God’s plan. The love of God is His “yes” to all creation and at the heart of this latter is man. It is God’s “yes” to the union between man and woman, in openness and service to life in all its phases; it is God’s “yes” and His commitment to a humanity that is often wounded, mistreated and dominated by a lack of love. The family, therefore, is the “yes” of God as Love. Only starting from love can the family manifest, spread and regenerate God’s love in the world. Without love, we cannot live as children of God, as couples, parents and brothers.</div>
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I wish to underline how important it is for families to ask themselves often if they live based on love, for love and in love. In practice, this means giving oneself, forgiving, not losing patience, anticipating the other, respecting. How much better family life would be if every day we lived according to the words, “please”, “thank you” and “I’m sorry”. Every day we have the experience of fragility and weakness, and therefore we all, families and pastors, are in need of renewed humility that forms the desire to form ourselves, to educate and be educated, to help and be helped, to accompany, discern and integrate all men of good will. I dream of an outbound Church, not a self-referential one, a Church that does not pass by far from man’s wounds, a merciful Church that proclaims the heart of the revelation of God as Love, which is Mercy. It is this very mercy that makes us new in love; and we know how much Christian families are a place of mercy and witnesses of mercy, and even more so after the extraordinary Jubilee. The Dublin meeting will be able to offer concrete signs of this.</div>
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I therefore invite all the Church to keep these indications in mind in the pastoral preparation for the next World Meeting.</div>
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You, dear Brother, along with your collaborators, have the task of translating in a special way the teaching of Amoris Laetitia, with which the Church wishes families always to be in step, in that inner pilgrimage that is the manifestation of authentic life.</div>
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My thoughts go in a special way to the archdiocese of Dublin and to all the dear Irish nation for the generous welcome and commitment involved in hosting such an important event. May the Lord recompense you as of now, granting you abundant heavenly favours.</div>
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May the Holy Family of Nazareth guide, accompany and bless your service, and all the families involved in the preparation of the great World Meeting in Dublin.</div>
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From the Vatican, 25 March 2017</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio excert) Pope Francis on Friday greeted participants in a conference promoted by the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, entitled “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Luther: 500 Years Later: A rereading of the Lutheran Reformation in its historic ecclesial context</em>", which took place in Rome from 29 to 31 March 2017.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Please find below the official English translation of the Pope’s remarks:</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ladies and Gentleman,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am pleased to greet all of you and to offer you a warm welcome. I thank Father Bernard Ardura for his introduction, which summarizes the purpose of your meeting on Luther and his reform. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I confess that my first response to this praiseworthy initiative of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences was one of gratitude to God, together with a certain surprise, since not long ago a meeting like this would have been unthinkable. Catholics and Lutherans together, discussing Luther, at a meeting organized by an Office of the Holy See: truly we are experiencing the results of the working of the Holy Spirit, who overcomes every obstacle and turns conflicts into occasions for growth in communion. From Conflict to Communion is precisely the title of the document of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission prepared for our joint commemoration of the fifth centenary of the beginning of Luther’s reform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am particularly happy to know that this commemoration has offered scholars from various institutions an occasion to study those events together. Serious research into the figure of Luther and his critique of the Church of his time and the papacy certainly contributes to overcoming the atmosphere of mutual distrust and rivalry that for all too long marked relations between Catholics and Protestants. An attentive and rigorous study, free of prejudice and polemics, enables the churches, now in dialogue, to discern and receive all that was positive and legitimate in the Reformation, while distancing themselves from errors, extremes and failures, and acknowledging the sins that led to the division.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">All of us are well aware that the past cannot be changed. Yet today, after fifty years of ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and Protestants, it is possible to engage in a purification of memory. This is not to undertake an impracticable correction of all that happened five hundred years ago, but rather “to tell that history differently” (LUTHERAN-ROMAN CATHOLIC COMMISSION ON UNITY, From Conflict to Communion, 17 June 2013, 16), free of any lingering trace of the resentment over past injuries that has distorted our view of one another. Today, as Christians, all of us are called to put behind us all prejudice towards the faith that others profess with a different emphasis or language, to offer one another forgiveness for the sin committed by those who have gone before us, and together to implore from God the gift of reconciliation and unity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I assure you of my prayers for your important historical research and I invoke upon all of you the blessing of God, who is almighty and rich in mercy. And I ask you, please, to pray for me. Thank you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Holy Mass in Monza Park for the people of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy on Saturday during a pastoral visit, reflecting on the annunciation of Jesus as a message of joy at the peripheries of society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Holy Father invited them to be joyful members of God’s people and to avoid “speculating” on the future of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Two were the questions Pope Francis put to the people gathered for Mass in Monza Park: “How can we live the joy of the Gospel today within our cities? Is Christian hope possible in this situation, here and now?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Holy Father said these two questions “touch our identities” and “require of us a new way of seeing our place in history”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was reflecting on the difference between the two annunciation stories in the first chapter of Luke’s Gospel: that of John the Baptist (Lc 1,26-38), which took place in the inner sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem, and that of Jesus (Lc 1,5-10).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He said the annunciation of Jesus’ birth to Mary by the Angel Gabriel took place in Galilee: “a peripheral city with a less-than-excellent reputation (Jn 1,46)”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pope said the contrast indicates that “God’s new encounter with His people will take place in places we would not normally expect: on the margins and peripheries”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He said, “It is God Himself who takes the initiative and chooses to enter – as Mary did – in our houses and daily struggles, full of anxiety and desires.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis said finding joy in our daily lives can be a challenge due to the speculation or taking advantage of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Some people speculate on life, on work, and on the family. They speculate on the poor and migrants, on young people and their future. Everything seems to be reduced to numbers, on the other hand leaving the daily life of families to be discolored by precariousness and insecurity.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The keys to finding joy in our mission, the Pope said, are “memory, belonging, and seeing the possible in the impossible”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The first thing the Angel [Gabriel] does is evoke her memory, in this way opening Mary’s present to the whole of Salvation History. He evokes the promises made to David as a fruit of the Covenant with Jacob. Mary is a daughter of the Covenant.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This memory, the Holy Father said, allows Mary to recognize her belonging to the People of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He said the Archdiocese of Milan is inhabited by “a people called to welcome differences and integrate them with respect and creativity, celebrating the newness offered by others. It is a people unafraid of embracing borders.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Third, Pope Francis reminded Milan’s pilgrims that “Nothing is impossible for God” (Lc 1,37).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“When we open to allowing ourselves to be helped or counseled and when we open ourselves to grace, it seems that the impossible begins to become reality.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In conclusion, the Pope said, “As before, God continues to seek allies and men and women capable of believing and capable of remembering, recognizing themselves as belonging to His people in order to cooperate with the creativity of the Holy Spirit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(This Novena honours the nine months during which Our Lady carried Our Blessed Lord in her womb.)</i></span></blockquote>
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<pre><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Hail, Holy Queen,
Mother of Mercy,
our life, our sweetness and our hope!
To thee do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve;
to thee do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy towards us;
and after this our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus.
O clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary. Amen."
V - Pray for us, most holy mother of God.
R - That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
"Virgin of the Incarnation,
a thousand times we greet thee,
a thousand times we praise thee
for thy joy when God was incarnated in thee.
Because thou art so powerful
a Virgin and Mother of God,
grant what we ask of thee for the love of God."
<i>State your first intention.
Repeat above and then state your second intention.
Repeat above and then state your third intention. </i>
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After the above prayers and intentions, say the Memorare.
Remember, O most Gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help
or sought thy intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of Virgins,
my mother.
To thee do I cry,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful.
Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
Hail Mary...
Blessed and praised be
the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar,
in Heaven, on earth and everywhere.
AMEN.</span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">by: Kathy Vestermark: I was reading my morning prayers and meditation and was struck by something that I suppose I must have heard over and over before, but this morning it resonated like a newly discovered truth: </span><i style="font-size: 15.4px;">There was no fear in Mary</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">. Now, being visited by an angel has got to be astounding, can't say for sure myself. But, from what has been written in Scripture and by countless saints regarding angels, it is an awesome and ecstatic event. Yet, Mary, pure of heart, knelt before the Archangel Gabriel, and without fear inquired about how she might come to be the Theotokos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Step inside that event for a second:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">You are Mary. You are young. You are simple and pure. You have been raised by wonderful and holy parents. We don't know that they are aware or if you are aware of your difference among your peers. Maybe because of your spiritual perfection you have suffered some ridicule or been admonished for your desire to remain untainted by the world. Yet, when the angel comes and suggests that something outside of the moral standard would be required of you, you don't cower, although he does remind that you should not fear. That reminder is because the visit of an angel is a fearsome thing, not because you are afraid of what he might want. And so, you recognize without a doubt the messenger from God. There is no question in your heart other than how it should come to be, your reason is working with your faith to make sense of the situation. But, even in the midst of what others might have immediate concern about -- their own reputation -- you simply say, "Fiat". You will is so tethered to the Father, that when He announces your participation in the Incarnation, you are ready and willing. You delight in being His handmaid, you delight in doing His will. And, that delight is a pure and generous consolation to you because what is about to happen to you is riddled with uncertainty and pain. The trials that you are about to encounter in participation with the will of God would crush any other person. You have been prepared from the moment of your Immaculate Conception for this level of participation. Not forced, but prepared; Not coerced, but chosen and free to offer your consent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Pope St. John Paul II said this in his marvelous work </span><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031987_redemptoris-mater.html" style="color: #9700ff; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>Redemptoris Mater</i></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> about the Annunciation: </span><br />
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The Annunciation, therefore, is the revelation of the mystery of the Incarnation at the very beginning of its fulfillment on earth. God's salvific giving of himself and his life, in some way to all creation but directly to man, reaches one of its high points in the mystery of the Incarnation. This is indeed a high point among all the gifts of grace conferred in the history of man and of the universe: Mary is "full of grace," because it is precisely in her that the Incarnation of the Word, the hypostatic union of the Son of God with human nature, is accomplished and fulfilled. As the Council says, Mary is "the Mother of the Son of God. As a result she is also the favorite daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit. Because of this gift of sublime grace, she far surpasses all other creatures, both in heaven and on earth" (RM 9).</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Ahh, thank you, Sweet Virgin, for your YES and for understanding the message of the angel so clearly and with full faith and consent. Thank you for having not even a moment's hesitation in bring Our Savior into the world, for giving Him life, for nurturing Him and training Him for the duty he had before Him. Thank you for being ever present to Him with your humble spouse St. Joseph, for being the model exemplar of what makes a Holy Family. Thank you for never doubting your role in the Incarnation which places you higher than all other created beings. Thank you for being Our Mother, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Blessed Solemnity of the Annunciation! Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Kathy Vestermark is the US Correspondent of Catholic News World, a mother of 6 beautiful children and Professor at CDU.</span></div>
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(Combined Vatican Radio Reports) Pope Francis on Saturday greeted the Rom, Islamic, and immigrant families of the ‘White Houses’ in the Forlanini quarter of Milan at the beginning of his one-day pastoral visit to the city.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Upon his arrival, residents gave the Holy Father two gifts: a priestly stole and a picture of a statuette of the Madonna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis thanked them for their gifts and said it was important for him to be welcomed to Milan by a community of families.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He said the stole was a reminder that he comes “as a priest: I come to Milan as a priest”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He also recognized that it had been handmade by several residents of the Forlanini quarter: “It’s a reminder that the Christian priest is chosen from among the people and at the service of the people. My priesthood…is a gift from Christ, but it is ‘woven’ by you, by our people with their faith, labours, prayers, and tears.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis then said the statuette of Our Lady is a sign of his being welcomed to Milan by the Madonna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It reminds me of Mary’s care, who ran to meet Elizabeth. This is the care and concern of the Church, which does not remain in the city centre waiting but comes to meet all at the peripheries; she goes also to meet non-Christians and non-believers…; and she brings Jesus to all, he who is the love of God made flesh and gives meaning to our lives and saves us from evil.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Afterwards, the Holy Father made his way to Milan’s Duomo Cathedral to meet with priests and consecrated men and women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> For the curious pilgrim or tourist a trip to Milan is not complete without a visit the “Duomo” or Cathedral Church. And it was here in front of this iconic building that Pope Francis recited the Angelus on Saturday greeted by thousands of well- wishers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A short time earlier inside this magnificent building, the Pope met with priests and consecrated persons, listening to their questions and offering words of advice. During the question and answer session the Holy Father said that in a world that is multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic, the Church, over its entire history, has had much to teach us and to help us towards a culture of diversity. The Holy Spirit, Pope Francis noted “is the master of diversity.” The Pope also underlined the importance of prayer and of service in the church; service by priests, religious and consecrated to the poor and to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Responding to a question from a religious mother who asked how it was possible to continue to be a significant presence today despite being fewer and older, the Pope said, that it was most important not to become resigned to one’s fate. He said that realities today were a challenge, but religious orders who were in the minority were being invited to rise again like yeast with the help of the Holy Spirit, who also inspired the hearts of their founders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This one day pastoral visit began on Saturday morning with the Holy Father’s going out to Milan’s peripheries to meet with Rom, Islamic, and immigrant families of the ‘White Houses’ in the Forlanini quarter of the city. Greeting the crowds of people that had gathered to see him, he told them that the Church “always needs to be restored” because he added, it is made by us, who are sinners.” Let us be restored, he said by God’s mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reading 1IS 7:10-14; 8:10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying:<br />Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God;<br />let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky!<br />But Ahaz answered,<br />"I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!"<br />Then Isaiah said:<br />Listen, O house of David!<br />Is it not enough for you to weary people,<br />must you also weary my God?<br />Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign:<br />the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son,<br />and shall name him Emmanuel,<br />which means "God is with us!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 40:7-8A, 8B-9, 10, 11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (8a and 9a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,<br />but ears open to obedience you gave me.<br />Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not;<br />then said I, "Behold I come."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />"In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,<br />To do your will, O my God, is my delight,<br />and your law is within my heart!"<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />I announced your justice in the vast assembly;<br />I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />Your justice I kept not hid within my heart;<br />your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of;<br />I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth<br />in the vast assembly.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reading 2HEB 10:4-10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats<br />take away sins.<br />For this reason, when Christ came into the world, he said:<br /><br />"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,<br />but a body you prepared for me;<br />in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight.<br />Then I said, 'As is written of me in the scroll,<br />behold, I come to do your will, O God.'"<br /><br />First he says, "Sacrifices and offerings,<br />holocausts and sin offerings,<br />you neither desired nor delighted in."<br />These are offered according to the law.<br />Then he says, "Behold, I come to do your will."<br />He takes away the first to establish the second.<br />By this "will," we have been consecrated<br />through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Word of God became flesh and made his dwelling among us;<br />and we saw his glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The angel Gabriel was sent from God<br />to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,<br />to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,<br />of the house of David,<br />and the virgin's name was Mary.<br />And coming to her, he said,<br />"Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you."<br />But she was greatly troubled at what was said<br />and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.<br />Then the angel said to her,<br />"Do not be afraid, Mary,<br />for you have found favor with God.<br />Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,<br />and you shall name him Jesus.<br />He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,<br />and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,<br />and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,<br />and of his Kingdom there will be no end."<br />But Mary said to the angel,<br />"How can this be,<br />since I have no relations with a man?"<br />And the angel said to her in reply,<br />"The Holy Spirit will come upon you,<br />and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.<br />Therefore the child to be born<br />will be called holy, the Son of God.<br />And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,<br />has also conceived a son in her old age,<br />and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;<br />for nothing will be impossible for God."<br />Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.<br />May it be done to me according to your word."<br />Then the angel departed from her.</span></div>
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Pope Francis addressed Heads of State and Heads of Government of European Union countries<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below, please find the full text of the Holy Father’s prepared remarks, in their official English translation</span></em></strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Address of His Holiness Pope Francis<br />to European Heads of State and Government<br />24 March 2017</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Distinguished Guests,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thank you for your presence here tonight, on the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaties instituting the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community. I convey to each of you the affection of the Holy See for your respective countries and for Europe itself, to whose future it is, in God’s providence, inseparably linked. I am particularly grateful to the Honourable Paolo Gentiloni, President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Italy, for his respectful words of greeting in your name and for the efforts that Italy has made in preparing for this meeting. I also thank the Honourable Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament, who has voiced the aspirations of the peoples of the Union on this anniversary.</span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZzWoYFLpWyw" width="588"></iframe> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Returning to Rome, sixty years later, must not simply be a remembrance of things past, but the expression of a desire to relive that event in order to appreciate its significance for the present. We need to immerse ourselves in the challenges of that time, so as to face those of today and tomorrow. The Bible, with its rich historical narratives, can teach us a basic lesson. We cannot understand our own times apart from the past, seen not as an assemblage of distant facts, but as the lymph that gives life to the present. Without such an awareness, reality loses its unity, history loses its logical thread, and humanity loses a sense of the meaning of its activity and its progress towards the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">25 March 1957 was a day full of hope and expectation, enthusiasm and apprehension. Only an event of exceptional significance and historical consequences could make it unique in history. The memory of that day is linked to today’s hopes and the expectations of the people of Europe, who call for discernment in the present, so that the journey that has begun can continue with renewed enthusiasm and confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was very clear to the founding fathers and the leaders who, by signing the two Treaties, gave life to that political, economic, cultural and primarily human reality which today we call the European Union. As P.H. Spaak, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs stated, it was a matter “indeed, of the material prosperity of our peoples, the expansion of our economies, social progress and completely new industrial and commercial possibilities, but above all… a particular conception of life that is humane, fraternal and just”.[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After the dark years and the bloodshed of the Second World War, the leaders of the time had faith in the possibility of a better future. “They did not lack boldness, nor did they act too late. The memory of recent tragedies and failures seems to have inspired them and given them the courage needed to leave behind their old disputes and to think and act in a truly new way, in order to bring about the greatest transformation… of Europe”.[2]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The founding fathers remind us that Europe is not a conglomeration of rules to obey, or a manual of protocols and procedures to follow. It is a way of life, a way of understanding man based on his transcendent and inalienable dignity, as something more than simply a sum of rights to defend or claims to advance. At the origin of the idea of Europe, we find “the nature and the responsibility of the human person, with his ferment of evangelical fraternity…, with his desire for truth and justice, honed by a thousand-year-old experience”.[3] Rome, with its vocation to universality,[4] symbolizes that experience and was thus chosen as the place for the signing of the Treaties. For here – as the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, J. Luns, observed – “were laid the political, juridical and social foundations of our civilization”.[5]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was clear, then, from the outset, that the heart of the European political project could only be man himself. It was also clear that the Treaties could remain a dead letter; they needed to take on spirit and life. The first element of European vitality must be solidarity. As the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, J. Bech stated, “the European economic community will prove lasting and successful only if it remains constantly faithful to the spirit of European solidarity that created it, and if the common will of the Europe now being born proves more powerful than the will of individual nations”.[6] That spirit remains as necessary as ever today, in the face of centrifugal impulses and the temptation to reduce the founding ideals of the Union to productive, economic and financial needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Solidarity gives rise to openness towards others. “Our plans are not inspired by self-interest”,[7] said the German Chancellor, K. Adenauer. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, C. Pineau, echoed this sentiment: “Surely the countries about to unite… do not have the intention of isolating themselves from the rest of the world and surrounding themselves with insurmountable barriers”.[8] In a world that was all too familiar with the tragedy of walls and divisions, it was clearly important to work for a united and open Europe, and for the removal of the unnatural barrier that divided the continent from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic. What efforts were made to tear down that wall! Yet today the memory of those efforts has been lost. Forgotten too is the tragedy of separated families, poverty and destitution born of that division. Where generations longed to see the fall of those signs of forced hostility, these days we debate how to keep out the “dangers” of our time: beginning with the long file of women, men and children fleeing war and poverty, seeking only a future for themselves and their loved ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In today’s lapse of memory, we often forget another great achievement of the solidarity ratified on 25 March 1957: the longest period of peace experienced in recent centuries. “Peoples who over time often found themselves in opposed camps, fighting with one another… now find themselves united and enriched by their distinctive national identities”.[9] Peace is always the fruit of a free and conscious contribution by all. Nonetheless, “for many people today, peace appears as a blessing to be taken for granted”,[10] one that can then easily come to be regarded as superfluous. On the contrary, peace is a precious and essential good, for without it, we cannot build a future for anyone, and we end up “living from day to day”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">United Europe was born of a clear, well-defined and carefully pondered project, however embryonic at first. Every worthy project looks to the future, and the future are the young, who are called to realize its hopes and promises.[11] The founding fathers had a clear sense of being part of a common effort that not only crossed national borders, but also the borders of time, so as to bind generations among themselves, all sharing equally in the building of the common home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Distinguished Guests,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have devoted this first part of my talk to the founding fathers of Europe, so that we can be challenged by their words, the timeliness of their thinking, their impassioned pursuit of the common good, their certainty of sharing in a work greater than themselves, and the breadth of the ideals that inspired them. Their common denominator was the spirit of service, joined to passion for politics and the consciousness that “at the origin of European civilization there is Christianity”,[12] without which the Western values of dignity, freedom and justice would prove largely incomprehensible. As Saint John Paul II affirmed: “Today too, the soul of Europe remains united, because, in addition to its common origins, those same Christian and human values are still alive. Respect for the dignity of the human person, a profound sense of justice, freedom, industriousness, the spirit of initiative, love of family, respect for life, tolerance, the desire for cooperation and peace: all these are its distinctive marks”.[13] In our multicultural world, these values will continue to have their rightful place provided they maintain a vital connection to their deepest roots. The fruitfulness of that connection will make it possible to build authentically “lay” societies, free of ideological conflicts, with equal room for the native and the immigrant, for believers and nonbelievers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The world has changed greatly in the last sixty years. If the founding fathers, after surviving a devastating conflict, were inspired by the hope of a better future and were determined to pursue it by avoiding the rise of new conflicts, our time is dominated more by the concept of crisis. There is the economic crisis that has marked the past decade; there is the crisis of the family and of established social models; there is a widespread “crisis of institutions” and the migration crisis. So many crises that engender fear and profound confusion in our contemporaries, who look for a new way of envisioning the future. Yet the term “crisis” is not necessarily negative. It does not simply indicate a painful moment to be endured. The word “crisis” has its origin in the Greek verb kríno, which means to discern, to weigh, to assess. Ours is a time of discernment, one that invites us to determine what is essential and to build on it. It is a time of challenge and opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So what is the interpretative key for reading the difficulties of the present and finding answers for the future? Returning to the thinking of the founding Fathers would be fruitless unless it could help to point out a path and provide an incentive for facing the future and a source of hope. When a body loses its sense of direction and is no longer able to look ahead, it experiences a regression and, in the long run, risks dying. What, then, is the legacy of the founding fathers? What prospects do they indicate for surmounting the challenges that lie before us? What hope do they offer for the Europe of today and of tomorrow?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their answers are to be found precisely in the pillars on which they determined to build the European economic community. I have already mentioned these: the centrality of man, effective solidarity, openness to the world, the pursuit of peace and development, openness to the future. Those who govern are charged with discerning the paths of hope, identifying specific ways forward to ensure that the significant steps taken thus far have not been wasted, but serve as the pledge of a long and fruitful journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Europe finds new hope when man is the centre and the heart of her institutions. I am convinced that this entails an attentive and trust-filled readiness to hear the expectations voiced by individuals, society and the peoples who make up the Union. Sadly, one frequently has the sense that there is a growing “split” between the citizenry and the European institutions, which are often perceived as distant and inattentive to the different sensibilities present in the Union. Affirming the centrality of man also means recovering the spirit of family, whereby each contributes freely to the common home in accordance with his or her own abilities and gifts. It helps to keep in mind that Europe is a family of peoples[14] and that – as in every good family – there are different sensitivities, yet all can grow to the extent that all are united. The European Union was born as a unity of differences and a unity in differences. What is distinctive should not be a reason for fear, nor should it be thought that unity is preserved by uniformity. Unity is instead harmony within a community. The founding fathers chose that very term as the hallmark of the agencies born of the Treaties and they stressed that the resources and talents of each were now being pooled. Today the European Union needs to recover the sense of being primarily a “community” of persons and peoples, to realize that “the whole is greater than the part, but it is also greater than the sum of its parts”,[15] and that therefore “we constantly have to broaden our horizons and see the greater good which will benefit us all”.[16] The founding fathers sought that harmony in which the whole is present in every one of the parts, and the parts are – each in its own unique way – present in the whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Europe finds new hope in solidarity, which is also the most effective antidote to modern forms of populism. Solidarity entails the awareness of being part of a single body, while at the same time involving a capacity on the part of each member to “sympathize” with others and with the whole. When one suffers, all suffer (cf. 1 Cor 12:26). Today, with the United Kingdom, we mourn the victims of the attack that took place in London two days ago. For solidarity is no mere ideal; it is expressed in concrete actions and steps that draw us closer to our neighbours, in whatever situation they find themselves. Forms of populism are instead the fruit of an egotism that hems people in and prevents them from overcoming and “looking beyond” their own narrow vision. There is a need to start thinking once again as Europeans, so as to avert the opposite dangers of a dreary uniformity or the triumph of particularisms. Politics needs this kind of leadership, which avoids appealing to emotions to gain consent, but instead, in a spirit of solidarity and subsidiarity, devises policies that can make the Union as a whole develop harmoniously. As a result, those who run faster can offer a hand to those who are slower, and those who find the going harder can aim at catching up to those at the head of the line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Europe finds new hope when she refuses to yield to fear or close herself off in false forms of security. Quite the contrary, her history has been greatly determined by encounters with other peoples and cultures; hers “is, and always has been, a dynamic and multicultural identity”.[17] The world looks to the European project with great interest. This was the case from the first day, when crowds gathered in Rome’s Capitol Square and messages of congratulation poured in from other states. It is even more the case today, if we think of those countries that have asked to become part of the Union and those states that receive the aid so generously offered them for battling the effects of poverty, disease and war. Openness to the world implies the capacity for “dialogue as a form of encounter”[18] on all levels, beginning with dialogue between member states, between institutions and citizens, and with the numerous immigrants landing on the shores of the Union. It is not enough to handle the grave crisis of immigration of recent years as if it were a mere numerical or economic problem, or a question of security. The immigration issue poses a deeper question, one that is primarily cultural. What kind of culture does Europe propose today? The fearfulness that is becoming more and more evident has its root cause in the loss of ideals. Without an approach inspired by those ideals, we end up dominated by the fear that others will wrench us from our usual habits, deprive us of familiar comforts, and somehow call into question a lifestyle that all too often consists of material prosperity alone. Yet the richness of Europe has always been her spiritual openness and her capacity to raise basic questions about the meaning of life. Openness to the sense of the eternal has also gone hand in hand, albeit not without tensions and errors, with a positive openness to this world. Yet today’s prosperity seems to have clipped the continent’s wings and lowered its gaze. Europe has a patrimony of ideals and spiritual values unique in the world, one that deserves to be proposed once more with passion and renewed vigour, for it is the best antidote against the vacuum of values of our time, which provides a fertile terrain for every form of extremism. These are the ideals that shaped Europe, that “Peninsula of Asia” which stretches from the Urals to the Atlantic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Europe finds new hope when she invests in development and in peace. Development is not the result of a combination of various systems of production. It has to do with the whole human being: the dignity of labour, decent living conditions, access to education and necessary medical care. “Development is the new name of peace”,[19] said Pope Paul VI, for there is no true peace whenever people are cast aside or forced to live in dire poverty. There is no peace without employment and the prospect of earning a dignified wage. There is no peace in the peripheries of our cities, with their rampant drug abuse and violence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Europe finds new hope when she is open to the future. When she is open to young people, offering them serious prospects for education and real possibilities for entering the work force. When she invests in the family, which is the first and fundamental cell of society. When she respects the consciences and the ideals of her citizens. When she makes it possible to have children without the fear of being unable to support them. When she defends life in all its sacredness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Distinguished Guests,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nowadays, with the general increase in people’s life span, sixty is considered the age of full maturity, a critical time when we are once again called to self-examination. The European Union, too, is called today to examine itself, to care for the ailments that inevitably come with age, and to find new ways to steer its course. Yet unlike human beings, the European Union does not face an inevitable old age, but the possibility of a new youthfulness. Its success will depend on its readiness to work together once again, and by its willingness to wager on the future. As leaders, you are called to blaze the path of a “new European humanism”[20] made up of ideals and concrete actions. This will mean being unafraid to take practical decisions capable of meeting people’s real problems and of standing the test of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For my part, I readily assure you of the closeness of the Holy See and the Church to Europe as a whole, to whose growth she has, and always will, continue to contribute. Invoking upon Europe the Lord’s blessings, I ask him to protect her and grant her peace and progress. I make my own the words that Joseph Bech proclaimed on Rome’s Capitoline Hill: Ceterum censeo Europam esse aedificandam – furthermore, I believe that Europe ought to be built.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[1] P.H. SPAAK, Address on the Signing of the Treaties of Rome, 25 March 1957.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[2] Ibid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[3] A. DE GASPERI. La nostra patria Europa. Address to the European Parliamentary Conference, 21 April 1954, in Alcide De Gasperi e la politica internazionale, Cinque Lune, Rome, 1990, vol. III, 437-440.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[4] Cf. P.H. SPAAK, loc. cit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[5] J. LUNS, Address on the Signing of the Treaties of Rome, 25 March 1957.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[6] J. BECH, Address on the Signing of the Treaties of Rome, 25 March 1957.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[7] K. ADENAUER, Address on the Signing of the Treaties of Rome, 25 March 1957.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[8] C. PINEAU, Address on the Signing of the Treaties of Rome, 25 March 1957.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[9] P.H. SPAAK, loc. cit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[10] Address to Members of the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to the Holy See, 9 January 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[11] Cf. P.H. SPAAK, loc. cit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[12] A. DE GASPERI, loc. cit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[13] JOHN PAUL II, European Act, Santiago de Compostela, 9 November 1982: AAS 75/1 (1983), 329.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[14] Cf. Address to the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 25 November 2014: AAS 106 (2014), 1000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[15] Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, 235.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[16] Ibid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[17] Address at the Conferral of the Charlemagne Prize, 6 May 2016: L’Osservatore Romano, 6-7 May 2016, p. 4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[18] Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, 239.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[19] PAUL VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 26 March 1967, 87: AAS 59 (1967), 299.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[20] Address at the Conferral of the Charlemagne Prize, loc. cit., p. 5.</span></div>
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The fact of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is related in Luke 1:26-38. The Evangelist tells us that in the sixth month after the conception of St. John the Baptist by Elizabeth, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the Virgin Mary, at Nazareth, a small town in the mountains of Galilee. Mary was of the house of David, and was espoused (i.e. married) to Joseph, of the same royal family. She had, however, not yet entered the household of her spouse, but was still in her mother's house, working, perhaps, over her dowry. (Bardenhewer, Maria Verk., 69). And the angel having taken the figure and the form of man, came into the house and said to her: "Hail, full of grace (to whom is given grace, favoured one), the Lord is with thee." Mary having heard the greeting words did not speak; she was troubled in spirit, since she knew not the angel, nor the cause of his coming, nor the meaning of the salutation. And the angel continued and said: "Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father; and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end." The Virgin understood that there was question of the coming Redeemer. But, why should she be elected from amongst women for the splendid dignity of being the mother of the Messiah, having vowed her virginity to God? (St. Augustine). Therefore, not doubting the word of God like Zachary, but filled with fear and astonishment, she said: "How shall this be done, because I know not man?"<br />
The angel to remove Mary's anxiety and to assure her that her virginity would be spared, answered: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." In token of the truth of his word he made known to her the conception of St. John, the miraculous pregnancy of her relative now old and sterile: "And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth; she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren: because no word shall be impossible with God." Mary may not yet have fully understood the meaning of the heavenly message and how the maternity might be reconciled with her vow of virginity, but clinging to the first words of the angel and trusting to the Omnipotence of God she said: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."<br />
Since 1889 Holzmann and many Protestant writers have tried to show that the verses Luke 1:34-35, containing the message of conception through the Holy Ghost are interpolated. Usener derives the origin of the "myth" from the heathen hero worship; but Harnack tries to prove that it is of Judaic origin (Isaiah 7:14, Behold a Virgin shall conceive, etc.). Bardenhewer, however, has fully established the authenticity of the text (p. 13). St. Luke may have taken his knowledge of the event from an older account, written in Aramaic or Hebrew. The words: "Blessed art thou among women" (v. 28), are spurious and taken from verse 42, the account of the Visitation. Cardinal Cajetan wanted to understand the words: "because I know not man", not of the future, but only of the past: up to this hour I do not know man. This manifest error, which contradicts the words of the text, has been universally rejected by all Catholic authors. The opinion that Joseph at the time of the Annunciation was an aged widower and Mary twelve or fifteen years of age, is founded only upon apocryphal documents. The local tradition of Nazareth pretends that the angel met Mary and greeted her at the fountain, and when she fled from him in fear, he followed her into the house and there continued his message. (Buhl, Geogr. v. Palaest., 1896.) The year and day of the Annunciation cannot be determined as long as new material does not throw more light on the subject. The present date of the feast (25 March) depends upon the date of the older feast of Christmas.<br />
The Annunciation is the beginning of Jesus in His human nature. Through His mother He is a member of the human race. If the virginity of Mary before, during, and after the conception of her Divine Son was always considered part of the deposit of faith, this was done only on account of the historical facts and testimonials. The Incarnation of the Son of God did not in itself necessitate this exception from the laws of nature. Only reasons of expediency are given for it, chiefly, the end of the Incarnation. About to found a new generation of the children of God, The Redeemer does not arrive in the way of earthly generations: the power of the Holy Spirit enters the chaste womb of the Virgin, forming the humanity of Christ. Many holy fathers (Sts. Jerome, Cyril, Ephrem, Augustine) say that the consent of Mary was essential to the redemption. It was the will of God, St. Thomas says (Summa III:30), that the redemption of mankind should depend upon the consent of the Virgin Mary. This does not mean that God in His plans was bound by the will of a creature, and that man would not have been redeemed, if Mary had not consented. It only means that the consent of Mary was foreseen from all eternity, and therefore was received as essential into the design of God.<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this first Sunday of Lent, the Gospel introduces us on the path towards Easter, showing Jesus, who stays forty days in the desert, subjected to the devil’s temptations (cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">4:1-11). This episode is placed in a specific moment of Jesus’ life: immediately after His Baptism in the river Jordan and before His public ministry. He has just received His solemn investiture: the Spirit of God descended on Him, the Father of heaven declared Him: ”This is my beloved Son” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3:17). Jesus is now ready to begin His mission; and because it has a declared enemy, namely Satan, He confronts him immediately, body to body.” In fact, the devil appeals to His title of “Son of God,” to dissuade Jesus from carrying out His mission: “If you are the Son of God . . .”, he repeats to Him (vv. 3.6), and he suggests that He engage miraculous gestures — to be a “magician” — such as transforming the stones into bread to satiate His hunger, and throwing Himself from the wall of the Temple, having the Angels rescue Him. These two temptations are followed by a third: to adore him, the devil, to have dominion over the world (cf. v. 9).</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Through this threefold temptation, Satan wants to divert Jesus from the way of obedience and humiliation – because he knows that, through this way, evil will thus be defeated – and lead Him on the false shortcut of success and glory. However, the devil’s poisonous arrows are all “stopped” with the shield of the Word of God (vv. 4.7.10), which expresses the Father’s will. Jesus does not say a single word of his own: He responds only with the Word of God. And thus the Son, full of the strength of the Holy Spirit, comes out victorious from the desert.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">As Christians we are invited, during the forty days of Lent, to follow in Jesus steps and face the spiritual combat against the Evil One with the strength of the Word of God. Not with our word, which is useless. The Word of God: that which has the strength to defeat Satan. Therefore, it is necessary to draw confidence from the Bible: to read it often, meditate on it and assimilate it. The Bible contains the World of God, which is always timely and effective. Someone said: what would happen if we treated the Bible as we treat our mobile phone? If we always carried it with us, or at least a small pocket Bible, what would happen? If we went back when we forgot it: you forgot your mobile phone – O, I don’t have it, I’ll go back to find it; if we opened it several times a day; what would happen if we read God’s messages contained in the Bible as we read our phone messages? The paragon is clearly paradoxical, but it makes us reflect. In fact, if we had the Word of God always in the heart, no temptation would be able to estrange us from God and no obstacle would be able to make us deviate from the path of goodness; we would be able to overcome the daily suggestions of evil that are in us and outside of us; we would be more capable of living a resurrected life according to the Spirit, receiving and loving our brothers, especially the weakest and neediest, and also our enemies.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">May the Virgin Mary, perfect icon of obedience to God and of unconditional trust in His will, sustain us on our Lenten journey, so that we place ourselves in docile listening to the Word of God, to undertake a true conversion of the heart.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I extend a warm greeting to the families, the parish groups, the Associations and all the pilgrims from Italy and from various countries. I greet the faithful from the dioceses of Madrid, Cordoba and Warsaw, as well as those from Belluno and Mestre. I greet the youngsters of the deanery of Baggio (Milan) and the participants in the meeting promoted by the Maestre Pie Filippini.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">A few days ago we began Lent, which is the journey of the People of God toward Easter, a journey of conversion, of struggle against evil with the weapons of prayer, fasting and works of charity. I hope that the Lenten journey is rich in fruits for all; and I ask you to remember me and my collaborators of the Roman Curia in prayer, who this evening will begin the week of Spiritual Exercises — my heartfelt thanks for this prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">And please, don’t forget – don’t forget! – what would happen if we treated the Bible as we treat our mobile phone. Think about it — the Bible always with us, close to us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1GN 2:7-9; 3:1-7</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground<br />and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,<br />and so man became a living being.<br /><br />Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,<br />and placed there the man whom he had formed.<br />Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow<br />that were delightful to look at and good for food,<br />with the tree of life in the middle of the garden<br />and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<br /><br />Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals<br />that the LORD God had made.<br />The serpent asked the woman,<br />"Did God really tell you not to eat<br />from any of the trees in the garden?"<br />The woman answered the serpent:<br />"We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;<br />it is only about the fruit of the tree<br />in the middle of the garden that God said,<br />'You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.'"<br />But the serpent said to the woman:<br />"You certainly will not die!<br />No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it<br />your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods<br />who know what is good and what is evil."<br />The woman saw that the tree was good for food,<br />pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.<br />So she took some of its fruit and ate it;<br />and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,<br />and he ate it.<br />Then the eyes of both of them were opened,<br />and they realized that they were naked;<br />so they sewed fig leaves together<br />and made loincloths for themselves.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (cf. 3a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</span><br />Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;<br />in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.<br />Thoroughly wash me from my guilt<br />and of my sin cleanse me.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</span><br />For I acknowledge my offense,<br />and my sin is before me always:<br />"Against you only have I sinned,<br />and done what is evil in your sight."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</span><br />A clean heart create for me, O God,<br />and a steadfast spirit renew within me.<br />Cast me not out from your presence,<br />and your Holy Spirit take not from me.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</span><br />Give me back the joy of your salvation,<br />and a willing spirit sustain in me.<br />O Lord, open my lips,<br />and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 2 ROM 5:12-19</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Through one man sin entered the world,<br />and through sin, death,<br />and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned—<br />for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world,<br />though sin is not accounted when there is no law.<br />But death reigned from Adam to Moses,<br />even over those who did not sin<br />after the pattern of the trespass of Adam,<br />who is the type of the one who was to come.<br />But the gift is not like the transgression.<br />For if by the transgression of the one, the many died,<br />how much more did the grace of God<br />and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ<br />overflow for the many.<br />And the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned.<br />For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation;<br />but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal.<br />For if, by the transgression of the one,<br />death came to reign through that one,<br />how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace<br />and of the gift of justification<br />come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.<br />In conclusion, just as through one transgression<br />condemnation came upon all,<br />so, through one righteous act,<br />acquittal and life came to all.<br />For just as through the disobedience of the one man<br />the many were made sinners,<br />so, through the obedience of the one,<br />the many will be made righteous.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">OrROM 5:12, 17-19</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Through one man sin entered the world,<br />and through sin, death,<br />and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.<br /><br />For if, by the transgression of the one,<br />death came to reign through that one,<br />how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace<br />and of the gift of justification<br />come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.<br />In conclusion, just as through one transgression<br />condemnation came upon all,<br />so, through one righteous act,<br />acquittal and life came to all.<br />For just as through the disobedience of the one man<br />the many were made sinners,<br />so, through the obedience of the one,<br />the many will be made righteous.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Verse Before The GospelMT 4:4B</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">One does not live on bread alone,<br />but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMT 4:1-11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert<br />to be tempted by the devil.<br />He fasted for forty days and forty nights,<br />and afterwards he was hungry.<br />The tempter approached and said to him,<br />"If you are the Son of God,<br />command that these stones become loaves of bread."<br />He said in reply,<br />"It is written:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One does not live on bread alone,<br />but on every word that comes forth<br />from the mouth of God</em>."<br /><br />Then the devil took him to the holy city,<br />and made him stand on the parapet of the temple,<br />and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.<br />For it is written:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He will command his angels concerning you<br />and with their hands they will support you,<br />lest you dash your foot against a stone</em>."<br />Jesus answered him,<br />"Again it is written,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test</em>."<br />Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain,<br />and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,<br />and he said to him, "All these I shall give to you,<br />if you will prostrate yourself and worship me."<br />At this, Jesus said to him,<br />"Get away, Satan!<br />It is written:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord, your God, shall you worship<br />and him alone shall you serve."</em><br /><br />Then the devil left him and, behold,<br />angels came and ministered to him.</span><br /><div class="header_content" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(175, 201, 200); color: #003931; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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St. John Joseph of the Cross</div>
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CONFESSOR</div>
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Feast: March 5</div>
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<b><u>Born:</u></b><br /><div class="bodytext">
August 15, 1654, Ischia</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />March 5, 1739<br /><div class="bodytext">
<u><b>Canonized:</b></u></div>
1839, Rome by Pope Gregory XVI<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Ischiaa<br /><div class="bodytext">
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Born on the Island of Ischia, Southern Italy, 1654; d. 5 March, 1739. From his earliest years he was given to prayer and virtue. So great was his love of poverty that he would always wear the dress of the poor, though he was of noble birth. At the age of sixteen years he entered the Order of St. Francis at naples, amongst the Friars of the Alcantarine Reform, being the first Italian to join this reform which had been instituted in Spain by St. Peter of Alcantara. Throughout his life he was given to the greatest austerity: he fasted constantly, never drank wine, and slept but three hours each night. In 1674 he was sent to found a friary at Afila, in Piedmont; and he assisted with his own hands in the building. Much against his will, he was raised to the priesthood. As superior, he always insisted upon performing the lowliest offices in the community. In 1702 he was appointed Vicar Provincial of the Alcantarine Reform in Italy. He was favoured in a high degree with the gift of miracles, people of every condition being brought to him in sickness. His zeal for souls was such that even in sickness he would not spare any labour for them. His great devotion was to our Blessed Lady, and he was urgent with his penitents that they also should cultivate this. He was beatified in 1789, and canonized in 1839.</div>
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<em>(Taken From Catholic Encyclopedia)</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Progress of Faith in the Life of a Priest</i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Lord, increase our faith!” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luke </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">17:5). This question arose spontaneously in the disciples when the Lord was speaking to them of mercy and said that we must forgive seventy times seven. “Increase our faith,” we also ask, at the beginning of this conversation. We ask it with the simplicity of the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Catechism</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which says: “To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end, we must nourish it with the Word of God; we must ask the Lord to make it grow.” It is a faith that “must work through love” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Galatians </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:6; cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">James </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2:14-26), be sustained by hope (cf.</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Romans </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">15:13) and be rooted in the faith of the Church” (n. 162).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It helps me to lean on three firm points: </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">memory, hope and discernment of the moment. </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Catechism </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">says, memory is rooted in the faith of the Church, in the faith of our fathers; hope is what sustains us in the faith; and I have discernment of the moment at the moment of acting, of putting into practice that “faith that works through love.” I formulate it thus:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">-I have a promise – it is always important to </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">remember </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the promise of the Lord who has put me on the way –.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">-I am on the way – I have </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">hope –: </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">hope points out the horizon, it guides me: it is the star and also what sustains me; it is the anchor, anchored in Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">– And, in the specific moment, at every crossroads of the road I must </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">discern </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">a concrete good, the step forward in love that I can take, and also the way in which the Lord wants me to do it.</span></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">To remember </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">past graces confers on our faith the solidity of the Incarnation; it places it within a history, the history of the faith of our fathers, who “died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar” (Hebrews11:13). [1]</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> We, surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, looking where they looked, have our gaze “fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12:2).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">For its part, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">hope </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">is what opens faith to God’s surprises. Our God is always greater than all that we can think and imagine of Him, of what belongs to Him and of His way of acting in history. Openness to hope confers freshness and a horizon on our faith. It is not the openness of an unrealistic imagination that would project one’s fantasies and desires, but the openness that makes us see the spoliation of Jesus, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> 12:2). Paradoxically, the hope that attracts is not generated by the image of the transfigured Lord, but by His ignominious image. “I will draw all men to myself” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">John</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12:32). It is the Lord’s total giving of Himself that attracts us, because it reveals the possibility of being more authentic. It is the spoliation of Him who does not seize God’s promise but, as a true testator, passes the torch of inheritance to His children: “For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">9:16).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finally, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">discernment</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is what concretizes faith, what makes it “work through love” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Galatians </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:6), what enables us to give credible witness: “I by my faith will show you my works” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">James </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2:18). Discernment looks in the first place at that which pleases our Father, “who sees in secret” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6:4.6), it does not look at models of perfection of cultural paradigms. Discernment is “of the moment” because it is attentive, as Our Lady at Cana, to the good of the neighbor, which can make the Lord anticipate “His hour,” or “skip” over a Saturday to put one who was paralyzed back on his feet. Discernment of the opportune moment (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">kairos</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">) is fundamentally rich in memory and hope: remembering with love, it points the gaze with lucidity to what leads best to the Promise.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And what leads best is always in relation with the cross. With the dispossessing of my will, with that interior drama of “not as I will, but as thou wilt” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">26:39) that puts me in the Father’s hands and makes it so that He guides my life. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">To Grow in Faith</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I turn for a moment to the topic of “growing.” If you reread attentively </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Evangelii gaudium </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">– which is a programmatic document – you will see that it always speaks of “growth” and of “maturation,” be it in faith be it in love, in solidarity as in understanding of the Word.[2]</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Evangelii gaudium </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">has a dynamic perspective. The Lord’s missionary mandate includes the appeal to growth in faith when He indicates: “</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaching </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">them to observe all that I have commanded you (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">28:20). Thus it seems clear that the first proclamation must give place also to a path of formation and maturation” (n. 160). I underscore this: path of formation and maturation in the faith. And to take this seriously implies that “it would not be correct to interpret this appeal to growth exclusively or primarily as (merely) doctrinal formation” (n. 161). Growth in the faith happens through encounters with the Lord in the course of life. These encounters are guarded as a treasure in the memory and they are our living faith, in a history of personal salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In these encounters the experience is that of an unfulfilled fullness. Unfulfilled, because we must continue to walk; fullness, because, as in all human and divine things, the whole is found in every part[3]</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> This constant maturation is true for the disciple as well as the missionary, for the seminarian as well as the priest and the Bishop. At bottom, it is that virtuous circle to which the Aparecida Document refers, which coined the formula “missionary disciples.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Key Point of the Cross</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When I speak of key points or of “being a pivot,” the image I have in mind is that of the basket or basketball player, who nails his foot as a “pivot” on the ground and does movements to protect the ball or to find a space to pass it, or to take courage and go to the basket. For us that foot nailed to the ground, around which we pivot is the cross of Christ. A phrase written on the wall of the chapel of the House of Exercises of San Miguel (Buenos Aires) said: While the world turns, the Cross is fixed” [</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Stat crux dum volvitur orbis,” </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">motto of Saint Bruno and the Carthusians]. The one moves, protecting the ball, with the hope of putting it in the basket and tries to understand to whom to pass it.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Faith – progress and growth in the faith – is always founded on the Cross: “It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe” for “we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles” (1 </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Corinthians </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1:21.234). As the Letter to the Hebrews says, “looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith,” we move and exercise ourselves in the memory – remembering the “great cloud of witnesses” – and run with hope “in the race that is set,” discerning the temptations against the faith before us,” without growing weary or fainthearted” (cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12:1-3).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Evangelii gaudium </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I wished to highlight that dimension of the faith which I call Deuteronomic, in analogy with Israel’s memory: “The evangelizing joy always shines in the background of a grateful memory: it is a grace we are in need of requesting. The Apostles never forgot the moment in which Jesus touched their heart: “it was about the tenth hour” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">John </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1:39)” (n. 13).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Distinguished in the “great cloud of witnesses” [. . .] are some persons who impacted us in a special way so as to have our believing joy sprout: “Remember your leaders , those who spoke to you the word of God (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">13:7). Sometimes it is simple and close persons who initiated us in the life of faith: “I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice” (2 </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Timothy </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1:5). A believer is fundamentally ‘one who remembers’” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ibid.).</i></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Faith is nourished and fed by the memory. The memory of the Covenant that the Lord made with us: He is the God of our fathers and grandfathers. He is not the god of the last moment, a God without a family history, a God who to respond to every new paradigm must reject the previous as old and ridiculous. The family history is “never unfashionable.” The clothes and hair of grandparents will seem old, the photos will have a brownish color, but the affection and the audacity of our fathers, who spent themselves so that we could be here and have what we have, are a lit flame in every noble heart.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us keep well present that to progress in the faith is not only a voluntary resolution to believe more henceforth: it is also an exercise to return with the memory to the fundamental graces. One can “progress by going back,” going to seek again treasures and experiences that were forgotten or that many times contain the keys to understand the present. This is the truly “revolutionary” thing: to go to the roots. The more lucid the memory of the past is, the clearer the future opens, because one can see the really new way and distinguish it from ways that were followed that led nowhere. The faith grows remembering, connecting things with the real history lived by our fathers and by the whole people of God, by the whole Church.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Therefore, the Eucharist is the Memorial of our faith, that which is always situated again daily in the fundamental event of our salvation, in the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord, center and pivot of history. To return always to this Memorial – actualizing it in a Sacrament which is prolonged in life – this is to progress in the faith. As Saint Albert Hurtado said: “The Mass is my life and my life is a prolonged Mass.” [4]</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">To go back to the sources of memory, it always helps me to reread a passage from the prophet Jeremiah and another from the prophet Hosea, in which they speak of what the Lord remembers of His People. For Jeremiah, the memory of the Lord is that of the beloved bride of his youth, who was then unfaithful to him. “I remember the devotion of your youth – he says to Israel –, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, [. . . ] Israel was holy to the Lord” (2:2-3). The Lord will reproach His people for their infidelity, which revealed itself an evil choice: “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. [. . .] But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go” (2:13.25).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Hosea, the memory of the Lord is that of the coddled and ungrateful child: “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the more they went from me; [. . .] burning incense to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took him up in my arms, but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them. [. . .] My people are bent on turning away from me (11:1-4.7) Today as then, the infidelity and ingratitude of Pastors has repercussions on the poorest of the faithful people, who remain at the mercy of strangers and idolaters.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Faith is sustained and progresses thanks to hope. Hope is the anchor anchored in Heaven, in the transcendent future, of which the temporal future – considered in a linear way – is only an expression. Hope is that which dynamizes the look behind faith, which leads to find new things in the past – in the treasures of the memory – because it encounters God Himself, whom he hopes to see in the future. Moreover, hope extends itself to the limits, in all the width and thickness of the daily and immediate present, and sees new possibilities in one’s neighbor and in what can be done here, today. Hope is to know how to see, in the face of the poor I encounter today, the same Lord who will come one day to judge us according to the protocol of Matthew 25: “All that you did to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me” (v. 40).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thus the faith progresses existentially in this transcendent “impulse,” which moves, which is active and operating – toward the future, but also toward the past and in all the breadth of the present moment. Thus we can understand Paul’s phrase to the Galatians, when he says that what has worth is “faith working through love” (5:6): a love that, when remembering, is activated confessing, in praise and in joy, that love was already given to it; a love that, when it looks ahead and towards on high, confesses its desire to dilate the heart in the fullness of the greatest Good; these two confessions of a faith rich in gratitude and in hope, are translated in present action: faith is confessed in practice, going out of itself, transcending itself in adoration and in service.</span></div>
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Thus we see how faith, dynamized by the hope of discovering Christ in the thickness of the present, is linked to discernment.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is proper of discernment to first take a step backwards, as one who reverses a bit to see the scenery better. There is always a temptation in the first impulse, which leads to wanting to resolve something immediately. In this connection, I believe that there is a first discernment, great sand foundational, that is, which does not let itself be deceived by the force of evil, but which is able to see the victory of Christ’s Cross in every human situation. At this point I would like to reread with you an entire passage of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Evangelii gaudium,</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">because it helps to discern that insidious temptation that I call sterile pessimism: “One of the most serious temptations that suffocate fervor and audacity is the sense of defeat, which is transformed into the discontented and disenchanted pessimisms of the dark face. No on can undertake a battle if beforehand he does not trust fully in the triumph. One who begins without trust has lost beforehand half of the battle and buries his talents. Even with the painful awareness of one’s frailties, it is necessary to go forward without considering oneself defeated, and to remember what the Lord said to Saint Paul: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Corinthians </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12:9). The Christian triumph is always a cross, but a cross that at the same time is ensign of victory, which is carried with a combative tenderness against the assaults of evil. The evil spirit of defeat is brother of the temptation to separate before the time the grain from the darnel, product of an anxious and egocentric mistrust. [. . . ]In any case, in those circumstances we are called to be amphora-persons to give drink to others. At times the amphora is transformed into a heavy cross, but it is precisely on the Cross where, pierced, the Lord gave Himself to us as source of living water. Let us not allow ourselves to be robed of hope!” (85-86).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These formulations, “let us not allow ourselves to be robbed . . .,” come to me from Saint Ignatius’ rules of discernment, which usually represents the devil as a thief. He behaves like a captain – says Ignatius – who to win and rob what he desires fights us in our weakest part (cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spiritual Exercises, </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">327). And in our case, at present, I believe he seeks to rob us of joy – which is like robbing us of the present [5]</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – and hope –the going out, the walking –, are the graces that I asked for most and that I ask for the Church in this time.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is important at this point to take a step forward and to say that faith progresses when, in the present moment, we discern how to concretize love in the possible good, commensurate with the good of the other. The first good of the other is to be able to grow in faith. The communal supplication of the disciples “Increase our faith!” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luke </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">17:6) subtends the awareness that the faith is a communal good. Moreover, we must consider that to seek the good of the other makes us risk. As </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Evangelii gaudium </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">says: “A missionary heart is aware [. . .] that it must grow in the understanding of the Gospel and in the discernment of the paths of the Spirit, and then it does not give up the possible good, rather, it runs the risk of getting soiled with the mud of the street” (45).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Implicit in this discernment is the act of faith in Christ present in the poorest, in the littlest, in the lost sheep, in the insistent friend. Christ present in one who encounters us – making himself seen, as Zacchaeus or the sinner who enters with her perfume vase, and almost not making herself noted, as the woman with the haemorrhage –; or Christ present in the one we ourselves approach, feeling compassion when we see him from afar, lying on the side of the street. To believe that Christ is there, to discern the best way to take a small step toward Him, for the good of that person, is progress in the faith. As praise is also progress in the faith, and to desire more is progress in the faith.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It might do us good to pause a while on this progress in the faith, which occurs thanks to the discernment of the moment. The progress of the faith in memory and in hope is more developed; instead, this key point of discernment, perhaps, not so much. It might seem perhaps that where there is faith there is no need of discernment: one believes and that’s it. But this is dangerous, especially if the renewed acts of faith are substituted in a Person – in Christ our Lord – which have all the dynamism that we just saw, with merely intellectual acts of faith, whose dynamism is exhausted in making reflections and elaborating abstract formulations. Conceptual formulation is a necessary moment of thought, as choosing a means of transport is necessary to reach an end. However, faith is not exhausted in an abstract formulation or charity in a particular good, but what is proper of the faith and of charity is to grow and progress, opening oneself to greater trust and to a greater common good. What is proper to faith is to be “operative,” active, and it is so for charity. And the paragon stone is discernment. In fact, faith can fossilize, in keeping the love received, transforming it into an object to close in a museum; and faith can also volatize, in the projection of the desired love, transforming it into a virtual object that exists only in the island of utopias. Discernment of real, concrete and possible love in the present moment, in favor of the most dramatically needy neighbor, makes faith become active, creative and effective.</span></div>
[Original Text: Italian] [Working Translation by ZENIT, by Virginia Forrester]</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1IS 58:9B-14</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Thus says the LORD:<br />If you remove from your midst oppression,<br />false accusation and malicious speech;<br />If you bestow your bread on the hungry<br />and satisfy the afflicted;<br />Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,<br />and the gloom shall become for you like midday;<br />Then the LORD will guide you always<br />and give you plenty even on the parched land.<br />He will renew your strength,<br />and you shall be like a watered garden,<br />like a spring whose water never fails.<br />The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake,<br />and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up;<br />"Repairer of the breach," they shall call you,<br />"Restorer of ruined homesteads."<br /><br />If you hold back your foot on the sabbath<br />from following your own pursuits on my holy day;<br />If you call the sabbath a delight,<br />and the LORD's holy day honorable;<br />If you honor it by not following your ways,<br />seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice—<br />Then you shall delight in the LORD,<br />and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;<br />I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,<br />for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (11ab) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.</span><br />Incline your ear, O LORD; answer me,<br />for I am afflicted and poor.<br />Keep my life, for I am devoted to you;<br />save your servant who trusts in you.<br />You are my God.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.</span><br />Have mercy on me, O Lord,<br />for to you I call all the day.<br />Gladden the soul of your servant,<br />for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.</span><br />For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,<br />abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.<br />Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer<br />and attend to the sound of my pleading.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post.<br />He said to him, "Follow me."<br />And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.<br />Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house,<br />and a large crowd of tax collectors<br />and others were at table with them.<br />The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying,<br />"Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"<br />Jesus said to them in reply,<br />"Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.<br />I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners."</span></div>
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<br /><br /><b><u>Born:</u></b><br /><div class="bodytext">
October 3, 1458(1458-10-03), Wawel, Kraków</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />March 4, 1484, Hrodna, Belarus<br /><div class="bodytext">
<u><b>Canonized:</b></u></div>
1522, Rome by Pope Adrian VI<br /><b><u>Major Shrine:</u></b><br />Vilnius Cathedral<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />patron saint of Poland and Lithuania<br />PRINCE OF POLAND<br /><div>
St Casimir was the third among the thirteen children of Casimir III, King of Poland, and of Elizabeth of Austria, daughter to the Emperor Albert II, a most virtuous woman, who died in 1505. He was born in 1458, on the 3rd of October. From his childhood he was remarkably pious and devout. His preceptor was John Dugloss, called Longinus, canon of Cracow, a man of extraordinary learning and piety, who constantly refused all bishoprics and other dignities of the church and state which were pressed upon him. Uladislas, the eldest son, was elected King of Bohemia in 1471, and became King of Hungary in 1490. Our saint was the second son; John Albert the third son, succeeded the father in the kingdom of Poland in 1492; and Alexander, the fourth son, was called to the same in 1501. Casimir and the other princes were so affectionately attached to the holy man, who was their preceptor, that they could not bear to be separated from him. But Casimir profited most by his pious maxims and example. He consecrated the flower of his age to the exercises of devotion and penance, and had a horror of that softness and magnificence which reign in courts His clothes were very plain, and under them he wore a hair shirt. His bed was frequently the ground, and he spent a considerable part of the night in prayer and meditation, chiefly on the passion of our Saviour. He often went out in the night to pray before the church-doors; and in the morning waited before them till they were opened to assist at matins. By living always under a sense of the divine presence he remained perpetually united to, and absorbed in, his Creator, maintained an uninterrupted cheerfulness of temper, and was mild and affable to all. He respected the least ceremonies of the church: everything that tended to promote piety was dear to him. He was particularly devout to the passion of our blessed Saviour, the very thought of which excited him to tears, and threw him into transports of love. He was no less piously affected towards the sacrifice of the altar, at which he always assisted with such reverence and attention that he seemed in raptures. And as a mark of his singular devotion to the Blessed Virgin, he composed, or at least frequently recited, the long hymn that bears his name, a copy of which was, by his desire, buried with him. His love for Jesus Christ showed itself in his regard for the poor, who are his members, to whose relief he applied whatever he had, and employed his credit with his father, and his brother Uladislas, King of Bohemia, to procure them succour. His compassion made him feel in himself the afflictions of every one.</div>
Prince of Poland, born in the royal palace at Cracow, 3 October, 1458; died at the court of Grodno, 4 March, 1484. He was the grandson of Wladislaus II Jagiello, King of Poland, who introduced Christianity into Lithuania, and the second son of King Casimir IV and Queen Elizabeth, an Austrian princess, the daughter of Albert II, Emperor of Germany and King of Bohemia and Hungary. Casimir's uncle, Wladislaus III, King of Poland and Hungary, perished at Varna in 1444, defending Christianity against the Turks. Casimir's elder brother, Wladislaus, became King of Bohemia in 1471, and King of Hungary in 1490. Of his four younger brothers, John I, Albert, Alexander, and Sigismund in turn occupied the Polish throne, while Frederick, the youngest, became Archbishop of Gnesen, Bishop of Cracow, and finally cardinal, in 1493. The early training of the young princes was entrusted to Father Dlugosz, the Polish historian, a canon at Cracow, and later Archbishop of Lwów (Lemberg), and to Filippo Buonaccorsi, called Callimachus. Father Dlugosz was a deeply religious man, a loyal patriot, and like Callimachus, well versed in statecraft. Casimir was placed in the care of this scholar at the age nine, and even then he was remarkable for his ardent piety. When Casimir was thirteen he was offered the throne of Hungary by a Hungarian faction who were discontented under King Matthias Corvinus. Eager to defend the Cross against the Turks, he accepted the call and went to Hungary to receive the crown. He was unsuccessful, however, and returned a fugitive to Poland. The young prince again became a pupil of Father Dlugosz, under whom he remained until 1475. He was later associated with his father who initiated him so well into public affairs that after his elder brother, Wladislaus, ascended to the Bohemian throne, Casimir became heir-apparent to the throne of Poland. When in 1479 the king went to Lithuania to spend five years arranging affairs there, Casimir was placed in charge of Poland, and from 1481 to 1483 administered the State with great prudence and justice. About this time his father tried to arrange for him a marriage with the daughter of Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, but Casimir preferred to remain single. Shortly afterwards he fell victim to a severe attack of lung trouble, which, weak as he was from fastings and mortifications, he could not withstand. While on a journey to Lithuania, he died at the court of Grodno, 4 March 1484. His remains were interred in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin in the cathedral of Vilna. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-urDd8q_qA" width="640"></iframe> St. Casimir was possessed of great charms of person and character, and was noted particularly for his justice and chastity. Often at night he would kneel for hours before the locked doors of churches, regardless of the hour or the inclemency of the weather. He had a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin, and the hymn of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, "Omni die dic Maria mea laudes anima", was long attributed to him. After his death he was venerated as a saint, because of the miracles wrought by him. Sigismund I, King of Poland, petitioned the pope for Casimir's canonization, and Pope Leo X appointed the papal legate Zaccaria Ferreri, Bishop of Guardalfiera, the Archbishop of Gnesen, and the Bishop of Przemysl to investigate the life and miracles of Casimir. This inquiry was completed at Turn in 1520, and in 1522 Casimir was canonized by Adrian VI. Pope Clement VIII named 4 March as his feast. St. Casimir is the patron of Poland Lithuania, though he is honoured as far as Belgium and Naples. In Poland and Lithuania churches and chapels are dedicated to him, as at Rozana and on the River Dzwina near Potocka, where he is said to have contributed miraculously to a victory of the Polish army over the Russians. In the beginning of the seventeenth century King Sigismund III began at Vilna the erection of a chapel in honour of St. Casimir, which was finished under King Wladislaus IV. The building was designed by Peter Danckerts, of the Netherlands, who also adorned the walls with paintings illustrating the life of the saint. In this chapel is found an old painting renovated in 1594, representing the saint with a lily in his hand. Two other pictures of the saint are preserved, one in his life by Ferreri, and the other in the church at Krosno in Galicia. SOURCE: The Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ prayer intention for March is <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Support for Persecuted Christians:</strong> That persecuted Christians may be supported by the prayers and material help of the whole Church.<br /><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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How many people are being persecuted because of their faith, forced to abandon their homes, their places of worship, their lands, their loved ones! </div>
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They are persecuted and killed because they are Christians. Those who persecute them make no distinction between the religious communities to which they belong.</div>
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I ask you: how many of you pray for persecuted Christians? </div>
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Do it with me, that they may be supported by the prayers and material help of all the Churches and communities.</div>
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<br />(Vatican Radio) True fasting is helping your neighbour; while false fasting mixes religiosity with dirty deals and the bribes of vanity. That was the message of Pope Francis at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta on Friday.<br /><div>
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The readings of the day speak about fasting; that is, the Pope explained, “about the penance that we are called to do in this time of Lent,” in order to draw closer to the Lord. God delights in the “contrite heart,” the Psalm says, “the heart of one who feels himself a sinner, who knows he is a sinner.” In the first Reading, taken from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, God rebukes the false religiosity of the hypocrites who fast, while at the same time carrying out their own pursuits, oppressing their workers, “striking with wicked claw”: on the one hand, doing penance, while on the other being unjust, making “dirty deals.” The Lord calls us, instead, to a true fast, where we are attentive to our neighbour:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis told the story of an event that happened immediately after the second World War to Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, when he was a missionary in Japan. A rich businessman gave him a donation for his evangelical activities, but brought with him a photographer and a journalist. The envelope contained just ten dollars:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He quoted the passage from Isaiah where the Lord tells the hypocrites about true fasting – words, the Pope said, that seem to be spoken to us today:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“‘This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:<br />releasing those bound unjustly,<br />untying the thongs of the yoke;<br />Setting free the oppressed,<br />breaking every yoke;<br />Sharing your bread with the hungry,<br />sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;<br />Clothing the naked when you see them,<br />and not turning your back on your own.’</span></em></div>
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November 26, 1858, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />March 3, 1955, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania<br /><div class="bodytext">
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2000 by Pope John Paul II<br /><b><u>Major Shrine:</u></b><br />Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />philanthropists, racial justice<br /> Saint Katharine Drexel was born in Philadelphia on November 26, 1858, the second child of Hannah and Francis Anthony Drexel. Hannah died five weeks after her baby’s birth. For two years Katharine and her sister, Elizabeth, were cared for by their aunt and uncle, Ellen and Anthony Drexel. When Francis married Emma Bouvier in 1860 he brought his two daughters home. A third daughter, Louise, was born in 1863. The children grew up in a loving family atmosphere permeated by deep faith. The girls were educated at home by tutors. They had the added advantage of touring parts of the United States and Europe with their parents. By word and example Emma and Francis taught their daughters that wealth was meant to be shared with those in need. Three afternoons a week Emma opened the doors of their home to serve the needs of the poor. When the girls were old enough, they assisted their mother. When Francis purchased a summer home in Torresdale, Pa., Katharine and Elizabeth taught Sunday school classes for the children of employees and neighbors. The local pastor, Rev. James O’Connor (who later became bishop of Omaha), became a family friend and Katharine’s spiritual director.<br />( katharinedrexel.org)<br /><div class="bodytext" style="font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 23.9556px;">
She inherited a vast fortune from her father and step-mother, and spent her wealth to helping these disadvantaged people. In audience with<span style="font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 23.9556px;"> Pope Leo XIII, she asked him to recommend a religious congregation to staff the institutions which she was financing. </span></div>
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In 1891, with a few companions, Mother Katharine founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. <span style="font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 23.9556px;">In 1935 Mother Katharine suffered a heart attack. She spent her last years to Eucharistic adoration. She died at the age of 96 at Cornwell Heights, Pennsylvania, on 3 March 1955. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pope Francis celebrated Holy Mass for Ash Wednesday at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Return to me with all your heart… return to the Lord” (Jl 2:12, 13). The prophet Joel makes this plea to the people in the Lord’s name. No one should feel excluded: “Assemble the aged, gather the children, even infants at the breast, the bridegroom… and the bride” (v. 16). All the faithful people are summoned to come and worship their God, “for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (v. 13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We too want to take up this appeal; we want to return to the merciful heart of the Father. In this season of grace that begins today, we once again turn our eyes to his mercy. Lent is a path: it leads to the triumph of mercy over all that would crush us or reduce us to something unworthy of our dignity as God’s children. Lent is the road leading from slavery to freedom, from suffering to joy, from death to life. The mark of the ashes with which we set out reminds us of our origin: we were taken from the earth, we are made of dust. True, yet we are dust in the loving hands of God, who has breathed his spirit of life upon each one of us, and still wants to do so. He wants to keep giving us that breath of life that saves us from every other type of breath: the stifling asphyxia brought on by our selfishness, the stifling asphyxia generated by petty ambition and silent indifference – an asphyxia that smothers the spirit, narrows our horizons and slows the beating of our hearts. The breath of God’s life saves us from this asphyxia that dampens our faith, cools our charity and strangles every hope. To experience Lent is to yearn for this breath of life that our Father unceasingly offers us amid the mire of our history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The breath of God’s life sets us free from the asphyxia that so often we fail to notice, or become so used to that it seems normal, even when its effects are felt. We think it is normal because we have grown so accustomed to breathing air in which hope has dissipated, the air of glumness and resignation, the stifling air of panic and hostility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lent is the time for saying no. No to the spiritual asphyxia born of the pollution caused by indifference, by thinking that other people’s lives are not my concern, and by every attempt to trivialize life, especially the lives of those whose flesh is burdened by so much superficiality. Lent means saying no to the toxic pollution of empty and meaningless words, of harsh and hasty criticism, of simplistic analyses that fail to grasp the complexity of problems, especially the problems of those who suffer the most. Lent is the time to say no to the asphyxia of a prayer that soothes our conscience, of an almsgiving that leaves us self-satisfied, of a fasting that makes us feel good. Lent is the time to say no to the asphyxia born of relationships that exclude, that try to find God while avoiding the wounds of Christ present in the wounds of his brothers and sisters: in a word, all those forms of spirituality that reduce the faith to a ghetto culture, a culture of exclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lent is a time for remembering. It is the time to reflect and ask ourselves what we would be if God had closed his doors to us. What would we be without his mercy that never tires of forgiving us and always gives us the chance to begin anew? Lent is the time to ask ourselves where we would be without the help of so many people who in a thousand quiet ways have stretched out their hands and in very concrete ways given us hope and enabled us to make a new beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lent is the time to start breathing again. It is the time to open our hearts to the breath of the One capable of turning our dust into humanity. It is not the time to rend our garments before the evil all around us, but instead to make room in our life for all the good we are able to do. It is a time to set aside everything that isolates us, encloses us and paralyzes us. Lent is a time of compassion, when, with the Psalmist, we can say: “Restore to us the joy of your salvation, sustain in us a willing spirit”, so that by our lives we may declare your praise (cf. Ps 51:12.15), and our dust – by the power of your breath of life - may become a “dust of love”. </span></div>
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<br />(Vatican Radio)<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pope Francis</strong> marked <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ash Wednesday</strong> inviting the faithful to renew their hope in Christ’s promises and their commitment to follow Him ever more closely.<br /><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He was addressing the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Audience</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pointing out that on Ash Wednesday we enter the liturgical time of Lent, Pope Francis said this time of penitence and mortification is actually a journey of hope as it is directs us on the path towards Resurrection, and help us renew our Baptismal identity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">To better understand what this means, he said, we must refer to the fundamental experience of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, in which the Chosen People journeyed towards the Promised Land and, through spiritual discipline and the gift of the Law, learned the love of God and neighbor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Scriptures, the Pope said, tell of a tormented journey that symbolically lasted forty years, the time span of a generation, and that difficulties and obstacles represented continuous temptations to regret Egypt and to turn back. But, he said, the Lord stayed close to the people who finally arrived in the Promised Land guided by Moses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Their journey, he explained, was undertaken ‘in hope’, and in this sense “it is an ‘exodus’ out of slavery and into freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Every step, every effort, every test, every fall and every recovery has a sense within God’s design for salvation, as He wants life – not death – and joy – not pain – for His people” he said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope said Easter is Jesus’ own exodus, his passover from death to life, in which we participate through our rebirth in Baptism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He said that by following Christ along the way of the Cross, we share in his victory over sin and death; he explained that in order to open this passage for us, Jesus had to cast off his glory, he had to humble himself, he had to be obedient until death on the cross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“This doesn’t mean that he did everything and we don’t have to do anything” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope went on to highlight that it doesn’t mean “he went through the cross and we will go to heaven in a carriage.” That is not how it works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He explained that our salvation is Jesus’ gift, but it is part of a love story and requires our ‘yes’ and our participation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">With a heart open to this horizon, the Pope concluded, let us enter into Lent feeling that we belong to the holy people of God: “may we begin our journey of hope with joy.”</span></div>
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Ash Wednesday a moveable feast that begins the liturgical season of Lent. It does not have a specific date but depends on when Easter is celebrated. <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On Ash Wednesday Christians begin the period of the fast. Healthy people between the ages of 18 and 59 are required to fast or perform some act of penance. Abstinence from meat is required on Ash Wednesday and Fridays. Fasting requires the consumption of 1 full meal and only 2 smaller meals. Ash Wednesday starts the commemoration of Jesus' 40 days in the desert. Lent is actually 46 days as the Sundays do not count for the fasting period. When people attend Church services on this day they are commonly blessed with ashes in the form of a cross on their foreheads. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is Ash Wednesday Mass a day of obligation to attend Mass and receive ashes? </b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">No, it is not required for the faithful to attend Mass nor receive ashes. It is encouraged and visible sign to pray, do penance, and be humble. </span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Where do the ashes come from?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The ashes are usually derived from the burning of the palms used on Palm Sunday. They are to remind people of their sins and call them to repentence. Usually a priest, deacon or lay person marks the person's forehead. The biblical verse is said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Remember thou art dust and to dust thou shalt return.</span><br /><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Genesis 3: 19</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mark 1 : 15</span><br /><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This marking is called a sacramental. Churches are decorated with purple during the season of Lent. Statues and crosses are covered with purple cloth. Lent ends with the celebration of Easter, when Jesus rose from the dead.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Church encourages the faithful to go to Confession or Reconciliation on this day. Confession involves the telling of one's sins to a priest who then provides forgiveness according to the commission of Christ.</span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. <span class="highlight"><u>Whose sins</u> you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.</span></span></strong></em><br /><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There are many biblical roots to repentence for sin with ashes, here are a few sources:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Judith 7: 14</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon the ground, putting <u><em><span style="background-color: #ffffd7;">ashes</span></em></u> upon their heads, praying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his mercy upon his people.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Esther 4:3</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And in all provinces, towns, and places, to which the king's cruel edict was come, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, wailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and <u><em><span style="background-color: #ffffd7;">ashes</span></em></u> for their bed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jeremiah 6:26</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with <u><em><span style="background-color: #ffffd7;">ashes</span></em></u>: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Images shared from Google Images</span></div>
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(DEGUI, DEWI). Bishop and Confessor, patron of Wales. He is usually represented standing on a little hill, with a dove on his shoulder. From time immemorial the Welsh have worn a leek on St. David's day, in memory of a battle against the Saxons, at which it is said they wore leeks in their hats, by St. David's advice, to distinguish them from their enemies. He is commemorated on 1 March. The earliest mention of St. David is found in a tenth-century manuscript Of the "Annales Cambriae", which assigns his death to A.D. 601. Many other writers, from Geoffrey of Monmouth down to Father Richard Stanton, hold that he died about 544, but their opinion is based solely on data given in various late "lives" of St. David, and there seems no good reason for setting aside the definite statement of the "Annales Cambriae", which is now generally accepted. Little else that can claim to be historical is known about St. David. The tradition that he was born at Henvynyw (Vetus-Menevia) in Cardiganshire is not improbable. He was prominent at the Synod of Brevi (Llandewi Brefi in Cardiganshire), which has been identified with the important Roman military station, Loventium. Shortly afterwards, in 569, he presided over another synod held at a place called Lucus Victoriae. He was Bishop (probably not Archbishop) of Menevia, the Roman port Menapia in Pembrokeshire, later known as St. David's, then the chief point of departure for Ireland. St. David was canonized by Pope Callistus II in the year 1120.<br />The first biography that has come down to us was written near the end of the eleventh century, about 500 years after the saint's death, by Rhygyfarch (Ricemarchus). According to these other writers St. David was the son of Sant or Sandde ab Ceredig ab Cunnedda, The saint's mother was Nonna, or Nonnita (sometimes called Melaria), a daughter of Gynyr of Caergawch. She was a nun who had been violated by Sant. St. David's birth took place at "Old Menevia" somewhere about A.D. 454. Afterwards he spent ten years studying the Holy Scripture at Whitland in Carmarthenshire, under St. Paulinus (Pawl Hen), whom he cured of blindness by the sign of the cross. At the end of this period St. Paulinus, warned by an angel, sent out the young saint to evangelize the British. St. David journeyed throughout the West, founding or restoring twelve monasteries (among which occur the great names of Glastonbury, Bath, and Leominster), and finally settled in the Vale of Ross, where he and his monks lived a life of extreme austerity. Here also his monks tried to poison him, but St. David, warned by St. Scuthyn, who crossed from Ireland in one night on the back of a sea-monster, blessed the poisoned bread and ate it without harm. From thence, with St. Teilo and St. Padarn, he set out for Jerusalem, where he was made bishop by the patriarch. Here too St. Dubric and St. Daniel found him, when they came to call him to the Synod of Brevi "against the Pelagians". St. David was with difficulty persuaded to accompany them; on his way he raised a widow's son to life, and at the synod preached so loudly, from the hill that miraculously rose under him, that all could hear him, and so eloquently that all the heretics were confounded. St. Dubric resigned the "Archbishopric of Caerleon", and St. David was appointed in his stead. One of his first acts was to hold, in the year 569, yet another synod called "Victory", against the Pelagians, of which the decrees were confirmed by the pope. With the permission of King Arthur he removed his see from Caerleon to Menevia, whence he governed the British Church for many years with great holiness and wisdom. He died at the great age of 147, on the day predicted by himself a week earlier. His body is said to have been translated to Glastonbury in the year 966. (Edited from Catholic Encyclopedia)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Coptic minority is being targeted by local cells of the Islamic state. The murder took place yesterday in Al-Arich. The man's house was set on fire. Previously a 60 year old Christian and son were killed; the young man was burnt alive. Daesh announces new attacks on social networks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Cairo (AsiaNews / Agencies) - An Egyptian Coptic Christian was killed yesterday and his house was set on fire in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. A jihadist cell linked to the Islamic State (SI) claimed the murder the same cell implicated in past attacks against Christians. This is the third victim in two days for the local Coptic community.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />On February 19, in a video posted on the Telegram messaging site, the Islamic State had promised to strike the Christian community. And the attacks have not been long in coming.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />On February 22, the authorities found the bullet-riddled body of a Christian about 60; his son died with him also, burned alive by jihadists. The authorities h found the body of the young man at dawn, in the backyard of a school of Al-Arich.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />Yesterday the third victim in just two days: a Christian of 40, was found lifeless, killed by a gunshot to the head, on the roof of his home. After killing him, the terrorists set fire his house on fire.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />Yesterday’s murder also happened in Al-Arich, the capital of North Sinai Governorate. Investigators have now focused their attention on the jihadist track, and it was later confirmed by Daesh militiamen [Arabic acronym for the Islamic state] in the region.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />Earlier, on February 12 in Al-Arich, some masked men on a motorcycle gunned down a Christian veterinarian, while he was at the wheel of his own car. In late January, a Christian officer was killed by a group of armed men; the identity of the attackers is still unknown, in this case.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />Since the military coup of 2013, which put an end to the presidency of Mohamed Morsi and overthrew the government of the Muslim Brotherhood, the northern Sinai has been the scene of bloody attacks perpetrated by militiamen jihadists. Most often the attacks are concentrated against army units, police, security officials. However, the attacks have not spared the Christian Coptic minority. Among these, the most serious was the suicide bombing on 11 December against a <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/notizie-it/Francesco-chiama-Tawadros-II-condoglianze-e-solidariet-ai-copti-vittime-attentato-39378.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo</a></strong>, which caused 29 victims.<br style="line-height: 8px;" /><br style="line-height: 8px;" />In the past, al Qaeda had set its sights on the Coptic Christians. In particular, in 2010 the local cell of the terror network led by Osama bin Laden had <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/notizie-it/Il-Cairo-respinge-ultimatum-di-Al-Qaeda-e-nega-la-conversione-delle-due-donne-19874.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">promised the "cleansing" of Christians from the Sinai</a></strong> region. Threats that came to fruition on the night of New Year's Day 2011, when <strong><a href="http://www.asianews.it/notizie-it/Massacro-di-cristiani-ad-Alessandria-Egitto-Autobomba-esplode-davanti-a-una-chiesa-20400.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">a car bomb exploded in front of a Coptic church</a></strong>, killing 29 people. SHARED from AsiaNews IT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reading 1SIR 17:1-15</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God from the earth created man,<br />and in his own image he made him.<br />He makes man return to earth again,<br />and endows him with a strength of his own.<br />Limited days of life he gives him,<br />with power over all things else on earth.<br />He puts the fear of him in all flesh,<br />and gives him rule over beasts and birds.<br />He created for them counsel, and a tongue and eyes and ears,<br />and an inventive heart,<br />and filled them with the discipline of understanding.<br />He created in them knowledge of the spirit;<br />With wisdom he fills their heart;<br />good and evil he shows them.<br />He put the fear of himself upon their hearts,<br />and showed them his mighty works,<br />That they might glory in the wonder of his deeds<br />and praise his holy name.<br />He has set before them knowledge,<br />a law of life as their inheritance;<br />An everlasting covenant he has made with them,<br />his justice and his judgments he has revealed to them.<br />His majestic glory their eyes beheld,<br />his glorious voice their ears heard.<br />He says to them, "Avoid all evil";<br />each of them he gives precepts about his fellow men.<br />Their ways are ever known to him,<br />they cannot be hidden from his eyes.<br />Over every nation he places a ruler,<br />but God's own portion is Israel.<br />All their actions are clear as the sun to him,<br />his eyes are ever upon their ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 103:13-14, 15-16, 17-18</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (see 17) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.</span><br />As a father has compassion on his children,<br />so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him,<br />For he knows how we are formed;<br />he remembers that we are dust.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.</span><br />Man's days are like those of grass;<br />like a flower of the field he blooms;<br />The wind sweeps over him and he is gone,<br />and his place knows him no more.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.</span><br />But the kindness of the LORD is from eternity<br />to eternity toward those who fear him,<br />And his justice toward children's children<br />among those who keep his covenant.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AlleluiaSEE MT 11:25</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth;<br />you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them,<br />but the disciples rebuked them.<br />When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,<br />"Let the children come to me; do not prevent them,<br />for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.<br />Amen, I say to you,<br />whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child<br />will not enter it."<br />Then he embraced the children and blessed them,<br />placing his hands on them.</span></div>
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Patriarch of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; died 25 February, 806.<br />
He was the son of the Patrician and Prefect of Constantinople, George, and his wife Eukratia, and entered the service of the State. In 784 when Paul IV Patriarch of Constantinople died Tarasius was an imperial secretary, and a champion of the veneration of images. It may be that before his death the patriarch had recommended Tarasius as his successor in the patriarchate to the Empress Irene who was regent for her son Constantine VI (780-797). After the burial of Paul IV a great popular assembly was held before the Magnaura Palace to discuss the filling of the vacant see. The empress delivered an oration on the new appointment to the patriarchate and the people proclaimed Tarasius as the most worthy candidate. The empress agreed but said that Tarasius refused to accept the position. Tarasius now made a speech himself in which he declared he felt himself unworthy of the office, further that the elevation of a layman was very hazardous, and that the position of the Church of Constantinople had become a very difficult one, as it was separated from the Catholics of Western Europe and isolated from the other Oriental patriarchates; consequently he would only be willing to accept the position of patriarch on condition that Church unity be restored and that, in connection with the pope, an oecumenical council be called. The majority of the populace approved of these views and the imperial Court agreed to it. So on 25 December, 784, Tarasius was consecrated patriarch. In 785 he sent the priest George as his legate to Hadrian I with a letter in which he announced his appointment. In his reply the pope expressed his disapproval of the elevation of Tarasius directly from the laity to the dignity of a bishop contrary to canonical regulation, but allowed clemency to rule in view of the orthodoxy of the new patriarch's views, and recognized him as patriarch. After this by joint action with the pope and the imperial Court Tarasius called the Second Council of Nicaea, the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which rejected Iconoclasm. Union with the Roman Church was restored.<br />
After the synod the patriarch had a number of struggles not only with the Iconoclastic party of the capital but also with a party of Orthodox monks. First, the latter upbraided him for restoring to office the bishops who had formerly maintained Iconoclasm, but who had submitted to the decrees of the Council of 787. As, however, this was in accordance with the decrees of the council the accusation was allowed to drop. Another accusation was much more serious, namely, that Tarasius tolerated and encouraged simony, because those bishops who had given money to obtain their positions were only commanded by him to do a year's penance and were permitted to retain their offices. The patriarch defended himself in writing against this accusation which he denied in toto; moreover, he issued a severe synodal letter against Simonists. The monks, however, were not satisfied; they maintained their accusations and also attacked the Council of 787. At a later date Theodore of Studium, who took part in these disputes, changed his opinion of Tarasius, and also of the Second Council of Nicaea, the oecumenical character of which he acknowledged. Many serious difficulties still existed in regard to Western Europe. There were also fresh disputes in Constantinople when the Emperor Constantine VI put aside his lawful wife and wished to marry Theodata, a relative of Abbot Theodore of Studium. Tarasius positively refused to perform the second marriage and expressed his displeasure at the conduct of the priest Joseph who had married the emperor. The zealous monks, whose leaders were the Abbots Plato of Saccudium and Theodore of Studium, accused the patriarch of weakness, because he took no further steps against the emperor. They refused to have Church fellowship any longer with Tarasius, and were, consequently, violently persecuted by the emperor who, however, also treated the patriarch harshly. After Irene had dethroned Constantine in 797, Tarasius deposed the priest Joseph and peace was once more restored between the patriarch and the monks. (See THEODORE OF STUDIUM). In 802 Tarasius crowned as emperor Nicephorus, who had overthrown Irene, an act that greatly dissatisfied the populace. The patriarch had nothing to do with the intrigues of the court. His life was ascetic and simple, he checked the luxury of the clergy, preached with great zeal, and was very benevolent to the poor. After his death he was venerated as a saint. His name is also placed in the Roman Martyrology under the date of 25 February. Catholic Enclopedia</div>
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St. Walburga Feb 25 ( Hist. ) Born in Devonshire, about 710; died at Heidenheim, 25 Feb., 777. She is the patroness of Eichstadt, Oudenarde, Furnes, Antwerp, Gronigen, Weilburg, and Zutphen, and is invoked as special patroness against hydrophobia, and in storms, and also by sailors. She was the daughter of St. Richard, one of the under-kings of the West Saxons, and of Winna, sister of St. Boniface, Apostle of Germany, and had two brothers, St. Willibald and St. Winibald. St. Richard, when starting with his two sons on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, entrusted Walburga, then eleven years old, to the abbess of Wimborne. In the claustral school and as a member of the community, she spent twenty-six years preparing for the great work she was to accomplish in Germany. The monastery was famous for holiness and austere discipline. There was a high standard at Wimborne, and the child was trained in solid learning, and in accomplishments suitable to her rank. Thanks to this she was later able to write St. Winibald's Life and an account in Latin of St. Willibald's travels in Palestine. She is thus looked upon by many as the first female author of England and Germany. Scarcely a year after her arrival, Walburga received tidings of her father's death at Lucca. During this period St. Boniface was laying the foundations of the Church in Germany. He saw that for the most part scattered efforts would be futile, or would exert but a passing influence. He, therefore, determined to bring the whole country under an organized system. As he advanced in his spiritual conquests he established monasteries which, like fortresses, should hold the conquered regions, and from whose watch-towers the light of faith and learning should radiate far and near.<br />
Boniface was the first missionary to call women to his aid. In 748, in response to his appeal, Abbess Tetta sent over to Germany St. Lioba and St. Walburga, with many other nuns. They sailed with fair weather, but before long a terrible storm arose. Hereupon Walburga prayed, kneeling on the deck, and at once the sea became calm. On landing, the sailors proclaimed the miracle they had witnessed, so that Walburga was everywhere received with joy and veneration. There is a tradition in the Church of Antwerp that, on her way to Germany, Walburga made some stay there; and in that city's most ancient church, which now bears the title of St. Walburga, there is pointed out a grotto in which she was wont to pray. This same church, before adopting the Roman Office, was accustomed to celebrate the feast of St. Walburga four times a year. At Mainz she was welcomed by her uncle, St. Boniface, and by her brother, St. Willibald. After living some time under the rule of St. Lioba at Bischofsheim, she was appointed abbess of Heidenheim, and was thus placed near her favourite brother, St. Winibald, who governed an abbey there. After his death she ruled over the monks' monastery as well as her own. Her virtue, sweetness, and prudence, added to the gifts of grace and nature with which she was endowed, as well as the many miracles she wrought, endeared her to all. It was of these nuns that Ozanam wrote: "Silence and humility have veiled the labours of the nuns from the eyes of the world, but history has assigned them their place at the very beginning of German civilization: Providence has placed women at ever cradleside." On 23 Sept., 776, she assisted at the translation of her brother St. Winibald's body by St. Willibald, when it was found that time had left no trace upon the sacred remains. Shortly after this she fell ill, and, having been assisted in her last moments by St. Willibald, she expired.<br />
St. Willibald laid her to rest beside St. Winibald, and many wonders were wrought at both tombs. St. Willibald survived till 786, and after his death devotion to St. Walburga gradually declined, and her tomb was neglected. About 870, Otkar, then Bishop of Eichstadt, determined to restore the church and monastery of Heidenheim, which were falling to ruin. The workmen having desecrated St. Walburga's grave, she one night appeared to the bishop, reproaching and threatening him. This led to the solemn translation of the remains to Eichstadt on 21 Sept. of the same year. They were placed in the Church of Holy Cross, now called St. Walburga's. In 893 Bishop Erchanbold, Otkar's successor, opened the shrine to take out a portion of the relics for Liubula, Abbess of Monheim, and it was then that the body was first discovered to be immersed in a precious oil or dew, which from that day to this (save during a period when Eichstadt was laid under interdict, and when blood was shed in the church by robbers who seriously wounded the bell-ringer) has continued to flow from the sacred remains, especially the breast. This fact has caused St. Walburga to be reckoned among the Elaephori, or oil-yielding saints (see OIL OF SAINTS). Portions of St. Walburga's relics have been taken to Cologne, Antwerp, Furnes, and elsewhere, whilst her oil has been carried to all quarters of the globe.<br />
The various translations of St. Walburga's relics have led to a diversity of feasts in her honour. In the Roman Martyrology she is commemorated on 1 May, her name being linked with St. Asaph's, on which day her chief festival is celebrated in Belgium and Bavaria. In the Benedictine Breviary her feast is assigned to 25 (in leap year 26) Feb. She is represented in the Benedictine habit with a little phial or bottle; as an abbess with a crozier, a crown at her feet, denoting her royal birth; sometimes she is represented in a group with St. Philip and St. James the Less, and St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy, because she is said to have been canonized by Pope Adrian II on 1 May, the festival of these saints. If, however, as some maintain, she was canonized during the episcopate of Erchanbold, not in Otkar's, then it could not have been during the pontificate of Adrian II. The Benedictine community of Eichstadt is flourishing, and the nuns have care of the saint's shrine; that of Heidenheim was ruthlessly expelled in 1538, but the church is now in Catholic hands. Source: Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A kind mouth multiplies friends and appeases enemies,<br />and gracious lips prompt friendly greetings.<br />Let your acquaintances be many,<br />but one in a thousand your confidant.<br />When you gain a friend, first test him,<br />and be not too ready to trust him.<br />For one sort is a friend when it suits him,<br />but he will not be with you in time of distress.<br />Another is a friend who becomes an enemy,<br />and tells of the quarrel to your shame.<br />Another is a friend, a boon companion,<br />who will not be with you when sorrow comes.<br />When things go well, he is your other self,<br />and lords it over your servants;<br />But if you are brought low, he turns against you<br />and avoids meeting you.<br />Keep away from your enemies;<br />be on your guard with your friends.<br />A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter;<br />he who finds one finds a treasure.<br />A faithful friend is beyond price,<br />no sum can balance his worth.<br />A faithful friend is a life-saving remedy,<br />such as he who fears God finds;<br />For he who fears God behaves accordingly,<br />and his friend will be like himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (35a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span><br />Blessed are you, O LORD;<br />teach me your statutes.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span><br />In your statutes I will delight;<br />I will not forget your words.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span><br />Open my eyes, that I may consider<br />the wonders of your law.<br /><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span><br />Make me understand the way of your precepts,<br />and I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span><br />Give me discernment, that I may observe your law<br />and keep it with all my heart.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span><br />Lead me in the path of your commands,<br />for in it I delight.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan.<br />Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom,<br />he again taught them.<br />The Pharisees approached him and asked,<br />"Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"<br />They were testing him.<br />He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"<br />They replied,<br />"Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce<br />and dismiss her."<br />But Jesus told them,<br />"Because of the hardness of your hearts<br />he wrote you this commandment.<br />But from the beginning of creation, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God made them male and female.<br />For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother<br />and be joined to his wife,<br />and the two shall become one flesh.</em>So they are no longer two but one flesh.<br />Therefore what God has joined together,<br />no human being must separate."<br />In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.<br />He said to them,<br />"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another<br />commits adultery against her;<br />and if she divorces her husband and marries another,<br />she commits adultery."</span></div>
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24 February 616<br />
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King of Kent; b. 552; d. 24 February, 616; son of Eormenric, through whom he was descended from Hengest. He succeeded his father, in 560, as King of Kent and made an unsuccessful attempt to win from Ceawlin of Wessex the overlordship of Britain. His political importance was doubtless advanced by his marriage with Bertha, daughter of Charibert, King of the Franks (see BERTHA I). A noble disposition to fair dealing is argued by his giving her the old Roman church of St. Martin in his capital of Cantwaraburh (Canterbury) and affording her every opportunity for the exercise of her religion, although he himself had been reared, and remained, a worshipper of Odin. The same natural virtue, combined with a quaint spiritual caution and, on the other hand, a large instinct of hospitality, appears in his message to St. Augustine when, in 597, the Apostle of England landed on the Kentish coast</div>
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In the interval between Ethelbert's defeat by Ceawlin and the arrival of the Roman missionaries, the death of the Wessex king had left Ethelbert, at least virtually, supreme in southern Britain, and his baptism, which took place on Whitsunday next following the landing of Augustine (2 June, 597) had such an effect in deciding the minds of his wavering countrymen that as many as 10,000 are said to have followed his example within a few months. Thenceforward Ethelbert became the watchful father of the infant Anglo-Saxon Church. He founded the church which in after-ages was to be the primatial cathedral of all England, besides other churches at Rochester and Canterbury. But, although he permitted, and even helped, Augustine to convert a heathen temple into the church of St. Pancras (Canterbury), he never compelled his heathen subjects to accept baptism. Moreover, as the lawgiver who issued their first written laws to the English people (the ninety "Dooms of Ethelbert", A.D. 604) he holds in English history a place thoroughly consistent with his character as the temporal founder of that see which did more than any other for the upbuilding of free and orderly political institutions in Christendom. When St. Mellitus had converted Sæbert, King of the East Saxons, whose capital was London, and it was proposed to make that see the metropolitan, Ethelbert, supported by Augustine, successfully resisted the attempt, and thus fixed for more than nine centuries the individual character of the English church. He left three children, of whom the only son, Eadbald, lived and died a pagan.</div>
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(Vatican Radio) Don’t scandalize “the little ones” with a double life, because scandal destroys. That was the message of Pope Francis in his homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. And so, the Pope said, we should not put off conversion.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Cut off your hand,” “Pluck out your eye,” but “don’t scandalize the little ones,” that is, the just, those who confide in the Lord, who believe simply in the Lord. That was the Pope’s exhortation in the homily, based on the day’s Gospel. For the Lord, he said, scandal is destruction:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“But what is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life: ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this association and that one; but my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money…’ A double life. And so many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others. How many times have we heard – all of us, around the neighbourhood and elsewhere – ‘but to be a Catholic like that, it’s better to be an atheist.’ It is that, scandal. You destroy. You beat down. And this happens every day, it’s enough to see the news on TV, or to read the papers. In the papers there are so many scandals, and there is also the great publicity of the scandals. And with the scandals there is destruction.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pope gave the example of a company that was on the brink of failure. The leaders wanted to avoid a just strike, but the company had not done well, and they wanted to talk with the authorities of the company. The people didn’t have money for their daily needs because they had not received their wages. And the head of the company, a Catholic, was taking his winter vacation on a beach in the Middle East, and the people knew it, even if it hadn’t made the papers. “These are scandals,” Pope Francis said:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Jesus talks, in the Gospel, about those who commit scandal, without saying the world ‘scandal,’ but it’s understood: But you will arrive in heaven and you will knock at the gate: ‘Here I am, Lord!’ – ‘But don’t you remember? I went to Church, I was close to you, I belong to this association, I did this… Don’t you remember all the offerings I made?’ ‘Yes, I remember. The offerings, I remember them: All dirty. All stolen from the poor. I don’t know you.’ That will be Jesus’ response to these scandalous people who live a double life.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The double life comes from following the passions of the heart, the capital sins that are the wounds of original sin,” hiding the passions, but following them, the Pope explained. The first Reading, in fact, tells us that they do not satisfy, and not to trust in riches, to not say, “There’s enough for myself.” And so Pope Francis calls us to not put off conversion:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It would be good for all of us, each one of us, today, to consider if there is something of a double life within us, of appearing just, of seeming to be good believers, good Catholics, but underneath doing something else; if there is something of a double life, if there is an excessive confidence: ‘But, sure, the Lord will eventually forgive everything, but I’ll keep going as I have been…’ If there is something saying, “Sure, this is not going well, I will convert, but not today: tomorrow.’ Let’s think about that. And let us profit from the Word of the Lord and consider the fact that on this point, the Lord is very strict. Scandal destroys.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">MARTYR AND BISHOP OF SMYRNA</span></div>
Saint Polycarp (69-155), whose feast day we celebrate today, was a holy and learned bishop of Smyrna—a second generation Christian who heard the word of the Lord directly from the apostle John. He is the first Christian martry whose acts of martyrdom were written at the time of his death, and preserved to demonstrate his faith and lack of fear in persecution. In a time of struggle an unrest in the fledgling faith, Polycarp, along with his friend Saint Ignatius of Antioch, looked to the life and Word of Christ as the example of how to celebrate the liturgy, how to worship, and how to live. Saint Ignatius said of Saint Polycarp, “Your mind is grounded in God as on an unmovable rock.”<br />
Polycarp was Bishop of Smyrna at a time when Roman persecution of Christians was in full effect. Despite the constant rear of arrest, torture, and death, Polycarp remained resolute in his faith, candidly preaching his belief in Christ, and telling those of other faiths who demanded recognition and respect, “Yes I recognize you- I recognize you as the son of Satan.”<br />
Polycarp was well-known in the early community as learned, patient, and wise. He demonstrated forgiveness, humility, and diplomacy in settling conflict and controversy in the Church. He wrote prolifically, although few of his work survives. Only one letter, a letter to the Philippians, has been preserved. In this letter, Polycarp summarizes and transmits the teachings of Christ:<br />
“Therefore, prepare yourselves. Serve God in reverence and truth, leaving behind empty, fruitless talk and the deception of the crowd, believing in the one who raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and gave him glory and a throne at his right hand, to whom all things in heaven and earth are subject, whom every breathing thing worships, who is coming as judge of the living and dead, whose blood God will require from those who disobey him. But the one who raised him from the dead also will raise us if we do his will and follow in his commandments and love the things he loved—refraining from all unrighteousness, greediness, love of money, evil speech, and false witness, not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse or blow for blow or curse for curse, but remembering what the Lord said when he taught: Do not judge so that you may not be judged; forgive and then you will be forgiven; show mercy so that you will be shown mercy; with what measure you measure out it will be measured again to you; and that blessed are the poor and those being persecuted for the sake of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of God.” (Polycarp to the Philippians, 2) Saint Polycarp modeled his life after Christ. He did not seek out martyrdom as did some at the time, instead, like Jesus, waiting until the Lord decided it was his time. When the Romans, bloodthirsty for the death of Christians, called for his death at the hands of wild animals in the arena, Polycarp was persuaded by friends to hide in a small farmhouse outside of the populated area. While there, Polycarp had a dream in which his pillow caught fire, leading him to tell his followers that he would be martyred by fire. There he was eventually found, after the Romans tortured the servant boys providing him food. Hearing the soldiers approaching, Polycarp came out of hiding to greet them, saying “God’s will be done.” He offered them a meal, and asked permission to pray for one hour before being arrested. Given that he was 86 at the time, calm and gentle, and had showed them hospitality, the soldiers allowed him two hours of prayer, during which he prayed for the continuation of the Church, and “every person he had ever known.” Saint Polycarp was then led to the arena for martyrdom. Prior to release of the wild animals, expected to tear him to bits, the magistrate asked him to renounce Christ, unwilling to send an 86 year old man to his death. Polycarp answered, “Eighty six years have I been His servant, and He hath done me no wrong. How then can I blaspheme my King who saved me?” Again, the magistrate asked for Polycarp to renounce his faith and pledge an oath of allegiance to Caesar. Polycarp responded, "If you imagine that I will swear by Caesar, you do not know who I am. Let me tell you plainly, I am a Christian." Running out of options, the magistrate begged Polycarp to change his mind, or else be thrown to the wild animals. Unafraid, Polycarp responded, "Change of mind from better to worse is not a change allowed to us."<br />
Polycarp, due to his lack of apparent fear, was sentenced to being burned alive. As they were tying him to the stake and lighting the fire, Polycarp prayed to Heaven:<br />
"Lord God Almighty, Father of your beloved and blessed Son Jesus Christ, through whom we have received knowledge of you, God of angels and powers, of the whole creation and of the whole race of the righteous who live in your sight, I bless you, for having made me worthy of this day and hour, I bless you, because I may have a part, along with the martyrs, in the chalice of your Christ, to resurrection in eternal life, resurrection both of soul and body in the incorruptibility of the Holy Spirit. May I be received today, as a rich and acceptable sacrifice, among those who are in you presence, as you have prepared and foretold and fulfilled, God who is faithful and true. For this and for all benefits I praise you, I bless you, I glorify you, through the eternal and heavenly High Priest, Jesus Christ, your beloved Son, through whom be to you with him and the Holy Spirit glory, now and for all the ages to come. Amen."<br />
The flames were lit, but miraculously did not touch the saint. Rather then spread around him like an arch, causing him to glow with a heavenly light. Seeing what was happening, the Roman soldiers stabbed him in the throat, killing him, his blood quenching the flames of the fire. His body was subsequently burned by the Romans to prevent him from being worshipped, although his bones were stolen by Christians and saved as relics. Saint Polycarp is an inspiration to us, especially during our Lenten season of preparation. He remained true in his faith, candid in his words, and did not go looking for a glorious martyr’s death. But when it came looking for him, he readily accepted the will of the Lord, proclaiming the Good News until the moment he expired. His courage and confidence in the face of persecution inspires us to step outside of our own perceived strength and power, and to look to Him who provides all for us—our Father in heaven. For he will provide us all that we need: hope, endurance, love, strength, and righteousness. All we need to do is repent, believe, and ask.<br />
Therefore we should persevere unceasingly in our hope and down payment of our righteousness, which is Christ Jesus, who bore our sins in his own body on the tree, who committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth, but because of us, in order that we might live in him, endured all things. Therefore let us be imitators of his endurance, and if we should suffer because of his name, we should glorify him. For this is the example he set for us in himself, and this we have believed. (Polycarp to the Philippians, 8) Text shared from 365 Rosaries Blog</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!</span></div>
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We are often tempted to think that Creation is our property, a possession that we can exploit to our pleasure and to which we must render account to no one. In the passage of the Letter to the Romans (8:19-27), of which we just heard a part, the Apostle Paul reminds us, instead, that Creation is a wonderful gift that God has put in our hands, so that we can enter in relationship with Him and recognize the sign of His design of love, to whose realization we are all called to collaborate, day after day.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, when the human being lets himself be gripped by egoism, he ends up by ruining even the most beautiful things that were entrusted to him. And so it has happened also with Creation. We think of water. Water is a most beautiful thing and so important; water gives us life, it helps us in everything but to exploit minerals water is contaminated, Creation is soiled and destroyed. This is only one example. There are so many. With the tragic experience of sin, communion with God broken, we have broken the original communion with all that surrounds us and we have ended up by corrupting Creation, thus rendering it a slave, subject to our perishability. And, unfortunately, the consequence of all this is dramatically before our eyes every day. When man breaks his communion with God, he loses his original beauty and ends up disfiguring everything around him; and where everything at first referred back to the Father-Creator and to His infinite love, now it bears the sad and desolate sign of human pride and voracity. Human pride, exploiting Creation, destroys.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, the Lord does not leave us alone and, even in this desolate picture, He offers us a new prospect of liberation, of universal salvation. It is what Paul makes evident with joy, inviting us to listen to the groaning of the whole of Creation. In fact, if we pay attention, everything around us groans: Creation itself groans, we human beings groan and the Spirit groans within us, in our heart. Now, these groans are not a sterile, disconsolate lament but – as the Apostle specifies – they are the groans of one giving birth; they are the groans of one who suffers, but who knows that a new life is about to come to light. And in our case it is truly so. We are still dealing with the consequences of our sin and everything around us still bears the sign of our toils, of our failures, of our closures. At the same time, however, we know that the Lord has saved us and it has already been given to us to contemplate and to enjoy in ourselves and in what surrounds us signs of the Resurrection, of Easter, which brings about a new Creation.</span></div>
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This is the content of our hope. A Christian does not live outside the world; he is able to recognize in his life and in what surrounds him signs of evil, of egoism and of sin. He is supportive of those who suffer, of those who weep, of those who are marginalized, of those who feel desperate …. But, at the same time, a Christian has learned to read all this with the eyes of Easter, with the eyes of the Risen Christ. And so he knows that we are living a time of expectation, a time of longing that of goes beyond the present, the time of fulfilment. We know in hope that the Lord wants to heal, definitively with His mercy, wounded and humiliated hearts and all that man has disfigured in his impiety, and that thus He will regenerate a new world and a new humanity, finally reconciled in His love.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">How many times we Christians are tempted to disappointment, to pessimism. Sometimes we let ourselves fall into useless lament or we remain without words and we do not even know what to ask for, what to hope for … However, once again the Holy Spirit comes to help us, breath of our hope, who keeps alive the groan and expectation of our heart. The Spirit sees for us beyond the negative appearances of the present and already now reveals to us the new heavens and the new earth that the Lord is preparing for humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A warm welcome goes to the Italian-speaking faithful. I am happy to receive the Deacons of the Diocese of Milan and of the Society of Mary, as well as the delegation of the “Benedictine Torch of Peace,” with the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Monsignor Renato Boccardo, the Abbot of Montecassino, Dom Donato Ogliari and the Abbot of Subiaco, Dom Mauro Meacci: I invite each one to become a promoter of the culture of peace in every realm of life.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I greet the Mayor and the delegation of the town of Farindola, stricken a month ago by the avalanche that destroyed a hotel, causing numerous victims. I greet the Royal Arch-Confraternity of Piedmonte Matese with the Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Monsignor Valentino Di Cerbo; the participants in the manifestation against bullying with the Bishop of Palestrina, Monsignor Domenico Sigalini and the members of the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sophia</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Naval Operation, geared to the prevention of tragedies of human beings in the Mediterranean. I greet the members of the “Giuseppe Toniolo” Bank of Cooperative Credit of Genzano of Rome, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">La Stanza Accanto </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Association and the artists of the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rony Rollers Circus, </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">thanking them for their performance. They create beauty! And beauty leads us to God. It is a way to come to God. Continue to create beauty! Continue, as it does us all good. Thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A special thought goes to young people, the sick and newlyweds. Today we celebrate the feast of the See of Saint Peter the Apostle, day of special communion of believers with the Successor of Saint Peter and with the Holy See. Dear young people, I encourage you to intensify your prayer for my Petrine ministry; dear sick, I thank you for the testimony of life given in suffering for the edification of the ecclesial community; and you, dear newlyweds, build your family on the same love that binds the Lord Jesus to His Church.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Of particular concern is the painful news reaching us of martyred South Sudan, where, joined to a fratricidal conflict, is a grave food crisis that scourges the region of the Horn of Africa and that condemns millions of people to death due to hunger, among them many children. At this moment, more than ever the commitment of all is necessary not to stop a declarations but to render food aid concrete and to enable it to reach the suffering populations. May the Lord sustain these brothers of ours and all those who work to help them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I exhort the presbyters among you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and one who has a share in the glory to be revealed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tend the flock of God in your midst,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">overseeing not by constraint but willingly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do not lord it over those assigned to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but be examples to the flock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And when the chief Shepherd is revealed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will receive the unfading crown of glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (1) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In verdant pastures he gives me repose;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beside restful waters he leads me;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he refreshes my soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even though I walk in the dark valley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I fear no evil; for you are at my side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With your rod and your staff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that give me courage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You spread the table before me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the sight of my foes;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You anoint my head with oil;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my cup overflows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only goodness and kindness follow me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the days of my life;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for years to come.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GospelMT 16:13-19</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he asked his disciples,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Simon Peter said in reply, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so I say to you, you are Peter,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and upon this rock I will build my Church,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." </span></div>
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From the earliest times the Church at Rome celebrated on 18 January the memory of the day when the Apostle held his first service with the faithful of the Eternal City. According to Duchesne and de Rossi, the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" (Weissenburg manuscript) reads as follows: "XV KL. FEBO. Dedicatio cathedræ sci petri apostoli qua primo Rome petrus apostolus sedit" (fifteenth day before the calends of February, the dedication of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle in which Peter the Apostle first sat at Rome). The Epternach manuscript (Codex Epternacensis) of the same work, says briefly: "cath. petri in roma" (the Chair of Peter in Rome).<br />
In its present (ninth-century) form the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" gives a second feast of the Chair of St. Peter for 22 February, but all the manuscripts assign it to Antioch, not to Rome. Thus the oldest manuscript, that of Berne, says: "VIII kal. mar. cathedræ sci petri apostoli qua sedit apud antiochiam". The Weissenburg manuscript says: "Natl [natale] sci petri apostoli cathedræ qua sedit apud antiocia." However, the words qua sedit apud antiochiam are seen at once to be a later addition. Both feasts are Roman; indeed, that of 22 February was originally the more important. This is clear from the Calendar of Philocalus drawn up in the year 354, and going back to the year 311; it makes no mention of the January feast but speaks thus of 22 February: "VIII Kl. Martias: natale Petri de cathedra" (eighth day before the Calends of March, the birthday [i.e. feast] of the Chair of Peter). It was not until after the insertion of Antioch in the copies of the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" that the feast of February gave way in importance to that of January. The Roman Church, therefore, at an early date celebrated a first and a second assumption of the episcopal office in Rome by St. Peter. This double celebration was also held in two places, in the Vatican Basilica and in a cemetery (coemeterium) on the Via Salaria. At both places a chair (cathedra) was venerated which the Apostle had used as presiding officer of the assembly of the faithful. The first of these chairs stood in the Vatican Basilica, in the baptismal chapel built by Pope Damasus; the neophytes in albis (white baptismal robes) were led from the baptistery to the pope seated on this ancient cathedra, and received from him the consignatio, i.e. the Sacrament of Confirmation. Reference is made to this custom in an inscription of Damasus which contains the line: "una Petri sedes, unum verumque lavacrum" (one Chair of Peter, one true font of baptism). St. Ennodius of Pavia (d. 521) speaks of it thus ("Libellus pro Synodo", near the end): "Ecce nunc ad gestatoriam sellam apostolicæ confessionis uda mittunt limina candidatos; et uberibus gaudio exactore fletibus collata Dei beneficio dona geminantur" (Behold now the neophytes go from the dripping threshold to the portable chair of the Apostolic confession; amid abundant tears called forth by joy the gifts of Divine grace are doubled). While therefore in the apse of the Vatican Basilica there stood a cathedra on which the pope sat amid the Roman clergy during the pontifical Mass, there was also in the same building a second cathedra from which the pope administered to the newly baptized the Sacrament of Confirmation. The Chair of St. Peter in the apse was made of marble and was built into the wall, that of the baptistery was movable and could be carried. Ennodius calls the latter a gestatoria sedes; throughout the Middle Ages it was always brought on 22 February from the above-mentioned consignatorium or place of confirmation to the high altar. That day the pope did not use the marble cathedra at the back of the apse but sat on this movable cathedra, which was, consequently, made of wood. The importance of this feast was heightened by the fact that 22 February was considered the anniversary of the day when Peter bore witness, by the Sea of Tiberias, to the Divinity of Christ and was again appointed by Christ to be the Rock of His Church. According to very ancient Western liturgies, 22 February was the day "quo electus est 1. Petrus papa" (on which Peter was first chosen pope). The Mass of this feast calls it at the beginning: "solemnitatis prædicandæ dies præcipue nobilis in quo . . . . beatus Bar-Jona voce Redemptoris fide devotâ prælatus est et per hanc Petri petram basis ecclesiæ fixus est", i.e. this day is called especially praiseworthy because on it the blessed Bar-Jona, by reason of his devout faith, was raised to pre-eminence by the words of the Redeemer, and through this rock of Peter was established the foundation of the Church. And the Oratio (collect) says: "Deus, qui hodiernâ die beatum Petrum post te dedisti caput ecclesiæ, cum te ille vere confessus sit" (O God, who didst this day give us as head of the Church, after Thyself, the Blessed Peter, etc.).<br />
The second of the aforementioned chairs is referred to about 600 by an Abbot Johannes. He had been commissioned by Pope Gregory the Great to collect in special little phials oil from the lamps which burned at the graves of the Roman martyrs (see CATACOMBS; MARTYR) for the Lombard queen, Theodolinda. According to the manuscript list of these oils preserved in the cathedral treasury of Monza, Italy, one of these vessels had on it the statement: "oleo de sede ubi prius sedit sanctus Petrus" (oils from the chair where St. Peter first sat). Other ancient authorities describe the site as "ubi Petrus baptizabat" (where Peter baptized), or "ad fontes sancti Petri; ad Nymphas sancti Petri" (at the fountain of Saint Peter). Formerly this site was pointed out in the coemeterium majus (principal cemetery) on the Via Nomentana; it is now certain that it was on the Via Salaria, and was connected with the coemeterium, or cemetery, of Priscilla and the villa of the Acilii (Acilii Glabriones), situated above this catacomb. The foundation of this villa, showing masonry of a very early date (opus reticulatum), still exists. Both villa and cemetery, in one of whose burial chambers are several epitaphs of members of the family, or gens, of the Acilii, belong to the Apostolic Period. It is most probable that Priscilla, who gave her name as foundress to the catacomb, was the wife of Acilius Glabrio, executed under Domitian. There is hardly any doubt that the site, "ubi prius sedit sanctus Petrus, ubi Petrus baptizabat" (where Saint Peter first sat, where Peter baptized), should be sought, not in an underground cubiculum (chamber) in the catacombs, but in an oratory above ground. At least nothing has been found in the oldest part of the cemetery of Priscilla now fully excavated, referring to a cathedra, or chair.<br />
The feast of the Cathedra Petri was therefore celebrated on the Via Salaria on 18 January; in the Vatican Basilica it was observed on 22 February. It is easy to believe that after the triumph of Christianity the festival could be celebrated with greater pomp in the magnificent basilica erected by Constantine the Great over the confessio, or grave of Peter, than in a chapel far distant from the city on the Via Salaria. Yet the latter could rightly boast in its favour that it was there Saint Peter first exercised at Rome the episcopal office ("ubi prius sedit sanctus Petrus", as Abbot Johannes wrote, or "qua primo Rome petrus apostolus sedit", as we read in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" at 18 January). This double festival of the Chair of St. Peter is generally attributed to a long absence of the Apostle from Rome. As, how ever, the spot, "ubi s. Petrus baptizabat, ubi prius sedit" was distant from the city, it is natural to think that the second feast of the cathedra is connected with the opening of a chapel for Christian worship in the city itself. Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Vatican Radio) “May the Lord give us the grace of ‘holy shame’ before the temptation of ambition.” That was Pope Francis’ message at daily Mass in the Casa Santa Marta on Tuesday, saying that the one who wants to be the first must be last and the servant of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis began his homily at daily Mass noting that “We will all be tempted.” He drew inspiration from the First Reading, which recalls that whoever wishes to serve the Lord must prepare for temptations, and the Gospel reading, in which Jesus tells his disciples of his impending death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The disciples do not understand why Jesus has told them of his coming death but are too afraid to ask what he means. This, the Pope said, is “the temptation to not complete the mission”. He said even Jesus suffered this temptation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The day’s Gospel also mentioned another temptation, that of ambition. The disciples argue along the way about who among them was the greatest, but remain silent when Jesus asks them what they are discussing. The Holy Father said they do not respond because they are ashamed of their words:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“These were good people, who wanted to follow and serve the Lord. But they did not realize that the path of service to the Lord was not an easy one. It wasn’t like becoming part of a group, some charitable group doing good: No, it was something else. They were afraid of this. It happened, happens, and will happen. Let us think about infighting in a parish: ‘I want to be the president of this association, in order to climb the ladder. Who is the greatest here? Who is the greatest in this parish? No, I am the most important here; not that person there because he did something…’ And that is the chain of sin.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis also gave other examples of this temptation which brings one to “speak poorly of another” and to “climb the ladder”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Sometimes we priests say ashamedly within our presbyteries: ‘I want that parish… But the Lord is here… But I want that one…’ It is the same. It isn’t the way of the Lord but the path of vanity, of worldliness. The same occurs even among us bishops: worldliness comes as a temptation. Many times [it is said]: ‘I am in this diocese but look at how important that one is’ and I try to influence someone, or put pressure, to get somewhere…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, Pope Francis exhorted his audience to always ask the Lord for “the grace to be ashamed when we find ourselves in these situations”.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holy shame against the temptation to worldliness: ‘We are unworthy servants’</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jesus, he said, overturns this logic. Sitting among his disciples he reminds them that “if someone wishes to be first, they shall be last and the servant of all”. Jesus then takes a child and places it in their midst, telling them “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pope asked his audience to pray for the Church, “for all of us” so that the Lord may defend us “from ambitions and from the worldliness of wishing to be greater than others”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“May the Lord give us the grace of shame, of holy shame, when we find ourselves in that situation of temptation and to be ashamed: ‘But am I able to think such a thing? When I see my Lord on the cross and I would want to use the Lord to climb the ladder? And may God give us the grace of the simplicity of a child. I imagine a final question: ‘Lord, I have served you all my life. I have been the last all my life. And now what? What does the Lord say? Tell yourself: ‘I am an unworthy servant.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forum organized by the new Vatican Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development in collaboration with the <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scalabrini International Migration Network.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I extend to you my cordial greeting, with deep appreciation for your invaluable work. I thank Archbishop Tomasi for his kind words, as well as Doctor Pöttering for his address. I am also grateful for the three testimonies which reflect in a tangible way the theme of this Forum: “Integration and Development: From Reaction to Action”. In effect, it is not possible to view the present challenges of contemporary migratory movement and of the promotion of peace, without including the twofold term “development and integration”: for this very reason I wanted to establish the<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development</em>, with a Section concerned exclusively for migrants, refugees and the victims of human trafficking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Migration, in its various forms, is not a new phenomenon in humanity’s history. It has left its mark on every age, encouraging encounter between peoples and the birth of new civilizations. In its essence, to migrate is the expression of that inherent desire for the happiness proper to every human being, a happiness that is to be sought and pursued. For us Christians, all human life is an itinerant journey towards our heavenly homeland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The beginning of this third millennium is very much characterized by migratory movement which, in terms of origin, transit and destination, involves nearly every part of the world. Unfortunately, in the majority of cases this movement is forced, caused by conflict, natural disasters, persecution, climate change, violence, extreme poverty and inhumane living conditions: “The sheer number of people migrating from one continent to another, or shifting places within their own countries and geographical areas, is striking. Contemporary movements of migration represent the largest movement of individuals, if not of peoples, in history” (Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 5 August 2013).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Before this complex panorama, I feel the need to express particular concern for the forced nature of many contemporary migratory movements, which increases the challenges presented to the political community, to civil society and to the Church, and which amplifies the urgency for a coordinated and effective response to these challenges. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Our shared response may be articulated by four verbs:<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to welcome, to protect, to promote</em> and to <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">integrate</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> To welcome.</em> “Rejection is an attitude we all share; it makes us see our neighbour not as a brother or sister to be accepted, but as unworthy of our attention, a rival, or someone to be bent to our will” (Address to the Diplomatic Corps, 12 January 2015). Faced with this kind of rejection, rooted ultimately in self-centredness and amplified by populist rhetoric, what is needed is a change of attitude, to overcome indifference and to counter fears with a generous approach of welcoming those who knock at our doors. For those who flee conflicts and terrible persecutions, often trapped within the grip of criminal organisations who have no scruples, we need to open accessible and secure humanitarian channels. A responsible and dignified welcome of our brothers and sisters begins by offering them decent and appropriate shelter. The enormous gathering together of persons seeking asylum and of refugees has not produced positive results. Instead these gatherings have created new situations of vulnerability and hardship. More widespread programmes of welcome, already initiated in different places, seem to favour a personal encounter and allow for greater quality of service and increased guarantees of success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> To protect</em>. My predecessor, Pope Benedict, highlighted the fact that the migratory experience often makes people more vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and violence (cf. Benedict XVI, Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 18 October 2005). We are speaking about millions of migrant workers, male and female – and among these particularly men and women in irregular situations – of those exiled and seeking asylum, and of those who are victims of trafficking. Defending their inalienable rights, ensuring their fundamental freedoms and respecting their dignity are duties from which no one can be exempted. Protecting these brothers and sisters is a moral imperative which translates into adopting juridical instruments, both international and national, that must be clear and relevant; implementing just and far reaching political choices; prioritising constructive processes, which perhaps are slower, over immediate results of consensus; implementing timely and humane programmes in the fight against “the trafficking of human flesh” which profits off others’ misfortune; coordinating the efforts of all actors, among which, you may be assured will always be the Church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> To promote</em>. Protecting is not enough. What is required is the promotion of an integral human development of migrants, exiles and refugees. This “takes place by attending to the inestimable goods of justice, peace, and the care of creation” (Apostolic Letter Humanam Progressionem, 17 August 2016). Development, according to the social doctrine of the Church (cf. Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 373-374), is an undeniable right of every human being. As such, it must be guaranteed by ensuring the necessary conditions for its exercise, both in the individual and social context, providing fair access to fundamental goods for all people and offering the possibility of choice and growth. Also here a coordinated effort is needed, one which envisages all the parties involved: from the political community to civil society, from international organisations to religious institutions. The human promotion of migrants and their families begins with their communities of origin. That is where such promotion should be guaranteed, joined to the right of being able to emigrate, as well as the right to not be constrained to emigrate (cf. Benedict XVI, Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 12 October 2012), namely the right to find in one’s own homeland the conditions necessary for living a dignified life. To this end, efforts must be encouraged that lead to the implementation of programmes of international cooperation, free from partisan interests, and programmes of transnational development which involve migrants as active protagonists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To integrate</em>. Integration, which is neither assimilation nor incorporation, is a two-way process, rooted essentially in the joint recognition of the other’s cultural richness: it is not the superimposing of one culture over another, nor mutual isolation, with the insidious and dangerous risk of creating ghettoes. Concerning those who arrive and who are duty bound not to close themselves off from the culture and traditions of the receiving country, respecting above all its laws, the family dimension of the process of integration must not be overlooked: for this reason I feel the need to reiterate the necessity, often presented by the Magisterium (cf. John Paul II, Message for World Migration Day, 15 August 1986), of policies directed at favouring and benefiting the reunion of families. With regard to indigenous populations, they must be supported, by helping them to be sufficiently aware of and open to processes of integration which, though not always simple and immediate, are always essential and, for the future, indispensable. This requires specific programmes, which foster significant encounters with others. Furthermore, for the Christian community, the peaceful integration of persons of various cultures is, in some way, a reflection of its catholicity, since unity, which does not nullify ethnic and cultural diversity, constitutes a part of the life of the Church, who in the Spirit of Pentecost is open to all and desires to embrace all (cf. John Paul II, Message for World Migration Day, 5 August 1987).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I believe that conjugating these four verbs, in the first person singular and in the first person plural, is today a responsibility, a duty we have towards our brothers and sisters who, for various reasons, have been forced to leave their homeland: a <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">duty</em> of <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">justic</em>e, of <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">civility</em> and of <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">solidarity</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> First of all, a <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">duty of justice</em>. We can no longer sustain unacceptable economic inequality, which prevents us from applying the principle of the universal destination of the earth’s goods. We are all called to undertake processes of apportionment which are respectful, responsible and inspired by the precepts of distributive justice. “We need, then, to find ways by which all may benefit from the fruits of the earth, not only to avoid the widening gap between those who have more and those who must be content with the crumbs, but above all because it is a question of justice, equality and respect for every human being” (Message for the World Day of Peace, 8 December 2013, 9). One group of individuals cannot control half of the world’s resources. We cannot allow for persons and entire peoples to have a right only to gather the remaining crumbs. Nor can we be indifferent or think ourselves dispensed from the moral imperatives which flow from a joint responsibility to care for the planet, a shared responsibility often stressed by the political international community, as also by the Magisterium (cf. Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 9; 163; 189, 406). This joint responsibility must be interpreted in accord with the principle of subsidiarity, “which grants freedom to develop the capabilities present at every level of society, while also demanding a greater sense of responsibility for the common good from those who wield greater power” (Laudato Si’, 196). Ensuring justice means also reconciling history with our present globalized situation, without perpetuating mind-sets which exploit people and places, a consequence of the most cynical use of the market in order to increase the wellbeing of the few. As Pope Benedict affirmed, the process of decolonization was delayed “both because of new forms of colonialism and continued dependence on old and new foreign powers, and because of grave irresponsibility within the very countries that have achieved independence” (Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate, 33). For all this there must be redress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Second, there is a <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">duty of civility</em>. Our commitment to migrants, exiles and refugees is an application of those principles and values of welcome and fraternity that constitute a common patrimony of humanity and wisdom which we draw from. Such principles and values have been historically codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in numerous conventions and international agreements. “Every migrant is a human person who, as such, possesses fundamental, inalienable rights that must be respected by everyone and in every circumstance” (ibid., 62). Today more than ever, it is necessary to affirm the centrality of the human person, without allowing immediate and ancillary circumstances, or even the necessary fulfilment of bureaucratic and administrative requirements, to obscure this essential dignity. As Saint John Paul II stated, an “irregular legal status cannot allow the migrant to lose his dignity, since he is endowed with inalienable rights, which can neither be violated nor ignored” (John Paul II, Message for World Migration Day, 25 July 1995, 2). From the duty of civility is also regained the value of fraternity, which is founded on the innate relational constitution of the human person: “A lively awareness of our relatedness helps us to look upon and to treat each person as a true sister or brother; without fraternity it is impossible to build a just society and a solid and lasting peace” (Message for the World Day of Peace, 8 December 2013, 1). Fraternity is the most civil way of relating with the reality of another person, which does not threaten us, but engages, reaffirms and enriches our individual identity (cf. Benedict XVI, Address to Participants in an Interacademic Conference on “The Changing Identity of the Individual”, 28 January 2008). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Finally, there is a <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">duty of solidarity</em>. In the face of tragedies which take the lives of so many migrants and refugees – conflicts, persecutions, forms of abuse, violence, death – expressions of empathy and compassion cannot help but spontaneously well-up. “Where is your brother” (Gen 4:9): this question which God asks of man since his origins, involves us, especially today with regard to our brothers and sisters who are migrating: “This is not a question directed to others; it is a question directed to me, to you, to each of us” (Homily at the "Arena" Sports Camp, Salina Quarter, Lampedusa, 8 July 2013). Solidarity is born precisely from the capacity to understand the needs of our brothers and sisters who are in difficulty and to take responsibility for these needs. Upon this, in short, is based the sacred value of hospitality, present in religious traditions. For us Christians, hospitality offered to the weary traveller is offered to Jesus Christ himself, through the newcomer: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Mt 25:35). The duty of solidarity is to counter the throwaway culture and give greater attention to those who are weakest, poorest and most vulnerable. Thus “a change of attitude towards migrants and refugees is needed on the part of everyone, moving away from attitudes of defensiveness and fear, indifference and marginalization – all typical of a throwaway culture – towards attitudes based on a culture of encounter, the only culture capable of building a better, more just and fraternal world” (Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 5 August 2013).<br /><br /> As I conclude these reflections, allow me to draw attention again to a particularly vulnerable group of migrants, exiles and refugees whom we are called to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate. I am speaking of the children and young people who are forced to live far from their homeland and who are separated from their loved ones. I dedicated my most recent Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees to them, highlighting how “we need to work towards protection, integration and long-term solutions” (Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 8 September 2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I trust that these two days will bear an abundant fruit of good works. I assure you of my prayers; and, please, do not forget to pray for me. Thank you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[1] Messaggio per la 100a Giornata Mondiale del Migrante e del Rifugiato, 5 agosto 2013.<br />[1] Discorso al Corpo diplomatico accreditato presso la Santa Sede, 12 gennaio 2015.<br />[1] Cfr Benedetto XVI, Messaggio per la 92a Giornata Mondiale del Migrante e del Rifugiato, 18 ottobre 2005.<br />[1] Lett. ap. in forma di Motu proprio Humanam progressionem, 17 agosto 2016.<br />[1] Cfr Pontificio Consiglio della Giustizia e della Pace, Compendio della Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, 373-374.<br />[1] Cfr Benedetto XVI, Messaggio per la 99a Giornata Mondiale del Migrante e del Rifugiato, 12 ottobre 2012.<br />[1] Cfr Giovanni Paolo II, Messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale delle Migrazioni, 15 agosto 1986.<br />[1] Cfr Giovanni Paolo II, Messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale delle Migrazioni, 5 agosto 1987.<br />[1] Messaggio per la 47ª Giornata Mondiale della Pace, 8 dicembre 2013, 9.<br />[1] Cfr Pontificio Consiglio della Giustizia e della Pace, Compendio della Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, 9;163;189;406.<br />[1] Lett. enc. Laudato si’, 196.<br />[1] Benedetto XVI, Lett. enc. Caritas in veritate, 33.<br />[1] Ibid., 62.<br />[1] Giovanni Paolo II, Messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale delle Migrazioni, 25 luglio 1995, 2.<br />[1] Messaggio per 47ª Giornata Mondiale della Pace, 8 dicembre 2013, 1.<br />[1] Cfr Benedetto XVI, Discorso ai partecipanti al convegno inter-accademico “L’identità mutevole dell'individuo”, 28 gennaio 2008.<br />[1] Omelia al Campo sportivo “Arena” in Località Salina, 8 luglio 2013.<br />[1] Messaggio per la 100a Giornata Mondiale del Migrante e del Rifugiato.<br />[1] Messaggio per la 103a Giornata Mondiale del Migrante e del Rifugiato, 8 settembre 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Today, there is what I would call a unique message in the Readings. In the first Reading there is the Word of the Lord who says to us: “Be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy” </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leviticus </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">19:2). God the Father says this to us. And the Gospel ends with that Word of Jesus: “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect”(</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:48) – the same thing. This is the program of life. Be holy, for He is holy; be perfect, for He is perfect. And you can ask me: But, Father, what is the way to holiness, what is the path to become saints?” Jesus explains it well in the Gospel: He explains it with concrete things.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">First of all: “It was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:38-39), namely, no revenge. If I have rancor in my heart for something that someone did to me and I want to revenge myself, this moves me away from the path to sanctity. No revenge. “You did it to me, you’ll pay for it!” Is this Christian? No. “You will pay for it” does not enter the language of a Christian. No revenge. No rancor. “But he makes my life impossible! …” That neighbor speaks badly about me every day! I also speak badly about her …” No. What does the Lord say? “Pray for her” – “But must I pray for her?” – “Yes, pray for her.” It’s the path of forgiveness, of forgetting offenses. You are slapped on the right cheek? Give the other too. Evil is overcome by good, sin is overcome with this generosity, with this strength. Rancor is awful. We all know it’s not a small thing. The great wars – we see it on the TV news, in the newspapers, this massacre of people, of children … How much hatred there is! But it is the same hatred, the same hatred you have in your heart for this man, for that woman, or for that relative or that mother-in-law, or for that other one, it’s the same. It’s greater, but it’s the same. Rancor, the desire to vindicate myself: “You’ll pay for it!” this isn’t Christian.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Be holy as God is holy”; “be perfect as your Father is perfect,” who makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:45). He is good. God gives His goods to all. “But if he speaks badly of me, if he has done a bad thing to me, if he has …” Forgive, in your heart. This is the path of sanctity; and this dispels wars. If all the men and women of the world learnt this, there wouldn’t be wars, there wouldn’t be. War begins here, in bitterness, in rancor, in the desire for vengeance, to make one pay. But this destroys families, destroys friendships, destroys neighborhoods, destroys so much, so much …. “And what must I do, Father, when I feel this?” Jesus says it, I don’t say it: “Love your enemies” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:44). “Must I love that person?” – Yes – “I can’t” – Pray so that you can –. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ibid.). </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Must I pray for one who does me harm?” – Yes, so that he changes his life , so that the Lord forgives him. This is the magnanimity of God, the magnanimous God, the God of a great heart, who forgives everything, who is merciful. “It’s true, Father, God is merciful.” And you, are you merciful with persons who have harmed you? Or who do not love you? If He is merciful, if He is holy, if He is perfect, we must be merciful, holy and perfect like Him.</span></div>
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This is holiness. A man or a woman who does this merits to be canonized: they become saints. Christian life is that simple. I suggest that you begin somewhat. We all have enemies; we all know that he or she speaks badly of me; we all know it. And we all know that he or she hates me. We all know it. And we begin a little. “But I know he’s calumniated me, he has said awful things about me.” I suggest to you: take a minute, turn to God the Father: “He or she is your child, she is your daughter: change her heart. Bless him, bless her.” This is called praying for those who don’t love you, for enemies. It can be done with simplicity. Perhaps rancor remains; perhaps rancor remains in us, but we are making the effort to go on the path of this God who is so good, merciful, holy and perfect; who has the sun rise on the evil and on the good: He is for all, He is good to all. We must be good to all, and we must pray for those who aren’t good – for all.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do we pray for those who kill children in war? It’s difficult, it’s very far away, but we must learn to do so, so that they convert. Do we pray for those persons who are closest to us and hate us or do us harm? Ah, Father, it’s difficult. I would like to ring his neck!” – Pray, pray so that the Lord changes their life. Prayer is an antidote against hatred, against wars, these wars that begin at home, that begin in the neighborhood, that begin in families. Think only of the wars in families over inheritance: how many families are destroyed, hate one another over inheritance. Pray so that there is peace. And if I know that someone wishes me evil, doesn’t love me, I must pray especially for him. Prayer is powerful, prayer overcomes evil; prayer brings peace.</span></div>
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The Gospel, God’s Word today is simple. This advice: “Be holy for I, the Lord your God am holy.” And then: “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Therefore, we must ask for the grace not to remain in rancor, the grace to pray for enemies, to pray for people who don’t love us, for the grace of peace.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I ask you, please, to have this experience: a prayer every day. ”Oh, he doesn’t love me, but Lord, I ask you …” One a day, thus one overcomes, thus we’ll go on this path of holiness and of perfection. So be it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">All wisdom comes from the LORD<br />and with him it remains forever, and is before all time<br />The sand of the seashore, the drops of rain,<br />the days of eternity: who can number these?<br />Heaven's height, earth's breadth,<br />the depths of the abyss: who can explore these?<br />Before all things else wisdom was created;<br />and prudent understanding, from eternity.<br />The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom<br />and her ways are everlasting.<br />To whom has wisdom's root been revealed?<br />Who knows her subtleties?<br />To whom has the discipline of wisdom been revealed?<br />And who has understood the multiplicity of her ways?<br />There is but one, wise and truly awe-inspiring,<br />seated upon his throne:<br />There is but one, Most High<br />all-powerful creator-king and truly awe-inspiring one,<br />seated upon his throne and he is the God of dominion.<br />It is the LORD; he created her through the Holy Spirit,<br />has seen her and taken note of her.<br />He has poured her forth upon all his works,<br />upon every living thing according to his bounty;<br />he has lavished her upon his friends.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (1a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.</span><br />The LORD is king, in splendor robed;<br />robed is the LORD and girt about with strength.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.</span><br />And he has made the world firm,<br />not to be moved.<br />Your throne stands firm from of old;<br />from everlasting you are, O LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.</span><br />Your decrees are worthy of trust indeed:<br />holiness befits your house,<br />O LORD, for length of days.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John<br />and approached the other disciples,<br />they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them.<br />Immediately on seeing him,<br />the whole crowd was utterly amazed.<br />They ran up to him and greeted him.<br />He asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"<br />Someone from the crowd answered him,<br />"Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.<br />Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down;<br />he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid.<br />I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so."<br />He said to them in reply,<br />"O faithless generation, how long will I be with you?<br />How long will I endure you? Bring him to me."<br />They brought the boy to him.<br />And when he saw him,<br />the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions.<br />As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around<br />and foam at the mouth.<br />Then he questioned his father,<br />"How long has this been happening to him?"<br />He replied, "Since childhood.<br />It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him.<br />But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us."<br />Jesus said to him,<br />"'If you can!' Everything is possible to one who has faith."<br />Then the boy's father cried out, "I do believe, help my unbelief!"<br />Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering,<br />rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it,<br />"Mute and deaf spirit, I command you:<br />come out of him and never enter him again!"<br />Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out.<br />He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, "He is dead!"<br />But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.<br />When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private,<br />"Why could we not drive the spirit out?"<br />He said to them, "This kind can only come out through prayer."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Francisco Marto (June 11, 1908 – April 4, 1919) and his sister Jacinta Marto (March 11, 1910 – February 20, 1920), together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005) were from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal. They saw three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917. They reported visions of Our Lady of Fatima. The youngest children of Manuel and Olimpia Marto were Francisco and Jacinta. They were illiterate and they worked with cousin Lucia, tending sheep. Francisco preferred to pray alone, as he said "to console Jesus for the sins of the world". They saw terrifying vision of Hell at the third apparition. All three children practiced prayer and penance for sin as the lady asked. Jacinta told her parents ‘Oh, Mother! I saw Our Lady today!’. On 13th August, The Administrator, Santos, ‘kidnapped’ the children to prevent them going to the next Apparition, and threatened them with a cauldron of boiling oil. On Sunday, 19th August, the children witnessed their fourth Apparition. </span><br /><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.7467px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">At</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> the Apparitions in 1917 Francisco heard nothing and had to rely on Lucia and Jacinta to tell him what was said by the Lady. Jacinta and Francesco became very</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> ill during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in October, 1918. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">The priest heard Francisco’s confession on the evening of 2nd April and brought Communion to him the next morning.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">Opening his eyes, he asked:</span><strong style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><em> ‘When will you bring me the Hidden Jesus again?’</em></strong><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> This was what he said when talking of the Host in the Tabernacle. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jacinta developed pneumonia and then tuberculosis. She died in hospital just before her 11th birthday. Visitors who saw Jacinta in her open coffin exclaimed that she seemed to be alive, with the loveliest colour. When Jacinta’s coffin was opened on 12th September, 1935 and her face was seen to be perfectly incorrupt. </span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hyIpE1_qIFM" width="640"></iframe><br /><div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><b><u>SPECIAL PRAYERS GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN AT FATIMA:</u></b><br />Our Lady of Fatima:<br />My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not trust and do not love Thee. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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ANGEL OF FATIMA:<br />O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the conversion of poor sinners. The Angel's Prayer is an Act of Reparation to The Holy Trinity.<br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">Edited from </span><strong style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><em>“The Message of Fatima”</em></strong><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> by Fr. Martindale, S.J. and other sources. (All Images Google )</span><br /><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.7467px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Before the Angelus</i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this Sunday’s Gospel (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:38-48) – one of those pages that expresses best the Christian “revolution” – Jesus shows the way of true justice through the law of love, which surmounts that of retaliation, namely, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” This ancient rule imposed inflicting on transgressors punishments equivalent to the damages caused: death to one who killed, amputation to one who wounded someone, and so on. Jesus does not ask His disciples to suffer evil, rather, He asks them to react, but not with another evil, but with goodness. Only thus is the chain of evil broken: an evil leads to another evil, another evil leads to another evil … This chain of evil is broken, and things truly change. Evil in fact is a “void,” a void of goodness, and it cannot be filled with another void, but only with “fullness,” namely, with goodness. Reprisals never lead to the resolution of conflicts. “You did it to me, I’ll do it to you”: this never resolves a conflict, nor is it Christian.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Jesus the rejection of violence can also imply giving up a legitimate right; and He gives some examples: to give the other cheek, to give one’s cloak or one’s money, to accept other sacrifices (cf. vv. 39-42). However, this renunciation does not mean that the demands of justice are ignored or contradicted; on the contrary, Christian love, which manifests itself in a special way in mercy, represents a higher realization of justice. What Jesus wants to teach us is the clear distinction we must make between </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">justice</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">retaliation </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">– to distinguish between justice and retaliation. Retaliation is never just; we are permitted to ask for justice; it is our duty to practice justice. Instead, we are prohibited from vindicating ourselves and from fomenting retaliation in some way, in as much as <it an="" is=""> expression of hatred and of violence.</it></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Jesus does not wish to propose a new civil rule, but rather the commandment to love our neighbor, which also includes love of enemies: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (v. 44). And this is not easy. This word is not understood as approval of the evil done by an enemy, but as an invitation in a higher, a magnanimous perspective, similar to that of the heavenly Father, who – Jesus says — “makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (v. 45). In fact, an enemy is also a human person, created as such in the image of God, even if at present this image is obfuscated by unworthy conduct.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">When we speak of “enemies” we must not think, perhaps, of those persons who are different and distant from us; we speak also of ourselves, who can enter in conflict with our neighbor, at times with our relatives. How many enmities there are in families, how many! Enemies are those also who speak badly of us, who calumniate us and do us wrongs. And it is not easy to digest this. We are called to respond to all of them with goodness, which also has its strategies, inspired by love.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">May the Virgin Mary help us to follow Jesus in this demanding way, which truly exalts human dignity and makes us live as children of our Father who is in Heaven. May she help us to practice patience, dialogue, forgiveness, and thus be craftsmen of communion, craftsmen of fraternity in our daily life, especially in our family.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Original text: Italian] </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">After the Angelus:</i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Dear Brothers and Sisters,</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Unfortunately, news continues to reach us of violent and brutal clashes in the region of Central Kasai of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I feel intensely the grief of the victims, especially for so many children torn from their families and from school to be used as soldiers. Child soldiers are a tragedy. I assure my closeness and prayer, also for the religious and humanitarian personnel who work in that difficult region; and I renew my heartfelt appeal to the conscience and the responsibility of the National Authorities and of the International Community, so that appropriate and timely decisions are taken to help these brothers and sisters of ours.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us pray for them and for all peoples suffering also in other parts of the African Continent and of the world due to violence and war. I am thinking, in particular, of the beloved populations of Pakistan and of Iraq, scourged by cruel terrorist acts in past days. Let us pray for the victims, for the wounded and for their relatives. Let us pray ardently that every heart hardened by hatred is converted to peace, in keeping with God’s will. Let us pray for a moment in silence. [</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hail Mary …</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">]</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I greet you all, families, Associations, parish groups and individual pilgrims from Italy and from various parts of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">In particular, I greet the students of Armagh, Ireland, the faithful of the dioceses of Asidonia-Jerez, Cadiz and Ceuta and Madrid in Spain; the Guanellian Youth Movement, the Confirmation candidates of Castelnuovo di Prato and the pilgrims of Modena and Viterbo.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I wish you all a good Sunday – a beautiful day! [</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">he points to the blue </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">sk</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">y</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">]. And please, do not forget to pray for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Have a good lunch and see you soon!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Original text: Italian] </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">[ZENIT Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1LV 19:1-2, 17-18</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The LORD said to Moses,<br />"Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them:<br />Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.<br /><br />"You shall not bear hatred for your brother or sister in your heart.<br />Though you may have to reprove your fellow citizen,<br />do not incur sin because of him.<br />Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against any of your people.<br />You shall love your neighbor as yourself.<br />I am the LORD."</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (8a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</span><br />Bless the LORD, O my soul;<br />and all my being, bless his holy name.<br />Bless the LORD, O my soul,<br />and forget not all his benefits.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</span><br />He pardons all your iniquities,<br />heals all your ills.<br />He redeems your life from destruction,<br />crowns you with kindness and compassion.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</span><br />Merciful and gracious is the LORD,<br />slow to anger and abounding in kindness.<br />Not according to our sins does he deal with us,<br />nor does he requite us according to our crimes.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</span><br />As far as the east is from the west,<br />so far has he put our transgressions from us.<br />As a father has compassion on his children,<br />so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 21 COR 3:16-23</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Do you not know that you are the temple of God,<br />and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?<br />If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person;<br />for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.<br /><br />Let no one deceive himself.<br />If any one among you considers himself wise in this age,<br />let him become a fool, so as to become wise.<br />For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God,<br />for it is written:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God catches the wise in their own ruses, </em><br />and again:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise,<br />that they are vain.</em><br />So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you,<br />Paul or Apollos or Cephas,<br />or the world or life or death,<br />or the present or the future:<br />all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Alleluia1 JN 2:5</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Whoever keeps the word of Christ,<br />the love of God is truly perfected in him.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMT 5:38-48</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus said to his disciples:<br />"You have heard that it was said,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.</em><br />But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.<br />When someone strikes you on your right cheek,<br />turn the other one as well.<br />If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic,<br />hand over your cloak as well.<br />Should anyone press you into service for one mile,<br />go for two miles.<br />Give to the one who asks of you,<br />and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.<br /><br />"You have heard that it was said,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.</em><br />But I say to you, love your enemies<br />and pray for those who persecute you,<br />that you may be children of your heavenly Father,<br />for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,<br />and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.<br />For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have?<br />Do not the tax collectors do the same?<br />And if you greet your brothers only,<br />what is unusual about that?<br />Do not the pagans do the same?<br />So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect."</span></div>
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1290, Piacenza, Province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy</div>
<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />February 19, 1351, Noto, Province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />cure of hernias<br /><br /><br /><div align="center" class="headtext">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis, date of birth uncertain; died at Noto in Sicily, 19 February, 1351. He belonged to one of the noblest families of Piacenza, and having married when he was quite young, led a virtuous and God-fearing life. On one occasion, when he was engaged in his usual pastime of hunting, he ordered his attendants to fire some brushwood in which game had taken refuge. The prevailing wind caused the flames to spread rapidly, and the surrounding fields and forest were soon in a state of conflagration. A mendicant, who happened to be found near the place where the fire had originated, was accused of being the author. He was imprisoned, tried, and condemned to death. As the poor man was being led to execution, Conrad, stricken with remorse, made open confession of his guilt; and in order to repair the damage of which he had been the cause, was obliged to sell all his possessions. Thus reduced to poverty, Conrad retired to a lonely hermitage some distance from Piacenza, while his wife entered the Order of Poor Clares. Later he went to Rome, and thence to Sicily, where for thirty years he lived a most austere and penitential life and worked numerous miracles. He is especially invoked for the cure of hernia. In 1515 Leo X permitted the town of Noto to celebrate his feast, which permission was later extended by Urban VIII to the whole Order of St. Francis. Though bearing the title of saint, Conrad was never formally canonized. His feast is kept in the Franciscan Order on 19 February.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2017/02/saint-february-18-st-fra-angelico.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">Saint February 18 : St. Fra Angelico : #Dominican : Patron of #Artists</a></h3>
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<a href="http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2017/02/saint-february-17-founders-of-orders-of.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">Saint February 17 : Founders of the Orders of Servites</a></h3>
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St. Simon of Jerusalem</div>
BISHOP, MARTYR<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />106 or 107 AD, Jerusalem<br />=<br /><div class="bodytext">
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ST. SIMEON was the son of Cleophas, otherwise called Alpheus, brother to St. Joseph, and of Mary, sister to the Blessed Virgin. He was therefore nephew both to St. Joseph and to the Blessed Virgin, and cousin to Our Saviour. We cannot doubt but that he was ail early follower of Christ, and that he received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, with the Blessed Virgin and the apostles. When the Jews massacred St. James the Lesser,his brother Simeon reproached them for their atrocious cruelty. St. James, Bishop of Jerusalem, being put to death in the year 62, twenty-nine years after Our Saviour's Resurrection, the apostles and disciples met at Jerusalem to appoint him a successor. They unanimously chose St. Simeon, who had probably before assisted his brother in the government of that Church.</div>
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In the year 66, in which Sts. Peter and Paul suffered martyrdom at Rome, the civil war began in Judea, by the seditions of the Jews against the Romans. The Christians in Jerusalem were warned by God of the impending destruction of that city. They therefore departed out of it the same year,—before Vespasian, Nero's general, and afterwards emperor, entered Judea,—and retired beyond Jordan to a small city called Pella, having St. Simeon at their head. After the taking and burning of Jerusalem they returned thither again, and settled themselves amidst its ruins, till Adrian afterwards entirely razed it. The Church here flourished, and multitudes of Jews were converted by the great number of prodigies and miracles wrought in it.</div>
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Vespasian and Domitian had commanded all to be put to death who were of the race of David. St. Simeon had escaped their searches; but, Trajan having given the same order, certain heretics and Jews accused the Saint, as being both of the race of David and a Christian, to Atticus, the Roman governor in Palestine. The holy bishop was condemned to be crucified. After having undergone the usual tortures during several days, which, though one hundred and twenty years old, he suffered with so much patience that he drew on him a universal admiration, and that of Atticus in particular, he died in 107. He must have governed the Church of Jerusalem about forty-three years.</div>
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<em>(Taken from Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler)</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1HEB 11:1-7</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Faith is the realization of what is hoped for<br />and evidence of things not seen.<br />Because of it the ancients were well attested.<br />By faith we understand that the universe was ordered by the word of God,<br />so that what is visible came into being through the invisible.<br />By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice greater than Cain's.<br />Through this, he was attested to be righteous,<br />God bearing witness to his gifts,<br />and through this, though dead, he still speaks.<br />By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death,<br />and <em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">he was found no more because God had taken him.</em><br />Before he was taken up, he was attested to have pleased God.<br />But without faith it is impossible to please him,<br />for anyone who approaches God must believe that he exists<br />and that he rewards those who seek him.<br />By faith Noah, warned about what was not yet seen,<br />with reverence built an ark for the salvation of his household.<br />Through this, he condemned the world<br />and inherited the righteousness that comes through faith.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (see 1) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.</span><br />Every day will I bless you,<br />and I will praise your name forever and ever.<br />Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;<br />his greatness is unsearchable.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.</span><br />Generation after generation praises your works<br />and proclaims your might.<br />They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty<br />and tell of your wondrous works.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.</span><br />Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,<br />and let your faithful ones bless you.<br />Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom<br />and speak of your might.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaMK 9:6</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />The heavens were opened and the voice of the Father thundered:<br />This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 9:2-13</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus took Peter, James, and John<br />and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.<br />And he was transfigured before them,<br />and his clothes became dazzling white,<br />such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.<br />Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses,<br />and they were conversing with Jesus.<br />Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,<br />"Rabbi, it is good that we are here!<br />Let us make three tents:<br />one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."<br />He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.<br />Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them;<br />then from the cloud came a voice,<br />"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."<br />Suddenly, looking around, the disciples no longer saw anyone<br />but Jesus alone with them.<br /><br />As they were coming down from the mountain,<br />he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone,<br />except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.<br />So they kept the matter to themselves,<br />questioning what rising from the dead meant.<br />Then they asked him,<br />"Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"<br />He told them, "Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things,<br />yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man<br />that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt?<br />But I tell you that Elijah has come<br />and they did to him whatever they pleased,<br />as it is written of him."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday visited one of Rome’s major institutions of higher education: the <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Università degli studi “Roma 3”</em>, which has an enrollment of roughly 40 thousand students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Holy Father fielded four questions, each one from a student at a different level of study and in a different department, from post-graduates to married professionals in continuing formation to young undergrads from the business school and the arts and sciences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">One of the students was Nour Essa, a 31 year-old married mother and a refugee from Syria. She came to Rome with her family via Lesbos, making the last leg of her journey with Pope Francis, himself, aboard the Papal plane in 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“I remember a question posed by a reporter on your plane, returning from Lesbos,” she said. “This question was on Europeans’ fear [It. <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">la paura europea</em>] of those coming from Syria or Iraq: do these people not threaten the Christian culture of Europe?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In his largely off-the-cuff response, Pope Francis said, “Migrations are not a danger, but a challenge to grow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis also responded to questions of European identity, of the special identity, character, and mission of the city of Rome – and of the duty of the students to the city – as well as of the need for a creative response to overcome a culture of violence, and the need to transform the global culture and become workers of intellectual charity in order to contribute to a constructive renewal of society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope said that “unity without differences” is one of the great threats in our day. “There is a risk of globalization,” he said, “that fosters uniformity,” and our culture of instant communication and constant connectedness does not allow for thoughtful consideration and could strangle profound dialogue if we are not careful to cultivate a more considerate pace and sensitivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis also spoke of the need for young people to cultivate the virtue of hope, the threats against which are many, including joblessness, the blandishments of a culture of hedonism, and the warped sense of religion that can fill the void left when concrete reasons for to hope in a better future appear to be wanting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The bitterness of [some young persons’] hearts,” Pope Francis said, “leads to addictions,” or even to suicide. “This lack of work leads to [some of them] to go elsewhere and enlist in a terrorist army,” he said, speculating that perhaps young people who make such a decision think, “at least that way I have something to do and [thus] I give meaning to my life.”</span></div>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-weight: 700;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Terrible,” Pope Francis said, “terrible.”</span></span><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-weight: 700;"><u>The Holy Father’s prepared Address</u></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lord Rector, Distinguished Docents, Dear Students and Staff Members,</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I thank you for inviting me to visit this University, the youngest of Rome, and I give my warm greeting to you all. I thank the Rector, Professor Mario Panizza, for his words of welcome, and I wish you every good for the work and mission of this Athenaeum. The academic instruction and formation of the new generations is a primary exigency for the life and development of society. I have listened to your questions, for which I am grateful; I read them beforehand and I will seek to give answers taking my experience also into account.</span></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OuNhc4qmHeI" width="588"></iframe><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Our society is rich in goods, in actions of solidarity and of love in relations with our neighbor: so many people and so many young people, certainly among you, are committed in volunteer work and in activities at the service of the neediest. And this is one of the greatest values of which to be grateful and proud. However, if we look around us, we see that there are many, too many signs of enmity and violence in the world. As Giulia rightly observed, there are many signs present of “violent action.” I thank you, Giulia, because the Message for this year’s World Day of Peace proposes, in fact, non-violence as style of life and of political action. In fact, we are living a piecemeal world war: there are conflicts in many regions of the planet, which threaten the future of entire generations. How is it that the International Community, with its organizations, is unable to impede or to stop all this? Do economic and strategic interests have more weight than the common interest for peace? These are certainly questions that find a place in Universities’ classrooms, and they resound first of all in our consciences. See: the University is a privileged place in which consciences are formed, in a heated debate between the exigencies of the good, of the true and of the beautiful, and the reality with its contradictions. A concrete example? The arms industry. For decades there has been talk of disarmament, important processes in this connection have even been implemented but, unfortunately, despite all the speeches and commitments, many countries today are increasing their expenses for armaments. And this — in a world that is still fighting against hunger and sicknesses –, is a scandalous contradiction.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In face of this dramatic reality, you rightly ask, “What must be our answer? –certainly not an attitude of discouragement and mistrust. You young people, in particular, cannot permit yourselves to be without hope; hope is part of yourselves. When hope is lacking life in fact is lacking, and then some go in search of a deceitful existence that is offered by merchants of nothing. They sell things that bring momentary and apparent happiness, but in reality they introduce a way without exit, without future, true existential labyrinths. Bombs destroy bodies; drugs destroy minds, souls and also bodies. And here I give you another concrete example of present-day contradiction: the gambling industry. Universities can give a valid contribution of study to prevent and oppose gambling addiction, which causes grave harm to people and families, with high social costs.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">An answer that I would like to suggest to you — and I have present Niccolo’s question — is that of committing yourselves, also as a university, in projects of sharing and of service to the least, to have grow in our city of Rome the sense of belonging to a “common homeland.” Many social urgencies and many situations of hardship and poverty interpellate us: we think of persons that live on the street, of migrants, of all those that need not only food and clothes, but insertion in society as, for example, those who come out of prison. By coming to meet these social poverties, we are rendered protagonists of constructive actions which oppose the destructive <actions> of violent conflicts, and which also oppose the culture of hedonism and waste, based on the idols of money, of pleasure, of appearing … Instead, by working with projects, also small ones, which foster encounter and solidarity, a sense of trust is recovered at the same time.</actions></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In every environment, especially in that of the University, it is important to read and address this change of epoch with reflection and discernment, that is, without ideological prejudices, without fear or flights. Every change, including the present one, is a passage that brings with it difficulties, toil and sufferings, but it also brings new horizons of goodness. Great changes call for re-thinking our economic, cultural and social models, to recover the central value of the human person. In the third question, Riccardo made reference to the “information that in a globalized world is spread especially by the social networks. In this very complex ambit, it seems to me necessary to engage in healthy discernment, on the basis of ethical and spiritual criteria. It is necessary, that is, to question oneself on what is good, making reference to values proper of a vision of man and of the world, a vision of the person in all his dimensions, especially in the transcendent.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And, speaking of transcendence, I would like to speak to you as person-to-person, and give witness of who I am. I profess myself Christian and the transcendence to which I open myself and look at has a name: Jesus. I am convinced that His Gospel is a force of true personal and social renewal. Speaking thus, I do not propose to you illusions or philosophical or ideological theories, nor do I wish to engage in proselytism. I am speaking to you of a Person who came to meet me when I was more or less your age, who opened horizons for me and changed my life. This Person can fill our heart with joy and our life with meaning. He is my fellow traveller; He does not disappoint and does not betray. He is always with us. He puts Himself with respect and discretion along our life’s path, above all, He supports us in the hour of loss and defeat, in the moment of weakness and sin, to always put us back on the way. This is the personal testimony of my life.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Do not be afraid to open yourselves to the horizons of the spirit, and if you receive the gift of faith – because faith is a gift – do not be afraid to open yourselves to the encounter with Christ and to deepen your relationship with Him. Faith never limits the ambit of reason, but opens it to an integral vision of man and of reality, preserving one from the danger of reducing the person to “human material.” Difficulties do not disappear with Jesus, but they are addressed in a different way, without fear, without lying to oneself and to others; they are addressed with the light and strength that come from Him. And, as Riccardo said, you can become “operators of intellectual charity,” starting with the University itself, so that it is a place of formation to “wisdom” in the fullest sense of the term, of the integral education of the person. In this perspective the University offers its peculiar and indispensable contribution to the renewal of society.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And the university can also be a place in which the culture of encounter and the reception of people of different cultural and religious traditions is elaborated. Nour, who comes from Syria, made reference to the “fear” of the Westerner in relations with a foreigner in as much as it might “threaten Europe’s Christian culture.” Apart from the fact that the first threat to Europe’s Christian culture comes, in fact, from within Europe, the closing of oneself in oneself or in one’s culture is never the way to give back hope and to bring about a social and cultural renewal. A culture is consolidated in openness to and encounter with other cultures, so that it has a clear and mature awareness of its own principles and values. Therefore, I encourage docents and students to live the University as an environment of true dialogue, which does not level the differences or exasperate them, but is open to constructive confrontation. We are called to understand and appreciate the other’s values, overcoming the temptations of indifference and of fear. Do not be afraid of encounter, of dialogue, of confrontation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">While you carry forward your course of teaching and study in the university, try to ask yourselves: is my </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">forma mentis </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">becoming more individualistic or more supportive? If it is more supportive, it is a good sign, because you will go against the current but in the only direction that has a future and that gives future. Solidarity, not proclaimed in words but lived concretely, generates peace and hope for every country and for the whole world. And you, by the fact of working and studying in the University, have the responsibility to leave a good mark in history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I thank you from my heart for this meeting and for your attention. May hope be the light that always illumines your study and your commitment. I invoke upon each one of you and upon your families the Lord’s blessing.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">[Original text: Italian] <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">[ZENIT Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</i></span></div>
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Feast Day: February 18 Beatified: October 3, 1982<br />Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects as having "a rare and perfect talent". He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John of Fiesole) and Fra Giovanni Angelico (Angelic Brother John). In modern Italian he is called il Beato Angelico (Blessed Angelic One); the common English name Fra Angelico means the "Angelic friar". He is listed in the Roman Martyrology as Beatus Ioannes Faesulanus, cognomento Angelicus—<br />Growing up in a small town in Italy, Guido di Pietro was interested in two things. He wanted to follow Christ’s example in all things and he wanted to develop his talent for painting. God showed him how these two things were his vocation. Our vocation is God’s call to share in Jesus’ life and work. Guido was born in 1387, and when he was 18, he joined the Dominican order as a religious brother. Brothers are not priests. Religious brothers serve their community through prayer and work. It Italy, religious brothers are called “Fra.” Religious brothers are often given a new name. Guido’s religious name was “Fra Giovanni” or Brother John. His work in his community was painting beautiful religious art, initially for manuscripts, which at the time were each copied by hand. The moment the members of his religious community saw his beautiful paintings, they said that he “painted like an angel.” That is how he became known as “Fra Angelico.” Every day before he began to paint, Fra Angelico prayed that God would guide his hand and help him to create a painting that would inspire people to grow closer to God. Fra Angelico became very famous. He painted holy figures and angels and was even called to Rome to paint portraits of the saints on the walls of the chapel of Pope Eugenius IV and then Pope Nicholas V. His work can be found in museums and churches and holy buildings throughout the world. He died in Rome in 1455 and was beatified in 1982 by Pope John Paul II. The pope declared him the patron saint of Catholic artists in 1984. We call Fra Angelico “Blessed.” His life helps us to understand that we are called to use the gifts we have been given to serve others and to give glory and praise to God.<br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, helvetica; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15px;">Fra Angelico (Italian, ca. 1390/95-1455)</span><br /><b style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, helvetica; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;">The Virgin of Humility</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, helvetica; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15px;">, ca. 1436-38</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, helvetica; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15px;">Tempera on panel</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, helvetica; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15px;">29 1/8 x 24 in.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, helvetica; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15px;">Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(SERVANTS OF MARY). The Order of Servites is the fifth mendicant order, the objects of which are the sanctification of its members, preaching the Gospel, and the propagation of devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. In this article we shall consider: (1) the foundation and history of the order; (2) devotions and manner of life; (3) affiliated associations; (4) Servites of distinction. Foundation and history<br />To the city of Florence belongs the glory of giving to the Church the seven youths who formed the nucleus of the order: Buonfiglio dei Monaldi (Bonfilius), Giovanni di Buonagiunta (Bonajuncta), Bartolomeo degli Amidei (Amideus), Ricovero dei Lippi-Ugguccioni (Hugh), Benedetto dell' Antella (Manettus), Gherardino di Sostegno (Sosteneus), and Alessio de' Falconieri (Alexius); they belonged to seven patrician families of that city, and had early formed a confraternity of laymen, known as the Laudesi, or Praisers of Mary.<br />While engaged in the exercises of the confraternity on the feast of the Assumption, 1233, the Blessed Virgin appeared to them, advised them to withdraw from the world and devote themselves entirely to eternal things. They obeyed, and established themselves close to the convent of the Friars Minor at La Camarzia, a suburb of Florence. Desiring stricter seclusion than that offered at La Camarzia, they withdrew to Monte Senario, eleven miles north of Florence. Here the Blessed Virgin again appeared to them, conferred on them a black habit, instructed them to follow the Rule of St. Augustine and to found the order of her servants (15 April, 1240). The brethren elected a superior, took the vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty, and admitted associates. In 1243, Peter of Verona (St. Peter Martyr), Inquisitor-General of Italy, recommended the new foundation to the pope, but it was not until 13 March, 1249, that the first official approval of the order was obtained from Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany. About this time St. Bonfilius obtained permission to found the first branch of the order at Cafaggio outside the walls of Florence. Two years later (2 Oct., 1251) Innocent IV appointed Cardinal Guglielmo Fieschi first protector of the order. The next pope, Alexander IV, favoured a plan for the amalgamation of all institutes following the Rule of St. Augustine. This was accomplished in March, 1256, and about the same time a Rescript was issued confirming the Order of the Servites as a separate body with power to elect a general. Four years later a general chapter was convened at which the order was divided into two provinces, Tuscany and Umbria, the former of which St. Manettus directed, while the latter was given into the care of St. Sostene. Within five years two new provinces were added, namely, Romagna and Lombardy. After St. Philip Benizi was elected general (5 June, 1267) the order, which had long been the object of unjust attack from jealous enemies, entered into the crisis of its existence. The Second Council of Lyons in 1274 put into execution the ordinance of the Fourth Lateran Council, forbidding the foundation of new religious orders, and absolutely suppressed all mendicant institutions not yet approved by the Holy See. The aggressors renewed their assaults, and in the year 1276 Innocent V in a letter to St. Philip declared the order suppressed. St. Philip proceeded to Rome, but before his arrival there Innocent V had died. His successor lived but five weeks. Finally John XXI, on the favourable opinion of three consistorial advocates, decided that the order should continue as before. The former dangers reappeared under Martin V (1281), and though other popes continued to favour the order, it was not definitively approved until Benedict IX issued the Bull, "Dum levamus" (11 Feb., 1304). Of the seven founders, St. Alexis alone lived to see their foundation raised to the dignity of an order. He died in 1310.<br />We must here make mention of St. Peregrine Laziosi (Latiosi), whose sanctity of life did much towards increasing the repute of the Servite Order in Italy. Born at Forli in 1265, the son of a Ghibelline leader, Peregrine, in his youth, bitterly hated the Church. He insulted and struck St. Philip Benizi, who, at the request of Martin V, had gone to preach peace to the Forlivese. Peregrine's generous nature was immediately aroused by the mildness with which St. Philip received the attack and he begged the saint's forgiveness. In 1283 he was received into the order, and so great was his humility it was only after much persuasion he consented to be ordained a priest. He founded a monastery in his native city, where he devoted all his energies to the restoration of peace. His humility and patience were so great that he was called by his people a second Job. He died in 1345. His body remains incorrupt to the present day. He was canonized by Benedict XIII in 1726, and his feast is celebrated on 30 April. One of the most remarkable features of the new foundation was its wonderful growth. Even in the thirteenth century there were houses of the order in Germany, France, and Spain. Early in the fourteenth century the order had more than one hundred convents including branch houses in Hungary, Bohemia, Austria, Poland, and Belgium; there were also missions in Crete and India. The disturbances during the Reformation caused the loss of many Servite convents in Germany, but in the South of France the order met with much success. The Convent of Santa Maria in Via (1563) was the second house of the order established in Rome; San Marcello had been founded in 1369. Early in the eighteenth century the order sustained losses and confiscations from which it has scarcely yet recovered. The flourishing Province of Narbonne was almost totally destroyed by the plague which swept Marseilles in 1720. In 1783 the Servites were expelled from Prague and in 1785 Joseph II desecrated the shrine of Maria Waldrast. Ten monasteries were suppressed in Spain in 1835. A new foundation was made at Brussels in 1891, and at Rome the College of St. Alexis was opened in 1895. At this period the order was introduced into England and America chiefly through the efforts of Fathers Bosio and Morini. The latter, having gone to London (1864) as director of the affiliated Sisters of Compassion, obtained charge of a parish from Archbishop Manning in 1867. His work prospered: besides St. Mary's Priory at London, convents were opened at Bognor (1882) and Begbroke (1886). In 1870 Fathers Morini, Ventura, Giribaldi, and Brother Joseph Camera, at the request of Rt. Rev. Bishop Melcher of Green Bay, took up a mission in America, at Neenah, Wisconsin. Father Morini founded at Chicago (1874) the monastery of Our Lady of Sorrows. A novitiate was opened at Granville, Wisconsin, in 1892. The American province, formally established in 1908, embraces convents in the dioceses of Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Superior, and Denver. In 1910 the order numbered 700 members in 62 monasteries, of which 36 were in Italy, 17 in Austria-Hungary, 4 in England, 4 in North America, 1 in Brussels. Devotions: manner of life<br />In common with all religious orders strictly so called, the Servites make solemn profession of the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The particular object of the order is to sanctify first its own members, and then all men through devotion to the Mother of God, especially in her desolation during the Passion of her Divine Son. The Servites give missions, have the care of souls, or teach in higher institutions of learning. The Rosary of the Seven Dolours is one of their devotions, as is also the Via Matris. The fasts of the order are Advent, Lent, and the vigils of certain feasts. All offices in the order are elective and continue for three years, except that of general and assistant- generals which are for six years. The canonized Servite saints are: St. Philip Benizi (feast 23 Aug.), St. Peregrine Latiosi (30 April), St. Juliana Falconieri (19 June), and the Seven Holy Founders (12 Feb.). Affiliated associations<br />Connected with the first order of men are the cloistered nuns of the second order, which originated with converts of St. Philip Benizi. These sisters have convents in Spain, Italy, England, The Tyrol, and Germany. The Mantellate, a third order of women founded by St. Juliana (see SERVANTS OF MARY), have houses in Italy, France, Spain, England, and Canada. In the United States they are to be found in the dioceses of Sioux City and Belville. There is also a third order for seculars, as well as a confraternity of the Seven Dolours, branches of which may be erected in any church.<br />The Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them:<br />"Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth.<br />Dread fear of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth<br />and all the birds of the air,<br />upon all the creatures that move about on the ground<br />and all the fishes of the sea;<br />into your power they are delivered.<br />Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat;<br />I give them all to you as I did the green plants.<br />Only flesh with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.<br />For your own lifeblood, too, I will demand an accounting:<br />from every animal I will demand it,<br />and from one man in regard to his fellow man<br />I will demand an accounting for human life.<br /><br />If anyone sheds the blood of man,<br />by man shall his blood be shed;<br />For in the image of God<br />has man been made.<br /><br />Be fertile, then, and multiply;<br />abound on earth and subdue it."<br /><br />God said to Noah and to his sons with him:<br />"See, I am now establishing my covenant with you<br />and your descendants after you<br />and with every living creature that was with you:<br />all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals<br />that were with you and came out of the ark.<br />I will establish my covenant with you,<br />that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed<br />by the waters of a flood;<br />there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth."<br />God added:<br />"This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come,<br />of the covenant between me and you<br />and every living creature with you:<br />I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign<br />of the covenant between me and the earth."</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 AND 22-23</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. (20b) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.</span><br />The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,<br />and all the kings of the earth your glory,<br />When the LORD has rebuilt Zion<br />and appeared in his glory;<br />When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,<br />and not despised their prayer.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.</span><br />Let this be written for the generation to come,<br />and let his future creatures praise the LORD:<br />"The LORD looked down from his holy height,<br />from heaven he beheld the earth,<br />To hear the groaning of the prisoners,<br />to release those doomed to die."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.</span><br />The children of your servants shall abide,<br />and their posterity shall continue in your presence,<br />That the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion,<br />and his praise, in Jerusalem,<br />When the peoples gather together,<br />and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 6:63C, 68C</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life;<br />you have the words of everlasting life.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GospelMK 8:27-33</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jesus and his disciples set out<br />for the villages of Caesarea Philippi.<br />Along the way he asked his disciples,<br />"Who do people say that I am?"<br />They said in reply,<br />"John the Baptist, others Elijah,<br />still others one of the prophets."<br />And he asked them,<br />"But who do you say that I am?"<br />Peter said to him in reply,<br />"You are the Christ."<br />Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.<br /><br />He began to teach them<br />that the Son of Man must suffer greatly<br />and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,<br />and be killed, and rise after three days.<br />He spoke this openly.<br />Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.<br />At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples,<br />rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan.<br />You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." </span></div>
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MARTYR AND FORMER SLAVE</div>
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HE was a Phrygian by birth, slave to Philemon, a person of note of the city of Colossæ, converted to the faith by St. Paul. Having robbed his master and being obliged to fly, he providentially met with St. Paul, then a prisoner for the faith at Rome, who there converted and baptized him, and sent him with his canonical letter of recommendation to Philemon, by whom he was pardoned, set at liberty, and sent back to his spiritual father, whom he afterwards faithfully served. That apostle made him, with Tychicus, the bearer of his Epistle to the Colossians, and afterwards, as St. Jerome and other Fathers witness, a preacher of the Gospel and a bishop. He was crowned with martyrdom under Domitian in the year 95.<br /><br /><em>(Taken from Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As children we are taught that it is not a good thing to boast. In my land, we call those who boast “peacocks.” And that is right, because to boast of what one is or of what one has, in addition to being a certain pride, also betrays a lack of respect in relations with others, especially towards those who are more unfortunate than us. In this passage of the Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul surprises us, in as much as for a good two times he exhorts us to boast. Hence, of what is it right to boast? — because if he exhorts us to boast, it is right to boast of something. And how is it possible to do this without offending, others, without excluding anyone?</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the first case, we are invited to </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">boast of the abundance of grace of which we are pervaded in Jesus Christ</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, through faith. Paul wants to make us understand that, if we learn to read everything in the light of the Holy Spirit, we realize that everything is grace! Everything is gift! In fact, if we pay attention, to act – in history as well as in our life – it is not only us but first of all God <who acts="">. He is the absolute protagonist, who creates everything as a gift of love, who weaves the plot of his plan of salvation and who brings it to fulfilment for us in His Son Jesus. We are asked to acknowledge all this, to receive it with gratitude and to make it become a motive of praise, of blessing and of great joy. If we do this, we are in peace with God and we experience freedom. And this peace is then extended to all environments and to all relations of our life: we are in peace with ourselves, we are in peace with the family, with our community, at work and with the persons we meet every day on our path.</who></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, Paul exhorts us to </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">boast also in tribulations. </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is not easy to understand. This is more difficult for us and it might seem to have nothing to do with the condition of peace just described. Instead, it constitutes the most authentic, the truest presupposition. In fact, the peace that the Lord offers and guarantees to us is not understood as the absence of worries, disappointments, failings, of motives of suffering. If it were so, should we succeed in being in peace that moment would soon end and we would fall inevitably into dejection. Instead, the peace that flows from faith is a gift: it is the grace of experiencing that God loves us and is always beside us; He does not leave us alone not even for an instant of our life. And, as the Apostle states, this generates patience, because we know that, also in the harshest and most distressing moments, the mercy and goodness of the Lord are greater than anything and nothing will tear us from His hands and from communion with Him.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">See then why Christian hope is solid, see that it </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">does not disappoint. </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It never disappoints. Hope does not disappoint! It is not founded on what we can do or be, and even less so on what we can believe. Its foundation, that is, the foundation of Christian hope is what is most faithful and certain that can be, namely the love that God Himself has for each one of us. It is easy to say: God loves us. We all say it. But think a moment: is every one of us capable of saying: I am certain that God loves me? It is not so easy to say it, but it is true. It is a good exercise to say to oneself: God loves me. This is the root of our security, the root of hope. And the Lord has effused His Spirit abundantly in our hearts as maker and guarantor, precisely so that it can nourish faith within us and keep this hope alive. And this certainty: God loves me. “But in this awful moment?” – God loves me. “And <he loves=""> me who have done this bad and evil thing?” – God loves me. No one takes this certainty away. And we should repeat it as a prayer: God loves me. I am certain that God loves me. I am certain that God loves me. Now we understand why the Apostle Paul exhorts us to boast always of all this. I boast of the love of God because He loves me. The hope we have been given does not separate us from others, and even less so does it lead us to discredit and marginalize them. Instead, it is an extraordinary gift of which we are called to make ourselves “channels” for all, with humility and simplicity. And then our greatest boast will be that of having as Father a God who does not have preferences, who does not exclude anyone, but who opens His house to all human beings, beginning with the least and the estranged, so that as His children we learn to console and support one another. And do not forget: hope does not disappoint.</he></span></div>
[Original text: Italian] <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</i><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A warm welcome goes to the Italian-speaking faithful. I greet the parish groups and the Associations, in particular </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nessuno escluso </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[No one excluded] of Taranto, exhorting them to promote always an inclusive culture for persons who are alone and for those without a fixed abode. I greet the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Prealpi </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Choir of Villapedergnano-Erbusco and </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note Ascendenti</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> [Ascending Notes] of Sant’Eufemia-Lamezia Terme, and I thank them for their beautiful performance. When one wants something, one does this! We must do this with prayer, when we ask the Lord for something: insist, insist, insist, … it is a good example, a good example of prayer! Thank you! I hope that this meeting will arouse in each one renewed resolutions of Christian testimony in the family and in society.</span></div>
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A special greeting goes to young people, the sick and newlyweds. Yesterday we celebrated the feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, evangelizers of the Slav peoples and co-patrons of Europe. May their example help you, dear young people, to become missionary disciples in every environment; may their tenacity encourage you, dear sick, to offer your sufferings for the conversion of the estranged; may their love for the Lord illumine you, dear newlyweds, to make the Gospel the fundamental rule of your family life.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) Courage prayer, and humility: these are the traits that distinguish the great “heralds” who have helped the Church to grow in the world, who have contributed to its missionary character. Pope Francis was speaking at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta, taking his inspiration from the Liturgy and from the example of Sts Cyril and Methodius, the patrons of Europe, who are honoured today.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There is need of “sowers of the Word,” of “missionaries, of true heralds to form the people of God, like Cyril and Methodius, “good heralds,” intrepid brothers and witnesses of God, patrons of Europe who have made Europe stronger. Pope Francis began his homily with these reflections, and then looked at three personality traits of an “envoy” who proclaims the Word of God. He spoke of the day’s first Reading, with the figures of Paul and Barnabas; and of the Gospel from St Luke, with the seventy-two disciples sent out two-by-two by the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The first trait of the “envoy” highlighted by Pope Francis is “<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">frankness</strong>,” which includes “strength and courage.”</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The Word of God cannot be given as a proposal – ‘well, if you like it…’ – or like good philosophical or moral idea – ‘well, you can live this way…’ No! It’s something else. It needs to be proposed with this frankness, with this force, so that the Word penetrates, as Paul says, ‘to the bone.’ The Word of God must be proclaimed with this frankness, with this force… with courage. The person who doesn't have courage – spiritual courage, courage of heart, who is not enamoured of Jesus, and from there comes courage! – No, you will say, yes, something interesting, something moral, something that will do you good, a good philanthropy, but this is not the Word of God. And this is incapable, this word, of forming the people of God. Only the Word of God proclaimed with this frankness, with this courage, is capable of forming the people of God.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">From the Gospel of St Luke, Pope Francis takes two other traits proper to a “herald” of the Word of God. The day’s Gospel is “a little strange” the Pope said, because it is rich in elements concerning the proclamation. “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few. So ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest,” the Pope said, repeating the words of Christ. The second trait, then, after the courage of missionaries, is “<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prayer</strong>.”</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The Word of God should be proclaimed with prayer, also. Always. Without prayer, you could have a good conference, good instruction: good, good! But it is not the Word of God. The Word of God can only come from a heart in prayer. Prayer, so that the Lord might accompany this sowing of the Word, so that the Lord might water the seed so that the Word will sprout. The Word of God should be proclaimed with prayer: the prayer of the one who proclaims the Word of God.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the Gospel there is also a third interesting trait: The Lord sends His disciples “<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">like lambs amid wolves</strong>”:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The true preacher is the one who knows he is weak, who knows that he cannot defend himself. ‘You are going out like a lamb among wolves’ – ‘But Lord, why would they eat me?’ – ‘You are going! This is the journey.’ And I think it was Chrysostom who has a very profound reflection, when he says: ‘But if you do not go like sheep, but you go like a wolf among wolves, the Lord, will not defend you: you’ll have to fend for yourself.’ When the preacher believes he is too intelligent, or when the one who is responsible for carrying forward the Word of God tries to be clever – ‘Ah, I can get along with these people’ – just so, it will end badly. Or you will bargain away the Word of God: to the powerful, to the proud…”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And to emphasize the humility of the great heralds, Pope Francis recalled a story told to him by someone “who boasted of preaching the Word of God well, and who felt he was a <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wolf.</em>” After a good sermon, the Pope said, “he went to the confessional, and found there a ‘great fish,’ a great sinner, and he wept,… he wanted to ask for forgiveness.” And “this confessor,” the Pope continued, “began to swell up with pride” and “curiosity” and asked him which word had touched him so much “that he was moved to repent.” “It was when you said,” the Pope concluded, “let’s move on to another topic.” “I don’t know if it’s true,” the Pope clarified, but it certainly is true that you will finish badly if carry the Gospel “feeling sure of yourself, and not like a lamb, whom the Lord will defend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And so, the Pope concluded, this is the missionary character of the Church and of the great heralds, “who have planted and have helped the Church to grow in the world. They were courageous, men of prayer, and humble.” He concluded his homily with the prayer: May Sts Cyril and Methodius, help us “to proclaim the Word of God” according to these criteria, as they did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />1. "Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."<br />--Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2. Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love. (140)<br />--Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina<br />3. "The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist."<br />--Pope St. Gregory the Great<br /><br />4. "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."<br />--St. Augustine of Hippo<br /><br />5. "<span style="font-size: 13px;">You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.</span>"<br />--St. Therese of Lisieux<br /><br />6. "Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."<br />--Saint Francis of Assisi</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">7. "As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love."<br />--St. Edith Stein<br /><br />8. "Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes."<br />--St. Pio of Pietrelcino<br /><br />9."We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love."<br />--Saint Vincent de Paul<br /><br />10."What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true love. Those who love thus, love themselves too much to love God with all their heart."<br />--St. Margaret Mary Alacoque<br /><br />11."The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life."<br />--Saint Thomas Aquinas<br /><br />12. Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.<br />--Saint Catherine of Siena<br /><br />13. 'The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.'<br />--St. Maximos the Confessor<br /><br />14. What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.<br />--St. Basil the Great<br /><br />15. "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."<br />--St. Francis de Sales<br /><br />16. "Everything comes from love,<br />all is ordained for the salvation of man,<br />God does nothing without this goal in mind."<br />--St. Catherine of Siena<br /><br /><br />17. "We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love"<br />--Blessed Mother Teresa<br /><br /><br />18. "There is no place for selfishness—and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice"<br />--Pope John Paul II<br /><br />19. "We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God´s compassionate love for others. "<br />--St. Clare of Assisi<br /><br />20. "Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider; nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is above all created things."<br />--St. Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ<br /><br />21. "Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders."<br />--St. Anthony Mary Claret (from his autobiography).<br /><br />22. "Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God."<br />--Pope John Paul II<br /><br /><br />23. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”<br />--St Augustine<br /><br /><br />24. Always remember to love your neighbor; always prefer the one who tries your patience, who test your virtue, because with her you can always merit: suffering is Love; the Law is Love.<br />--Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"<br /><br /><br />25. A soul enkindled with love is a gentle, meek, humble, and patient soul.<br />--St John of the Cross, OCD<br /><br />26. You know that our Lord does not look at the greatness or difficulty of our action, but at the love with which you do it. What, then, have you to fear?<br />--St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD<br /><br /><br />27. What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love. <br />--St John of the Cross, OCD<br /><br /><br />28. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.<br />--Saint Thomas Aquinas<br /><br />29. 'My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. Remain there always.'<br />--St. Bernadette Soubirous<br /><br />30."He alone loves the Creator perfectly<br />who manifests a pure love for his neighbor."<br />--St. Bede the Venerable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Valentine is Patron Saint of fianced couples, against fainting, bee keepers, happy marriages, love, plague, epilepsy. Say for 9 days along with 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and 1 Glory be each day: </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"O glorious advocate and protector, St Valentine,<br />look with pity upon our wants,<br />hear our requests,<br />attend to our prayers,<br />relieve by your intercession the miseries<br />under which we labour,<br />and obtain for us the divine blessing,<br />that we may be found worthy to join you<br />in praising the Almighty for all<br />eternity: through the merits of<br />Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen."</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Prayer to St. Valentine</b><br />Almighty God, grant we beseech You,<br />that we who celebrate the glorious martyrdom of St. Valentine, Your<br />servant, may by his intercession be filled with the love of God and<br />neighbor and be delivered from all the evils that threaten us.<br /><br />We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.<br /><br />Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When the LORD saw how great was man's wickedness on earth,<br />and how no desire that his heart conceived<br />was ever anything but evil,<br />he regretted that he had made man on the earth,<br />and his heart was grieved.<br /><br />So the LORD said:<br />"I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created,<br />and not only the men,<br />but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air,<br />for I am sorry that I made them."<br />But Noah found favor with the LORD.<br /><br />Then the LORD said to Noah:<br />"Go into the ark, you and all your household,<br />for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just.<br />Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs,<br />a male and its mate;<br />and of the unclean animals, one pair,<br />a male and its mate;<br />likewise, of every clean bird of the air, seven pairs,<br />a male and a female,<br />and of all the unclean birds, one pair,<br />a male and a female.<br />Thus you will keep their issue alive over all the earth.<br />Seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth<br />for forty days and forty nights,<br />and so I will wipe out from the surface of the earth<br />every moving creature that I have made."<br />Noah did just as the LORD had commanded him.<br /><br />As soon as the seven days were over,<br />the waters of the flood came upon the earth.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (11b) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord will bless his people with peace.</span><br />Give to the LORD, you sons of God,<br />give to the LORD glory and praise,<br />Give to the LORD the glory due his name;<br />adore the LORD in holy attire.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord will bless his people with peace.</span><br />The voice of the LORD is over the waters,<br />the LORD, over vast waters.<br />The voice of the LORD is mighty;<br />the voice of the LORD is majestic.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord will bless his people with peace.</span><br />The God of glory thunders,<br />and in his temple all say, "Glory!"<br />The LORD is enthroned above the flood;<br />the LORD is enthroned as king forever.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord will bless his people with peace.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The disciples had forgotten to bring bread,<br />and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.<br />Jesus enjoined them, "Watch out,<br />guard against the leaven of the Pharisees<br />and the leaven of Herod."<br />They concluded among themselves that<br />it was because they had no bread.<br />When he became aware of this he said to them,<br />"Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread?<br />Do you not yet understand or comprehend?<br />Are your hearts hardened?<br />Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?<br />And do you not remember,<br />when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand,<br />how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?"<br />They answered him, "Twelve."<br />"When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand,<br />how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?"<br />They answered him, "Seven."<br />He said to them, "Do you still not understand?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the early martyrologies, three different St. Valentines are mentioned, all sharing Feb. 14 for a feast day. The 1st -</span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0em;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A Roman Priest during the reign of Emperor Claudias II who persecuted the church at that particular time," an edict prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died."</span></div>
Valentine was caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius II. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"One of the men who was to judge him in line with the Roman law at the time was a man called Asterius, whose daughter, Julia, was blind. </span><span style="line-height: 19.9333px;"> Valentine gave Julia lessons because she needed someone to read material for her to learn it. Valentine then became friends with Julia through his work with her when she came to visit him in jail.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.9333px;">Emperor Claudius came to like Valentine, too, so he offered to pardon Valentine and set him free if Valentine would renounce his Christian faith and agree to worship the Roman gods. Not only did Valentine refuse to leave his faith, he also encouraged Emperor Claudius to place his trust in Christ. Valentine’s faithful choices cost him his life. Emperor Claudius was so enraged at Valentine’s response that he sentenced Valentine to die. Valentine </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">prayed with and healed </span><span style="line-height: 19.9333px;">Julia,</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and Asterius himself became Christian as a result.</span></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 19.9333px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Valentine used his time in jail to continue to reach out to people with the love that he said Jesus Christ gave him for others.<br />Before he was killed, Valentine wrote a last note to encourage Julia to stay close to Jesus and to thank her for being his friend. He signed the note: “From your Valentine.” That note inspired people to begin writing their own loving messages to people on Valentine’s Feast Day.<br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the year 269 AD, Valentine was sentenced to a three part execution of a beating, stoning, and finally decapitation all because of his stand for Christian marriage. The story goes that the last words he wrote were in a note to Asterius' daughter. He inspired today's romantic missives by signing it, "from your Valentine." E</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ventually, St. Valentine was also arrested, condemned to death for his faith, beaten with clubs, and finally beheaded on Feb. 14, AD 270. He was buried on the Flaminian Way. Later, Pope Julius I (333-356) built a basilica at the site which preserved St. Valentine's tomb. Archeological digs in the 1500s and 1800s have found evidence of the tomb of St. Valentine. However, in the thirteenth century, his relics were transferred to the Church of Saint Praxedes near the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where they remain today. Also, a small church was built near the Flaminian Gate of Rome which is now known as the Porta del Popolo but was called in the 12th century "the Gate of St. Valentine," as noted by the early British historian William Somerset (also known as William of Malmesbury, d. 1143), who ranks after St. Bede in authority.</span></span></span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0em 1.5em;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The second St. Valentine was the Bishop of Interamna (now Terni, located about 60 miles from Rome). Under the orders of Prefect Placidus, he too was arrested, scourged, and decapitated, again suffering persecution during the time of Emperor Claudius II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The third St. Valentine suffered martyrdom in Africa with several companions. However, nothing further is known about this saint. In all, these men, each named St. Valentine, showed heroic love for the Lord and His Church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The popular customs of showing love and affection on St. Valentine's Day is almost a coincidence with the feast day of the saint: During the Medieval Age, a common belief in England and France was that birds began to pair on Feb.14, "half-way through the second month of the year." Chaucer wrote in his "Parliament of Foules" (in Old English): "For this was on Seynt Valentyne's day, When every foul cometh ther to choose his mate." For this reason, the day was dedicated to "lovers" and prompted the sending of letters, gifts, or other signs of affection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Another literary example of St. Valentine's Day remembrances is found in Dame Elizabeth Brews "Paston Letters" (1477), where she writes to the suitor, John Paston, of her daughter, Margery: "And, cousin mine, upon Monday is St. Valentine's day and every bird chooseth himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion." In turn, Margery wrote to John: "Unto my right well beloved Valentine John Paston, Squyer, be this bill delivered. Right reverend and worshipful and my right well beloved Valentine, I recommend me unto you, full heartily desiring to hear of your welfare, which I beseech Almighty God long for to preserve until His pleasure and your heart's desire." While speaking of the amorous flavour of Valentine's Day, no mention is made of the saint. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em;">The love of our Lord, depicted beautifully in the image of His most Sacred Heart, is a sacrificial, self-less, and unconditional love. Such is the love that each Christian is called to express in his own life, for God and neighbour. Clearly, St. Valentine-no matter which one-showed such a love, bearing witness to the faith in his dedication as a priest and in the offering of his own life in martyrdom. On this Valentine's day, looking to the example of this great saint, each person should offer again his love to the Lord, for only by doing so can he properly love those who are entrusted to his care and any other neighbour. Each person should again pledge his love to those loved ones, praying for their intentions, promising fidelity to them, and thanking them for their love in return. Never forget Jesus said, "This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends" (Jn 15:12-13). St. Valentine fulfilled this command, and may we do the same. </span></div>
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827 and 826, Thessaloniki, Byzantine Empire (present-day Greece)</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />February 14, 869 and 6 April 885<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Bulgaria, Czech Republic (including Bohemia, and Moravia), Ecumenism, unity of the Eastern and Western Churches, Europe, Slovakia<br /><div class="bodytext">
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<span style="text-align: left;">BISHOPS AND CONFESSORS, APOSTLES TO THE SLAVS</span><br /><div>
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These brothers, the Apostles of the Slavs, were born in Thessalonica, in 827 and 826 respectively. Though belonging to a senatorial family they renounced secular honours and became priests. They were living in a monastery on the Bosphorous, when the Khazars sent to Constantinople for a Christian teacher. Cyril was selected and was accompanied by his brother. They learned the Khazar language and converted many of the people. Soon after the Khazar mission there was a request from the Moravians for a preacher of the Gospel. German missionaries had already laboured among them, but without success. The Moravians wished a teacher who could instruct them and conduct Divine service in the Slavonic tongue. On account of their acquaintance with the language, Cyril and Methodius were chosen for their work. In preparation for it Cyril invented an alphabet and, with the help of Methodius, translated the Gospels and the necessary liturgical books into Slavonic. They went to Moravia in 863, and laboured for four and a half years. Despite their success, they were regarded by the Germans with distrust, first because they had come from Constantinople where schism was rife, and again because they held the Church services in the Slavonic language. On this account the brothers were summoned to Rome by Nicholas I, who died, however, before their arrival. His successor, Adrian II, received them kindly. Convinced of their orthodoxy, he commended their missionary activity, sanctioned the Slavonic Liturgy, and ordained Cyril and Methodius bishops. Cyril, however, was not to return to Moravia. He died in Rome, 4 Feb., 869.</div>
At the request of the Moravian princes, Rastislav and Svatopluk, and the Slav Prince Kocel of Pannonia, Adrian II formed an Archdiocese of Moravia and Pannonia, made it independent of the German Church, and appointed Methodius archbishop. In 870 King Louis and the German bishops summoned Methodius to a synod at Ratisbon. Here he was deposed and condemned to prison. After three years he was liberated at the command of Pope John VIII and reinstated as Archbishop of Moravia. He zealously endeavoured to spread the Faith among the Bohemians, and also among the Poles in Northern Moravia. Soon, however, he was summoned to Rome again in consequence of the allegations of the German priest Wiching, who impugned his orthodoxy, and objected to the use of Slavonic in the liturgy. But John VIII, after an inquiry, sanctioned the Slavonic Liturgy, decreeing, however, that in the Mass the Gospel should be read first in Latin and then in Slavonic. Wiching, in the meantime, had been nominated one of the suffragan bishops of Methodius. He continued to oppose his metropolitan, going so far as to produce spurious papal letters. The pope, however, assured Methodius that they were false. Methodius went to Constantinople about this time, and with the assistance of several priests, he completed the translation of the Holy Scriptures, with the exception of the Books of Machabees. He translated also the "Nomocanon", i.e. the Greek ecclesiastico-civil law. The enemies of Methodius did not cease to antagonize him. His health was worn out from the long struggle, and he died 6 April, 885, recommending as his successor Gorazd, a Moravian Slav who had been his disciple.<br /><span class="bodytext">Formerly the feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius was celebrated in Bohemia and Moravia on 9 March; but Pius IX changed the date to 5 July. Leo XIII, by his Encyclical "Grande Munus" of 30 September, 1880, extended the feast to the universal Church.<br />(Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vatican Radio) <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pope Francis</strong> on Monday spoke of the importance of the bond of brotherhood and of how easy it is for petty jealousies and envy to damage that bond and set off a process that can lead to the destruction of families and peoples.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope was speaking during the homily at morning <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mass</strong> at the <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Casa Santa Marta</strong>, a Mass that he offered to Father Adolfo Nicolás, the former Superior General of the Society of Jesus who is preparing to continue in his mission in Asia. engy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reflecting on the first reading of the day which speaks of Cain and Abel, Pope Francis said that in this reading from Genesis, for the first time in Bible we hear the word ‘brother’ and we listen to a “story of brotherhood that should grow and be beautiful, but ends up destroyed”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“A story which begins ‘with a little jealousy’: Cain is irritated because his sacrifice does not please the Lord and he begins to cultivate a feeling of resentment, a feeling he could control but does not” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope said Cain chose to harbor this sentiment and let it grow. The sin he will then commit is crouching within this sentiment. This, he continued, is how enmity between us begins with a tiny spark of jealousy or envy, and ends up growing so much that we see life only from that point of view: “the speck of sawdust becomes a plank in our eye, our life revolves around it and it ends up destroying the bond of brotherhood; it destroys fraternity.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Gradually, the Pope said, one becomes “obsessed, persecuted” by that evil that grows and grows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He said that this leads one to detach oneself from one’s brother turning him into an enemy who must be destroyed. “This enmity, he continued, ends up destroying families, peoples, everything!”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“This is what happened to Cain who ended up killing his brother” he said pointing out that this process must be stopped immediately, at the very first sign of bitterness and resentment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Bitterness is not Christian. Pain is, but not bitterness. Resentment is not a Christian” he said.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The blood of many people cries out to God from the soil</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Taking note of the fact at the Mass at Santa Marta on Monday there were some newly appointed parish priests, Pope Francis urged them to be aware that “even within our episcopal colleagues” there are small cracks and rifts that can lead to the destruction of brotherhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When God, he said, asks Cain: “Where is your brother Abel? Cain's answer is ironic: I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yes, the Pope said: you are your brother's keeper. And the Lord then said: “your brother’s blood cries out to me from the soil!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Each of us - the Pope explained - can say we have never killed anyone, but anyone who has a bad sentiment towards his brother has killed him: “if you insult your brother, you have killed him in your heart”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And turning his thoughts to those who find themselves under the bombs of war or who are driven from their homes as “they are not brothers” he said the process of killing starts from something small.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“How many powerful people of the world can say: I'm interested in this area, I'm interested in this piece of land… if a bomb falls and kills 200 children it is not my fault, it’s the fault of the bomb. I'm just interested in the land…” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It all begins, Pope Francis said, with that feeling that makes you break away, not recognizing your brother, and it ends in a war that kills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This, he said, is the process of bloodshed, and the blood of so many people in the world today cries out to God from the soil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope concluded his homily asking the Lord to help us to repeat His words: “Where is your brother?” and to think of those who “we destroy with our tongues” and of those who “in the world are treated as things and not as brothers, because a piece of land is more important than the bond of brotherhood”.</span></div>
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25th World Day of the Sick is 11 February 2017, the commemoration of Our Lady of Lourdes.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Day of the Sick was instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1992.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please find below the text of Pope Francis’ message:</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear Brothers and Sisters,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 11 February next, the Twenty-fifth World Day of the Sick will be celebrated throughout the Church and in a special way at Lourdes. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Amazement at what God has accomplished: ‘The Almighty has done great things for me….’” (Lk 1:49). Instituted by my predecessor Saint John Paul II in 1992, and first celebrated at Lourdes on 11 February 1993, this Day is an opportunity to reflect in particular on the needs of the sick and, more generally, of all those who suffer. It is also an occasion for those who generously assist the sick, beginning with family members, health workers and volunteers, to give thanks for their God-given vocation of accompanying our infirm brothers and sisters. This celebration likewise gives the Church renewed spiritual energy for carrying out ever more fully that fundamental part of her mission which includes serving the poor, the infirm, the suffering, the outcast and the marginalized (cf. JOHN PAUL II, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum</em>, 11 February 1985, 1). Surely, the moments of prayer, the Eucharistic liturgies and the celebrations of the Anointing of the Sick, the sharing with the sick and the bioethical and theological-pastoral workshops to be held in Lourdes in those days will make new and significant contributions to that service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even now, I am spiritually present at the grotto of Massabielle, before the statue of the Immaculate Virgin, in whom the Almighty has done great things for the redemption of mankind. I express my closeness to all of you, our suffering brothers and sisters, and to your families, as well as my appreciation for all those in different roles of service and in healthcare institutions throughout the world who work with professionalism, responsibility and dedication for your care, treatment and daily well-being. I encourage all of you, the sick, the suffering, physicians, nurses, family members and volunteers, to see in Mary, Health of the Infirm, the sure sign of God’s love for every human being and a model of surrender to his will. May you always find in faith, nourished by the Word and by the Sacraments, the strength needed to love God, even in the experience of illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like Saint Bernadette, we stand beneath the watchful gaze of Mary. The humble maiden of Lourdes tells us that the Virgin, whom she called “the Lovely Lady”, looked at her as one person looks at another. Those simple words describe the fullness of a relationship. Bernadette, poor, illiterate and ill, felt that Mary was looking at her as a person. The Lovely Lady spoke to her with great respect and without condescension. This reminds us that every person is, and always remains, a human being, and is to be treated as such. The sick and the those who are disabled, even severely, have their own inalienable dignity and mission in life. They never become simply objects. If at times they appear merely passive, in reality that is never the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After her visit to the Grotto, thanks to her prayer, Bernadette turned her frailty into support for others. Thanks to her love, she was able to enrich her neighbours and, above all, to offer her life for the salvation of humanity. The fact that the Lovely Lady asked her to pray for sinners reminds us that the infirm and the suffering desire not only to be healed, but also to live a truly Christian life, even to the point of offering it as authentic missionary disciples of Christ. Mary gave Bernadette the vocation of serving the sick and called her to become a Sister of Charity, a mission that she carried out in so exemplary a way as to become a model for every healthcare worker. Let us ask Mary Immaculate for the grace always to relate to the sick as persons who certainly need assistance, at times even for the simplest of things, but who have a gift of their own to share with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The gaze of Mary, Comfort of the Afflicted, brightens the face of the Church in her daily commitment to the suffering and those in need. The precious fruits of this solicitude for the world of suffering and sickness are a reason for gratitude to the Lord Jesus, who out of obedience to the will of the Father became one of us, even enduring death on the cross for the redemption of humanity. The solidarity shown by Christ, the Son of God born of Mary, is the expression of God’s merciful omnipotence, which is made manifest in our life – above all when that life is frail, pain-filled, humbled, marginalized and suffering – and fills it with the power of hope that can sustain us and enable us to get up again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This great wealth of humanity and faith must not be dissipated. Instead, it should inspire us to speak openly of our human weaknesses and to address the challenges of present-day healthcare and technology. On this World Day of the Sick, may we find new incentive to work for the growth of a culture of respect for life, health and the environment. May this Day also inspire renewed efforts to defend the integrity and dignity of persons, not least through a correct approach to bioethical issues, the protection of the vulnerable and the protection of the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On this Twenty-fifth World Day of the Sick, I once more offer my prayerful support and encouragement to physicians, nurses, volunteers and all those consecrated men and women committed to serving the sick and those in need. I also embrace the ecclesial and civil institutions working to this end, and the families who take loving care of their sick. I pray that all may be ever joyous signs of the presence of God’s love and imitate the luminous testimony of so many friends of God, including Saint John of God and Saint Camillus de’ Lellis, the patrons of hospitals and healthcare workers, and Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, missionary of God’s love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear brothers and sisters – the sick, healthcare workers and volunteers – I ask you to join me in praying to Mary. May her maternal intercession sustain and accompany our faith, and obtain for us from Christ her Son hope along our journey of healing and of health, a sense of fraternity and responsibility, a commitment to integral human development and the joy of feeling gratitude whenever God amazes us by his fidelity and his mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mary, our Mother,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Christ you welcome each of us as a son or daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sustain the trusting expectation of our hearts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">succour us in our infirmities and sufferings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and guide us to Christ, your Son and our brother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Help us to entrust ourselves to the Father who accomplishes great things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the assurance of a constant remembrance in my prayers, I cordially impart to all of you my Apostolic Blessing.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8 December 2016, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>NOVENA</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Preliminary Prayer </strong>to be said each day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, you know our wants, our troubles, our sufferings; deign to cast upon us a look of mercy. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors, and already many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical. We come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore your maternal intercession. Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the granting of our request. (mention your request) Through gratitude for your favors, we will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that we may one day share your glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your Divine son while upon earth. You have the same influence now in Heaven. Pray for us; obtain for us from your Divine Son our special requests if it be the Divine Will. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY ONE</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> O Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, virgin and mother, queen of heaven, chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of the Eternal Word and in virtue of this title preserved from original sin, we kneel before you as did little Bernadette at Lourdes and pray with childlike trust in you that as we contemplate your glorious appearance at Lourdes, you will look with mercy on our present petition and secure for us a favorable answer to the request for which we are making this novena. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY TWO</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest yourself shining with light, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child Saint Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception!" O Mary Immaculate, inflame our hearts with one ray of the burning love of your pure heart. Let them be consumed with love for Jesus and for you, in order that we may merit one day to enjoy your glorious eternity. O dispenser of His graces here below, take into your keeping and present to your Divine Son the petition for which we are making this novena. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY THREE</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> "You are all fair, O Mary, and there is in you no stain of original sin." O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. O brilliant star of sanctity, as on that lovely day, upon a rough rock in Lourdes you spoke to the child Bernadette and a fountain broke from thee plain earth and miracles happened and the great shrine of Lourdes began, so now I beseech you to hear our fervent prayer and do, we beseech you, grant us the petition we now so earnestly seek. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY FOUR</strong><br />Wednesday, February 6, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Immaculate Queen of Heaven, we your wayward, erring children, join our unworthy prayers of praise and thanksgiving to those of the angels and saints and your own the One, Holy, and Undivided Trinity may be glorified in heaven and on earth. Our Lady of Lourdes, as you looked down with love and mercy upon Bernadette as she prayed her rosary in the grotto, look down now, we beseech you, with love and mercy upon us. From the abundance of graces granted you by your Divine Son, sweet Mother of God, give to each of us all that your motherly heart sees we need and at this moment look with special favor on the grace we seek in this novena. (mention your request)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY FIVE</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> O Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our mother, from the heights of your dignity look down mercifully upon us while we, full of confidence in your unbounded goodness and confident that your Divine Son will look favorably upon any request you make of Him in our behalf, we beseech you to come to our aid and secure for us the favor we seek in this novena. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY SIX</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> O glorious Mother of God, so powerful under your special title of Our Lady of Lourdes, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare and for the special favor we so earnestly seek in this novena. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Lady of Bernadette, with the stars of heaven in your hair and the roses of earth at your feet, look with compassion upon us today as you did so long ago on Bernadette in the Grotto of Lourdes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY SEVEN</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> O Almighty God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary did prepare a worthy dwelling place for your Son, we humbly beseech you that as we contemplate the apparition of Our Lady in the Grotto of Lourdes, we may be blessed with health of mind and body. And, O most gracious Mother Mary, beloved Mother of Our Lord and Redeemer, look with favor upon us as you did that day on Bernadette and intercede with Him for us that the favor we now so earnestly seek may be granted to us. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY EIGHT</strong><span style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"> O Immaculate Mother of God, from heaven itself you came to appear to the little Bernadette in the rough Grotto of Lourdes! And as Bernadette knelt at your feet and the magic spring burst forth and as multitudes have knelt ever since before your shrine, O Mother of God, we kneel before you today to ask that in your mercy you plead with your Divine Son to grant the special favor we seek in this novena. (mention your request)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">DAY NINE</strong><br />Feast Day: Our Lady of Lourdes<br />(First apparition to St. Bernadette)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O glorious Mother of god, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly for the grace of a happy death. O Mother of our Divine Lord, as we conclude this novena for the special favor we seek at this time. (mention your request) We feel animated with confidence that your prayers in our behalf will be graciously heard. O Mother of My Lord, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ and for the glory of His Name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saint Bernadette, pray for us.</span></div>
<b><u>LITANY OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES</u></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Lord, have mercy on us.<br />Christ, have mercy on us.<br />Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.<br />Christ, graciously hear us.<br />God the Father of Heaven,<br />Have mercy on us.<br />God the Son, Redeemer of the world,<br />Have mercy on us.<br />God the Holy Ghost,<br />Have mercy on us.<br />Holy Trinity, one God,<br />Have mercy on us.<br /><br /><br />Exalted model of all mothers,<br />Pray for us.*<br />Mother who didst suffer so much,*<br />Mother poor and without shelter,*<br />Mother who didst bear along forgotten roads the fruit of thy womb,*<br />Who didst find no other shelter for thy Son and thy God than a wild cave, and no other cradle than a manger,*<br />Who didst declare: "I am the Immaculate Conception,*<br />Who didst appear to an humble peasant girl in order to teach us humility,*<br />Who wast clad in a white robe to remind us of purity,*<br />Who didst wear a girdle of blue to remind us of Heaven,*<br />Who didst tread on a rose bush to remind us of the sufferings we must endure in order to merit Heaven,*<br />Who didst carry the Rosary to induce us to pray,*<br />Who hadst thy hands joined and thy eyes raised to Heaven to draw us to penance,*<br />Who art the Star of Hope,*<br />Who dost pray to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for us,*<br />Who dost give strength to the clergy,*<br />Who dost heal the sick,*<br />Who art the health of the weak,*<br />Refuge of sinners,*<br />Comforter of the afflicted,*<br /><br /><br />Our Lady of Lourdes, conceived without sin:<br />Pray for us who have recourse to thee.<br /><br /><br />Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world:<br />Spare its, O Lord.<br />Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world:<br />Graciously hear us, O Lord.<br />Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world:<br />Have mercy on us.<br /><br /><br />Christ, hear us.<br />Christ, graciously hear us,<br /><br /><br />V. Pray for us, Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Mother of God:<br />R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.<br /><br />Let us pray:</span><span style="text-align: center;"></span><span style="text-align: center;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">O</span> God, Who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin didst prepare a worthy habitation for Thy Son: we humbly beseech Thee, that we who celebrate the feast of the Apparition of the same holy Virgin, may obtain health both of soul and body. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reading 1GN 3:9-24</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The LORD God called to Adam and asked him, "Where are you?"<br />He answered, "I heard you in the garden;<br />but I was afraid, because I was naked,<br />so I hid myself."<br />Then he asked, "Who told you that you were naked?<br />You have eaten, then,<br />from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!"<br />The man replied, "The woman whom you put here with meB<br />she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it."<br />The LORD God then asked the woman,<br />"Why did you do such a thing?"<br />The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it."<br /><br />Then the LORD God said to the serpent:<br /><br />"Because you have done this, you shall be banned<br />from all the animals<br />and from all the wild creatures;<br />On your belly shall you crawl,<br />and dirt shall you eat<br />all the days of your life.<br />I will put enmity between you and the woman,<br />and between your offspring and hers;<br />He will strike at your head,<br />while you strike at his heel."<br /><br />To the woman he said:<br /><br />"I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing;<br />in pain shall you bring forth children.<br />Yet your urge shall be for your husband,<br />and he shall be your master."<br /><br />To the man he said: "Because you listened to your wife<br />and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,<br /><br />"Cursed be the ground because of you!<br />In toil shall you eat its yield<br />all the days of your life.<br />Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you,<br />as you eat of the plants of the field.<br />By the sweat of your face<br />shall you get bread to eat,<br />Until you return to the ground,<br />from which you were taken;<br />For you are dirt,<br />and to dirt you shall return."<br />The man called his wife Eve,<br />because she became the mother of all the living.<br /><br />For the man and his wife the LORD God made leather garments,<br />with which he clothed them.<br />Then the LORD God said: "See! The man has become like one of us,<br />knowing what is good and what is evil!<br />Therefore, he must not be allowed to put out his hand<br />to take fruit from the tree of life also,<br />and thus eat of it and live forever."<br />The LORD God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden,<br />to till the ground from which he had been taken.<br />When he expelled the man,<br />he settled him east of the garden of Eden;<br />and he stationed the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword,<br />to guard the way to the tree of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (1) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.</span><br />Before the mountains were begotten<br />and the earth and the world were brought forth,<br />from everlasting to everlasting you are God.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.</span><br />You turn man back to dust,<br />saying, "Return, O children of men."<br />For a thousand years in your sight<br />are as yesterday, now that it is past,<br />or as a watch of the night.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.</span><br />You make an end of them in their sleep;<br />the next morning they are like the changing grass,<br />Which at dawn springs up anew,<br />but by evening wilts and fades.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.</span><br />Teach us to number our days aright,<br />that we may gain wisdom of heart.<br />Return, O LORD! How long?<br />Have pity on your servants!<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AlleluiaMT 4:4B</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />One does not live on bread alone,<br />but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GospelMK 8:1-10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat,<br />Jesus summoned the disciples and said,<br />"My heart is moved with pity for the crowd,<br />because they have been with me now for three days<br />and have nothing to eat.<br />If I send them away hungry to their homes,<br />they will collapse on the way,<br />and some of them have come a great distance."<br />His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get enough bread<br />to satisfy them here in this deserted place?"<br />Still he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"<br />They replied, "Seven."<br />He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.<br />Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them,<br />and gave them to his disciples to distribute,<br />and they distributed them to the crowd.<br />They also had a few fish.<br />He said the blessing over them<br />and ordered them distributed also.<br />They ate and were satisfied.<br />They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets.<br />There were about four thousand people.<br /><br />He dismissed the crowd and got into the boat with his disciples<br />and came to the region of Dalmanutha.</span></div>
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<span class="bodytext">The pilgrimage of Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux. The first apparition occurred 11 February, 1858. There were eighteen in all; the last took place 16 July, of the same year. Bernadette often fell into an ecstasy. The mysterious vision she saw in the hollow of the rock Massabielle was that of a young and beautiful lady. "Lovelier than I have ever seen" said the child. But the girl was the only one who saw the vision, although sometimes many stood there with her. Now and then the apparition spoke to the seer who also was the only one who heard the voice. Thus, she one day told her to drink of a mysterious fountain, in the grotto itself, the existence of which was unknown, and of which there was no sign, but which immediately gushed forth. On another occasion the apparition bade Bernadette go and tell the priests she wished a chapel to be built on the spot and processions to be made to the grotto. At first the clergy were incredulous. It was only four years later, in 1862, that the bishop of the diocese declared the faithful "justified in believing the reality of the apparition". A basilica was built upon the rock of Massabielle by M. Peyramale, the parish priest. In 1873 the great "national" French pilgrimages were inaugurated. Three years later the basilica was consecrated and the statue solemnly crowned. In 1883 the foundation stone of another church was laid, as the first was no longer large enough. It was built at the foot of the basilica and was consecrated in 1901 and called the Church of the Rosary. Pope Leo XIII authorized a special office and a Mass, in commemoration of the apparition, and in 1907 Pius X extended the observance of this feast to the entire Church; it is now observed on 11 February.</span></div>
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Never has a sanctuary attracted such throngs. At the end of the year 1908, when the fiftieth anniversary of the apparition was celebrated, although the record really only began from 1867, 5297 pilgrimages had been registered and these had brought 4,919,000 pilgrims. Individual pilgrims are more numerous by far than those who come in groups. To their number must be added the visitors who do not come as pilgrims, but who are attracted by a religious feeling or sometimes merely by the desire to see this far-famed spot. The Company of the Chemins de Fer du Midi estimates that the Lourdes station receives over one million travellers per annum. Every nation in the world furnishes its contingent. Out of the total of pilgrimages given above, four hundred and sixty-four came from countries other than France. They are sent by the United States, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, Ireland, Canada, Brazil, Bolivia, etc. The bishops lead the way. At the end of the year of the fiftieth anniversary, 2013 prelates, including 546 archbishops, 10 primates, 19 patriarchs, 69 cardinals, had made the pilgrimage to Lourdes. But more remarkable still than the crowd of pilgrims is the series of wonderful occurrences which take place under the protection of the celebrated sanctuary. Passing over spiritual cures, which more often than not escape human observance, we shall confine ourselves to bodily diseases. The writer of this article has recorded every recovery, whether partial or complete, and in the first half-century of the shrine's existence he has counted 3962. Notwithstanding very careful statistics which give the names and surnames of the patients who have recovered, the date of the cure, the name of the disease, and generally that of the physician who had charge of the case, there are inevitably doubtful or mistaken cases, attributable, as a rule, to the excited fancy of the afflicted one and which time soon dispels. But it is only right to note: first, that these unavoidable errors regard only secondary cases which have not like the others been the object of special study; it must also be noted that the number of cases is equalled and exceeded by actual cures which are not put on record. The afflicted who have recovered are not obliged to present themselves and half of them do not present themselves, at the Bureau des Constatations Médicales at Lourdes, and it is from this bureau's official reports that the list of cures is drawn up.</div>
<span class="bodytext">The estimate that about 4000 cures have been obtained at Lourdes within the first fifty years of the pilgrimage is undoubtedly considerably less than the actual number. The Bureau des Constatations stands near the shrine, and there are recorded and checked the certificates of maladies and also the certificates of cure; it is free to all physicians, whatever their nationality or religious belief. Consequently, on an average, from two to three hundred physicians annual visit this marvellous clinic. As to the nature of the diseases which are cured, nervous disorders so frequently mentioned, do not furnish even the fourteenth part of the whole; 278 have been counted, out of a total of 3962. The present writer has published the number of cases of each disease or infirmity, among them tuberculosis, tumours, sores, cancers, deafness, blindness, etc. The "Annales des Sciences Physiques", a sceptical review whose chief editor is Doctor Ch. Richet, Professor at the Medical Faculty of Paris, said in the course of a long article, apropos of this faithful study: "On reading it, unprejudiced minds cannot but be convinced that the facts stated are authentic."<br /><br /><em>(Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia)</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Song of Bernadette (1943) 156 min - Biography | Drama - April 1945 (USA) The Apparitions occurred in 1858 France. <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.03px;">Based on the novel by Franz Werfel, "The Song of Bernadette" is a sympathetic account of the life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a sickly (asthmatic) French peasant girl who claimed to have seen 18 miraculous visions of a "beautiful lady" near her home village of Lourdes in 1858. Bernadette had become so happily excited by her initial vision, which she claimed included her having been instructed by this "beautiful lady" to return each day for 15 days*.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.03px;" />Director: Henry King Writers: George Seaton (screenplay), Franz Werfel (novel) Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe |</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Vatican Radio) In the weakness of temptation, which we all experience, the grace of Jesus helps us to not hide ourselves from the Lord, but to seek forgiveness in order to get up and go forward. That was Pope Francis’ message during the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father was reflecting on the devil’s temptation both of Adam and Eve, in the first Reading, and of Jesus in the Gospel. With Satan, the Pope said, there is no dialogue, because dialogue with the devil ends in sin and corruption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Temptations lead us to hide ourselves from the Lord, so that we remain with our “fault,” our “sin,” our “corruption.” Beginning with the first Reading, from the Book of Genesis, Pope Francis focused on the temptation of Adam and Eve, and then considered that of Jesus in the desert. The devil appears in the form of a serpent: he is “attractive,” and with his cunning he seeks “to deceive.” In this he is a specialist, he is “the father of lies,” “a liar.” So he knows how to deceive and how to “cheat” people. This is what he did with Eve: he made her “feel good,” the Pope explained, and so he began to dialogue with her; and, step by step, Satan led her where he wanted. With Jesus it is different; it ended badly for the devil, the Pope said. “He tries to dialogue” with Christ, because when the devil deceives a person he does so with dialogue.” He attempts to deceive Him, but Jesus does not give in. Then the devil is revealed for who he is. Jesus answers him, not with His own words, but with the Word of God, because “you can’t dialogue with the devil”; you’ll end up, like Adam and Eve, “naked”:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The devil is a bad paymaster, he doesn’t pay well. He is a cheat! He promises you everything and leaves you naked. Jesus, too, ended up naked, but on the Cross, through obedience to the Father: this is a different path. The serpent, the devil is cunning: you can’t dialogue with the devil. We all know what temptations are, we all know, because we all have them. So many temptations! Of vanity, pride, greed, avarice… so many!”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today, the Pope said, there is a lot of talk of corruption; and for this, too, we should ask for the Lord’s help:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“There are so many corrupt people, corrupt ‘big fish’ in the world, whose lives we read about in the papers. Perhaps they began with a small thing, I don’t know, maybe not adjusting the scales well. What was a kilo… no, let’s make it 900 grams, but that will seem like a kilo. Corruption begins in small things like this, with dialogue: ‘No, it’s not true that this fruit will harm you. Eat it, it’s good! It’s a little thing, no one will notice. Do it! Do it!’ And little by little, little by little, you fall into sin, you fall into corruption.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Church teaches us in this way, the Pope said, so we will not be deceived – not to say foolish – so that when we are tempted we have our “eyes open” and know to ask the Lord for help, “because we can’t do it on our own.” Adam and Eve hid themselves from the Lord; on the contrary, it takes the grace of Jesus in order to “turn and seek forgiveness”:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“In temptation, you don’t dialogue, you pray: ‘Help me, Lord, I am weak. I don’t want to hide from you.’ This is courage, this is winning. When you start to dialogue, you end up overcome, defeated. May the Lord give us that grace, and accompany us in this courage. And if we are deceived because of our weakness in temptation, may He grant us the courage to get up and go forward. It’s for this that Jesus came, for this.”</span></em></div>
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<u><b>Feast Day:</b></u><br />
February 10<br />
<b><u>Born:</u></b><br />
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480, Nursia, Italy</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />
543<br />
<u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />
convulsive children; nuns; invoked against storms and rain<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">BENEDICTINE ABBESS AND FOUNDER, VIRGIN</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“St. Gregory tells us that St. Benedict governed nuns as well as monks, and it seems clear that St. Scholastica must have been their abbess, under his direction. She used to visit her brother once a year and, since she was not allowed to enter his monastery, he used to go with some of his monks to meet her at a house a little way off. They spent these visits praising God and in conversing together on spiritual matters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“St. Gregory gives a remarkable description of the last of these visits. After they had passed the day as usual they sat down in the evening to have supper. When it was finished, Scholastica, possibly foreseeing that it would be their last interview in this world, begged her brother to delay his return till the next day that they might spend the time discoursing of the joys of Heaven. Benedict, who was unwilling to transgress his rule, told her that he could not pass a night away from his monastery. When Scholastica found that she could not move him, she laid her head upon her hands which were clasped together on the table and besought God to interpose on her behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Her prayer was scarcely ended when there arose such a violent storm of rain with thunder and lightning that St. Benedict and his companions were unable to set foot outside the door. He exclaimed, ‘God forgive you, sister; what have you done?’ Whereupon she answered, ‘I asked a favour of you and you refused it. I asked it of God, and He has granted it.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Benedict was therefore forced to comply with her request, and they spent the night talking about holy things and about the felicity of the blessed to which they both ardently aspired and which she was soon to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The next morning they parted, and three days later St. Scholastica died. St. Benedict was at the time alone in his cell absorbed in prayer when, lifting up his eyes, he saw his sister’s soul ascending to Heaven as a dove. Filled with joy at her happiness, he thanked God and announced her death to his brethren. He then sent some of the monks to fetch her body which he placed in a tomb which he had prepared for himself.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Edited from Butler's Lives of the Saints</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals<br />that the LORD God had made.<br />The serpent asked the woman,<br />"Did God really tell you not to eat<br />from any of the trees in the garden?"<br />The woman answered the serpent:<br />"We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;<br />it is only about the fruit of the tree<br />in the middle of the garden that God said,<br />'You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.'"<br />But the serpent said to the woman:<br />"You certainly will not die!<br />No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it<br />your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods<br />who know what is good and what is evil."<br />The woman saw that the tree was good for food,<br />pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.<br />So she took some of its fruit and ate it;<br />and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,<br />and he ate it.<br />Then the eyes of both of them were opened,<br />and they realized that they were naked;<br />so they sewed fig leaves together<br />and made loincloths for themselves.<br /><br />When they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden<br />at the breezy time of the day,<br />the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God<br />among the trees of the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R. (1a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven.</span><br />Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,<br />whose sin is covered.<br />Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,<br />in whose spirit there is no guile.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven.</span><br />Then I acknowledged my sin to you,<br />my guilt I covered not.<br />I said, "I confess my faults to the LORD,"<br />and you took away the guilt of my sin.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven. </span><br />For this shall every faithful man pray to you<br />in time of stress.<br />Though deep waters overflow,<br />they shall not reach him.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven.</span><br />You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me;<br />with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jesus left the district of Tyre<br />and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,<br />into the district of the Decapolis.<br />And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment<br />and begged him to lay his hand on him.<br />He took him off by himself away from the crowd.<br />He put his finger into the man's ears<br />and, spitting, touched his tongue;<br />then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him,<br />"<em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ephphatha</em>!" (that is, "Be opened!")<br />And immediately the man's ears were opened,<br />his speech impediment was removed,<br />and he spoke plainly.<br />He ordered them not to tell anyone.<br />But the more he ordered them not to,<br />the more they proclaimed it.<br />They were exceedingly astonished and they said,<br />"He has done all things well.<br />He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."</span></div>
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A holy virgin who suffered martyrdom in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians previous to the persecution of Decius (end of 248, or beginning of 249). During the festivities commemorative of the first millenary of the Roman Empire, the agitation of the heathen populace rose to a great height, and when one of their poets prophesied a calamity, they committed bloody outrages on the Christians whom the authorities made no effort to protect. The great Dionysius, then Bishop of Alexandria (247-265), relates the sufferings of his people in a letter addressed to Fabius, Bishop of Antioch, long extracts from which Eusebius has preserved for us (Church History I.6.41). After describing how a Christian man and woman, named respectively Metras and Quinta, were seized by the seditious mob and put to death with the most cruel tortures, and how the houses of several other Christians were completely pillaged, Dionysius continues: "At that time Apollonia the parthénos presbûtis (virgo presbytera, by which he very probably means not a virgin advanced in years, but a deaconess) was held in high esteem. These men seized her also and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words (either a blasphemy against Christ, or an invocation of the heathen gods). Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death." Apollonia belongs, therefore, to that class of early Christian martyrs who did not await the death they were threatened with, but either to preserve their chastity, or because confronted with the alternative of renouncing their faith or suffering death, voluntarily embraced the latter in the form prepared for them. In the honour paid to her martyrs the Church made no distinction between these women and others. St. Augustine touches on this question in the first book of the "City of God", apropos of suicide (City of God I.26); "But, they say, during the time of persecution certain holy women plunged into the water with the intention of being swept away by the waves and drowned, and thus preserve their threatened chastity. Although they quitted life in this wise, nevertheless they receive high honour as martyrs in the Catholic Church and their feasts are observed with great ceremony. This is a matter on which I dare not pass judgment lightly. For I know not but that the Church was divinely authorized through trustworthy revelations to honour thus the memory of these Christians. It may be that such is the case. May it not be, too, that these acted in such a manner, not through human caprice but on the command of God, not erroneously but through obedience, as we must believe in the case of Samson? When, however, God gives a command and makes it clearly known, who would account obedience thereto a crime or condemn such pious devotion and ready service?" The narrative of Dionysius does not suggest the slightest reproach as to this act of St. Apollonia; in his eyes she was as much a martyr as the others, and as such she was revered in the Alexandrian Church. In time, her feast was also popular in the West. A later legend assigned a similar martyrdom to Apollonia, a Christian virgin of Rome in the reign of Julian the Apostate. There was, however, but one martyr of this name, i.e. the Saint of Alexandria. The Roman Church celebrates her memory on 9 February, and she is popularly invoked against the toothache because of the torments she had to endure. She is represented in art with pincers in which a tooth is held. There was a church dedicated to her at Rome but it no longer exists. The little square, however, in which it stood is still called "Piazza Sant' Apollonia".<br />
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Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Last Wednesday, we saw that, in the First Letter to the Thessalonians, Saint Paul exhorts to remain rooted in the hope of the resurrection (cf. 5:4-11), with those beautiful words “we shall always be with the Lord” (4:17). In the same context, the Apostle shows that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christian hope </em>does not only have personal, individual breadth, but <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">communitarian, ecclesial. </em>We all hope; we all have hope, also communally.</div>
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Paul’s gaze is immediately widened to all the realities that make up the Christian community, asking them to pray for one another and to support each other — to help one another. But not only to help one another in needs, in the many needs of daily life, but to help one another <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">in hope, </em>to support each other in hope. And it is no accident that he begins in fact making reference to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">those to whom responsibility and pastoral guidance is entrusted. </em>They are the first to be called to nourish hope, and this, not because they are better than the others, but by virtue of a divine ministry that goes well beyond their strength. Therefore, they are all the more in need of respect, of understanding and of the benevolent support of all.</div>
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Attention is then drawn to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">brothers that in the main risk losing hope, </em>of falling into despair. We always have news of people that fall into despair and do awful things …Despair leads them to so many awful things. The reference is to one who is discouraged, who is weak, and who feels beaten by the weight of life and of his faults and is unable to be relieved. In these cases, the closeness and warmth of the whole Church must be more intense and loving, and must assume the exquisite form of compassion, which is not to have pity: compassion is to suffer with the other, to suffer with the other, to get close to one who suffers: a word, a caress, but it must come from the heart; this is compassion, for one who is in need of comfort and consolation. This is all that much more important: Christian hope can do no less than genuine and concrete charity. In the Letter to the Romans, the Apostle of the Gentiles himself affirms, with his heart in his hand: “We who are strong, ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves” (15:1) — to bear, to bear the weaknesses of others. This testimony, then, does not remain closed in the confines of the Christian community: it resounds also in all its vigor outside, in the social and civil context, as an appeal to not create walls but bridges, to not return evil for evil, to overcome evil with goodness, an offense with forgiveness, — a Christian can never, never say: he’ll pay for this! This isn’t a Christian gesture; an offense is overcome with forgiveness –, to live in peace with all. This is the Church! And this is what brings about Christian hope, when it assumes strong guidelines and at the same time the tenderness of love. Love is strong and tender; it is beautiful.</div>
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Then we understand that one does not learn to hope on one’s own. No one learns to hope on his own. It is not possible. To be nourished, hope <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">necessarily has need of a “body,” </em>in which the various members support and revive one another. This means then that, if we hope, it is because many of our brothers and sisters have taught us to hope and have kept our hope alive. And distinguished among these are <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the little ones, the poor, the simple and the marginalized. </em>Yes, because he knows not hope who is closed in his well-being: he hopes only in his well-being and this is not hope: it is relative security; he knows not hope who closes himself in his contentment, who always feels right …</div>
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Instead, those hope who every day experience trials, precariousness and their own limitation. It is these brothers who give us the most beautiful, the strongest testimony, because they remain firm in their entrustment to the Lord, knowing that, beyond the sadness, the oppression and of the ineluctability of death, the last word will be His, and it will be a word of mercy, of life and of peace. One who hopes, hopes to hear one day these words: “Come, come to me, brother; come, come to me, sister, for all eternity.”</div>
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Dear friends, if – as we have said – the natural dwelling of hope is a supportive “body,” in the case of Christian hope this body is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Church</em>, while the vital breath, the soul of this hope is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Holy Spirit</em>. See then why the Apostle Paul invites us at the end to invoke Him continually. If it is not easy to believe, much less so is it to hope. It is more difficult to hope than to believe; it is more difficult. However, when the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts, it is He who makes us understand that we must not fear, that the Lord is close and takes care of us; and it is He who molds our communities, in a perennial Pentecost, as living signs of hope for the human family. Thank you.</div>
[Original text: Italian] <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><br />
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A warm welcome goes to the Italian-speaking pilgrims. I greet the Committee of the World Day of Prayer against the Trafficking of Persons. I want to see you, stand up! There. Thank you for what you do; thank you! I greet the young people participating in the meeting organized by the Youth Movement of the European Popular Party and the Scholastic Band of Negrar, which I thank for the enjoyable performance.</div>
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I greet the parish groups, the “Via Condotti” Association of Rome and the “Eduardo De Filippo” Didactic Circle of Santa Maria La Carita. I hope that for all of you the meeting with the Successor of Peter gives new impetus to faith, reinforces hope and renders charity industrious.</div>
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Finally, I greet young people, the sick and newlyweds. May today’s memorial of Sister Josephine Bakhita , who as a child was a victim of trafficking, increase in you, dear young people, attention to your more disadvantaged contemporaries and in difficulty; may it help you, dear sick to offer your sufferings for the Christian education of the new generations; and may it encourage you, dear newlyweds, to trust in the help of Providence and not only in your capacities. Marriage without God’s help does not go forward, we must ask for it every day. And you, dear sick, next Saturday is the day of prayer for you to Our Lady of Lourdes: we shall do so all together. Thank you.</div>
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Proclaimed Blessed yesterday at Osaka in Japan was Justin Takayama Ukon, Japanese lay faithful, who died a martyr at Manila in 1615. Rather than descend into compromises, he gave up honors and affluence, accepting humiliation and exile. He remained faithful to Christ and to the Gospel. Therefore, he represents an admirable example of fortitude in the faith and of dedication in charity.</div>
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Observed today is the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">World Day of Prayer and Reflection against the Trafficking of Persons, </em>dedicated this year in particular to children and adolescents. I encourage all those that, in various ways, help enslaved and abused minors to be liberated from such oppression. I hope that all those who have the responsibility of government will combat this plague with determination, giving voice to our littlest brothers, humiliated in their dignity. Every effort must be made to vanquish this shameful and intolerable crime.</div>
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Next Saturday, memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">25<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> World Day of the Sick </em>will be observed. The main celebration will take place at Lourdes and will be presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State. I invite you to pray, through the intercession of our Holy Mother, for all the sick, especially for the most grave and most alone, and also for all those who look after them.</div>
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I turn to today’s celebration, the Day of Prayer and Reflection against the Trafficking of Persons, which is being observed today because today is the feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita [he shows a brochure that talks about her]. This girl, enslaved in Africa, exploited, humiliated, did not lose hope and carried forward the faith, and ended by arriving as a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">migrant </em>in Europe. And there she heard the Lord’s call and became a Sister. Let us pray to Saint Josephine Bakhita for all migrants, refugees, the exploited who suffer so much, so much.</div>
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And speaking of migrants driven out, exploited, I would like to pray with you, today, in a special way for our Rohingya brothers and sisters: driven out from Myanmar, they go from one place to another because they are not wanted there … They are good people, peaceful people. They are not Christians; they are good, they are our brothers and sisters! They have been suffering for years. They have been tortured, killed, simply because they carry forward their traditions, their Muslim faith. Let us pray for them. I invite you to pray, all together, to our Father who is in Heaven for them, for our Rohingya brothers and sisters. “Our Father …”</div>
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Saint Josephine Bakhita, pray for us. And applaud Saint Josephine Bakhita!</div>
[Original text: Italian] <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens—<br />while as yet there was no field shrub on earth<br />and no grass of the field had sprouted,<br />for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth<br />and there was no man to till the soil,<br />but a stream was welling up out of the earth<br />and was watering all the surface of the ground—<br />the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground<br />and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,<br />and so man became a living being.<br /><br />Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,<br />and he placed there the man whom he had formed.<br />Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow<br />that were delightful to look at and good for food,<br />with the tree of life in the middle of the garden<br />and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<br /><br />The LORD God then took the man<br />and settled him in the garden of Eden,<br />to cultivate and care for it.<br />The LORD God gave man this order:<br />"You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden<br />except the tree of knowledge of good and evil.<br />From that tree you shall not eat;<br />the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF SOMASCHA</span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feast Day:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1481, Venice</span> <u><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8 February 1537, Somasca</span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Canonized:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1767 by Pope Clement XIII</span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Patron of:</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Founder of the Order of Somascha; b. at Venice, 1481; d. at Somascha, 8 Feb., 1537; feast, 20 July; son of Angelo Emiliani (popularly called Miani) and of Eleonore Mauroceni, joined the army, and in 1508 defended Castelnuovo against the League of Cambray. Taken prisoner and miraculously liberated, he made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Treviso, in fulfillment of a vow. He was then appointed podestà of Castelnuovo, but after a short time returned to Venice to supervise the education of his nephews. All his spare time was devoted to the study of theology and to works of charity. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1518, the hospitals and the hovels of the poor were his favourite resorts. In the year of plague and famine (1528), he seemed to be everywhere, and showed his zeal especially for the orphans, whose number had so greatly increased. He rented a house for them near the church of St. Rose and, with the assistance of some pious laymen, ministered to their wants. To his charge was also committed the hospital for incurables, founded by St. Cajetan. In 1531 he went to Verona and induced the citizens to build a hospital; at Brescia he erected an orphanage, at Bergamo one for boys and another for girls. Here also he founded the first home for fallen women who wished to do penance. Two priests, Alessandro Besuzio and Agostino Bariso, now joined him in his labours of charity, and in 1532 Jerome founded a religious society, placing the motherhouse at Somascha, a secluded hamlet between Milan and Bergamo. In the rule, Jerome puts down as the principal work of the community the care of orphans, poor, and sick, and demands that dwellings, food and clothing shall bear the mark of religious poverty. Jerome fell a martyr to his zeal; contracting a disease at Bergamo, he died at Somascha. He was beatified by Benedict XIV in 1747, and canonized by Clement XIII in 1767. The Office and Mass in his honour were approved eight years later. His biography was first written by Scipio Albani (1600); another by Andreas Stella (1605). The best was written by Aug. Tortora (Milan, 1620; in "Acta SS.", Feb., II, 217 sq.).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After the death of Jerome his community was about to disband, but was kept together by Gambarana, who had been chosen superior. He obtained the approval (1540) of Paul III. In 1547 the members vainly sought affiliation with the Society of Jesus; then in 1547-1555 they were united with the Theatines. Pius IV (1563) approved the institution, and St. Pius V raised it to the dignity of a religious order, according to the Rule of St. Augustine, with solemn vows, the privileges of the mendicants, and exemption. In 1569 the first six members made their profession, and Gambarana was made first superior general. Great favour was shown to the order by St. Charles Borromeo, and he gave it the church of St. Mayeul at Pavia, from which church the order takes its official name "Clerici regulares S. Majoli Papiae congregationis Somaschae". Later the education of youth was put into the programme of the order, and the colleges at Rome and Pavia became renowned. It spread into Austria and Switzerland, and before the great Revolution it had 119 houses in the four provinces of Rome, Lombardy, Venice, and France. At present the order has ten houses in Italy two of which are in Rome. The general resides in Rome at S. Girolamo della Carita.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">Happy Childhood (1869-1876)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita was born in 1869 in Olgossa, in Darfur, a territory to the South-East of Sudan, inhabited by the Dajus, one the major ethnic groups who had settled in that region centuries before. Bakhita's family was prosperous, possessing lands with plantations and cattle. She herself said, "My life was completely happy. I did not know the meaning of sorrow". Bakhita had three brothers and three sisters. In 1874 the elder sister was kidnapped.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harsh Slavery (1876-1882)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1876 two men kidnapped Bakhtia, who was then about seven years of age. After a month's imprisonment she was sold to a slave-trader (the second master). With great courage the girl attempted to escape, but was recaptured by a shepherd (her third master) and sold again to a fierce-looking man (her fourth master) who sold her to a slave-trader (fifth master). One day she was beaten and left unconscious and bleeding on the ground. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was then sold to a Turkish general (6th master), whose wife subjected Bakhita to the torture of tattooing. Her torturer spared only her face, because it was very beautiful, while he inflicted 114 cuts with a razor on her stomach and arms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1882 the Turkish general sold Bakhita in Khartoum to the consular official Callisto Legnani (seventh master), who was very kind to her. Right away he showed his benevolence, dressing her for the first time in a tunic which restored her dignity as a woman. He would have brought her back to her own village if Bakhita had been able to remember its name, but she was too small at the time of her kidnapping to register exact details. When, in 1885, Legnani was preparing to leave Africa for Italy, Bakhita asked for and received permission to go with him. They embarked, together with a friend of the consul, Augusto Michieli. It was to the latter that Legnani gave the young African upon their arrival in Genoa.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Italy</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr. Michieli, a rich businessman from Venice, took Bakhita with him to his villa at Zianigo, near Mirano Venetto. Here, for three years, Bakhita was nursemaid to the little daughter, Alice, nicknamed Mimmina. The Michieli were good, honest people, but not church-goers. Mrs. Turina Michieli, who was Orthodox, had forbidden Bakhita to enter a church. However, Providence had placed on Bakhita's path the Michieli's manager, Illuminato Checchini, who played a fundamental part in her journey of faith. "A man with a heart of gold and an enlightened conscience" was how Bakhita described him; he always had a "fatherly love" for her. It was he, in fact, who concerned himself the religious education of the young African. When the Michieli returned in 1886 to Africa, where they had acquired a large hotel at Suakim and took Bakhita with them, the good Illuminato felt remorse, because he had not yet been able to speak to her about God. He was, thus, very happy, the following year, when he saw her return with his wife and the little girl, and inwardly promised to do everything he could for the benefit of that soul. "The missionaries", he said, "go to Africa to convert its inhabitants, shall we do nothing to enlighten this poor girl?" He began by presenting her with a little crucifix, saying to himself: "Jesus, I entrust her to you. Now, you look after her". He was also instrumental in placing Mimmina and Bakhita in the care of the Canossian sisters in Venice when the Michieli had to leave again for Suakim. At this Institute Bakhita was admitted to the catechumen ate. When, after nine months, Mrs Michieli returned for her daughter and the girl whom she regarded as in some way, her slave, in order to take them back again to Africa, she encountered a very firm attitude on the part of the latter. It was on that occasion that Bakhita, who was still a catechumen, displayed singular strength of spirit and great faith. In fact, when confronted with the affection and economic security offered her by the Michieli family, and the hope of rediscovering her family if she returned to Africa, she preferred God's love and abandonment to divine Providence for her future, which in human terms, was very uncertain. Thus she said, with determination: "No, I cannot return to Africa, because I would not be able to profess my faith in the Lord. I love the lady and her little girl very much, but I cannot lose my God. So I am remaining". It was 29 November 1889, as bakhita later recorded in her memoirs. This moment of courageous decision is most significant; it was to set the tone for her entire life.<br /><br />In this difficult struggle Bakhita had the support of the Patriarch of Venice and the King's Procurator, who, according to Italian law, which forbade slavery, declared her to be a free person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucidagrande" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As preparations were made for the great day - January 9, 1890 - when she was to receive Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Communion at the hands of the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Agostini, Bakhita experienced very mixed feelings. On the one hand, she was profoundly aware of her own unworthiness, while on the other, she felt indescribable joy at the thought that she would become a child of God. Realizing God's ineffable love, she was at times intensely moved. She then had moments when she was unable to grasp how she, a poor black girl, a slave, an ignorant person, could be called by the Lord His daughter, she who had nothing to offer Him. She would then run to Mother Fabretti, her catechists, who calmed her, assuring her that in the eyes of God, wealth and wisdom were worth nothing: all that counted was love. "And you love the Lord, don't you?" Bakhita would agree, smiling contentedly, her eyes wet with tears. "Go in peace, then", concluded Mother Fabretti, "and call Him with confidence: "Our Father who art in Heaven...<br /><br />After she had been baptized, receiving the names of Josephine, Margherita and Fortunata, Bakhita remained at the Institute of the Catechumens, where she soon became aware of the call to a life of special consecration. She did not dare expressed this desire, feeling herself to be unworthy. She feared that she might disfigure the Congregation on account of her black skin. Her confessor reassured her. God does not look at the colour of one's skin, but rather at the innermost depths of one's heart.<br /><br />Bakhita was accepted, and after three years of Novitiate she made her Vows on Decembe 8, 1896. Cardinal Sarto, the then Patriarch of Venice, examined her and told her: "Pronounce your holy vows without fear. This is what Jesus wants. Jesus loves you. Love Him and serve Him always in this way". He also reassured her about the eternal salvation of her dear ones: "God has infinite ways of making Himself known and when He chooses a person to be His bride, He also thinks of her family".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucidagrande" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After she had been baptized, receiving the names of Josephine, Margherita and Fortunata, Bakhita remained at the Institute of the Catechumens, where she soon became aware of the call to a life of special consecration. She did not dare expressed this desire, feeling herself to be unworthy. She feared that she might disfigure the Congregation on account of her black skin. Her confessor reassured her. God does not look at the colour of one's skin, but rather at the innermost depths of one's heart.<br /><br />Bakhita was accepted, and after three years of Novitiate she made her Vows on Decembe 8, 1896. Cardinal Sarto, the then Patriarch of Venice, examined her and told her: "Pronounce your holy vows without fear. This is what Jesus wants. Jesus loves you. Love Him and serve Him always in this way". He also reassured her about the eternal salvation of her dear ones: "God has infinite ways of making Himself known and when He chooses a person to be His bride, He also thinks of her family".<br /><br />After her religious profession, which took place in Verona, Mother Bakhita returned to Venice, and later was sent to the house in Schio. Here she spent the best part of 45 years, immediately gaining the sympathy and esteem of all the town's inhabitants, who began to call her affectionately 'Madre Moretta' (Black Mother). Bakhita achieved the ideals set by the Foundress, St. Magdalene of Canossa, who wished her daughters to be "anchorites and apostles". Whether in church or sacristy, at the door or in the kitchen, she was engrossed in her Lord, and daily bore witness to the Lord's love for all His creatures. During the First World War, with great love, she set about easing the physical suffering and moral anguish of all those around her, in particular, the soldiers looked after in the Institute, which had been turned into a military hospital. During the Second World War people attributed to her presence the fact that Schio was preserved from the bombing. In fact, when the alarm sounded, Bakhita would say, "Don't worry, because the 'Master' knows what He has to do nothing will happen here."<br /><br />From the moment of her profession, she showed how close she felt to her African brothers and sisters. On that day she uttered the following heartfelt prayer: "O Lord, if I could but fly to my people and preach aloud Your goodness to everyone! Oh, how many souls would I win for you. Among the first would be my mother, my father, my brothers, my sister, still a slave... all, all the poor black people of Africa. Grant, Jesus, that they too may know and love you!" Between 1936 and 1938 Mother Bakhita was at Vimercate, the seat of the Canossian Missionary Novitiate. This was her base for journeys to various Italian cities to promote the missions. She was accompanied by another Sister, who had returned from her mission in China. Everyone wanted to hear first-hand her "wonderful story". Referring to this experience, Mother Bakhita was to say later: "Many will think I enjoyed travelling around, but for me it was real martyrdom". Wherever she went, she left goodness in her wake, even though she herself was not aware of it.<br /><br />At the height of World War II, on December 8, 1943, Mother Bakhita celebrated the 50th anniversary of her religious life. Not only her own community, but the whole of Schio, celebrated, despite the adverse circumstances of the time. But now, for Bakhita, aches and pains were beginning to make themselves felt, crippling arthritis, asthmatic bronchitis with cough, convulsed her body. This was not to be wondered at, considering the suffering she had undergone in her younger years and the rigours of the northern climate to which she was not accustomed. During her long illness never a complaint passed her lips. When she was asked: "Don't you feel anything, Mother Bakhita?" She replied: "Of course I feel something - I'm alive; it's only the dead who can't feel anything". "And how is it that you never complain?" "Oh, when nature wants something, I say: now be good, we'll see about it. Then I think about Jesus on the cross, and about the Sorrowful Virgin. That way, nature is calmed, and I no longer need anything". What heroic patience! Very soon she had to abandon her walking-stick in favour of a wheelchair, until broncho pneumonia brought her inexorably to the end. Fully conscious, and to the great edification of all, she received the last sacraments. The Virgin Mary came to comfort her at the moment of her death on Saturday, February 8, 1947. "How happy I am... the Madonna, the Madonna! These were her last words as she passed from this earthly life to the full freedom of God's children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucidagrande" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her Motto</span></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucidagrande" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From her childhood, Bakhita learnt to wonder at the beauty of creation. Even as a slave, she found comfort in admiring the sun, the moon, and the stars. She told how, when she had, finally, lost hope of ever seeing her family again, she began to appreciate more the beauties of nature. She wondered who could have been their Maker and ardently desired to know Him so as to be able to thank Him and do Him homage.<br /><br />She was utterly surprised when she began to grasp the meaning of this truth: through Baptism you will become a child of God. "A child of God - I, a poor black girl!", she would repeat, filled with amazement. Her baptism gave her such great joy that she felt its beneficial effects ever after. "Here, I became a child of God!" she exclaimed with emotion, kneeling at the baptismal font when she had the good fortune to visit the church where she had been baptized. Baptism shaped her human and Christian future completely, and her whole life was overwhelmed with wonder at the goodness of a Father who orders everything for the good of those whom He has chosen. This, then, was the source of Bakhita's constant goodness.<br /><br />The moment that had a great and decisive impact on her life was when she discovered the infinite love of God, manifested in his Crucified Son. Seeing the image of Jesus on the cross for the first time, Bakhita was greatly impressed, and asked: "What did that man do that was so wrong, for him to be treated in such a way?" "Nothing," was the reply, "He wished to die for us, for love of us, and also for you". "Also for me!" astonished Bakhita repeatedly. Always drawn irresistibly by the love of Jesus who had died on the cross for her, she became a strong woman, firm and unshakeable in her decision to devote herself totally to the service of her new heavenly Master. Consequently, her former resignation to her fate was transformed into free and holy abandonment to the divine will of Him whom she still gladly called "el Paron", "the Master", out of long-standing mental habit, but now no longer as a slave of arbitrary and evil masters by fate, but as a "slave of love" carrying out the orders of the good God, who loves His servants as a Father.<br /><br />Her life, after death, would also depend on the will of the "Master". For this reason, when she was sick, she replied to those who asked for her prayers: "If the Lord permits, I will look after everyone from Heaven, I will obtain many graces for the salvation of souls."</span></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucidagrande" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inner Face</span></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucidagrande" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"In St. Josephine Bakhita we find an outstanding witness to God's fatherly love and a bright sign of the enduring value of the Beatitudes. In our time, when the race for power, money, and pleasure causes distrust, violence and loneliness, the Lord is giving us Sister Bakhita as the Universal Sister, so that she may reveal to us the secret of the truest happiness: the Beatitudes. Hers is a message of heroic goodness, mirroring the goodness of the heavenly Father. She has left us a testimony of evangelical reconciliation and forgiveness, which will surely give comfort to the Christians in her homeland, Sudan, so sorely tried by conflict that has lasted for many years and caused many victims. Their faithfulness and their hope are reason fro pride and thanksgiving on the part of the whole Church. At this time of great tribulations, Sister Bakhita goes before them on the road of imitation of Christ, a deepening of the Christian life and of unshakeable attachment to the Church." (John Paul II - May 17,1992).<br /><br />Mother Josephine Bakhita's life is marked by unconditional surrender to the will of God. Her motto was "What the Master Wishes". Thus she made her spiritual life very simple, because "doing God's will well" is the essence of perfection.<br /><br />In all the positions she held as a Canossian - cook, embroiderer, sacristan, portress - Bakhita always showed herself to be a true "Daughter of Charity, Servant of the poor". The virtues that mark her relationship with her neighbours are: Goodness, Meekness, Tenderness. Her black hands caressed the heads of the children who attended the Institute's schools daily. Her amiable voice, which had the inflection of her African songs, was pleasing to the little children, comforting to the poor and the suffering, and encouraging to all who knocked at the door of the Institute.<br /><br />The value of forgiveness is evident in Bakhita: "If I met those slave traders who kidnapped me and treated me so cruelly, I would kneel to kiss their hands, because if that had not happened, I would not be a Christian and a religious today." One is impressed above all by the excuse she makes for them: "Poor things, maybe they did not know they were hurting me so much: they were the masters, I was their slave. Just as we are used to doing good, so they did that by force of habit, not because they were wicked". As she told her terrible story, she continued to thank the Lord, who, in unimaginable ways, had led her to the faith and made her His bride. There was no hint of resentment in her words: she had forgiven everyone from her heart and prayed for them all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lord, have mercy, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lord, have mercy</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christ, have mercy, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christ, have mercy</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lord, have mercy, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lord, have mercy</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christ hear us, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christ, graciously hear us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God, our heavenly Father </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have mercy on us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God the Son, Redeemer of the world </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have mercy on us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God, the Holy Spirit </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have mercy on us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holy Mary </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St. Joseph </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St. Magdalen of Canossa </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St. Josephine Bakhita </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Flower of Sudan </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Universal Sister </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Model of Hope </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Child slave </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Fortunate One </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daughter of God </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consecrated Virgin </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bride of Christ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most innocent </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most forgiving </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most chaste </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most courageous </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most free </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most prayer ful </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakhita, most faithful </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reflection of Charity </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wonderful Storyteller </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lover of Children </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exemplar of Hospitality </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Patient Model of Bead workers </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Diligent Sacristan </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Humble Porter </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great Cook </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mother Moretta </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Missionary at heart </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hope of the sick </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Comfort to soldiers </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pillar to anxious families </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Protector of Schio </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Powerful Intercessor of those in need </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Patron of the dying </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tale of Wonder </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray for us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spare us, O Lord.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hear us, O Lord.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have mercy on us, O Lord.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leader: </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God delivered her from slavery and given her true freedom in Christ<span style="font-weight: bold;">All: </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And made her his daughter and his bride.<span style="font-weight: bold;">Leader:</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Let us pray<br /><br />Heavenly Father, Your Son Jesus Christ, through His suffering and death on the cross, gave Himself as a gift of love for the reconciliation and salvation of all his peoples. He continues to express this love by giving us St. Josephine Bakhita. She too offered herself through her suffering in slavery. We humbly pray that through her intercession, she may obtain for us this favour which we now ask ______________, for the needs of our parish community, for her brothers and sisters in Sudan, and for the whole world the gift of justice and peace. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.</span></div>
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<b><br /></b><b>Below find the English language translation of Pope Francis’ Lenten message.</b><br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear Brothers and Sisters,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently calls us to conversion. Christians are asked to return to God “with all their hearts” (Joel 2:12), to refuse to settle for mediocrity and to grow in friendship with the Lord. Jesus is the faithful friend who never abandons us. Even when we sin, he patiently awaits our return; by that patient expectation, he shows us his readiness to forgive (cf. Homily, 8 January 2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Lent is a favorable season for deepening our spiritual life through the means of sanctification offered us by the Church: fasting, prayer and almsgiving. At the basis of everything is the word of God, which during this season we are invited to hear and ponder more deeply. I would now like to consider the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (cf. Lk 16:19-31). Let us find inspiration in this meaningful story, for it provides a key to understanding what we need to do in order to attain true happiness and eternal life. It exhorts us to sincere conversion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The other person is a gift</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The parable begins by presenting its two main characters. The poor man is described in greater detail: he is wretched and lacks the strength even to stand. Lying before the door of the rich man, he fed on the crumbs falling from his table. His body is full of sores and dogs come to lick his wounds (cf. vv. 20-21). The picture is one of great misery; it portrays a man disgraced and pitiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The scene is even more dramatic if we consider that the poor man is called Lazarus: a name full of promise, which literally means “God helps”. This character is not anonymous. His features are clearly delineated and he appears as an individual with his own story. While practically invisible to the rich man, we see and know him as someone familiar. He becomes a face, and as such, a gift, a priceless treasure, a human being whom God loves and cares for, despite his concrete condition as an outcast (cf. Homily, 8 January 2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Lazarus teaches us that other persons are a gift. A right relationship with people consists in gratefully recognizing their value. Even the poor person at the door of the rich is not a nuisance, but a summons to conversion and to change. The parable first invites us to open the doors of our heart to others because each person is a gift, whether it be our neighbor or an anonymous pauper. Lent is a favorable season for opening the doors to all those in need and recognizing in them the face of Christ. Each of us meets people like this every day. Each life that we encounter is a gift deserving acceptance, respect and love. The word of God helps us to open our eyes to welcome and love life, especially when it is weak and vulnerable. But in order to do this, we have to take seriously what the Gospel tells us about the rich man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The parable is unsparing in its description of the contradictions associated with the rich man (cf. v. 19). Unlike poor Lazarus, he does not have a name; he is simply called “a rich man”. His opulence was seen in his extravagant and expensive robes. Purple cloth was even more precious than silver and gold, and was thus reserved to divinities (cf. Jer 10:9) and kings (cf. Jg 8:26), while fine linen gave one an almost sacred character. The man was clearly ostentatious about his wealth, and in the habit of displaying it daily: “He feasted sumptuously every day” (v. 19). In him we can catch a dramatic glimpse of the corruption of sin, which progresses in three successive stages: love of money, vanity and pride (cf. Homily, 20 September 2013).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Apostle Paul tells us that “the love of money is the root of all evils” (1 Tim 6:10). It is the main cause of corruption and a source of envy, strife and suspicion. Money can come to dominate us, even to the point of becoming a tyrannical idol (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 55). Instead of being an instrument at our service for doing good and showing solidarity towards others, money can chain us and the entire world to a selfish logic that leaves no room for love and hinders peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The parable then shows that the rich man’s greed makes him vain. His personality finds expression in appearances, in showing others what he can do. But his appearance masks an interior emptiness. His life is a prisoner to outward appearances, to the most superficial and fleeting aspects of existence (cf. ibid., 62).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The lowest rung of this moral degradation is pride. The rich man dresses like a king and acts like a god, forgetting that he is merely mortal. For those corrupted by love of riches, nothing exists beyond their own ego. Those around them do not come into their line of sight. The result of attachment to money is a sort of blindness. The rich man does not see the poor man who is starving, hurting, lying at his door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Looking at this character, we can understand why the Gospel so bluntly condemns the love of money: “No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money” (Mt 6:24).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Gospel of the rich man and Lazarus helps us to make a good preparation for the approach of Easter. The liturgy of Ash Wednesday invites us to an experience quite similar to that of the rich man. When the priest imposes the ashes on our heads, he repeats the words: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”. As it turned out, the rich man and the poor man both died, and the greater part of the parable takes place in the afterlife. The two characters suddenly discover that “we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it” (1 Tim 6:7).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> We too see what happens in the afterlife. There the rich man speaks at length with Abraham, whom he calls “father” (Lk 16:24.27), as a sign that he belongs to God’s people. This detail makes his life appear all the more contradictory, for until this moment there had been no mention of his relation to God. In fact, there was no place for God in his life. His only god was himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The rich man recognizes Lazarus only amid the torments of the afterlife. He wants the poor man to alleviate his suffering with a drop of water. What he asks of Lazarus is similar to what he could have done but never did. Abraham tells him: “During your life you had your fill of good things, just as Lazarus had his fill of bad. Now he is being comforted here while you are in agony” (v. 25). In the afterlife, a kind of fairness is restored and life’s evils are balanced by good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The parable goes on to offer a message for all Christians. The rich man asks Abraham to send Lazarus to warn his brothers, who are still alive. But Abraham answers: “They have Moses and the prophets, let them listen to them” (v. 29). Countering the rich man’s objections, he adds: “If they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead” (v. 31).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The rich man’s real problem thus comes to the fore. At the root of all his ills was the failure to heed God’s word. As a result, he no longer loved God and grew to despise his neighbor. The word of God is alive and powerful, capable of converting hearts and leading them back to God. When we close our heart to the gift of God’s word, we end up closing our heart to the gift of our brothers and sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Dear friends, Lent is the favorable season for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his word, in the sacraments and in our neighbor. The Lord, who overcame the deceptions of the Tempter during the forty days in the desert, shows us the path we must take. May the Holy Spirit lead us on a true journey of conversion, so that we can rediscover the gift of God’s word, be purified of the sin that blinds us, and serve Christ present in our brothers and sisters in need. I encourage all the faithful to express this spiritual renewal also by sharing in the Lenten Campaigns promoted by many Church organizations in different parts of the world, and thus to favor the culture of encounter in our one human family. Let us pray for one another so that, by sharing in the victory of Christ, we may open our doors to the weak and poor. Then we will be able to experience and share to the full the joy of Easter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From the Vatican, 18 October 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Feast of Saint Luc the Evangelist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Vatican Release)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vatican Radio) “Without women, there is no harmony in the world.” That was the message of Pope Francis in his homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. At the center of his reflection was creation of woman, as told in Genesis. Men and women are not equal; the one is not superior to the other. But it is the woman, and not the man, who brings that harmony which makes the world a beautiful place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis was continuing his reflections on creation, the subject of the Readings for the past few days, taken from the Book of Genesis. The Lord had formed every sort of animal, but the man did not find a companion in any of them; he was alone. Then the Lord took a rib and created woman, who the man recognized as “flesh of his flesh.” “But before seeing her,” the Pope said, “the man dreamed of her… In order to understand a woman, it is necessary first to dream of her.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Often when we speak about women,” the Pope said, we think of them in a ‘functionalist’ manner. Instead, we should see women as bearers of a richness that men do not possess: women bring harmony to creation:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“When women are not there, harmony is missing. We might say: But this is a society with a strong masculine attitude, and this is the case, no? The woman is missing. ‘Yes, yes: the woman is there to wash the dishes, to do things…’ No, no, no! The woman is there to bring harmony. Without the woman there is no harmony. They are not equal; one is not superior to the other: no. It’s just that the man does not bring harmony. It’s her. It is she who brings that harmony that teaches us to caress, to love with tenderness; and who makes the world a beautiful place.”</span></em></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exploiting people is a crime, but exploiting women is worse: it destroys harmony</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In his homily, the Pope considered three moments in Creation: the solitude of the man, the dream, and the destiny of both the man and the woman: to be “one flesh.” The Holy Father gave a concrete example: Once, during an audience, while he greeted the people, he asked a couple who were celebrating their 60<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> wedding anniversary, “Which of you has had the most patience?”</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“And they looked at me, they looked me in the eyes – I’ll never forget those eyes, eh? – then they turned and they told me, both together: ‘We are in love.’ After 60 years, this means ‘one flesh.’ And this is what the woman brings: the capacity to love one another. Harmony for the world. Often we hear: ‘No, it is necessary in this society, in this institution, that here there should be a woman because she does this, she does these things.’ No, no, no, no! Functionality is not the purpose of women. It is true that women should do things, to do things as we all do. The purpose of women is to make harmony, and without women there is no harmony in the world. Exploiting persons is a crime of ‘lèse-humanité’: it’s true. But exploiting a woman is even more serious: it is destroying the harmony that God has chosen to give to the world. It is to destroy.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exploiting a woman, then, is not only a crime: it amounts to “destroying harmony,” the Pope said, referring also to the day’s Gospel story of the Syrophoenician woman.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God has created woman so that we would all have a mother</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pope Francis concluded his reflection with a personal note:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the great gift of God: He has given us woman. And in the Gospel, we have heard what a woman is capable of, eh? She is courageous, that one, eh? She went forward with courage. But there is more, so much more. A woman is harmony, is poetry, is beauty. Without her the world would not be so beautiful, it would not be harmonious. And I like to think – but this is a personal thing – that God created women so that we would all have a mother. </span></em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In these Sundays the liturgy proposes to us the so-called </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sermon on the Mount, </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">in Matthew’s Gospel. After having presented the Beatitudes last Sunday, today it highlights Jesus’ words, which describe the mission of His disciples in the world (cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:13-16). He uses the metaphor of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">salt </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">light, </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and His words are addressed to disciples of all times, hence also to us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus invites us to be a reflection of His light, through the testimony of good works. He says: ”Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:16). These words underline that we are recognizable as true disciples of Him who is Light of the world, not in words, but by our works. In fact, it is above all our behavior that — in the good and in the bad – leaves a sign in others. Hence we have a task and a responsibility for the gift received: the light of faith, which is in us through Christ and the action of the Holy Spirit, we must not keep as if it were our property. Instead, we are called to make it shine in the world, to give it to others through good works. And how much the world needs the light of the Gospel, which transforms, heals and guarantees salvation to those who receive it! We must take this light with our good works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">By giving itself, the light of our faith is not extinguished but reinforced. Instead, it can fail if we do not nourish it with love and with works of charity. Thus the image of light meets with that of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">salt</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. In fact, the evangelical page tells us that, as Christ’s disciples, we are also “the salt of the earth” (v. 13). Salt is an element that, while it gives flavor, preserves food from alteration and corruption — there were no fridges in Jesus’ time! Therefore, the mission of Christians in society is to give “flavor” to life with the faith and love that Christ has given us, and at the same time to keep away the polluting germs of egoism, of envy, of malicious gossip, and so on. These germs ruin the fabric of our communities, which instead should shine as places of hospitality, of solidarity and of reconciliation. To fulfil this mission, it is necessary first of all that we ourselves are liberated from the corrupting degeneration of worldly influences, which are contrary to Christ and the Gospel; and this purification never ends, it goes on every day!</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each one of us is called to be </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">light and salt</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in the environment of our daily life, persevering in the task of regenerating the human reality in the spirit of the Gospel and in the perspective of the Kingdom of God. May the protection of Mary Most Holy, first disciple of Jesus and model, be of help to believers who live every day their vocation and mission in history. May our Mother help us to let ourselves always be purified and illumined by the Lord, to become in turn “salt of the earth” and “light of the world.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">[<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Translation by Virginia M. Forrester</i>]</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Today, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pro-Life Day </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">is being celebrated in Italy, on the theme “Pro-Life Women and Men in the Wake of Saint Teresa of Calcutta.” I unite myself to the Italian Bishops in hoping for a courageous education action in favor of human life. Every life is sacred! We carry forward the culture of life as the answer to the logic of rejection and demographic decline; we are close and together we pray for the children who are in danger of the interruption of pregnancy, as well as for persons who are at the end of life — every life is sacred! — so that no one is left alone and that love may defend the meaning of life. We recall Mother Teresa’s words: “Life is beauty, admire it; life is life, defend it!” be it with the unborn child, be it with the person who is close to dying: every life is sacred!</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I greet all those who work for life, the docents of the Roman Universities and those that collaborate in the formation of the new generations, so that they are able to build a welcoming society, fitting for every person.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I greet all the pilgrims, the families, the parish groups and the Associations from different parts of the world. In particular, I greet the faithful of Vienna, Granada, Melilla, Acquaviva delle Fonti and Bari, as well as the students of Penafiel (Portugal) and Badajoz (Spain).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I wish you all a good Sunday. Please, do not forget to pray for me. Have a good lunch and see you soon!</span></div>
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Novena Prayer to Saint Agatha, Virgin Martyr. Oh St. Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to Our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity and martyrdom.Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of women, and inspire us to overcome adversity. Pray also, Glorious Saint for the special favor we ask through you? (Here state your request) Oh St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice, may receive your intercession. O God, Who dost make the minds of the faithful to be of one will, grant unto Thy people to love that which Thou dost command and desire that which Thou dost promise, that amid the changes of this world, our heart shall there be fixed where true joys may be found. Grant what we ask through the intercession of St. Agatha, we ask it through Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, One God, world without end.Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be Say for 9 days<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUcdkKETi6U" width="640"></iframe></div>
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday reached out to Americans urging them to make this year’s Super Bowl a sign of peace, friendship and solidarity to the world. In a specially recorded video message for the event, which will hold the attention of much of the nation and command a television audience larger than for any other event of the year, the Pope points out that great sporting events like the championship game of the National Football League are highly symbolic, and show that it is possible to build a culture of encounter and a world of peace. “By participating in sport, we are able to go beyond our own self-interest - and in a healthy way - we learn to sacrifice, to grow in fidelity and respect the rules. May this year's Super Bowl be a sign of peace, friendship and solidarity to the world” he said. The 2017 Super Bowl takes place in Houston and features the final NFL showdown between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. Vice President Mike Pence, who is scheduled to attend, will be the fourth sitting vice president to see the game in person.</div>
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<b><br /></b><b>Born</b>: Catania or Palermo<br /><b>Died</b>: 251, Catania<br /><b><u>Patron of:</u></b><br />bellfounders; breast cancer; bakers; against fire; earthquakes; eruptions of Mount Etna; fire; jewelers; martyrs; natural disasters; nurses; rape victims; single laywomen; sterility; torture victims; volcanic eruptions; wetnurses<br />One of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs of Christian antiquity, put to death for her steadfast profession of faith in Catania, Sicily. Although it is uncertain in which persecution this took place, we may accept, as probably based on ancient tradition, the evidence of her legendary life, composed at a later date, to the effect that her martyrdom occurred during the persecution of Decius (250-253). Historic certitude attaches merely to the fact of her martyrdom and the public veneration paid her in the Church since primitive times. In the so-called Martyrologium Hieronymianum (ed. De Rossi and Duchesne, in Acta SS., Nov. II, 17) and in the ancient Martyrologium Carthaginiense dating from the fifth or sixth century (Ruinart, Acta Sincera, Ratisbon, 1859, 634), the name of St. Agatha is recorded on 5 February. In the sixth century Venantius Fortunatus mentions her in his poem on virginity as one of the celebrated Christian virgins and martyrs (Carm., VIII, 4, De Virginitate: Illic Euphemia pariter quoque plaudit Agathe Et Justina simul consociante Thecla. etc.). Among the poems of Pope Damasus published by Merenda and others is a hymn to St. Agatha (P.L., XIII, 403 sqq.; Ihm, Damasi Epigrammata, 75, Leipzig, 1895). However, this poem is not the work of Damasus but the product of an unknown author at a later period, and was evidently meant for the liturgical celebration of the Saint's feast. Its content is drawn from the legend of St. Agatha, and the poem is marked by end-rhyme. From a letter of Pope Gelasius (492-496) to a certain Bishop Victor (Thiel. Epist. Roman. Pont., 495) we learn of a Basilica of St. Agatha in fundo Caclano, e.g., on the estate of that name. The letters of Gregory I make mention of St. Agatha at Rome, in the Subura, with which a diaconia or deaconry was connected (Epp., IV, 19; P.L., LXXVII, 688). It was in existence as early as the fifth century, for in the latter half of that century Rieimer enriched it with a mosaic. This same church was given the Arian Goths by Rieimer and was restored to Catholic worship by Pope Gregory I (590-604).<br />Although the martyrdom of St. Agatha is thus authenticated, and her veneration as a saint had even in antiquity spread beyond her native place, we still possess no reliable information concerning the details of her glorious death. It is true that we have the Acts of her martyrdom in two versions, Latin and Greek, the latter deviating from the former (Acta SS., I, Feb., 595 sqq.). Neither of these recensions, however, can lay any claim to historical credibility, and neither gives the necessary internal evidence that the information it contains rests, even in the more important details, upon genuine tradition. If there is a kernel of historical truth in the narrative, it has not as yet been possible to sift it out from the later embellishments. In their present form the Latin Acts are not older than the sixth century. According to them Agatha, daughter of a distinguished family and remarkable for her beauty of person, was persecuted by the Senator Quintianus with avowals of love. As his proposals were resolutely spurned by the pious Christian virgin, he committed her to the charge of an evil woman, whose seductive arts, however, were baffled by Agatha's unswerving firmness in the Christian faith. Quintianus then had her subjected to various cruel tortures. Especially inhuman seemed his order to have her breasts cut off, a detail which furnished to the Christian medieval iconography the peculiar characteristic of Agatha. But the holy virgin was consoled by a vision of St. Peter, who miraculously healed her. Eventually she succumbed to the repeated cruelties practised on her. As already stated, these details, in so far as they are based on the Acts, have no claim to historical credibility. Allard also characterizes the Acts as the work of a later author who was more concerned with writing an edifying narrative, abounding in miracles, than in transmitting historical traditions.<br />Both Catania and Palermo claim the honour of being Agatha's birthplace. Her feast is kept on 5 February; her office in the Roman Breviary is drawn in part from the Latin Acts. Catania honours St. Agatha as her patron saint, and throughout the region around Mt. Etna she is invoked against the eruptions of the volcano, as elsewhere against fire and lightning. 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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1IS 58:7-10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Thus says the LORD:<br />Share your bread with the hungry,<br />shelter the oppressed and the homeless;<br />clothe the naked when you see them,<br />and do not turn your back on your own.<br />Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,<br />and your wound shall quickly be healed;<br />your vindication shall go before you,<br />and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.<br />Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer,<br />you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!<br />If you remove from your midst<br />oppression, false accusation and malicious speech;<br />if you bestow your bread on the hungry<br />and satisfy the afflicted;<br />then light shall rise for you in the darkness,<br />and the gloom shall become for you like midday.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (4a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />Light shines through the darkness for the upright;<br />he is gracious and merciful and just.<br />Well for the man who is gracious and lends,<br />who conducts his affairs with justice.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />He shall never be moved;<br />the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.<br />An evil report he shall not fear;<br />his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear.<br />Lavishly he gives to the poor;<br />His justice shall endure forever;<br />his horn shall be exalted in glory.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 21 COR 2:1-5</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When I came to you, brothers and sisters,<br />proclaiming the mystery of God,<br />I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.<br />For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you<br />except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.<br />I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,<br />and my message and my proclamation<br />were not with persuasive words of wisdom,<br />but with a demonstration of Spirit and power,<br />so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom<br />but on the power of God.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 8:12</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />I am the light of the world, says the Lord;<br />whoever follows me will have the light of life.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMT 5:13-16</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus said to his disciples:<br />"You are the salt of the earth.<br />But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?<br />It is no longer good for anything<br />but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.<br />You are the light of the world.<br />A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.<br />Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;<br />it is set on a lampstand,<br />where it gives light to all in the house.<br />Just so, your light must shine before others,<br />that they may see your good deeds<br />and glorify your heavenly Father."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Holy Father spoke to the 25th anniversary of the founding of <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Economy of Communion</em>. Associated with the <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Focolare Movement</em>, the project sets up businesses that follow market laws, but pool the profits in communion. </span><br /><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The full text of the Pope’s prepared remarks is below </span></u></b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Dear Bothers and Sisters, I am pleased to welcome you as representatives of a project in which I have been genuinely interested for some time. I convey my cordial greeting to each of you, and I thank in particular the coordinator, Prof. Luigino Bruni, for his courteous words. </span><br /><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Economy and communion. These are two words that contemporary culture keeps separate and often considers opposites. Two words that you have instead joined, accepting the invitation that Chiara Lubich offered you 25 years ago in Brazil, when, in the face of the scandal of inequality in the city of São Paulo, she asked entrepreneurs to become agents of communion. She invited you to be creative, skilful, but not only this. You see the entrepreneur as an agent of communion. By introducing into the economy the good seed of communion, you have begun a profound change in the way of seeing and living business. Business is not only incapable of destroying communion among people, but can edify it and promote it. With your life you demonstrate that economy and communion become more beautiful when they are beside each other. Certainly the economy is more beautiful, but communion is also more beautiful, because the spiritual communion of hearts is even fuller when it becomes the communion of goods, of talents, of profits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> In considering your task, I would like to say three things to you today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The first concerns money. It is very important that at the centre of the economy of communion there be the communion of your profits. The economy of communion is also the communion of profits, an expression of the communion of life. Many times I have spoken about money as an idol. The Bible tells us this in various ways. Not by chance, Jesus’ first public act, in the Gospel of John, is the expulsion of the merchants from the temple (cf. 2:13-21). We cannot understand the new Kingdom offered by Jesus if we do not free ourselves of idols, of which money is one of the most powerful. Therefore, how is it possible to be merchants that Jesus does not expel? Money is important, especially when there is none, and food, school, and the children’s future depend on it. But it becomes an idol when it becomes the aim. Greed, which by no coincidence is a capital sin, is the sin of idolatry because the accumulation of money per se becomes the aim of one’s own actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> When capitalism makes the seeking of profit its only purpose, it runs the risk of becoming an idolatrous framework, a form of worship. The ‘goddess of fortune’ is increasingly the new divinity of a certain finance and of the whole system of gambling which is destroying millions of the world’s families, and which you rightly oppose. This idolatrous worship is a surrogate for eternal life. Individual products (cars, telephones ...) get old and wear out, but if I have money or credit I can immediately buy others, deluding myself of conquering death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Thus, one understands the ethical and spiritual value of your choice to pool profits. The best and most practical way to avoid making an idol of money is to share it with others, above all with the poor, or to enable young people to study and work, overcoming the idolatrous temptation with communion. When you share and donate your profits, you are performing an act of lofty spirituality, saying to money through deeds: ‘you are not God’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The second thing I would like to say to you concerns poverty, a central theme of your movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Today, many initiatives, public and private, are being carried out to combat poverty. All this, on the one hand, is a growth in humanity. In the Bible, the poor, orphans, widows, those ‘discarded’ by the society of those times, were aided by tithing and the gleaning of grain. But most of the people remained poor; that aid was not sufficient to feed and care for everyone. There were many ‘discarded’ by society. Today we have invented other ways to care for, to feed, to teach the poor, and some of the seeds of the Bible have blossomed into more effective institutions than those of the past. The rationale for taxes also lies in this solidarity, which is negated by tax avoidance and evasion which, before being illegal acts, are acts which deny the basic law of life: mutual care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> But — and this can never be said enough — capitalism continues to produce discarded people whom it would then like to care for. The principal ethical dilemma of this capitalism is the creation of discarded people, then trying to hide them or make sure they are no longer seen. A serious form of poverty in a civilization is when it is no longer able to see its poor, who are first discarded and then hidden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Aircraft pollute the atmosphere, but, with a small part of the cost of the ticket, they will plant trees to compensate for part of the damage created. Gambling companies finance campaigns to care for the pathological gamblers that they create. And the day that the weapons industry finances hospitals to care for the children mutilated by their bombs, the system will have reached its pinnacle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The economy of communion, if it wants to be faithful to its charism, must not only care for the victims, but build a system where there are ever fewer victims, where, possibly, there may no longer be any. As long as the economy still produces one victim and there is still a single discarded person, communion has not yet been realized; the celebration of universal fraternity is not full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Therefore, we must work toward changing the rules of the game of the socio-economic system. Imitating the Good Samaritan of the Gospel is not enough. Of course, when an entrepreneur or any person happens upon a victim, he or she is called to take care of the victim and, perhaps like the Good Samaritan, also to enlist the fraternal action of the market (the innkeeper). I know that you have sought to do so for 25 years. But it is important to act above all before the man comes across the robbers, by battling the frameworks of sin that produce robbers and victims. An entrepreneur who is only a Good Samaritan does half of his duty: he takes care of today’s victims, but does not curtail those of tomorrow. For communion one must imitate the merciful Father of the parable of the Prodigal Son and wait at home for the children, workers and coworkers who have done wrong, and there embrace them and celebrate with and for them — and not be impeded by the meritocracy invoked by the older son and by many who deny mercy in the name of merit. An entrepreneur of communion is called to do everything possible so that even those who do wrong and leave home can hope for work and for dignified earnings, and not wind up eating with the swine. No son, no man, not even the most rebellious, deserves acorns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Lastly, the third thing concerns the future. These 25 years of your history say that communion and business can exist and grow together. An experience which for now is limited to a small number of businesses — extremely small if compared to the world’s great capital. But the changes in the order of the spirit and therefore of life are not linked to big numbers. The small flock, the lamp, a coin, a lamb, a pearl, salt, leaven: these are the images of the Kingdom that we encounter in the Gospels. And the prophets have announced to us the new age of salvation by indicating to us the sign of a child, Emmanuel, and speaking to us of a faithful ‘remnant’, a small group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> It is not necessary to be in a large group to change our life: suffice it that the salt and leaven do not deteriorate. The great work to be performed is trying not to lose the ‘active ingredient’ which enlivens them: salt does not do its job by increasing in quantity — instead, too much salt makes the meal salty — but by saving its ‘spirit’, its quality. Every time people, peoples and even the Church have thought of saving the world in numbers, they have produced power structures, forgetting the poor. We save our economy by being simply salt and leaven: a difficult job, because everything deteriorates with the passing of time. What do we do so as not to lose the active ingredient, the ‘enzyme’ of communion?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> When there were no refrigerators, to preserve the mother dough of the bread, they gave a small amount of their own leavened dough to a neighbour, and when they needed to make bread again they received a handful of leavened dough from that woman or from another who had received it in her turn. It is reciprocity. Communion is not only the sharing but also the multiplying of goods, the creation of new bread, of new goods, of new Good with a capital ‘G’. The living principle of the Gospel remains active only if we give it: if instead we possessively keep it all and only for ourselves, it goes mouldy and dies. The economy of communion will have a future if you give it to everyone and it does not remain only inside your ‘house’. Give it to everyone, firstly to the poor and the young, who are those who need it most and know how to make the gift received bear fruit! To have life in abundance one must learn to give: not only the profits of businesses, but of yourselves. The first gift of the entrepreneur is of his or her own person: your money, although important, is too little. Money does not save if it is not accompanied by the gift of the person. Today’s economy, the poor, the young, need first of all your spirit, your respectful and humble fraternity, your will to live and, only then, your money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Capitalism knows philanthropy, not communion. It is simple to give a part of the profits, without embracing and touching the people who receive those ‘crumbs’. Instead, even just five loaves and two fishes can feed the multitude if they are the sharing of all our life. In the logic of the Gospel, if one does not give all of himself, he never gives enough of himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> You already do these things. But you can share more profits in order to combat idolatry, change the structures in order to prevent the creation of victims and discarded people, give more of your leaven so as to leaven the bread of many. May the ‘no’ to an economy that kills become a ‘yes’ to an economy that lets live, because it shares, includes the poor, uses profits to create communion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Through Jesus, let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise,<br />that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.<br />Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have;<br />God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind.<br /><br />Obey your leaders and defer to them,<br />for they keep watch over you and will have to give an account,<br />that they may fulfill their task with joy and not with sorrow,<br />for that would be of no advantage to you.<br /><br />May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead<br />the great shepherd of the sheep<br />by the Blood of the eternal covenant,<br />furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will.<br />May he carry out in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ,<br />to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (1) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span><br />The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.<br />In verdant pastures he gives me repose.<br />Beside restful waters he leads me;<br />he refreshes my soul.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span><br />He guides me in right paths<br />for his name's sake.<br />Even though I walk in the dark valley<br />I fear no evil; for you are at my side<br />With your rod and your staff<br />that give me courage.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span><br />You spread the table before me<br />in the sight of my foes;<br />You anoint my head with oil;<br />my cup overflows.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span><br />Only goodness and kindness follow me<br />all the days of my life;<br />And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD<br />for years to come.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Apostles gathered together with Jesus<br />and reported all they had done and taught.<br />He said to them,<br />"Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while."<br />People were coming and going in great numbers,<br />and they had no opportunity even to eat.<br />So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.<br />People saw them leaving and many came to know about it.<br />They hastened there on foot from all the towns<br />and arrived at the place before them.<br /><br />When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd,<br />his heart was moved with pity for them,<br />for they were like sheep without a shepherd;<br />and he began to teach them many things.</span></div>
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8 January 1556 at Leonissa, Umbria, Italy</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />Saturday 4 February 1612 at Umbria, Italy<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />29 June 1746 by Pope Benedict XIV<br /><div class="bodytext">
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CAPUCHIN, PRIESTIn the world named Eufranio Desiderio; born in 1556 at Leonessa in Umbria; died 4 February, 1612. From his infancy he showed a remarkably religious bent of mind; he used to erect little altars and spend much time in prayer before them, and often he would gather his companions and induce them to pray with him. Whilst yet a boy he used to take the discipline on Fridays in company with the confraternity of St. Saviour. He was educated by his uncle, who had planned a suitable marriage for him, but in his sixteenth year he fell sick of a fever, and on his recovery, without consulting his relative, he joined the Capuchin reform of the Franciscan Order. He made his novitiate in the convent of the Carcerelle near Assisi. As a religious he was remarkable for his great abstinence. "Brother Ass", he would say to his body, "there is no need to feed thee as a noble horse would be fed: thou must be content to be a poor ass." In 1599, the year before his Jubilee year, he fasted the whole year by way of preparation for gaining the indulgence. In 1587 he was sent by the Superior General of his order to Constantinople to minister to the Christians held captive there. Arrived there he and his companions lodged in a derelict house of Benedictine monks. The poverty in which the friars lived attracted the attention of the Turks, who went in numbers to see the new missionaries. He was very solicitous in ministering to the captive Christians in the galleys. Every day he went into the city to preach, and he was at length thrown into prison and only released at the intervention of the Venetian agent. Urged on by zeal he at last sought to enter the palace to preach before the Sultan, but he was seized and condemned to death. For three days he hung on the gallows, held up by two hooks driven through his right hand and foot; then he was miraculously released by an angel. Returning to Italy, he took with him a Greek archbishop who had apostatized, and who was reconciled to the Church on their arrival in Rome. Joseph now took up the work of home missions in his native province, sometimes preaching six or seven times a day. In the Jubilee year of 1600 he preached the Lent at Otricoli, a town through which crowds of pilgrims passed on their way to Rome. Many of them being very poor, Joseph supplied them with food; he also washed their clothes and cut their hair. At Todi he cultivated with his own hands a garden, the produce of which was for the poor. His feast is kept on 4 February throughout the Franciscan Order. He was canonized by Benedict XIV. Text Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Patron of:</span></b></u><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Animals, builders, choking, veterinarians, throats, infants, stonecutters, carvers, wool workers</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Bishop and Martyr. </span><br /><div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Today, February 3, we also celebrate the feast of Saint Blaise, the patron saint of the sick. The life of Saint Blaise is one of Holy Legend, filled with miraculous healings. Today, the Church continues to celebrate the life and intercession of Saint Blaise, in the ritual blessing of throats during Mass. We look to Saint Blaise in times of illness and for healing… But we need remember, as did this holy bishop, that it is not he, nor the ministry of the Church that heals or saves us-- because on their own, neither he nor the Church has such power. It is only through the faith in the power of the Lord whose grace provides comfort to the sick, through the Holy Spirit, that we are able to be blessed and cured. Our health is testimony to the healing love of God, the sacrifice (which all our human suffering is joined to) of Christ, and the graces of the Holy Spirit generously poured forth into our lives!</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VoBAe7lJNw4" width="640"></iframe> <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O glorious St. Blaise, who by your martyrdom left to the Church a precious witness to the Faith, obtain for us the grace to preserve within ourselves this divine gift, and to defend — without concern for human respect — both by word and example, the truth of that same Faith, which is so wickedly attacked and slandered in these our times. You miraculously restored a little child who was at the point of death because of an affliction of the throat. Grant us your mighty protection in similar misfortunes. And, above all, obtain for us the grace of Christian mortification, together with faithful observance of the precepts of the Church, which keep us from offending almighty God. Amen.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XarDQZDnul4" width="854"></iframe>Text 365Rosaries Blog</span></div>
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by Kathy Vestermark, Prof. at CDU and Mother of 6. US Correspondent of Catholic News World.<br />I have never watched so much news in my life!<br /><br /><br />Or, discussed the issues with so much passion before.<br /><br />Or, read so many political opinions.<br /><br />Or, tested so many political opinions against the teachings of my Church.<br /><br />I find so much opposition to common sense and civility.<br /><br />Even discussion of the upcoming Superbowl is riddled with political overtones: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/31/tom-brady-super-bowl-suddenly-focus-of-anti-trump-/" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Brady and Trump support</a>; <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/1/super-bowl-50-surveillance-systems-and-60-agencies/" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">security heightened at the stadium</a>; negative fan reactions, etc.<br /><br />What on earth is going on?<br /><br />I thought I lived in a country where differing opinions were welcomed; maybe compromise can't be met, but the ability to voice a contrary view has always been a constitutional right protected by the <a href="http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1.html" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1st Amendment</a>.<br /><br />I have never had this much interest in the workings of my government before. It's like not being able to look away from a serious car accident and wondering if it could have been avoided while hoping that everyone involved will be ok. Maybe that's part of the issue for me: Do I have a sense of guilt about the current state of our Constitutional Republic?<br /><br />I'll tell you what I've done over the last several years, and you decide whether I should acknowledge this sense of guilt.<br /><br />1. I made a conscious decision early on with my husband that our children would not enter into the public indoctrination system (my very strong opinion should be clear here -- I don't think what happens in public schools should be called education, especially with the emphasis on agenda based information, "teaching to the test", and the ratcheting up of questionable sexual rhetoric-- only three of myriad examples.)<br /><br />2. After many years of watching Catholic Schools bow to the Federal Blue Ribbon Program for validation of their curriculum, I bailed and took my children home. While I loved that we were in an environment where God was taught, I didn't want the Federal Government to have any level of influence on the way my Catholic teaching was imparted to my children. Buh-bye.<br /><br />3. I Marched for Life -- and **GASP** brought my children with me! That's right. Every year, peacefully -- no riots, no breaking windows, no setting fires, no vulgar hats/costumes. Nope. None of that. Just smiles, rosaries and a walk past the Supreme Court. A couple of years back, a<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2015/01/22/protesters-arrested-at-the-march-for-life/" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> counter protest was removed by the police</a> because they were impeding the progress of the March and causing disruption...(there were 500,000+ of us who were peaceful in our civil protest, while about 8-10 of those who opposed our views caused a situation that resulted in arrests...hmmm.)<br /><br />4. I taught my children History, Science, Composition, Literature, Grammar, Religion, Math, Latin, Handwriting, Art, etc. I infused our belief system throughout the curriculum and always encouraged discussion and debate. I taught my children to evaluate, to research, and to care about what was being presented to them. I taught my children to think, to critique and to trust but verify. I am the primary educator of my children in both faith and academics before any outside source (<a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a4.htm" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CCC 2221-2230</a>). I taught my children to think. And, of course, my husband supported and encouraged this effort.<br /><br />5. I was blessed to be able to enroll my children in a private Catholic School that supports what we valued most in education -- that ability to think in an environment that teaches both faith and personal character. Obedience is expected, but creativity is not stifled. They are not seen to be in opposition. Obedience opens the door to true freedom. This is Catholic teaching: <span class="text">"By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine truth" </span>(CCC 1740).<br /><br />6. I have contacted State Representative, Congressmen and Senators, members of the Board of Education, Federal officials, signed petitions. I have prayed for our government, our society, our religious freedom, our Church, other religions, our family and friends, etc. I have prayed with my family outside of abortion clinics. I didn't scream my issues but wrote letters expressing my concerns clearly and cogently. I spoke with respect to people who disagreed with me in the interest of having an intelligent conversation where both sides could share their opinions with dignity. (Notice: no fires, axes, pepper spray necessary.)<br /><br />7. I voted consistently for people that I believed would represent my values and convictions. I didn't get much satisfaction in that regard for more than a decade or so. (I made no threats, but made sure to up my activity in #6.)<br /><br />8. I could go on and on. But, I won't because this is sounding braggadocious, which is NOT what I wish to emphasize at all. I know many people who have done these things, as well. I am not alone in my efforts.<br /><br />The point of this is that I can't think of what else I could have done. So I continue to discern: Have I done everything I can to help? Am I helping now?<br /><br />Do any of you find yourself thinking the same way?<br /><br />It's a terrible place to be. I have made every effort to be a faithful, patriotic American, a good Catholic wife and mother; to wait out the administrations that didn't fully align with what I believed. And in a way that was representative of the rich history of our country, I accepted that leadership until such time as it would change.<br /><br />And, what am I met with when the tables are turned and the outcome of this election wasn't what others wanted or even expected?<br /><br />Crying!<br />Safe Spaces!<br />Coloring Books!<br /><br />then...<br /><br />Violence!<br />Vulgarity!<br />Threats!<br /><br />...and on, and on, and on...<br /><br />It's disturbing, but not surprising based on how our culture has been churning around us. The culture of death has done nothing if not gain incredible support over the last four decades.<br /><br />The result: no one who voted for this change is permitted to enjoy their victory because bullies (from the anti-bullying camp) have decided that they won't allow it. They speak peace and tolerance, but exude none toward people who disagree with them. This is a sign of how we have devolved as a society. It's a statement about what our culture represents today.<br /><br />And, this is not reflective of me, or anyone I know, at all. Yet here I stand, with many of my friends, even after peaceful and respectful efforts to express discontent with the way things in our country had been progressing. Where do our values fit in this culture?<br /><br />Anarchists don't represent me. Hollywood doesn't represent me. Feminists don't represent me. Whiny college students don't represent me. Democrats don't represent me. Republicans don't represent me.<br /><br />Who represents me?<br /><br />Who represents you?<br /><br />We are in a situation that is leaving innumerable people uncomfortable and various others violently disruptive.<br /><br />This administration has only just begun. I will be watching for productivity, accountability, honesty and transparency. I'll be waiting for the dignity of society to be restored. I will hope that people will wake up and see that the lapse in reason that motivates them to destroy property, hurt people, and create chaos in an expression of distress for not getting their way. The mob mentality does no good and only serves to make our country appear unstable and impotent as a leader in the world. That is not who we are, is it?<br /><br />I will be watching more news than ever before discussing politics and varying political opinions more than ever before, and testing all of it against the teachings of my faith. And, I will be praying for the world and for this administration.<br /><br />What will you be doing?<br /><br />How will you help?</div>
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Pope Francis celebrated a solemn Mass for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, and commemorated the 21st annual World Day for Consecrated Life.</div>
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When the parents of Jesus brought the Child in fulfilment of the prescriptions of the law, Simeon, “guided by the Spirit” (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk</em> 2:27), took the Child in his arms and broke out in a hymn of blessing and praise. “My eyes”, he said, “have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel” (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk</em> 2:30-32). Simeon not only saw, but was privileged to hold in his arms the long-awaited hope, which filled him with exultation. His heart rejoiced because God had come to dwell among his people; he felt his presence in the flesh. </div>
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Today’s liturgy tells us that in that rite, the Lord, forty days after his birth, “outwardly was fulfilling the Law, but in reality he was coming to meet his believing people” (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Roman Missal</em>, 2 February, Introduction to the Entrance Procession). This encounter of God with his people brings joy and renews hope.</div>
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Simeon’s canticle is the hymn of the believer, who at the end of his days can exclaim: “It is true, hope in God never disappoints” (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rm</em> 5:5). God never deceives us. Simeon and Anna, in their old age, were capable of a new fruitfulness, and they testify to this in song. Life is worth living in hope, because the Lord keeps his promise. Jesus himself will later explain this promise in the synagogue of Nazareth: the sick, prisoners, those who are alone, the poor, the elderly and sinners, all are invited to take up this same hymn of hope. Jesus is with them, Jesus is with us (cf. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lk</em> 4:18-19).</div>
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We have inherited this hymn of hope from our elders. They made us part of this process. In their faces, in their lives, in their daily sacrifice we were able to see how this praise was embodied. We are heirs to the dreams of our elders, heirs to the hope that did not disappoint our founding mothers and fathers, our older brothers and sisters. We are heirs to those who have gone before us and had the courage to dream. Like them, we too want to sing, “God does not deceive; hope in him does not disappoint”. God comes to meet his people. And we want to sing by taking up the prophecy of Joel and making it our own: “I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions” (2:28).</div>
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We do well to take up the dreams of our elders, so that we can prophesy in our day and once more encounter what originally set our hearts afire. Dreams and prophecies together. The remembrance of how our elders, our fathers and mothers, dreamed, and the courage prophetically to carry on those dreams.</div>
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This attitude will make us fruitful. Most importantly, it will protect us from a temptation that can make our consecrated life barren: <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the temptation of survival</em>. An evil that can gradually take root within us and within our communities. The mentality of survival makes us reactionaries, fearful, slowly and silently shutting ourselves up in our houses and in our own preconceived notions. It makes us look back, to the glory days – days that are past – and rather than rekindling the prophetic creativity born of our founders’ dreams, it looks for shortcuts in order to evade the challenges knocking on our doors today. A survival mentality robs our charisms of power, because it leads us to “domesticate” them, to make them “user-friendly”, robbing them of their original creative force. It makes us want to protect spaces, buildings and structures, rather than to encourage new initiatives. The temptation of survival makes us forget grace; it turns us into professionals of the sacred but not fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of that hope to which we are called to bear prophetic witness. An environment of survival withers the hearts of our elderly, taking away their ability to dream. In this way, it cripples the prophecy that our young are called to proclaim and work to achieve. In a word, the temptation of survival turns what the Lord presents as an opportunity for mission into something dangerous, threatening, potentially disastrous. This attitude is not limited to the consecrated life, but we in particular are urged not to fall into it.</div>
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Let us go back to the Gospel passage and once more contemplate that scene. Surely, the song of Simeon and Anna was not the fruit of self-absorption or an analysis and review of their personal situation. It did not ring out because they were caught up in themselves and were worried that something bad might happen to them. Their song was born of hope, the hope that sustained them in their old age. That hope was rewarded when they encountered Jesus. When Mary let Simeon take the Son of the Promise into his arms, the old man began to sing of his dreams. Whenever she puts Jesus in the midst of his people, they encounter joy. For this alone will bring back our joy and hope, this alone will save us from living in a survival mentality. Only this will make our lives fruitful and keep our hearts alive: putting Jesus where he belongs, in the midst of his people. </div>
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All of us are aware of the multicultural transformation we are experiencing; no one doubts this. Hence, it is all the more important for consecrated men and women to be one with Jesus, in their lives and in the midst of these great changes. Our mission – in accordance with each particular charism – reminds us that we are called to be a leaven in this dough. Perhaps there are better brands of flour, but the Lord has called us to be leaven here and now, with the challenges we face. Not on the defensive or motivated by fear, but with our hands on the plough, helping the wheat to grow, even though it has frequently been sown among weeds. Putting Jesus in the midst of his people means having a contemplative heart, one capable of discerning how God is walking through the streets of our cities, our towns and our neighbourhoods. Putting Jesus in the midst of his people means taking up and carrying the crosses of our brothers and sisters. It means wanting to touch the wounds of Jesus in the wounds of a world in pain, which longs and cries out for healing.</div>
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To put ourselves with Jesus in the midst of his people! Not as religious “activists”, but as men and women who are constantly forgiven, men and women anointed in baptism and sent to share that anointing and the consolation of God with everyone.</div>
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To put ourselves with Jesus in the midst of his people. For this reason, “we sense the challenge of finding and sharing a ‘mystique’ of living together, of mingling and encounter, of embracing and supporting one another, of stepping into this flood tide which, while chaotic, can [with the Lord] become a genuine experience of fraternity, a caravan of solidarity, a sacred pilgrimage… If we were able to take this route, it would be so good, so soothing, so liberating and hope-filled! To go out of ourselves and to join others” (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evangelii Gaudium</em>, 87) is not only good for us; it also turns our lives and hopes into a hymn of praise. But we will only be able to do this if we take up the dreams of our elders and turn them into prophecy.</div>
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Let us accompany Jesus as he goes forth to meet his people, to be in the midst of his people. Let us go forth, not with the complaining or anxiety of those who have forgotten how to prophesy because they failed to take up the dreams of their elders, but with serenity and songs of praise. Not with apprehension but with the patience of those who trust in the Spirit, the Lord of dreams and prophecy. In this way, let us share what is truly our own: the hymn that is born of hope. </div>
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Pope Francis’ prayer intention for February :<br /><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<u style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Comfort for the Afflicted: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That all those who are afflicted, especially the poor, refugees, and marginalized, may find welcome and comfort in our communities.</em></span></strong></strong></em></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We live in cities that throw up skyscrapers and shopping centers and strike big real estate deals … but they abandon a part of themselves to marginal settlements on the periphery.1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The result of this situation is that great sections of the population are excluded and marginalized: without a job, without options, without a way out. 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Don’t abandon them. Pray with me for all those who are afflicted, especially the poor, refugees, and marginalized, may find welcome and comfort in our communities.3</span></div>
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Emitte Spiritum tuum, et creabuntur.<br />R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.<br />Oremus.<br />Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de ejus semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. R. Amen.<br /><span style="font-size: small;">TRANSLATION.</span><br />Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.<br />V. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created.<br />R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.<br />Let us pray.<br />O God, who hast taught the hearts of Thy faithful people by the light of the Holy Spirit; grant us in the same Spirit to relish what is right, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort. Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen.<br />i. Most holy Mary, bright Mirror of all virtue, the forty days after thy delivery were no sooner past than thou, though the purest of all virgins, didst will to be presented in the Temple to be purified; O, help us, then, by imitating thee, to keep our hearts unstained by sin, that so we too may be made worthy one day to be presented to our God in Heaven.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />ii. Virgin most obedient, at thy Presentation in the Temple, thou didst willingly offer the accustomed sacrifice of women; enable us so to follow thy example, that we may make ourselves a living sacrifice to God, by practising every virtue.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />iii. Virgin most pure, thou didst despise the reproach of men whilst observing the precept of the Law; ask for his grace always to keep our hearts pure, what ever the world may think of us.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />iv. Virgin most holy, by offering thy Son, the Divine Word, to His Eternal Father, thou didst makeHeaven glad; present our poor hearts to God, that by His grace they may be kept free from mortal sin.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />v. Virgin most humble, in consigning Jesus into the arms of the holy old man Simeon, thou didst fill His spirit full of heavenly joy; consign our hearts to God, that He may fill them full of His Holy Spirit.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />vi. Virgin most diligent, in ransoming thy Son Jesus according the Law, thou didst cooperate in the salvation of the world; ransom our pour hearts from the slavery of sin, that they may be ever pure in the sight of God.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />vii. Virgin most meek, on hearing the prophecy of Simeon foretelling thy woes, thou didst humbly resign thyself to the good pleasure of thy God; make us always resigned to the dispositions of His Providence, and enable us to bear all troubles with patience.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />viii. Virgin most compassionate, when thou didst fill the soul of Anna the prophetess with light, by means of thy divine Son, thou didst make her magnify the mercies of God by recognising Jesus for the Redeemer of the world; enrich our spirit too with heavenly grace, that we may joyfully reap in full measure the fruits of our Lord’s Redemption.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br />ix. Virgin most resigned, although thou didst feel thine own soul transfixed with sorrow, foreseeing all the bitter Passion of thy Son, yet knowing the grief of Joseph thy Spouse for all thy sufferings, thou didst console him with holy words; pierce through and through our souls with true sorrow for our sins, that we may one day come to rejoice with thee in everlasting bliss, partakers of thy glory.<br /><i>Ave Maria.</i><br /><i>Then the Litanies, and the following Responses, &c.</i><br />V. Responsum accepit Simeon a Spiritu Sancto.<br />R. Non visurum ei mortem nisi videret Christum Domini.<br />Oremus.<br />Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, majestatem tuam supplices exoramus, ut sicut unigenitus Filius tuus cum nostrae carnis substantia in Templo est Praesentatus, ita nos facias purificatis tibi mentibus praesentati.<br />Deus omnium fidelium pastor, &c. with the other Prayers, as above.<br /><span style="font-size: small;">TRANSLATION.</span><br />V. Simeon received answer from the Holy Spirit.<br />R. That he should not see death till he had seen the Christ of God.<br />Let us pray.<br />Almighty, everlasting God, we humbly pray Thy Majesty, that as Thine only-begotten Son was presented in the Temple in the substance of our flesh, so Thou wouldst enable us to present ourselves before Thee with clean hearts. Through, &c.<br />O God, the Shepherd, &c., as above.<br /><b><u>PLENARY INDULGENCE</u></b><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To all faithful Christians who, in private or public, in church or in their own houses, shall keep any of the following Novenas, in preparation for the principal feasts of most holy Mary, Pope Pius VII., at the prayer of several holy persons, granted, by Rescripts issued through his Eminence the Cardinal-Vicar, Aug. 4 and Nov. 24, 1808, and Jan. 11, 1800 (all of which are kept in the <i>Segretaria</i> of the Vicariate) -<br />i. An indulgence of 300 days, daily.<br />ii. A plenary indulgence to all who shall assist at these Novenas every day, and who shall afterwards, either on the Feast-day itself, to which each Novena respectively has reference, or on some one day in its Octave, after Confession and Communion, pray to our Lord and to the Blessed Virgin ac cording to the pious intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.</span></div>
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Our Lady of Good Success Date: very early 17th c., first approved 1611 Place: Quito, Ecuador Visionary: Venerable Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres The story of Our Lady of Good Success is a most fascinating one -- and incredibly important and timely, as many of the prophecies of our Lady and our Lord given to Mariana pertain explicitly to the 20th c. and thereafter. Mother Mariana was a Spanish Conceptionist nun, blessed with the charismata of discernment and prophecy, who ran a convent in Quito, Ecuador. First, Our Lady told her to make a life-sized statue of her holding the Infant Jesus under the title "Our Lady of Good Success." The statue was begun by a local sculptor, but was miraculously completed in 1611 by the Archangels. Our Lady told her that at the end of the 19th Century and especially in the 20th Century, Satan would reign almost completely by the means of the Masonic sect. She told Mother Mariana that this battle would reach its most acute stage because of various unfaithful religious, who, "under the appearance of virtue and bad-spirited zeal, would turn upon Religion, who nourished them at her breast." "During this time, insomuch as this poor country will lack the Christian spirit, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction will be little esteemed. Many people will die without receiving it - either because of the negligence of their families or their false sentimentality that tries to protect the sick from seeing the gravity of their situations, or because they will rebel against the spirit of the Catholic Church, impelled by the malice of the devil. Thus many souls will be deprived of innumerable graces, consolations and the strength they need to make that great leap from time to eternity..." "As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and profaned in the fullest sense of the word. Masonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin, encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church. The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith until if reaches the point that there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs. The effects of secular education will increase, which will be one reason for the lack of priestly and religious vocations..." "The Sacred Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and despised. ...The demon will try to persecute the Ministers of the Lord in every possible way and he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation, corrupting many of them. These corrupted priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will incite the hatred of the bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church to fall upon all priests. This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous sufferings to the good Pastors of the Church...." "Moreover, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which, acting thus to snare the rest into sin, will conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women, and in this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent." "But know, beloved daughter, that when your name is made known in the 20th century, there will be many who will not believe, claiming that this devotion is not pleasing to God...A simple humble faith in the truth of My apparitions to you, My predilect child, will be reserved for humble and fervent souls docile to the inspirations of grace, for Our Heavenly Father communicates His secrets to the simple of heart, and not to those whose hearts are inflated with pride, pretending to know what they do not, or self-satisfied with empty knowledge..." Our Lady said, "...the secular Clergy will leave much to be desired because priests will become careless in their sacred duties. Lacking the divine compass, they will stray from the road traced by God for the priestly ministry, and they will become attached to wealth and riches, which they will unduly strive to obtain. How the Church will suffer during this dark night! Lacking a Prelate and Father to guide them with paternal love, gentleness, strength, wisdom and prudence, many priests will lose their spirit, placing their souls in great danger. This will mark the arrival of My hour." "Therefore, clamor insistently without tiring and weep with bitter tears in the privacy of your heart, imploring our Celestial Father that, for love of the Eucharistic Heart of my Most Holy Son and His Precious Blood shed with such generosity and the profound bitterness and sufferings of His cruel Passion and Death, He might take pity on His ministers and bring to an end those Ominous times, sending to this Church the Prelate who will restore the spirit of its priests." She predicted a truly Catholic president of Ecuador who would dedicate that country to the Sacred Heart and who would be assassinated by Masons (this happened during the presidency of Gabriel Garcia Moreno, 1821-1875. Read more here). She predicted that the Immaculate Conception and Papal Infallibility would be strictly defined and declared dogma (these happened in 1854 and 1870, respectively). The Infant Jesus part of the statue isn't original: a Conceptionist sister hid the original statue during a revolution and died before revealing where she'd secreted it. Our Lady told Mother Mariana that the original statue would be found after the restoration of the Church had begun. Mother Mariana predicted the day and exact hour of her death (she died at 3:00 P.M. on January 16, 1635). After death, her body remained flexible and lovely. A blind girl was cured at Mother's wake when a flower that encircled Mother's head was touched to her eyes. In 1906, Mother Mariana's casket was opened and her body was found to be incorrupt, exuding the fragrance of lilies. One may view it by visiting the convent in Quito. (Edited from FishEaters)</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1MAL 3:1-4</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Thus says the Lord God:<br />Lo, I am sending my messenger<br />to prepare the way before me;<br />And suddenly there will come to the temple<br />the LORD whom you seek,<br />And the messenger of the covenant whom you desire.<br />Yes, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.<br />But who will endure the day of his coming?<br />And who can stand when he appears?<br />For he is like the refiner's fire,<br />or like the fuller's lye.<br />He will sit refining and purifying silver,<br />and he will purify the sons of Levi,<br />Refining them like gold or like silver<br />that they may offer due sacrifice to the LORD.<br />Then the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem<br />will please the LORD,<br />as in the days of old, as in years gone by.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 24:7, 8, 9, 10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (8) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!</span><br />Lift up, O gates, your lintels;<br />reach up, you ancient portals,<br />that the king of glory may come in!<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!</span><br />Who is this king of glory?<br />The LORD, strong and mighty,<br />the LORD, mighty in battle.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!</span><br />Lift up, O gates, your lintels;<br />reach up, you ancient portals,<br />that the king of glory may come in!<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!</span><br />Who is this king of glory?<br />The LORD of hosts; he is the king of glory.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 2HEB 2:14-18</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Since the children share in blood and flesh,<br />Jesus likewise shared in them,<br />that through death he might destroy the one<br />who has the power of death, that is, the Devil,<br />and free those who through fear of death<br />had been subject to slavery all their life.<br />Surely he did not help angels<br />but rather the descendants of Abraham;<br />therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters<br />in every way,<br />that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God<br />to expiate the sins of the people.<br />Because he himself was tested through what he suffered,<br />he is able to help those who are being tested.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaLK 2:32</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />A light of revelation to the Gentiles,<br />and glory for your people Israel.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelLK 2:22-40</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When the days were completed for their purification<br />according to the law of Moses,<br />Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem<br />to present him to the Lord,<br />just as it is written in the law of the Lord,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,</em><br />and to offer the sacrifice of<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,</em><br />in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.<br /><br />Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.<br />This man was righteous and devout,<br />awaiting the consolation of Israel,<br />and the Holy Spirit was upon him.<br />It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit<br />that he should not see death<br />before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.<br />He came in the Spirit into the temple;<br />and when the parents brought in the child Jesus<br />to perform the custom of the law in regard to him,<br />he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying:<br /><br />"Now, Master, you may let your servant go<br />in peace, according to your word,<br />for my eyes have seen your salvation,<br />which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples:<br />a light for revelation to the Gentiles,<br />and glory for your people Israel."<br /><br />The child's father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;<br />and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,<br />"Behold, this child is destined<br />for the fall and rise of many in Israel,<br />and to be a sign that will be contradicted<br />—and you yourself a sword will pierce—<br />so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."<br />There was also a prophetess, Anna,<br />the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.<br />She was advanced in years,<br />having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage,<br />and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.<br />She never left the temple,<br />but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.<br />And coming forward at that very time,<br />she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child<br />to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem.<br /><br />When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions<br />of the law of the Lord,<br />they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.<br />The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom;<br />and the favor of God was upon him.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">OrLK 2:22-32</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />When the days were completed for their purification<br />according to the law of Moses,<br />Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem<br />to present him to the Lord,<br />just as it is written in the law of the Lord,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,</em><br />and to offer the sacrifice of<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,</em><br />in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.<br /><br />Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.<br />This man was righteous and devout,<br />awaiting the consolation of Israel,<br />and the Holy Spirit was upon him.<br />It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit<br />that he should not see death<br />before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.<br />He came in the Spirit into the temple;<br />and when the parents brought in the child Jesus<br />to perform the custom of the law in regard to him,<br />he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying:<br /><br />"Now, Master, you may let your servant go<br />in peace, according to your word,<br />for my eyes have seen your salvation,<br />which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples:<br />a light for revelation to the Gentiles,<br />and glory for your people Israel."</span></div>
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<br />Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. or Purification of the Blessed Virgin (Greek Hypapante), Observed 2 February in the Latin Rite.<br />According to the Mosaic law a mother who had given birth to a man-child was considered unclean for seven days; moreover she was to remain three and thirty days "in the blood of her purification"; for a maid-child the time which excluded the mother from sanctuary was even doubled. When the time (forty or eighty days) was over the mother was to "bring to the temple a lamb for a holocaust and a young pigeon or turtle dove for sin"; if she was not able to offer a lamb, she was to take two turtle doves or two pigeons; the priest prayed for her and so she was cleansed. (Leviticus 12:2-8)<br />Forty days after the birth of Christ Mary complied with this precept of the law, she redeemed her first-born from the temple (Numbers 18:15), and was purified by the prayer of Simeon the just, in the presence of Anna the prophetess (Luke 2:22 sqq.). No doubt this event, the first solemn introduction of Christ into the house of God, was in the earliest times celebrated in the Church of Jerusalem. We find it attested for the first half of the fourth century by the pilgrim of Bordeaux, Egeria or Silvia. The day (14 February) was solemnly kept by a procession to the Constantinian basilica of the Resurrection, a homily on Luke 2:22 sqq., and the Holy Sacrifice. But the feast then had no proper name; it was simply called the fortieth day after Epiphany. This latter circumstance proves that in Jerusalem Epiphany was then the feast of Christ's birth.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/83Fkcb9SGek" width="640"></iframe> From Jerusalem the feast of the fortieth day spread over the entire Church and later on was kept on the 2nd of February, since within the last twenty-five years of the fourth century the Roman feast of Christ's nativity (25 December) was introduced. In Antioch it is attested in 526 (Cedrenus); in the entire Eastern Empire it was introduced by the Emperor Justinian I (542) in thanksgiving for the cessation of the great pestilence which had depopulated the city of Constantinople. In the Greek Church it was called Hypapante tou Kyriou, the meeting (occursus) of the Lord and His mother with Simeon and Anna. The Armenians call it: "The Coming of the Son of God into the Temple" and still keep it on the 14th of February (Tondini di Quaracchi, Calendrier de la Nation Arménienne, 1906, 48); the Copts term it "presentation of the Lord in the Temple" (Nilles, Kal. man., II 571, 643). Perhaps the decree of Justinian gave occasion also to the Roman Church (to Gregory I?) to introduce this feast, but definite information is wanting on this point. The feast appears in the Gelasianum (manuscript tradition of the seventh century) under the new title of Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The procession is not mentioned. Pope Sergius I (687-701) introduced a procession for this day. The Gregorianum (tradition of the eighth century) does not speak of this procession, which fact proves that the procession of Sergius was the ordinary "station", not the liturgical act of today. The feast was certainly not introduced by Pope Gelasius to suppress the excesses of the Lupercalia (Migne, Missale Gothicum, 691), and it spread slowly in the West; it is not found in the "Lectionary" of Silos (650) nor in the "Calendar" (731-741) of Sainte-Geneviève of Paris. In the East it was celebrated as a feast of the Lord; in the West as a feast of Mary; although the "Invitatorium" (Gaude et lætare, Jerusalem, occurrens Deo tuo), the antiphons and responsories remind us of its original conception as a feast of the Lord. The blessing of the candles did not enter into common use before the eleventh century; it has nothing in common with the procession of the Lupercalia. In the Latin Church this feast (Purificatio B.M.V.) is a double of the second class. In the Middle Ages it had an octave in the larger number of dioceses; also today the religious orders whose special object is the veneration of the Mother of God (Carmelites, Servites) and many dioceses (Loreto, the Province of Siena, etc.) celebrate the octave.<br />Blessing of candles and procession<br />According to the Roman Missal the celebrant after Terce, in stole and cope of purple colour, standing at the epistle side of the altar, blesses the candles (which must be of beeswax). Having sung or recited the five orations prescribed, he sprinkles and incenses the candles. Then he distributes them to the clergy and laity, whilst the choir sings the canticle of Simeon, "Nunc dimittis". The antiphon "Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuæ Israel" is repeated after every verse, according to the medieval custom of singing the antiphons. During the procession which now follows, and at which all the partakers carry lighted candles in their hands, the choir sings the antiphon "Adorna thalamum tuum, Sion", composed by St. John of Damascus, one of the few pieces which, text and music, have been borrowed by the Roman Church from the Greeks. The other antiphons are of Roman origin. The solemn procession represents the entry of Christ, who is the Light of the World, into the Temple of Jerusalem. It forms an essential part of the liturgical services of the day, and must be held in every parochial church where the required ministers can be had. The procession is always kept on 2 February even when the office and Mass of the feast is transferred to 3 February. Before the reform of the Latin liturgy by St. Pius V (1568), in the churches north and west of the Alps this ceremony was more solemn. After the fifth oration a preface was sung. The "Adorna" was preceded by the antiphon "Ave Maria". While now the procession is held inside the church, during the Middle Ages the clergy left the church and visited the cemetery surrounding it. Upon the return of the procession a priest, carrying an image of the Holy Child, met it at the door and entered the church with the clergy, who sang the canticle of Zachary, "Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel". At the conclusion, entering the sanctuary, the choir sang the responsory, "Gaude Maria Virgo" or the prose, "Inviolata" or some other antiphon in honour of the Blessed Virgin. Text from the Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Candlemas Crêpe Recipe (makes about 8 crepes)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1 c. Flour<br />2 Eggs<br />1 ¼ c. Milk<br />2 T. Butter, Melted (unsalted butter can be used for dessert crêpes)<br />¼ t. Salt for dinner crêpes (only a pinch of salt for dessert crêpes)<br />1 T. Sugar (for dessert crêpes only)<br />Butter for cooking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">You can either mix all ingredients in a blender, food processor or with a whisk till smooth. It’s best to let the batter sit for ½ hour before cooking. You can add a little more milk or a little water if you find the batter is too thick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Use a skillet that’s about 6 – 8″ in diameter. (I used an 8″ pan and got 8 fairly large crêpes.) Put about ½ to 1 teaspoon of butter in the bottom of the pan, enough to coat it. Melt on medium high heat. Pour in about 2-3 T. batter and tilt or gently swirl the pan so that the batter covers the whole bottom of the skillet. Cook on one side until golden brown. Flip. Cook the other side till it starts to become golden, which should happen quickly, and remove from heat. Repeat this process until you’ve used all the batter.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Fold the crêpes:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Rolled – Put filling on one end of the crêpe and roll it up, sort of like a candle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Savory Crêpes (or Dinner Crêpes)</b></span></div>
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<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ham and Gruyere or Swiss Cheese Crêpes – Cube ham and fry, place in crêpe with shredded cheese and place in warm oven, at 300 F, to melt. This will take about 10-15 minutes. Cover if needed to prevent the crêpes from drying out. (A variation is to make this with chopped tomatoes.)</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mushrooms and Swiss Cheese – Sautee mushrooms in a little butter. Place in crêpe and top with cheese. Fold crepe and place in warm oven, at 300 F, to melt cheese. This will take about 10-15 minutes. Cover if needed to prevent the crêpes from drying out. (A variation is to make this with chopped tomatoes.)</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Spinach and Goat Cheese – Sautee spinach. Spread goat cheese on crêpe, top with spinach and fold.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Dessert Crêpes (some of these could be good for breakfast too!)</b></span></div>
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<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Apple Cinnamon and Walnut Crêpes – Sautee chopped apples and walnuts in a little butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Scoop mixture onto crêpe and fold.</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lemon and Powered Sugar Crêpes – Sprinkle confectioners sugar on crêpe and squeeze a little fresh lemon juice on top. Fold and eat!</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Your Favorite Jam Crêpes – Simply smear the crêpe with jelly, fold over or roll and top with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Nutella and Whipped Cream Crêpe – Spread nutella on crêpe, top with a dollop of whipped cream and fold up.</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Banana and Nutella Crêpes – Spread nutella on crepe, and top with thinly sliced bananas. Fold crêpe and enjoy!</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sugared Crêpes – Sprinkle crêpe with sugar and fold or roll up. These work well if you want to eat them by hand.</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ice Cream Crêpe – Put vanilla ice cream on crêpe, some hot chocolate syrup and whipped cream and fold it up.</span></li>
<li style="float: left; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 589px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Hot Fudge and Strawberry Crêpes – Clean and slice strawberries and place on crêpe, cover with hot fudge and a dollop of whip cream. Fold. (Shared from Waldorf Homeschoolers/Image SweetasHoney)</span></li>
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Information: Feast Day: February 1 Born: 451 or 452 at Faughart, County Louth, Ireland Died:<br />1 February 525 at Kildare, Ireland Patron of:<br />babies; blacksmiths; boatmen; cattle; chicken farmers; children whose parents are not married; dairymaids; dairy workers; fugitives; infants; Ireland; mariners; midwives; milk maids; newborn babies; nuns; poets; poultry farmers; poultry raisers; printing presses; sailors; scholars; travellers; watermen<br />VIRGIN, PATRONESS OF IRELAND<br />Born in 451 or 452 of princely ancestors at Faughart, near Dundalk, County Louth; d. 1 February, 525, at Kildare. Refusing many good offers of marriage, she became a nun and received the veil from St. Macaille. With seven other virgins she settled for a time at the foot of Croghan Hill, but removed thence to Druin Criadh, in the plains of Magh Life, where under a large oak tree she erected her subsequently famous Convent of Cill-Dara, that is, "the church of the oak" (now Kildare), in the present county of that name. It is exceedingly difficult to reconcile the statements of St. Brigid's biographers, but the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Lives of the saint are at one in assigning her a slave mother in the court of her father Dubhthach, and Irish chieftain of Leinster. Probably the most ancient life of St. Brigid is that by St. Broccan Cloen, who is said to have died 17 September, 650. It is metrical, as may be seen from the following specimen:<br />Ni bu Sanct Brigid suanach Ni bu huarach im sheire Dé, Sech ni chiuir ni cossens Ind nóeb dibad bethath che.<br />(Saint Brigid was not given to sleep,<br />Nor was she intermittent about God's love; Not merely that she did not buy, she did not seek for The wealth of this world below, the holy one.)<br />Cogitosus, a monk of Kildare in the eighth century, expounded the metrical life of St. Brigid, and versified it in good Latin. This is what is known as the "Second Life", and is an excellent example of Irish scholarship in the mid-eighth century. Perhaps the most interesting feature of Cogitosus's work is the description of the Cathedral of Kildare in his day: "Solo spatioso et in altum minaci proceritate porruta ac decorata pictis tabulis, tria intrinsecus habens oratoria ampla, et divisa parietibus tabulatis". The rood-screen was formed of wooden boards, lavishly decorated, and with beautifully decorated curtains. Probably the famous Round Tower of Kildare dates from the sixth century. Although St. Brigid was "veiled" or received by St. Macaille, at Croghan, yet, it is tolerably certain that she was professed by St. Mel of Ardagh, who also conferred on her abbatial powers. From Ardagh St. Macaille and St. Brigid followed St. Mel into the country of Teffia in Meath, including portions of Westmeath and Longford. This occurred about the year 468. St. Brigid's small oratory at Cill- Dara became the centre of religion and learning, and developed into a cathedral city. She founded two monastic institutions, one for men, and the other for women, and appointed St. Conleth as spiritual pastor of them. It has been frequently stated that she gave canonical jurisdiction to St. Conleth, Bishop of Kildare, but, as Archbishop Healy points out, she simply "selected the person to whom the Church gave this jurisdiction", and her biographer tells us distinctly that she chose St. Conleth "to govern the church along with herself". Thus, for centuries, Kildare was ruled by a double line of abbot-bishops and of abbesses, the Abbess of Kildare being regarded as superioress general of the convents in Ireland. Not alone was St. Bridget a patroness of students, but she also founded a school of art, including metal work and illumination, over which St. Conleth presided. From the Kildare scriptorium came the wondrous book of the Gospels, which elicited unbounded praise from Giraldus Cambrensis, but which has disappeared since the Reformation. According to this twelfth- century ecclesiastic, nothing that he had ever seen was at all comparable to the "Book of Kildare", every page of which was gorgeously illuminated, and he concludes a most laudatory notice by saying that the interlaced work and the harmony of the colours left the impression that "all this is the work of angelic, and not human skill". Small wonder that Gerald Barry assumed the book to have been written night after night as St. Bridget prayed, "an angel furnishing the designs, the scribe copying". Even allowing for the exaggerated stories told of St. Brigid by her numerous biographers, it is certain that she ranks as one of the most remarkable Irishwomen of the fifth century and as the Patroness of Ireland. She is lovingly called the "Queen of the South: the Mary of the Gael" by a writer in the "Leabhar Breac". St. Brigid died leaving a cathedral city and school that became famous all over Europe. In her honour St. Ultan wrote a hymn commencing: Christus in nostra insula Que vocatur Hivernia Ostensus est hominibus Maximis mirabilibus Que perfecit per felicem Celestis vite virginem Precellentem pro merito Magno in numdi circulo. (In our island of Hibernia Christ was made known to man by the very great miracles which he performed through the happy virgin of celestial life, famous for her merits through the whole world.) The sixth Life of the saint printed by Colgan is attributed to Coelan, an Irish monk of the eighth century, and it derives a peculiar importance from the fact that it is prefaced by a foreword from the pen of St. Donatus, also an Irish monk, who became Bishop of Fiesole in 824. St. Donatus refers to previous lives by St. Ultan and St. Aileran. When dying, St. Brigid was attended by St. Ninnidh, who was ever afterwards known as "Ninnidh of the Clean Hand" because he had his right hand encased with a metal covering to prevent its ever being defiled, after being he medium of administering the viaticum to Ireland's Patroness. She was interred at the right of the high altar of Kildare Cathedral, and a costly tomb was erected over her. In after years her shrine was an object of veneration for pilgrims, especially on her feast day, 1 February, as Cogitosus related. About the year 878, owing to the Scandinavian raids, the relics of St. Brigid were taken to Downpatrick, where they were interred in the tomb of St. Patrick and St. Columba. The relics of the three saints were discovered in 1185, and on 9 June of the following year were solemnly translated to a suitable resting place in Downpatrick Cathedral, in presence of Cardinal Vivian, fifteen bishops, and numerous abbots and ecclesiastics. Various Continental breviaries of the pre-Reformation period commemorate St. Brigid, and her name is included in a litany in the Stowe Missal. In Ireland today, after 1500 years, the memory of "the Mary of the Gael" is as dear as ever to the Irish heart, and, as is well known, Brigid preponderates as a female Christian name. Moreover, hundreds of place-names in her honour are to be found all over the country, e.g. Kilbride, Brideswell, Tubberbride, Templebride, etc. The hand of St. Brigid is preserved at Lumiar near Lisbon, Portugal, since 1587, and another relic is at St. Martin's Cologne. Viewing the biography of St. Brigid from a critical standpoint we must allow a large margin for the vivid Celtic imagination and the glosses of medieval writers, but still the personality of the founder of Kildare stands out clearly, and we can with tolerable accuracy trace the leading events in her life, by a careful study of the old "Lives" as found in Colgan. It seems certain that Faughart, associated with memories of Queen Meave (Medhbh), was the scene of her birth; and Faughart Church was founded by St. Morienna in honour of St. Brigid. The old well of St. Brigid's adjoining the ruined church is of the most venerable antiquity, and still attracts pilgrims; in the immediate vicinity is the ancient mote of Faughart. As to St. Brigid's stay in Connacht, especially in the County Roscommon, there is ample evidence in the "Trias Thaumaturga", as also in the many churches founded by her in the Diocese of Elphim. Her friendship with St. Patrick is attested by the following paragraph from the "Book of Armagh", a precious manuscript of the eighth century, the authenticity of which is beyond question: "inter sanctum Patricium Brigitanque Hibernesium columpnas amicitia caritatis inerat tanta, ut unum cor consiliumque haberent unum. Christus per illum illamque virtutes multas peregit". (Between St. Patrick and St. Brigid, the columns of the Irish, there was so great a friendship of charity that they had but one heart and one mind. Through him and through her Christ performed many miracles.) At Armagh there was a "Templum Brigidis"; namely the little abbey church known as "Regles Brigid", which contained some relics of the saint, destroyed in 1179, by William Fitz Aldelm. It may be added that the original manuscript of Cogitosus's "Life of Brigid", or the "Second Life", dating from the closing years of the eighth century, is now in the Dominican friary at Eichstätt in Bavaria. (Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia)</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning! In the past catecheses we began our course on the theme of hope by rereading in this perspective some pages of the Old Testament. Now we want to put in light the extraordinary scope that this virtue assumes in the New Testament, when it meets the novelty represented by Jesus Christ and the paschal event: Christian hope. We, Christians, are women and men of hope. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">It is what emerges clearly from the first text that was written, namely, the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians. Perceived in the passage we heard, is all the freshness and beauty of the first Christian proclamation. The Thessalonian community is a young community, recently founded, yet despite the difficulties and many trials, it is rooted in the faith and celebrates enthusiastically and joyfully the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus. So the Apostle heartily rejoices with all, in a much as those that are reborn at Easter truly become “sons of light and sons of the day” (5:5), in virtue of their full communion with Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">When Paul writes to them, the community of Thessalonika had just been founded, and only a few years separate it from Christ’s Pasch. Therefore, the Apostle tries to make them understand all the effects and consequences that this unique and decisive event, namely, the Lord’s Resurrection, implies for history and for the life of each one. In particular, the difficulty for the community was not so much to acknowledge Jesus’ Resurrection, all believed in it, but to believe in the resurrection of the dead. Yes, Jesus is risen, but the difficulty was to believe that the dead will rise again. In this connection, this Letter is revealed all the more timely. Every time we find ourselves in face of our death, or that of a loved one, we feel our faith is put to the test. All our doubts arise, all our frailty, and we wonder: “But will there truly be life after death …? Will I be able to see again and embrace again the persons I loved …? A lady asked me this question a few days ago in an audience, manifesting a doubt: “Will I meet my own?” In the present context, we are also in need of returning to the root and foundation of our faith, so as to become aware of all that God has done for us in Christ Jesus and what our death means. We all are somewhat afraid of this uncertainty of death. I remember a little old man, and elderly good man, who said: “I’m not afraid of death. I’m a bit afraid to see it coming.” He was afraid of this. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">In face of the fears and perplexities of the community, Paul invites to have firmly on the head as a helmet, especially in trials and in the most difficult moments of our life, “the hope of salvation.” It is a helmet. See what Christian hope is. When there is talk of hope, we can be led to understand it according to the ordinary meaning of the term, namely, in reference to something good that we desire, but which can or cannot be realized. We hope it will happen; it is like a desire. One says, for example: “I hope the weather will be good tomorrow!” ; but we know that, instead, the weather could be bad the next day … Christian hope is not like this. Christian hope is the expectation of something that has already been accomplished; the door is there, and I hope to arrive at the door. What must I do? I must walk to the door! I am certain I will arrive at the door. Christian hope is like this: to have the certainty that I am on the way to something that is, not that I wish it to be. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">This is Christian hope. Christian hope is the expectation of something that has already been accomplished and which certainly can be realized for each one of us. Therefore, our resurrection also, and that of our dear deceased, is not something that might or might not happen, but it is a certain reality, in as much as it is rooted in the event of Christ’s Resurrection. To hope, therefore, means to learn to live in expectation; to learn to live in expectation and to find life. When a woman realizes she is pregnant, she learns to live every day in the expectation of seeing the gaze of that child that will come. So we must also live and learn from these human expectations and live in the expectation of seeing the Lord, of encountering the Lord. This is not easy, but it can be learned: to live in expectation. To hope means and implies a humble heart, a poor heart. Only a poor one knows how to wait. One who is already full of himself and of his possessions does not put his trust in anything other than himself. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Again, Saint Paul writes: “He [Jesus] died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him” (1 <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thessalonians</em>5:10). These words are always a motive of great consolation and peace. Therefore, we are also called to pray for loved ones who have left us, so that they will live in Christ and be in full communion with us. Something that touches my heart very much is an expression of Saint Paul, again addressed to the Thessalonians. It fills me with the certainty of hope. He says thus: “and so we shall always be with the Lord” (1 <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thessalonians </em>4:17). Something beautiful: everything passes but, after death, we will always be with the Lord. It is the total certainty of hope. The same that, much earlier made Job exclaim: “For I know that my Redeemer lives […] whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold Him” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Job </em>19:25.27). And so we shall always be with the Lord. Do you believe this? I ask you, do you believe this? To have some force, I invite you to say it three times with me: “And so we shall always be with the Lord.” And we will meet there with the Lord. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">A greeting goes to young people, the sick and newlyweds. Tomorrow we will celebrate the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day for Consecrated Life. I entrust to your prayers all those who have been called to profess the evangelical counsels, so that with their testimony of life they can radiate the love of Christ and the grace of the Gospel in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Glory Be...</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">V. Pray for us, O Immaculate, Help of Christians</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Let us pray</span></em><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Heavenly Father, place deep in our hearts the love of Mary, our help and the help of all Christians. May we</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">fight vigorously for the faith here on earth, and may</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">we one day praise your victories in heaven. Grant this</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, by your visit to your cousin, Saint Elizabeth, you joyfully spread the good news of the coming of Jesus into the world. May many young people generously follow your example, and give their lives totally to the service of your Son as priests, brothers and sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, ever since the wedding feast of Cana you have always been the powerful help of all those who have asked your aid and protection. By your prayers, keep me free from all dangers and help me always to rise above my faults and failings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, by your presence at the foot of the cross, you comforted and strengthened your son as he offered his life to the Father. Be with me at the hour of my death, and lead me quickly to the joys of your Son’s kingdom in heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, by your presence in the upper room you strengthened and encouraged the apostles and disciples as they waited for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. May I always be open to the gifts of the Spirit, and may my faith always be deep and living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, throughout her long history you have always defended your Son’s Church from the attacks of her enemies. Be with her again in our days. Help each one of us to be her loyal subjects and to work without ceasing for that unity of peace and love for which your Son so fervently prayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, you have always been the special guide and protector of Saint Peter’s successor, the Bishop of Rome. Keep our present Holy Father in your loving care. Defend him from all harm and give him all those gifts he needs to be the faithful shepherd of your Son’s flock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, the wonderful way you helped Saint John Bosco’s work to grow and spread shows that you have a great love for the young. As you watched over the child Jesus at Nazareth, so now watch over all young people, especially those most in need, and help them to grow daily in love of your Son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Mary, you so often showed great courage during your life here on earth. Help all those who are suffering pain and persecution as they try to worship your Son. Obtain for me a deep love of Jesus, so that my life may always be pure, my service of others generous and loving, and my death a truly happy one.</span></div>
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(Vatican Radio) If we keep our eyes constantly fixed on Jesus, we will discover with surprise that it is he who looks lovingly upon each of us. That was Pope Francis’ message on Tuesday at his morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus does not seek popularity, but is always among people</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The author of Hebrews exhorts us to run in the faith "with perseverance, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus." In the Gospel, Jesus looks at us and sees us. Pope Francis explained that he is close to us, he "is always in the crowd":</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“He didn’t walk around with guards to protect him, so that the people could not touch him. No, no! He stayed there and people surrounded him. And there were more people around every time Jesus went out. Statisticians might have been inclined to publish: ‘Rabbi Jesus’ popularity is falling’. But he sought something else: he sought people. And the people sought him. The people had their gaze fixed on him and he had his fixed on them. ‘Yes, yes, on the people, on the multitude’ – ‘No, on each individual!’. This is the peculiarity of Jesus’ gaze: He does not standardize people; He looks at each person.”</span></em></li>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Gospel of Mark narrates two miracles: Jesus heals a woman suffering from hemorrhaging for 12 years who, though pressed by the crowd, was able to touch his cloak. And he realizes that he was touched. Then, he raises the twelve year-old daughter of Jairus, a leader of the synagogue. He understands that the girl is hungry and tells her parents to give her something to eat:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">If we run “with perseverance, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus”, Pope Francis said, “we will be ‘completely astonished’, just as happened to the people after the raising of Jairus’ daughter”:</span></div>
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Free Catholic Movies: DON BOSCO<br />This is the story of Don (Father) Bosco, also known in the Catholic church as St. John Bosco. This 19th century Italian priest worked in the city of Torino (Turin). He founded the Salesian order dedicated to teaching and youth work. That work continues worldwide today.<br /><b><u>Don Bosco</u></b> (1988) 108 min - Drama | History - 30 September 1988 (Italy)<br />Director: Leandro Castellani<br /><b>Writers</b>: Corrado Biggi (dialogue adaptation for dubbing), Silvano Buzzo (screenplay)<br /><b>Stars</b>: Ben Gazzara, Patsy Kensit, Karl Zinny<br /><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b> For English Captions - Click CC at bottom of screen, then click "ON", then click "translate captions", then select "English", then select "OK"</b></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,<br />let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us<br />and persevere in running the race that lies before us<br />while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus,<br />the leader and perfecter of faith.<br />For the sake of the joy that lay before him<br />Jesus endured the cross, despising its shame,<br />and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.<br />Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners,<br />in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart.<br />In your struggle against sin<br />you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. </span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 22:26B-27, 28 AND 30, 31-32</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (see 27b) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.</span><br />I will fulfill my vows before those who fear him.<br />The lowly shall eat their fill;<br />they who seek the LORD shall praise him:<br />"May your hearts be ever merry!"<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.</span><br />All the ends of the earth<br />shall remember and turn to the LORD;<br />All the families of the nations<br />shall bow down before him.<br />To him alone shall bow down<br />all who sleep in the earth;<br />Before him shall bend<br />all who go down into the dust.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.</span><br />And to him my soul shall live;<br />my descendants shall serve him.<br />Let the coming generation be told of the LORD<br />that they may proclaim to a people yet to be born<br />the justice he has shown.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaMT 8:17</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 5:21-43</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side,<br />a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.<br />One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward.<br />Seeing him he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying,<br />"My daughter is at the point of death.<br />Please, come lay your hands on her<br />that she may get well and live."<br />He went off with him<br />and a large crowd followed him.<br /><br />There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years.<br />She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors<br />and had spent all that she had.<br />Yet she was not helped but only grew worse.<br />She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd<br />and touched his cloak.<br />She said, "If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured."<br />Immediately her flow of blood dried up.<br />She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.<br />Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him,<br />turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who has touched my clothes?"<br />But his disciples said to him,<br />"You see how the crowd is pressing upon you,<br />and yet you ask, Who touched me?"<br />And he looked around to see who had done it.<br />The woman, realizing what had happened to her,<br />approached in fear and trembling.<br />She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth.<br />He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you.<br />Go in peace and be cured of your affliction."<br /><br />While he was still speaking,<br />people from the synagogue official's house arrived and said,<br />"Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?"<br />Disregarding the message that was reported,<br />Jesus said to the synagogue official,<br />"Do not be afraid; just have faith."<br />He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside<br />except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.<br />When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official,<br />he caught sight of a commotion,<br />people weeping and wailing loudly.<br />So he went in and said to them,<br />"Why this commotion and weeping?<br />The child is not dead but asleep."<br />And they ridiculed him.<br />Then he put them all out.<br />He took along the child's father and mother<br />and those who were with him<br />and entered the room where the child was.<br />He took the child by the hand and said to her, "<em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Talitha koum,</em>"<br />which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise!"<br />The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around.<br />At that they were utterly astounded.<br />He gave strict orders that no one should know this<br />and said that she should be given something to eat.</span></div>
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<br />(Vatican Radio) On Monday morning, following the usual Mass at the Pope’s residence in the Casa Santa Marta, the Holy Father met with Cardinal Gérald Cyprien LaCroix, assuring the Archbishop of Quebec City of his prayers for the victims of the attack on a mosque there on Sunday night.<br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis stressed the importance of for all, Christians and Muslims, to be united in prayer. Following his meeting with the Pope, Cardinal Lacroix returned immediately to Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Holy Father also formally expressed his condolences for the victims of the terrorist attack in a telegram addressed to Cardinal Lacroix, and signed by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The full text of the telegram, written in French, is provided below in an English translation:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Telegram concerning the attack on a mosque in Quebec City:</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Most Eminent Cardinal Gérald Cyprien LaCroix</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Having learned of the attack which occurred in Quebec in a prayer room of the Islamic Cultural Centre, which claimed many victims, His Holiness Pope Francis entrusts to the mercy of God the persons who lost their lives and he associates himself through prayer with the pain of their relatives. He expresses his profound sympathy for the wounded and their families, and to all who contributed to their aid, asking the Lord to bring them comfort and consolation in the ordeal. The Holy Father again strongly condemns the violence that engenders such suffering; and, imploring God for the gift of mutual respect and peace, he invokes upon the sorely tried families, and upon all persons touched by this tragedy, as well as upon all Quebecers, the benefits of the divine Blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Cardinal Pietro Parolin<br />Secretary of State of His Holiness</span></div>
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Today, January 31, we celebrate the feast day of Saint John Bosco (1815-1888), Salesians Father, Founder, Confessor, and teacher and patron saint of youth. Saint John worked tirelessly throughout his life to provide education and spiritual instruction to the poor and orphaned children of the world. The orders he founded continue to pursue that mission today. Saint John is remembered for accepting anyone, loving everyone, saying: “A piece of Heaven fixes everything.”<br />John was born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, to a peasant family. His father died when John was only two years old, leaving he and his two brothers in the solitary care of his mother. The family, quite poor, struggled to make ends meet, and John began to work as soon as he was old enough to correctly manipulate tools. He also demonstrated piety and devotion to the Lord from an early age, and professed his wish to become a priest at the age of nine, following a dream. His goal, even from that early age, was to assist youth who suffered in the same manner in which he did. John wished to spread the word of the Gospel, even as a child. He demonstrated great initiative and creativity and learned magic tricks and acrobatics in an attempt to gather an audience so that he could later evangelize and catechize the children and adults of his town. He would begin with a prayer, and while he still had a crows, would often repeat the homily he had heard in church earlier in the week.<br />His mother approved his wish to become a priest, but to make that happen, John would have to leave home to receive an education in the city. Being larger than his peers, and noticeably more impoverished, John was the constant focus of his classmates’ ridicule and teasing. To pay for his education, John spent his evenings working in whatever capacity he could—as a tailor, cobbler, and a waiter—returning back to his small room to study through the night be candlelight. Upon graduation, he began his studies for the priesthood.<br />Like most things he set his mind to, John Bosco was ordained a priest at only twenty-six. During his time as a seminarian, he devoted his spare hours to looking after the urchins who roamed the slums of the city. Every Sunday he taught them catechism, supervised their games and entertained them with stories and tricks. He spent weekdays recruiting the roughest and dirtiest he could find, inviting them to the Sunday gatherings. Before long, his kindness had won their confidence, and his “Sunday School” became a ritual with them.<br />Upon ordination, Saint John immediately sought to formalize his ministry to the poor boys of the city, opening a hospice. When he was unable to secure a building in a “good” section of town, he took one in the slums. This first “oratory” was soon joined by three others, as educators and religious sought to join him in his ministry. His mother joined him as well, serving as housekeeper. Saint John fed and clothed the boys, but also spent long hours providing them with a basic education, and teaching them skills to obtain employment. Within the hospice was a tailoring and shoemaking room, as well as a printing press. Above all, he instructed the boys in the Gospel, modeling by example the life of Jesus Christ, and creating the atmosphere of a Christian family built on trust and love.<br />Noting the transformation of the youth he ministered to, Don (Father) Bosco began to gather followers to him, who accepted him as their spiritual advisor, leader, and guide. As their number grew, the Salesian Society of priests and lay brothers was formed. Named after Saint Francis de Sales, noted for his gentleness and kindness, Saint John Bosco dedicated this new society to the saint. Saint John traveled to Rome in 1858, and met with Pope Pius IX who encouraged his new religious community. Four years later, he founded an order for women, The Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians, to care for abandoned girls in the same manner.<br />By 1868, over 800 boys were being cared for in the Salesian oratories. Along with this, Saint John oversaw the writing, printing and distribution countless pamphlets that popularized Catholic teaching and answered the objections of anti-Catholics. Moreover, he was reported to receive supernatural guidance from the Lord, it the form of vivid dreams and visions, many of which he recounted. At times, he was able to predict the deaths of those he was close to, revealed by God, so that he might provide Last Rites. He also received a vivid vision of Hell, which he shared with all he encountered. Saint John is also remembered for working miracles, especially the multiplication of food when funds were short.<br />Saint John Bosco reformed the manner in which children were educated. Rather than the punitive system which was common at the time, John enacted a preventative system which rejected corporal punishment. By tending to basic needs, educational needs, and spiritual needs, the Salesians sought to put children in an environment which reduced the likelihood to commit sin. He advocated frequent reception of the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion. He combined catechetical training and fatherly guidance, seeking to unite the spiritual life with his boys’ work, study and play. He is remembered for saying to those he ministered to: "It is enough to know that you are young and abandoned for me to love you very much." Saint John Bosco died on January 31, 1888. His incorrupt relics are frequently taken on pilgrimage around the world, to visit the faithful. The work begun by Saint John continues today, with thousands dedicated to education youth at risk. The international society of the Salesians of Don Bosco administers over 3,000 schools, colleges, technical schools, and youth centers throughout the world (in 125 countries). All at risk children are served, regardless of religion or social inequalities. The mission of this tireless ministers is to be “signs and bearers of God’s love to the young.”<br />Saint John Bosco, you reached out to children whom no one cared for despite ridicule and insults. Help us to care less about the laughter of the world and care more about the joy of the Lord. Amen<br />Admirable apostle of youth, founder of religious Congregations, catechist, educator, writer, and a light that shone brightly in our time, you know that one of the greatest powers today is the power of the Press. Prompt editors to be always truthful and to work for the good of human beings, thus serving the greater glory of God. Amen. Text shared from 365 Rosaries - Image Google </div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) The greatest strength of the Church today is in the little, persecuted Churches. That was the message of Pope Francis at the morning Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta. At the heart of the Pope’s homily were the martyrs: “Today there are more than in the first ages” – but the media says nothing about them, he continued, because it’s not news. Pope Francis invited us to remember those who suffer martyrdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Without memory there is no hope,” the Pope said, basing his homily on the reading from the Letter to the Hebrews. The first Reading of the Mass is an exhortation to remember the whole history of the people of the Lord. The liturgy in these days focuses on the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, which speaks of memory – and first of all, a “memory of docility,” the memory of the docility of so many people, beginning with Abraham, who was obedient, who went out from his own land without knowing where he was going. In particular, the section of Hebrews 11 read in today’s Mass dealt with other memories: the memory of the great works of the Lord, accomplished by Gideon, Barak, Samson, David; “so many people,” the Pope said, “who have done great things in the history of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There is also a third group we remember: the martyrs, “those who have suffered and given their lives, as Jesus did,” who “were stoned, tortured, killed by the sword.” The Church, in fact, is “this people of God,” “sinful but docile,” which “does great things and also bears witness to Jesus Christ, to the point of martyrdom”:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The martyrs are those that carry the Church forward, they are those who support the Church, who have supported her [in the past] and [who] support her today. And today there are more than in the first centuries. The media doesn’t speak of them because they're not newsworthy, but so many Christians in the world today are blessed because [they are] persecuted, insulted, incarcerated. There are so many imprisoned solely for carrying a cross or for confessing Jesus Christ! This is the glory of the Church, and our support, and also our humiliation: we who have so much, everything seems so easy for us, and if we are lacking something we complain. But let us think of these our brothers and sisters who today, in numbers greater than in the first ages, are suffering martyrdom!”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“I cannot forget,” Pope Francis continued, “the testimony of that priest and that sister in the Cathedral of Tirana [Albania]: years and years of imprisonment, forced labour, humiliations,” for whom human rights did not exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Then the Pope recalled that the greatest strength of the Church of today is in the “little Churches” that are persecuted:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“And we too – it’s also true and just – we are satisfied when we see a great ecclesial act, which has great success, Christians who demonstrate… and this is beautiful! Is this strength? Yes, it’s strength. But the greatest strength of the Church today is in the little Churches, tiny, with few people, persecuted, with their Bishops in prison. This is our glory today, this is our glory and our strength.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“A Church without martyrs – I would dare to say – is a church without Jesus,” the Pope said in conclusion. He then invited those present to pray “for our martyrs, who suffer so much… for those Churches that are not free to express themselves: they are our hope.” And the Pope recalled that in the first ages of the Church, an ancient writer said “the blood of Christians, the blood of the martyrs, is the seed of Christians”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />What more shall I say?<br />I have not time to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah,<br />of David and Samuel and the prophets,<br />who by faith conquered kingdoms,<br />did what was righteous, obtained the promises;<br />they closed the mouths of lions, put out raging fires,<br />escaped the devouring sword;<br />out of weakness they were made powerful, became strong in battle,<br />and turned back foreign invaders.<br />Women received back their dead through resurrection.<br />Some were tortured and would not accept deliverance,<br />in order to obtain a better resurrection.<br />Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.<br />They were stoned, sawed in two, put to death at sword's point;<br />they went about in skins of sheep or goats,<br />needy, afflicted, tormented.<br />The world was not worthy of them.<br />They wandered about in deserts and on mountains,<br />in caves and in crevices in the earth.<br /><br />Yet all these, though approved because of their faith,<br />did not receive what had been promised.<br />God had foreseen something better for us,<br />so that without us they should not be made perfect.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (25) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.</span><br />How great is the goodness, O LORD,<br />which you have in store for those who fear you,<br />And which, toward those who take refuge in you,<br />you show in the sight of the children of men.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.</span><br />You hide them in the shelter of your presence<br />from the plottings of men;<br />You screen them within your abode<br />from the strife of tongues.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.</span><br />Blessed be the LORD whose wondrous mercy<br />he has shown me in a fortified city.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.</span><br />Once I said in my anguish,<br />"I am cut off from your sight";<br />Yet you heard the sound of my pleading<br />when I cried out to you.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.</span><br />Love the LORD, all you his faithful ones!<br />The LORD keeps those who are constant,<br />but more than requites those who act proudly.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaLK 7:16</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />A great prophet has arisen in our midst<br />and God has visited his people.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 5:1-20</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea,<br />to the territory of the Gerasenes.<br />When he got out of the boat,<br />at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.<br />The man had been dwelling among the tombs,<br />and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.<br />In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains,<br />but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed,<br />and no one was strong enough to subdue him.<br />Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides<br />he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.<br />Catching sight of Jesus from a distance,<br />he ran up and prostrated himself before him,<br />crying out in a loud voice,<br />"What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?<br />I adjure you by God, do not torment me!"<br />(He had been saying to him, "Unclean spirit, come out of the man!")<br />He asked him, "What is your name?"<br />He replied, "Legion is my name. There are many of us."<br />And he pleaded earnestly with him<br />not to drive them away from that territory.<br /><br />Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside.<br />And they pleaded with him,<br />"Send us into the swine. Let us enter them."<br />And he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine.<br />The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea,<br />where they were drowned.<br />The swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town<br />and throughout the countryside.<br />And people came out to see what had happened.<br />As they approached Jesus,<br />they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion,<br />sitting there clothed and in his right mind.<br />And they were seized with fear.<br />Those who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened<br />to the possessed man and to the swine.<br />Then they began to beg him to leave their district.<br />As he was getting into the boat,<br />the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him.<br />But Jesus would not permit him but told him instead,<br />"Go home to your family and announce to them<br />all that the Lord in his pity has done for you."<br />Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis<br />what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.</span></div>
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1585, Vignanello, Italy</div>
<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />30 January 1640, Viterbo<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />1807 by Pope Pius VII<br /><br />A religious of the Third Order of St. Francis and foundress of the Sacconi; born 1585 of a noble family at Vignanello, near Viterbo in Italy; died 30 January, 1640, at Viterbo; feast, 30 January; in Rome, 6 February (Diarium Romanum). Her parents were Marc' Antonio Mariscotti (Marius Scotus) and Ottavia Orsini. At Baptism she received the name Clarice and in early youth was remarkable for piety, but, as she grew older, she became frivolous, and showed a worldly disposition, which not even the almost miraculous saving of her life at the age of seventeen could change; neither was her frivolity checked by her education at the Convent of St. Bernardine at Viterbo, where an older sister had taken the veil. At the age of twenty she set her heart upon marriage with the Marquess Cassizucchi, but was passed by in favour of a younger sister. She was sadly disappointed, became morose, and at last joined the community at St. Bernardine, receiving the name Hyacintha. But, as she told her father, she did this only to hide her chagrin and not to give up the luxuries of the world; and she asked him to furnish her apartments with every comfort. She kept her own kitchen, wore a habit of the finest material, received and paid visits at pleasure.<br /><div class="bodytext">
For ten years she continued this kind of life, so contrary to the spirit of her vows and such a source of scandal to the community. By the special protection of God, she retained a lively faith, was regular in her devotions, remained pure, always showed a great respect for the mysteries of religion, and had a tender devotion to the Blessed Virgin. At length she was touched by God's grace, and the earnest exhortations of her confessor at the time of serious illness made her see the folly of the past and brought about a complete change in her life. She made a public confession of her faults in the refectory, discarded her costly garments, wore an old habit, went barefoot, frequently fasted on bread and water, chastised her body by vigils and severe scourging, and practised mortifications to such an extent that the decree of canonization considers the preservation of her life a continued miracle. She increased her devotion to the Mother of God, to the Holy Infant Jesus, to the Blessed Eucharist, and to the sufferings of Christ. She worked numerous miracles, had the gifts of prophecy and of discerning the secret thoughts of others. She was also favoured by heavenly ecstacies and raptures. During an epidemic that raged in Viterbo she showed heroic charity in nursing the sick. She established two confraternities, whose members were called Oblates of Mary or Sacconi. One of these, similar to our Society of St. Vincent de Paul, gathered alms for the convalescent, for the poor who were ashamed to beg, and for the care of prisoners; the other procured homes for the aged. Though now leading a life so pure and holy, Hyacintha always conceived the greatest contempt for herself. At her death great sorrow was felt at Viterbo and crowds flocked to her funeral. She was beatified by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726, and canonized 14 May, 1807, by Pius VII.<br /><br />(Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia)</div>
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Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!This Sunday’s liturgy has us meditate on the Beatitudes (cf. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:1-12a), which open the great address called “of the mountain,” the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Magna Carta” </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">of the New Testament. Jesus manifests God’s will to lead men to happiness. This message was already present in the preaching of the prophets: God is close to the poor and the oppressed and He delivers them from those who mistreat them. However, in this preaching Jesus follows a particular path: He begins with the term “</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Blessed,”</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">happy</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. He continues with the indication of the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">condition</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">to be so and He concludes by making a </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">promise. </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The motive for beatitude, namely for happiness, is not in the condition requested — for instance, “poor in spirit,” “mourn,” “hunger for righteousness,” “persecuted” … but in the subsequent promise, to be received with faith as gift of God. One begins from the condition of hardship to open oneself to God’s gift and enter the new world, the “Kingdom” proclaimed by Jesus. This is not an automatic mechanism, but a way of life following the Lord, so that the reality of hardship and affliction is seen in a new perspective and experienced according to the conversion undertaken. One is not </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">blessed</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> if one is not </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">converted, </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">able to appreciate and live God’s gifts.</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I will pause on the first beatitude</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven” </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(v. 4). He is poor in spirit who has assumed the sentiments and the attitude of those poor, who do not rebel in their condition, but are able to be humble, docile, open to the grace of God. The happiness of the poor — of the poor in spirit — has a twofold dimension: in relation to </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">goods </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and in relation to </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">God. </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In regard to goods, to material goods, this poverty in spirit is sobriety: not necessarily renunciation, but the capacity to enjoy the essential, to share; the capacity to renew every day the wonder of the goodness of things, without being weighed down in the opacity of voracious consumption. The more I have, the more I want; the more I have, the more I want: this is voracious consumption. And this kills the soul. And the man and woman who do this, who have this attitude “the more I have, the more I want,” are not happy and will not attain happiness. ”In relations with God, it is praise and gratitude that the world is a blessing and that at its origin is the creative love of the Father. But it is also openness to Him, docility to His lordship: He is the Lord; He is the Great One. I am not great because I have many things! He is: He who willed the world for all men and wanted it so that men would be happy.</span></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A poor one in spirit is a Christian who does not trust in himself, in his material riches, who is not obstinate in his opinions but listens with respect and disposes himself willingly to others’ decisions. If there were more poor in spirit in our communities, there would be fewer divisions, oppositions and controversies! Humility, like charity, is an essential virtue for coexistence in Christian communities. The poor, in this evangelical sense, appear as those that keep alive the goal of the Kingdom of Heaven, making one perceive that it is anticipated in germ in a fraternal community, which prefers sharing to possession. I would like to stress this: to prefer sharing to possession. To always have an </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">open </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">heart and hands (he makes the gesture), not </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">closed </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(he makes the gesture). When the heart is </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">closed </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(he makes the gesture)</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">it is a narrow: it does not even know how to love. When the heart is </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">open </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(he makes the gesture),</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">it goes on the way of love.</span></span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">May the Virgin Mary, model and first fruit of the poor in spirit because totally docile to the Lord’s will, help us to abandon ourselves to God, rich in mercy, so that He will fill us with His gifts, especially the abundance of His forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dear brothers and sisters, as you see, the invaders have arrived … they are here!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Celebrated today is World Leprosy Day. This sickness, though regressing, is still among the most feared and it strikes the poorest and marginalized. It is important to fight against this disease, but also against the discriminations it engenders. I encourage all those who are committed in the rescue and social reinsertion of persons stricken by Hansen’s disease, to whom we assure our prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I greet you all affectionately, who have come from different parishes of Italy and of other countries, as well as the Associations and Groups. In particular, I greet the students of Murcia and Badajoz, the young people of Bilbao and the faithful of Castellon. I greet the pilgrims of Reggio Calabria, Castelliri, and the Sicilian group of the National Association of Parents. I would also like to renew my closeness to the populations of Central Italy that are still suffering the consequences of the earthquake and of difficult atmospheric conditions. May these brothers and sisters of ours not lack the constant support of institutions and common solidarity. And please, may no type of bureaucracy make them wait and suffer further!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now I turn to you, boys and girls of Catholic Action, of the parishes and Catholic schools of Rome. Accompanied by the Cardinal Vicar, this year also you have come at the end of the “Caravan of Peace,” whose slogan is </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surrounded by </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Peace: a beautiful slogan</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you for your presence and for your generous commitment in building a society of peace. Now, we will all listen to the message that your friends, beside me here, will read to us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And now the balloons are released, symbol of peace, symbol of peace …</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I wish you all a good Sunday. I wish you peace, humility, sharing in your families. Please, do not forget to pray for me. Have a good lunch and see you soon!</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Original text: Italian] [Translation by ZENIT]</span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z2rRfagmFMQ" width="640"></iframe></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1ZEP 2:3; 3:12-13</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth,<br />who have observed his law;<br />seek justice, seek humility;<br />perhaps you may be sheltered<br />on the day of the LORD's anger.<br /><br />But I will leave as a remnant in your midst<br />a people humble and lowly,<br />who shall take refuge in the name of the LORD:<br />the remnant of Israel.<br />They shall do no wrong<br />and speak no lies;<br />nor shall there be found in their mouths<br />a deceitful tongue;<br />they shall pasture and couch their flocks<br />with none to disturb them.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (Mt 5:3) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The LORD keeps faith forever,<br />secures justice for the oppressed,<br />gives food to the hungry.<br />The LORD sets captives free.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The LORD gives sight to the blind;<br />the LORD raises up those who were bowed down.<br />The LORD loves the just;<br />the LORD protects strangers.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span><br />The fatherless and the widow the LORD sustains,<br />but the way of the wicked he thwarts.<br />The LORD shall reign forever;<br />your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 21 COR 1:26-31</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters.<br />Not many of you were wise by human standards,<br />not many were powerful,<br />not many were of noble birth.<br />Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise,<br />and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,<br />and God chose the lowly and despised of the world,<br />those who count for nothing,<br />to reduce to nothing those who are something,<br />so that no human being might boast before God.<br />It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus,<br />who became for us wisdom from God,<br />as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,<br />so that, as it is written,<br />"Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord."</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaMT 5:12A</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Rejoice and be glad;<br />your reward will be great in heaven.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span id="goog_1819451935"></span><span id="goog_1819451936"></span>(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent his support to the March for Life, which took place in Washington, DC, on Friday.<br /><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
The Message – sent by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin – said Pope Francis “trusts that this event, in which so many American citizens speak out on behalf of the most defenseless of our brothers and sisters, will contribute to a mobilization of conscience in defense of the right to life and effective measures to ensure its adequate legal protection.”</div>
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Each year, the March for Life draws hundreds of thousands of people to the United States capital to call for the protection of the unborn, and end to euthanasia, and to promote other pro-life issues.</div>
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His Holiness Pope Francis sends warm greetings and the assurance of his closeness in prayer to the many thousands of young people from throughout America gathered in the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Arlington for the annual March for Life. His Holiness is profoundly grateful for this impressive testimony to the sacredness of every human life. As he has made clear, “so great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother’s womb, that no alleged right… can justify a decision to terminate that life” (Amoris Laetitia, 83). He trusts that this event, in which so many American citizens speak out on behalf of the most defenseless of our brothers and sisters, will contribute to a mobilization of conscience in defense of the right to life and effective measures to ensure its adequate legal protection. To all present the Holy Father cordially imparts his Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of strength and peace in the Lord.</div>
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516, traditionally Strathclyde in modern Scotland</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />570, Street, Somerset or Rhuys<br /><u><b>Major Shrine:</b></u><br />Glastonbury Abbey, now destroyed, or Rhuys Church, extant.<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Welsh historians; bell founders<br />He was son to a British lord, who to procure him a virtuous education, placed him in his infancy in the monastery of St. Iltutus in Glamorganshire. The surname of Badonicus was given him, because, as we learn from his writings, he was born in the year in which the Britons under Aurelius Ambrosius, or, according to others, under king Arthur, gained the famous victory over the Saxons at Mount Badon, now Bannesdown, near Bath, in Somersetshire. This Bede places in the forty-fourth year after the first coming of the Saxons into Britain, which was in 451. Our saint, therefore, seems to have been born in 494; he was consequently younger than St. Paul, St. Samson, and his other illustrious school-fellows in Wales: but by his prudence and seriousness in his youth he seemed to have attained to the maturity of judgment and gravity of an advanced age. The author of the life of St. Paul of Leon, calls him the brightest genius of the school of St. Iltut. His application to sacred studies was uninterrupted, and if he arrived not at greater perfection in polite literature, this was owing to the want of masters of that branch in the confusion of those times. As to improve himself in the knowledge of God and himself was the end of all his studies, and all his reading was reduced to the study of the science of the saints, the greater progress he made in learning, the more perfect he became in all virtues. Studies which are to many a source of dissipation, made him more and more recollected, because in all books he found and relished only God, whom alone he sought. Hence sprang that love for holy solitude, which, to his death, was the constant ruling inclination of his heart. Some time after his monastic profession, with the consent, and perhaps by the order of his abbot, St. Iltut, he passed over into Ireland, there to receive the lessons of the admirable masters of a religious life, who had been instructed in the most sublime maxims of an interior life, and formed to the practice of perfect virtue, by the great St. Patrick. The author of his Acts compares this excursion, which he made in the spring of his life, to that of the bees in the season of flowers, to gather the juices which they convert into honey. In like manner St. Gildas learned, from the instructions and examples of the most eminent servants of God, to copy in his own life whatever seemed most perfect. So severe were his continual fasts, that the motto of St. John Baptist might in some degree be applied to him, that he scarce seemed to eat or drink at all. A rough hair-cloth, concealed under a coarse cloak, was his garment, and the bare floor his bed, with a stone for his bolster.<br /><br />By the constant mortification of his natural appetites, and crucifixion of his flesh, his life was a prolongation of his martyrdom, or a perpetual sacrifice which he made of himself to God in union with that which he daily offered to him on his altars. If it be true that he preached in Ireland in the reign of king Ammeric, he must have made a visit to that island from Armorica, that prince only beginning to reign in 560: this cannot be ascribed to St. Gildas the Albanian, who died before that time. It was about the year 527, in the thirty-fourth of his age, that St. Gildas sailed to Armorica, or Brittany, in France: for he wrote his invective ten years after his arrival there, and in the forty-fourth year of his age, as is gathered from his life and writings. Here he chose for the place of his retirement the little isle of Houac, or Houat, between the coast of Rhuis and the island of Bellisle, four leagues from the latter. Houat exceeds not a league in length; the isle of Hoedre is still smaller, not far distant: both are so barren as to yield nothing but a small quantity of corn. Such a solitude, which appeared hideous to others, offered the greatest charms to the saint, who desired to fly, as much as this mortal state would permit, whatever could interrupt his commerce with God. Here he often wanted the common necessaries and conveniences of life; but the greater the privation of earthly comforts was in which he lived, the more abundant were those of the Holy Ghost which he enjoyed, in proportion as the purity of his affections and his love of heavenly things were more perfect. The saint promised himself that he should live here always unknown to men: but it was in vain for him to endeavor to hide the light of divine grace under a bushel, which shone forth to the world, notwithstanding all the precautions which his humility took to conceal it. Certain fishermen who discovered him were harmed with his heavenly deportment and conversation, and made known on the continent the treasure they had found. The inhabitants flocked from the coast to hear the lessons of divine wisdom which the holy anchoret gave with a heavenly unction which penetrated their hearts. To satisfy their importunities, St. Gildas at length consented to live among them on the continent, and built a monastery at Rhuis, in a peninsula of that name, which Guerech, the first lord of the Britons about Vannes, is said to have bestowed upon him. This monastery was soon filled with excellent disciples and holy monks. St. Gildas settled them in good order; then, sighing after closer solitude, he withdrew, and passing beyond the gulf of Vannes, and the promontory of Quiberon, chose for his habitation a grot in a rock, upon the bank of the river Blavet, where he found a cavern formed by nature extended from the east to the west, which on that account he converted into a chapel. However, he often visited this abbey of Rhuis, and by his counsels directed many in the paths of true virtue. Among these was St. Trifina, daughter of Guerech, first British count of Vannes. She was married to count Conomor, lieutenant of king Childebert, a brutish and impious man, who afterwards murdered her, and the young son which he had by her, who at his baptism received the name of Gildas, and was godson to our saint: but he is usually known by the surname of Treuchmour, or Tremeur, in Latin 'Trichmorus. SS. Trifina and Treuchmeur are invoked in the English Litany of the seventh century, in Mabillon. The great collegiate church of Carhaix bears the name of St. Treuchmour: the church of Quim per keeps his feast on the 8th of November, on which day he is commemorated in several churches in Brittany, and at St. Magloire's at Paris. A church situated between Corlai and the abbey of Coetmaloon in Brittany, is dedicated to God under the invocation of St. Trifina.<br /><div class="bodytext">
St. Gildas wrote eight canons of discipline, and a severe invective against the crimes of the Britons, called De Excidio Britanniae, that he might confound those whom he was not able to convert, and whom God in punishment delivered first to the plunders of the Picts and Scots, and afterwards to the perfidious Saxons, the fiercest of all nations. He reproaches their kings, Constantine, (king of the Danmonians, in Devonshire and Cornwall,) Vortipor, (of the Dimetians, in South Wales,) Conon, Cuneglas, and Maglocune, princes in other parts of Britain, with horrible crimes: but Constantine was soon after sincerely converted, as Gale informs us from an ancient Welsh chronicle. According to John Fordun he resigned his crown, became a monk, preached the faith to the Scots and Picts, and died a martyr in Kintyre: but the apostle of the Scots seems to have been a little more ancient than the former. Our saint also wrote an invective against the British clergy, whom he accuses of sloth of seldom sacrificing at the altar &c. In his retirement he ceased not with tears to recommend to God his own cause, or that of his honor and glory, and the souls of blind sinners, and died in his beloved solitude in the island of Horac, (in Latin Horata,) according to Usher, in 570, but according to Ralph of Disse, in 581.[6] St. Gildas is patron of the city of Vannes. The abbey which bears his name in the peninsula of Rhuis, between three and four leagues from Vannes, is of the reformed congregation of St. Maur since the year 1649. The relics of St. Gildas were carried thence for fear of the Normans into Berry, about the year 919, and an abbey was erected there on the banks of the river Indre, which was secularized and united to the collegiate church of Chateauroux in 1623. St. Gildas is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on the 29th of January. A second commemoration of him is made in some places on the 11th of May, on account of the translation of his relics. His life, compiled from the ancient archives of Rhuis by a monk of that house, in the eleventh century, is the best account we have of him, though the author confounds him sometimes with St. Gildas the Albanian. It is published in the library of Fleury, in Bollandus, p. 954, and most correctly in Mabillon, Act. SS. Ord. Saint Bened. t. 1, p. 138. See also Dom Lobineau, Vies des Saints de Bretagne, (for. an. 1725,) p. 72, and Hist. de la Bretagne, (2 vol. fol. an. 1707) and the most accurate Dom Morice, Memoires sur l'Histoire de Bretagne, 3 vol. fol. in 1745, and Hist. de la Bretagne, 2 vol. fol. an. 1750.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">THOUSANDS attended the MARCH FOR LIFE in Washington, DC on January 27, 2017. The great crowds marked the 44th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade the decision in 1973 that permitted abortion. Even <b>POPE FRANCIS</b> <span style="line-height: 28.7467px;">sent a letter in support. His tweet from 2014 was in English and Spanish, <u style="font-weight: bold;">“I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable”. </u>Last year he tweeted "Every Life is a Gift". </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Over 58,000,000 Abortions have occurred in America Since Roe vs. Wade in 1973. The United States remembers 43 years of legalized abortion in all fifty states at any time for any reason throughout pregnancy on January 22nd, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. This massive crowd gathered to honor life from conception to natural death despite a massive snow storm predicted. It is hoped that the legislation will soon be changed to end abortion in the US. (IMAGE SOURCE : GOOGLE)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> There was an overnight prayer vigil in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with thousands in attendance. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 25.7143px;">cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons, and seminarians </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">were present at the Mass in the Basilica. This annual March has become a large event spanning many days and involving talks, demonstrations, prayer, videos and other activities. Many politicians, clergy, religious, youth and leaders partake every year. This year Vice-President Mike Pence gave a speech, Martin Luther King's niece Dr. Alveda King also attended and is part of a large movement in support of life. Last year over 800,000 attended. This year noted a particularly strong youth presence.</span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church<br />Lectionary: 322</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1HEB 11:1-2, 8-19</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Faith is the realization of what is hoped for<br />and evidence of things not seen.<br />Because of it the ancients were well attested.<br /><br />By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place<br />that he was to receive as an inheritance;<br />he went out, not knowing where he was to go.<br />By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country,<br />dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;<br />for he was looking forward to the city with foundations,<br />whose architect and maker is God.<br />By faith he received power to generate,<br />even though he was past the normal age<br />Band Sarah herself was sterileB<br />for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy.<br />So it was that there came forth from one man,<br />himself as good as dead,<br />descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky<br />and as countless as the sands on the seashore.<br /><br />All these died in faith.<br />They did not receive what had been promised<br />but saw it and greeted it from afar<br />and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,<br />for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.<br />If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come,<br />they would have had opportunity to return.<br />But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one.<br />Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God,<br />for he has prepared a city for them.<br /><br />By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac,<br />and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,<br />of whom it was said,<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name.</em><br />He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead,<br />and he received Isaac back as a symbol. </span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmLUKE 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (see 68) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; he has come to his people.</span><br />He has raised up for us a mighty savior,<br />born of the house of his servant David.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; he has come to his people.</span><br />Through his holy prophets he promised of old.<br />that he would save us from our sins<br />from the hands of all who hate us.<br />He promised to show mercy to our fathers<br />and to remember his holy covenant.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; he has come to his people.</span><br />This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:<br />to set us free from the bonds of our enemies,<br />free to worship him without fear,<br />holy and righteous in his sight<br />all the days of our life.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; he has come to his people.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 3:16</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son,<br />so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 4:35-41</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples:<br />"Let us cross to the other side."<br />Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was.<br />And other boats were with him.<br />A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat,<br />so that it was already filling up.<br />Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.<br />They woke him and said to him,<br />"Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"<br />He woke up,<br />rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Quiet! Be still!"<br />The wind ceased and there was great calm.<br />Then he asked them, "Why are you terrified?<br />Do you not yet have faith?"<br />They were filled with great awe and said to one another,<br />"Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?"</span></div>
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<br />Top 10 Quotations of Saint Thomas Aquinas<br />1. “Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”<br />2. “If you seek the example of love: “Greater love than this no man has, than to lay down his life for his friends.” Such a man was Christ on the cross.<br />3. “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”<br />4.“The things that we love tell us what we are.”<br />5. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”<br />6. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”<br />7. “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”<br />8. “To convert somebody, go and take them by the hand and guide them.”<br />9. "The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life."<br />10. "To love God is something greater than to know Him."</div>
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<u>Novena prayer </u><br /><br />St. Thomas Aquinas,<br />patron of students and Catholic schools,<br />I thank God for the gifts<br />of light and knowledge he bestowed on you,<br />which you used to build up the Church in love.<br />I thank God, too,<br />for the wealth and richness of theological teaching<br />you left in your writings.<br />Not only were you a great teacher,<br />you lived a life of virtue<br />and you made holiness the desire of your heart.<br />If I cannot imitate you<br />in the brilliance of your academic pursuits,<br />I can follow you in the humility and charity which marked your life.<br />As St. Paul said,<br />charity is the greatest gift,<br />and it is open to all.<br />Pray for me that I might grow in holiness and charity.<br />Pray also for Catholic schools,<br />and for all students.<br />In particular, please obtain the favor I ask during this novena.<br /><br />[Make you request here...]<br /><br />Amen.<br /><br /><u>First Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, called by God</i><br />"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me;<br />and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me" (Mt 10:37).<br /><br />St. Thomas, as a young man<br />you became convinced that God was calling you to religious life.<br />Although your family was opposed to it,<br />you were determined to follow God's call.<br />Even when your brothers kidnapped you<br />and forced you to remain a prisoner in your own house,<br />you did not give up but waited patiently for God's hour.<br />St. Thomas, pray for all young people<br />who are considering their vocation in life.<br />Help them to be open to the call of God.<br />Inspire them to make choices<br />motivated by love for God<br />and an unselfish love for other people.<br />Whatever their state in life,<br />help them to see their chosen path<br />as a call to service.<br />May all married couples, single persons,<br />priests and religious build up the Church<br />through lives of unselfish devotion and love.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Second Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, lover of purity</i><br /><br />"For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness" (1 Thes 4:7).<br /><br />St. Thomas, you had a great esteem for the virtue of purity.<br />When your family tried to deter you<br />from entering the Dominicans by sending a woman to lead you into sin,<br />you resisted the temptation<br />and determined to consecrate your chastity to God forever.<br /><br />Today we are immersed in a culture<br />that degrades the gift of human sexuality.<br />Human persons are viewed as objects of pleasure<br />and their human dignity is devalued.<br />As a consequence, society tolerates abortion,<br />disregarding human life at the very outset.<br />Children suffer abuse<br />and families are damaged by infidelity.<br /><br />Pray that our society may once again<br />value the virtue of chastity.<br />Pray that those in the media will work<br />to promote a Christian view of marriage and family life.<br />May the plague of pornography in all its forms be eliminated.<br />May Christian moral standards act as a leaven in society<br />and bring about a greater respect for human life.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Third Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, example of humility</i><br /><br />"All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted" (Mt 23:12).<br /><br />St. Thomas, when you were a young student<br />some of your classmen called you the "dumb ox."<br />Although you were more intelligent than all of them,<br />you bore their insults patiently without retaliating.<br />You were endowed with a keen mind<br />but recognized that God is the source of all gifts.<br />You humbly acknowledged your dependence on God,<br />and begged him to enlighten you<br />so that you would act only for his glory.<br /><br />St. Thomas, pray for me<br />that I too learn to act out of humility<br />and never from the empty desire<br />for esteem in the sight of others.<br />Help me to seek only God's glory<br />and to act with a right intention.<br />May I seek to humble myself now,<br />so that in heaven<br />I will shine like the stars for all eternity.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Fourth Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, devoted to truth</i><br /><br />"But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ" (Eph 4:15).<br /><br />St. Thomas, you devoted your life<br />to seeking the truth and explaining it to others.<br />You dedicated your mind to God,<br />and used it to probe the Word of God more deeply.<br />Your gifts as a theologian and philosopher<br />make you stand out as one of the greatest doctors of the Church.<br />In your discussions,<br />you made truth your primary aim,<br />while treating respectfully anyone who differed with you.<br /><br />Obtain for me too a great love of truth.<br />Help me to ponder God's word<br />so as to draw from it the light I need<br />to nourish myself spiritually.<br />Keep me firmly rooted in the truth,<br />and never let me be swayed by false teachings.<br />I pray also for those who are lost in darkness;<br />please bring them into the light of truth.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Fifth Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, afire with love for the Blessed Sacrament</i><br /><br />"So Jesus said to them, 'Very truly, I tell you,<br />unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,<br />you have no life in you"' (Jn 6:53).<br /><br />St. Thomas, you had a great love for Jesus in the Holy Eucharist<br />and spent many hours in adoration be fore the Blessed Sacrament.<br />You once said that you learned more from prayer<br />before the tabernacle than from many hours of study.<br />The Church owes you a debt of gratitude<br />for the beautiful Eucharistic hymns you wrote<br />at the request of Pope Urban IV,<br />for the newly-established feast of Corpus Christi.<br /><br />Pray that I too might be inflamed<br />with an ardent love for the Holy Eucharist.<br />Help me to always esteem and reverence this wonderful sacrament.<br />Pray for me that I might always participate devoutly in Mass,<br />receive Holy Communion with great fervor,<br />and often visit Jesus in the tabernacle.<br />Through contact with the Eucharistic Lord,<br />may my heart overflow with love for God and for my neighbor.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Sixth Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, filled with charity</i><br /><br />"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.<br />It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;<br />it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth" (1 Cor 1 3 :4-6).<br /><br />St. Thomas, you were noted during your life<br />for the charity you showed to others.<br />During debates at the university,<br />you did not ridicule those who argued with you<br />but treated them with respect and love.<br />You showed consideration for the needs of other people.<br />Help me also to be more deeply rooted<br />in love of God and neighbor,<br />keeping in mind Jesus' words,<br />"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples,<br />if you have love for one another" (Jn 13:35).<br />Help me to practice this same charity<br />in a concrete way that does not stop at words,<br />but is shown with sacrifice.<br />May it begin first of all in my family,<br />and then radiate to everyone I meet.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Seventh Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, defender of the Church</i><br /><br />"...the Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth" (1 Tim 3:15).<br /><br />St. Thomas, from your youth you learned to love the Church,<br />your spiritual home.<br />In your teaching, you sought to explain<br />and defend the doctrine of the Church,<br />making it known through your writings.<br />You understood that true wisdom<br />means to let oneself be instructed by the Church,<br />for Jesus guaranteed that the Holy Spirit<br />would always be with the Church,<br />to lead it into all truth.<br />At the end of your life you said,<br />"I have taught and written much...<br />according to my faith in Christ<br />and in the holy Roman Church,<br />to whose judgment I submit all my teaching."<br />Intercede for the Church today,<br />that it might grow stronger<br />and more spiritually fruitful in the world.<br />Raise up holy priests,<br />religious and laity,<br />that they may all be the salt of the earth<br />and the light of the world.<br />Bless the pope in his efforts to guide the Church,<br />witnessing to the power of the Gospel<br />to renew the face of the earth.<br />May all theologians work to explore the richness of Catholic teaching<br />so as to show forth its truth and benefit the faithful.<br />Pray for missionaries as they work to spread the Gospel.<br />May the whole Church be renewed by the power of the Spirit<br />to more effectively witness to Christ in the world today.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Eighth Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, teacher of prayer</i><br /><br />"Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving" (Col 4:2).<br /><br />St. Thomas, you knew that prayer is the source of wisdom<br />and you spent long hours in conversation with God.<br />Prayer became your very life.<br />Whenever you pondered over a problem in theology,<br />you turned to prayer to seek God's enlightenment.<br />Now in heaven you see God face to face.<br />Pray for me, too,<br />that I might become a person of profound prayer.<br />Obtain for me the grace<br />that I might always pray with humility,<br />confidence and perseverance.<br />Help me to grow more and more in the spirit of prayer,<br />so that my whole life may become a prayer.<br />May I always seek the face of the living God.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]<br /><br /><u>Ninth Day</u><br /><br /><i>St. Thomas, patron of students</i><br /><br />"For in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind" (1 Cor 1:5).<br /><br />St. Thomas, God called you<br />to spend most of your life in academic pursuits,<br />first as a student, and then as a professor of theology.<br />In your work as a teacher,<br />you desired to help your students apply<br />what they learned to their lives,<br />in order to grow in holiness.<br />You realized that knowledge is meant<br />to draw people closer to God.<br />In your teaching you sought to communicate the truth,<br />desiring to help your students become better Christians.<br /><br />Pray for all students.<br />Pray for those who may have difficulty in their studies,<br />as well as for those who can study with ease.<br />Pray that they may all be open to the truth,<br />and always seek to better under stand it.<br />May they grow in knowledge<br />so as to know God better<br />and to be able to serve<br />their brothers and sisters as the Lord desires.<br />St. Thomas, pray especially for theologians,<br />that in their studies and research<br />they may come to a deeper knowledge of revealed doctrine<br />in keeping with the mind of the Church.<br />May their lives reflect the holiness of the Word of God<br />which they seek to more fully under stand.<br /><br />[Recite the novena prayer.]</blockquote>
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<br />Feast Day:<br />January 28<br /><b><u>Born:</u></b><br /><div class="bodytext">
1225, Roccasecca, in Lazio, Italy</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />7 March 1274, Fossanuova Abbey, Italy<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />July 18, 1323, Avignon, France<br /><b><u>Major Shrine:</u></b><br />Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse, France<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Catholic universities, colleges, and schools</div>
Today, January 28, we celebrate the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Doctor of the Church, patron saint of universities and students, and the greatest teacher of the medieval Catholic Church. Alternately referred to as the Angelic Doctor and the Universal Doctor, the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas greatly influenced not only Church doctrine, but schools of theological and philosophical thought. Candidates for the priesthood are instructed to model themselves after this holy man, and Pope Benedict XV declared that his teachings were the teachings of the Church, herself. By universal consent, this holy man is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and divine revelation.<br />Thomas was born in Aquino, Italy (the name “Aquinas” is not his surname, but translates as “of Aquino”), the son of the Count of Aquino. At the ago of five years old, his father placed him in the care of the monks at the Benedictine Monastery at Monte Casino. He was immediately observed to excel at the scholastic life, and his teachers were astounded not only by his eagerness to learn and aptitude for difficult concepts, but also by the virtuous manner in which he lived his life. As he grew older, he was sent to Naples to continue his studies, where he first encountered the philosophy of Aristotle.<br />His father, who had hoped he would enter the Benedictine Order upon reaching the age of consent was dismayed to learn that Thomas had other plans. Renouncing all his worldly ties and possessions, Thomas entered the Dominican Order in Naples. His family, for their part, did all in their power to convince him otherwise, first kidnapping him, and later sending him all manners of temptation (including “impure women”) to lead him astray. However, Thomas remained constant in his pursuits of the Lord, and maintained perfect chastity throughout his life (which is why he is referred to as the “Angelic Doctor.”)<br />Upon ordination, Thomas left Naples and traveled to Paris and Cologne, Germany, where he studied under the tutelage of Albert the Great. Here he was nicknamed the "dumb ox" because of his silent ways and huge size, but his brilliance as a student was evident in his writings. While he pursued his philosophical and theological writings, Thomas held two tenures as professor at the University of Paris. During that time, he resided at the court of Pope Urban IV, under whose direction he combated all forms of heresy and adversaries of the Church. Thomas similarly directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo, traveling between them as frequently as needed. He received his doctorate at the age of 31.<br />While a gifted preacher, the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas (which fill twenty volumes) are considered his greatest contribution to the Catholic Church. His writings reconcile the unity of faith and reason, of those things revealed by God, and those things discovered through natural human knowledge. The breadth and depth of his theory encompass the entirety of the natural order, as a cherished and divine gift granted to us by God. Pope John Paul II affirmed the importance of this tradition, saying: "The whole living tradition of the Church teaches us this: faith seeks understanding, and understanding seeks faith. Both the need to understand and the need to believe are deeply rooted in man's heart. It is for this reason that the Church herself was the point of departure for the creation of universities.” Similarly, Pope Benedict XVI asserted, “With his charism as a philosopher and theologian, he [Thomas] offered an effective model of harmony between reason and faith, dimensions of the human spirit that are completely fulfilled in the encounter and dialogue with one another. Both the light of reason and the light of faith come from God, he [Thomas] argued; hence there can be no contradiction between them.” Prior to his death, Saint Thomas Aquinas undertook to deal with the entirety of Catholic theology. His most acclaimed work, the Summa Theologiae, although incomplete summarizes the theological underpinnings of our faith in a scientific and rational manner. Saint Thomas ceased writing this work following a supernatural encounter with the Lord while celebrating Mass on December 6, 1273. During Mass, he is said to have heard the voice of Jesus asking him what he most desired. Thomas is said to have replied, “Only you, Lord,” following which he experienced something which he never revealed. Following that experience, he stopped writing, explaining, “I cannot go on… All I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.” Saint Thomas fell ill (likely from overwork) at the Cistercian monastery of Fossa Nuova, and died peacefully while providing commentary on the Song of Songs. His remains were placed in the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse in 1369.<br />Prayer for Guidance<br />O creator past all telling, you have appointed from the treasures of your wisdom the hierarchies of angels, disposing them in wondrous order above the bright heavens, and have so beautifully set out all parts of the universe. You we call the true fount of wisdomand the noble origin of all things. Be pleased to shed on the darkness of mind in which I was born, The twofold beam of your light and warmth to dispel my ignorance and sin. You make eloquent the tongues of children. Then instruct my speech and touch my lips with graciousness. Make me keen to understand, quick to learn, able to remember; make me delicate to interpret and ready to speak. Guide my going in and going forward, lead home my going forth. You are true God and true man, and live for ever and ever. Amen. Text shared from 365 Rosaries Blog</div>
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<br />Pope Francis’ message this Friday to members of the Joint International Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches which is meeting in the Vatican this week.<br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Please find below the full text of Pope Francis’s address to the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> In offering you a joyful welcome, I thank you for your presence and for the kind words that Metropolitan Bishoy addressed to me on your behalf. Through you, I send cordial greetings to the Heads of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, my venerable brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> I am grateful for the work of your Commission, which began in 2003 and is now holding its fourteenth meeting. Last year you began an examination of the nature of the sacraments, especially baptism. It is precisely in baptism that we rediscovered the basis of communion between Christians. As Catholics and Oriental Orthodox, we can repeat the words of the Apostle Paul: “For in the one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body” (1 Cor 12:13). In the course of this week, you have further reflected on historical, theological and ecclesiological aspects of the Holy Eucharist, “the source and summit of the whole Christian life”, which admirably expresses and brings about the unity of God’s people (Lumen Gentium, 11). I encourage you to persevere in your efforts and I trust that your work may point out helpful ways to advance on our journey. It will thus facilitate the path towards that greatly desired day when we will have the grace of celebrating the Lord’s Sacrifice at the same altar, as a sign of fully restored ecclesial communion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Many of you belong to Churches that witness daily the spread of violence and acts of brutality perpetrated by fundamentalist extremism. We are aware that situations of such tragic suffering more easily take root in the context of great poverty, injustice and social exclusion, due to instability created by partisan interests, often from elsewhere, and by earlier conflicts that have led to situations of dire need, cultural and spiritual deserts where it becomes easy to manipulate and incite people to hatred. Each day your Churches, in drawing near to those who suffer, are called to sow concord and to work patiently to restore hope by offering the consoling peace that comes from the Lord, a peace we are obliged together to bring to a world wounded and in pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Saint Paul also writes: “If one member suffers, all suffer together” (1 Cor 12:26). Your sufferings are our sufferings. I join you in praying for an end to the conflict and for God’s closeness to those who have endured so much, especially children, the sick and the elderly. In a particular way, my heart goes out to the bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, and the lay faithful who have been cruelly abducted, taken hostage or enslaved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> May the Christian communities be sustained by the intercession and example of our many martyrs and saints who bore courageous witness to Christ. They show us the heart of our faith, which does not consist in a generic message of peace and reconciliation but in Jesus himself, crucified and risen. He is our peace and our reconciliation (cf. Eph 2:14; 2 Cor 5:18). As his disciples, we are called to testify everywhere, with Christian fortitude, to his humble love that reconciles men and women in every age. Wherever violence begets more violence and sows death, there our response must be the pure leaven of the Gospel, which, eschewing strategies of power, allows fruits of life to emerge from arid ground and hope to dawn after nights of terror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The centre of the Christian life, the mystery of Jesus who died and rose out of love, is also the point of reference for our journey towards full unity. Once more the martyrs show us the way. How many times has the sacrifice of their lives led Christians, otherwise divided in so many things, to unity! The martyrs and saints of all ecclesial traditions are already one in Christ (cf. Jn 17:22); their names are written in the one common martyrology of God’s Church. Having sacrificed themselves on earth out of love, they dwell in the one heavenly Jerusalem, gathered around the Lamb who was slain (cf. Rev 7:13-17). Their lives, offered as a gift, call us to communion, to hasten along the path to full unity. Just as in the early Church the blood of the martyrs was the seed of new Christians, so in our own day may the blood of so many martyrs be a seed of unity between believers, a sign and instrument of a future of communion and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Dear brothers, I am grateful for the efforts you make towards attaining this goal. In thanking you for your visit, I invoke upon you and your ministry the blessing of the Lord and the loving protection of the Holy Mother of God. (Image source: Google Images)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) God frees us from the sin that paralyzes us as Christians: faintheartedness, being afraid of everything, which keep us from having memory, hope, courage, and patience. That was the message of Pope Francis during the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta on Friday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis said the day’s Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews exhorts us to live the Christian life with three points of reference: the past, the present, and the future. First, it invites us to remember, because “the Christian life does not begin today: it continues today.” Remembering is “to recall everything”: the good things, and those that are less good, and putting my own story “before the sight of God”: without covering up or hiding it:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“‘Brothers, call to mind those first days’: the days of enthusiasm, of going forward in the faith, when you began to live the faith, the anguished trials… You don’t understand the Christian life, even the spiritual life of each day, without memory. Not only do you not understand: You can’t live in a Christian way without memory. The memory of the salvation of God in my life, the memory of my troubles in my life; but how has the Lord saved me from these troubles? Memory is a grace: a grace to ask for. ‘Lord, may I not forget your step in my life, may I not forget the good moments, also the ugly; the joys and the crosses.’ The Christian is a man of memory.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The author of the Letter then makes us understand that “we are on the journey in expectation of something,” in expectation of “arriving at a point: an encounter; encountering the Lord.” “And he exhorts us to live by faith”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Finally, the Letter invites us to live in the present, “often times painful and sad,” with “courage and patience”: that is, with frankness, without shame, and enduring the events of life. We are sinners, the Pope explained – all of us. “He who is first, and he who is later… if you want, we can make the list later, but we are all sinners. All of us. But we go forward with courage and patience. We don’t remain there, stopped, because this would not make us grow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Finally, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews urges us not to commit the sin that takes away memory, hope, courage, and patience: faintheartedness (It.: pusillanimità, “pusillanimity”). “It is a sin that doesn’t allow us to go forward, through fear.” Jesus, though, says, “Don’t be afraid.” The fainthearted are those “who always go backward, who guard themselves too much, who are afraid of everything”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1HEB 10:32-39</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Remember the days past when, after you had been enlightened,<br />you endured a great contest of suffering.<br />At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction;<br />at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.<br />You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison<br />and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property,<br />knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.<br />Therefore, do not throw away your confidence;<br />it will have great recompense.<br />You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.<br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For, after just a brief moment,<br />he who is to come shall come;<br />he shall not delay.<br />But my just one shall live by faith,<br />and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him.</em><br /><br />We are not among those who draw back and perish,<br />but among those who have faith and will possess life.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaMT 11:25</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth;<br />you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 4:26-34</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus said to the crowds:<br />"This is how it is with the Kingdom of God;<br />it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land<br />and would sleep and rise night and day<br />and the seed would sprout and grow,<br />he knows not how.<br />Of its own accord the land yields fruit,<br />first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.<br />And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,<br />for the harvest has come."<br /><br />He said,<br />"To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God,<br />or what parable can we use for it?<br />It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground,<br />is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.<br />But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants<br />and puts forth large branches,<br />so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade."<br />With many such parables<br />he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.<br />Without parables he did not speak to them,<br />but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.</span></div>
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Feast Day:<br />January 27<br /><b><u>Born:</u></b><br /><div class="bodytext">
21 March 1474, Desenzano del Garda, Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />27 January 1540, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />May 24, 1807, Rome by Pope Pius VII<br /><u><b>Major Shrine:</b></u><br />The Merician Centre (including the now subterranean Church of St Afra, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy)<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />sickness, handicapped people, loss of parents<br />Saint Mary of the Angels (1474 - 1540) Feastday: January 27 Also known as: Angela of Merici, Angela de Marici Angela Merici was born on March 21, 1474 at Desenzano, Lake Garda, Italy. She made a vow of virginity before she was ten years old and persuaded her older sister to do the same. Her parents died when she was only ten years old. Together, with her older sister, she moved to the nearby town of Salo, to live with her uncle. She and her only sister, who was three years older, loved each other very much. But soon the sister of Angela followed her parents by a sudden death. Her sister's tragic death left Angela disconsolate because it occurred before her sister could receive the last sacraments of the Catholic Church. Angela lost herself in prayer and good works. Although she had great faith, she could not help but wonder if her sister was safe in heaven. One day during harvest Angela was alone in the fields when she experienced a life-changing vision: the heaven’s opened and angels and young women came toward her singing a melody, surrounded by light. One of the young girl's was Angela’s sister and she spoke, telling her that God wanted her to establish a company of consecrated virgins. Since then she has been known as a Saint, thanks to her spiritual life and her capacity to understand and help people. In 1516, on invitation, Angela moved to Brescia, for a consolatory mission in the house of Caterina Patengola, who had lost her husband and two children. Here she met Giovan Antonio Romano. Soon a group of people formed around her, united by the same desire for good. In 1524 Angela embarked on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and a year later she went to Rome to the Pope for the Jubilee. On November 25, 1535, on Saint Catherine’s day, Angela and 28 young women formed the Order of Ursulines in honor of St. Ursula in a small house near the Church of St. Afra in Bresci. In 1536, Merici laid down the rules of the Ursuline Order, clarifying her plan to restore the family and the supremacy of Christianity through the education of girls. In 1537 she was elected superior of the company by unanimous vote. Before her death she dictated her Testament and Souvenirs, which contain her counsels to her nuns; they insist on interest in the individual, gentleness, and the efficacy of persuasion over force. In 1580, Charles Borromeo, Bishop of Milan, inspired by the work of the Ursulines in Brescia, encouraged the foundation of Ursuline houses in all the dioceses of Northern Italy. Charles also encouraged the Ursulines to live together in community rather than in their own homes. Angela died on the 27th January 1540 at Brescia and was buried in the ancient church of Saint Afra (now Saint Angela’s sanctuary), where she still rests. She left 150 spiritual daughters. On June 9, 1544, Pope Paul III approved the new institute with the Bull: “Regimini Universalis Ecclesiae”. She is beatified on April 30, 1768 by Pope Clement XIII and canonized on May 24, 1807 by Pope Pius VII. In 1962 St. Angela Merici was proclaimed the principal patron of Desenzano by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. In 1861, Pius IX extended her veneration to the universal Church. Saint Angela's body is incorrupt. After Angela's death the Company of Saint Ursula spread rapidly. Ursuline communities were established quickly in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. Today, thousands of Ursuline Sisters work to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ on six continents. Text shared from MaryPages - Image Google</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The House of Representatives has approved a bill that would permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortions, President Donald Trump has agreed to sign it into law. “The Administration strongly supports H.R. 7,” the White House said in a statement. “This bill would continue to prohibit the Federal government from paying for affected procedures with the taxes of Americans who find abortion morally or religiously objectionable,” the White House said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">USCCB excert: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cardinal Dolan wrote to Congress prior to the vote urging support for the legislation, saying it "will write into permanent law a policy on which there has been strong popular and congressional agreement for more than 40 years: The federal government should not use its funding power to support and promote elective abortion, and should not force taxpayers to subsidize this violence."<br /><br />"Public opinion polls consistently reveal that strong majorities of women, minorities, and low-income Americans oppose taxpayer-funded abortions. This includes a majority of even those who call themselves 'pro-choice'," Cardinal Dolan wrote. "In addition to having broad public support, recent analysis found that as many as two million lives have been saved as a result of restrictions on federal abortion funding." </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><u>FULL TEXT of House of Rep. STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY</u></b></span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">H. R. 7 – No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Rep. Smith, R-New Jersey, and 47 cosponsors)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Administration strongly supports H.R. 7. The legislation would prohibit any funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law to be expended for any abortion, or for direct payments to insurers for health benefits coverage that includes coverage for abortions. H.R. 7 also would prohibit the purchase of abortion coverage with matching funds from federally subsidized programs, including Federal and State Medicaid funds. The legislation would not relate to the treatment of any complication caused by or worsened by an abortion, nor to the treatment of abortions in the case of rape, incest, or preserving the life of the mother. This bill would continue to prohibit the Federal government from paying for affected procedures with the taxes of Americans who find abortion morally or religiously objectionable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If the President were presented with H.R. 7 in its present form, he would sign the bill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The missionary, Helena Kmieć, was stabbed on Tuesday, and died despite efforts to save her, according to the Salvator Missionary Volunteering group, which organized her assignment to Bolivia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">According to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolivian police have detained a number of suspects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Kmieć, who arrived in Cochabamba about two weeks ago, was working at the childcare centre, run by the Polish order of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mother of God. She had planned to stay for six months. (vb/pk)</span></div>
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A native of Lystra, he was the son of a Jewish woman named Eunice and a Greek Gentile. Converted to the faith by St. Paul, Timothy willingly received circumcision in order to assuage the Jews to whom he and Paul would be preaching, especially as it was known that his father was a Gentile. Paul found Timothy a very valuable assistant and companion, using him on several missions, such as those to the Corinthians (1 Cor 4:17) and the Thessalonians (1 Thes 3:2-3). According to tradition, he was the first bishop of Ephesus, the basis for this being his journey to the city at the command of Paul to act as his representative (1 Tm 1:3). He is mentioned with St. Paul in the salutations of seven epistles in the New Testament and was teh addressee of two of three pastoral letters - 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus. His martyrdom on January 22, 97 by a mob of angry pagans came about through his opposition to the celebration of the feast of Diana; it was recorded in the fourth-century <em>Acta S. Timothei</em>.<br /><em><br />(Taken from Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints)</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading I2 TM 1:1-8</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God<br />for the promise of life in Christ Jesus,<br />to Timothy, my dear child:<br />grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father<br />and Christ Jesus our Lord.<br /><br />I am grateful to God,<br />whom I worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,<br />as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.<br />I yearn to see you again, recalling your tears,<br />so that I may be filled with joy,<br />as I recall your sincere faith<br />that first lived in your grandmother Lois<br />and in your mother Eunice<br />and that I am confident lives also in you.<br /><br />For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame<br />the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.<br />For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice<br />but rather of power and love and self-control.<br />So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord,<br />nor of me, a prisoner for his sake;<br />but bear your share of hardship for the Gospel<br />with the strength that comes from God.<br /><br />or<br />Ti 1:1-5<br /><br />Paul, a slave of God and Apostle of Jesus Christ<br />for the sake of the faith of God's chosen ones<br />and the recognition of religious truth,<br />in the hope of eternal life<br />that God, who does not lie, promised before time began,<br />who indeed at the proper time revealed his word<br />in the proclamation with which I was entrusted<br />by the command of God our savior,<br />to Titus, my true child in our common faith:<br />grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior.<br /><br />For this reason I left you in Crete<br />so that you might set right what remains to be done<br />and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 96:1-2A, 2B-3, 7-8A, 10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (3) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.</span><br />Sing to the LORD a new song;<br />sing to the LORD, all you lands.<br />Sing to the LORD; bless his name.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.</span><br />Announce his salvation, day after day.<br />Tell his glory among the nations;<br />among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.</span><br />Give to the LORD, you families of nations,<br />give to the LORD glory and praise;<br />give to the LORD the glory due his name!<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.</span><br />Say among the nations: The LORD is king.<br />He has made the world firm, not to be moved;<br />he governs the peoples with equity.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaPS 119:105</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />A lamp to my feet is your word,<br />a light to my path.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 4:21-25</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus said to his disciples,<br />"Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket<br />or under a bed,<br />and not to be placed on a lampstand?<br />For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible;<br />nothing is secret except to come to light.<br />Anyone who has ears to hear ought to hear."<br />He also told them, "Take care what you hear.<br />The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you,<br />and still more will be given to you.<br />To the one who has, more will be given;<br />from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."</span></div>
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<u><b>Feast Day:</b></u><br />January 26<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />96 at Goryna, Crete<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Crete<br />ST. TITUS was born a Gentile, and seems to have been converted by St. Paul, who calls him his son in Christ. His extraordinary virtue and merit gained him the particular esteem and affection of this apostle; for we find him employed as his secretary and interpreter; and he styles him his brother, and co-partner in his labours; commends exceedingly his solicitude and zeal for the salvation of his brethren.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt1" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.1" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">1</a> and in the tenderest manner expresses the comfort and support he found in him,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt2" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.2" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">2</a> in so much, that, on a certain occasion, he declared that he found no rest in his spirit, because at Troas he had not met Titus.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt3" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.3" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">3</a> In the year 51, he accompanied him to the council that was held at Jerusalem, on the subject of the Mosaic rites. Though the apostle had consented to the circumcision of Timothy, in order to render his ministry acceptable among the Jews, he would not allow the same in Titus, apprehensive of giving thereby a sanction to the error of certain false brethren, who contended, that the ceremonial institutes of the Mosaic law were not abolished by the law of grace. Towards the close of the year 56, St. Paul sent Titus from Ephesus to Corinth, with full commission to remedy the several subjects of scandal, as also to allay the dissensions in that church. He was there received with great testimonies of respect and was perfectly satisfied with regard to the penance and submission of the offenders; but could not be prevailed upon to accept from them any present, not even so much as his own maintenance. His love for that church was very considerable, and at their request he interceded with St. Paul for the pardon of the incestuous man. He was sent the same year by the apostle a second time to Corinth, to prepare the alms that church designed for the poor Christians at Jerusalem. All these particulars we learn from St. Paul’s two epistles to the Corinthians.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"><i> 1</i></a><br /> St. Paul, after his first imprisonment, returning from Rome into the east, made some stay in the island of Crete, to preach there the faith of Jesus Christ; but the necessities of other churches requiring his presence elsewhere, he ordained his beloved disciple Titus bishop of that island, and left him to finish the work he had successfully begun. “We may form a judgment,” says St. Chrysostom,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt4" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.4" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">4</a> “from the importance of the charge, how great the esteem of St. Paul was for his disciple.” But finding the loss of such a companion too material, at his return into Europe the year after, the apostle ordered him to meet him at Nicopolis in Epirus, where he intended to pass the winter, and to set out for that place as soon as either Tychichus, or Arthemas, whom he had sent to supply his place during his absence, should arrive in Crete. St. Paul sent these instructions to Titus, in the canonical epistle addressed to him, when on his journey to Nicopolis, in autumn, in the year 64. He ordered him to establish priests,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt5" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.5" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">5</a> that is, bishops, as St. Jerom, St. Chrysostom, and Theodoret expound it, in all the cities of the island. He sums up the principal qualities necessary for a bishop, and gives him particular advice touching his own conduct to his flock, exhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity. This epistle contains the rule of episcopal life, and as such, we may regard it as faithfully copied in the life of this disciple. In the year 65, we find him sent by St. Paul to preach in Dalmatia.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt6" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.6" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">6</a> He again returned to Crete, and settled the faith in that, and the adjacent little island. All that can be affirmed further of him is, that he finished a laborious and holy life by a happy death in Crete, in a very advanced old age, some affirm in the ninety-fourth year of his age. The body of St. Titus was kept with great veneration in the cathedral of Gortyna, the ruins of which city, the ancient metropolis of the island, situated six miles from Mount Ida, are still very remarkable. This city being destroyed by the Saracens in 823, these relics could never since be discovered: only the head of our saint was conveyed safe to Venice, and is venerated in the Ducal basilic of St. Mark. (See Creta Sacra, Auctore Flaminio Cornelio, Senatore Veneto. Venetiis, anno 1755, de S. Tito, T. 1. p. 189. 195.) St. Titus has been looked upon in Crete as the first archbishop of Gortyna, which metropolitical see is fixed at Candia, since this new metropolis was built by the Saracens. The cathedral of the city of Candia, which now gives its name to the whole island, bears his name. The Turks leave this church in the hands of the Christians. The city of Candia was built in the ninth century, seventeen miles from the ancient Gortyn or Gortyna. Under the metropolitan of Candia, there are at present in this island eleven suffragan bishops of the Greek communion.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"><i> 2</i></a><br />= When St. Paul assumed Titus to the ministry, this disciple was already a saint, and the apostle found in him all the conditions which he charged him so severely to require in those whom he should honour with the pastoral charge. It is an illusion of false zeal, and a temptation of the enemy, for young novices to begin to teach before they have learned themselves how to practise. Young birds, which leave their nests before they are able to fly, are sure to perish. Trees which push forth their buds before the season, yield no fruit, the flowers being either nipped by the frost, or destroyed by the sun. So those who give themselves up to the exterior employments of the ministry, before they are thoroughly grounded in the spirit of the gospel, drain their tender interior virtue, and produce only unclean or tainted fruit. All who undertake the pastoral charge, besides a thorough acquaintance with the divine law, and the maxims and spirit of the gospel, and experience, discretion, and a knowledge of the heart of man, or his passions, must have seriously endeavoured to die to themselves by the habitual practice of self-denial, and a rooted humility; and must have been so well exercised in holy contemplation as to retain that habitual disposition of soul amidst exterior employments, and in them to be able still to say, <i>I sleep, and my heart watches;</i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="txt7" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/041.html#note041.7" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;">7</a> that is, I sleep to all earthly things, and am awake only to my heavenly friend and spouse, being absorbed in the thoughts and desires of the most ardent love.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3" style="color: #666555; text-decoration: none;"><i> 3</i></a><br />= Shared from LIves of the Saints by Butler =</div>
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Pope Francis’ message to members of different Christian Churches gathered in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls on Wednesday. The Pope lead Vespers for the solemnity of the Conversion of St Paul and the close of the annual week of prayer for Christian unity. Text from Vatican Radio:<br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Encountering Jesus on the road to Damascus radically transformed the life of Saint Paul. Henceforth, for him, the meaning of life would no longer consist in trusting in his own ability to observe the Law strictly, but rather in cleaving with his whole being to the gracious and unmerited love of God: to Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. Paul experienced the inbreaking of a new life, life in the Spirit. By the power of the risen Lord, he came to know forgiveness, confidence and consolation. Nor could Paul keep this newness to himself. He was compelled by grace to proclaim the good news of the love and reconciliation that God offers fully in Christ to all humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For the Apostle of the Gentiles, reconciliation with God, whose ambassador he became (cf. 2 Cor 5:20), is a gift from Christ. This is evident in the text of the Second Letter to the Corinthians which inspired the theme of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “Reconciliation – The Love of Christ Compels Us” (cf. 2 Cor 5:14-20). “The love of Christ”: this is not our love for Christ, but rather Christ’s love for us. Nor is the reconciliation to which we are compelled simply our own initiative. Before all else it is the reconciliation that God offers us in Christ. Prior to any human effort on the part of believers who strive to overcome their divisions, it is God’s free gift. As a result of this gift, each person, forgiven and loved, is called in turn to proclaim the Gospel of reconciliation in word and deed, to live and bear witness to a reconciled life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Today, in the light of this, we can ask: How do we proclaim this Gospel of reconciliation after centuries of division? Paul himself helps us to find the way. He makes clear that reconciliation in Christ requires sacrifice. Jesus gave his life by dying for all. Similarly, ambassadors of reconciliation are called, in his name, to lay down their lives, to live no more for themselves but for Christ who died and was raised for them (cf. 2 Cor 5:14-15). As Jesus teaches, it is only when we lose our lives for love of him that we truly save them (cf. Lk 9:24). This was the revolution experienced by Paul, but it is, and always has been, the Christian revolution. We live no longer for ourselves, for our own interests and “image”, but in the image of Christ, for him and following him, with his love and in his love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For the Church, for every Christian confession, this is an invitation not to be caught up with programmes, plans and advantages, not to look to the prospects and fashions of the moment, but rather to find the way by constantly looking to the Lord’s cross. For there we discover our programme of life. It is an invitation to leave behind every form of isolation, to overcome all those temptations to self-absorption that prevent us from perceiving how the Holy Spirit is at work outside our familiar surroundings. Authentic reconciliation between Christians will only be achieved when we can acknowledge each other’s gifts and learn from one another, with humility and docility, without waiting for the others to learn first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">If we experience this dying to ourselves for Jesus’ sake, our old way of life will be a thing of the past and, like Saint Paul, we will pass over to a new form of life and fellowship. With Paul, we will be able to say: “the old has passed away” (2 Cor 5:17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">To look back is helpful, and indeed necessary, to purify our memory, but to be fixated on the past, lingering over the memory of wrongs done and endured, and judging in merely human terms, can paralyze us and prevent us from living in the present. The word of God encourages us to draw strength from memory and to recall the good things the Lord has given us. But it also asks us to leave the past behind in order to follow Jesus today and to live a new life in him. Let us allow him, who makes all things new (cf. Rev 21:5), to unveil before our eyes a new future, open to the hope that does not disappoint, a future in which divisions can be overcome and believers, renewed in love, will be fully and visibly one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This year, in our journey on the road to unity, we recall in a special way the fifth centenary of the Protestant Reformation. The fact that Catholics and Lutherans can nowadays join in commemorating an event that divided Christians, and can do so with hope, placing the emphasis on Jesus and his work of atonement, is a remarkable achievement, thanks to God and prayer, and the result of fifty years of growing mutual knowledge and ecumenical dialogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As we implore from God the gift of reconciliation with him and with one another, I extend cordial and fraternal greetings to His Eminence Metropolitan Gennadios, the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, to His Grace David Moxon, the personal representative in Rome of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to all the representatives of the various Churches and Ecclesial Communities gathered here. I am especially pleased to greet the members of the joint Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and to offer my good wishes for the fruitfulness of the plenary session taking place in these days. I also greet the students of the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, who are visiting Rome to deepen their knowledge of the Catholic Church, and the Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox young people studying in Rome thanks to the scholarships provided by the Committee for Cultural Collaboration with Orthodox Churches, based in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. To the superiors and staff of this Dicastery I express my esteem and gratitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Dear brothers and sisters, our prayer for Christian unity is a sharing in Jesus’ own prayer to the Father, on the eve of his passion, “that they may all be one” (Jn 17:21). May we never tire of asking God for this gift. With patient and trusting hope that the Father will grant all Christians the gift of full visible communion, let us press forward in our journey of reconciliation and dialogue, encouraged by the heroic witness of our many brothers and sisters, past and present, who were one in suffering for the name of Jesus. May we take advantage of every occasion that Providence offers us to pray together, to proclaim together, and together to love and serve, especially those who are the most poor and neglected in our midst.</span></div>
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!</div>
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Outstanding among the figures of women that the Old Testament presents to us, is that of a great heroine of the people: Judith. The biblical Book that bears her name talks about the imposing military campaign of King Nebuchadnezzar who, reigning in Nineveh, extended the borders of the empire, defeating and enslaving all the surrounding peoples. The reader understands he is before a great, invincible enemy, which is sowing death and destruction and which arrives at the Promised Land, putting in danger the life of the children of Israel.</div>
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In fact, Nebuchadnezzar’s army, under the leadership of General Holofernes, besieges Bethulia, cutting the water supply and thus sapping the population’s resistance.</div>
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The situation became dramatic, to the point that the inhabitants of the city turned to the elders asking them to surrender to their enemies. Theirs were desperate words: “There is no one to help us now! God has sold us into their hands by laying us prostrate before them in thirst and utter exhaustion. So now, summon them and deliver the whole city as plunder to the troops of Holofernes and to all his forces”</div>
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For now we have no one to help us; God has sold us into their hands, to strew us on the ground before them with thirst and utter destruction. Now call them in and surrender the whole city to the army of Holofernes and to all his forces, to be plundered” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Judith </em>7:25-26). The end seemed ineluctable; the capacity to trust God was exhausted. And how many times we come to the limit of situations, where we do not even feel the capacity to have trust in the Lord. It is an awful temptation! And, paradoxically, it seems that, to flee from death, they had to hand themselves over to the hands of those that kill. They know that these soldiers will enter to plunder the city, to take the women as slaves and then kill all the others.</div>
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And in face of such despair, the head of the people attempts to propose a pretext for hope: to hold out for five more days, awaiting God’s saving intervention. But it is a weak hope, which makes him conclude: “But if these days pass by, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say” (7:31). Poor soul: he was without a way out. God is granted five days — and here is the sin– five days are granted to God to intervene; five days of waiting, but now with the prospect of the end. They grant God five days to save them, but they know they do not have confidence, they expect the worst. In reality, no one among the people is still capable of hoping anymore. They were desperate.</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="332" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fXxQl7YwqU8" width="588"></iframe> It is in this situation that Judith appears on the scene. A widow, a woman of great beauty and wisdom, she speaks to the people with the language of faith. Courageous, she reproves the people to their face (saying): “You are putting the Almighty to the test, […]. No, my brethren, do not provoke the Lord our God to anger. For if He does not choose to help us within these five days, He has power to protect us within any time He pleases, or even to destroy us in the presence of our enemies. […] Therefore, while we wait for His deliverance, let us call upon Him to help us, and He will hear our voice, if it pleases Him” (8:13.14-15.17). It is the language of hope. We knock at the doors of God’s heart, He is Father, He can save us. This woman, a widow, risks looking bad before the others! But she is courageous! She goes ahead! This is my opinion: women are more courageous than men (Applause in the Hall).</div>
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And with the strength of a prophet, Judith recalls the men of her people to lead them back to trust in God; with the look of a prophet, she sees beyond the narrow horizon proposed by the heads and which fear renders even more limited. God will certainly act — she affirms –, whereas the proposal of five days of waiting is a way to tempt Him and to withdraw from His will. The Lord is God of salvation, — and she believes it — whatever form it takes. It is salvation to be liberated from enemies and to make one live but, in His impenetrable plans, it can also be salvation to be delivered to death. She, woman of faith, knows it. Then we learn the end, how the story ended: God saves <them>.</them></div>
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Dear brothers and sisters let us never put conditions to God and, instead, let hope conquer our fears. To trust God means to enter in His designs without pretending anything, accepting also that His salvation and His help may reach us in a different way from our expectations. We ask the Lord for life, health, affections, happiness, and it is right to do so, but in the awareness that God is able to draw life also from death, that peace can be experienced also in sickness, and that there can be serenity also in solitude and blessedness also in weeping. It is not we who can teach God what He must do, what we are in need of. He knows it better than us, and we must trust Him, because His ways and His thoughts are different from ours.</div>
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The way that Judith indicates to us is that of trust, of waiting in peace, of prayer and of obedience. It is the way of hope, without easy resignations, doing everything that is in our possibilities, but always remaining in the furrow of the Lord’s will, because – we know it –. she prayed so much, she spoke so much to the people and then, courageous, she left, she sought a way to approach the head of the army and she succeeded in cutting off his head, in slaughtering him. She is courageous in faith and in works. And she always seeks the Lord! Judith, in fact, has her plan, she implements it with success and leads the people to victory, but always in the attitude of faith of one who accepts everything from God’s hand, certain of His goodness.</div>
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Thus, a woman full of faith and courage gives back strength to her people in mortal danger and leads them on the ways of hope. And we, if we exercise our memory a bit, how many times have we heard wise courageous words from humble persons, from humble women that one thinks — without scorning them — are ignorant … but they are words of the wisdom of God! — the words of grandparents … How many times grandparents are able to say the right word. The word of hope, because they have the experience of life, they have suffered so much, they have entrusted themselves to God and the Lord gives us this gift of the counsel of hope. And, going on those ways, it will be joy and paschal light to entrust oneself to the Lord with Jesus’ words: “Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luke </em>22:42). And this is the prayer of wisdom, of trust and of hope.</div>
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A warm welcome goes to the Italian-speaking pilgrims. In particular, I greet the Religious Families present here, especially the Provincial Superiors of the Minor Friars. I greet the Association of the State Police of Caserta and the Saint Stephen Confraternity of Rieti. I encourage all to be faithful to Christ, so that the joy of the Gospel can shine in society.</div>
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A special thought goes to young people, the sick and newlyweds. Today we celebrate the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. Dear young people, may Paul’s figure be for all of you a model of missionary discipleship. Dear sick, offer your sufferings for the cause of unity of the Church of Christ. And you, dear newlyweds, be inspired by the example of the Apostle to the Gentiles, acknowledging the primacy of God and His love in your family life.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Paul addressed the people in these words:<br />"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia,<br />but brought up in this city.<br />At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated strictly in our ancestral law<br />and was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.<br />I persecuted this Way to death,<br />binding both men and women and delivering them to prison.<br />Even the high priest and the whole council of elders<br />can testify on my behalf.<br />For from them I even received letters to the brothers<br />and set out for Damascus to bring back to Jerusalem<br />in chains for punishment those there as well.<br /><br />"On that journey as I drew near to Damascus,<br />about noon a great light from the sky suddenly shone around me.<br />I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me,<br />'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'<br />I replied, 'Who are you, sir?'<br />And he said to me,<br />'I am Jesus the Nazorean whom you are persecuting.'<br />My companions saw the light<br />but did not hear the voice of the one who spoke to me.<br />I asked, 'What shall I do, sir?'<br />The Lord answered me, 'Get up and go into Damascus,<br />and there you will be told about everything<br />appointed for you to do.'<br />Since I could see nothing because of the brightness of that light,<br />I was led by hand by my companions and entered Damascus.<br /><br />"A certain Ananias, a devout observer of the law,<br />and highly spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,<br />came to me and stood there and said,<br />'Saul, my brother, regain your sight.'<br />And at that very moment I regained my sight and saw him.<br />Then he said,<br />'The God of our ancestors designated you to know his will,<br />to see the Righteous One, and to hear the sound of his voice;<br />for you will be his witness before all<br />to what you have seen and heard.<br />Now, why delay?<br />Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away,<br />calling upon his name.'"</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">OrACTS 9:1-22</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord,<br />went to the high priest and asked him<br />for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that,<br />if he should find any men or women who belonged to the Way,<br />he might bring them back to Jerusalem in chains.<br />On his journey, as he was nearing Damascus,<br />a light from the sky suddenly flashed around him.<br />He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,<br />"Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"<br />He said, "Who are you, sir?"<br />The reply came, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.<br />Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do."<br />The men who were traveling with him stood speechless,<br />for they heard the voice but could see no one.<br />Saul got up from the ground,<br />but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing;<br />so they led him by the hand and brought him to Damascus.<br />For three days he was unable to see, and he neither ate nor drank.<br /><br />There was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias,<br />and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias."<br />He answered, "Here I am, Lord."<br />The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight<br />and ask at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul.<br />He is there praying,<br />and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias<br />come in and lay his hands on him,<br />that he may regain his sight."<br />But Ananias replied,<br />"Lord, I have heard from many sources about this man,<br />what evil things he has done to your holy ones in Jerusalem.<br />And here he has authority from the chief priests<br />to imprison all who call upon your name."<br />But the Lord said to him,<br />"Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine<br />to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and children of Israel,<br />and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name."<br />So Ananias went and entered the house;<br />laying his hands on him, he said,<br />"Saul, my brother, the Lord has sent me,<br />Jesus who appeared to you on the way by which you came,<br />that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."<br />Immediately things like scales fell from his eyes<br />and he regained his sight.<br />He got up and was baptized,<br />and when he had eaten, he recovered his strength.<br /><br />He stayed some days with the disciples in Damascus,<br />and he began at once to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues,<br />that he is the Son of God.<br />All who heard him were astounded and said,<br />"Is not this the man who in Jerusalem<br />ravaged those who call upon this name,<br />and came here expressly to take them back in chains<br />to the chief priests?"<br />But Saul grew all the stronger<br />and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus,<br />proving that this is the Christ.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 117:1BC, 2</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (Mark 16:15) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Praise the LORD, all you nations;<br />glorify him, all you peoples!<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />For steadfast is his kindness toward us,<br />and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.</span><br />or:<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaJN 15:16</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span>I chose you from the world,<br />to go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 16:15-18</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them:<br />"Go into the whole world<br />and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.<br />Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;<br />whoever does not believe will be condemned.<br />These signs will accompany those who believe:<br />in my name they will drive out demons,<br />they will speak new languages.<br />They will pick up serpents with their hands,<br />and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.<br />They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the Acts of the Apostles there are three accounts of the conversion of St. Paul (9:1-19; 22:3-21; 26:9-23) presenting some slight differences. Jesus spoke to Paul <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12px;">: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting” (Acts 9:5b). Jesus was mysteriously identified with the group of people Saul had been killing like criminals. Jesus, he saw, was the mysterious fulfillment of all.</span></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Acts 9:<i> 1-19 1And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 3And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 6And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 7And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. 8And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought [him] into Damascus. 9And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. Ananias Baptizes Saul 10And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I [am here], Lord. 11And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for [one] called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 12And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting [his] hand on him, that he might receive his sight. 13Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: 14And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. 15But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. 17And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. 18And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. 19And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Paul's faith in Christ which engendered the vision, whereas according to the concordant testimony of the Acts and the Epistles it was the actual vision of Christ which engendered faith. After his conversion, his baptism, and his miraculous cure Paul set about preaching to the Jews (Acts 9:19-20). He afterwards withdrew to Arabia — probably to the region south of Damascus (Galatians 1:17), doubtless less to preach than to meditate on the Scriptures. On his return to Damascus the intrigues of the Jews forced him to flee by night (2 Corinthians 11:32-33; Acts 9:23-25). He went to Jerusalem to see Peter (Galatians 1:18), but remained only fifteen days, for the snares of the Greeks threatened his life. He then left for Tarsus and is lost to sight for five or six years (Acts 9:29-30; Galatians 1:21). Barnabas went in search of him and brought him to Antioch where for a year they worked together and their apostolate was most fruitful (Acts 11:25-26). Together also they were sent to Jerusalem to carry alms to the brethren on the occasion of the famine predicted by Agabus (Acts 11:27-30). They do not seem to have found the Apostles there; these had been scattered by the persecution of Herod. Apostolic career of Paul This period of twelve years (45-57) was the most active and fruitful of his life. It comprises three great Apostolic expeditions of which Antioch was in each instance the starting-point and which invariably ended in a visit to Jerusalem.</span></div>
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who in your mortal life did excel in all virtues,
especially in love of God and of neighbor,
I earnestly entreat you to take me under your immediate protection,
to obtain from God my perfect conversion,
and that of all sinners, especially of
(the names of persons for whom you wish to pray should be mentioned here).
Teach me, O Father,
to fix my eyes on heaven,
that I may generously trample under foot
every obstacle that presents itself in my way,
and attain that degree of glory
which You in Your mercy hold out to me.
Obtain also that particular favor for which I now pray.
(mention intention)
Assist us, O Lord, we beseech You,
through the merits of St. Francis de Sales.
That what our endeavors cannot obtain may be given us by his intercession.
Let us pray:
O God, who for the salvation of souls,
did will that St. Francis de Sales,
Your confessor and bishop,
should become all things to all men and women,
mercifully grant that we,
infused with the gentleness of his charity,
guided by his teachings,
and sharing in his merits,
may obtain eternal happiness.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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<pre><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: #45475f; font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">Litany of St. Francis de Sales</span>
<i style="color: #45475f; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. O God, the Father of heaven, Have mercy on us. O God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us. O God, the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us O Holy Trinity, one God, Have mercy on us. Holy Mary, Mother of God, <u>Pray for us.</u> * St. Francis de Sales, * St. Francis, miracle of the most august Trinity, * St. Francis, faithful imitator of Jesus Christ, * St. Francis, attached to the the service of the Blessed Virgin, * St. Francis, practicing the virtues of the Saints, * St. Francis, most devote to Jesus crucified, * St. Francis, august tabernacle of true religion, * St. Francis, most humble in prosperity, * St. Francis, most patient in adversity, * St. Francis, true portrait of the meekness of Christ, * St. Francis, simple as the dove, * St. Francis, example of angelic modesty, * St. Francis, exact observer of evangelic poverty, * St. Francis, excellent example of the purity of angels, * St. Francis, ever obedient to the Apostolic See, * St. Francis, generously despising the world, * St. Francis, powerful vanquisher of demons, * St. Francis, invincible triumpher over the flesh, * St. Francis, inflamed with the love of God, * St. Francis, abounding in virtues, * St. Francis, all to all for the salvation of souls, * St. Francis, most dear to God, and beloved by men, * St. Francis, unwearied apostle of Geneva and its territory, * which thou didst so laboriously reunite to the one true Church of God, * St. Francis, most fervent pastor, ever careful to lead thy flock to the fold of Jesus the Good Shepherd, * St. Francis, most renowned for thy miracles, * St. Francis, greatest of all thy miracles, * St. Francis, patriarch of the Visitation, * St. Francis, continual martyr to thy love of God, * St. Francis, father of many Saints, by the holy rules which thou hast left for every state, * St. Francis, powerful protector to obtain of God that mildness which preserves the peace of the heart, * St. Francis, amiable patron of those who invoke thee, * Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us, O Lord. O Blessed Francis, like the fruitful olive-tree in the house of God, radiant in miracles, make us partakers of thy sanctity and of the light which thou enjoyest. V. Pray for us, Blessed Francis of Sales. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray:</i><span style="color: #45475f; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"></span></span><div style="color: #45475f; padding-left: 73.6563px; padding-right: 12.2656px; white-space: normal;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">O</span> God, by whose gracious will the Blessed Francis, thy confessor and bishop, became all things unto all men, for the saving of their souls, mercifully grant that, being filled with the sweetness of thy love, we may, through the guidance of his counsels, and by the aid of his merits, attain unto the joys of life everlasting. Through Christ our Lord. Amen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">S</span>ay not, merciful Virgin, that you cannot help me; for your beloved Son has given you all power in heaven and on earth. Say not that you ought not assist me, for you are the mother of all the poor children of Adam, and mine in particular. Since then, merciful Virgin, you are my mother and you are all-powerful, what excuse can you offer if you do not lend your assistance? See. my mother, see, you are obliged to grant me what I ask, and to yield to my entreaties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) "The Mafia is an expression of the culture of death that is opposed to the Gospel." Those were Pope Francis' words to members of the Italian National Antimafia and Antiterrorism Directorate who he received on Monday in the Vatican.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Meeting with the Italian National Antimafia and Antiterrorism directorate in the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis expressed his appreciation for the difficult and risky work they do in the fight against organized crime and terrorism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He told those gathered that society needed to be healed from corruption, extortion, the illegal trafficking of drugs and arms, and the trafficking in human beings, including children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope also commended both groups for their law enforcement activities in collaboration with other states saying that, this work carried out in synergy was important for a secure society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During his address, the Holy Father urged them in particular “to devote every effort especially in combating trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants:” these, he stressed, “are serious crimes that affect the very weakest.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Those, he said, “who flee their countries because of war, violence and persecution are entitled to find suitable welcome and suitable protection in countries that call themselves civil.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pope Francis also spoke about the importance of educational initiatives aimed at the younger generation in a bid to, as he put it, “foster a consciousness of morality”, that wins over evil and promotes a social fabric that is open to the hope of a better world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Concluding his address, the Holy Father, noting again the directorates’ hazardous work to combat corruption, the Mafia and violence, prayed that the Lord would always give them the strength to continue, and not be discouraged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope described the Mafia, “as an expression of a culture of death, which is radically opposed to faith and to the Gospel which always promotes life and he prayed that God would touch the hearts of the men and women of the various mafias, so that their lives would be converted and they would cease to do evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church<br />Lectionary: 318</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Brothers and sisters:<br />Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come,<br />and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect<br />those who come to worship by the same sacrifices<br />that they offer continually each year.<br />Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered,<br />since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer<br />have had any consciousness of sins?<br />But in those sacrifices there is only a yearly remembrance of sins,<br />for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats<br />take away sins.<br />For this reason, when he came into the world, he said:<br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,<br />but a body you prepared for me;<br />in burnt offerings and sin offerings you took no delight.<br />Then I said, As is written of me in the scroll,<br />Behold, I come to do your will, O God.</em><br /><br />First he says, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacrifices and offerings,<br />burnt offerings and sin offerings,<br />you neither desired nor delighted in.</em><br />These are offered according to the law.<br />Then he says, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Behold, I come to do your will.</em><br />He takes away the first to establish the second.<br />By this "will," we have been consecrated<br />through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.</span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 40:2 AND 4AB, 7-8A, 10, 11</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. (8a and 9a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />I have waited, waited for the LORD,<br />and he stooped toward me.<br />And he put a new song into my mouth,<br />a hymn to our God.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,<br />but ears open to obedience you gave me.<br />Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;<br />then said I, "Behold I come."<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />I announced your justice in the vast assembly;<br />I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.</span><br />Your justice I kept not hid within my heart;<br />your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of;<br />I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth<br />in the vast assembly.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">AlleluiaMT 11:25</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth;<br />you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GospelMK 3:31-35</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house.<br />Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him.<br />A crowd seated around him told him,<br />"Your mother and your brothers and your sisters<br />are outside asking for you."<br />But he said to them in reply,<br />"Who are my mother and my brothers?"<br />And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,<br />"Here are my mother and my brothers.<br />For whoever does the will of God<br />is my brother and sister and mother."</span></div>
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<u><b><br /></b></u><u><b>Feast Day:</b></u><br />January 24<br /><b><u>Born:</u></b><br /><div class="bodytext">
21 August 1567, Château de Thorens, Savoy</div>
<u><b>Died:</b></u><br />28 December 1622, Lyon, France<br /><u><b>Canonized:</b></u><br />19 April 1665, Rome by Pope Alexander VII<br /><u><b>Major Shrine:</b></u><br />Annecy, France<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Catholic press; confessors; deaf people; educators; writers; journalists Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church; born at Thorens, in the Duchy of Savoy, 21 August, 1567; died at Lyons, 28 December, 1622. His father, Francois de Sales de Boisy, and his mother, Francoise de Sionnaz, belonged to old Savoyard aristocratic families. The future saint was the eldest of six brothers. His father intended him for the magistracy and sent him at an early age to the colleges of La Roche and Annecy. From 1583 till 1588 he studied rhetoric and humanities at the college of Clermont, Paris, under the care of the Jesuits. While there he began a course of theology. After a terrible and prolonged temptation to despair, caused by the discussions of the theologians of the day on the question of predestination, from which he was suddenly freed as he knelt before a miraculous image of Our Lady at St. Etienne-des-Gres, he made a vow of chastity and consecrated himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1588 he studied law at Padua, where the Jesuit Father Possevin was his spiritual director. He received his diploma of doctorate from the famous Pancirola in 1592. Having been admitted as a lawyer before the senate of Chambery, he was about to be appointed senator. His father had selected one of the noblest heiresses of Savoy to be the partner of his future life, but Francis declared his intention of embracing the ecclesiastical life. A sharp struggle ensued. His father would not consent to see his expectations thwarted. Then Claude de Granier, Bishop of Geneva, obtained for Francis, on his own initiative, the position of Provost of the Chapter of Geneva, a post in the patronage of the pope. It was the highest office in the diocese, M. de Boisy yielded and Francis received Holy Orders (1593).<br /><br />From the time of the Reformation the seat of the Bishopric of Geneva had been fixed at Annecy. There with apostolic zeal, the new provost devoted himself to preaching, hearing confessions, and the other work of his ministry. In the following year (1594) he volunteered to evangelize Le Chablais, where the Genevans had imposed the Reformed Faith, and which had just been restored to the Duchy of Savoy. He made his headquarters in the fortress of Allinges. Risking his life, he journeyed through the entire district, preaching constantly; by dint of zeal, learning, kindness and holiness he at last obtained a hearing. He then settled in Thonon, the chief town. He confuted the preachers sent by Geneva to oppose him; he converted the syndic and several prominent Calvinists. At the request of the pope, Clement VIII, he went to Geneva to interview Theodore Beza, who was called the Patriarch of the Reformation. The latter received him kindly and seemed for a while shaken, but had not the courage to take the final steps. A large part of the inhabitants of Le Chablais returned to the true fold (1597 and 1598). Claude de Granier then chose Francis as his coadjutor, in spite of his refusal, and sent him to Rome (1599).<br /><br /><div class="bodytext">
Pope Clement VIII ratified the choice; but he wished to examine the candidate personally, in presence of the Sacred College. The improvised examination was a triumph for Francis. "Drink, my son", said the Pope to him. "from your cistern, and from your living wellspring; may your waters issue forth, and may they become public fountains where the world may quench its thirst." The prophesy was to be realized. On his return from Rome the religious affairs of the territory of Gex, a dependency of France, necessitated his going to Paris. There the coadjutor formed an intimate friendship with Cardinal de Berulle, Antoine Deshayes, secretary of Henry IV, and Henry IV himself, who wished "to make a third in this fair friendship" (<etre amitie="" belle="" cette="" dans="" de="" tiers="">). The king made him preach the Lent at Court, and wished to keep him in France. He urged him to continue, by his sermons and writings, to teach those souls that had to live in the world how to have confidence in God, and how to be genuinely and truly pious—graces of which he saw the great necessity.</etre></div>
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On the death of Claude de Granier, Francis was consecrated Bishop of Geneva (1602). His first step was to institute catechetical instructions for the faithful, both young and old. He made prudent regulations for the guidance of his clergy. He carefully visited the parishes scattered through the rugged mountains of his diocese. He reformed the religious communities. His goodness, patience and mildness became proverbial. He had an intense love for the poor, especially those who were of respectable family. His food was plain, his dress and his household simple. He completely dispensed with superfluities and lived with the greatest economy, in order to be able to provide more abundantly for the wants of the needy. He heard confessions, gave advice, and preached incessantly. He wrote innumerable letters (mainly letters of direction) and found time to publish the numerous works mentioned below. Together with St. Jane Frances de Chantal, he founded (1607) the Institute of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin, for young girls and widows who, feeling themselves called to the religious life, have not sufficient strength, or lack inclination, for the corporal austerities of the great orders. His zeal extended beyond the limits of his own diocese. He delivered the Lent and Advent discourses which are still famous—those at Dijon (1604), where he first met the Baroness de Chantal; at Chambery (1606); at Grenoble (1616, 1617, 1618), where he converted the Marechal de Lesdiguieres. During his last stay in Paris (November, 1618, to September, 1619) he had to go into the pulpit each day to satisfy the pious wishes of those who thronged to hear him. "Never", said they, "have such holy, such apostolic sermons been preached." He came into contact here with all the distinguished ecclesiastics of the day, and in particular with St. Vincent de Paul. His friends tried energetically to induce him to remain in France, offering him first the wealthy Abbey of Ste. Genevieve and then the coadjutor-bishopric of Paris, but he refused all to return to Annecy.</div>
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In 1622 he had to accompany the Court of Savoy into France. At Lyons he insisted on occupying a small, poorly furnished room in a house belonging to the gardener of the Visitation Convent. There, on 27 December, he was seized with apoplexy. He received the last sacraments and made his profession of faith, repeating constantly the words: "God's will be done! Jesus, my God and my all!" He died next day, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. Immense crowds flocked to visit his remains, which the people of Lyons were anxious to keep in their city. With much difficulty his body was brought back to Annecy, but his heart was left at Lyons. A great number of wonderful favours have been obtained at his tomb in the Visitation Convent of Annecy. His heart, at the time of the French Revolution, was carried by the Visitation nuns from Lyons to Venice, where it is venerated to-day. St. Francis de Sales was beatified in 1661, and canonized by Alexander VII in 1665; he was proclaimed Doctor of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX, in 1877.</div>
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The following is a list of the principal works of the holy Doctor: (1) "Controversies", leaflets which the zealous missioner scattered among the inhabitants of Le Chablais in the beginning, when t hese people did not venture to come and hear him preach. They form a complete proof of the Catholic Faith. In the first part, the author defends the authority of the Church, and in the second and third parts, the rules of faith, which were not observed by the heretical ministers. The primacy of St. Peter is amply vindicated. (2) "Defense of the Standard of the Cross", a demonstration of the virtue of the True Cross; of the Crucifix; of the Sign of the Cross; an explanation of the Veneration of the Cross. (3) "An Introduction to the Devout Life", a work intended to lead "Philothea", the soul living in the world, into the paths of devotion, that is to say, of true and solid piety. Every one should strive to become pious, and "it is an error, it is even a heresy", to hold that piety is incompatible with any state of life. In the first part the author helps the soul to free itself from all inclination to, or affection for, sin; in the second, he teaches it how to be united to God by prayer and the sacraments; in the third, he exercises it in the practice of virtue; in the fourth, he strengthens it against temptation; in the fifth, he teaches it how to form its resolutions and to persevere. The "Introduction", which is a masterpiece of psychology, practical morality, and common sense, was translated into nearly every language even in the lifetime of the author, and it has since gone through innumerable editions. (4) "Treatise on the Love of God", an authoritative work which reflects perfectly the mind and heart of Francis de Sales as a great genius and a great saint. It contains twelve books. The first four give us a history, or rather explain the theory, of Divine love, its birth in the soul, its growth, its perfection, and its decay and annihilation; the fifth book shows that this love is twofold—the love of complacency and the love of benevolence; the sixth and seventh treat of <affective> love, which is practised in prayer; the eight and ninth deal with <effective> love, that is, conformity to the will of God, and submission to His good pleasure. The last three resume what has preceded and teach how to apply practically the lessons taught therein. (5) "Spiritual Conferences"; familiar conversations on religious virtues addressed to the sisters of the Visitation and collected by them. We find in them that practical common sense, keenness of perception and delicacy of feeling which were characteristic of the kind-hearted and energetic Saint. (6) "Sermons".—These are divided into two classes: those composed previously to his consecration as a bishop, and which he himself wrote out in full; and the discourses he delivered when a bishop, of which, as a rule, only outlines and synopses have been preserved. Some of the latter, however, were taken down < in extenso> by his hearers. Pius IX, in his Bull proclaiming him Doctor of the Church calls the Saint "The Master and Restorer of Sacred Eloquence". He is one of those who at the beginning of the seventeenth century formed the beautiful French language; he foreshadows and prepares the way for the great sacred orators about to appear. He speaks simply, naturally, and from his heart. To speak well we need only love well, was his maxim. His mind was imbued with the Holy Writings, which he comments, and explains, and applies practically with no less accuracy than grace. (7) "Letters", mostly letters of direction, in which the minister of God effaces himself and teaches the soul to listen to God, the only true director. The advice given is suited to all the circumstances and necessities of life and to all persons of good will. While trying to efface his own personality in these letters, the saint makes himself known to us and unconsciously discovers to us the treasures of his soul. (8) A large number of very precious treatises or opuscula.</effective></affective></div>
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Migne (5 vols., quarto) and Vives (12 vols., octavo, Paris) have edited the works of St. Francis de Sales. But the edition which we may call definitive was published at Annecy in 1892, by the English Benedictine, Dom Mackey: a work remarkable for its typographical execution, the brilliant criticism that settles the text, the large quantity of hitherto unedited matter, and the interesting study accompanying each volume. Dom Mackey published twelve volumes. Father Navatel, S.J., is continuing the work. We may give here a brief resume of the spiritual teaching contained in these works, of which the Church has said: "The writings of Francis de Sales, filled with celestial doctrine are a bright light in the Church, pointing out to souls an easy and safe way to arrive at the perfection of a Christian life." (Breviarium Romanum, 29 January, lect. VI.)</div>
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There are two elements in the spiritual life: first, a struggle against our lower nature; secondly, union of our wills with God, in other words, penance and love. St. Francis de Sales looks chiefly to love. Not that he neglects penance, which is absolutely necessary, but he wishes it to be practised from a motive of love. He requires mortification of the senses, but he relies first on mortification of the mind, the will, and the heart. This interior mortification he requires to be unceasing and always accompanied by love. The end to be realized is a life of loving, simple, generous, and constant fidelity to the will of God, which is nothing else than our present duty. The model proposed is Christ, whom we must ever keep before our eyes. "You will study His countenance, and perform your actions as He did" (Introd., 2nd part, ch. i). The practical means of arriving at this perfection are: remembrance of the presence of God, filial prayer, a right intention in all our actions, and frequent recourse to God by pious and confiding ejaculations and interior aspirations.</div>
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Besides the Institute of the Visitation, which he founded, the nineteenth century has seen associations of the secular clergy and pious laymen, and several religious congregations, formed under the patronage of the holy Doctor. Among them we may mention the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales, of Annecy; the Salesians, founded at Turin by the Venerable Don Bosco, specially devoted to the Christian and technical education of the children of the poorer classes; the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, established at Troyes (France) by Father Brisson, who try to realize in the religious and priestly life the spirit of the holy Doctor, such as we have described it, and such as he bequeathed it to the nuns of the Visitation.<br /><br />Transcribed by Frank O'Leary</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Paul writes, "I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity" (1 Timothy 2:1–2). It is, therefore, appropriate to offer prayers in liturgical settings for our civic leaders, as the prayers of the needs of the faithful and the world are lifted up and offered to the Lord. The inauguration of the President of the United States is a particularly significant moment which draws the attention of all citizens of our land. It is fitting that the prayer of the Church, particularly gathered at the Eucharist, be attuned to the occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"In the Universal Prayer or Prayer of the Faithful, the people respond in some sense to the Word of God which they have received in faith and, exercising the office of their baptismal Priesthood, offer prayers to God for the salvation of all. It is desirable that there usually be such a form of prayer in Masses celebrated with the people, so that petitions may be offered for holy Church, for those who govern with authority over us, for those weighed down by various needs, for all humanity, and for the salvation of the whole world" (<em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">General Instruction of the Roman Missal</em>, no. 69).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Selections from the following could be included among the intentions of the Prayer of the Faithful at Sunday and weekday Masses before Inauguration Day and on the day itself:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For the nations of the world, to engage in a cooperative spirit toward lasting peace and justice for all, we pray to the Lord...</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For the people of the United States, to engage in a spirit of cooperation, tranquility, and respect for one another and for all human life as good stewards of the gifts God has given us, we pray to the Lord…</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For our (new) President, to have before him/her at all times the charge to protect and defend the rights of all citizens, especially the weakest and most vulnerable among us, we pray to the Lord...</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For all civic authorities, entrusted with care for the common good, to act with loving care in all they do, we pray to the Lord...</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For the Church and its leaders, to serve as beacons of the light of Christ in a world in the shadows of fear, violence, poverty, and death, we pray to the Lord…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This prayer, from the U.S. edition of the <em style="border: 0px; color: inherit !important; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Book of Blessings </em>(no. 1965), is an adaptation of the prayer for the Church and for civil authorities which was composed by Archbishop John Carroll for use on the occasion of the inauguration of George Washington in 1789. This prayer, or particular sections of it, especially section 2, could be used at gatherings for prayer outside Mass. Within Mass, it could be used at the conclusion of the Universal Prayer.</span></div>
Almighty and eternal God,<br />you have revealed your glory to all nations. God of power and might, wisdom and justice, through you authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment is decreed.<br /><b>For the President:</b><br />Assist with your spirit of counsel and fortitude the President of these United States, that his/her administration may be conducted in righteousness, and be eminently useful to your people over whom he/she presides. May he/she encourage due respect for virtue and religion. May he/she execute the laws with justice and mercy. May he/she seek to restrain crime, vice, and immorality.<br /><b>For the members of Congress:</b><br />Let the light of your divine wisdom direct the deliberations of Congress, (and especially of N.,) and shine forth in all the proceedings and laws framed for our rule and government. May they seek to preserve peace, promote national happiness, and continue to bring us the blessings of liberty and equality.<br /><b>For state and local officials:</b><br />We pray for N., the governor of this state (commonwealth, dominion), for the members of the legislature, (especially, N.,) for judges, elected civil officials, (especially, N.,) and all others who are entrusted to guard our political welfare. May they be enabled, by your powerful protection, to discharge their duties with honesty and ability.<br />We likewise commend to your unbounded mercy all citizens of the United States, that we be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the observance of your holy law. May we be preserved in union and that peace which the world cannot give; and, after enjoying the blessings of this life, be admitted to those which are eternal.<br />We pray to you, who are Lord and God, for ever and ever.<br />R/. Amen.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(DESPONSATIO BEATÆ MARIÆ VIRGINIS) A feast of the Latin Church. It is certain that a real matrimony was contracted by Joseph and Mary. Still Mary is called "espoused" to Joseph ("his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph", Matthew 1:18) because the matrimony was never consummated. The term spouse is applied to married people until their marriage is consummated (Colvenerius, Cal. Marian., 23 Jan.). Peter d'Ailly, chancellor of the University of Paris. (died 1420), and his famous disciple, Jean Charlier, called Gerson, were the first energetic propagators of the devotion in honour of St. Joseph. Gerson worked many years to effect the institution of a special votive feast (Thursday of ember week in Advent), the object of which should be the virginal espousal of Mary and Joseph. Gerson's friend, Henry Chicoti, canon of the cathedral chapter of Chartres, had bequeathed a certain sum for the celebration in the cathedral of this votive feast, for which Gerson had composed a proper Office. It seems that Gerson carried out the will of his friend, but tradition does not tell us on what day the feast was celebrated. (Text from Catholic Encyclopedia) </span><br /><div class="post-header" style="border-bottom: 4px double rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #333333; font-size: 13.86px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 7px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Hail to our patrons, happy songs we tender,<br />As we observe the day of their chaste wedding,<br />Anew the faithful enjoy the holy splendor<br />Shining about them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How beautiful thou art, O Virgin Mary,<br />The trinity has covered thee with graces<br />The lavish godhead splendidly adorns thee<br />As thou art married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O blessed Joseph, to thee also we sing,<br />Thy virtue raises thee to highest summits<br />Thy sanctity is a mirror reflecting,<br />Thy saintly Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus was happy to be known as your Son<br />How much He loved you, parents of such virtue<br />From your belov’d arms to the world His mission<br />Already is started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Blessed couple, Light of earth and heaven,<br />Continue to inspire us with your blessing,<br />While the renown of your names we may leaven<br />By our devotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Eternal praise be to the mighty Godhead<br />Who, by the gift of Mary and Saint Joseph,<br />To our poor lives have, by their merits, added,<br />Gifts of Divine peace. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In preparation for the Feast of the holy espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Saint Joseph<br />Dear brothers, we shall attentively and devoutly meditate upon the wonderful virtues practiced by the Blessed Virgin Mary in company with Saint Joseph, her most chaste Spouse, and in their memory we shall humbly beg to imitate them, by saying:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1. Most holy Virgin, by those virginal Espousals you did celebrate with Saint Joseph, your most chaste Spouse, grant that my soul may be spiritually espoused to Jesus, your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…<br />2. O spotless Virgin, by that intact Virginity you did keep with Saint Joseph, your most pure Spouse, grant that my soul may with a pure heart serve Jesus, your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…<br />3. Most amiable, Virgin, by that tender affection you showed to Saint Joseph, your most dear Spouse, grant that my soul may incessantly love Jesus, your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…<br />4. Most glorious Virgin, by that perfect obedience you showed to Saint Joseph, your most prudent Spouse, grant that my soul may perfectly obey Jesus, Your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…<br />5. Most merciful Virgin, by that strict poverty you practice with Saint Joseph, your most resigned Spouse, grant that my soul may renounce all things for the love of Jesus, your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…<br />6. Most humble Virgin, by that deepest humility you practiced with Saint Joseph, your most meek Spouse, grant that my soul may be subject to all for the love of Jesus, your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…<br />7. O most holy Virgin, by that fullness of virtues you acquired with Saint Joseph, your most praiseworthy Spouse, grant that my soul may be enamored with all the virtues, so that it may ever be more pleasing to Jesus, your Son and my Lord. Hail Mary…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">V. Pray for us holy Spouses Mary and Joseph:<br />R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.<br />Prayer: As in the Proper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The first definite knowledge of a feast in honour of the espousals of Mary dates from 29 Aug., 1517, when with nine other Masses in honour of Mary, it was granted by Leo X to the Nuns of the Annunciation, founded by Sainte Jeanne de Valois. This feast was celebrated on 22 October as a double of the second class. Its Mass, however, honoured the Blessed Virgin exclusively; it hardly mentioned St. Joseph and therefore did not correspond to the idea of Gerson. Also purely as a feast of Mary it appears in the Missal of the Franciscans, to whom it was granted 21 Aug., 1537, for 7 March (double major). About the same time the Servites obtained the feast for 8 March. The Office of the Nativity of Mary was recited, changing the word Nativilas to Desponsatio. After the religious orders, among the dioceses which adopted the feast of the Espousals of Mary, Arras takes the lead. It has been kept there since 23 Jan., 1556. The first proper Office was composed by Pierre Doré, O. P. (died 1569), confessor of Duke Claude of Lorraine. This Office followed the outlines given by Gerson and commemorated both Joseph and Mary. Pierre Doré in 1546 unsuccessfully petitioned Paul III to extend the feast of the Desponsatio B. M. V. to the Universal Church. But even without the recommendation of the Apostolic See, the feast was adopted by many Churches. In Moravia it was in the sixteenth century kept on 18. July. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In subsequent times Rome did not favour any further extension of the feast, but after it had been refused (1655) to the King of Spain, it was granted to the German Emperor for Austria, 27 Jan., 1678 (23. Jan.); in 1680 it was conceded to Spain, but transferred (13 July, 1682) to 26 Nov., because in Spain the feast of St. Ildephonsus or St. Raymond is kept 23. Jan. In 1680 it was extended to the entire German Empire, 1689 to the Holy Land (double, second class), 1702 to the Cistercians (20 Feb.), 1720 to Tuscany, and 1725 to the Pontifical States. In our days it is kept in nearly the entire Latin Church on 23 Jan., in the Spanish-speaking countries on 26 Nov., but it has never been extended to the Universal Church. Since Pius V abolished the Office of Pierre Doré and introduced the modern Office, it is again a feast of Mary. The commemoration of St. Joseph in Mass, Vespers, Lauds (decree 5 May, 1736) can only be made by a special privilege. (Text Catholic Encyclopedia - Images shared from Google Images)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KAuO1Zk-xHo" width="640"></iframe></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) The great wonders of the priesthood of Christ, who offered Himself, once for all, for the forgiveness of sins; and who now intercedes for us before the Father; and who will return to bring us with Him: those are the three stages of the priesthood of Christ highlighted by Pope Francis during his homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. The Pope also warned of the “unforgivable blasphemy”: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The priesthood of Christ was at the centre of the Pope’s homily on Monday. His reflection was taken from the day’s first Reading, from the Letter of Hebrews, which speaks about Christ as the Mediator of the Covenant God has made with human beings. Jesus is the High Priest, and the priesthood of Christ is the great wonder, the greatest wonder, which makes us sing a new song to the Lord, as the Responsorial Psalm says.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The three stages of the priesthood of Christ: He offers Himself; He intercedes for us; He will return to bring us to the Father</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The priesthood of Christ takes place in three stages, the Pope said. The first is the redemption: while the priests of the Old Covenant had to offer sacrifices every year, “Christ offered Himself, once for all, for the forgiveness of sins.” With this marvel, “He has brought us to the Father… He has re-created the harmony of creation,” the Pope noted. The second wonder is what the Lord is doing now – that is, praying for us. “While we pray here, He is praying for us” “for each one of us,” Pope Francis emphasized: “now, living, before the Father, He intercedes,” so that the faith might not falter. How often, in fact, are priests asked to pray, the Pope said, because “we know that the prayer of the priest has a certain force, especially in the sacrifice of the Mass.” The third wonder will be when Christ returns; but this third time will not be in relation to sin, but rather, it will be “to establish the definitive Kingdom,” when He will bring all of us to the Father:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“There is this great wonder, this priesthood of Jesus in three stages – that in which He pardons sins, once for all; that in which He intercedes now for us; and that which will occur when He returns. But there is also the contrary: the ‘unforgivable blasphemy.’ It’s hard to hear Jesus saying these things, but He says it, and if He says it, it is true. ‘Amen I say to you, all will be forgiven the children of men’ – and we know that the Lord forgives everything if we open our hearts a bit. Everything! The sins and even the blasphemies they speak – even blasphemies will be pardoned! – but the one who will have blasphemed the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven in eternity.”</span></em></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The unforgivable blasphemy”: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, will not allow itself to be forgiven</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">To explain this, the Pope referred to the great priestly anointing of Jesus, which the Holy Spirit accomplished in the womb of Mary; as priests, in the ceremony of ordination, are anointed with oil:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Even Jesus as the High Priest received this anointing. And what was the first anointing? The flesh of Mary with the work of the Holy Spirit. And he who blasphemes about this, blasphemes about the foundation of the love of God, which is the redemption, the re-creation; blasphemy about the priesthood of Christ. ‘But the Lord does not forgive that wickedness?’ [you might ask]. ‘No! The Lord forgives everything!’ But one who says these things is closed to forgiveness. He doesn’t want to be forgiven! He doesn’t allow himself to be forgiven! This is the ugliness of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit: It does not allow itself to be forgiven, because it denies the priestly anointing of Jesus, accomplished by the Spirit.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In conclusion, the Pope returned to the great wonders of the priesthood of Christ, and also to the “unforgivable blasphemy” – unforgivable “not because the Lord does not want to forgive everything, but because this [person] is so closed that he does not allow himself to be forgiven: the blasphemy against this wonder of Jesus”:</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Today it would be good for us, during the Mass, to consider that here on the altar the living memorial is made – because He will be present here – of the first priesthood of Jesus, when He offers His life for us. There is also the living memorial of the second priesthood, because He will pray here. But also, in this Mass – we will say it after the Our Father – there is that third priesthood of Jesus, when He will return, and [that is] our hope of glory. In this Mass, let us think about these beautiful things. And let us ask for grace from the Lord that our hearts might never be closed – might never be closed! – to this wonder, to this great, freely-given wonder.”</span></em></div>
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<u><b>Feast Day:</b></u><br />January 23<br /><u><b>Born:</b></u><br />550 at Arnathus, Cyprus<br /><u><b>Died:</b></u><br />616 at Arnathus, Cyprus<br /><u><b>Patron of:</b></u><br />Knights Hospitaller<br />Patriarch of Alexandria (606-16), b. at Amathus in Cyprus about 550; d. there, 616. He was the son of one Epiphanius, governor of Cyprus, and was of noble descent; in early life he was married and had children, but they and his wife soon died, whereupon he entered the religious life.<br /><br />On the death of the Patriarch Theodorus, the Alexandrians besought Emperor Phocas to appoint John his successor, which was accordingly done. In his youth John had had a vision of a beautiful maiden with a garland of olives on her head, who said that she was Compassion, the eldest daughter of the Great King. This had evidently made a deep impression on John's mind, and, now that he had the opportunity of exercising benevolence on a large scale, he soon became widely known all over the East for his munificent liberality towards the poor. One of the first steps he took was to make a list of several thousand needy persons, whom he took under his especial care. He always referred to the poor as his "lords and masters", because of their mighty influence at the Court of the Most High. He assisted people of every class who were in need. A shipwrecked merchant was thus helped three times, on the first two occasions apparently without doing him much good; the third time however, John fitted him out with a ship and a cargo of wheat, and by favourable winds he was taken as far as Britain, where, as there was a shortage of wheat, he obtained his own price. Another person, who was not really in need, applied for alms and was detected by the officers of the palace; but John merely said "Give unto him; he may be Our Lord in disguise." He visited the hospitals three times every week, and he freed a great many slaves. He was a reformer who attacked simony, and fought heresy by means of improvements in religious education. He also reorganized the system of weights and measures for the sake of the poor, and put a stop to corruption among the officials. He increased the number of churches in Alexandria from seven to seventy.<br /><br />John is said to have devoted the entire revenues of his see to the alleviation of those in need. A rich man presented him with a magnificent bed covering; he accepted it for one night, but then sold it, and disposed of the money in alms. The rich man "bought in" the article, and again presented it to John, with the same result. This was repeated several times; but John drily remarked: "We will see who tires first." It was not John. Another instance of his piety was that he caused his own grave to be dug, but only partly so, and appointed a servant to come before him on all state occasions and say "My Lord, your tomb is unfinished; pray give orders for its completion, for you know not the hour when death may seize you." When the Persians sacked Jerusalem in 614, John sent large supplies of food, wine, and money to the fleeing Christians. But eventually the Persians occupied Alexandria, and John himself in his old age was forced to flee to his native country, where he died.<br /><br />His body was brought to Constantinople, thence to Ofen by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary; thence in 1530 to Toll near Presburg, and finally in 1632 to Presburg cathedral. He was the original patron saint of the Hospitallers, and was commemorated by the Greeks on 12 Nov. His life, written by Leontius of Neapolis, in Cyprus, was translated into Latin by Anastasius the Librarian in the ninth century and was referred to at the Seventh General Council.<br />SOURCE:The Catholic Encyclopedia</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Christ is mediator of a new covenant:<br />since a death has taken place<br />for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant,<br />those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.<br /><br />For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands,<br />a copy of the true one, but heaven itself,<br />that he might now appear before God on our behalf.<br />Not that he might offer himself repeatedly,<br />as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary<br />with blood that is not his own;<br />if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly<br />from the foundation of the world.<br />But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages<br />to take away sin by his sacrifice.<br />Just as it is appointed that human beings die once,<br />and after this the judgment, so also Christ,<br />offered once to take away the sins of many,<br />will appear a second time, not to take away sin<br />but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4, 5-6</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (1a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.</span><br />Sing to the LORD a new song,<br />for he has done wondrous deeds;<br />His right hand has won victory for him,<br />his holy arm.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.</span><br />The LORD has made his salvation known:<br />in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.<br />He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness<br />toward the house of Israel.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.</span><br />All the ends of the earth have seen<br />the salvation by our God.<br />Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;<br />break into song; sing praise.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.</span><br />Sing praise to the LORD with the harp,<br />with the harp and melodious song.<br />With trumpets and the sound of the horn<br />sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Alleluia2 TM 1:10</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death<br />and brought life to light through the Gospel.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 3:22-30</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus,<br />"He is possessed by Beelzebul," and<br />"By the prince of demons he drives out demons."<br /><br />Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables,<br />"How can Satan drive out Satan?<br />If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.<br />And if a house is divided against itself,<br />that house will not be able to stand.<br />And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided,<br />he cannot stand;<br />that is the end of him.<br />But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property<br />unless he first ties up the strong man.<br />Then he can plunder his house.<br />Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies<br />that people utter will be forgiven them.<br />But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit<br />will never have forgiveness,<br />but is guilty of an everlasting sin."<br />For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit." </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Today’s evangelical page (cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">4:12-23) recounts the beginning of Jesus’ preaching in Galilee. He leaves Nazareth, a village over the hills, and dwells in Capernaum, an important center on the shore of the Lake, inhabited to a great extent by pagans, a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Mesopotamian hinterland. This choice indicates that the recipients of His preaching were not only his fellow countrymen, but all those dwelling in cosmopolitan “Galilee of the Gentiles” (v. 15; cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isaiah </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">8:23): so it was called. Seen from Jerusalem, the capital, that land is geographically on the periphery and religiously impure, because it was full of pagans, given the mixture with all those who did not belong to Israel. Great things for the history of salvation were certainly not expected from Galilee. Instead, it was precisely from there that that “light” was diffused, on which we meditated in past Sundays: the light of Christ. It spread in fact from the periphery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus’ message reiterated that of the Baptist, proclaiming the “Kingdom of Heaven” (v. 17). This Kingdom does not imply the establishment of a new political power, but the fulfilment of the Covenant between God and His People, which will inaugurate a season of peace and justice. Each one is called to be converted, to solidify this Covenant pact with God, transforming his way of thinking and of living. This is important: to be converted is not only to change one’s way of living, but also one’s way of thinking. It is a transformation of thought. It is not about changing garments but habits! What makes Jesus differ from John the Baptist is the style and the method. Jesus chooses to be an itinerant prophet. He does not wait for the people, but goes to encounter them. Jesus is always on the way! His first missionary outings took place along the Lake of Galilee, in contact with the crowd, in particular with fishermen. Not only does Jesus proclaim the coming of the Kingdom of God there, but seeks companions to associate to His mission of salvation. In this same place He meets two sets of brothers: Simon and Andrew, James and John. He calls them, saying: “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (v. 19). The call reaches them in the midst of their everyday activity: the Lord reveals Himself to us not in an extraordinary or striking way, but in the everyday of our life. We must find the Lord there; and He reveals Himself there, makes our heart feel His love; and there — with this dialogue with Him in the everyday of our life — our heart changes. The response of the four fishermen is immediate and prompt: “Immediately they left their nets and followed Him” (v. 20). We know, in fact, that they had been disciples of the Baptist and that, thanks to his testimony, they had already begun to believe in Jesus as Messiah (cf. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">John </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1:35-42).</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">We, today’s Christians, have the joy of proclaiming and witnessing our faith because there was that first proclamation, because there were those humble and courageous men who responded generously to Jesus’ call. The first community of Christ’s disciples was born on the shores of the Lake, in an unthinkable land. May the awareness of these beginnings arouse in us the desire to take the Word, the love and tenderness of Jesus to every context, even the most impervious and resistant. To take the Word to all the peripheries! All areas of human living are terrain in which to sow the seed of the Gospel, so that it bear fruits of salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">May the Virgin Mary help us, with her maternal intercession, to respond with joy to Jesus’ call, and to put ourselves at the service of the Kingdom of God.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are in the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Its theme this year is an expression, treated by Saint Paul [Pablo], which points out the way to follow. And it says thus: “The love of Christ spurs us to reconciliation” (cf. 2 </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Corinthians </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5:14). We will end the Week of Prayer next Wednesday with the celebration of Vespers in the Basilica of Saint Paul-outside-the Walls, in which brothers and sisters of the other Christian Churches and Communities present in Rome will take part. I invite you to persevere in prayer, so that Jesus’ desire is fulfilled: “That they may all be one” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">John </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">17:21).</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">In past days, an earthquake and heavy snowfalls have again put many of our brothers and sister of Central Italy to a harsh test, especially in Abruzzo, Marches and Lazio. With prayer and affection I am close to the families that have had victims among their dear ones. I encourage all those who are committed with great generosity in the works of rescue and assistance, as well as the local Churches, which are spending themselves to alleviate the sufferings and difficulties. Thank you so much for this closeness, for your work and the concrete help you bring. Thank you! And I invite you to pray together to Our Lady for the victims and also for those who with great generosity are committed in the works of rescue.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">In the Far East and in several parts of the world, millions of men and women are preparing to celebrate the lunar New Year on January 28. May my warm greeting reach all their families, with the wish that they become increasingly a school in which one learns to respect the other, to communicate and look after one another in a selfless way. May the joy of love be propagated within families and from them radiate to the whole of society.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I greet you all, faithful of Rome and pilgrims from various countries, in particular the group of youngsters of Panama and the students of the “Diego Sanchez Institute of Talavera la Real (Spain).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I greet the members of the Catholic Union of Teachers, Directors, Educators and Formators, who have concluded their 25</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">th</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> National Congress, and I wish them fruitful educational work, in collaboration with families — always in collaboration with families!</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">I wish you all a good Sunday and, please, do not forget to pray for me. Have a good lunch and see you soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 1IS 8:23—9:3</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">First the Lord degraded the land of Zebulun<br />and the land of Naphtali;<br />but in the end he has glorified the seaward road,<br />the land west of the Jordan,<br />the District of the Gentiles.<br /><br />Anguish has taken wing, dispelled is darkness:<br />for there is no gloom where but now there was distress.<br />The people who walked in darkness<br />have seen a great light;<br />upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom<br />a light has shone.<br />You have brought them abundant joy<br />and great rejoicing,<br />as they rejoice before you as at the harvest,<br />as people make merry when dividing spoils.<br />For the yoke that burdened them,<br />the pole on their shoulder,<br />and the rod of their taskmaster<br />you have smashed, as on the day of Midian.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 27:1, 4, 13-14</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (1a) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my light and my salvation.</span><br />The LORD is my light and my salvation;<br />whom should I fear?<br />The LORD is my life's refuge;<br />of whom should I be afraid?<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my light and my salvation.</span><br />One thing I ask of the LORD;<br />this I seek:<br />To dwell in the house of the LORD<br />all the days of my life,<br />That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD<br />and contemplate his temple.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my light and my salvation.</span><br />I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD<br />in the land of the living.<br />Wait for the LORD with courage;<br />be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is my light and my salvation.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Reading 21 COR 1:10-13, 17</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,<br />that all of you agree in what you say,<br />and that there be no divisions among you,<br />but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose.<br />For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers and sisters,<br />by Chloe's people, that there are rivalries among you.<br />I mean that each of you is saying,<br />"I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos,"<br />or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ."<br />Is Christ divided?<br />Was Paul crucified for you?<br />Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?<br />For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel,<br />and not with the wisdom of human eloquence,<br />so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">AlleluiaMT 4:23</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span><br />Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the kingdom<br />and cured every disease among the people.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alleluia, alleluia.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMT 4:12-23</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When Jesus heard that John had been arrested,<br />he withdrew to Galilee.<br />He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea,<br />in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,<br />that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet<br />might be fulfilled:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,<br />the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan,<br />Galilee of the Gentiles,<br />the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,<br />on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death<br />light has arisen.</em><br />From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say,<br />"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."<br /><br />As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers,<br />Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew,<br />casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen.<br />He said to them,<br />"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men."<br />At once they left their nets and followed him.<br />He walked along from there and saw two other brothers,<br />James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John.<br />They were in a boat, with their father Zebedee, mending their nets.<br />He called them, and immediately they left their boat and their father<br />and followed him.<br />He went around all of Galilee,<br />teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom,<br />and curing every disease and illness among the people.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">OrMT 4:12-17</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When Jesus heard that John had been arrested,<br />he withdrew to Galilee.<br />He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea,<br />in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,<br />that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet<br />might be fulfilled:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,<br />the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan,<br />Galilee of the Gentiles,<br />the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,<br />on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death<br />light has arisen.</em><br />From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say,<br />"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."</span><br /><div class="header_content" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(175, 201, 200); color: #003931; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1798 in Rome, Italy</span></div>
<u><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Died:</span></b></u><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1850</span><br /><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Canonized:</span></b></u><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1963 by Pope John XXIII</span><br /><div class="Body" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 4px; vertical-align: 0px;">
<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850) founded the <span class="C-5" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;">Societas Apostolatus Catholici </span>(S.A.C.) in 1835. He was canonized in 1963.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Vincent Pallotti was born in Rome, April 21, 1795, the third child of ten. His parents were Peter-Paul Pallotti and his wife Maddalena. From his earliest years his devout parents took him to daily Mass and religious devotions in the many neighborhood churches of Rome. For a time Vincent had trouble with his studies until his mother sought the advice of a close friend, Father Fazzini. He advised her to make a novena to the Holy Spirit with Vincent. The Novena completed, something clicked in the boy's head. He became the brightest student in his class. Vincent had an innate desire to do what he could to help the poor. Before he would give them a coin he would wash it in the nearby fountain. "When I give to the poor," he would say, "I give the coin to Christ. I want it to look nice." He felt called to do penance. He ate little. When his parents informed Father Fazzini of the penances, he replied, "Let us leave Vincent undisturbed. It appears to be a higher call than we have been given. It seems to come from God."</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vincent's first registration in a religious youth group was at his grade school of San Pantaleone, staffed by the Piarist Fathers. The school had been hallowed by the presence of its holy founder, St. Joseph Calasanz who formed a youth apostolate in Counter-reformation Rome. Our Lady had appeared to Joseph Calasanz when he was a teacher in the classroom where Vincent now attended. Joseph had been instrumental in restoring both eye and eyesight to a pupil whose eye had been jabbed out by a pencil thrust into it by an angry classmate. Vincent's Marian development was thus well nurtured in this school with the solemn observances of our Lady's feasts and the devout use of a small rosary of twelve Hail Mary's called the "Crown of Twelve Stars," which St. Calasanz had much promoted among the students of his schools. Vincent was quite religious and of a serious nature. Yet, he loved to play ball with his friends in front of his father's grocery store. Early every morning he walked to Santa Maria in Vallicella. There he put on his cassock and surplice as an altar boy. Under the altar of this church there was reposed the remains of the great youth worker, St. Philip Neri.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the days before St. John Bosco, the name of St. Philip Neri would first come to mind whenever any program was being instituted for youth. Pallotti was often referred to in later life as the "Second St. Philip Neri."</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Vincent became a member of a more advanced youth group at the <span class="C-6" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;">Church of Santa Maria del Pianto</span>. It met every Sunday and Holy Day for catechetical instruction, Marian devotions and recreation. It was under the direction of diocesan priests and among them was St. Gaspar del Bufalo. Vincent as a major seminarian and young priest succeeded St. Gaspar in the directorship of the group. Once when he was on a summer vacation, Father Pallotti wrote to his youth group reminding them that St. Philip Neri had said: "The most insane thing in the whole world was not to want to be a saint. Sanity is to take every means to achieve sanctity and be pleasing to God. When we think of the infinite reward God will give us for that - it is sheer insanity to do the opposite!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vincent's high school studies were accomplished at the world-famed <span class="C-6" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;">Collegio Romano</span>which had been established by St. Ignatius Loyola. Among its graduates were the paragons of youthful holiness, St. Aloysius Gonzaga and St. John Berchmans. In Vincent's time the Jesuits had been suppressed for several years and replaced by other clergy. The profound tradition of the Jesuits who had taught there, and the magnificent altar tomb of St. Gonzaga, could not be ignored and was very much kept alive. Pallotti chose St. John Berchmans, a Jesuit seminarian, as his role model to imitate on the path to holiness, particularly in his love for Mary in her Immaculate Conception.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-6" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Collegio Romano<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;">, as all Jesuit schools once did, had a distinctive youth organization known as the "Sodality of the Blessed Virgin." Because the school's unit was the first Sodality, it bore the distinguished title: </span>"Prima Priaria."<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"> Vincent cherished his membership in it and the group heightened his Marian devotion all the more as he practiced it in union with his peers who took their devotion to Mary very seriously. After his entrance into the</span>Sapienza University<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"> as a theology student, he decided upon a very bold and daring move. Despite the very negative reaction of many toward the clergy, now that he was a seminarian, he chose to wear his cassock and collar in public. He was clearly visible as a man of the Church when most diocesan and non-monastic orders wore a garb that resembled very much what comes to our minds when we think of Benjamin Franklin. For him it was a sign and defiance of the secularized world and its anti-clericalism.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">One day Pallotti was leading his youth group at Santa Maria del Pianto to some function elsewhere in Rome. An irate diocesan priest, himself dressed in the "Benjamin Franklin" style garb, sharply upbraided the seminarian as a hypocrite and phony for his use of the cassock. Vincent let the priest rant and rave on. In a few minutes he slipped away from the group and was found in a corner of the sacristy of Santa Maria del Pianto on his knees reciting the Te Deum in thanksgiving for this mistreatment for what he believed was right.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As Vincent neared ordination he was introduced into apostolic work among the farmers who brought their products to Rome from the surrounding towns and villages to sell at the markets. Vincent was assigned to the hay sellers. He organized the young farmers and their children into classes in the evening and helped them to learn how to read and write. He also prepared many of them for the sacraments. From this experience of being a volunteer, he would later encourage others to volunteer to spread the kingdom of God.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vincent Pallotti was ordained in May, 1818, at the Lateran Basilica. He said his first Mass on the following day in the Jesuit Church in Frascati. He was not assigned to a specific church or rectory. Instead, he lived at home with his family and continued as a teacher at the <span class="C-6" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;">Sapienza University</span>. In the world of college students he was very well liked. He offered tutoring to those who had found their studies difficult. He began a very successful apostolate of street preaching on the steps of local churches and was able to attract large numbers of people into church afterwards for confession.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In his travels Vincent became aware of a number of young workers whose work hours prevented them from attending daytime classes. He soon gathered these workers at a nearby parish hall and recruited volunteer teachers to give them a basic education. He and several others gave the religious instruction. In a matter of a few years the project mushroomed into many other "night schools" and was relocated to more spacious quarters. By now, 500 young workers were enrolled. At this point Pallotti turned over his project to the supervision of the Christian Brothers to ensure that it would be properly managed.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After ten years at the <span class="C-6" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;">Sapienza University</span>, the diocesan authorities turned to Father Pallotti for assistance with a very pressing youth problem in Trastevere. This section of Rome was a difficult one. While it had produced saints as lovely as St. Cecilia and St. Frances of Rome, it had also produced many rogues and toughened people. It has been ever the spot where urchins and ragamuffins run rampant.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There was now a great need for a kind, patient and sincere priest who could see beyond brokenness and be capable of drawing the best out of these disorderly youth. They needed to be given the most elemental religious instruction. They needed to be prepared for First Holy Communion. In those days First Communion was received when a child was about twelve years old.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This new assignment would mean relinquishing his teaching position at the University and saying goodbye to his favorite youth group at Santa Maria del Pianto. Father Vincent knew that the assignment would bring many souls to God and strengthen the faith of these Trastevere urchins and so he accepted it willingly.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He was given space in the Ponterotto retreat house which had formerly been the family home of St. Frances of Rome. The rough Trastevere teens, who could have matched any scugnizzi that Charles Dickens could describe with his pen, now got the attention they deserved in order to set them in the right direction. They responded with extraordinary cooperation. Pallotti did not neglect the nobility nor the upper class and he provided retreats for them at another retreat house nearby. His purpose was to inculcate into these men who would be the leaders of the future, a love of virtue, a sense of honor and integrity coupled with a sense of responsibility for those who had less than they.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">His knack for getting volunteers involved in his many projects, expanded beyond his concern for youth when he began his broad vision of the Union Of The Catholic Apostolate which strove to accomplish a revival of the Catholic Faith among Catholics and a rekindling of charity toward achieving the salvation of one's neighbor. In his desired UNION, men and women of every social strata, church folks of every rank and religious order would work in harmonious collaboration for the missionary endeavors of the Church. Moreover, the poor, the aged and ailing, the sick and bedridden could offer their prayers and sufferings for the success of the venture. Pope Gregory XVI heartily approved the new movement and it soon had hundreds and hundreds of members.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Not long after its foundation and its first experience of the Epiphany festival as the visible exemplification of its spiritual ideals, philosophy and objectives, the UNION was confronted not by ceremony but by calamity. Deadly cholera struck in 1837 and decimated the population of the Eternal City. Not even Vincent's father was spared. His director, Father Fazzini and his friend, St. Gaspare del Buffalo died. In its wake hundreds were left homeless and hungry.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Orphaned girls roamed the streets. It was their pitiable plight that wounded the heart of Vincent Pallotti who was himself strenuously working day and night and round the clock to care for the destitute and abandoned. What grieved him most was that these orphan girls were being taken advantage of by the unscrupulous. He and a trusted friend, Mr. James Salvati, got the use of a small, former seminarians' residence and fixed it up to receive the orphan girls. A corps of carefully chosen volunteers looked after the girls and taught them the domestic skills they would later need in life. This home became known as the Pious House of St. Agatha. It is still in operation today behind what is now the St. Thomas Aquinas University in Rome. In its chapel Vincent placed the large painting of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pious House of St. Agatha occupied much of the Saint's attention and his visits there were a delight for the young girls who loved him dearly. His lay volunteers later became the nucleus of the Pallottine Sisters who would devote much time to the education and Christian formation of young people. He began another orphanage near the Vatican. Later on it was taken over by another religious order, and a third, at Velletri, was already in the planning stage just before Vincent died.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Not the least of St. Vincent's contributions to the apostolate among the young was the magnificent care he gave to the students preparing for the priesthood at the Roman Seminary, Propaganda Fide (where the students from foreign lands came to study), the national colleges of England, Scotland and those of the various Eastern Churches whose students studied in Rome. His was a welcome presence and many looked back at the guidance St. Vincent had given them from as far away as Persia and Baltimore, Maryland, whose Archbishop Martin J. Spalding was able to write forty years later of his spiritual mentor that all Rome regarded him as a saint and a man of profound faith in the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ. "No cross or aggravation could ruffle him and the memory of his holiness clusters as a halo around my heart!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Manning went to visit Pallotti and came away with the same conviction. Manning spoke of hearing a group of young men singing a Marian hymn as they passed through the street and was told that it was one of the groups from Pallotti's Night Schools on their way home. Both Newman and Manning later were made Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Youth work was not the only part of Pallotti's apostolate though there is more than enough of it to merit a consideration of its own. He continued his duties as a diocesan priest and led his Union of the Catholic Apostolate in its generous outreach to provide for the local needs of the Church and for those of the foreign missions. He was a great retreat master and preacher. Long lines waited their turn outside his confessional. Yet Pallotti made time for daily visits to the city hospitals and to the jails and prisons where his smile and compassion brought a ray of sunshine to those incarcerated there. He badgered the prison officials incessantly until he had obtained the separation of the youthful offenders from the adults in prison. "If you want to rehabilitate youth and keep them out of jail in the future, then give them the chance to do without a thorough training in criminality they are sure to receive from their elders here!" And he was listened to with respect by the prison authorities, and with thankfulness from those who would now have a new lease on life.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vincent is still remembered for his unstinting generosity to the prisoners condemned to death. He would spend the entire night with them. He was their last friendly presence at the scaffold. Amid the hubbub and hurry burly of such gruesome scenes, it was he who calmly held the crucifix before their eyes as the headsman's axe swiftly descended. Popes sought his advice and knelt for their own confession before him. Soldiers in their military barracks responded to their beloved priest with extraordinary respect. For those at death's door he was an angel of mercy as he brought the sacraments of the Church and encouragement to trust in God's goodness until the very end.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Only once is it recorded that his contact with youth was a failure. A group of loud, boisterous wise guys were standing before a picture of Our Lady and their language was not of the type one would expect to hear in a convent sacristy! Vincent went up to them and asked them to stop out of respect for the Blessed Mother's picture. The haughty braggarts who feared neither God, man nor beast, stood up to the young priest in the mistaken hope of besting him. The ringleader jeered: "Yeah, Father! What's she going to do about it, kill us?" Suddenly a look of horror came over Vincent's face as he saw into the near future. "Young man you are a fool to continue like this. You will be dead in less than a few minutes. Repent while there is time. At that the teenager let out a stream of profanity that would have twisted the tail of a stone lion. Suddenly he collapsed unconscious to the ground. His astonished following of juvenile delinquents rushed to revive him. They were shocked out of their wits. "He's dead, Father! My God, he's dead!" By use of a clever disguise Vincent was able to get near a young man who was a revolutionist and had promised to kill any priest who came near him. When the man fell asleep with rifle in hand and pistol beneath the pillow, Pallotti removed them and put the cross in his hand. Later the man awoke, astonished and made his confession to Father Vincent and died about a week later reconciled to the Lord.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-4" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Vincent Pallotti died in 1850 surrounded by a handful of followers which now numbers thousands of priests, brothers and sisters and an even more vast number of lay people committed to the apostolate. He was canonized in 1963 by Pope John XXIII as a model for all active priests and for encouraging the lay people to become more active in the mission of the Church. Also, he was hailed by Popes Pius XI, Pius XII and John XXIII as the precursor of Catholic Action and of the Second Vatican Council.</span></span></div>
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Pope Francis to United States President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated as 45th President.<br /><u style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The full text of Pope Francis’ Message to US President Donald Trump is below </span></strong></em></u> <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> The Honorable Donald Trump</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Upon your inauguration as the forty-fifth President of the United States of America, I offer you my cordial good wishes and the assurance of my prayers that Almighty God will grant you wisdom and strength in the exercise of your high office. At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far-sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation’s commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide. Under your leadership, may America’s stature continue to be measured above all by its concern for the poor, the outcast and those in need who, like Lazarus, stand before our door. With these sentiments, I ask the Lord to grant you and your family, and all the beloved American people, his blessings of peace, concord and every material and spiritual prosperity.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> FRANCISCUS PP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday celebrated Mass at the Cathedral Archbasilica of St John Lateran for the conclusion of the Jubilee for the 800th anniversary of the papal confirmation of the Order of Preachers – the Dominicans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In his homily, the Holy Father contrasted two opposed “human scenarios”: a “‘carnival’ of worldly curiosity, on the one hand; and on the other, the “glorification of the Father through good works.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Saint Paul, in the Letter to Timothy, warns against the worldly curiosity that sees men and women, with “itching ears,” always seeking after new teachers, “fables,” strange doctrines, ideologies. The very human tendency to seek novelties, the Pope said, “finds the ideal environment in the society of appearances, of consumption… Even the truth is “made-up”, covered with cosmetics to appear novel and attractive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Against this worldly “carnival” atmosphere stands the opposite scenario, found in the words of the Jesus in the Gospel: “that they may glorify your heavenly Father.” The passage from a pseudo-festive superficiality to glorification comes about “through the good works of those who, having become disciples of Christ, are become “salt” and “light.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This, the Pope said, “is the response of Jesus and of the Church, this is the solid support in the midst of a ‘fluid’ environment: good works, which we are able to accomplish thanks to Christ and His Holy Spirit, and which cause to rise up in the heart thanksgiving to the Father, and praise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today, Pope Francis said, concluding his homily, “we give thanks to the Father for the work that Saint Dominic, full of the light and the salt of Christ, accomplished 800 years ago; a work at the service of the Gospel, preached with words and with his life; a work that, with the grace of the Holy Spirit, has helped so many men and women to not lose themselves in the midst of the ‘carnival’ of worldly curiosity, but rather sense the taste of sound doctrine, the taste of the Gospel; who, in their turn, have become light and salt, doers of good works… and true brothers and sisters who glorify God, and teach others to glorify God, by the good works of their lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A tabernacle was constructed, the outer one,<br />in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of offering;<br />this is called the Holy Place.<br />Behind the second veil was the tabernacle called the Holy of Holies.<br /><br />But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be,<br />passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands,<br />that is, not belonging to this creation,<br />he entered once for all into the sanctuary,<br />not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own Blood,<br />thus obtaining eternal redemption.<br />For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer's ashes<br />can sanctify those who are defiled<br />so that their flesh is cleansed,<br />how much more will the Blood of Christ,<br />who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God,<br />cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.</span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Responsorial PsalmPS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">R. (6) <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />All you peoples, clap your hands,<br />shout to God with cries of gladness,<br />For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,<br />is the great king over all the earth.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy;<br />the LORD, amid trumpet blasts.<br />Sing praise to God, sing praise;<br />sing praise to our king, sing praise.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span><br />For king of all the earth is God:<br />sing hymns of praise.<br />God reigns over the nations,<br />God sits upon his holy throne.<br />R. <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.</span></span><br /><h4 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize !important; width: 475px;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">GospelMK 3:20-21</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jesus came with his disciples into the house.<br />Again the crowd gathered,<br />making it impossible for them even to eat.<br />When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him,<br />for they said, "He is out of his mind." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day One: Saturday, January 21, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day1" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> Pope Saint John Paul II described the "culture of life" as "the fruit of the culture of truth and of love" in his encyclical <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Gospel of Life </em>(no. 77). Do we build up the culture of life by living in truth and in love? Are we the kind of people whom a woman could and would come to if she found out she were pregnant and needed loving support and encouragement? How can we help those who suffer from the pain of abortion to experience God's tender mercy? The brief articles in today's "One Step Further" give suggestions for extending God's merciful love to others.</span></div>
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<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Spend some time reflecting upon no. 77 of <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Gospel of Life</em>.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One Step Further:</span> If a woman who was unexpectedly pregnant came to you for support, would you know what to do? "10 Ways to Support Her When She's Unexpectedly Expecting" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_178413" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2015/10-ways-to-support-her-when-shes-unexpectedly-expecting.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/MkBfb9</a>) provides simple, concrete tips for loving, life-affirming support. In "Bridges of Mercy for Post-Abortion Healing," (<a class="CP___PAGEID_208746" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/bridges-of-mercy-for-post-abortion-healing.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/MpC7RG</a>) learn how you can be a bridge of God's mercy for people suffering after abortion.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Evangelium Vitae</em>, no. 77 © 1995, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Two: Sunday, January 22, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day2" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Printable versions of Day Two: (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224564 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/upload/novena-2017-9-day-2-black-and-white.pdf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/images/icons/acro.gif"); background-origin: initial; background-position: right center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">black and white</a>) (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224486 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/upload/novena-2017-9-day-2-color.pdf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/images/icons/acro.gif"); background-origin: initial; background-position: right center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">color</a>)</span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> May each person suffering from the loss of a child through abortion find hope & healing in Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prayers:</span> <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> Today, on this 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we consider the past four decades in which our society has legally permitted abortion. Since that tragic decision, many children's lives have been lost, and many suffer that loss—often in silence. Yet God's greatest desire is to forgive. No matter how far we have each strayed from his side, he says to us, "Don't be afraid. Draw close to my heart."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"In the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, also called confession, we meet the Lord, who wants to grant forgiveness and the grace to live a renewed life in him. … We bishops and priests are eager to help you if you experience difficulty, hesitation, or uncertainty about approaching the Lord in this sacrament. If you have not received this healing sacrament in a long time, we are ready to welcome you" ("God's Gift of Forgiveness": <a class="CP___PAGEID_84613 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/sacraments-and-sacramentals/penance/upload/Bulletin-Insert-Penance-ENG.pdf" style="background: url("/images/icons/acro.gif") right center no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/oXNDBj</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Let us run into the arms of Jesus, who is love and mercy.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Acts of Reparation</span> (choose one):</span><br /><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; list-style: square; margin: 5px; padding: 5px 0px;">
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today, go visit an adoration chapel and spend some time with Jesus. </span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to confession—today, if possible—or during this week. Before you go, look up St. Faustina (<a class="CP___PAGEID_175317" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/prayers/divine-mercy-sunday.cfm#Origin" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/bXcnwP</a>) and learn a little about the message of Divine Mercy that she shared during her life.</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet (<a class="CP___PAGEID_92271" href="http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/year-of-faith/how-to-pray-the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/hD0ijW</a>) for those who are suffering the loss of a child through abortion, asking that they find healing and peace.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One Step Further</span>:</span><br /><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; list-style: square; margin: 5px; padding: 5px 0px;">
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hope After Abortion (<a href="http://hopeafterabortion.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.hopeafterabortion.com</a>)</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"How to Talk to a Friend Who's Had an Abortion" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_160778" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2014/how-to-talk-to-a-friend-whos-had-an-abortion.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/bz3pld</a>)</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Life Matters: Forgiveness and Healing after Abortion" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_112217" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2013/life-matters-forgiveness-and-healing-after-abortion.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/J2WGnW</a>)</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Bridges of Mercy for Post-Abortion Healing" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_208746" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/bridges-of-mercy-for-post-abortion-healing.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/MpC7RG</a>)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">*<a class="icon-pdf" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="background: url("/images/icons/acro.gif") right center no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;">God's Gift of Forgiveness: Pastoral Exhortation on the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation</a>, www.goo.gl/oXNDBj. Copyright © 2012, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2016, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights reserved.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Three: Monday, January 23, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day3" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Printable versions of Day Three: (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224561 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/upload/novena-2017-9-day-3-black-and-white.pdf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/images/icons/acro.gif"); background-origin: initial; background-position: right center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">black and white</a>) (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224489 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/upload/novena-2017-9-day-3-color.pdf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/images/icons/acro.gif"); background-origin: initial; background-position: right center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">color</a>)<br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> May all people embrace the truth that every life is a good and perfect gift, and is worth living.</span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prayers:</span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be</em></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> Our culture is obsessed with perfection—a superficial perfection. Photos are airbrushed, and social media sites depict seemingly perfect lives. God calls us to seek perfection, too. He does not call us, however, to perfection of appearance or abilities, but to perfection in love.</span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In "A Perfect Gift" (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.goo.gl/QbXpcn</a>), one parent shares about the experience of raising a child with Down syndrome, contrasting it with what onlookers might perceive: "It's like looking at a stained-glass window from the outside: The colors look dark, and you can't quite make out the figures. From the inside, however, with the sun shining through it, the effect can be brilliant. From inside our family, love illuminates our life with Charlie.* What may seem dreary to others, perhaps even unbearable, is actually filled with beauty and color."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">May each of us experience the power of God's transforming love, that our eyes may be opened to the incredible beauty of the people the Lord places in our lives.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Acts of Reparation</span> (choose one):</span><br /><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; list-style: square; margin: 5px; padding: 5px 0px;">
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Say a prayer for your parish priest (<a class="CP___PAGEID_144881" href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/prayer-for-priests.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/jqOiNS</a>). Without our priests, we could not have the Mass or the Sacrament of Reconciliation. </span></li>
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<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Spend quality time with a family member or friend; offer to help them with something with which they need assistance.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Charlie's mother shares in "A Perfect Gift" that when people say, "I could never handle a child with a disability," she explains to them, "[Y]ou aren't given a child with a disability. You are given your child with a disability. …You are not called to 'handle' a disability. You are called to love a particular person, and caring for him or her grows out of that love. …Our [family's] hearts…have become larger [by caring for Charlie]."<br /><br />She also talks about the "secret" that is the fundamental truth of our existence, which she and other parents of children with Down syndrome share. Find out what it is in "A Perfect Gift," available at <a class="CP___PAGEID_178417" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2015/a-perfect-gift.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/QbXpcn</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">*Name changed for privacy.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Four: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day4" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> May those near the end of their lives receive medical care that respects their dignity and protects their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> When Maggie's active father suffered an accident that eventually led to his passing, her conversations with him turned to life's more serious topics, and his final days became a time that was cherished by the whole family. During this time, Maggie's dad taught her that "dignity can't be diminished by pain or loss of personal control," that "Jesus was walking along with him," and that "our suffering is not meaningless when we unite it with Christ's own suffering."<br /><br />As a 50-year-old wife and mother of three, Maggie needed this message in a dramatically new way when she was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Instead of giving up hope, she embraced the legacy her father had left her, cherishing the life she still had left: "[M]y life is, always has been, and always will be, worth living." Read more about her experience in "Maggie's Story: Living like Dad" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_178415" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2015/maggies-story-living-like-dad.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/JKnvWc</a>). <br /><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Acts of Reparation</span> (choose one):</span><br /><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; list-style: square; margin: 5px; padding: 5px 0px;">
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Take time to write a handwritten note to someone who is lonely or needing encouragement.</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Meet Maggie in the brief, 3-minute video (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwWKDGBS5o" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/SGF7rP</a>) that inspired the article, "Maggie's Story: Living like Dad."</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Read and reflect upon "Caring for Loved Ones at Life's End" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_207598" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/caring-for-loved-ones-at-lifes-end.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/fvSEYp</a>). Ten suggestions anchored in unconditional respect for human life help readers know how to provide authentically compassionate care. (Supplemental information: <a class="CP___PAGEID_208285 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/upload/16-rlp-simple-supplements-end-of-life-secured.pdf" style="background: url("/images/icons/acro.gif") right center no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/Ji3n35</a>)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Proponents of doctor-assisted suicide try to draw a sharp distinction between those with a mental illness who want to end their lives and those with a terminal illness who express the same wish. "Every Suicide is Tragic" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_207596" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/every-suicide-is-tragic.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/KEXpR9</a>) explores the consequences of this false distinction. (Supplemental information, including short videos: <a class="CP___PAGEID_208282 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/upload/16-rlp-simple-supplements-suicide-secured.pdf" style="background: url("/images/icons/acro.gif") right center no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/ufQyTv</a>)<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Five: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day5" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> "A correct reading of Scripture leads people to an understanding of the equal dignity of men and women and to relationships based on mutuality and love. Beginning with Genesis, Scripture teaches that women and men are created in God's image." ("When I Call for Help: A Pastoral Response to Domestic Violence Against Women" USCCB 2002. See: <a class="CP___PAGEID_18531" href="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/marriage/domestic-violence/when-i-call-for-help.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/3n0373</a>). </span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Three in four Americans are reported to know a victim of domestic violence. Learn to recognize some of the signs in "Life Matters: Domestic Violence," which discusses the painful assault on human dignity that is domestic violence. Read the article at <a class="CP___PAGEID_112231" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2013/life-matters-domestic-violence.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/gVJ9fd</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Additional resources on domestic violence are available at For Your Marriage (<a href="http://www.foryourmarriage.org/everymarriage/overcoming-obstacles/domestic-violence/" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/CpKtLF</a>), as well as the USCCB webpage on domestic violence (<a class="CP___PAGEID_10224" href="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/marriage/domestic-violence/index.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/ajGdPz</a>).</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you believe someone you know may be in a troubled situation, you should call a domestic violence hotline number for assistance, or encourage the person to call the hotline or emergency services themselves.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Six: Thursday, January 26, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day6" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> May those affected by pornography experience the Lord's mercy and healing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prayers:</span> <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection: </span>We are created with a desire to love and be loved. We long to be known, understood, and accepted for who we are. In contrast, pornography distracts us from our call to love by objectifying people and bringing hurt and pain. As noted in Create in Me a Clean Heart, "it is an illusory substitute for real relationships and intimacy, which in the end bring true joy."<br /><br />However, "no wound is out of the reach of Christ's redeeming grace. Christ is our hope! The Church proclaims the truth about love, sexuality, and the dignity of each person, and she seeks to provide the Lord's mercy and healing for those harmed by pornography. … For further resources and help, visit <a class="CP___PAGEID_192088" href="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/pornography/index.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.usccb.org/cleanheart</a>."* </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Learn more about the spiritual, emotional, and neurological impact of pornography in "'Wash Me Thoroughly': Healing from Pornography Use and Addiction" (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.goo.gl/gjr3Wg</a>) and "Life Matters: Pornography and Our Call to Love" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_93505" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2012/life-matters-pornography-and-our-call-to-love.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/TkTpTV</a>).<br /><br /><br /><br />*United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography—Abridged Version. </em>(Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Seven: Friday, January 27, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day7" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> May those who long for a child of their own be filled with trust in God's loving plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> It can be very difficult and painful when the Lord doesn't answer our prayers the way we hope. We may have many doubts and questions, wondering why we face the challenges that we do. Yet even though our suffering is often shrouded in a sense of mystery, we believe that the Lord loves us with great tenderness and compassion that is beyond our imagination. Knowing this, we can trust that "all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose" (Rom 8:28).</span></div>
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<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Smile. Ask God today for the grace to be extra joyful and share Christ's love with those who need encouragement the most today. </span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today, pray the Rosary, or even just a decade, for someone who has hurt or disappointed you, and ask for the grace to forgive that person. (Pro-Life Rosary Prayer Intentions: <a class="CP___PAGEID_125406" href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/rosaries/pro-life-rosary-prayer-intentions.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/cUf6kj</a>) </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Seven Considerations While Navigating Infertility" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_207593" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/seven-considerations-while-navigating-infertility.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/qUXiGg</a>) seeks to provide compassionate guidance that is both practical and informative for married couples who are walking on this road. Although geared to such couples, the article is also helpful for anyone to read, offering insight into the experience of infertility and giving awareness of the need for sensitivity in our relationships with those who may be affected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> For an end to the use of the death penalty in our country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prayers:</span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be</em></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection:</span> As Catholics, we believe and put our hope in a merciful and loving God. We are conscious of our own brokenness and need for redemption. Our Lord calls us to imitate him more perfectly by witnessing to the inherent dignity of every person, including those whose actions have been despicable. Our faith and hope is in the mercy of God who says to us, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy" (Mt 5:7) and "I desire mercy, not sacrifice" (Mt 9:13). As Christians we are called to oppose the culture of death by witnessing to something greater and more perfect: a gospel of life, hope and mercy.</span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For some people who are committed to upholding the sanctity of human life, the death penalty can present a challenge. Properly understood, however, Catholic teaching against the death penalty is both persuasive and eminently pro-life. Find out why in "Life Matters: A Catholic Response to the Death Penalty" at <a class="CP___PAGEID_111492" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2013/life-matters-a-catholic-response-to-the-death-penalty.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/OIEb7P</a>.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Day Nine: Sunday, January 29, 2017 (<a class="CP___PAGEID_224335" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/january-roe-events/9-days-for-life-novena-spanish-2017.cfm#day9" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish</a>)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intercession:</span> For God's peace to fill the hearts of all who travel upon the path of adoption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reflection: </span>The Letter to the Hebrews reminds us to "hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm" (Heb 6:18-19). We pray that all who are involved in the adoption process would be filled with the hope of Christ and "the peace of God that surpasses all understanding" (Phil 4:7). We also remember that we too can cling fast to this anchor of hope, for we have received "a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, 'Abba, Father!'" (Rom 8:15). May our loving Father envelop each of us in his love today and open our eyes in faith that we may see and rejoice in his love.<br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Acts of Reparation</span> (choose one):</span><br /><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; list-style: square; margin: 5px; padding: 5px 0px;">
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<li style="border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; float: none; font-stretch: normal; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 2px 4px 2px 15px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Make a "quiet hour" today, turning off all electronic devices (cell phone, iPod, computer, television, radio, video game system), and retreat to your room. Spend some time in prayer or prayerful reading, such as the "Novena to St. Joseph: For Those on the Path of Adoption" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_208297 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/upload/16-rlp-novena-to-st-joseph-secured.pdf" style="background: url("/images/icons/acro.gif") right center no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/dv7Dn2</a>). </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Maya*, who placed her child for adoption, gives nine suggestions for offering ongoing support in "Accompanying Expectant Mothers Considering Adoption" (<a class="CP___PAGEID_207602" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/accompanying-expectant-mothers-considering-adoption.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/srj6L3</a>). In "An Adoption Love Story," Jenny* shares her and her husband's story of adopting their son, Andrew. Read about some of the challenges, concerns, and joys on their journey at <a class="CP___PAGEID_157454" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2014/an-adoption-love-story.cfm" style="border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/S5OxL7</a>. (Supplemental reference information regarding adoption can be found at <a class="CP___PAGEID_208291 icon-pdf" href="http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2016/upload/16-rlp-simple-supplements-adoption-secured.pdf" style="background: url("/images/icons/acro.gif") right center no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #666555; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/EqCRV4</a>.)</span></div>
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