2014
Latest from Vatican Information Service News - Pope Francis AppointsSaint July 17 : St. Alexius - Man of God |
| - POPE TO VISIT CASERTA ON SATURDAY 26 AND MONDAY 28 JULY |
| - POPE FRANCIS RECEIVES AN AUTOGRAPHED “ALBICELESTE” SHIRT |
| - IN MEMORIAM
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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| POPE TO VISIT CASERTA ON SATURDAY 26 AND MONDAY 28 JULY Vatican City, 17 July 2014 (VIS) – Pope Francis will visit the city of Italian city of Caserta on26 and 28 July, the Holy See Press Office confirmed today. In the afternoon of Saturday26, upon invitation by the bishop of the diocese Giovanni D'Avise, he will meet with the Catholics of the city and celebrate the Mass of St. Ann, probably in the park of the Royal Palace of Caserta. The Holy Father will return to the Vatican that night and on Sunday 27 he will pray the Angelus with the faithful in St. Peter's Square, as usual. On Monday, 28 July, he will return to Caserta to pay a private visit to his friend, the Protestant pastor Giovanni Traettino, and his community. |
| POPE FRANCIS RECEIVES AN AUTOGRAPHED “ALBICELESTE” SHIRT Vatican City, 17 July 2014 (VIS) – The players of the Argentine national football team have given Pope Francis an “Albiceleste” shirt signed by all the members of the team. Although Argentina fell at the final hurdle during the final of the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, losing 1:0 to Germany in extra time, the team said they were confident the Pope thought of them throughout the tournament. A large-scale wall photo of the team with the Pope was installed by the Asociacion de Futbol Argentino (AFA) at the Brazilian sports complex where the team trained during the World Cup, a snapshot taken when the team visited Pope Francis in the Vatican, on the occasion of the friendly match against Italy in his honour. |
| IN MEMORIAM Vatican City, 17 July 2014 (VIS) – The following prelates died in recent weeks: - Bishop Guy Gaucher O.C.D., auxiliary emeritus of Bayeux-Lisieux, France, on 3 July at the age of 84. - Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C., emeritus of Broome, Australia, at the age of 94. - Bishop Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz, emeritus of Santo Angelo, Brazil, on 6 July at the age of 86. - Bishop Guillermo Leaden, S.D.B., auxiliary emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the age of 100. - Bishop Pietro Nonis, emeritus of Vicenza, Italy, at the age of 87. |
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 16 July 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
- appointed Bishop Tarcisio Scaramussa, S.D.B., auxiliary of the archdiocese of Sao Paulo, as coadjutor bishop of Santos (area 2,423, population 1,779,000, Catholics 1,524,000, priests 86, permanent deacons 23, religious 150), Brazil.
- appointed Bishop Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia, M.S.C., prelate of the territorial prelature of Caraveli, Peru, as military ordinary of Peru (priests 77, religious 14), Peru.
- appointed Archbishop Bernardito C. Auza, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations (UN) as Holy See permanent observer to the Organisation of American States (OAS).
- appointed the following as consultors, for a five-year period, of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life: Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, Italy; Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani, Italy, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education; Sister Marcella Farina, F.M.A., ordinary lecturer in fundamental and systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of Science of Education “Auxilium”, Rome; Fr. Jose Cristo Rey Garcia Paredes, C.M.F., vice director of the Theological Institute of Religious Life of Madrid, Spain; Fr. Robert J. Gesinger, S.J., lecturer in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, procurer general of the Society of Jesus, Rome; Fr. Loic-Marie Le Bot, O.P., dean of the faculty of canon law of the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, France; Sister Maria Domenica Melone, S.F.A., rector of the Pontifical University “Antonianum”, Rome; Fr. Pier Luigi Nava, S.M.M., lecturer in formation in consecrated life in the Pontifical Faculty of Science of Education “Auxilium”, Rome; Fr. Jesu Maria James Pudumai Doss, S.D.B., extraordinary lecturer in the faculty of canon law in the Salesian Pontifical University, Rome; Fr. Bruno Secondin, O. Carm., ordinary lecturer emeritus in modern spirituality and foundations of spiritual life at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Fr. Yuji Sugawara, S.J., dean of the faculty of canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Elena Lucia Bolchi, member of the Ordo Virginum of the archdiocese of Milan, patron of the Lombard Regional Ecclesiastical Tribunal, Milan, Italy; Lourdes Gross Garcia, M. Id., director of the secretary of the Spanish Episcopal Commission for Consecrated Life, Madrid, Spain.
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 15 July 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, presented by Bishop Janusz Wieslaw Kaleta, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- appointed Msgr. Giuseppe Satriano as archbishop of Rossano-Cariati (area 1,415, population 139,400, Catholics 136,900, priests 87, permanent deacons 2, religious 105), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Brindisi, Italy in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1985. He holds a licentiate in bioethics from the “Regina Apostolurum” Institute in Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral roles, including: spiritual father and subsequently rector of the diocesan seminary of Ostuni; vicar of the parish of “Maria SS. Annunziati” in Ostuni; and priest “fidei donum” in Kenya-Marsabit, and canon of the Cathedral chapter. He is currently vicar general of the archdiocese and episcopal vicar for the clergy and for consecrated life.
- appointed Msgr. Wojciech Zaluski, nunciature advisor, as apostolic nuncio in Burundi, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. Msgr. Zaluski was born in Zaluski-Lipnewo, Poland in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1985. He holds a degree in canon law and has served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1989, in the apostolic nunciatures of Burundi, Malta, Albania, Zambia, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Ukraine, Philippines, and Guatemala.
Tourists in Plane from Amsterdam shot down over Ukraine 295 Killed
(Vatican Radio) Ukraine's government has accused pro-Russian rebels of shooting down a Malaysian Airways plane, killing all 295 people on board. Malaysia Airlines confirmed it lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam over Ukraine. An aviation source in Moscow said the plane had been found burning on the ground in east Ukraine near Russia's border. Defense analysts said shooting down a plane at 10,000 meters (9.7 miles) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar. Kiev has blamed Moscow of supplying rebels with military hardware, charges Moscow denies.
The Boeing 777, with 280 passengers and 15 crew members, was shot down by pro-Russian separatists, said a spokesperson of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dutch and other tourists were among the passengers on the plane, which was on its way to Kuala Lumpur, media reported.
The crash comes after several other planes were allegedly shot down by pro-Russian rebels or even from Russian territory.
Just before the latest crash, Ukraine's Security Council said a Ukrainian air force fighter jet was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Russian plane. The pilot apparently managed to escape after his jet was hit. Additionally, Ukrainian troops were allegedly fired upon by rockets fired from Russian territory. Moscow did not immediately comment, but Pro-Russian separatists claimed responsibility for shooting down two Su 25 warplanes on Wednesday.
OTHER PLANE HIT
Kiev confirmed that a second plane was hit, apparently by a portable surface to-air missile. But officials said the pilot was not injured and managed to land his aircraft safely.
Separately Ukraine claimed one of its military transport planes, carrying eight people, was shot down Monday by a rocket fired from inside Russia.
The latest reported incidents came while Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that new sanctions against Russia, over its perceived support for pro-Russian separatists, would stalemate bilateral relations.
He also warned they could hurt both Russian and American businesses.
“(Sanctions) have a boomerang effect and without a doubt they will push US-Russian relations to a dead end and cause very serious damage,” he saId in televised remarks. “I am also sure that this damages the national long-term strategic interests of the US government and US people.”
US SANCTIONS
The penalties announced by the White House include targeting two major Russian energy firms, a pair of powerful financial institutions, eight arms firms and four individuals with business punishments and asset freezes. Leaders in Europe, which has a far deeper economic relationship with Russia than the U.S., were more restrained.
They have ordered investment and development banks on the continent to suspend financing agreements with Moscow. But the European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers to consider targeting people or companies involved in
the unrest in Ukraine.
the unrest in Ukraine.
With fighting escalating, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is under pressure to free soldiers trapped by separatist fighters at a border crossing in eastern Ukraine in the Luhansk area.
Dozens of people have been killed since the weekend in an increasingly bloody battle for control over eastern Ukraine, amid fears of urban warfare.
Family members who protested in Kiev have expressed concern about reports that as many as three brigades are trapped in the fighting with pro-Russian separatists. Shared from Radio vaticana
Over 500000 Displaced due to Typhoon in Philippines - 38 Killed
ASIANEWS IT REPORT: Millions of people in the capital and in other areas of the province of Luzon are without electricity and water. At least eight people are still missing; Initial toll is about $ 15 million in damages. 7 thousand houses destroyed and another 19 thousand damaged. Quezon ready to declare a state of calamity. Manila (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Typhoon Rammasun, the first tropical storm of this year's rainy season, has left 38 people dead in its wake with millions more in the capital and surrounding areas are without electricity and water.
The authorities have begun the removal of debris and reconstruction of damaged houses; there are at least eight people are still missing and the chances of finding them alive are decreasing. After crossing the island of Luzon, the typhoon has now left the Philippine archipelago and is headed toward China.
The Director of Philippine Civil Protection, Alexander Pama, says that typhoon Rammasun has destroyed 7 thousand homes and damaged another 19 thousand; at least 530 thousand people have found refuge in evacuation centers.
It has also caused considerable damage to crops, particularly rice and corn yields in the Bicol region, south-west of Manila, the first area to be hit by the passage. From an initial estimates damages could amount to 668 million pesos losses equal to $ 15 million dollars.
Even today many schools and government offices remained closed in Manila and other parts of southern Luzon, the most populous region of the Philippines with at least 17 million people. "Most of the victims - reports Pama - died as a result of falling trees or because hit by debris." The governor of Quezon David Suarez adds that the province is ready to declare a state of calamity.
Every year, the monsoon season brings with it a series of typhoons and tropical storms, some devastating. Last year the super-typhoon Haiyan (renamed Yolanda), which hit the central Visayas on November 8, 2013, affected at least 11 million people. At least eight billion dollars is needed for a full return to normalcy.
One year on, there are still over 1,700 missing people; the number of victims is higher than 5 thousand, although President Aquino downplayed the final toll, noting that the initial estimates [of more than 10 thousand] were the result of an overly emotional reaction to the tragedy and that the actual death toll is around 2,500. ASIA NEWS IT
Today's Mass Readings : Thursday July 17, 2014
Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 392
Reading 1IS 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
The way of the just is smooth;
the path of the just you make level.
Yes, for your way and your judgments, O LORD,
we look to you;
Your name and your title
are the desire of our souls.
My soul yearns for you in the night,
yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you;
When your judgment dawns upon the earth,
the world’s inhabitants learn justice.
O LORD, you mete out peace to us,
for it is you who have accomplished all we have done.
O LORD, oppressed by your punishment,
we cried out in anguish under your chastising.
As a woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so were we in your presence, O LORD.
We conceived and writhed in pain,
giving birth to wind;
Salvation we have not achieved for the earth,
the inhabitants of the world cannot bring it forth.
But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise;
awake and sing, you who lie in the dust.
For your dew is a dew of light,
and the land of shades gives birth.
the path of the just you make level.
Yes, for your way and your judgments, O LORD,
we look to you;
Your name and your title
are the desire of our souls.
My soul yearns for you in the night,
yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you;
When your judgment dawns upon the earth,
the world’s inhabitants learn justice.
O LORD, you mete out peace to us,
for it is you who have accomplished all we have done.
O LORD, oppressed by your punishment,
we cried out in anguish under your chastising.
As a woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so were we in your presence, O LORD.
We conceived and writhed in pain,
giving birth to wind;
Salvation we have not achieved for the earth,
the inhabitants of the world cannot bring it forth.
But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise;
awake and sing, you who lie in the dust.
For your dew is a dew of light,
and the land of shades gives birth.
Responsorial Psalm PS 102:13-14AB AND 15, 16-18, 19-21
R. (20b) From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
You, O LORD, abide forever,
and your name through all generations.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion,
for it is time to pity her.
For her stones are dear to your servants,
and her dust moves them to pity.
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
“The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die.”
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
You, O LORD, abide forever,
and your name through all generations.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion,
for it is time to pity her.
For her stones are dear to your servants,
and her dust moves them to pity.
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
“The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die.”
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
Gospel MT 11:28-30
Jesus said:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
2014
Saint July 17 : Blessed Martyrs of Compiegne : 16 Carmellite Nuns Guillotined
The Blessed Martyrs of Compiegne
Feast: July 17
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Guillotined at the Place du Trône Renversé (now called Place de la Nation), Paris, 17 July, 1794. They are the first sufferers under the French Revolution on whom the Holy See has passed judgment, and were solemnly beatified 27 May, 1906. Before their execution they knelt and chanted the "Veni Creator", as at a profession, after which they all renewed aloud their baptismal and religious vows. The novice was executed first and the prioress last. Absolute silence prevailed the whole time that the executions were proceeding. The heads and bodies of the martyrs were interred in a deep sand-pit about thirty feet square in a cemetery at Picpus. As this sand-pit was the receptacle of the bodies of 1298 victims of the Revolution, there seems to be no hope of their relics being recovered. Their names are as follows:
* Madeleine-Claudine Ledoine (Mother Teresa of St. Augustine), prioress, b. in Paris, 22 Sept., 1752, professed 16 or 17 May, 1775;
* Marie-Anne (or Antoinette) Brideau (Mother St. Louis), sub-prioress, b. at Belfort, 7 Dec., 1752, professed 3 Sept, 1771; * Marie-Anne Piedcourt (Sister of Jesus Crucified), choir-nun, b. 1715, professed 1737; on mounting the scaffold she said "I forgive you as heartily as I wish God to forgive me"; * Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), sacristan, b. at Mouy, 16 Sept., 1715, professed 19 Aug., 1740, twice sub-prioress in 1764 and 1778; * Marie-Antoniette or Anne Hanisset (Sister Teresa of the Holy Heart of Mary), b. at Rheims in 1740 or 1742, professed in 1764; * Marie-Françoise Gabrielle de Croissy (Mother Henriette of Jesus), b. in Paris, 18 June, 1745, professed 22 Feb., 1764, prioress from 1779 to 1785; * Marie-Gabrielle Trézel (Sister Teresa of St. Ignatius), choir-nun, b. at Compiègne, 4 April, 1743, professed 12 Dec., 1771; * Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville, widow, choir-nun (Sister Julia Louisa of Jesus), b. at Loreau (or Evreux), in 1741, professed probably in 1777; * Anne Petras (Sister Mary Henrietta of Providence), choir-nun, b. at Cajarc (Lot), 17 June, 1760, professed 22 Oct., 1786. * Concerning Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception accounts vary. Miss Willson says that her name was Marie Claude Cyprienne Brard, and that she was born 12 May, 1736; Pierre, that her name was Catherine Charlotte Brard, and that she was born 7 Sept., 1736. She was born at Bourth, and professed in 1757; * Marie-Geneviève Meunier (Sister Constance), novice, b. 28 May, 1765, or 1766, at St. Denis, received the habit 16 Dec., 1788. She mounted the scaffold singing "Laudate Dominum". In addition to the above, three lay sisters suffered and two tourières. The lay sisters are: * Angélique Roussel (Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost), lay sister, b. at Fresnes, 4 August, 1742, professed 14 May, 1769; * Marie Dufour (Sister St. Martha), lay sister, b. at Beaune, 1 or 2 Oct., 1742, entered the community in 1772; * Julie or Juliette Vérolot (Sister St. Francis Xavier), lay sister, b. at Laignes or Lignières, 11 Jan., 1764, professed 12 Jan., 1789.
The two tourières, who were not Carmelites at all, but merely servants of the nunnery were: Catherine and Teresa Soiron, b. respectively on 2 Feb., 1742 and 23 Jan., 1748 at Compiègne, both of whom had been in the service of the community since 1772.
The miracles proved during the process of beatification were
* The cure of Sister Clare of St. Joseph, a Carmelite lay sister of New Orleans, when on the point of death from cancer, in June, 1897;
* The cure of the Abbé Roussarie, of the seminary at Brive, when at the point of death, 7 March, 1897; * The cure of Sister St. Martha of St. Joseph, a Carmelite lay Sister of Vans, of tuberculosis and an abcess in the right leg, 1 Dec., 1897; * The cure of Sister St. Michael, a Franciscan of Montmorillon, 9 April, 1898.
Five secondary relics are in the possession of the Benedictines of Stanbrook, Worcestershire.
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source: http://www.ewtn.com/saintsHoly/saints/B/blessedmartyrsofcompiegne.asp#ixzz1SN1pGR3I
Saint July 17 : St. Alexius - Man of God
Today, make known to me, and take from my heart, every kind, form and degree of pride.
Today, empty me of self, and awaken in me the deepest depth and truth of that humility which can make me capable of your revealing light.
Today, do not allow attribution to me, for the good that you perform in me and through me, but rather, that all honor be to you.
Today, may your presence in me, and your work through me, testify of your holiness and saving grace.
Help me to die to self each day, and continuously seek your glorification in all that I think or do.
This I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, the exemplar of humility.
Amen.
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