From Today's Office of Readings:
"He bids us follow his example: Seek the things that are above, he says, which is only another way of saying: “Keep your eyes on Christ”."
Monday, May 16, 2005
Pope Meets with Group Promoting Bl. Marianne Cope
From Vatican Information Service:
Speaking about Blessed Marianne Cope, he recalled how "in 1862 she entered the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse where she imbibed the particular spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi, dedicating herself wholeheartedly to spiritual and corporal works of mercy."
After explaining how Mother Cope accepted an invitation from the bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, to work among lepers, Benedict XVI affirmed: "For 35 years, until her death in 1918, our new Blessed dedicated her life to the love and service of lepers on the islands of Maui and Molokai."
"Undoubtedly the generosity of Mother Marianne was, humanly speaking, exemplary," said the Pope. "Good intentions and selflessness alone, however, do not adequately explain her vocation. It is only the perspective of faith which enables us to understand her witness - as a Christian and as a religious - to that sacrificial love which reaches its fullness in Jesus Christ. All that she achieved was inspired by her personal love of the Lord which she in turn expressed through her love of those abandoned and rejected by society in a most wretched way."
Speaking about Blessed Marianne Cope, he recalled how "in 1862 she entered the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse where she imbibed the particular spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi, dedicating herself wholeheartedly to spiritual and corporal works of mercy."
After explaining how Mother Cope accepted an invitation from the bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, to work among lepers, Benedict XVI affirmed: "For 35 years, until her death in 1918, our new Blessed dedicated her life to the love and service of lepers on the islands of Maui and Molokai."
"Undoubtedly the generosity of Mother Marianne was, humanly speaking, exemplary," said the Pope. "Good intentions and selflessness alone, however, do not adequately explain her vocation. It is only the perspective of faith which enables us to understand her witness - as a Christian and as a religious - to that sacrificial love which reaches its fullness in Jesus Christ. All that she achieved was inspired by her personal love of the Lord which she in turn expressed through her love of those abandoned and rejected by society in a most wretched way."
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Appeal From TAN Books
Support them...TAN has made available many Catholic classics that otherwise would not be out there...
From TAN Books - May 2005 Newsletter:
"Please be generous! Stock up your family Catholic library and/or send a contribution to our Mission Fund and help us get books out to the poor who cannot afford them, and in the process get TAN past this perilous and frightening crisis! I am sure God will richly reward you for your generosity. Please . . . today . . . send us your largest possible book purchase and/or the most generous donation you possibly can to our Mission Program! And I pledge we shall use your funds to the optimum to keep TAN running and to keep reaching out with the knowledge of the Faith to many others, as we have been doing in the past.
May God bless you most richly and abundantly for whatever you may do, and please keep us in your prayers!
Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Thomas A. Nelson,
Publisher"
From TAN Books - May 2005 Newsletter:
"Please be generous! Stock up your family Catholic library and/or send a contribution to our Mission Fund and help us get books out to the poor who cannot afford them, and in the process get TAN past this perilous and frightening crisis! I am sure God will richly reward you for your generosity. Please . . . today . . . send us your largest possible book purchase and/or the most generous donation you possibly can to our Mission Program! And I pledge we shall use your funds to the optimum to keep TAN running and to keep reaching out with the knowledge of the Faith to many others, as we have been doing in the past.
May God bless you most richly and abundantly for whatever you may do, and please keep us in your prayers!
Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Thomas A. Nelson,
Publisher"
Pope: Freedom is Based on respect for God’s law
Babel or Pentecost...the choice is who we ultimately believe in our own works or God...
From >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Pope: Freedom is based on respect for God’s law:
"On this day of Pentecost, the pope underlined especially the notion of mission. Benedict XVI forcefully called on the Church to “unceasingly open those borders which we men continue to set up between us: we must always move away from Babel, from withdrawal into ourselves, to Pentecost”. “We continually close our doors; we always want to keep ourselves safe, not to be disturbed by others and by God”. But the greeting that the Lord extends to us, “peace be with you”, is “a bridge he lays down between heaven and earth” and “on this bridge, always together with him, we too must reach our neighbour, he who needs us”. The Church – “new people of God which comes from all nations” – must continually become what she already is: she must open borders to peoples and breach barriers between classes and races. In this there can be none who are forgotten or despised.”"
From >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Pope: Freedom is based on respect for God’s law:
"On this day of Pentecost, the pope underlined especially the notion of mission. Benedict XVI forcefully called on the Church to “unceasingly open those borders which we men continue to set up between us: we must always move away from Babel, from withdrawal into ourselves, to Pentecost”. “We continually close our doors; we always want to keep ourselves safe, not to be disturbed by others and by God”. But the greeting that the Lord extends to us, “peace be with you”, is “a bridge he lays down between heaven and earth” and “on this bridge, always together with him, we too must reach our neighbour, he who needs us”. The Church – “new people of God which comes from all nations” – must continually become what she already is: she must open borders to peoples and breach barriers between classes and races. In this there can be none who are forgotten or despised.”"
Revealed: Abortion Puts the Next Baby at Risk
From Telegraph | News | Revealed: how an abortion puts the next baby at risk:
"Having an abortion almost doubles a woman's risk of giving birth dangerously early in a later pregnancy, according to research that will provoke fresh debate over the most controversial of all medical procedures.
A French study of 2,837 births - the first to investigate the link between terminations and extremely premature births - found that mothers who had previously had an abortion were 1.7 times more likely to give birth to a baby at less than 28 weeks' gestation. Many babies born this early die soon after birth, and a large number who survive suffer serious disability."
"Having an abortion almost doubles a woman's risk of giving birth dangerously early in a later pregnancy, according to research that will provoke fresh debate over the most controversial of all medical procedures.
A French study of 2,837 births - the first to investigate the link between terminations and extremely premature births - found that mothers who had previously had an abortion were 1.7 times more likely to give birth to a baby at less than 28 weeks' gestation. Many babies born this early die soon after birth, and a large number who survive suffer serious disability."
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Memorization is "IN" Again
The new National Directory of Catechesis, just released this month
promotes "Learning by Heart" as a method of catechesis...
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