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The Italian Catholic bishops, who have battled with liberal legislators over a proposal to recognize same-sex unions, appear poised for a political battle on another front: the drive for living wills. reported by Catholic World News.The president of the Italian episcopal conference (CEI), Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, has signaled that the Church will oppose any living-will […]

Fatima Center Applauds Antonio Socci’s Response to
Cardinal Bertone’s Book on Third Secret
       May 23, 2007: Fort Erie, Ontario: The Fatima Center, the world’s largest Fatima apostolate promoting the full Message of Fatima, applauds Antonio Socci’s rebuttal to Cardinal Bertone’s new book on the Third Secret.
       Antonio Socci, a highly respected journalist and TV anchor man, is […]

Living the Hidden Life
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands, saying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: […]

Pro-life video, featuring Alveda King, daughter of Rev. A. D. King (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s brother). Both brothers were murdered for civil rights.

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Ascension Boy Scout Troop 373 announced that Daniel Joseph LaManna has attained the rank of Eagle Scout. This young man’s Eagle Scout leadership project consisted of him directing a team of scouts and leaders in the construction of an aviary for resident birds of prey at the Florida Wildlife Hospital. The Director of the Wildlife […]

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: we give thanks for all your prayer on behalf of Ascension Parish, the hermitage, the community and the world. Please pray for the following intentions this month.
For the Pope’s intention that the Lord protect sailors and all those involved in maritime activities.
That the Church may bear witness, with its […]

The Church is asking for troops to be send to the eastern region of Congo, following the slaying of 18 people in Kaniola last weekend.
Archbishop François-Xavier Maroy of Bukavu appealed to the French ambassador in Congo, asking the government to “treat the security problem in the east of the country as a priority and stop […]

Enter the Mystery 

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L’Eucharistie, coeur de la foi catholique. C’est la présence réelle et agissante de Jésus Christ dasn l’hostie. A son contact, guérisons et conversions. Exemple avec la fraternité Eucharistein, qui accueille des “blessés de la vie”.
Son fondateur, le Père Nicolas Buttet. Jeune intellectuel promis à une belle carrière d’homme politique et d’avocat en Suisse, c’est finalement […]

“Stabat Mater” is a well-known catholic hymn. It alludes to the grief and pain of Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, at the time of His Crucifixion.
Traditionally a form of popular devotion, this hymn is currently sung or recited on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 15. The Latin text can be found in […]

Archbishop Cites Years of Terror and Brutality
Though international attention is recently focused on strife in Zimbabwe, the archbishop of Bulawayo says that the terror in that southern African country is nothing new.
Archbishop Pius Ncube, in an interview with the magazine Inside the Vatican, said that President Robert Mugabe has been using the army to inflict […]

The parents of a missing 4-year-old British girl sat in the front row at Benedict XVI’s general audience to ask for prayers for their daughter.  The little girl, Madeleine McCann, vanished while on vacation with her family in Portugal in early May.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, said the meeting was […]

BLESSED MARIE EUGENIE OF JESUS (1817-1898 )
Anne-Eugénie Milleret was born in 1817 in Metz after Napoleon’s complete defeat and the restoration of the monarchy. She belonged to a nonbelieving and financially comfortable family and it seemed unlikely that she would trace a new spiritual path across the Church of France.
Her father, a follower of Voltaire […]

Here is an adapted version of a letter to the editors received by ZENIT from Sister Margherita Marchione, a Pius XII scholar.
* * *
On May 8, members of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes voted unanimously to recommend that Benedict XVI formerly declare Pope Pius XII “Venerable.” Hopefully this recognition that Pius XII lived the Christian […]

Known to us as Tertullian, he  lived around 155 to 230 A.D. He was a church leader, an apologist and a prolific author of early Christianity.  He was born and lived his life in Carthage. Tertullian was the first great writer of Latin Christianity, and is sometimes called the “Father of the Latin Church.” He introduced […]

(VIS) - In his general audience today Benedict XVI resumed his series of catecheses on leading figures of the early Church, turning his attention to Tertullian, the first great Christian author to write in Latin who was born in Carthage around the year 150. The audience was held in St. Peter’s Square in the presence […]

E-mails have come in stating that a Mr. Bill Maher who has a show on HBO has once again showed his hatred that he and his friends in Hollywood have for Christianity and Christians.First I heard of him when he had made a comment that all Christians are crazy and are unenlightened because of their faith. […]

Friar & Priest
Born in Venice of the noble Salomonio family in 1231, James gave his patrimony to the poor
and entered the Order of Preachers at the age of fourteen. He lived most of his Dominican life at Forli
where he was known for his austere and virtuous life. Because of his charity to the poor he […]

The Litany of St. Joan of Arc

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Our Heavenly Father, Who art God, have mercy on us.
Son, Savior of the world, Who art God, have mercy on us.
Holy Spirit, Who art God, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, Who art […]

 O Vos Omnes (O all ye that pass)
Latin:
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam,
attendite, et videte,
si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
Attendite, universi populi,
et videte dolorem meum,
si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
English:
O all ye that pass by the way,
attend, and see,
whether there be any sorrow like my sorrow.
Hear, all people, and see my sorrow,
whether there […]

ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONS, ESPECIALLY IN AFRICA APRIL 21, 1957
To the Venerable Brethren, the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Local Ordinanes in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See.
Venerable Brethren, Greetings and Apostolic Benediction.
The gift of faith, which through the goodness of God, is accompanied […]

Faced with an increasingly secularized culture, every baptized person must become active in the Church’s missionary activity, says Benedict XVI.
This appeal was made in the Pope’s message for the 81st World Mission Day, which will be celebrated on Oct. 21 with the theme: “All the Churches for All the World.”
In the text, published today by […]

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone,
        To have a deep soul relationship with another,
To be loved thoroughly and exclusively.
        But God, to a Christian, says,
“No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content
        With being loved by Me alone,
With giving yourself totally and reservedly to Me,
        With having an intensely personal and unique […]

Tout Les Chemins
Every road through hills and valleys
Leads to heaven by and by
And the wind that swepps the alleys
Points a finger to the sky
A song on my lips, a song in my heart
I go my merry way
The sun in my eyes, The sun in my heart,
Lights up my step day to day
Many friends are […]

Joan was born in 1412. Her hometown was Domremy, a little village in France. Jacques d’Arc, her father, was a hard working farmer. Her mother was gentle and loving. She taught Joan many practical things. “I can sew and spin as well as any woman,” she once said. Joan loved to pray, especially at the […]

Friar & Priest, and Companions, Martyrs
Among the eleven martyrs commemorated this day, three were Dominicans. They were part of
a band of preachers whose success at Avignonet, to the southwest of Toulouse, induced a number of
Albigensian heretics to ambush the group and treacherously murder them on May 29, 1242. As they
died they gave witness to the […]

Under the terms of a 1984 concordat between the Vatican and Italy, the Church benefits from tax provisions that allow the government to collect funds designated for the Church. Italian taxpayers can make tax-free donations of up to $8 for every $1,000 in income.  This year the Italian government collected more he Catholic Church has […]

Police in India have arrested more than 4,000 people taking part in a New Delhi rally protesting violence against Christians, the AsiaNews service reports. Police arrested nearly all the participants in the rally, which was staged near the parliament building in New Delhi.
John Dayal, secretary-general of the All India Christian Council, and president of the All India […]

Letter Recalls Life of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi
St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi is a symbolic figure of living love that recalls an essential dimension of every Christian life, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this in a letter to the Cardinal Ennio Antonelli of Florence, Italy, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Carmelite […]

Human suffering seems to make no sense. The reflective Catholic senses that there must be a further answer that can only be found in the Passion of Christ. We must realize that we can only find true happiness in the next world when we see God face to face.
For those of us who live daily […]

I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power […]

Maximinius was a bishop who lived in the fourth century. It is believed that he was born in Poitiers, France. As a young man, he heard of a saintly bishop of Trier, in Gaul. He traveled to that city and became a disciple of St. Agritius. This holy bishop saw to it that Maximinius received […]

The Holy Father appointed Monsignor Carmelo Cuttitta, pastor of the parish of Saint Joseph Cottolengo, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Palermo (area 1,366, population 914,506, Catholics 890,142, priests 570, permanent deacons 32, religious 1,863), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Gordano, Italy in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1987.

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Here is the English-language address Benedict XVI gave when receiving in audience Major Archbishop Issac Cleemis Thottunkal of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara Church in India.
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Your Beatitude,
I am pleased to welcome you on your first visit to Rome since your election as Major Archbishop of the beloved Catholic Syro-Malankara Church. I am most grateful […]

Self-knowledge is a great help for acquiring humility; but in the midst of the many passions, faults and vices of which we are aware, to recognize our own pride is the most useful of all. For this vice is the most shameful of all. And even on our Confessions, it is more difficult for us […]

Says Evangelization Is Top Priority
Evangelization is the first priority for bishops, Benedict XVI told the prelates of Mozambique, who were in Rome for their five-yearly visit.
During the meeting on Saturday, the Pope reminded the bishops from Mozambique that they are responsible “for announcing the word of God throughout the area entrusted to you,” including everything […]

Prejudiced Attacks Recycled
By Father John Flynn
Sexual abuses mixed with allegations of Church abuse make for an explosive media formula, as Italians can testify. The state-owned television broadcaster, RAI, sparked a debate after it announced that it wanted to buy the rights to transmit a BBC program, “Sex Crimes and the Vatican.”
Last Tuesday the RAI announced […]

Prelate Encouraged Them to “Only Speak of God”
Thirty-eight men from 18 countries were ordained to the priesthood for the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Bishop Javier Echevarría, prelate of Opus Dei, conferred the ordinations Saturday afternoon in Rome, reminding the ordinands in his homily that they will be instruments of the Holy […]

A solemn benediction of church bells, in which each bell receives a name, hence incorrectly termed the baptism of bells. The long and solemn ceremony, which may be performed only by a bishop, or a priest especially designated, consists of washing the bell with holy water, anointing it with the oil of the infirm without, […]

Sacramentals of the Church, blessed with religious rites, and used to remind men of religion and of God, thereby increasing His grace in their souls. It is said that bells were introduced into Christian churches about the year 400 by Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, Italy. The ringing of bells or gongs in the sanctuary is […]

“Because sadness according to God produces a repentance which leads to saving and does not leave a place to regret… Sadness according to this world produces death. ” (2 Corinthians 7, 10)
However, supports John Cassian, this sadness which causes a stable penitence for safety is obeying, gracious, humble, soft, full with sweetness and patience, because […]

Gradual of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
LATIN:
Audi, fília, et vide,
et inclína aurem tuam:
et concupíscet rex
pulchritúdinem tuam.
V. Tota decóra ingréditur fília régis,
textúræ áureæ sunt amíctus eius.
  (Psalmus 44:11,12,14)
English:
Hearken, O daughter and see,
and incline thy ear:
and the King shall greatly desire
thy beauty.
The daughter of the King enters with all ornament,
golden fabrics are […]

They served and fought and died
               so that we might be safe and free
Grant him, O Lord, eternal peace
               and give them “The Victory”!
And in these days of unrest
               filled with grave uncertainty,
Let’s not forget the price they paid
               to keep our country free…
And, so, on this Memorial Day,
               we offer up a prayer—
May the […]

Blessed Margaret was born in 1471. She was the niece of two English kings, Edward IV and Richard III. Henry VII arranged her marriage to Sir Reginald Pole. He was a brave soldier and a friend of the royal family. By the time King Henry VIII came into power, Margaret was a widow with five […]

May 16, 2007
His Excellency Bishop Bernard Fellay
Superior General, Society of Saint Pius X
Bishop Fellay spoke in Veneta, Oregon, and to paraphrase his words on the much touted Motu Proprio: “They only talk of bringing back the Mass which we requested in 2000 and the fight is on. We could already start a new Agatha Christie novel […]

God wills all men to be saved. And in our Lord’s life and death, in His every word and gift to men, there is one great truth underlying all: this world is not our home. We have here no lasting city, but look for one to come. To reach it one thing is necessary: to […]

“We Relive the Birth of the Church” 
Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today to the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square when he led the praying of the midday Regina Caeli.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Today we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost. And through today’s liturgy we relive the birth […]

Meeting in Poland Highlights a Key Social Concern
By Father John Flynn
More than 3,000 delegates from dozens of countries gathered May 11-13 in Warsaw, Poland, for the 4th meeting of the World Congress of Families. The WCF describes itself as an “international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of good will.”
On the first day […]

In Address on Solemnity of Pentecost
The Church is one, holy, catholic, apostolic — and missionary, says Benedict XVI.
On the solemnity of Pentecost, the Pope observed that the Church “speaks in all languages and goes out to meet every culture.”
The Holy Father delivered his message today from the window of his study before reciting the midday […]

Mel Gibson is considering making a new feature about the life of the Jesuit missionary, FatherFrancisco Eusebio Kino. Father Kino founded a series of Catholic missions for the Pima Indians in the area today that is now comprised of Arizona, USA, and northern Sonora, Mexico.
Father Kino was born in Segno on Tirol, Italy in 1645. […]

Augustine was the abbot of St. Andrew’s monastery in Rome. Pope St. Gregory the Great chose him and forty other monks for a mission dear to his heart. They were to preach the Gospel to the people of England. Abbot Augustine and the monks started on their journey. When they reached southern France, people warned […]

I would like my final prayer in this life to be simple words.
I would simply like to look at Jesus and say “ Mercy within mercy, within mercy.”
Let this also be my profession of faith.
My testimony to all God has done in His most unworthy servant.
This is not just my prayer for myself.
I offer it […]

Friar & Bishop
Blessed Andrew, a member of the noble Franchi Boccagni family, was born in Pistoia, Italy, in
1335 and at the age of fourteen entered the Order in Florence. He worked to restore regular observance
after the plague of the Black Death. As bishop of Pistoia he was an active promoter of peace among the
people and […]

The child whispered, ‘God speak to me.’ and a meadow lark sang.
the child did not hear.
So the child yelled, ‘God speak to me! ‘ and the thunder rolled across the sky.
But the child did not listen.
The child looked around and said, ‘God let me see you.’ and a star shown brightly.
But the child did […]

 “THE ORDNARY IS DIVINE.”
I would like to begin by reflecting with you about one part of our weekday mass here. The priest silently places his hands over the gifts of bread, wine, and water praying that the Holy Spirit may come upon them to make them holy.
Through this prayer the most ordinary gifts become the […]

” O, Holy Ghost, beloved of my soul, … I adore You. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me, console me. Tell me what I should do … give me Your orders. I promise to submit myself to all that You desire of me and to accept all that You permit to happen to me. Let […]

St. Philip Neri was born in Florence, Italy, in 1515. As a child, his nickname was “Good little Phil.” He was always so jolly and friendly that everyone he met loved him. Philip went to Rome as a teenager. He studied theology and philosophy for three years and was a good student. Above all, Philip […]

Pontifical Household Preacher Comments on Sunday’s Readings
Here is a translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday’s liturgy. Courtesy of Zenit News Agency.
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Send Forth Your Spirit and They Shall be Created
Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23
The Gospel presents Jesus, […]

No State Funding for Most Abortions
Oklahoma has passed a bill prohibiting public funds to be used for most abortions.
Passed by the state House and Senate, the bill, SB 139, became law as of midnight Wednesday when the deadline expired for Governor Brad Henry to veto it, Reuters reported.
The new law, to take effect Nov. 1, […]

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE MEMBERS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SYNOD OF THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH FOR SYRIAN CATHOLICS
Saturday, 28 April 2007
Your Beatitude,
Venerable Brothers,
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (I Cor 1:3). I welcome you and greet you all at the end of your meeting […]

Bishop Wenski will celebrate Mass on Corpus Christi, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, at St. James Cathedral on Sunday, June 10, 6:00 p.m.  Following the celebration of Mass, you are invited to participate in a Eucharistic Procession from St. James Cathedral (215 N. Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando) around […]

The U.S. bishops welcomed a bipartisan government deal as a significant step forward in the country’s establishing of a more just and equitable trade policy.  Bishop Thomas Wenski, chairman of the prelates’ committee on international policy, wrote to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., and Ambassador Susan Schwab, the U.S. trade representative.
The […]

The Archdiocese of New York received a record-breaking gift of $22.5 million from self-styled atheist Robert Wilson to provide educational scholarships for inner-city children. Wilson, a philanthropist and former Wall Street investor, gave the money to the Cardinal’s Scholarship Program, started in 2005, to aid disadvantaged students.
Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, has expressed […]

Archbishop Says Message Still Relevant
The message from Mary’s appearances in Fatima is still relevant after 90 years, because it is linked to the transformation of the human person, said Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz.
The anniversary of the apparitions was marked on May 13. The leader of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God said that the 1917 […]

Louisiana’s Tangipahoa Parish School District continued its battle against the legal pressure of the American Civil Liberties Union on several fronts this week. One attorney litigating for the district says the ACLU is waging a campaign of “fear and intimidation” against local governmental councils and boards.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on […]

A St. Louis-area U.S. District Court judge has reaffirmed an earlier ruling that gave two protesters the right to display large pro-life signs at a Labor Day parade in Granite City, Illinois, last fall after the protesters had filed suit against a local sign ordinance.
The judge issued a summary judgement that declared unconstitutional a Granite […]

Trappist
Living in the Land of Desire
By Michael Downey
Paulist Press
Right off I want to comment that the book is well written and shows the proper respect to the community. The photos are outstanding and the quotes appropriate. This beautiful book seeks to express the spirit of monasticism through an examination of one Trappist (Cistercian) monastery, Mepkin […]

Catherine de Pazzi was born in Florence, Italy, in 1566. She was the only daughter of very rich parents. When she was fourteen, Catherine became a boarder at a convent school. There she grew to love life in a religious house. But about a year later, her father took her home. He began to think […]

This English priest is famous as a saint, a priest, a monk, a teacher and a writer of history. He was born in England in 673. His parents sent Bede to the local Benedictine monastery to receive an education. He loved the life of the monks so much that when he grew up he became […]