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Novena Prayers to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

June 27, 2007 | 11 Comments

FIRST NOVENA PRAYER IN HONOR OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Behold at thy feet, 0 Mother of Perpetual Help, a wretched sinner who has recourse to thee and confides in thee. 0 Mother of mercy, have pity on me.
I hear thee called by all the refuge and the hope of sinners: be then, my refuge […]

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Israeli Border Must Stay Open to Aid, Says Caritas

June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Gaza’s Situation Described as Very Unstable
Caritas Internationalis is emphasizing the need for an open Israeli border to meet the need for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.
Caritas resumed medical operations on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, after being suspended for a week because of the fighting between the Hamas and Fatah parties which left Hamas […]

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Saint Cyril of Alexandria

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Cyril was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 370. His uncle, Theophilus, was the patriarch or archbishop. His uncle meant well, but he had a bad temper and could be stubborn at times. He couldn’t have known, as we do, that the famous John Chrysostom would be a saint some day. We celebrate St. John Chrysostom’s […]

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Our Mother of Perpetual Help

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“Make her known throughout the world!”
(Pope Pius IX to the Redemptorists)
 
 
O Lord Jesus Christ, who gave us your Mother Mary, whose renowned image we venerate, to be a Mother ever ready to help us; grant we beseech You, that we who constantly implore her motherly aid, may merit to enjoy perpetually the fruits of Your […]

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Pontifical Acts June 27, 2007

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The Holy Father:
 - Appointed Bishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote of Kotido, Uganda, as archbishop of Tororo (area 8,837, population 2,662,000, Catholics 586,000, priests 85, religious 150), Uganda. The archbishop-elect was born in Pallisa, Uganda in 1938, he was ordained a priest in 1965 and consecrated a bishop in 1991. He succeeds Archbishop James Odongo, whose resignation […]

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Scientific Research Must Respect Human Dignity

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At the end of today’s general audience, celebrated in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope addressed some remarks to participants in an international congress on adult stem cells, being organized by the “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
 The Holy Father noted how the congress “sets itself the aim of developing autologous cell therapy in the treatment […]

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Cyril: Catechesis That Embraces Body, Soul and Spirit

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(VIS) - The Holy Father dedicated his catechesis during today’s general audience to St. Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 315-387), whom he described as a bishop of a great “ecclesiastical culture, centered on the study of the Bible.” The general audience, Benedict XVI’s hundredth, began with his greeting pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica, then continued in […]

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Novena to Saint Gerard - Day 3

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Saint Gerard, bright seraph of love, who despising all earthly love, didst consecrate thy life to the service of God and thy neighbor, promoting God’s glory in thy lowly state, and ever ready to assist the distressed and console the sorrowful, obtain for me, I beseech thee, that loving God the only God and my […]