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Ascension Catholic Community Ministry of Intercession for July

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I call upon you God, for you will answer me; bend your ear and hear my prayers. As we pray our petitions this month we give thanks for all your prayers on behalf of Ascension Parish, the community and the world.
For the Pope’s intention that all those who are going through moments of inner difficulty […]

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The Motto of the Carthusian Order

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Latin:
Stat crux dum colvitur orbis 
English:
The Cross stands while the world is changing.

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Explanatory Letter on “Summorum Pontificum”

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LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS
BENEDICT XVI
TO THE BISHOPS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION
OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER “MOTU PROPRIO DATA”
SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
ON THE USE OF THE ROMAN LITURGY
PRIOR TO THE REFORM OF 1970
My dear Brother Bishops,
With great trust and hope, I am consigning to you as Pastors the text of a new Apostolic Letter “Motu Proprio data” […]

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Litterae Apostolicae Motu Proprio Datae

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BENEDICTUS XVI
SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
 
Summorum Pontificum cura ad hoc tempus usque semper fuit, ut Christi Ecclesia Divinae Maiestati cultum dignum offerret, «ad laudem et gloriam nominis Sui» et «ad utilitatem totius Ecclesiae Suae sanctae».
Ab immemorabili tempore sicut etiam in futurum, principium servandum est «iuxta quod unaquaeque Ecclesia particularis concordare debet cum universali Ecclesia non solum quoad fidei doctrinam […]

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Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”

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Given below is a non-official English- language translation of the Apostolic Letter “Motu Proprio data” of Pope Benedict XVI, “Summorum Pontificum,” concerning the use of the Roman liturgy prior to the reform of 1970, issued by Vatican Information Service. The original text is written in Latin.
Up to our own times, it has been the constant […]

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Blessed Roger Dickenson, Blessed Ralph Milner and Blessed Lawrence Humphry

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These three martyrs lived in England during the time of Church persecution by Queen Elizabeth I. “Mr.” Roger Dickenson was an undercover diocesan priest. Ralph Milner was a husband and father. He worked as a farm laborer and was brought into the Church through the good example of his neighbors. The day he made his […]

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Catholic Aid Reaches Cyclone-Hit Pakistan

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Catholic aid agencies are responding to the urgent needs of those affected by rains and a cyclone that swept through two provinces of southern Pakistan. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Caritas Pakistan joined other aid agencies to help some 250,000 people in the Kech district affected by Cyclone Yemyin, which hit June 26. As many […]

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Letter on 1962 Missal Not Anti-Semitic

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Document to Be Released Saturday
Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter concerning the Roman Missal promulgated by John XXIII in 1962, will not reinstate a prayer for the conversion of “perfidious Jews.”
The Vatican press office announced today the Pope’s letter issued “motu proprio,” on his own initiative, is titled “Summorum Pontificum,” and will be released Saturday at noon, […]

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Pontifical Acts July 6, 2007

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The Holy Father appointed Fr. Antonio Jose da Rocha Couto S.M.P., superior general of the Portuguese Society for Missions, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Braga (area 2,832, population 952,000, Catholics 875,000, priests 542, permanent deacons 8, religious 769), Portugal. The bishop-elect was born in Vila Boa do Bispo, Portugal in 1952 and ordained a […]

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Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

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(VIS) - Today in the Vatican, the Holy Father
received in private audience Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect
of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the
promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes:
MIRACLES
 - Blessed Gaetano Errico, Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of
the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (1791-1860).
 - […]

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Cardinal O’Brien Responds to Abortion Critics

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Says Tactics Distract From Real Message
Cardinal Keith O’Brien says that his critics in the abortion debate in the United Kingdom use diversionary tactics to bury the message that life has value.
Cardinal O’Brien, the archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, made these statements today in a letter published in The Scotsman. He said: “The ‘abortion debate’ […]

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Father Cantalamessa on the Kingdom of God

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Pontifical Household Preacher Comments on Sunday’s Readings
The Kingdom of God is at Hand!
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 66:10-14c; Galatians 6:16-18; Luke 10:1-12, 17-20
Again we will comment on Sunday’s Gospel with the help of Benedict XVI’s book on Jesus. First, however, I would like to make an observation of a general nature. The criticism that has […]