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Benedict XVI Names 23 New Cardinals

October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

  Following today’s general audience, the Holy Father announced the names of 23 prelates who will be created cardinals in a consistory due to be held on November 24, the eve of the Feast of Christ the King. The consistory will be the second of his pontificate.
  Following the November 24 concistory, the College of [...]

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Eusebius of Vercelli: in the World But Not of the World

October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

  St. Eusebius of Vercelli was the subject of Benedict XVI’s catechesis during his general audience, held this morning in St. Peter’s Square in the presence of 30,000 people.
  The saint, born in Sardinia at the beginning of the 4th century and educated in Rome, was elected as bishop of Vercelli in the year 345. [...]

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Sacred Heart Novena to be said in honor of the feast day of St Margaret Mary Alacoque

October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

NOVENA PRAYER TO
THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
A Favorite of Padre Pio’s

I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here [...]

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Prayers to the Scared Heart of Jesus

October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Lord Jesus,
Let my heart never rest until it finds You, who are its center, its love, and its happiness.   By the wound in Your heart pardon the sins that I have committed whether out of malice or out of evil desires. Place my weak heart in Your own divine Heart, continually under Your protection and [...]

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Saint Ignatius of Antioch

October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

St. Ignatius of Antioch has been well-known since earliest times. He was born in the year 50. St. Jerome and St. John Chrysostom both thought of his tomb as near the city gates of Antioch. Ignatius was the third bishop of Antioch. This is the city where St. Peter labored before he moved to Rome. [...]

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