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Volunteers to Launch Lourdes Jubilee

December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

Marks 150th Anniversary of Apparitions
Volunteers from the world over will converge on Lourdes to open up the Jubilee year celebrating the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the French town.Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the agency which coordinates and promotes the world’s Catholic institutions of [...]

Dec

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Orthodox Patriarch Says Unity an Obligation

December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

Sends Message to Vatican on Feast of St. Andrew
By Miriam Diez i BoschIt is an obligation to reclaim the spiritual, sacramental and doctrinal unity that Europe enjoyed prior to the schism of the East and West, said the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople.
Bartholomew I said this Friday in a letter addressed to a delegation sent by [...]

Dec

5

On St. Chromatius of Aquileia

December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today at the general audience in Paul VI Hall. The reflection focused on St. Chromatius, bishop of Aquileia.* * *
Dear brothers and sisters!
In the last two catecheses we ventured through the Eastern Semitic Churches, meditating on Aphraates the Persian and St. Ephrem the Syrian; today [...]

Dec

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St Benedict’s prayer For a Happy Death

December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

“O Glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of all virtues, pure vessel
of God’s grace! Behold me, humbly kneeling at thy feet. I implore
thy loving heart to pray for me before the throne of God. To thee I
have recourse in all the dangers which daily surround me. Shield me
against my enemies, inspire me to imitate thee in [...]

Dec

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Spe Salvi

December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

LITTERAE ENCYCLICAE
SPE SALVI
SUMMI PONTIFICIS
BENEDICTI PP. XVI
EPISCOPIS
PRESBYTERIS AC DIACONIS
VIRIS ET MULIERIBUS CONSECRATIS
OMNIBUSQUE CHRISTIFIDELIBUS LAICIS
DE SPE CHRISTIANA

 
Prooemium
1. « SPE SALVI facti sumus » – ait sanctus Paulus Romanis et nobis quoque (Rom 8,24). « Redemptio », salus in christiana fide non est tantum simplex notitia. Redemptio nobis offertur eo sensu quod spes data est nobis, spes vero [...]

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