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On the Good News

January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today before reciting the midday Angelus with several thousand people gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!In today’s liturgy the evangelist Matthew, who will accompany us though this whole liturgical year, presents the beginning of Jesus’ public mission. It essentially consists in […]

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India’s Anti-Christian December Offensive

January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Christmas Period Marred by Violence
By Father John Flynn, LC
India’s long-suffering Christians were dealt a strong blow in a series of attacks during the Christmas period. Hindu extremists attacked Christian celebrations in eastern India, sacking and burning a number of village churches, the Associated Press reported Dec. 26.
The persecution took place in the state of Orissa, […]

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Christians Urged to Be Missionaries in Charity

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Benedict XVI asked Christians on the World Day for Leprosy to be missionaries of the Good News not only in word, but also in “active charity.”After praying the Angelus today from the window of his study, the Pope greeted those suffering from leprosy, “assuring [them] of a special prayer,” which he extended to “those who, […]

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Saint Angela Merici

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Angela was born in the small Italian town of Desenzano, Italy, around 1474. Her parents died when she was ten. She and her only sister, who was three years older, loved each other very much. A wealthy uncle took the girls into his home. Still suffering from the loss of her parents, Angela was struck […]

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The Spouse

January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

“Here is acquired that eye,
by whose serene gaze the Spouse
is wounded with love;
that eye, pure and clean,by which God is seen.”
–Statues of the Carthsian Order 1.6.16

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