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Says This Is the Way to Help in Formation of Youth
Since the family should have an active role in the education of youth, it is necessary to expand youth ministry to family ministry, Benedict XVI is telling the Salesians.
The Pope encouraged the Salesians along these lines when he received in audience today representatives of that […]

  Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the 26th General Chapter of the Salesian Society of Don John Bosco which is, he told them, taking place “in a period of great social, economic and political changes”, of “more intense communication among peoples”, and of “lively debate on the spiritual values that give […]

  Yesterday at midday the Pope prayed the Regina Coeli with thousands of pilgrims gathered at his Castelgandolfo residence, where he is currently spending a few days rest. Faithful in St. Peter’s Square were able to follow the event through a television linkup The Pope is due to return to the Vatican this evening.
  In […]

Here is a translation of the greeting Benedict XVI gave last Wednesday during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.* * *
Dear brothers and sisters
“‘Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas’ — on the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures.” Every Sunday, we renew our profession of faith in the resurrection […]

The time arrived for Jesus to come down from heaven. God sent the Archangel Gabriel to the town of Nazareth where Mary lived. The glorious archangel entered Mary’s little house and found her praying. “Hail Mary, full of grace!” said the angel. “The Lord is with you, and you are blessed among women.” Mary was […]

Here is a Vatican Radio translation of a May 27 response from Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, to a note from Professor Aref Ali Nayed.The professor, a representative of the 138 Muslim scholars who wrote the Pope and other Christian leaders regarding Muslim-Christian dialogue, expressed concerns about the Pope baptizing […]

Egyptian-born Italian journalist, Magdi Allam noted for his criticism of Islam and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world converted from Islam to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican’s 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. Allam credited the challenge that Pope Benedict XVI offered to Islam in […]

Gospel Commentary for 2nd Sunday of Easter
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM CapThe first of the two appearances of Christ described in today’s Gospel occurs Easter evening, “the first day after the Sabbath,” and the second appearance, the one in which the episode with Thomas takes place, occurs “eight days later,” that is, again on the […]

Self-preservation is one of the first laws of nature, and it implies self-love; for if we did not love ourselves, we could not continue to live. Our Blessed Lord reminded us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Self-love, knowing it cannot exist any more than the stomach can exist without food, extends itself […]

“Faith is not an additional reason. It is not that you can get so far
with reasons and then you have to stop until faith comes along and
carries you the extra bit to the end. You cannot arrive at belief *by*
human reason but you can get the whole way there *with* human reason.
You may come to […]

Here is a translation of the greeting Benedict XVI gave today before praying the Regina Caeli with thousands of people gathered in the patio of the pontifical residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.* * *
Dear brothers and sisters:
During the Jubilee Year 2000, the dear Servant of God John Paul II established that in the […]

Most parishes have confirmation anytime between the 7th and 10th grade. For the past two years Ascension Catholic Community has had confirmation in the seventh grade. The parish will be moving up confirmation to the ninth grade.
This move is being made because Father Tobin has seen too many parents see confirmation as “graduation from Religious […]

by Dan Romano
In February 2008, a small group from Ascension Church once again traveled to Jamica to aid our brothers and sisters in Christ put on a renewal weekend. We were there just as background support this time, since they are now on Team #5 (Our Lady of Fatima). It’s amazing to see how that […]

In an interview with the Vatican newspaper, the head of the Ecclesia Dei commission has indicated that priests do not require permission from their bishops in order to celebrate the extraordinary form of the Latin liturgy.Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos told L’Osservatore Romano that “all can celebrate” the traditional Latin Mass. While the “ordinary form”- the […]

The Admirable Life of Mother Mariana
by Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira
Publisher: Tradition in Action
Her extraordinary life and the revelations she received were written in 1790 by Fr. Pereira, a Franciscan priest she appeared to 150 years after her death. Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira recounts many apparitions and favors from Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana de […]

  The Faculty of Canon Law of Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the “Angelicum”, is to host a congress on the theme: “Various models of authority in the religious life of the Latin Church”. The event has been organised to mark the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law.
  […]

  The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff has announced that at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday 2 April, Benedict XVI will preside at Mass in the Vatican Basilica to mark the third anniversary of the death of Servant of God John Paul II.
  The same office has also announced that at 3.30 p.m. […]

The following prelates died in recent weeks:
 - Cardinal Peter Porekuu Dery, archbishop emeritus of Tamale, Ghana, on 6 March at the age of 89.
 - Bishop Romeu Brigenti, former auxiliary of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 10 March at the age of 91.
 - Bishop Kevin John Dunn of Hexham and Newcastle, England, on […]

  According to a note published today by the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, at 6 p.m. on Saturday 5 April, Cardinal Raffaele Farina S.D.B., archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church, will take possession of the diaconate of St. John della Pigna in Vicolo della Minerva 51, Rome.
  Also at 6 […]

“Chronological time depends on duration. It can impose limitations on
the ego when it is associated with completing a goal. It establishes a
boundary for expectations and the ego strains to accomplish what it
desires. Time accentuates desires. Time accentuates the need for
control of what happens within time. This is a major source of anxiety
and can lead to […]

The Holy Father:
 - Appointed Bishop Thomas Kwaku Mensah of Obuasi, Ghana, as archbishop of Kumasi (area 5,118, population 1,579,000, Catholics 363,000, priests 79, religious 127), Ghana. The archbishop-elect was born in Assamang, Ghana in 1935, he was ordained a priest in 1973 and consecrated a bishop in 1995. He succeeds Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong, whose […]

  Today in St. Peter’s Square, more than 30,000 people participated in the weekly general audience. The Pope, who arrived at the Vatican by helicopter from his Castelgandolfo residence, dedicated his catechesis to the period of Easter.
  “The entire liturgy of the Easter period proclaims the certainty and joy of Christ’s resurrection”, he said. This […]

Father Lombardi Comments on Recent Deaths of Church Figures
God enters our lives in the company of the saints, the director of the Holy See’s press office said in commenting on the recent deaths of the archbishop of Mosul and Chiara Lubich.Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul of the Chaldeans, Iraq died sometime after being kidnapped […]

“The Word of God winds its way secretly into the concrete of our lives,
and sometimes it is the stranger and the heretic who are the first to
find it, whilst the one who possesses the law of God (the priest, and
the Levite) misses out on the profound inspiration of it, the mercy of
God, and fails to […]

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has transferred the celebration of the Annunciation of the Lord, which is normally observed on March 25, has been moved to March 31, the first Monday after the Easter Octave.
The universal norms of the Liturgical year and Calendar stipulate that the celebrations of Holy […]

Bogota, Mar 24, 2008  (CNA).- The Colombian daily “El Tiempo” revealed on Holy Saturday that a crisis that could have ended in an open conflict between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela was averted by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe confiding the situation to the intercession of Mary under the three different titles by which she is the […]

 “In these latter times in which we live, the Most Holy Virgin has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary. She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each […]

Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia sent Easter greetings to Benedict XVI, which highlighted the optimism and joy implicit in the message of Christianity.Vatican Radio reported that in the message Alexy II addresses “with his entire soul greetings of joy, health, divine benediction for a Holy Easter” to the Pope.
The contemporary world, […]

Here is a translation of Magdi Allam’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. The Muslim journalist was baptized by Benedict XVI at Saturday’s Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
An abbreviated form of this account appeared as a letter to Paolo Mieli, the director of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Allam is the paper’s […]

Here is a Vatican translation of Benedict XVI’s Easter message delivered yesterday at midday before he imparted his blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city of Rome and the world).
* * *
Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum. Alleluia! I have risen, I am still with you. Alleluia! Dear brothers and sisters, Jesus, crucified and risen, repeats […]

Here is a Vatican translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered Holy Saturday at the Mass of the Easter Vigil, celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica.
* * *
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In his farewell discourse, Jesus announced his imminent death and resurrection to his disciples with these mysterious words: “I go away, and I will come to […]

Here is the homily the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Michel Sabbah, gave today, Easter Sunday, at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
* * *
Brothers and Sisters,
Christ is risen. Yes, right here, this tomb that we venerate witnessed the events that have been transmitted to us by our faith. Here, the empty tomb, […]

 

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment…is the person for whom affliction is something devastating.
At the same time he is the person who has not deserved the punishment.
But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard.
For, if he remains constant, […]

Easter Sunday evening the Apostles gathered in the upper room because of fear of the people who might have been provoked to violence because of the stories of the Resurrection of Christ. While assembled there out of fear, Jesus came and stood in the midst of them and said: “Peace be unto you.” (John 10:19) […]

“The Gospel bids us always to practice vigilance everywhere.
Without neglecting small things,
the monk should above all guard his thoughts
and not fear at all the attacks that come from temptation
– the biggest of all being sloth, idleness –
because the one who is leading him is He Who reigns over all.
We can keep a brake on our […]

“If any man be devout and love God,
let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast.
“If any man be a wise servant,
let him enter rejoicing into the joy of his Lord.
“If any have labored long in fasting,
let him now receive his recompense.
“If any have wrought from the first hour,
let him today receive his just reward.
“If […]

Parkminster, 1996
Early this morning in the narthex before the door of the church we lit a candle in the dark. From that candle each of us symbolically took light, and we followed that candle into the church and we set it there in a place of honor.
What could symbolize better the festival of light that […]

Easter Sunday was not within three days of the Transfiguration but within three days of Good Friday. Love is not to be measured by the joy and pleasures it gives but by the ability to draw out of sorrow, a resurrection out of a crucifixion, and life out of death. Unless there is a cross […]

  Late this afternoon, Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. released the following declaration to journalists:
  “During this evening’s Easter vigil, the Holy Father will administer Baptism to seven people, five women and two men from various countries. 
  “As is known, the Holy Father normally administers the Sacrament of Baptism on two […]

Here is the 2008 Easter message from the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Michel Sabbah. The message was released Monday.
Archbishop Sabbah is retiring, after having turned 75 on Wednesday.
* * *
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Christ is risen. Indeed He is risen!
I wish you all a Happy Easter full of God’s grace. This will be my last […]

Gospel Commentary for Easter Sunday
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
To the women who had come to the tomb on Easter morning the angels said: “Do not be afraid. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He is risen!”
But did Jesus really rise? What assurances do we have that we are dealing with something that really […]

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Dear Brothers and Sister
In just over 10 and a half hours time we will celebrate our great Easter Vigil here and begin our day in which Poor Clare comes in to official
existance….
Let me be the first to greet you then …” Christ is risen ..He is risen indeed ! “
As we […]

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