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Pope Francis: Mass is for prayers not mobile phones
Vatican Radio - Pope at General Audience: through the Eucharist we receive God
Pope Francis has reminded the faithful that the Eucharist is a wonderful event during which Jesus Christ, our life, becomes present.
Speaking to the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis began a new series of reflections focusing on the Eucharist and highlighting the importance of how we attend and of how we participate in Mass in order to really experience our relationship with God.
To the some 13,000 pilgrims present for the weekly audience, Pope Francis said that while at Mass “the Lord is present with us but many times we talk among ourselves and we are not close to Him” during the celebration.
13 Apr 2017
Pope Francis celebrates the Chrism Mass in Rome
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated the Chrism Mass of the Rome diocese on the morning of Holy Thursday in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The liturgy is held every year in every diocese, and is typically celebrated on the morning of Holy Thursday, with the clergy gathered around the bishop in a sign of unity.
It is called the “Chrism Mass” because it is during the liturgy that the sacred oils to be used in the Sacraments are blessed: the Oil of the Infirm, the Oil of the Catechumens, and the Sacred Chrism – which is used to anoint the newly baptized and in conferring Confirmation, and to consecrate priests and bishops to their special and peculiar divine service.
“The truth of the good news can never be merely abstract, incapable of taking concrete shape in people’s lives because they feel more comfortable seeing it printed in books,” Pope Francis said.
“The mercy of the good news can never be a false commiseration, one that leaves sinners in their misery without holding out a hand to lift them up and help them take a step in the direction of change,” he continued.
“This message,” the Holy Father went on to say, “can never be gloomy or indifferent, for it expresses a joy that is completely personal – it is ‘the joy of the Father, who desires that none of his little ones be lost’,” and “the joy of Jesus, who sees that the poor have the good news preached to them, and that the little ones go out to preach the message in turn.”
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You can listen to Vatican Radio's report here and read the full text of the Pope's Chrism Mass homily here.
19 Nov 2016
Eve of Christ the King, Pope Francis creates 17 New Cardinals; Pope's Job Description to them: "To Be Merciful In The Heart of The Church"
Vatican Radio - Pope Francis to new Cardinals: be living signs of mercy
Whispers in the Loggia - To 17 New Cardinals, Pope's Job Description: "To Be Merciful In The Heart of The Church"
Vatican Radio - Titular churches of new Cardinals
Crux - Three take-aways from today’s global crop of new cardinals
This man, Ernest Simoni, was made a cardinal today. His training as a priest took place in secret, since Communist Albania was viciously opposed to the Church. One Christmas Eve, he was arrested, beaten, and tortured during 3 months of imprisonment. Eventually he was sentenced to 18 years of forced labour in a mine. When he got out, he was sentenced to 10 more years of labour in sewers. During all this time he stayed faithful to his priestly vocation, celebrating Mass from memory, and hearing confessions in secret. When the Communists fell and he was free to minister in the open, he says, 'the Lord helped me serve in many towns and reconcile vengeful people with the Cross'.
Cardinals don't wear red because it's fashionable, or traditional, or luxurious. They wear it because, in theory, they ought to be faithful to the Crucified One to the point of shedding their own blood. If any priest deserves to wear the cardinals' red, Ernest Cardinal Simoni does.
- Fr Conor McDonough OP
Find out more about each of the new cardinals with profiles over at Crux.
3 Nov 2016
21 Sept 2016
2016 World Day of Prayer for Peace at Assisi - "Peace Alone is Holy, Not War!"
Rocco over at Whispers in the Loggia has his usual pen picture report of Roman events:
Vatican Radio:
"Peace Alone Is Holy, Not War!" – In Francis' City, Pope Gathers World Against "Paganism of Indifference"
Thirty years since the now-canonized John Paul II infuriated his right flank (in perpetuity) by convening representatives of the world's faiths for a common prayer for peace in the city of St Francis, the first Pope to take the name of the Poverello of Assisi repeated the act today, sharing the stage with a host of ecumenical partners – led by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby – alongside delegates from each of the other major religious traditions in what was termed a "Thirst For Peace."Continue reading here.Capping a three-day congress organized by the Sant'Egidio community (the Rome-based Catholic movement which often takes the lead on social-justice concerns) while the different faiths separated for an afternoon hour to pray according to their own rites around the hilltop Basilica of St Francis, Papa Bergoglio's daylong swing featured a shared lunch for the attendees and twin reflections by the Pope – the first at the dedicated worship for Christians within the church, then a closing address for the entire assembly in the hillside square adjoining the saint's burial-site, with its breathtaking views of the Umbrian countryside.
Vatican Radio:
- Interfaith leaders committed to peace at Assisi summit
- Assisi: Pope Francis' appeal for peace
- Pope Francis concludes World Day of Prayer for Peace
- Pope’s visit to Assisi a reminder that prayer is key to peace
- Pope calls indifference to suffering ‘great sickness’ of our time
- In Assisi, Pope Francis slams 'paganism of indifference'
- Peace requires us to do more than 'change the channel,' Pope Francis says
28 Aug 2016
28th August 2016 - Canonisation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
With sincere apologies from your blog editor on the delay in posting this weeks programmes blog post.
On this weeks programme John, Anne, Lorraine and Shane discuss the life and history of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her up coming canonisation on September 4th. We have our regular reflection on this weeks Sunday gospel as well as our saints for the week and other bits and pieces.
This weeks full programme podcast is available HERE.
Canonisation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
On this weeks programme, SS102fm team explore and discuss the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her forth coming canonisation on September 4th.
Pope Francis will declare Blessed Teresa of Kolkata a saint at the Vatican Sept. 4. The date was announced March 15 during an "ordinary public consistory," a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process.
Mother Teresa was widely known as a living saint as she ministered to the sick and the dying in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the world. Although some people criticized her for not also challenging the injustices that kept so many people so poor and abandoned, her simple service touched the hearts of millions of people of all faiths.
Born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, she went to India in 1929 as a Sister of Loreto and became an Indian citizen in 1947. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950.
Shortly after she died in 1997, St. John Paul II waived the usual five-year waiting period and allowed the opening of the process to declare her sainthood. She was beatified in 2003.
After her beatification, Missionary of Charity Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator of her sainthood cause, published a book of her letters, "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light." The letters illustrated how, for decades, she experienced what is described as a "dark night of the soul" in Christian spirituality; she felt that God had abandoned her. While the letters shocked some people, others saw them as proof of her steadfast faith in God, which was not based on feelings or signs that he was with her.
The date chosen for her canonization is the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death and the date previously established at the Vatican for the conclusion of the Year of Mercy pilgrimage of people like her who are engaged in works of mercy.
You can listen to the part of the programme about Mother Teresa of Calcutta excerpted from the main podcast of the programme HERE.
Reflections on this weeks gospel:
Word on Fire
Centre for Liturgy
Sunday Reflections
English Dominicans
Liturgical odds & ends
Liturgy of the Hours - psalter week 2, 22nd week in ordinary time
Saints of the Week
August 29th - The Passion of St John the Baptist
August 30th - St Fiacre
August 31st - St Aidan of Lindisfarne
September 1st - St Abigal the Matriarch
September 2nd - Blessed Antonio Franco (First Friday)
September 3rd - Pope Saint Gregory the Great
On this weeks programme John, Anne, Lorraine and Shane discuss the life and history of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her up coming canonisation on September 4th. We have our regular reflection on this weeks Sunday gospel as well as our saints for the week and other bits and pieces.
This weeks full programme podcast is available HERE.
Canonisation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Pope Francis will declare Blessed Teresa of Kolkata a saint at the Vatican Sept. 4. The date was announced March 15 during an "ordinary public consistory," a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process.
Mother Teresa was widely known as a living saint as she ministered to the sick and the dying in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the world. Although some people criticized her for not also challenging the injustices that kept so many people so poor and abandoned, her simple service touched the hearts of millions of people of all faiths.
Born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, she went to India in 1929 as a Sister of Loreto and became an Indian citizen in 1947. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950.
Shortly after she died in 1997, St. John Paul II waived the usual five-year waiting period and allowed the opening of the process to declare her sainthood. She was beatified in 2003.
After her beatification, Missionary of Charity Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator of her sainthood cause, published a book of her letters, "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light." The letters illustrated how, for decades, she experienced what is described as a "dark night of the soul" in Christian spirituality; she felt that God had abandoned her. While the letters shocked some people, others saw them as proof of her steadfast faith in God, which was not based on feelings or signs that he was with her.
The date chosen for her canonization is the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death and the date previously established at the Vatican for the conclusion of the Year of Mercy pilgrimage of people like her who are engaged in works of mercy.
You can listen to the part of the programme about Mother Teresa of Calcutta excerpted from the main podcast of the programme HERE.
In her second appearance on Irish television Mother Teresa of Calcutta talks to Nodlaig McCarthy about her life and work. The first broadcast aired on September 15, 1974
Gospel - Luke 14:1, 7-14
Reflections on this weeks gospel:
Word on Fire
Centre for Liturgy
Sunday Reflections
English Dominicans
Liturgical odds & ends
Liturgy of the Hours - psalter week 2, 22nd week in ordinary time
Saints of the Week
August 29th - The Passion of St John the Baptist
August 30th - St Fiacre
August 31st - St Aidan of Lindisfarne
September 1st - St Abigal the Matriarch
September 2nd - Blessed Antonio Franco (First Friday)
September 3rd - Pope Saint Gregory the Great
26 Aug 2016
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