Saturday, Sept. 4, 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Benedict XVI venerated the saint's incorrupt body when he visited Viterbo in Sept. 2009.
ST. ROSA DI VITERBO (Italy, 1233-1251), Virgin, Franciscan lay sister
Rosa achieved sainthood in only 18 years of life. While still very young, she began a life of penance in her parents’ house. She was as generous to the poor as she was strict with herself. At the age of 10 she became a Secular Franciscan and soon began preaching in the streets about sin and the sufferings of Jesus. Viterbo, her native city, was then in revolt against the Pope. When Rosa took the Pope’s side against the emperor, she and her family were exiled from the city. When the Pope’s side won in Viterbo, Rose was allowed to return. Her attempt at age 15 to found a religious community failed, and she returned to a life of prayer and penance in her father’s home, where she died in 1251. Rose was canonized in 1457. Her feast has been celebrated in Viterbo with a procession on the eve of the feast featuring a monumental lighted tower (called the 'macchina di Santa Rosa') topped by her image. A more detailed account of her life was posted in the PASTORAL VISITS theread
benedettoxviforum.freeforumzone.leonardo.it/discussione.aspx?idd=859...
when the Holy Father visited Viterbo last year.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/090410.shtml
Today's OR features the Holy Father's Message for World Youth Day in 2011. Other Page 1 items: The US plans greater support for Arab nations as part of its strategy to push for a Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement; US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke admits errors made in managing the economic crisis; and a hasty headline saying 'the nightmare of a black sea' has returned - over a fire, not an exp,losion, that took place in an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps more disturbing is an inside-page story in which the Vaticna newspaper reports for the first time about the debate over an Islamic developer's plan to build a $100-million Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero - the 'news story' claims tendentiously that the opposition by many Americans [to the location of the proposed mosque, not to building it] is raising fears of a new intolerance in the USA, may provoke more Islamic terrorism and justify the fears of those who think that a 'clash of civilizations' is inevitable; it also claims erroneously that opinion is divided in the US about this issue. COLORE=#1216FF]This is blatantly false! Latest polls all show that at least 70% of Americans oppose having a mosque in that particular location. Why the OR should choose to take this dishonest position is a most objectionable violation of truth that one does not expect to see in 'the Pope's newspaper' and is a disservice to him.!
THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father met today with
- Bishops of Brazil (Northeast Sector III, Group 2) on ad limina visit
- The following ambassadors who made their farewell visits:
- H.E. Kagefumi Ueno, Ambassador from japan
- H.E. Francesco Kim Ji-Young, Ambassador from South Korea
- H.E. János Balassa, Ambassador from Hungary
- Mons. Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio to Poland
(until recently Permanent Observer to the UN in New York City)
The Holy Father also named a new Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq -
Mons. Giorgio Lingua, a career diplomat in the Vatican Secretariat of
State. He will also be raised to the rank of Archbishop.
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