Sept. 12, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
FEAST OF THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY
St. Alphonsus de Liguori wrote a most beautiful essay on the devotion to the Name of Mary in Christian history
www.themostholyrosary.com/appendix8.htm
This feast is a counterpart to the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (January 3). Celebration of the Most Holy Name of Mary began in Spain in 1513 and in 1671 was extended to all of Spain and the Kingdom of Naples. In 1683, Jan Sobieski, king of Poland, brought an army to the outskirts of Vienna to stop the advance of Muslim armies loyal to Mohammed IV in Constantinople. After Sobieski entrusted himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he and his soldiers thoroughly defeated the Muslims. Pope Innocent XI extended the feast to the entire Church.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/091210.shtml
In today's OR, the papal story on Page 1 is the Pope's address yesterday to recently appointed metropolitan bishops who took part in this year's continuing education seminar for bishops under the auspices of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. (Full translation posted as the last item in the preceding page. Another gem in Benedict XVI's consistent 'counsel to priests and bishops'!)[Because of a glitch that continues to show yesterday's online selection of OR articles instead of today's, I am unable to see what other papal stories might be in the inside pages.] Other Page 1 items: On the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States, President Obama reiterates that the enemy is terrorism, not Islam; India starts a census to determine caste membership; Washington denounces corruption in the Afghan central government a week before nationwide parliamentary elections.
THE POPE'S DAY
The noontime Angelus in Castel Gandolfo - The Holy Father offered a brief reflection on the 'parables of mercy'
that Jesus recounts in today's Gospel passage, and asked the faithful to pray for him on his apostolic visit to
the United Kingdom later this week.
SEPT. 12 ANNIVERSARIES
2006 - Benedict XVI's lectio magistralis at the University of Regensburg, on "Faith, Reason and the University"
2008 - At the College des Bernardins in Paris, his lecture on "The Origins of Theology and the Roots of Western Culture"
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