Monday, November 8
BLESSED JOHN DUNS SCOTUS (b Scotland 1266, d Cologne 1308)
Franciscan, Scholastic Theologian
Benedict XVI has two major texts on today's saint - first his letter to commemorate the 7th centenary of his death in 2008
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_letters/documents/hf_ben-xvi_apl_20081028_duns-scoto...
and his catechesis on July 7, 2010, in the cycle on the great medieval thinkers of the Catholic faith
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20100707...
One of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages, Duns Scotus taught in Oxford, Paris, and Cologne, where he died.
His ideas on the Immaculate Conception were adopted by Pius IX when he proclaimed the dogma more than five centuries later,
in 1854. The 'Doctor Subtilis'. was beatified in 1993 by John Paul II.
No OR today.
No events for the Holy Father today, but the Press Office has issued an announcement that he will be meeting with the College of Cardinals on Friday, November 19, for 'a day of reflection and prayer' the day before his third consistory to create new cardinals.
A DAY OF REFLECTION AND PRAYER
WITH THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
Translated from
In a letter dated Oct. 30, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, informed all members of the college and thew new cardinals-designate that before the Ordinary Public Consistory on November 20, the Holy Father asks them to participate the day before, Friday, Nov. 19, in 'a day of reflection and prayer', which will be held at the new Hall of Synods at the Vatican.
The program is as follows:
09.30 Celebration of Tierce [third prayer in the Daily Liturgy of the Hours]
The morning discussions will be on two subjects:
- The situation of religious freedom in the world and new challenges, with an introduction by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone; and
- Liturgy in the life of the Church today, with an introduction by Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
17:00 Vespers, followed by three reports:
- "Ten years since Dominus Iesus', by Mons. and Cardinal-designate Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for Saints;
- "The Church response to sexual abuses" and
- "On Anglicanorum coetibus" - both by Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Vatican also announced that the VII Colloquium between the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialog (CIRD) and the Center for Inter-Religious Dialogue of Iran's Islamic Culture and Relations Organization will take place in Teheran on Nov. 9-11. The Vatican delegation will be led by Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, CIRD Prefect.
P.S. Despite everything that the past five years should have taught me about the MSM mindset, I am still surprised that all the MSM reporting about the cardinals' pre-consistory meeting with the Pope has been on the lines of 'Vatican calls summit on sex abuse', typical of the headlines that immediately proliferated - a ridiculous claim since it is onlt one of five topics to be reported on during a morning and an afternoon session that can hardly add up to more than 6 hours! I thought of it more like a 'state of the Church' event, to be reflected and prayed upon - not as a discussion, which sould come later in all the possible venues and ways!
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 12/11/2010 12:10]