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Tuesday, March 13, Third Week of Lent
Second from left: Medieval illustration of Pope Gregory and Leandro; extreme right, the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spain).
ST. LEANDRO DE SEVILLA [Leander of Seville] (Spain, 550-600), Benedictine, Bishop and Confessor
All four siblings in this Hispano-Roman family became saints. Leandro was the older brother of Isidore, who succeeded him as Bishop of Seville
and went on to become a Doctor of the Church. Their brother Fulgencio, who became Bishop of Cartagena, and their sister Florentina, who was
an abbess over a thousand nuns, are also saints. Leandro spent most of his life fighting the Arian heresy. He is credited with introducing the
Credo into the Mass in order for the faithful to always keep in mind the essentials of their faith. He was named Bishop of Seville in 579 but in
the same year he was exiled by the Visigoth king who was Arian. He spent three years in Constantinople where he met the future Pope Gregory
the Great (Pope 590-604), who was papal legate to the Byzantine court. They were to carry on a correspondence. Gregory gave Leandro an
image of Mary which became venerated in Seville. In 711, when the Moors invaded Seville, the Spanish king's men placed the image in a casket
and buried it in the mountains. In 1326, a peasant in the western region of Extremadura had a vision of Mary which led him to the casket. The
image was found intact and a church was built for it in the village of Guadalupe, and her cult grew nationwide. Columbus and the Spanish
conquistadors carried her image on their travels. Not surprising that the Spanish bishop in Mexico who certified Juan Diego's Marian vision
in 1531 named the miraculous image Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose renown has now far outstripped the original. After his exile, Leandro went on
with his campaign to root out the Arian heresy and converted two Visigoth kings away from Arianism. In 589, he convoked the Third Council of
Toledo, at which Visigoth Spain abjured Arianism. Leandro was considered a greater writer than Isidore but only two short works survive.
Readings for today's Mass: usccb.org/bible/readings/031312.cfm
No events announced for the Holy Father today.
Pope's condolence for Italian
victim of Nigerian terrorists
Translated from
The Vatican released the text of the Holy Father's condolences to the Archbishop of Vercelli in a telegram sent by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone for the murder of an Italian engineer (and native of the diocese) along with a British colleague, who were abducted by Muslim extremists in Nigeria and then killed by them last Thursday during a failed attempt to rescue the hostages.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY
MOST REV. ENRICO MASSERONI
ARCHBISHOP OF VERCELLI
The Supreme Pontiff, Benedict XVI, informed of the tragic death of engineer Francesco Lamolinara, wishes to extend to the family of the deceased his sincere condolence and to assure them of his participation in mourning the loss that has struck them.
Even as he remembers the generous willingness of their loved one to help his neighbor and to contribute to peaceful coexistence among peoples, he offers fervent prayers of Christian suffrage for his soul and sends his family and friends the comfort of an Apostolic Blessing, extending this to those who will be taking part in his funeral services and to his townmates in Gattinara.
I likewise join in the sorrow and the prayer, in closeness to the families, to sustain their hope in this difficult moment.
CARDINAL TARCISIO BERTONE
Secretary of State to His Holiness
OR for 3/12-3/13/12:
The Pope celebrates Vespers at San Gregorio al Celio with the Primate of the Anglican Communion:
'Commitment and prayer for Christian unity'
And at the Sunday Angelus, an appeal against every form of violence
All photos from the Saturday Vespers: top panel, center photo, the Pope and the Anglican Primate light candles in the chapel that had been the cell of Pope Gregory the Great; right photo, the Pope and the Primate look at the exhibit mounted by the Camaldoli Benedictines to mark their millennial anniversary. Bottom panel, from left, the Pope and the Anglican primate arrive at the church; the service; and chatting after the service. The Pope stayed for dinner with the Camaldolesi monks.
Other Page 1 news: President Obama promises justice on US soldier who randomly kills 16 Afghan civilians, including 9 children, in an Afghan village, entering their homes at night while they were asleep; the Nigerian city of Jos rocked once again by a terrorist bomb that kills Catholics attending church ; and ex UN Secretary-General leaves Syria without getting any concessions from Syrian President Bashir Assad.
- If you wish to tear out your hair in outrage, read an article currently in the National Catholic Fishwrap, as Fr. Z calls it, about 'Vatican II priests'
http://ncronline.org/news/theology/vatican-ii-priests-still-embrace-councils-model-despite-reversals
which starts out this way:
"As the golden anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s opening on Oct. 11, 1962, approaches, men ordained in the years bookending the council predominantly embrace “the spirit of Vatican II” as a wellhead for their lives and ministry even as other Catholics disparage that 'spirit'.
"At the same time, many of these 'Vatican II priests' - as researchers call them - express concern that the iconic church windows thrown open by the council are being shuttered and latched. They raise concerns about church leadership, ecumenical apathy, a collapse of collegiality, the role of women, liturgical reform and more...."
Further down, Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J. probably the most-quoted standard-bearer for the Vatican-II 'spiritsts', is quoted as saying:
“Even though there were struggles and arguments and fights (during the council), there was a feeling that history was on the side of the progressives and that we were moving forward, that it was pretty much unstoppable and things were going to get better in the church year after year... This pretty much stopped with the papacy of John Paul II (who saw) the documents of Vatican II as what was important, not the spirit.
[Excuse me! There's a reason official documents, even in the Church, are called 'acts'. In a fallible and constantly mutable world, how else do you record what took place other than by the official 'acts' of the event? Does anyone ever refer to the 'spirit of Nicea' or 'the spirit of Trent' etc? No, because the Church, like any other institution,looks to the formal acts or documents of those Councils to tell us what they decided and concluded and decreed.
How utterly irresponsible for the progressivists [I never call them 'progressives' because that is assuming they are in fact progressive, when they are simply being ideologically contrarian to Catholic orthodoxy!] to disdain the Vatican II documents as Reese seems to do, and simply cite a mythical 'spirit' that varies according to the individual who cites it. Obviously, the progressivists shy away from citing the documents because much of what they have been peddling as 'the spirit of Vatican II' is not borne out by the documents themselves, especially in the case of liturgical reform!
I have no idea how old Reese is - I've googled his date of birth and age but can't find any information, and isn't that strange? - but I am sure he was not present at Vatican II. How dare he fault John Paul II who as Archbishop Wojtyla was a Council Father, and Council expert Joseph Ratzinger for their thoughts about a Council they took part in???? And to the diehard advocates of a 'hermeneutic of rupture', where is it in the Vatican II documents that says it was proclaiming 'a new Church' and 'out with the old'?
Going by just the first Paragraph of Lumen gentium, Vatican-II's dogmatic Constitution on the Church, which reads: "it (the Church) desires now to unfold more fully to the faithful of the Church and to the whole world its own inner nature and universal mission. This it intends to do following faithfully the teaching of previous councils", how can that be construed in any way to mean that Vatican-II was throwing out everything that had gone before, much less starting a new Church? Neither by letter nor 'in spirit' does Lumen gentium say at all what the progressivist-spiritists claim! That's not to mention what John XXIII himself said when he decreed Vatican-II and when he opened it. Those who tout the 'spirit' only and who do not cite the letter at all self-advertise the falseness of their claim!]
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