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Tuesday, April 9, Second Week of Easter

ST. CASILDA DE TOLEDO (Spain, 950?-1050)
She was the daughter of the Muslim king Al-Mamun of Toledo, at the height of Moorish dominance in Spain. She is one
of the earliest saints of whom a version of the following legend is told: Casilda used to bring bread to Christian
prisoners in secret; one day, caught by her father sneaking out, he challenged her to show what she was carrying in
her basket. She did - and there were roses instead of bread. Later she fell ill with what is now believed to have been
uterine cancer; she went to the healing waters at a shrine to St. Vincent the martyr in Burgos province, where she
was baptized. She stayed on in the area living a life of solitude and penance. and was said to have lived to age 100.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040913.cfm


AT THE VATICAN TODAY

Pope Francis met with

- H.E. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, his spouse and delegation.

The Vatican announced that yesterday, the Pope met with

= Mons. José Rodríguez Carballo, O.F.M., whom he appointed earlier this week to be the Secretary of the Congregation
for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.




Aqua has just called my attention to Amy Welborn's blog entry yesterday, April 8 - the work it must have taken for her to choose the appropriate GIFs she used to illustrate it! - amywelborn.wordpress.com/
which could reflect much of what some of us have been experiencing in the past few weeks since February 11, 2013. I will quote some lines that capture a gut reaction to the monomania in the media these days...
...But then the hits just keep on coming. The implication that we’re in a “fresh new era” and that it’s *all* so much better now, without mozettas and crap. Even from bishops! Talkin’ about the Refreshing Fresh Air and Fresh New Tone of Freshness. Not to speak of the Refreshing Simplicity of the Fresh New Simple Tone. So I’m all:
(GIF)
And trying to hold it in. Especially when people are all intense about the new Pope, who is great, (I think), but they’re all:

And they’re all like: ERMYGAWD ITHINKIMSUPPOSEDTOHELPTHEPOORBECAUSEOFPOPEFRANCIS and I’m all like:
What is wrong with you?
Did you NEVER read a freakin’ GOSPEL before March 13?...

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